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Psychological wellbeing in a post-pandemic world: the role of family and social support for LGBTQ+ and Cisgender-heterosexual adults in the UK
Get PDFStudies have emphasized the importance of social support in mitigating the relationship between psychological distress and mental health effects, with family of origin and family of formation providing key sources of social support over the life course. Yet LGBTQ+ people may experience family of origin relationships as a source of distress, while partners and friends may buffer the relationship between minority stress and psychological wellbeing. Through our online survey (March-June 2022) when the psychological stress of the COVID-19 pandemic lifted in the UK, we considered the association between psychological wellbeing and sources of social support by sampling n=1,330 LGBTQ+ and cisgender-heterosexual adults. LGBTQ+ adults generally experienced poorer psychological wellbeing outcomes than did cisgender-heterosexual people. For LGBTQ+ adults social support from either family of origin, special person or friends was not as-sociated with depression, anxiety, or stress levels but social support from family or a special person was positively associated with higher levels of life satisfaction. Our findings indicate the im-portance of considering negative as well as positive wellbeing
Research on the matching effect between advertising appeal and product type on the purchase intention of organic food
Get PDFPurpose: This paper aims to investigate the impact of advertising appeals on consumers' intention to purchase organic food. We explored the interaction between advertising appeals (egoistic vs. altruistic) and product types (virtue vs. vice) on purchase intention. The goal is to provide insights that can enhance the advertising effectiveness of organic food manufacturers and retailers.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The study employs two independent experimental studies to collect data. It focuses on the matching effect between advertising appeals and product types. The Elaboration Likelihood Model serves as the theoretical framework for understanding the cognitive processing involved in consumers' responses to these advertising appeals and product combinations.
Findings: The analysis reveals significant effects on consumers' purchase intention based on the matching of advertising appeals with product types. Specifically, when egoistic appeals align with virtuous products, there is an improvement in consumers' purchase intention. When altruistic appeals match with vice products, a positive impact on purchase intention is observed. The results suggest that the matching of advertising appeals with product types enhances processing fluency, contributing to increased purchase intention.
Originality/Value: This research contributes to the field by providing nuanced insights into the interplay between advertising appeals and product types within the context of organic food. The findings highlight the importance of considering the synergy between egoistic appeals and virtuous products, as well as altruistic appeals and vice products. This understanding can be strategically employed by organic food manufacturers and retailers to optimize their advertising strategies, thereby improving overall effectiveness in influencing consumers' purchase intentions
Do photos matter? The effect of hosts’ facial features on customers’ booking intentions in peer-to-peer accommodation: heterogeneity of host gender
Get PDFThis study aims to investigate the effect of hosts’ facial features of different genders on customers’ booking intentions on the Airbnb shared accommodation platform. A comprehensive model was built to analyze hosts’ facial features in the United States (n=105,084) through big data combined with an artificial intelligence facial recognition system. Results show that beauty, smile, aging, and wearing glasses positively affect customers’ booking intentions. There is gender heterogeneity in the effect of hosts’ facial features on customers’ booking intentions. Compared to female hosts, smiling is significant for male hosts, and wearing glasses has a greater impact on female hosts. Host reputation somewhat weakens the positive effect of host facial features on customers’ booking intentions, and the shared housing type strengthens the positive effect of facial features on customers’ booking intentions. This study provides insights into customer decision-making that may be influenced by hosts’ facial features
Cross-border supply chain coordination of low-carbon agricultural products under the risk of supply economy uncertainty
Get PDFIn the context of green low-carbon economy, cross-border e-commerce enterprises urgently need to solve problems such as low levels of quality and insufficient inventory of low-carbon agricultural products, and promote the sustainable development of agricultural product supply chains. Therefore, this paper considers the supply interruption risk and product quality control issues in the cross-border import supply chain, and constructs a cross-border e-commerce secondary supply chain composed of risk-averse cross-border e-commerce enterprises and two risk-neutral overseas suppliers. The optimal decision-making and supply chain coordination of cross-border e-commerce and overseas suppliers under centralized and decentralized decision-making are respectively compared. On this basis, the idea of quality cost sharing is integrated to build an option contract model, and the influence of supply interruption risk and product quality level on optimal purchasing quantity and expected profit under centralized and decentralized decision-making is analyzed by simulation examples. And the effect of the combination of contract parameters such as cost-sharing coefficient on the expected profit of supply chain members in the contract model. The results show that under the contract mode, with the increase of supply interruption risk probability, the expected profit of cross-border e-commerce enterprises shows a downward trend, while the expected profit of the two overseas suppliers as a whole shows an upward trend. When the product quality level continues to improve, the overall expected profit of the cross-border supply chain will increase. Cost-sharing coefficient is positively correlated with the expected profit of cross-border e-commerce enterprises and negatively correlated with the expected profit of overseas suppliers. When the option order price and exercise price increase, the expected income of overseas supplier 2 will gradually increase, on the contrary, the expected income of cross-border e-commerce will gradually decrease. Through this study, it is possible to effectively achieve contract coordination in cross-border e-commerce supply chains, thereby alleviating supply disruptions and promoting sustainable development of low-carbon agricultural product supply chains
Product attribute and heterogeneous sentiment analysis-based evaluation to support online personalized consumption decisions
Get PDFTo effectively address challenges that stem from e-commerce, it is crucial to harness diverse review data from e-commerce platforms. These data support consumers in making informed purchase decisions and aid manufacturers in optimizing product attributes. Incorporating sentiment data from heterogeneous reviews across different time periods into a decision-making framework is a pivotal consideration in purchase decisions and product design. The goal of the study is to establish an online product decision support method grounded in consumer irrational behavior and segmented reviews over time. It aims to offer users reliable and consistent outcomes when making personalized purchase decisions. The probabilistic linguistic term set is employed to represent consumer sentiments with varying degrees of granularity across different time periods. Subsequently, stochastic sampling is utilized to simulate the decision-making process of individual consumers. Regret theory is then applied to analyze consumers' irrational psychological behavior. Building upon heterogeneous data gathered from e-commerce platforms, including review ratings, likes, and follow-up reviews, a multiperiod group decision approach based on maximum similarity and review helpfulness is proposed. This decision-making method is advanced through a decomposition-aggregation process, safeguarding against information distortion and ensuring result reliability. This method provides consumers with product selection solutions across the temporal dimension and serves as a theoretical compass for manufacturers and sellers seeking product enhancement and sales optimization
Indicators of absorptive capacity. Conceptual framework and estimates for 25 countries and 24 UK sectors
Get PDFThe paper develops a conceptual and operationalization framework for absorptive capacity (ACAP) leading to empirical indicators useful for the development of innovation policy. Applications are presented for 25 European countries and 24 UK sectors. For the country study, four dimensions are developed. Two in relations to embodiment of knowledge and two to acquisition. On the former, one dimension captures embodiment in assets and scientific activities and one in human resources both on the supply and demand side. Two dimensions capture acquisition of knowledge via social linkages and via physical and digital connectivity. Several variables contribute to each of these dimensions. ACAP values are arrived at by combining all dimensions. The sector study is developed along similar lines. It has two components related to large and medium-sized enterprises. The results show: clear strengths and weaknesses in ACAP by country and sector; and, in the sector study, more sector- than enterprise-size specificity
Review of Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Love by Laurie Marhoefer.
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A computer-vision approach for testing developmental changes in object manipulation
No full textObject manipulation is a foundational behavior that emerges in infancy and improves with age. Research on children’s interactions with objects is a cornerstone for understanding cognitive and motor development. Traditionally, developmental researchers rely on human video annotation to analyze object interactions by categorizing behavioral events (e.g., “banging,” “constructing”). However, human video annotation cannot provide precise, quantitative details from moment to moment about the location and orientation of objects and the movements of each hand and finger during reach, grasp, and manipulation. To overcome the challengesin acquiring realtime, continuous, quantitative data, researchers turned to highspeed motion tracking and inertial measurement units—which require children to wear markers—and to instrumenting the objects. However, “wearables” present a new set of complications as they disrupt the natural spontaneity of children's movements and sensors may fail to accurately track changes in object position and orientation. Critically, only video data captures the subtleties and complexities of manual behavior and the surrounding context. Consequently, we devised a novel, video-based, marker- and sensor-free approach that enables real-time quantification of children’s coordination patterns during object interaction. We demonstrate the power of our approach in a tower-building study with children (2 to 8 years) and adults. This approach marks a paradigm shift in testing the evolving dynamics of object manipulation over development
Awakening contaminated lands: (re)mediated landscapes as transcultural TV memory work, a case study of Sky/HBO miniseries, Chernobyl (2019)
No full textThis article focuses on the five-part miniseries, Chernobyl (2019), with its contaminated landscape that deals with a troubled, traumatic history. It takes inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin and his concept of historical materialism, but principally draws on theoretical paradigms dealing with transcultural memory, to advance a discussion on memory work, (re)mediation of historical events and televisual representation. Specifically the essay explores the strategies through which the Anglo-American co-production between Sky and HBO, the first of its kind, offers a collective remembrance of this man-made ecological disaster from 1986 in 2019, awakened in (re)mediated landscapes
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