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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Consumer confidence"”.
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Ensuring safety in soy: a review of chlorpyrifos detection and mitigation for consumer confidence
With growing consumer interest in food production and processing, understanding how agricultural practices balance profitability with food safety is crucial. The agricultural industry utilizes various methods to ensure crop success, including pesticide use. Chlorpyrifos (CPF), a widely used …
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Worried While Prospering – A study of the contradictions between consumer confidence and spending in Hungary
… the occasional discrepancy between declining consumer sentiment and incresing spending in Hungary. Through a well-constructed deliberative investigation the difficulties of this complex topic were turned into important insights and useful learnings, for theoretical consideration as well as for …
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Consumer confidence and business cycles : a casy study for the Netherlands : are business cycles driven by animal spirits?
… an attempt is made to explore the relevance of a consumer confidence index in forecasting business cycles in the Netherlands. Furthermore, the possible heterogeneity regarding the information content of individual questions is addressed, and it is investigated whether this information can be …
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Evaluation of motivations that influence consumer attitudes and behavior when purchasing local foods
… grown food. Although primary motivators for consumer food purchases remain to be price, quality, convenience and brand familiarity, there seem to be other factors that are influencing the decision criteria for some consumers. This project used an expanded Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) …
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Monitoring the structural integrity of packaging materials subjected to sustained random loads
… evidently apparent as this is likely to affect consumer confidence. Such concerns often result in the use of excessive packaging material and this is no longer acceptable. Therefore, engineered protective packaging systems need to be optimised. Such optimisation requires a suitable technique for …
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Economic Demagoguery: The Limited Effects of Presidential Rhetoric
… the spending, borrowing, and investing of consumers and businesses---economic actors and their perceptions about the strength of the economy from 1981 through 2005. Consumers take cues from the president about their economic futures. If he is positive about the economy in his speeches, then …
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Investor sentiment and stock returns
… I examine survey measures of interest rates and consumer confidence we find a relationship. I then examine how sentiment affects the cross section of stock returns, consistent with predictions I find that small stocks earn low subsequent returns when sentiment is low, and high returns when …
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Cattle Producer Motivations and Willingness to Participate in Industry Animal Welfare Program Verification
<p>As consumers have become increasingly interested in where their food comes from and how it is grown, the cattle and beef industry is without exception. Many consumers are beginning to question traditional animal husbandry practices and on-farm animal welfare protocol. It is essential that the …
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APAVIT y turismo seguro post pandemia del Covid-19
… successful communication that restores consumer confidence, which will awaken people's interest in leaving home and losing fear of the world in the one we live in. For this reason, we chose in this first post-crisis stage the millennials, a generation with a low risk of contagion and …
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Macroeconomic models of consumer demand for consumer packaged goods in Asia
CPGCo, a global manufacturer of consumer packaged goods, has had tremendous difficulty in producing accurate forecasts for its products in developing markets. The problem was especially apparent during the global economic crisis in 2008, which caused demand for its products to become highly …
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The Demand for Consumer Credit
The demand for consumer credit is an area of economics that is of great interest to those in the lending community. While much research has been performed on this topic in the financial industry, the findings have been very closely guarded for competitive reasons. In this study, reduced form …
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Residual momentum and investor sentiment on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
… the level of investor sentiment as proxied by a consumer confidence index orthogonalised to various macroeconomic variables. Residual momentum was found to provide better risk-adjusted returns than conventional momentum on the JSE. Investor sentiment showed an effect on momentum styles, with …
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Understanding Factors Facilitating the Diffusion of Financial Technology (FinTech) A Case Study of the Gulf Cooperation Council
… is crucial to improving the user experience and consumer confidence. By considering technological and behavioural characteristics and analysing the impact of PESTEL elements, this study contributes to the existing literature on technology diffusion, providing valuable insights to academics and …
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Effective management solutions for biogenic odour in drinking water
… Unpleasant taste and odour perceived by consumers may result in complaints and undermine trust in water utilities, even when the water is safe. Microbially-produced taste and odour compounds can be generated in source waters, drinking water treatment plants, and drinking water …
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Data integration issues for a farm GIS-based spatial decision support system
… such as BSE and Foot and Mouth has reduced consumer confidence in the quality of food produced. The UK Government, through the introduction of funding schemes, is aiding the recovery of the industry by encouraging farmers to diversify their farming enterprise. One option is the conversion …
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Blockchain technology for agriculture traceability systems in South Africa
… and sustainability, emphasising the growing consumer demand for transparent information about the origin and journey of food products. Past global food scandals have highlighted the need for robust traceability systems and highlighted the urgency of quick crisis identification and resolution. …
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Learning human beliefs with language models
… in two domains: attitudes towards COVID-19 and consumer confidence, and show that the approach is valid and intuitive in a number of ways. We find that it is robust and has predictive power across mediums and outlets, has increased predictive power when people are paying more attention to news, …
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Novel Approaches to Exposure Assessment and Dose Response to Contaminants in Drinking Water and Food
… cooking times and temperature methods at the consumer and retail level, and assessed minimum effective dose response modeling for different population susceptibilities. Current public communication tools, including the Drinking Water Taste-and-Odor Wheel or Consumer Confidence Reports (better …
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Designing a national restaurant inspection disclosure system for New Zealand
… foodborne outbreaks while enhancing consumer confidence in the safety of food prepared in these establishments. Inspection disclosure systems have been developed as a tool for consumers and incentive for foodservice operators. Disclsosure systems are common in developed countries; …
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Credit risk measurement and modelling
… rating categories, it supports the use of the consumer confidence index, as the most important variable explaining changes in credit spreads in investment and high yield companies, but most importantly it provides support for the strong informational content of high yield spreads as predictors …
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