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R.M. Simmons presentation, Rena Smart book review
No full textR.M. Simmons of the Gospel Music Workshop of America gives a presentation on the African influence in the African American religious experience. He explains how African slaves brought to America their concept of music (utilitarian concept of music). Simmons further discusses the fusion between the utilitarian concept and the Western concept of religion resulting in spirituals. He also describes hymn categories in early forms of formal African American worship experiences. Simmons takes questions from the audience among which is Dr. Riggins Earl Jr. Video concludes with a book review on Christian Theology and Ethics by Rena Smart.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Italian Consumer Acceptance of Nutritionally Enhanced GM Food
No full textThe aim of this article is to evaluate if Italian consumers have higher acceptance and willingness-to-buy for “second generation” GM foods, i.e.those with an output trait benefit (i.e. nutritionally enhanced) rather than those of first generation, that is with the traditional input trait benefit (i.e., reduced pesticides). Multinomial logit models are estimated to examine the effect of various factors on consumers’ willingness to purchase GM foods without or with nutritionally enhanced attributes.
The data collected in the 2005 survey are compared with the results obtained in a previous study performed in 2004, in order to highlight possible changes in consumers attitude and preferences. It comes out that the majority of respondents still do not want to buy GM products, but the average acceptance increased from 2004 to 2005 for plant-based food.
This study confirmed the key role of information strategies to the consumers. In fact one of the most relevant results is in the role of distorted information in raising the level of fear and the perception of risk by the consumers. The involved subjects in which the Italians seem to put the higher level of confidence are the scientists, who are traditionally seen as independent from the industry.
Individuals that usually consume and buy enhanced food products result to have a higher probability to buy a GM product in which biotechnology is used to increase vitamin content
Velocity-Gradient Probability Distribution Functions in a Lagrangian Model of Turbulence
No full textThe Recent Fluid Deformation Closure (RFDC) model of lagrangian turbulence is recast in path-integral language within the framework of the Martin-Siggia-Rose functional formalism. In order to derive analytical expressions for the velocity-gradient probability distribution functions (vgPDFs), we carry out noise renormalization in the low-frequency regime and find approximate extrema for the Martin-Siggia-Rose effective action. We verify, with the help of Monte Carlo simulations, that the vgPDFs so obtained yield a close description of the single-point statistical features implied by the original RFDC stochastic differential equations
Assessment of surgical margins in renal cell carcinoma after nephron sparing: a comparative study: laparoscopy vs open surgery
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Direct Access to the renal artery at the level of treitz ligament during left radical laparoscopic transperitoneal nephrectomy
No full textConsumer acceptance and willingness-to-pay for nutritionally enhanced genetically modified food in Italy
No full textDevelopment and validation of a single-sample iohexol plasma clearance method for estimating glomerular filtration rate in dogs
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