Sentences with phrase «function as a source of energy»

Muesli bars opportunities Demand for muesli bars has grown strongly in recent years in China, where branding tends to promote their function as a source of energy, and as a meal substitute.

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Fortunately for potato lovers and health - conscious people, they also happen to be one of the best sources of complex carbohydrates and thus function as a great energy food.

We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.

The results show that the gap around the node at sufficiently low temperatures can be well described by a monotonic d - wave gap function for both samples and the... ▽ More The energy gap of optimally doped Bi2 (Sr, R) 2CuOy (R = La and Eu) was probed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using a vacuum ultraviolet laser (photon energy 6.994 eV) or He I resonance line (21.218 eV) as photon source.

Sparing of protein by preventing it from being used as a source of energy, thus leaving it available for the creation of body tissue and the proper functioning of essential body processes.

A steady supply of blood sugar is vital to maintaining brain function as glucose is its main source of energy.

The purpose of carbohydrates is to provide energy, as they are the body's main source of fuel, needed for physical activity, brain function and operation of the organs.

However, protein also has a secondary function, it is used as a source of energy.

They are the five vital elements — air (the vital force behind all functions), fire (source of energy and heat and responsible for transformation, such as metabolism, hormones, saliva), earth (the element of strength and anabolism, such as collagen, and ligaments, and muscles), water (that which binds structures together such as urine, sweat, and gastric enzymes), and space (where all factors exist, such as oral cavity, respiratory system and reproductive system).

During the fight - or - flight response, cortisol increases blood sugar (the source of energy needed to survive) and shuts down anything within the body that is unnecessary, such as reproductive functions.

The ketogenic diet revolves around the principle of low carb, high fat, as ketones are a principal source of energy that our bodies need to function.

It also supports neurological function and acts as a backup source of energy when carbohydrates and fat aren't available.

These SCFAs can then be used as an energy source for cells that line our large intestine, providing better function in that part of our digestive tract.

The problem using carbohydrates as the main energy source can be seen in the diagram to the right, the yellow line showing blood sugar as a function of time after a meal.

Smathers pointed out that, while all carbohydrates function as relatively quick energy sources, simple carbs cause bursts of energy much more quickly than complex carbs because of the quicker rate at which they are digested and absorbed.

Although often perceived to be unhealthy, fats are important for lots of different things, such as hair condition, skin, the immune system, cell membrane function and as an energy source [56, 57, 58, 59].

Re 392 Chris Dudley — I don't understand what you mean by R ^ 2T ^ 4 — and there should be something about how optical depth is proportional to R, and also, if you're going a significant distance toward the center of such an object, there is the issue of spherical geometry; if the optical thickness is large enough across small changes in radius, then you don't need to account for the spherical geometry in the calculation of the flux per unit area as a function of the temperature profile and optical thickness; however, the flux per unit area outward will drop as an inverse square, except of course within the layers that are being heated through a different process (SW heating for a planet, radioactivity, latent and sensible heat loss associated with a cooling interior, gravitational potential energy conversion to enthalpy via compression (adiabatic warming) and settling of denser material under gravity (the later both leads to compression via increased pressure via increased gravity within the interior, and also is a source of kinetic energy which can be converted to heat)...

We will also undermine ecosystem functions (e.g., pollination which is critical for food production) and ecosystem resilience (when losing keystone species in food chains), as well as reduce functional diversity (critical for the ability of ecosystems to respond to shocks and stress) and genetic diversity that plays an important role for development of new medicines, materials, and sources of energy.

The Earth System performs the functions («ecosystem services») of providing both the sources of these material and energy inputs to the human economy, as well as the sinks which absorb and process the pollution and waste outputs of the human economy.

Moreover, unlike fossil fuels whose EROI necessarily gets worse over time, as the lowest - cost, highest - quality supplies are exhausted, the EROI of wind and solar gets better over time because the energy sources themselves are both free and inexhaustible, so the EROI is purely a function of the rapidly improving technology.