Psychological determinants of consumer acceptance of personalised nutrition in 9 European countries

OBJECTIVE: To develop a model of the psychological factors which predict people's intention to adopt personalised nutrition. Potential determinants of adoption included perceived risk and benefit, perceived self-efficacy, internal locus of control and health commitment.

METHODS: A questionnaire, developed from exploratory study data and the existing theoretical literature, and including validated psychological scales was administered to N=9381 participants from 9 European countries (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK, and Norway).

RESULTS: Structural equation modelling indicated that the greater participants' perceived benefits to be associated with personalised nutrition, the more positive their attitudes were towards personalised nutrition, and the greater their intention to adopt it. Higher levels of nutrition self-efficacy were related to more positive attitudes towards, and a greater expressed intention to adopt, personalised nutrition. Other constructs positively impacting attitudes towards personalised nutrition included more positive perceptions of the efficacy of regulatory control to protect consumers (e.g. in relation to personal data protection), higher self-reported internal health locus of control, and health commitment. Although higher perceived risk had a negative relationship with attitude and an inverse relationship with perceived benefit, its effects on attitude and intention to adopt personalised nutrition was less influential than perceived benefit. The model was stable across the different European countries, suggesting that psychological factors determining adoption of personalised nutrition have generic applicability across different European countries.

CONCLUSION: The results suggest that transparent provision of information about potential benefits, and protection of consumers' personal data is important for adoption, delivery of public health benefits, and commercialisation of personalised nutrition.

Lagrangian transport of particles in Ria de Aveiro lagoon, Portugal

A two-dimensional vertically integrated hydrodynamic model coupled to a particle tracking model is applied to study the dispersion processes and residence time in Ria de Aveiro lagoon (Portugal). The only dispersion process that is considered in this study is the advection, according to the main characteristics of the local hydrodynamic. The particle tracking model computes the particles position at each time step, using a fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration method. The dispersion of passive particles released along the lagoon and in critical areas are studied in this work. The residence time is also determined for the entire lagoon. The results show that the mixture between particles coming from different channels of the lagoon is negligible in a time scale higher than 2 tidal cycles. The residence time for the lagoon central area is about 2 days, revealing a strong marine influence in this area. At the upper reaches of the channels were found values higher than 2 weeks.

Compreensão e interpretação em matemática: dificuldades de alunos do 9º ano na resolução de problemas

Dissertação mest., Matemática, Universidade do Algarve, 2009

Chemical ecology of arthropods. 9. Structure and absolute configuration of hippodamine and convergine, two novel alkaloids from american ladybug hippodamia convergens (coleoptera- coccinellidae)

In a previous communication (2) the isolation of two defensive alkaloid, hippodamine and convergine, from the American ladybug Hippodamia convergens was reported. A preliminary chemical study (2) led to the hypothesis that hippodamine could be represented by (1), with unknown stereochemistry at carbon atom 2. Convergine was supposed to be a 3a or 6a hydroxyhippodamine.

Compte rendu: Johann Wolfgang Unger (2013), The Discursive Construction of the Scots Language : Education, Politics and Everyday Life, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, coll. « Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 51 », 178 p. [ISBN : 978-9-027-20642-8]

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Compte rendu: Romain Colonna (dir.), (2015), Des paroles, des langues et des pouvoirs, Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. « Espaces discursifs », 252 p. [ISBN : 978-2-343-04951-9]

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Reseña: Elvira Narvaja de Arnoux y Susana Nothstein (eds.) (2014), Temas de glotopolítica: integración regional sudamericana y panhispanismo, Buenos Aires, Biblos, coll. “Investigaciones y ensayos”, 376 p. [ISBN: 978-9-876-91257-0]

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12" x 9" envelope from the Department of Interior to H. M. Spencer

This envelope is addressed to H. M. Spencer from the patent office of the Department of Interior. The stamp is dated March 28th of 1911. H.M. Spencer's address is written as R. F. D. No. 1, Cheraw, South Carolina, and the envelope has been written on mathematically with pencil.

Action for a cleaner tomorrow : 9-12

Action for a cleaner tomorrow, a South Carolina environmental curriculum supplement has been developed to teach the children of South Carolina and, ultimately, their parents to think about their daily habits and to make environmentally responsible choices. This curriculum supplement tries to reflect the environmental issues facing the world today with a particular emphasis on South Carolina’s concerns and goals. This document deals with grades 9-12.

Speech of Mr. C. G. Memminger, on the question of rechartering the bank of the state of South Carolina: delivered in the House of Representatives, December 9, 1848

This speech by Mr. Memminger offers resolutions on the issue of rechartering the bank of the state of South Carolina. The issues presented are the Bank of the State is founded on an erroneous policy, unwise for a state to engage in banking, not practical to recharter the Bank of the State and a special committee of each house should be appointed to advise how to carry out these resolutions at the next session.

Speech of Hon. John Lowndes McLaurin, of South Carolina, in the Senate of the United States, Monday, December 9, 1901

This document contains a speech by John L. McLaurin of South Carolina presented in the Senate of the United States. Sections of the speech include: sectionalism the cause, conditions in South Carolina, the federal administration in South Carolina, should not array class against class, freedom of thought and speech, the issues, under caucus dictation the Senate no longer a deliberative body, the beginning of the fight, matter of arraying class against class, freedom of thought and speech, and issues.