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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Consumer studies"”.
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Sustainability of teaching consumer studies at Secondary schools in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… to investigate the sustainability of teaching Consumer Studies as a school subject. The study was conducted in Vhembe District schools. The main purpose of the study was to establish the extent of the challenges affecting the sustainability of teaching Consumer Studies and to develop the …
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Sensory and consumer studies as a guide for edamame development and production in the U.S.
The growing consumer demand for edamame (vegetable soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr.) in the U.S. has led to current research efforts to increase the production of this nutritious vegetable in the country. This specialty crop has been suggested as an economically attractive alternative to tobacco …
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Clustering of variables around latent components: an application in consumer science
… Latent Variables) for identifying groups of consumers in L-shape data. This kind of datastructure is very common in consumer studies where a panel of consumers is asked to assess the global liking of a certain number of products and then, preference scores are arranged in a two-way table Y. …
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Characterizing radio channels : the science and technology of propagation and interference, 1900-1935
… that gave rise to such a transformation: the studies of radio-wave propagation and the treatments of radio interferences in early twentieth-century America and Western Europe. The part on propagation examines the debate between the surface diffraction theory and the atmospheric reflection …
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Parents as consumer-citizens: an investigation into parent governors
… that parents are increasingly being viewed as consumers and that this conception of parents is too limiting. It goes on to argue that the notion of the consumer should, however, not be discarded altogether, and that the alternative notion of citizenship is in itself insufficient. Based on an …
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Material Objects, Meaning and Workplace Identity
… people at work than in other disciplines such as consumer studies. My research questions are: to consider how people conceptualise objects at work, to ask how objects and people are mutually implicated at work and to identify how this interactivity impacts on people’s identity at work. I review …
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The Mirror Men: An integrated approach to profiling male fashion innovators in London by using self-concept and gender theories
… the notion of 'fashion innovativeness' of male consumers in London. In contrast to traditional marketing and consumer studies the thesis redefines 'fashion innovativeness' in terms of 'sexuality' rather than just gender or sex. The study exclusively utilises 'sexuality' within two conceptual …
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Marketing and consumption of popular music : the case of New Model Army.
… with a range of literatures from marketing, consumer studies, popular music studies and cultural studies. The key notions of "circuit of culture" and "text" were adapted to help guide the inquiry, and combined with social identity theory and branding theory. A broadly ethnographic approach, …
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Modeling Relationships Among Affective Measures of Food Choice: Acceptance, Emotions And Satisfaction
… importance of ascertaining holistic product and consumer understanding beyond liking in the product development process cannot be overstated. This research investigated the role of attribute performance on satisfaction in explaining the relationship between food-evoked emotions and sensory …
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Understanding consumer liking of beef with particular reference to flavour
This thesis reports the consumer perception for beef eating quality with particular reference to flavour. A study was conducted to investigate if there are regional differences in consumer perception of beef between consumers from different regions. Consumers were recruited from Cork, Belfast and …
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Temporal sensory liking methods: an investigation with beef steaks from different production systems
… on the impact of the diet of the animal on consumer liking of beef has yielded conflicting results. The aim of this study was to apply the traditional liking method and two temporal liking (TL) methods (free and structured) to determine consumer liking of beef derived from animals that were …