This exposure has induced a gradual change in consumption desires and expectations regarding standards of living.
Increasingly, the topography outside our cities is transforming to match our consumption desires.
As long as our manufacturing output is so small that we must run a trade deficit with foreign nations in order to satisfy our consumption desires, we aren't manufacturing enough.
From any smartphone, Hydrao's shower heads can be set to alert you at whatever level of water consumption desired.
Since the reform and opening-up, the dramatic change in China's social structure has to a large extent improved China's consumption standards, which in turn, changed the internal structure of the demand side and invoked the consumption desire for individuals from all social classes to improve their quality of life.
A major problem faced by most Chinese enterprises is the mismatch between the huge consumption drive (brought about by the rise in the Chinese middle class) along with the ever-expanding consumption desire (among business owners) as well as a shortage in development-directed consumer goods in the domestic market.
In our new lives, we are 'free' to control ourselves through circuits of consumption, desire and debt.
The questionnaire consisted of 7 dimensions: hunger, fullness, prospective consumption, desire to eat, appetite for something sweet, appetite for something savory, and thirst.
Irrespective of the treatment arm, patients scored five of six items (hunger, appetite, prospective consumption, desire to eat, and thoughts of eating) significantly higher after the scan than before the scan (P < 0.01 for each item), indicating that appetite increased during the scanning period (all were fasting).
High treatment efficiency and low energy consumption are desired factors for any process intensification from an industrial prospective.
But in retrospect, the show's popularity spoke to an even more significant shift in cultural consumption: a desire for entertainment that reflected everyone's assumed collective boredom with the artifice and conventions of entertainment.
