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We investigated whether home environment, salt knowledge, and salt-use behavior were associated with urinary sodium (Na) excretion in Japanese secondary school students. Students (267; mean age, 14.2 years) from Suo-Oshima, Japan, collected three overnight urine samples and completed a salt environment/knowledge/behavior questionnaire. A subset of students (n = 66) collected, on non-consecutive days, two 24 h urine samples, and this subset was used to derive a formula for estimating 24 h Na excretion. Generalized linear models were used to examine the association between salt environment/knowledge/behavior and Na excretions. Students that had salt or soy sauce placed on the dining table during meals excreted more Na than those that did not (pfor trend < 0.05). A number of foods to which the students added seasonings were positively associated with Na excretion (pfor trend = 0.005). The students who frequently bought foods at convenience stores or visited restaurants excreted more Na in urine than those who seldom bought foods (pfor trend < 0.05). Knowledge about salt or discretionary seasoning use was not significantly associated with Na excretion. The associations found in this study indicate that home environment and salt-use behavior may be a target for a public health intervention to reduce salt intake of secondary school students.

Traditional dining tables often lack adjustability in height, legroom, and operability for wheelchair users and disabled older adults, thereby limiting their suitability in accessible dining contexts. This study proposes and evaluates three multifunctional dining table concepts tailored to diverse physical abilities. Field observations of home mealtime routines were conducted, user-journey maps were developed, and affinity diagramming was applied to synthesize requirements. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reduced the dimensionality of the requirements and revealed latent factors shaping the accessible dining experience. Order Relation Analysis (ORA) and the Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) method were used to derive combined subjective and objective indicator weights that informed the design specifications. Three wheelchair compatible prototypes were generated and comparatively assessed, and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) identified the top-performing concept. Results indicated improvements in functional reach, operational convenience, and dining safety relative to conventional tables. The study provides a replicable workflow that integrates user research with multi-criteria decision making for accessible furniture design. Future work will embed sensing and actuation to enhance automation and adaptability, facilitating broader deployment in universal design.

Our study contributes to understanding the role of material culture in families. Findings from a longitudinal case study extend Kopytoff’s theory of singularization by explaining what occurs between the singularization of a focal object and its recommodification. We uncover processes that move an already singularized object in and out of a network of practices, objects, and spaces; identify forces that constrain and empower a singularized object’s agency within that network; and demonstrate network transformations that result from the focal object’s movement. This extension explains some paradoxical findings in consumer research: how objects are granted agency even while displaced, when irreplaceable objects can be replaced, and why families sometimes displace central identity practices.

Abstract Cultured meat represents an emerging technology with the potential to address global food security and sustainability challenges by producing animal-derived meat without slaughter. Unlike plant-based alternatives, it replicates the biological and sensory properties of conventional meat through controlled cell cultivation. This review provides an integrated overview of recent advances in cell line development, differentiation strategies, scaffold engineering, bioreactor design, and media optimisation for scalable cultured meat production. It also examines critical challenges related to cost reduction, automation, and process control, as well as consumer acceptance and regulatory readiness. By combining progress in stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and bioprocessing, this review highlights the translational pathway of cultured meat development—from the laboratory bench to the dining table—emphasising its multidisciplinary nature and potential for sustainable commercialisation. Graphical Abstract Graphical Abstract

This study aimed to address the demand for furniture by developing a user-oriented design pathway for intelligent furniture products, using dining tables as a case study. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, the user needs are classified, and then the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method was used to calculate the causal relationship, as well as the centrality and weight of each demand. The logical relationship between these factors was analyzed with Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) to create a hierarchical logic diagram. To ensure the feasibility of the theoretical framework, the System Usability Scale (SUS) was used for evaluation. This study systematically sorted out the logical relationship and hierarchical structure in the table demand system and identified the core elements and factor categories in the table design. The results confirmed that this design pathway effectively met user needs for dining furniture and provided practical guidance for developing the same type of furniture products, offering valuable reference for similar design endeavors.

Reminiscing has been shown to be a critical conversational context for the development of autobiographical memory, self-concept, and emotional regulation (for a review, see Fivush, Haden, & Reese, 2006). Although much past research has examined reminiscing between mothers and their preschool children, very little attention has been given to family narrative interaction with older children. In the present study, we examined family reminiscing in spontaneous narratives that emerged during family dinnertime conversations. The results revealed that mothers contributed more to the narratives than did fathers in that they provided, confirmed, and negated more information, although fathers requested more information than mothers. In exploratory analyses, mothers' contributions to shared family narratives were found to be related to fewer internalizing and externalizing behaviors in their children, while fathers' contributions to individual narratives of day-to-day experiences were related to fewer internalizing and externalizing behaviors in their children. These results indicate that mothers and fathers may play different roles in narrative construction with their children, and there is some suggestion that these differences may also be related to children's behavioral adjustment.

Sometimes now, he would come to visit and sit in Gladys's chair to remove himself from a world of things: the stress of the mortgage for the house in Rye, private school tuition for his daughter and son, and a work environment that left him so spent he didn't even know how to rest during vacation or play with his own kids. \"Why you looking at me like that?\" Levi said, struggling now to get up off the Turkish rug where he had knelt down beside her. \"Since forever,\" Daryl chimed in. Sometimes, he hated Gladys for her tender fried chicken and her candied yams and the two servings of cheddar grits and the crab cakes and the red rice and the greens smothered in smoked ham hocks and okra gumbo and every damn thing that he gave her money to buy and cook. [...]his brother steals money, yes, Daryl knows for a fact that Royal appropriated funds from the hotel management company and fucked half the female staff too-and then when Royal gets by with a slap on the wrist, he resigns, moving back home to mooch off their mom and dad.

The archive of the Cambridge firm Rattee and Kett--as yet uncatalogued--shows assumptions about the provenance of tables now in the Gallery at Wimpole Hall to be erroneous. The archive further reveals the extent of the firm's involvement in the design and making of ecclesiastical, collegiate and domestic furniture. The company's origins lie in the woodcarving business that James Rattee (1820-1855) and George Kett (1809-1872) established in Sydney Street, Cambridge in 1842.