30 July 2022
Portion sizes of many energy-dense and nutrient-poor foods and drinks have increased in the past decade, whereas our understanding of the pattern of changes in package sizes remains limited. This study aimed to determine changing trends in sales and...
Discretionary food package sizes are an important environmental cue that can affect the amount of food consumed. The aim of this study was to determine sales trends and reported food industry perspectives for changing food package sizes of carbonates...
People pay much attention to food and health issues, more so these days. Organic food brings its own “organic” aura as soon as it is produced. Despite the many studies on organic food packaging at present, they mainly focus on packaging d...
This study examines the relationship between cosmetic packaging color and consumer attention by analyzing changes in pupil size using eye-tracking technology. A controlled experiment with 25 participants (mean age: 24.7 ± 3 years, 14 males and...
Scale management has become an essential form of modern agricultural production. However, it is still unclear how farm size influences farmers’ pesticide packaging waste recycling behavior (FPPWRB). Based on the data from the China Rural Revita...
Product visual strategies (PVS) on food packaging influence how consumers visually inspect products at the point of purchase. However, evidence comparing transparent windows and product images remains mixed, particularly regarding how these strategie...
In this study, the small-size and side-view LED packages used in the backlight modules were examined by performing the electrostatic discharge (ESD) process. The high voltages used for the ESD process were 2 kV, 3 kV, and 4 kV. After ESD, the current...
Interventions targeting portion size and energy density of food and beverage products have been identified as a promising approach for obesity prevention. This study modelled the potential cost-effectiveness of: a package size cap on single-serve sug...
The single-serve packaging of discretionary foods is becoming increasingly popular, but evidence is limited on whether smaller package sizes can reduce food intake. The aim of this scoping review is to assess the effect of reducing the package size o...
23 September 2022
Background: Small cigarette pack sizes contain less than 20 cigarette sticks in a pack. Smaller packs may suggest lower costs, increasing affordability among lower-income users, especially the younger generation, which could lead to tobacco-related d...
This research explores the potential of agricultural waste, specifically flax straw, as a sustainable raw material for eco-friendly packaging materials. This study investigates a three-stage delignification process involving nitric acid, alkaline tre...
Packaging configurations have variable environmental impacts, making it essential to assess changes over time, particularly for high-impact food categories such as dairy. This study examined yoghurt packaging in Australia between 2013 and 2023, focus...
Background/Objectives: Eggs serve as an important source of nutrition for the general public. However, despite their importance, research examining consumer characteristics related to egg consumption remains limited, focusing on the quality. Therefor...
This study demonstrated the feasibility of comprehensive enzymatic conversion of starch for non-waste applications in food industry. Enzymatic conversion of starch gives rise to nano-sized particles that can be used for manufacturing biodegradable an...
30 October 2021
Background: We conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) among young adult cigarette smokers in the period July–August 2018 to examine their preference for cigarillos in response to various packaging-related attributes, including flavor, flavor de...
Numerical simulation has become a pivotal tool for analyzing airflow dynamics and temperature patterns during the precooling of postharvest horticultural products stacked in vented package. In this study, a three-dimensional mathematical model for ic...
Background/Objectives: Beef is a significant dietary component, and the concept of food quality is inherently complex and multidimensional. This study addresses this complexity within the context of beef products by examining four key attributes: pri...
The needle-type piezoelectric jetting dispenser is widely applied in the microelectronics packaging field, and it is important to control the droplet size to ensure that the droplet jetting process is successful. In this study, we analyzed the influe...
Declared serving sizes on food packaging are unregulated in Australia, and variations in serving size within similar products reduces the usability of this information. This study aimed to (i) assess the variations in declared serving sizes of packag...
Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have been investigated due to their distinct properties, variety of structures and sizes, and mainly for their antimicrobial activity. They have received a positive safety evaluation from the European Food Safety Au...
As data-center interconnects move to co-packaged optics (CPO), high-power application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and heat-sensitive optical engines share a single interposer, and the resulting intra-module thermal coupling overwhelms conven...
With the miniaturization of electronic packaging and devices, the size of solder joints in electronics is also decreasing from bulk solder joints to micro-bumps. Both the microstructure and mechanical properties of the solder joints are also evolving...
The presentation of nutrition information on a serving size basis is a strategy that has been adopted by several countries to promote healthy eating. Variation in serving size, however, can alter the nutritional values reported on food labels and com...
Packaged discretionary foods that are energy-dense and nutrient-poor are widely available in the current food environment, potentially contributing to overconsumption and excessive energy intake over time. Factors such as on-pack visual cues (for exa...
Polymethylsilsesquioxane (PMSQ) has become a kind of widely studied filler used in the electronic circuit board substrates due to its organic–inorganic hybrid structure, low dielectric constant, and good thermal stability, among other factors. Herein...
In recent years, silver sintering has gained increasing attention in high-power density electronic packaging due to its characteristics such as a high melting point and excellent thermal and electrical conductivity. Micron-sized silver sintering offe...
With the ever-improving advances in computer vision and Earth observation capabilities, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) allow extensive forest inventory and the description of stand structure indirectly. We performed several flights with different UA...
The greatly increased global use of plastic has serious negative environmental consequences. This study aims to analyse the influence of environmental attitudes, personal norms, social norms, and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics on consu...
Underwater sensor networks (UWSN) include a large number of devices and sensors which are positioned in a specific area to carry out monitoring in cooperation with each other as well as data collection. In this paper it has been studied and simulated...
There is a growing demand for convenience grab-and-go (GNG) food and beverages due to the modern, busy lifestyle. The types of food and beverages available in this sector are currently not well defined, although a large selection of discretionary foo...
Logistics and the supply chain are areas of great importance within organizations. Due to planning gaps, an increase in extra and unnecessary transport costs is usually observed in several companies due to their commercial commitments and need to com...
This study investigated the effects of adding lignin nanoparticles (LNPs) to glycerol-plasticized chitosan nanocomposite films (pCS-LNP). Specifically, different LNP sizes (mean hydrodynamic diameters of about 70, 125 or 170 nm) and loadings (1, 3 or...
The distribution of leaf sizes along a shoot is a fundamental aspect of plant architecture, but a simple quantitative rule for this pattern has not been widely tested. We examined whether the ascending leaf length sequence per culm in six Indocalamus...
Gum rosin (GR) was used as a natural additive to improve the compatibility between polylactic acid, PLA, and poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate, PBAT, blended with 20 wt.% of PBAT (PLA/PBAT). The PBAT was used as a soft component to increase the...
To meet the urgent market demand for small package size and high reliability performance for automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) application, wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) technology using through silicon vias (TSV) needs to be developed to...
The increased consumption of food requiring thermoformed packaging implies that the packaging industry demands customized solutions in terms of shapes and sizes to make each packaging unique. In particular, food industry increasingly requires more tr...
This paper presents a systematic review of Python packages with a focus on time series analysis. The objective is to provide (1) an overview of the different time series analysis tasks and preprocessing methods implemented, and (2) an overview of the...
The shelf life of perishable products depends mainly on the conservation of air temperature. Packaging boxes are usually used to accommodate food products during cold storage and transport and/or display. The design of the vent-holes of the packaging...
Fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) is one of the latest packaging trends in microelectronics. Besides technology developments towards heterogeneous integration, including multiple die packaging, passive component integration in packages and redist...
Nanoparticles (NPs) have acquired significance in technological breakthroughs due to their unique properties, such as size, shape, chemical composition, physiochemical stability, crystal structure, and larger surface area. There is a huge demand for...
A crop pretreatment with silicon was combined with passive modified atmosphere packaging (PMAP) in a thermoformed recycled PET packaging format as a novel approach to minimize the quality degradation in mushrooms. This study was aimed to evaluate the...
This research explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to optimize packaging design, reduce operational costs, and enhance sustainability in e-commerce. As packaging waste and shipping inefficiencies grow alongside global online ret...
This study provides a systematic overview of 207 econometrics-related R packages identified through CRAN and the Econometrics Task View. Using descriptive and inferential statistics and text mining to compute the word frequency and association among...
In most countries, antibiotics for oral administration are put on the market in fixed packages. When there is no exact unit dispensing of antimicrobials, drug pack size may influence prescribers’ choice of treatment duration. The aim of this st...
The key technologies for the ultrathin small outline package (TSOP) of large-sized high-speed chips have been designed and developed in this paper. The designing techniques, such as a 25 µm precise positioning dice attaching technique, a lead f...
Packaging was recently identified as an essential element in addressing the key challenge of sustainable food supply and is gaining interest among researchers. It is a central element in food quality preservation due to its role in heat and mass exch...
Food packaging waste is a valuable resource for material recovery, if it is properly separated and sorted by consumers. The packaging itself may have the potential to assist consumer sorting by, for example, communicating a correct sorting practice....
Packaging is increasingly recognized as an essential component of any marketing strategy. Visual and informational front-of-pack cues constitute salient elements of the environment that may influence what and how much someone eats. Considering their...
By laser micromilling technology it is possible to fabricate custom MEMS microhotplate platform and also SMD package for MOX sensor, that gives complete solution for integration in mobile devices-smart phones, tablets and etc. The 3D design and fabri...
In recent years, agricultural by-product fillers have been investigated in composites to influence the physical properties of the packaging material, increase biodegradability, and reduce costs. In general, the properties of composites are mainly inf...
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