The purpose of this study was to learn about mothers' experiences with food choices for their pre-school children in underprivileged communities in Greater Western Sydney (GWS). A total of 20 ...mother-child dyads living in GWS were recruited to a qualitative study from an ongoing birth cohort study. Participants' houses were visited for semi-structured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed thematically. The interviews yielded five main themes: (i) food choices, nutrition, and health; (ii) accessibility and availability of foods (iii) buying time for parents; (iv) child's age and their preference on food choices; (v) conditioning certain behaviours by family and cultural factors. Nutrition literacy, child's preferences, unhealthy food intake by family members, child's demand, advertising and availability of harmful foods, and time constraints were all mentioned as hurdles to mothers making appropriate meal choices for their children. However, some identified facilitators were promoting parents' knowledge, increasing access to health educational materials, upskilling mothers to providing healthier alternatives, regulating the marketing of unhealth foods. Although, the present study identified critical factors that influence mothers' food choices for their young children, making healthy food choices is a complex practice as it is shaped by individual, social and environmental influences.
Microstructure in alloys decides their physical properties; however, microstructure variations in metallic alloys are never quantitative. This applies to ferrous and non-ferrous alloys. Therefore, a ...correlative methodology is proposed for their indirect quantification using x-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman spectroscopy. As a representative case, 16 different iron-based alloys with slight variations in composition and microstructure are considered. Changes to their properties and microstructure are correlated with XRD and Raman spectroscopy. Thermal treatments also have a role in such variation. Every x-ray peak position and FWHM was analyzed and correlated with corresponding Raman spectra and FWHM. The objective is the development of a reliable database and secondary testing methodology for fast performance estimation of different ferrous and non-ferrous alloys during production and for checking repeatability, other than by their microstructure and tensile strength, which is done at present.
This study is trying to examine the different renewable energy sources and their impact on the economic growth at the state level under sustainable development goal seven (SDG-7). The SDGs goal (7th) ...defines the importance of clean, affordable and modern energy system in the World. Moreover, this study is attempting to increase the influence of sustainable energy consumption by employing dataset of selected Asian countries. This study uses annual panel data set and applies Augmented Mean Group (AMG), alongside Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) methods for data analysis. The overall results indicate the consumption of renewable energy sources have significantly contribution towards the economic prosperity of these economies. Furthermore, policy makers should focus on expansionary fiscal policies to enhance the use of environmental friendly power generation in these regions.
•First, this research adds to the body of knowledge on the subject issue by investigating the effects of renewable energy sources on economic growth.•Second, the paper demonstrates the causal relationship between the production of renewable energy sources, and economic growth, along with conventional energy utilization, low trade barriers, government spending.•We have used panel data rather than time-series data in order to establish the causal relationships between the above-mentioned factors as this approach reduces the issues relating to multicollinearity.•Appropriately, this study addresses the do renewable energy sources improve the clean environment by enhancing economic prosperity among selected Asian economies?
The “environment” has become one of the important and debatable topics of the world and policymakers identifying the new predictors of CO2 emissions. Therefore, some economies have been promoting ...fiscal decentralization to encourage environmental quality by granting more financial autonomy to provincial and sub-national governments. Therefore, this study evaluates the dynamic effect of fiscal decentralization on CO2 in selected nine Asian economies using a fresh dynamic panel ARDL model from 1984 to 2017. The empirical findings show that fiscal decentralization has asymmetric effects on CO2 emissions because a positive change in revenue and expenditure decentralization reduced CO2 emissions in Asia. Moreover, a negative change in expenditure decentralization has also enhanced CO2 emissions in the long run. Thus, clean environmental policies and recommendations can be revised and proposed based on nonlinear findings in the modern era.
This research explores the influence of real oil prices, trade openness, carbon emanations, economic growth, and income inequality on renewable energy consumption (REC) in twenty (20) OECD nations ...from 1991 to 2020 by employing the AMG assessor, which takes into account slope heterogeneity (SH) and CSD. The empirical outcomes confirm a significant favorable long-run relationship between these nexus, except for Carbon emanations, which are adversely related with REC, respectively. The findings also reveal that trade openness, REC, income inequality, and real oil prices all have a one-way causal relationship with CO2 emanations. Notwithstanding, it has discovered that there is bi-directional causality between income inequality and REC.
•Our study aims to look at the influence of trade openness, income inequality, economic growth, CO2 emissions.•REC, trade openness, real oil prices, and income inequality all have a one-way causal relationship with CO2 emissions.•REC is positively related to economic growth, real oil prices, income inequality, and trade openness.
This study aims to investigate the influence of psychological biases on the investment decision of Chinese individual investors after the pandemic of COVID-19 with a moderating role of information ...availability. A cross-sectional method with a quantitative research approach was employed to investigate the hypothesized relationships among variables. The snowball sampling technique was applied to collect the data through a survey questionnaire from individual investors investing in the Chinese stock market. Smart-PLS statistical software was used to analyze the data and for the estimation of hypotheses. Results indicated that overconfidence, representative bias, and anchoring bias have a significant and positive influence on investment decisions during the post-Covid-19 pandemic; however, the availability bias has insignificant and negative effects on the investment decision during the post-COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, findings indicated that information availability has a significant moderating role in the relationship of psychological biases with the investment decision during the post-COVID-19 pandemic. This study contributes to the body of knowledge regarding behavior finance, psychological biases, and investment decision in emerging stock markets. The findings of the present study improve the understanding that how investors’ psychology affects their investment decisions.
The influences of renewable and conventional energy consumption on ecological sustainability remain unclear because of the dynamic economic and innovative framework. This investigation gives a new ...perception by exploring the association between the production of various sources of renewable energies (e.g., hydroelectric, wind, solar PV, geothermal, and biomass power) and economic growth encapsulating capital, government spending, and trade openness. This research used a heterogeneous approach for panel data and second generational tools for econometrics, which allow for cross-sectional reliance and slope heterogeneity. This study has revealed the substantial reason to back up the feedback assumptions between renewable energy sources and economic growth, using the Dumitrescu and Hurlin analysis. In terms of policy, this empirical analysis suggests enacting impactful policies that encourage green power and economic reform in an attempt to lessen CO2 concentrations in the biosphere.
This research aims to measure the impact of energy poverty in Pakistan and its effect on the social wellbeing of individuals in Pakistan. This thought of energy destitution toward the family doesn't ...surely know with regards to literature as it might allude to either ‘economic poor’ or ‘energy poor’ state of the household. This study utilizes the Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measurement (PSLM) overview and data set contains from 2003 to 2018 to examine the effects of energy destitution on the wellbeing, instruction and acquiring chances of the families. The empirical findings of the exploration propose that the energy neediness of a household is firmly connected with the sort of fuel utilized and the low utilization of unreasonably expensive clean energy by the family. The subsequent effects of energy neediness on the prosperity of families are huge. It is observed that energy helpless families have a greater likelihood toward the individuals experiencing respiratory issues, paying more on clinical consideration, dropping out of school and lesser acquiring openings than the household without energy destitution.
•This study consists of four core areas of multidimensional energy poverty; affordable energy, energy poverty, social wellbeing, and energy poor.•This study is based on SDGs 1 and 7 goals of multidimensional poverty and affordable and modern energy.•The results of this study help the government, policymakers, and non-governmental organizations.•In Pakistan, 29.5% of the population is living below the poverty line.
Background: At present, there is an escalating concern regarding possible role of 5-HT3 receptor in psychopharmacology and the therapeutic potential of their antagonists. Moreover, inclusion of 5-HT3 ...receptor antagonist may curtail the antidepressant-induced LTP decrease causing memory deficits, thereby improving efficacy of current antidepressants. Aim and Objective: This study aims to evaluate the antidepressant activity of 5-HT3 antagonist, that is, ondansetron (OND) in rodent models of depression. Materials and Methods: Male Swiss albino mice (20-30 g bw) and Wistar rats (100-200 g bw) were divided into five groups. Animals received either OND p.o. (0.1, 0.5 and 1 mg/kg), venlafaxine (10 mg/kg), or vehicle (1 ml distilled water p.o.) in control. Tail suspension and forced swim test were used to evaluate the effects of drugs and control after 60 min of their administration. Furthermore, assessment of locomotor activity (LA) was done by photoactometer after 24 h of drug administration. Results: Ondansetron exhibited significant antidepressants activity (P < 0.05) in rodent models. However, LA was not significantly altered by OND. Conclusion: Ondansetron exhibited significant antidepressant activity in rodent models hence paving the way for exploration of 5-HT3 receptor antagonist in future researches and its therapeutic application in depression.
The fact is the stock market has an asymmetric effect on macroeconomic variables. In this study, we examine the nonlinear stock market reaction to the environment. This is the first study that ...considers the possibility of asymmetric effects of stock market on environmental pollution in Asia. This study considers the experiences of Asia economies by using the panel NARDL methodology over the data period from 1995 to 2019. The long-run panel NARDL results showed that the positive change in stock market increases carbon emissions. In adverse, the negative change in stock market significantly mitigates the carbon emissions in Asia. The short-run stock market asymmetric effects continued into the long-run asymmetric effects on the environment in Asia. Thus, policymakers and authorities should initiate to promote green financial activities in Asian stock markets.
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