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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"domestic products"”.
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Consumer Xenocentrism And Consumer Cosmopolitanism: The De-Velopment And Validation Of Scales Of Constructs Influencing Attitudes Towards Foreign Product Consumption
… degrees of preference with regard to foreign and domestic products. Some consumers have preferences for domestic products while other, seemingly similar, consumers prefer the foreign counterpart. Product quality differences aside, we aim to investigate the attitudinal constructs behind the varying …
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A current assessment of the Hamburg rules
… being four times the growth of world GDP (Gross Domestic Products). During the 1990s international trade has grown far faster than world output, showing that national economies are becoming more closely linked. Foreign direct investment, another gauge of international economies integration, is …
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Extending consumer ethnocentrism: development and validation of the CEESCALE
… social demonstrability of benefits of consuming domestic products and finally, buying inertia. Following the development of the CEESCALE, construct validity is established. The superiority of the CEESCALE to the CETSCALE is attested by better predictive validity estimates.
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Consumer influence on product life : An explorative study.
… for exploring the consumption life cycle of products from the consumer perspective. This framework was then used to structure the collection of data, which encompassed a combination of mail surveys and semi-structured interviews. The data collected were used to evaluate how different patterns …
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Designer as Ethnographer: A Study of Domestic Cooking and Heating Product Design for Irish Older Adults
In many ways, the design of domestic cooking and heating products reflects the zeitgeist of Irish culture throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. From domesticity to materialism, these products have evolved to meet fundamental human needs within the home. Concurrent with this, the methods …
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Visual preferences in an ageing population : design, theory, practice, education & critical reflection
… investigation hypothesised that the design of products associated with formative periods continues to influence preference throughout life. In design for an ageing population these preferences are important because designers often wrongly assume a decline in interest in design and physical …
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A study of the influence of religiosity, materialism and animosity on consumer ethnocentric behaviour
… (indeedmorality, appropriateness to buy domestic products; Shimp and Sharma, 1987) and the effectof different socio-cultural and psychological constructs namely religiosity, materialism andanimosity on consumer ethnocentrism in two different cultural perspectives. This researchextends …
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Public value of e-Government investments in the developing countries: empirical exploration of the public sector in Kenya
… spending, consumer price indices, gross domestic products, parameters on governance and other data on public services, this research sought to examine the nature and dimensions of public values that the developing countries derive as a consequence of investment in e-Government.
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Icon + expectation : exploring the evolution of the American single family home
… century: economic factors, cultural iconography, domestic products, and critical architecture theory. The goal of this research is the development of interactive architectural narratives that allow a participant to explore particular contexts of domestic design and come to an understanding of how …
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Sustainable firm performance of green supply chain management practice at petrochemical industry
… sector contributes to 3% of Indonesian Gross Domestic Products. One of the main problem in this industrial development is the green industry standard in line with the energy scarcity due to high demand on the energy within the industrial sector as well as availability of naphtha raw material. …
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Effects of South Korean Market Liberalization on the South Korean Retail Market
… South Korea is struggling to compete with products from both industrialized nations and newly industrializing nations. The current crisis has occurred as South Korea has been engaged in extensive market-opening. Knowledge is lacking about South Korea's intricate and rapidly changing …
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Antibiotic and biocide resistance in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli 0157
… and often unnecessary inclusion of biocides into domestic products. Addition of antimicrobials, to domestic disinfectants has raised concern about promoting microbial resistance and potential cross-resistance to therapeutic antibiotics. This study investigated the potential for resistance in …
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Design art furniture and the boundaries of function: communicative objects, performative things
… 'design art': highly expressive furniture and domestic products that are created as self-initiated, often limited edition designs, sold through galleries, exhibited in museums and collected in the manner traditionally ascribed to art. To date no in-depth theoretical analysis of the growth of …
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LIQUID PLASTICS AS A NEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM? AN INTEGRATED RISK ASSESSMENT OF POLYVINYL ALCOHOL, POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL, POLYVINYL PYRROLIDONE AND POLYACRYLIC ACID
… their extensive use in various industrial and domestic products, these polymers are not currently regulated under European plastic strategies or chemical regulations, resulting in their pervasive presence in aquatic ecosystems. This study aimed to evaluate the ecotoxicity of four commonly used …
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Impact of total quality management practices on innovation in service organizations
… significantly to the increase of Gross Domestic Products nationally and globally in developed and developing economies. Innovation has significant role in adding the competitive advantage in the scenario. Innovation in service organizations has become an important subject in both …
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Zeolite supported/non-noble metal catalysts for the deoxygenation of fatty acids to transportation fuels
… carbon emissions and generating sustainable domestic products without depleting edible vegetal supplies. Industrial vegetable oil hydrotreating has been demonstrated, but heterogeneous feedstocks limit the process to specific reactant compositions. Non-edible plant oils available for fuel …
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Implementing Flow Processing with Product End of Life Remanufacturing
… requirement of strategies to recover End of Life products due to the introduction and implementation of legislative directives demanding manufacturers to recover the End of Life resources. Upon analyzing the range of product recovery strategies, End of Life product remanufacturing has emerged as …
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Potamanautes warreni biomarker assays to monitor silver nanomaterial contaminants in aquatic environments
… in a wide range of manufactured commercial and domestic products. This surge has resulted in uncertainties regarding their environmental impact, due to the significant increases in the amount of NMs released into the environment (Dowling et al., 2004) through intentional and unintentional …
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Essays on Firm Heterogeneity and Export: Productivity, Quality and Access to Finance
… international markets while the others serve the domestic market. Empirical evidences, especially from developing countries, note that firms’ selection into export is also the result of conscious investment decisions by firms that aim to improve their productivity and product attributes with …