Objective To examine the socio-economic and lifestyle determinants of cooking oil choice in Costa Rica during the last decade (1994–2004). Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects (total n = 2274) belonged to the control ...

The former headquarters of the international oil corporation that everyone knows today as British Petroleum (BP) were located in the historic Britannic House, Finsbury Circus, in London. The building has a notable history, ...

Differential and absolute ground rent as extraordinary profit that remains permanent due to private ownership of non-reproducible conditions of production (Marx 2000) may be disputed by different classes and fractions ...

The article analyses the relationship between social policy and economy in Brazil from the pre-salt exploration to the present day. The announcement of oil reserves in the pre-salt layer resulted in rapid changes in the ...

This is a photograph of an abandoned oil field in Trinidad. The first successful well was drilled at La Brea in 1857.(http://www.gstt.org/history/history%20of%20oil.htm and http://www.gstt.org/history/chronology.htm)

Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors ...

Essential oils constitute important raw materials for the food, beverage,pharmaceutical, and perfumery industries. The production and chemical composition ofessential oils are influenced by genetic and agronomic factors, ...

From a historical perspective, the massive consumption of vegetable oils is a relativelyrecent phenomenon that began in the twentieth century due to the development oflarge-scale production of machinery and supplies after ...