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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"luxuries"”.
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Exploring hedonistic consumption from an identity perspective: an interpretative study
… of consumer beliefs and attitudes towards luxuries. Numerous studies concerned with luxury consumption look at what luxury is and enables (Berry, 1994; Dubois and Laurent, 1996; Dubois et al., 2001; Lageat et al., 2003; Phau and Prendergast, 2001; Vigneron and Johnson, 1999). This document …
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Understanding A Century of Exceptional Progress: Ireland Since Independence
… There have never been more at work, yesterday’s luxuries are now commonplace, and its society is safer and more tolerant than ever before. The lives of women and children have improved vastly, and the Irish are amongst the happiest people on the planet. Ireland is an excellent case study in …
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Luxury as a theme in Latin love elegy
… B.C. was accompanied by an influx of foreign luxuries and fashions into Italy. Roman,society and literature responded to this influx ambiguously, but the overall tone was one of disapproval. The association of luxury with women, attested dramatically at the rescinding of the lex Oppia, was …
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Modelling patient states in intensive care patients
… clinical dataset affords none of these luxuries, we describe the engineering required to perform the analysis on a large, high-dimensional, sparse, noisy and mixed dataset. The discovered groups showed cohesiveness, isolation and correspondence to natural groupings. These groups were …
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Virtual mobile networking using always best connected business relationships
… and tablets, mobile networks are no longer luxuries in the communications industry. Mobile networking is paramount to meeting the need of corporate users and the desires of consumers. These users consume mobile data to reach content and services deployed on the Internet by way of cloud …
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Explaning variation in luxury consumption
… the existing knowledge on the consumption of luxuries, by bringing together the conspicuous consumption and luxury consumption literature with self-concept and trait theory, in order to develop a conceptual framework that explains the phenomenon of luxury consumption from a consumer behaviour …
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Luxury value perceptions in an emerging economy: A comparative analysis of luxury products and services in Thailand
… of possession and emotional bond with target luxuries can take the place of material ownership in luxury consumption. This is the first study to integrate immaterial luxury services as a standalone business sector when examining luxury value perceptions. Rich qualitative data was gathered …
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Serving the man that ruled: aspects of the domestic arrangements of the household of King John, 1199-1216
… control over the purveyance of food, wine and luxuries. During his reign, John adapted his household to suit his circumstances and personal method of ruling. These findings reveal that a medieval king could be directly involved in the minutiae of his domestic establishment; this is an aspect of …
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The Co-Construction of Properties in a Machinic-Complex: A study of the Car and Dunlop Pneumatic Tyres 1900-1925
… of these artefacts from 'unreliable', 'crafted' luxuries, to 'reliable', 'scientific' products for a middle class market through a process of co-construction. It argues that through the interplay of design and domestication processes, properties and 'norms' of performance were stabilised in …
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Production ramp-up of a hardware startup : developing inventory management strategies and establishing a framework for vendor selection
… to assist startups that lack the above mentioned luxuries. The purpose of this thesis is to help NVBOTS: (1) to efficiently manage inventory by classifying them into groups with similar characteristics, (2) to determine how much and when to order each type of SKU so as to minimize capital …
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An investigation into consumer motives in purchasing counterfeit luxury branded products at the China Town in Windhoek Namibia
… collected. The results showed that, counterfeit luxuries branded products do not infringe intellectual property of the designer of genuine products given the fact that counterfeit products are just as good as genuine designer products. The study also found that, trading in counterfeit of luxury …
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Luxury Romanticism: The Quarto Book in the Romantic Period
… to Wordsworthian Romanticism, to orientalism--as luxuries meant exclusively for the nation's wealthiest consumers. Chapter 1 situates the quarto within the context of the period's luxury debates and advances a conception of the quarto as the era's predominant luxury format. Focusing on Oliver …
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Boston's settlement housing: social reform in an industrial city
… across class lines, provide cultural luxuries (like university level classes and art exhibits) to the poor, create functioning neighborhoods in the midst of blight, and spur others – primarily, idealistic, upper-class, college-educated men – to participate in social reform. The English …
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STUDY ON FINANCIAL SUPPORT EFFICIENCY FOR COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION BY LAB-GROWN DIAMOND INDUSTRY CLUSTERS IN CHINA
… years in China. They were regarded as exclusive luxuries only available to nobles in ancient times. Luxurious jewelry and jade represented by diamonds have entered the homes of ordinary people since the 1980s as a result of the development of the national economy and the growth of people's income …
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Exploring Chinese consumers’ luxury value perceptions: development and assessment of a conceptual model.
… the understanding of why Chinese consumers buy luxuries, what does luxury mean to them and what variables influence their luxury value perceptions. Hence, from a theoretical point of view, the present study aims to fill the gaps in the research on luxury consumptions in China, and seeks to …
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From Underground to Elite: Egyptian Bloggers before and after the 2011 Uprising
… more elite backgrounds than others and enjoy luxuries that allow them the time, technology and security to post online. This research concludes that the shifts in bloggers’ status post-January 25th have limited the plurality they add to the discourse in Egypt.
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The presence of and antecedents to bandwagon consumption behaviour among the South African black middle class in the context of luxury motor vehicles
This paper investigates a number of psychological factors that influence the South African Black middle class to engage in bandwagon consumption when purchasing luxury motor vehicles. The South African Black middle class has been receiving attention in consumer markets, especially from luxury brand …