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Brand Trust, Brand Equity, and Attitudes: Examining the Intentions to Purchase Upcycled Food
No full textGıda israfı, dünya genelinde en önemli sorunlardan biri haline gelmektedir. 2024 yılında, toplam gıda israfının %46'sı, gıda tüketiciye ulaşmadan önce gerçekleşmiştir. Temelde, gıdalar süpermarketlere, restoranlara veya tüketicilerin evlerine ulaşmadan önce israf edilmektedir. Bu sorunları ele almak ve gıda israfını azaltmak amacıyla birçok girişimde bulunulmuştur. Umut verici çözümlerden biri, gıda israfının kullanılabilir kısımlarını yeni gıda ürünlerinde bileşen olarak değerlendiren upcycled (geri dönüştürülmüş) gıdalardır. Upcycled gıdalar yeni ürünlerdir ve tüketicilerin bu ürünleri kabul etmesi hem zorlayıcı hem de gıda sektörü açısından kritik bir konudur. Bu yeni ürünü keşfetmek amacıyla, çeşitli çalışmalar upcycled gıdalara yönelik tutumları incelemiştir. Bu araştırma, tüketicilerin en sevdikleri marka tarafından sunulan upcycled cips ürününe yönelik tutumlarını araştırmaktadır. Önerilen model, Planlı Davranış Teorisi'ne dayanmakta olup, marka güveni ve marka değerinin etkisini de göz önünde bulundurmaktadır. Araştırma kapsamında Türkiye'de 450 tüketiciyle çevrimiçi bir anket gerçekleştirilmiştir. Hipotezlerimizi test etmek için Yapısal Eşitlik Modellemesi (PLS-SEM) kullanılmıştır. Sonuçlar, tutumların, öznel normların ve algılanan davranışsal kontrolün, upcycled cips satın alma niyeti üzerindeki olumlu etkisini doğrulamıştır. Ayrıca, tüketicilerin en sevdikleri markanın bir upcycled cips ürünü piyasaya sürmesi durumunda nasıl tepki verdiklerine dair çalışmamız ilginç sonuçlar ortaya koymuştur. Bulgular, marka güveninin, tüketicilerin upcycled cipslere yönelik tutumlarıyla olumlu bir şekilde ilişkili olduğunu göstermiştir. Ancak, marka değeri ile satın alma niyeti arasındaki ilişki desteklenmemiştir. Çalışmanın sonucunda, tutumların, öznel normların ve algılanan davranışsal kontrolün tüketicilerin satın alma niyetleri üzerinde önemli bir etkisi olduğu belirlenmiştir. Özellikle, marka güveninin, yeni piyasaya sürülen upcycled cipslere yönelik tüketici tutumları üzerinde güçlü bir etkisi olduğu görülmüştür. Elde edilen bulgular, akademisyenler, kamu politikası yapıcıları ve tüketicilerin en sevdikleri markalar tarafından sunulan upcycled gıda ürünlerini satın alma niyetlerini anlamak isteyen yöneticiler için önemli çıkarımlar sunmaktadır. Upcycled gıda pazarlamacıları, ürün hakkında ve nasıl üretildiğine dair daha fazla bilgi sağlayarak marka güvenini güçlendirmelidir.Food waste is becoming one of the main problems in the world. In 2024, 46% of overall food waste was produced before the food reached the consumer. Fundamentally, food is wasted before it reaches supermarkets, restaurants, or consumers' homes. Numerous attempts have been made to address these issues and reduce food waste. One promising solution is upcycled foods, which utilize usable parts of food waste as ingredients in brand-new food products. Upcycled foods are novel products; getting these products accepted by consumers is a challenging process for the food industry. To explore this emerging product, several studies have examined attitudes toward upcycled foods. The present research investigates consumers' attitudes toward an upcycled chips product offered by their favourite brand. The proposed model is grounded in the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), considering the influence of brand trust and brand equity. An online survey was distributed to 450 consumers in Turkey. Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to test our hypotheses. The results verified the positive impact of subjective norms, attitudes, and perceived behavioural control on the intention to purchase upcycled chips. Moreover, our study on how consumers react when their favourite brand releases an upcycled chips product revealed interesting outcomes. The findings showed that brand trust is positively associated with consumers' attitudes toward upcycled chips. However, the relationship between brand equity and purchase intention was not supported. The study concludes that subjective norms, attitudes, and perceived behavioral control significantly influence consumer intentions to purchase. Notably, brand trust strongly impacts consumer attitudes toward newly released upcycled chips. The findings offer implications for academics, public policymakers, and managers seeking to understand consumer purchase intentions for upcycled food products offered by their favourite brands. Upcycled food marketers should leverage brand trust by providing more information about the product and how it is made
Effects of Classroom Temperature and Humidity on Student Learning Performance: An Experimental Study Using Sensor-Based Monitoring
No full textThis study investigates the relationship between classroom thermal environment and student learning performance in a controlled university setting using Arduino-based temperature and humidity sensors. The experiment was conducted over 2 weeks with 53 undergraduate students at controlled temperatures of 20 degrees C and 27 degrees C. Results demonstrate significant correlations between student thermal satisfaction, GPA, and learning outcomes. Multiple regression analysis reveals that thermal environment satisfaction and student GPA together account for 23.15% of the variance in student grades (p < 0.001). Students reporting higher thermal satisfaction achieved better exam performance and maintained higher motivation levels. The study employed a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire to assess thermal perception and learning motivation. While limitations include the absence of mean radiant temperature measurements and short study duration, findings suggest that maintaining optimal classroom thermal conditions (20 degrees C-22 degrees C) is crucial for academic performance. The sensor-based monitoring system proved effective for real-time thermal environment assessment in educational settings
The Impact of Habits on Performance in Acting
No full textBu araştırma, alışkanlıkların oyunculuk performansı üzerindeki etkisini çeşitli teorik ve pratik yaklaşımlarla incelemektedir. Bedensel ve zihinsel alışkanlıkların oyuncuların yaratıcılığını ve performansın niteliğini nasıl etkilediği üzerine eğilmektedir. Bu bağlamda 'alışkanlık' konseptinin psikolojik açıdan nasıl ele alındığı üzerinde durulmuştur. Daha sonra, oyuncunun bireysel hayatından ya da oyunculuk geçmişinden taşıdığı alışkanlıkların farkına varılması, oyuncuyu limitleyen bariyerlerin ortadan kaldırılması için uygulanabilir somatik çalışmalar araştırılmıştır. Son olarak, performans anında ortaya çıkan alışkanlıkların farkındalığını sağlamak için uygulanabilir çalışmalara değinilmiştir.This research examines the impact of habits on acting performance through various theoretical and practical approaches. It focuses on how physical and mental habits affect actors' creativity and the quality of performance. In this context, the concept of 'habit' is analyzed from a psychological perspective. Then, it explores somatic practices that can be applied to recognize the habits that the actor carries from his/her personal life or acting past, and to eliminate the barriers that limit the actor. Lastly, the studies that can be applied to ensure the awareness of the habits that emerge at the moment of performance are mentioned
Cognitive Reflection and Religious Belief: a Test of Two Models
No full textExisting research suggests a negative correlation between reflective thinking and religious belief. The dual process model (DPM) posits that reflection diminishes religious belief by limiting intuitive decisions. In contrast, the expressive rationality model (ERM) argues that reflection serves an identity-protective function by bolstering rather than modifying preexisting beliefs. Although the current literature tends to favor the DPM, many studies suffer from unbalanced samples. To avoid this limitation, we recruited comparably large number of participants for both religious believers (n = 580) and non-believers (n = 594) and observed the relationship between reflection and two measures of religious belief: belief in God and disbelief in evolution. Our findings corroborate the negative associations found between higher levels of reflection and both types of belief, independent of religious affiliation. Our results align with the broader literature, supporting the DPM but not the ERM. © The Author(s), 2025.Templeton Religion Trust, (TRT0424)Social Science Citation Inde
An Innovative Performance Assessment Method for Increasing the Efficiency of Aodv Routing Protocol in Vanets Through Colored Timed Petri Nets
No full textHeidari, Arash/0000-0003-4279-8551Routing protocols are pivotal in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), serving as the backbone for efficient routing discovery, particularly within the realm of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, ensuring their seamless functionality within VANET environments necessitates rigorous verification and formal modeling. Colored Timed Petri Nets (CTPNs) stand out as a valuable mathematical and formal method for this purpose. This study shows a new way to describe the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing system in VANETs using CTPNs. There are nine pages of detailed analysis using this new modeling method, which allows you to examine success across many levels of a hierarchy. This study provides a strong foundation for building and testing the AODV routing system in VANETs, showing how well it functions in real-life situations. It is interesting to see how the results of the CTPN-based model and simulations compare. Notably, the model finds routes in an average of 32 s, while tests show that it takes 56 s. Additionally, the model's overall number of sent and received packets closely matches the results from the exercise. Furthermore, the suggested plan shows a yield of 41%. Strict T-tests indicate that the modeling results are highly reliable.Science Citation Index Expande
Introduction: Refugees and Migrants in Contemporary Film, Art, and Media
No full textThe unending drama of forced migration, with millions of people displaced from their homes and compelled to take on a life of nomadic transience or enforced stasis in permanent waiting zones, ranks as the defining story of our times, the most sweeping transformation of collective historical experience since WWII. The United Nations estimates that the overall population of migrating people, including economic migrants and those swept from their homes by war, persecution, and climate catastrophe, now numbers over a billion people—one in seven humans now alive. This vast exodus has been called the “largest diaspora in the history of the species” (Salopek, 2019). Already in 1951, Hannah Arendt saw the swelling numbers of refugees and stateless people as an insoluble threat to the existence of the nation state. The 21st century, with its ecological crises, civil wars, and intractable hardships, has seen a massive, unprecedented increase in the number of people wandering the Earth or locked in conditions of suspended mobility. The phenomenon of mass displacement, however, also brings into view a striking new mode of human existence: as one writer says, the journey is now shaping a different class of human being, “people whose ideas of ‘home’ now incorporates an open road” or, at the other extreme, people whose mobility is blocked, who have become, as the title of a recent exhibition puts it, “permanently temporary” (Salopek, 2019). Viewed through a guardedly positive lens, the refugee and the migrant, as Giorgio Agamben (1998) further suggests, may represent “the paradigm of a new historical consciousness,” pointing towards a future beyond the binary order of the nation state, defined as it is by the concepts of citizenship and exclusion. Thomas Elsaesser makes a similar observation. Describing contemporary Europe as a “thought experiment,” he characterizes modern Europe as a continent of immigrants… both East to West and South to North, with migrants, refugees and mobile labour turning the nineteenth century European nation states into multicultural, multi-denominational and multi-ethnic communities which have not yet found a modus of how to live together. © 2022 The authors/Taylor & Francis Group
Quantum Thermal Machine as a Rectifier
No full textMustecaplioglu, Ozgur/0000-0002-9134-3951; Roman Ancheyta, Ricardo/0000-0001-6718-8587We study a chain of interacting individual quantum systems connected to heat baths at different temperatures on both ends. Starting with the two-system case, we thoroughly investigate the conditions for heat rectification (asymmetric heat transport), compute thermal conductance, and generalize the results to longer chains. We find that heat rectification in the weak coupling regime can be independent of the chain length and that negative differential thermal conductance occurs. We also examine the relationship between heat rectification with entanglement and the entropy production. In the strong coupling regime, the system exhibits an asymmetric Rabi-type splitting in the thermal conductance, leading to enhanced heat transport and improved rectification inaccessible in the weak coupling. This setup represents the simplest quantum thermal machine that consumes incoherent resources and delivers entanglement while acting as a rectifier and heat valve.DGAPA-UNAM, Mexico; CONAHCyT, Mexico; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [121F246]; [IA104624]R R A thanks DGAPA-UNAM, Mexico for support under Project No. IA104624. M S would like to express his gratitude to CONAHCyT, Mexico for his Scholarship. BC is partially supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) under Grant No. 121F246.Science Citation Index Expande
The Impact of Economic Factors on Environmental Degradation: Price Instability, Monetary Growth and Renewable Energy Investments
No full textPurposeThis study examines the complex relationship between price stability, monetary growth and renewable energy investments. The pursuit of environmentally sustainable economies is intertwined with the need to maintain price stability and poses a complex challenge for global policymakers.Design/methodology/approachThrough a comprehensive review, this study seeks answers to how price stability affects pollution, particularly carbon emissions, through various economic channels. Employing panel data analysis for 84 countries between 1999 and 2020, we find a multifaceted effect of price instability on carbon emissions.FindingsAccording to system-GMM estimation results, we find (1) price stability has no significant direct effect on carbon emissions. However, it emerges as a crucial environmental factor through consumption, investment and monetary policy channels. (2) Moreover, price stability reverses the positive effects of renewable energy investments on carbon emissions, and it slows down the carbon emissions-increasing effect of energy consumption. (3) Monetary expansion combined with price stability increases environmental pollution. These findings underscore the complexity of balancing economic stability and environmental sustainability and highlight the need for comprehensive policy approaches to address these global challenges effectively.Originality/valueThere is a significant gap in the existing literature examining the impact of price stability on carbon emissions. Most of the studies observe the impact of carbon emissions on inflation. However, the complex interaction between economic and environmental factors reveals inflation as a factor affecting pollution, particularly the amount of carbon emissions.Emerging Sources Citation Inde
Evaluation of Crawler Cranes for Large-Scale Construction and Infrastructure Projects: an Intuitionistic Fuzzy Consensus-Based Approach
No full textEcer, Fatih/0000-0002-6174-3241Choosing the proper and best crawler crane is a complicated decision-making issue due to several conflicting criteria and vagueness in the construction and project logistics industries. This decision-making problem has become compounded due to insufficient studies on crawler crane selection in the relevant literature. The current study introduces an intuitionistic fuzzy consensus-based complex proportional assessment model (IF-c-COPRAS) developed to address the existing research gaps and identify the best and most suitable crawler crane. The acquired conclusions revealed that the most potent criterion influencing the crawler crane selection is "job potential," with a weighted score of 0.7665, followed by "periodic control and inspection" and "crane model year." Once the following findings of the paper regarding crawler crane variants are evaluated, the crawler crane manufactured by Liebherr Co. is the most feasible alternative, with a relative significance score of 0.8324. These outcomes provide sensible implications and insights for practitioners and decision-makers in the construction and project logistics (overweight/oversized cargo lifting and transport firms) industries, providing an applicable guideline for improving the quality of construction operations. Additionally, crane manufacturers can consider these managerial and policy implications and insights to improve the abilities and quality of the crawler cranes they produce.have approved the manuscript and agree with its submission to the In-ternational Journal of Finance & Economics.Science Citation Index Expande