A strategic review on plant by-product from banana harvesting: A potentially bio-based ingredient for approaching novel food and agro-industry sustainability

AbstractSocial learning—learning from others—is the basis for behavioural traditions. Different social learning strategies (SLS), where individuals biasedly learn behaviours based on their content or who demonstrates them, may increase an individual’s fitness and generate behavioural traditions. While SLS have been mostly studied in isolation, their interaction and the interplay between individual and social learning is less understood. We performed a field-based open diffusion experiment in a wild primate. We provided two groups of vervet monkeys with a novel food, unshelled peanuts, and documented how three different peanut opening techniques spread within the groups. We analysed data using hierarchical Bayesian dynamic learning models that explore the integration of multiple SLS with individual learning. We (1) report evidence of social learning compared to strictly individual learning, (2) show that vervets preferentially socially learn the technique that yields the highest observed payoff and (3) also bias attention toward individuals of higher rank. This shows that behavioural preferences can arise when individuals integrate social information about the efficiency of a behaviour alongside cues related to the rank of a demonstrator. When these preferences converge to the same behaviour in a group, they may result in stable behavioural traditions.

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Study on Structural Characteristics of China’s Passenger Airline Network Based on Network Motifs Analysis

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11092484 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 2484 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ying Jin ◽

Ye Wei ◽

Chunliang Xiu ◽

Wei Song ◽

Kaixian Yang

Keyword(s):

Airline Industry ◽

Structural Characteristics ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Development Stage ◽

Network Motifs ◽

Characteristic Analysis ◽

Airline Networks ◽

Airline Network ◽

Industry Sustainability ◽

Advanced Development

The air passenger transport network system is an important agent of social and economic connections between cities. Studying on the airline network structure and providing optimization strategies can improve the airline industry sustainability evolution. As basic building blocks of broad networks, the concept of network motifs is cited in this paper to apply to the structural characteristic analysis of the passenger airline network. The ENUMERATE SUBGRAPHS (G, k) algorithm is used to identify the motifs and anti-motifs of the passenger airline network in China. A total of 37 airline companies are subjected to motif identification and exploring the structural and functional characteristics of the airline networks corresponding to different motifs. These 37 airline companies are classified according to the motif concentration curves into three development stages, which include mono-centric divergence companies at the low-level development stage, transitional companies at the intermediate development stage, and multi-centric and hierarchical companies at the advanced development stage. Finally, we found that adjusting the number of proper network motifs is useful to optimize the overall structure of airline networks, which is profitable for air transport sustainable development.

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Taxifolin, a novel food, attenuates acute alcohol-induced liver injury in mice through regulating the NF-κB-mediated inflammation and PI3K/Akt signalling pathways

Pharmaceutical Biology ◽

10.1080/13880209.2021.1942504 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 868-879

Author(s):

Chuanbo Ding ◽

Yingchun Zhao ◽

Xueyan Chen ◽

Yinan Zheng ◽

Wencong Liu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Liver Injury ◽

Signalling Pathways ◽

Novel Food

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Desire to eat and intake of ‘insect’ containing food is increased by a written passage: the potential role of familiarity in the amelioration of novel food disgust

Appetite ◽

10.1016/j.appet.2020.105088 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 105088

Author(s):

Maya Gumussoy ◽

Chloe Macmillan ◽

Stephanie Bryant ◽

David F. Hunt ◽

Peter J. Rogers

Keyword(s):

Potential Role ◽

Novel Food ◽

Desire To Eat

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Interspecies Sustainability to Ensure Animal Protection: Lessons from the Thoroughbred Racing Industry

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11195539 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 5539 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Bergmann

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Animal Welfare ◽

Animal Protection ◽

Sustainability Transition ◽

Animal Advocacy ◽

The Us ◽

Original Contribution ◽

Industry Sustainability ◽

Thoroughbred Racing

There is a disconnect between dominant conceptions of sustainability and the protection of animals arising from the anthropocentric orientation of most conceptualisations of sustainability, including sustainable development. Critiques of this disconnect are primarily based in the context of industrial animal agriculture and a general model of a species-inclusive conception of sustainability has yet to emerge. The original contribution of this article is two-fold: First, it develops a theoretical framework for interspecies sustainability. Second, it applies this to a case study of the thoroughbred racing industry. Interviews were conducted with thoroughbred industry and animal advocacy informants in the US, Australia and Great Britain. While industry informants claim thoroughbred welfare is seminal for industry sustainability, they adopt a market-oriented anthropocentric conception of sustainability and do not consider animal welfare a sustainability domain in its own right. Animal advocacy informants demonstrate a deeper understanding of welfare but some express discomfort about linking sustainability, welfare and racing. Eight analytical layers have been identified in the discourse in the interface of sustainability and animal protection, of which two have transformational potential to advance interspecies sustainability. Interspecies sustainability urgently needs to be advanced to ensure animal protection in the sustainability transition, and to not leave the defining of animal welfare and sustainability to animal industries.

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