المؤلفون: Chung, Jah Ying, Bryant, Christopher J., Asher, Kathryn E.

المصدر: Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics ; volume 36, issue 3, page 1090-1100 ; ISSN 0952-3871 1365-277X

الوصف: Background This study investigated potential opportunities or challenges for plant‐based meat in the Chinese market. A quantitative framework was applied to determine the current level of familiarity and experience with plant‐based meat among Chinese consumers, the proportion of consumers who would try or purchase plant‐based meat, which demographics within China are most likely to buy plant‐based meat and which attitudes are important in driving the purchase intent of plant‐based meat. Methods A pre‐registered cross‐sectional online survey ( N = 1206) was distributed to respondents (matched to China's adult population for gender and age). Results Respondents reported a variety of dietary identities, with 43.4% reporting that they were reducing or avoiding meat. The majority of respondents (60.1%) said they had eaten plant‐based meat at least once before. Of those who said they had never eaten plant‐based meat, 41.9% intended to try it and 31.4% intended to purchase it. The strongest attitudinal predictor of plant‐based meat purchase intent was perceived healthiness ( β = 0.235, p < 0.001), whereas the strongest demographic predictor of plant‐based meat purchase intent was age ( β = −0.248, p < 0.001). Conclusions The findings of this study suggest that an approach based on increasing opportunities for trial, as well as appealing to specific attitudinal and demographic predictors of plant‐based purchase intent, could prove successful in increasing adoption of plant‐based and alternative meat products.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/jhn.13092Test

المؤلفون: Ananworanich, Jintanat, Eller, Leigh Anne, Pinyakorn, Suteeraporn, Kroon, Eugene, Sriplenchan, Somchai, Fletcher, James LK, Suttichom, Duanghathai, Bryant, Christopher, Trichavaroj, Rapee, Dawson, Peter, Michael, Nelson, Phanuphak, Nittaya, Robb, Merlin L

المساهمون: University of Hawai'i

المصدر: Journal of the International AIDS Society ; volume 20, issue 1 ; ISSN 1758-2652 1758-2652

الوصف: Introduction : The extent of viral replication during acute HIV infection (AHI) influences HIV disease progression. However, information comparing viral load (VL) kinetics with and without antiretroviral therapy (ART) in AHI is limited. The knowledge gained could inform preventive strategies aimed at reducing VL during AHI and therapeutic strategies to alter the viral kinetics that may enhance the likelihood of achieving HIV remission. Methods : The analysis utilized VL data captured during the first year of HIV infection from two studies in Thailand: the RV217 study (untreated AHI, 30 participants and 412 visits) and the RV254 study (treated AHI, 235 participants and 2803 visits). Fiebig stages were I/II (HIV RNA+, HIV IgM−) and Fiebig III/IV (HIV IgM+, Western blot‐/indeterminate). Data were modelled utilizing spline effects within a linear mixed model, with a random intercept and slope to allow for between‐subject variability and adjustment for the differences in variability between studies. The number of knots in the quadratic spline basis functions was determined by comparing models with differing numbers of knots via the Akaike Information Criterion. Models were fit using PROC GLIMMIX in SAS v9.3. Results : At enrolment, there were 24 Fiebig I/II and 6 Fiebig III/IV individuals in the untreated group and 137 Fiebig I/II and 98 Fiebig III/IV individuals in the treated group. Overall, the median age was 27.5 years old, most were male (89%), and CRF01_AE was the most common HIV clade (76%). By day 12 (4 days after ART in RV254), the untreated group had a 2.7‐fold higher predicted mean VL level compared to those treated (predicted log VL 6.19 for RV217 and 5.76 for RV254, p = 0.05). These differences increased to 135‐fold by day 30 (predicted log VL 4.89 for RV217 and 2.76 for RV254) and 1148‐fold by day 120 (predicted log VL 4.68 for RV217 and 1.63 for RV254) ( p < 0.0001 for both) until both curves were similarly flat at about day 150 ( p = 0.17 between days 150 and 160). The VL trajectories were ...

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.7448/ias.20.1.21652Test

المؤلفون: Shah, Jay P., Kumar, Sanjeev, Bryant, Christopher S., Ali‐Fehmi, Rouba, Malone, John M., Deppe, Gunter, Morris, Robert T.

المصدر: International Journal of Cancer ; volume 123, issue 11, page 2671-2675 ; ISSN 0020-7136 1097-0215

الوصف: Yolk sac tumors (YST) are a rare and aggressive germ cell tumor. The objective of this study is to compare the patient characteristics and survival of YST in males and females. Demographic and clinicopathologic information were obtained from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from 1973 to 2003. Statistical analysis was performed using Independent‐sample t‐ test, χ 2 test, Kaplan‐Meier methods and Cox proportional hazards regression. Seven hundred eighty‐eight patients were identified, 451 (57%) were males and 337 (43%) were females. The mean age at diagnosis was similar in males and females. The age at diagnosis showed a bimodal distribution with an increased incidence in the first 4 years of life and during the 2nd to 4th decade of life. The most common site of the primary tumor was gonadal, namely testis 336 (42.6%) and ovary 257 (32.6%). Among the extragonadal sites, tumor site of origin differed in males and females. The 5‐year survival of extragonadal YST (66%) was worse than gonadal YST (86%) ( p < 0.05). The overall median survival for the cohort was 87 months. This was similar in males (81 months) and females (91 months) ( p > 0.05). As the year of diagnosis progressed from 1973 to 2003, survival of both males and females with YST consistently improved. The bimodal age distribution of YST generates the hypothesis that sex steroids may play a role in selected YST. Although the overall survival in all YST patients has improved over the past few decades, the primary sites of origin differ in males and females and impact prognosis. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.23792Test

المؤلفون: Jones, Roy, Bryant, Christopher R.

المصدر: Geographical Research ; volume 54, issue 2, page 115-117 ; ISSN 1745-5863 1745-5871

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12185Test

المؤلفون: Bousbaine, Antonia D., Bryant, Christopher R.

المصدر: Geographical Research ; volume 54, issue 2, page 176-186 ; ISSN 1745-5863 1745-5871

الوصف: Maintaining periurban agriculture and prime periurban farmland has become a leitmotiv in land use planning and management around many cities in N orth A merica and W estern E urope since the 1960s. This article focuses on the changing perspectives associated with these planning and management initiatives as well as changing research approaches. Initially, periurban farmland was often seen by planners as a land reserve for urban development. Subsequently, concern was expressed about maintaining the prime agricultural land resource via farmland protection programmes, especially in N orth A merica in the 1960s and 1970s. Early research into periurban agriculture involved statistical analyses of farmland losses and changing agricultural production systems, and farmer interviews to identify pressures and opportunities facing periurban agriculture. Gradually, it became clear that maintaining farmland resources and farm activities required more than just ‘protecting’ them from urbanisation. Two types of initiatives developed: (1) the construction of agricultural development plans to ensure sustainable farm development, e.g. in Q uebec since 2008, in F rance since the mid‐1970s and more recently in Wallonia ( B elgium) in 2014; and (2) a change in the research approach to support periurban agricultural sustainability. While still using interviews with farmers and other actors, more important is the emergence of action research to provide support to farmers, their neighbours, elected officials and professionals in developing agricultural development plans, with the aim of achieving a better integration of periurban agriculture into the regional urban system. This paper develops this reasoning using research in C anada, F rance, and principally B elgium to illustrate the argument.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12134Test

المؤلفون: Bryant, Christopher Robin, Chahine, Ghalia

المساهمون: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

المصدر: Geographical Research ; volume 54, issue 2, page 165-175 ; ISSN 1745-5863 1745-5871

الوصف: Important pressures still increase the vulnerability of peri‐urban farming despite initiatives to protect agricultural land and activities since the mid‐1960s in several jurisdictions in the USA and C anada. Often, farmland is still removed from agricultural reserves for the ‘good of society’ (for example, creating industrial parks). In 2008, an action research project was initiated to attempt to reduce agricultural vulnerability in several peri‐urban and rural areas near M ontreal by emphasising the importance of the appropriation of the value of these farmlands by non‐farm citizens and actors. The action research roles involved accompanying the farmers, facilitating meetings, mobilising non‐farm actors, and informing farmers of possibilities when asked to do so. In this article, one specific project is analysed in S enneville (in the west of M ontreal I sland). While the project was initiated by the farmers to guarantee their long‐term future, they also sought to involve other, mostly non‐agricultural, actors. In a colloquium, a collective vision for the project was constructed, integrating other functions of farmland such as conservation and leisure activities. Many meetings were organised over a three‐year period and formal presentations were made to the municipality. The project is ongoing, including new farm operations and the reinforcement of local markets for marketing mainly organic produce. The area is now an integral part of an emerging ‘green belt’ of the M ontreal agglomeration and is already part of a ‘green coalition’ of both urban and peri‐urban actors (farmers and non‐farmers), and an emerging food system movement which represents a more holistic approach to food production.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12119Test

المؤلفون: Bryant, Christopher J., Keyse, Stephen M., Caunt, Christopher J.

المصدر: Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research ; volume 27, issue 5, page 693-695 ; ISSN 1755-1471 1755-148X

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/pcmr.12291Test

المؤلفون: Bryant, Christopher G. A., Jary, David

المصدر: The Blackwell Companion to Major Contemporary Social Theorists ; page 247-273

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470999912.ch11Test

المؤلفون: Fulai, Sheng, Flomenhoft, Gary, Downs, Timothy J., Grande-Ortiz, MaÁngeles, Graef, Dana, Scholtens, Bert, Mol, Arthur P.J., Sonnenfeld, David A., Spaargaren, Gert, Goel, Rajeev K., Hsieh, Edward W.T., Scrieciu, Serban, Steurer, Reinhard, Polzin, Christine, Kostka, Genia, Ancev, Tiho, Pirgmaier, Elke, Boons, Frank, Robèrt, Karl-Henrik, Bryant, Christopher, Zhou, Ke, Acharya, Surya Raj, Huberman, David, Sonwa, Denis J., Mycoo, Michelle, Guan, Dabo, Hubacek, Klaus, Sumaila, U. Rashid, Lopez-Ruiz, Hector G., Jolley, G. Jason, Dougherty, Michael L., Pilon, André Francisco, Prakash, Ravi, Tambunan, Tulus, Hermann, Sebastian

المصدر: Natural Resources Forum ; volume 35, issue 1, page 63-72 ; ISSN 0165-0203

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.2011.01347.xTest

المؤلفون: BRYANT, CHRISTOPHER G. A.

المصدر: Nations and Nationalism ; volume 14, issue 4, page 664-683 ; ISSN 1354-5078 1469-8129

الوصف: Following devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, does England need a stronger political voice and/or constitutional changes to safeguard its identity and interests? (the ‘English question’). Polling and other evidence suggests that it does, albeit more to redress inequities associated with voting in parliament (the ‘West Lothian question’) and the distribution of public spending (the ‘Barnett formula’) than to safeguard its identity. Although campaigners for English devolution have had little impact, and alternative institutional responses to the English question are all problematic, it would be imprudent of the major parties to do nothing. The least difficult course would be adoption of English votes on English matters and reform or replacement of the Barnett formula.

الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8129.2008.00342.xTest