In the total coffee consumption version, women were asked to choose from one of the following responses: 6 10 cups/day, 4 5 cups/day, 2 3 cups/day, 1 cup/day, 5 6 cups/week, 2 4 cups/week, 1 cup/week, 1 3 cups/month, and almost never.
Residents can install ultra-efficient lighting, such as the Philips Hue, use energy-monitoring devices, such as Chai or Rainforest, replace their appliances with new low-consumption versions and even install large capacity battery arrays to soak up excess power from solar, the most visible and commonly recognized clean technology.
Their characters have been tweaked for contemporary consumption in this version, which features a book by David Greig, so that the bubble-gum-addicted Veruca is now a baby rap star, with her own television show, while the violence-prone, television-fixated Mike has inevitably graduated to video games and Ritalin.
Table 8 shows the resources utilization and the estimated power consumption of each version of the reconfigurable blocks.
In order to measure its influence on consumption, an adjusted version of a previous reliable index was constructed, accounting not only for intensity of smoking restrictions but for compliance as well.
Max Ciociola, CEO and Founder of musiXmatch says they've had "incredibly high consumption" on previous versions.
In general, there was a strong trend towards consumption of healthier versions of foods from within food categories (indicated by lower WXYfm scores) in the healthier diet quality groups.
Some people have made a similar argument for the inclusion of 'cheeses' as a separate category because cheese is an important source of calcium for many people and hence the consumption of healthier versions of cheese should be encouraged.
Therefore we collapsed the categories of lowest consumption from both versions of the questionnaire (1 cup/day, 5 6 cups/week, 2 4 cups/week, 1 6 cups/week, 1 cup/week, 1 3 cups /month and almost never) into a single category (≤1 cup/day), which was used as the reference in all analyses.
Second, a further rise in the consumption tax, Japan's version of value-added tax (VAT), is due in October, 18 months after one in 2014.
At the start of April the government will raise the consumption tax, Japan's version of value-added tax, from the current low rate of 5% to 8%.
