... 47 Social and ethical concerns about GM foods 49 6.1 Culturalvariabilityandpublicperception 49 6.2 Labelling of GM foods and consumer choice ... agricultural and non-agricultural activities among adjacent villages and between rural and urban areas Building roads in rural areas is vital to facilitating growth, trade and exchange of farm and ... 2001) Resistance to salinity and drought are being researched intensively Salinity is estimated to affect 20% of agricultural land and 40% of irrigated land worldwide Salt and drought tolerance involve...
... (Klein and Ford, 2003; Ratchford, Lee and Talukdar, 2003), retail prices and retailer profits (Chen, Iyer and Padmanabhan 2002; Iyer and Pazgal 2003; Lee and Grewal 2004; ScottMorton, Zettelmeyer and ... Zettelmeyer, ScottMorton and Silva-Risso 2003), consumer choice decisions (Degeratu, Rangaswamy and Wu 2000; Lal and Sarvary 1999; Lynch 16 and Ariely 2000), and product differentiation and firm profits ... segment-specific (Fader and Hardie 1996; Gupta and Chintagunta 1994; Kamakura and Russell 1989) or that they are randomly distributed across the population (Chintagunta, Jain and Vilcassim 1991)...
... consumer perceptions of and attitude toward both hedonic and utilitarian products The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section reviews previous works on animation, and utilitarian and ... interesting, concrete and imagery provoking, and proximate in a sensory, temporal, or spatial way (Nisbett and Ross 1980) Vivid information is appealing and more likely to be stored and retrieved relative ... attention and facilitate quicker location of it in certain contexts Animated banner ads may raise brand awareness, brand preference, and purchase intention as compared with static ones (Briggs and...
... reproducing figures and tables; Nancy Warner for help in preparing tables and graphs and for word processing assistance; and Marya Spangler for help with literature searches and collecting data ... pasteurization), and distribution of milk and milk products Protecting the quality of milk is everyone’s responsibility — public health officials, the dairy and related industries, and consumers ... Milk and Other Dairy Foods A Who is Responsible for Milk’s Quality? B Pasteurized Milk Ordinance C Unintentional Microconstituents D Milk Treatments E Storage and Handling VI Kinds of Milk and...
... labels and consumption IZA Discussion Paper No 3500 Allenby, Greg M and Peter E Rossi 1991 Quality perceptions and asymmetric switching between brands Marketing Science 10(3): 185-204 Anderson, ... Netherlands, Milkman and Beshears’ (2009) study of the marginal propensity to consume out of a coupon in an online grocery retail setting, and related work by Abeler and Marklein (2008) and Feldman ... households’ choice of orange juice and milk brands We find that poorer households buy less expensive brands of orange juice and milk, but that gasoline prices exert a weak (and statistically insignificant)...
... International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) Project Development and Guidance: Charlotte Hebebrand, Chief Executive, IPC ... corn) and has other crops in the pipeline.4 Certain countries have adopted requirements that are not fully implemented- e.g mandatory labeling for GM food in Indonesia and Thailand (Gruere and ... representatives from the Ministries of Industry and Trade, Science and Technology, Agriculture and Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment, Health and some experts This does not prevent country...
... (Ventana, and from 2007 Novocastra Leica, Wetzal, Germany), A485 (DAKO, Glostrup, Denmark) and AB17 (Neomarkers, LabVision Freemont, CA, USA) between the year 2000 and March 2005, and only CB11 and ... contributions HN designed and performed research, analyzed data and performed statistical analysis He was together with IP responsible for collecting and handling patient samples and for performing ... administered together with GM-CSF and IL-2, is safe, well tolerated and can induce Page of 11 both antibody and T-cell responses in advanced stage cancer patients Since our group and others have shown that...
... coordination and drafted the manuscript, HT participated in the study design and coordination, HB conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved ... cross-flow nebulizer and Scott type spray chamber For calibration, commercially obtainable ICP standards by Merck (CertiPUR, Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA) were used Standards and samples were diluted ... between 1.4 and 76 mg kg−1 Two samples with aluminium concentrations of 71 and 76 mg kg−1 were imported products The investigation results (1999 to 2006) of the Land of Saxony Control and Inspection...
... judgment and behavior in the gain versus loss domains are well documented (Kahneman and Tversky 1979; Thaler 1980; Thaler and Johnson 1990) Furthermore, the wants and shoulds (vices and virtues) ... Tenbrunsel, and Kimberly WadeBenzoni (1998), “Negotiating with Yourself and Losing: Understanding and Managing Competing Internal Preferences,” Academy of Management Review, 23 (2), 225–41 Chandon, ... primarily in the form of experiential enjoyment and the latter in practical functionality (Batra and Ahtola 1990; Hirschman and Holbrook 1982; Mano and Oliver 1993) Because of this difference, there...
... (Larsen and Prizmic 2004; Ochsner et al 2002; Richards and Gross 2000) For example, Richards and Gross (2000) showed participants movies and slides that may potentially evoke negative emotions and ... require the resources (Baumeister 2002; Baumeister and Heatherton 1996; Carver and Scheier 1981; Schmeichel, Vohs, and Baumeister 2003; Vohs, Baumeister, and Ciarocco 2005) Therefore, when consumers ... feelings about the clocks and the other people cannot see any expressions on your face” (adapted from Richards and Gross 2000; Schmeichel, Vohs, and Baumeister 2003; Wegner, Erber, and Zanakos 1993)...
... days 3, 7, and 14 for PCR studies and days 0, 1, and for measurement of soluble HLA-DR Blood (7.5 ml) was collected in preservative free heparin (final concentration of 100 iu/ml) and cells were ... Mortality and focus of sepsis are described in the previous study [22] Sample preparation and flow cytometry Arterial blood was collected from septic patients on the day sepsis was diagnosed (day 0) and ... associated with impaired monocyte function and restoring expression to normal levels has been proposed to be beneficial [3] A candidate factor for activating monocytes and restoring functional indicators...
... understand at this juncture is the difference in the construction of the demand for publicand private goods _ FIGURE 8.18 The Public Good Demand Curve The public good demand curve, ... Q is quantity demanded, and A and B are positive constants The total revenue associated with this demand curve is given by 11 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets ... the short-term demand curve 16 Chapter Consumer Choice and Demand in Traditional and Network Markets Changes in Demand The determinants of the elasticity of demand are fewer and easier to identify...
... Lowlands and St Minver Highlands 259 Appendix 7*: Water quality data for the parishes of Camelford and Davidstow, 1989 259 Appendix 8*: Water quality data for the parishes of St Teath, Tintagel and ... Figure 18: Camelford model and samples 68 Figure 19: St Teath model and samples 68 Figure 20: Helstone model and samples 69 Figure 21: Port Isaac and St Endellion model and samples 69 Figure 22: ... 2001 and December 2004 In addition, a public meeting was held in Camelford in April 2002 The chairman and members of the Subgroup and secretariat made four visits to Camelford between July 2002 and...
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... correspondence between credit ratings and a range of default probabilities and loss expectations under standardized conditions of economic stress; and • standardizing credit rating terminology ... about the feasibility and desirability of standardization and, in particular, most did not feel that standardization would lead to higher levels of accountability, transparency, and competition in ... standardized conditions of economic stress; and (4) standardizing credit rating terminology across asset classes, so that named ratings correspond to a standard range of default probabilities and...
... Brake and Vlachos 1998; Kaniewski and Thomas 1999; Taylor and others 1999; Betz and others 2000; Edwards and others 2000; Martens 2000; Rogan and others 2000; Sidhu and others 2000; Aulrich and ... utero, and, in early postnatal life, the development of cognitive function (Dry and Vincent 1991; Fortin and others 1995; Katz and others 1996; Yehuda and others 1996; Broughton and others 1997; Landmark ... complex, and the state of understanding of plant metabolism is sometimes insufficient to bridge the gap between the ability to clone, study, and modify individual genes and proteins and the understanding...
... aid and computerized interactive informational fixture, the entrances and exits, the windows and walls, the elevators and escalators and stairs and ramps, the cashier lines and teller lines and ... bottle of the store brand and reads the front label, then reads the price tag On the Pantene, then reads the price on the store brand, and then puts the store brand in her basket and exits the section ... packages and we keep going back to the same old system It works, it's flexible, and thanks to Wite-Out and a copy machine, it can be changed on a dime and on the fly Our ability to react to what and...
... HEDONIC AND UTILITARIAN GOODS Experiments I and created acquisition and forfeiture choices by manipulating actual ownership of a hedonic and a utilitarian good Subjects either owned both and had ... utilitarian and = hedonic, where the terms utilitarian and hedonic were defined as in the pretests in Experiments and 2, and the importance ratings were anchored at I = not at all important and = very ... Psychology, (1), 29-19 Leclere, France, Bernd H Schmitt, and Laurette Dub6 (1994), "Foreign Branding and its Effects on Product Perceptions and Attitudes." Journal of Marketing Research, 31 (May),...
... shopping between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, between Finland and Sweden, between Austria and Germany, between Belgium and the Netherlands, and the Netherlands and Germany (5) Many consumers ... cross-border shopping between the Czech Republic and Slovakia, between Finland and Sweden, between Austria and Germany and between Belgium and the Netherlands shopping by 5% The results of the calculation ... cross-border online shopping between Germany and Austria, Luxembourg and Germany, Ireland and the UK, Belgium and France, and Belgium and the Netherlands Looking at Table above, the results show...