Revealed preferences on meat substitute consumption and political attitudes - Testing the left-right and environmental concerns framework.

The promotion of meat substitutes to reduce meat intake is a promising way to reduce the environmental and public health externalities of meat consumption while preserving the important role of taste and texture in meat products. However, the market for meat substitutes is developing more slowly than expected. Therefore, we analyze the factors associated with the heterogeneity in meat substitute consumption in Germany, a country where meat traditionally plays an important role.

Comparing meat and meat alternatives: an analysis of nutrient quality in five European countries.

Objective: To assess and compare the (macro-)nutritional composition of red meat (RM) and poultry meat (PM) products with the emerging category of meat substitutes.

Design: We use information on nutritional values per 100 g to estimate the differences in the nutritional composition between RM, PM, vegan meat substitute (VMS) and non-vegan meat substitute (NVMS) and derive six unique meat product clusters to enhance the comparability.

Setting: Meat markets from five major European countries: France, Germany, UK, Italy and Spain.

Establishing the Safe Space via Physiologically Based Biopharmaceutics Modeling. Case Study: Fevipiprant/QAW039.

Physiologically based pharmacokinetic and absorption modeling has increasingly been implemented for biopharmaceutics applications to define the safe space for drug product quality attributes such as dissolution. For fevipiprant/QAW039, simulations were performed to assess the impact of in vitro dissolution on the in vivo performance of immediate-release film-coated tablets during development and scaling up to commercial scale. A fevipiprant dissolution safe space was established using observed clinical intravenous and oral PK data from bioequivalent and non-bioequivalent formulations.

Commercial scale transfer of a twin-screw melt granulation process for high drug load fevipiprant tablets.

Objective: This work summarizes select methodology of twin-screw melt granulation (TSMG) and process analytical technology that were used in the successful scaling-up and commercial transfer of high drug load (80.5% w/w) immediate release fevipiprant tablets.

Significance: The unique and compelling learnings from this industry work are (1) insights into Novartis AG's commercial scale transfer using TSMG and (2) rapid, nondestructive NIR methodology as a PAT tool for RTR testing.

Development of immediate release 3D-printed dosage forms for a poorly water-soluble drug by fused deposition modeling: Study of morphology, solid state and dissolution.

3D-printing technologies such as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) bring a unique opportunity for personalized and flexible near-patient production of pharmaceuticals, potentially improving safety and efficacy for some medications. However, FDM-printed tablets often exhibit tendency for slow dissolution due to polymer erosion-based dissolution mechanisms. Development of immediate release (IR) 3D-printed dosage with poorly water-soluble compounds is even more challenging but necessary to ensure wide applicability of the technology within pharmaceutical development portfolios.

Development of immediate release (IR) 3D-printed oral dosage forms with focus on industrial relevance.

Pharmaceutical 3D-printing represents a potentially new dosing and manufacturing approach for the pharmaceutical industry, with unique opportunities for personalization of dosage strengths. Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is a 3D-printing technique, which presents advantages for decentralized on-site manufacturing in hospitals and pharmacies. This study introduces industrially relevant development of formulations for filaments with the required mechanical properties to be 3D-printable and providing immediate release (IR) dosage forms using safe materials approved also for pediatric use.

Simplification of fused deposition modeling 3D-printing paradigm: Feasibility of 1-step direct powder printing for immediate release dosage form production.

Direct powder three-dimensional (3D)-printing (DPP) of tablets to simplify fused deposition modelling (FDM) was explored. The FDM paradigm involving hot-melt extrusion for making 3D-printable drug-loaded filaments as intermediate products for tablet manufacturing has been gaining attention for the decentralized on-site production of personalized dosage forms. For direct 3D-printing, powder blends were loaded into a cartridge-like head and were successfully printed with honeycomb design following heating of the extrusion cartridge.

The price is right!? A meta-regression analysis on willingness to pay for local food.

We study the literature on willingness to pay (WTP) for local food by applying meta-regression analysis to a set of 35 eligible research papers that provide 86 estimates on consumers' WTP for the attribute "local." An analysis of the distribution of WTP measures suggests the presence of publication selection bias that favors larger and statistically significant results. The analyzed literature provides evidence for statistically significant differences among consumers' WTP for various types of product.

Meta-analysis data for the literature on dividend smoothing.

The dataset presented in this data article was compiled from 100 published and unpublished empirical studies that employed Lintner׳s dividend payout model or related extensions over the period 1957-2016. Besides the reported degree of dividend smoothing and its estimation precision the data include a wide set of underlying study design characteristics such as the time period of analysis, the type of firms investigated or the econometric estimator employed. The data are related to the research article "What drives dividend smoothing? A meta-regression analysis of the Lintner model" (Fernau and Hirsch, 2018).

Taiwanese consumer survey data for investigating the role of information on equivalence of organic standards in directing food choice.

The presentation of credence attributes such as the product's origin or the production method has a significant influence on consumers' food purchase decisions. The dataset includes survey responses from a discrete choice experiment with 1309 food shoppers in Taiwan using the example of sweet pepper. The survey was carried out in 2014 in the three largest Taiwanese cities.