The loss and waste of food is a matter of great concern, leading to a multifaceted problem with negative economic, social, and environmental impacts as addressed in the UN Sustainable Development Goals number 2: zero hunger. The wine, fruit juice and vegetable oil processing industries generate significant amounts of wastes and side streams containing potentially valuable bioactive compounds. Some of them are plant secondary phenolic metabolites that offer remarkable health benefits (as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAndersson and Pearson's (1999) seminal article on workplace incivility has paved the way for nearly two decades of research focusing on rude and discourteous behavior at work. We now have a better understanding of the dynamics associated with uncivil workplace interactions including the characteristics of those who instigate and are targeted with workplace incivility, the negative consequences of incivility, the mechanisms that link incivility and negative outcomes, and the boundary conditions that affect these relationships. The present article provides a "roadmap" for workplace incivility researchers by identifying five assumptions that we propose are acting as "speedbumps" in current workplace incivility research by limiting advancements about what workplace incivility is and how it functions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe first three human cases of rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia conorii in Montevideo, Uruguay were described in 1990. All of them showed an initial papulosquamous lesion on the scalp from a canine tick bite (Amblyomma triste). At the same time, fever and regional adenopathies were observed.
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