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June 1, 2021 Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil found that when health workers were trained to promote infant healthy feeding practices to pregnant women their children consumed less fats and carbohydrates at 3 years of age and had lower measures of body fat at the age of 6. The study is the first to show that the roots for obesity start in the first year of life, after mothers stop breastfeeding. The findings are published online in the
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. The first year after birth is a critical window for the establishment of habits that will influence health patterns throughout one s lifetime, said Caroline N. Sangalli, in the Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, and first author. The message worldwide is that to avoid obesity later in life you cannot start too early to
App developers can improve the profitability of free apps by strategically deploying or eliminating their paid version counterparts over an app s lifetime.
A new study from the University of Kent, Toulouse Business School, ESSCA School of Management (Paris) and ESADE Business School (Spain) has revealed the three primary risks and benefits perceived by consumers towards autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars).
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Researchers from University of Sydney, University of Florida, and Rutgers University published a new paper in the
Journal of Marketing that examines the role of serendipity in customer satisfaction and how marketers can provide it.
The study, forthcoming in the
Journal of Marketing, is titled Serendipity: Chance Encounters in the Marketplace Enhance Consumer Satisfaction and is authored by Aekyoung Kim, Felipe Affonso, Juliano Laran, and Kristina Durante.
Netflix knows you are tired of choice. The streaming service recently introduced what might be the perfect hack: a shuffle button that eliminates choice and plays a randomly selected program for the consumer. Under COVID-19 restrictions, the newly homebound were happy to have so many programming options, but this faded over time.
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IMAGE: A joint QUT, RMIT and University of Indiana study finds successful cities are ones that offer vitality and open-minded among citizens. view more
Credit: QUT Media If you build it, they will come, so says the idiom but it s the storytellers, knowledge-makers and an agentic or open-minded population who help create great entrepreneurial cities.
A new research study, conducted by QUT, RMIT and the University of Indiana, analysed data from 362 American cities with a focus on human agency, entrepreneurial spirit, and economic growth.
The study, based on geographic psychological profiles of millions of people based in the US, found people and an empowered city life matter in shaping urban vitality.