1,720,989 research outputs found
Il racconto di viaggio del botanico Antonio Bertoloni (1775-1869)
No full textLungo la Futa, osservando piante, paesaggi, genti
Does the visualization of annual reports affect the investors’ decisions?
No full textthe corporate annual report contains different visual elements that contribute to its readability, accessibility, and comprehensibility. Companies provide different communication messages through images, tables, graphs, and encoded messages for their different targets. the information disclosed and their presentation have a relevant role to the investors decision-making process. the paper analyzes if investors’ decisions and behavior can be affected by what is displayed and communicated in the corporate annual report.
the first study investigates if the visual elements elicit cognitive and affective responses in relation to the reader’s expertise, thus influencing their intention to invest. the second study aims at understanding if industry and country determinants can affect the user’s perception of the elements of the annual report and the way in which the information is disclosed. the paper concurs with the wide international accounting research that focuses on cross-national similarities and differences in which the information is disclosed and the investors’ perception of the annual report in terms of decision to inves
Sensing the Difference: Brand Design Effects In Wine Experience
No full textConsumer preferences are driven by various specific brand-related stimuli, including visual and sensory ones (Ding & Tseng, 2015). Design elements (i.e., name, color, logo shape, font and package design) identify and differentiate the brand (Batra et al. 1993; Grohmann 2009; Orth & Malkewitz 2008; Walsh et al., 2010, 2011). Colors carry intrinsic meanings that contributes to brand recognition (Abril et al,. 2009; Bottomley & Doyle 2006). Overall, package design can modify attitudes and expectation toward consumption (Galati et al., 2018; Bordeaux & Palmer, 2007). Therefore, visual and sensory stimuli impact both cognitive and emotional reactions, which influence consumers’ perceptions of products and brands (Krishna, 2012), leading to higher purchase intentions so long as they match consumers’ brand preferences (e.g., Chebat et al., 2001; Mattila & Wirtz, 2001). Sensory stimuli have been shown to create positive associations and perceptions in consumers,
resulting in positive overall experiences, with these elicited emotions, thoughts and sensations contributing to a positive brand attachment (Brakus et al., 2009). Wine provides a valid and interesting context to understand the role of brand design elements in combination with the senses involved in wine experience (Jaeger et al., 2009). Several studies (e.g., Lockshin et al., 2006; MacDonald et al., 2013) have measured the relative importance of various attributes on product choice, without integrating any sensory characteristic into their research design. To fill this gap, we combined different stimuli to understand the the impact of visual and olfactory characteristics of wine on the consumer’s experience. While some functional attributes of wine (e.g., producer information, label and bottle) are linked to the brand in its basic warranty function, the sensory cues (e.g., color, bouquet) contribute to brand attachment through symbolic meanings related to self-concept and social
identity. According to Galati et al. (2018) the color of the label can anticipate the experience of a wine’s taste and flavors, while the design of the label can have an effect on wine purchase (Sherman & Tuten, 2011; Bordeaux & Palmer, 2007). This paper explores the interaction between cognition and sensory perception, particularly taste, given that, in addition to a reliance on sensory cues from the food itself, taste is susceptible to non-sensory cues such as brand. Two studies are developed to understand the role of brand design and the effect of senses. The first study investigates the effect of two major elements of the label, namely design and color, on attitudes and intentions to buy. The second study investigates how senses affect consumer experience through brand attachment in self-consumption and gift occasions. Results show that visual elements of the packaging, namely design and color, may impact on the attitude toward the wine, the intention to buy the bottle and the willingness to pay. Moreover, we demonstrate that senses act through the brand even for products that need to be consumed in order to fully appreciate their qualities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
- …
