Search results for "GPR"

Investigation of sodium ions in cheeses by 23Na NMR spectroscopy

2008

International audience; The reduction in the salt content of foods without affecting their production methods and sensorial properties is a current challenge for the food industry. In foods, sodium ions can adopt various motional states through interactions with macromolecules such as hydrocolloids or exchange between two phases in heterogeneous systems. A correlation between sodium ion mobility and the saltiness perception has been suggested, the role of sodium ions with restricted motion or "bound" sodium being of particular consideration. There is therefore a need to investigate the mobility states of the different pools of sodium ions and to quantify these fractions to develop a better …

Mechanism of nanocapsules formation by the emulsion-diffusion process.

2007

International audience; A detailed investigation into the mechanisms of nanocapsule formation by means of the two stages “emulsion–diffusion” process is reported. Such widely used process is still poorly understood. An emulsion of oil, polymer and ethyl acetate is fabricated as a first step; dilution with pure water allows ethyl acetate to diffuse out from the droplets, leaving a suspension of nanocapsules at the end. It has been shown that the size of nanocapsules was related to the chemical composition of the organic phase and the size of primary emulsion through a simple geometrical relationship. As a consequence, most of the properties of the nanocapsules were decided at the emulsificat…

Plasma gangliosides and age-related macular degeneration

2013

Purpose Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a multifactorial and polygenic disease and is the main cause of vision loss in developed countries after 50 years old. Indeed, dry AMD leads to progressive retinal atrophy and exsudative AMD induces a rapid alteration of the macula through neovascularisation. Gangliosides (GG) make a wide and heterogeneous family of sialic-acid-containing glycosphingolipids, composed of a sugar chain branched on a ceramide. They are major components of cellular membranes and are particularly abundant in the brain and nervous tissue, including retina. They are also found circulating in the plasma. GG are known for their neuroprotective properties in the nervo…

Order and Chaos in the Statistical Mechanics of the Integrable Models in 1+1 Dimensions

1991

This paper was presented at the meeting under this title. But, originally, the more cumbersome ‘Quantum chaos — classical chaos in k-space: thermodynamic limits for the sine-Gordon models’ was proposed. Certainly this covers more technically the content of this paper.

Impact of long chain fatty acids on sweet taste sensitivity in mice. Role of the GPR120/GLP-1 signaling

2011

A field experiment for understanding the unintended impact of Internet monitoring on employees : Policy satisfaction, organizational citizenship beha…

2019

Internet monitoring is widely deployed in organizations as an attempt to regulate employees’ cyberloafing behaviour, which is defined as employees’ usage of Internet for non-work-related purposes. Although previous studies have examined the effectiveness of Internet monitoring in regulating employees’ cyberloafing, the impact of Internet monitoring on employees’ perceptions or behaviours other than cyberloafing has not been investigated. As a first step to address this research gap, we conduct a field experiment to study the impact of Internet monitoring on employees’ policy satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and work motivation. We found that Internet monitoring decre…

Activity mappings in olfactory bulb of newborn rabbits elicited by odor stimulation using quantitative manganese enhanced MRI

2007

International audience

Screening contact allergens from cosmetics using an optical biosensor

2006

Appropiateness of Education and Employment

2019

Education programmes are designed to equip young populations with the qua-lifications required to assume responsible roles in specific professions and in society generally. In this paper, the focus of the analysis is on the significance of a number of higher education programme characteristics in allocating Belarusian young higher education graduates across the labour market and how these graduates perform in their jobs. Graduate performance is analysed in terms of the match between graduates' qualifications and employment require-ments in Belarus. The findings provide relevant information for supporting the educational reform of Belarusian universities and increasing the employability of i…

Complaining at the Store or Through Social Media: The Influence of the Purchase Channel, Satisfaction, and Commitment

2017

In the current omnichannel retail environment, customers have multiple channels to interact with firms to search for information, purchase, and after-sales. Within those channel social media can play a significant role, particularly as complaint channels. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether the choice to complain face-to-face or through social media depends on the purchase channel chosen and the satisfaction and commitment with the retailer. With data from an online panel our results show that the complaint channel tends to be the same as the channel chosen for purchase; moreover, satisfaction is positively related to complaining at store and negatively related to complaining throug…