Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Level of market development and intensity of organic food consumption: cross‐cultural study of Danish and New Zealand consumers

This paper presents a cross‐cultural study of organic food consumption. Relationships between health and diet concern, environmental concern, confidence in the conventional food industry, demographic characteristics, and intensity of organic food consumption of consumers from Denmark (mature organic industry) and New Zealand (novice organic food industry) are investigated. The authors evaluate the adequacy of deficit value and market development conceptual frameworks to predict priority of these concerns related to the level of organic market development.
Motility and fertility of bull sperm frozen-thawed differently in egg yolk and milk extenders containing detergent.

The purpose of this study was to examine survival and fertility of frozen bull sperm processed in several extenders containing a detergent mixture, sodium, and triethanolamine lauryl sulfate. Addition of . 5% (vol/vol) detergent to whole milk was completely spermicidal. When 10% egg yolk (vol/vol) was included in the glycerol or nonglycerol fractions or both fractions of milk, sperm were equally well preserved in the presence of . 5% detergent, and sperm survival following thawing at 4 degrees C was dramatically improved by the detergent. This improved result with the 4 degrees C thaw temperature also was obtained by adding . 5% detergent to an egg yolk-Tris extender. Thawing temperatures of 30 and 50 degrees C (later for 15 s) were generally superior to 4 degrees C. A fertility trial with whole milk, whole milk-10% yolk, whole milk-10% yolk-. 5% detergent, egg yolk-Tris, and egg yolk-Tris-. 5% detergent was conducted. The 59-d percent nonreturns, respectively, were 73.4, 65.8, 65.6, 69.5, and 73.4. Whole milk or egg yolk-Tris plus detergent were equally superior to the other extenders for bull semen.
The Impact of the Customer Orientation of Call Center Employees on Customers' Affective Commitment and Loyalty

This study investigated the potential benefits of employees' customer orientation to service providers. To achieve that aim, the author tested relationships between customer focus (creating value for customers) and customer feedback (seeking evaluations of work and quality) and perceived service quality and customers' affective commitment and loyalty to service firms. Mail survey data were collected from customers of two call centers in Australia. The samples consisted of end “consumers” of insurance services (n = 289) and business “customers” of a bank (n = 325). Two key findings emerged from the final structural model. First, customer focus was related to loyalty, with partial mediation by perceived service quality. Second, and in contrast, customer feedback exhibited a direct relationship only to affective commitment. The findings were highly consistent for the two samples and have implications for both managers and researchers.
Perceived Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment and Service-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

This study empirically examines the relationships among perceived organizational support (POS), organizational commitment, and service-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs), based on a survey of 255 call center customer service representatives at five large call centers in Taiwan. Structure equation modeling was used to examine the hypotheses. The results indicate that POS is positively related to three types of service-oriented OCBs – loyalty, service delivery, and participation – and that organizational commitment fully mediates the relationships between POS and service-oriented OCBs. The study suggests that call center managers should seek to enhance the perception of organizational support to customer service representatives in order to increase their commitment to the company.
Assessing the outcomes of Generation‐Y customers' loyalty

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine what factors influence the satisfaction, loyalty, and behavioral intentions of the members of Generation Y with regard to their banking needs.Design/methodology/approach – Using a multiple‐item survey instrument, 242 Austrian respondents were queried on what factors affect their satisfaction, loyalty, and behavioral intentions. Factor analysis and regression analysis are employed in the study.Findings – The study finds differences among the three age groups contained in Generation Y in terms of their sources of information, financial services used, likelihood of switching, and number of banks utilized. In addition, determinants of satisfaction, loyalty, and behavioral intention are primarily affected by satisfaction with employees and services rendered. The results indicate that as young people reach certain milestones, their needs become more multifaceted. Consequently, the determinants of satisfaction also change.Originality/value – This paper treats Gen.
An Analysis of the Response to Corporate Unbundling Announcements on the JSE

This research examines the effect of the announcement of corporate unbundling by South African corporations listed on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. This research was carried out to update the literature and to analyze whether results confirm previous research done by Blount and Davidson (1996) or coincide with international trends, which displayed positive responses to unbundling announcements. The event study methodology was used for analyzing the market's reactions to corporate unbundling announcements. Abnormal returns were calculated using the market model approach with an event window of 10 days and an estimation window of 120 days. A sample of 27 corporations were analyzed in thisresearch during the observation period, from January 2002 to June 2011. Strong negative abnormal returns were observed as a result of the corporate unbundling announcement. This updates the literature and confirms Blount and Davidson's (1996) earlier research.
Selective marketing to environmentally concerned wine consumers: a case for location, gender and age

– The purpose of this study is to segment the respondents using their location, gender and age as well as their statements about environmental involvement, knowledge and attitudes as the basis for selective marketing classification. , – A URL link was sent to the 2,000 members of the Society of Wine Educators. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to analyze the main and interaction effects of the independent categorical variables on multiple dependent interval variables. , – The results offer insights when considering selective marketing. First, a distinct, measurable, substantial market segment for ecological products was identified, namely: the Millennial male with strong environmental attitudes. Second, residence has an influence on the strength of respondents' environmental attitudes. , – Although the sample represents most of the states, members of the Society of Wine Educators are individuals that are highly involved with wine as a product and thus may not represent the entire population of the USA. , – Consumers bring to the purchasing decision varying types of attitudes and beliefs. Understanding how environmental knowledge and attitude, when consumers are segmented by location, gender and age, can be used in selective marketing in the service industry to aid in designing promotional plans; whether the product of choice is a vacation resort, hotel or tourism destination such as a winery. , – The contribution of the research is to broaden the understanding of environmental concerns and the role location, gender, and age play for marketers when considering the selective marketing concepts discussed by Inskeep and Dolnicar and Leisch.
Who Is Afraid of Liquidity Risk? Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Stochastic Illiquidity

Recent empirical work documents large liquidity risk premiums in stock markets. We calculate the liquidity risk premiums demanded by large investors by solving a dynamic portfolio choice problem with stochastic price impact of trading, CRRA utility and a time-varying investment opportunity set. We find that, even with high trading-cost rates and substantial trading motives, the theoretically demanded liquidity risk premium is negligible, less than 3 basis points per year. Assuming forced selling during market downturn enlarges the liquidity risk premium to maximally 20 basis points per year, which is well below existing empirical estimates of the liquidity risk premium.
How do Japanese consumers perceive wireless ads? A multivariate analysis

This article explores the formation of Japanese mobile users’ attitudes to pull-type wireless advertising and their willingness to ‘click’ such ads. Both theoretical and practical considerations are used to develop a structural model, which is then tested using an empirical survey conducted in the greater Tokyo area. External search, content credibility and attitude towards ads are considered as antecedents of willingness to access. Attitude towards ads is conceptualised as a consequence of two psychological motives in wireless internet adoption: perceived infotainment and perceived irritation. The structural equation modelling indicates that all the paths are statistically significant, and provides strong empirical support for our basic propositions. A further analysis classifies the sample into three groups, i.e. e-newsletter subscribers, email users and voice users, according to their demographic data. The findings reveal that e-newsletter subscribers show the most positive perceptions on all the constructs, although the mean values of the total sample are well below an anchoring point. In addition, the principal characteristics of e-newsletter subscribers indicate that so-called ‘parasite singles’ (unmarried young females living with their parents, and with high disposable income) may be playing an important role in wireless internet adoption in Japan.
The effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on the memory recovery in people with mild cognitive impairment

The main aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness of cognitive rehabilitation on the working memory recovery in people with mild cognitive impairment. The design of the study is a semi-experimental type with pre-test and post-test design of control and experimental groups. The statistical community of the study is subjected to people with mild cognitive impairment which has been evaluated with early physician diagnosis and psychologist assessment with MMSE test and Vexler memory. At first, the subjects were evaluated with computer software NBack1 and N-back2 to evaluate their working memory. Based on this process people with this disorder were sifted and divided randomly in two groups of experimental and control (each group includes 15 ones). Then, the experimental group received 12 sessions’ interventions, two hours in 12 weeks. To study these interventions, the whole subjects were retested with N-Back1 and N-Back2 programs after ending 12 sessions. In order to analysis the data, MANCOVA covariance analysis statistical test was applied; the results representing the increased mean of experimental working memory scores in compare to control group; hence, it can be concluded that the rehabilitation of cognitive issues can lead to the recovery of working memory function. (F=12.12; sig>0.01). (F=11.91; sig>0.01). The cognitive rehabilitation has an impact on the recovery of people with mild cognitive impairment.
Historical beliefs and the perception of threat in Northeast Asia: Colonialism, the tributary system, and China-Japan-Korea relations in the twenty-first century

Historical controversies continue to plague northeast Asian politics today, with Chinese and Koreans protesting Japanese history textbooks and Japanese politicians’ visits to Yasukuni Shrine, and Koreans protesting Chinese claims that the ancient Kingdom of Goguryo was Chinese, not Korean. Yet, there is little empirical research exploring what, if any, impact historical beliefs have on threat perception and foreign policy preferences in northeast Asia today. On the basis of surveys of Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean university students, this paper explores the
Open angle glaucoma and non-central retinal vein occlusion--the chicken or the egg?

PURPOSE To determine whether non-central retinal vein occlusion (nCRVO) or open angle glaucoma (OAG) is the primary event in eyes suffering from both diseases. METHODS The study has two parts. The first is a retrospective survey of a clinical glaucoma database. In eyes with OAG and nCRVO, the temporal relationship between the conditions was determined when possible. The second part is a ten-year follow-up study of eyes with isolated nCRVO. RESULTS Study 1: Among 576 OAG patients, 25 (4.3%) had nCRVO. In all eyes except one, OAG occurred before nCRVO. Almost without exception a vein on the optic disk or at the disk margin was occluded. Study 2: Most eyes with isolated nCRVO had an occluded vein at a retinal artery-vein crossing. Only one of 34 patients had developed OAG after ten years. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that OAG in most eyes is the primary event. nCRVO had different characteristics in eyes with OAG compared to eyes without OAG.
A Structural Equation Model of the Factors Associated with Influence and Power of IT Departments and their Relationship to Firm's IT Orientation and Business Performance

A Structural Equation Model of the Factors Associated with Influence and Power of IT Departments and their Relationship to Firm’s IT Orientation and Business Performance by Raghu V. Kowshik M.B. A, Texas Christian University, 1997 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Applied Management and Decision Sciences: Information Systems Management Walden University November 2010
Relatedness and Market Exit

Researchers in corporate strategy have long argued that resource "relatedness" contributes to a firm’s competitive advantage. One implication is that entries made by a firm into businesses that are closely related to the firm’s existing businesses should have higher survival rates than entries by the firm into unrelated businesses. In contrast to this traditional view, we offer a distinct perspective in which relatedness increases a firm’s likelihood of abandoning new businesses. Using a sample of more than 1,200 market entries in the U.S. telecommunications sector during 1989-2003, we show that the rate of market exit increased with the relatedness of the new business to the firm’s existing businesses.
Air Charter - The Business Airline of the Future...But, Does the Business Traveler Know?

Historically, FAR Part 121 commercial carriers have provided efficient, economical and safe air transportation for corporate and business users. Recently, however, corporate and business travelers find their travel plans disrupted by delays, bankruptcies, poor service, lost baggage, fare increases, labor strikes and other systemic difficulties that degrade their travel experience to unsatisfactory levels. This article examines these Part 121 service delivery problems and, utilizing a tripartite investigative methodology, examines an alternative air transport mode: FAR Part 135 on-demand charter travel products. This long extant segment of our national air transportation system is set prime to support increased demand for charter services. Corporate and business travelers are set prime to utilize viable, cost effective alternatives to commercial travel products. Two research questions emerge. First is whether corporate and business travelers are aware of Part 135 travel alternatives. Second is whether Part 135 charter service providers are aware of this latent demand and are effectively targeting this demand segment in their marketing efforts. The three-partsurveys employed to investigate these questions examined demand side
On the Trail of Food and Wine: The tourist search for meaningful Experience

Abstract The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to identify important factors in the development of food and wine trails within the context of culinary tourism and, second, to propose methods by which trail businesses can further build on the tourism potential of food and wine. The trail development factors identified are the trail as a tourist product, the relevance of alternative food networks, and the identity of the culinary tourist. The research to date suggests that a difficulty facing trail developers is the problem of incorporating a tourism product into what is essentially a cooperative marketing mechanism. This signals a need to develop mechanisms by which the food and wine tourism product of a trail can be better presented. The paper thus concludes with suggestions for ways in which trail businesses can construct narratives in order to improve ‘meaningful experiences’ for contemporary culinary tourists.
Service Innovation and Customer Choices in the Hospitality Industry

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact service innovation has on customers' choices within the hotel and leisure industry. The paper also discusses the influence of the creation of new services on both service development and operational strategy.Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on a national survey of approximately 1,000 travelers in the United States, using a web‐based data acquisition approach. The travelers are segmented by reason of travel (business or leisure), and discrete choice analysis is applied to model customer preferences for various hotel service innovations.Findings – Overall, the study finds that service innovation does matter when guests are selecting a hotel, with type of lodging having the largest impact on a customer's hotel choice. In addition, service innovation is found to have a larger influence on choices when guests are staying at economy hotels rather than mid‐range to up‐scale hotels. Also, leisure travelers were found to be more inf.
Judgment Analysis Based on Crowdsourced Opinions

A vast majority of the existing crowd opinion aggregation models deal with independent opinions of the crowd workers, where the annotators (crowd workers) provide their opinions unanimously and these opinions are not visible to everyone. But in real life, it is seen that there are many applications in which an annotator can see others' opinions. As a result, there is a high chance that the opinion of an annotator gets biased by the other opinions. My proposed research is about finding a better consensus from multiple crowd opinions (dependent) obtained for a particular question. So, this work addresses a novel problem of dependent judgment analysis and proposes methods that derive the final judgment from a given set of ordered opinions. For the said problem, a Markov chain based aggregation method is proposed that can handle the ordered opinions of the crowd workers, and thus aggregate them to find a consensus. I have used a real-life dataset that contains the independent and dependent crowd opinions over some questions. Furthermore, I am studying a recently proposed model that collects crowd opinions twice (in independent and dependent fashion) to understand their relation. In a recent study, I have proposed a biclustering approach to compute aggregated judgment from multiple crowd opinions. In another current work, I have introduced a new problem dealing with constrained crowd opinions and demonstrated that proper aggregation of those type of opinions can be very helpful for smart city planning. These studies altogether focus on the different novel directions of the judgment analysis problem.
GOING PRIVATE TRANSACTION AND SOURCES OF RETURNS

There is recent spate of going private transactions in Malaysian stock market. This paper seeks to provide answers to investors about the puzzling wealth gains. We analyze stock price reactions prior and after the going private announcement and investigate the sources of stockholder returns. The finding indicates that there is positive returns surrounding the buyout proposals and these abnormal gains can be explained by financial leverage, dividend payout, growth prospect, insider holding, market-to-book value ratio, outcome of the proposal, return on total asset, and Tobin’s q ratio for 79 firms which went private for the period 2001-2007.
Management of "Lens Induced Glaucoma"-A Clinical Study

Aim: To study the incidence of lens induced glaucoma (LIG), various modes of presentation in different types of LIGs and to assess the visual outcome following management of LIGs. Materials And Methods: The present study was conducted on the patients who presented with Lens induced glaucoma in the outpatient department of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology, Gauhati Medical College & Hospitals, Guwahati during the period September 2014 to August, 2015. Altogether 51 patients presented with lens induced glaucoma during this period of study. All patients were admitted in the ophthalmology department. Informed and written consents were taken. All cases diagnosed as LIG irrespective of age, sex and clinical types were clinically investigated and managed. Results: The data were compiled using a standardized performa and at the end of the study the data was analyzed statistically using the Chi-Square method and the Probability value. Incidence of LIG during the period of study was 0.15 % amongst all OPD attendance. Phacomorphic glaucoma (58.86 %) was higher in incidence compared to Phacolytic glaucoma (33.33 %) followed by 5.82 % of lens particle glaucoma and 3.92 % of glaucoma secondary to lens dislocation. In our study 58.82 % of cases achieved best-corrected visual acuity at the end of final follow up at 6 weeks. 35.29 % cases achieved visual acuity between 6/18-6/60 and 5.88 % regained visual acuity less than 6/60. Conclusion: Early diagnosis and treatment of mature cataract is very important since delayed treatment of LIG may result in poor visual outcome. There is a great need to impart health education to the public about the importance of timely surgery for better visual outcome.