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Food behaviours of Italian consumers at risk of poverty
No full textPurpose
– At a European level, Italy experiences one of the highest percentages of population at risk of poverty (AROP). However, studies on this consumer segment are scarce. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the food behaviours of Italian female consumers, distinguishing similarities and differences due to age and level of income.
Design/methodology/approach
– The investigation adopted an inductive approach in order to analyse and confirm the determinants of food behaviours. Data were collected through four focus groups. Data elaboration included content analyses with term frequency – inverse document frequency index and multidimensional scaling technique.
Findings
– The food behaviours of Italian female consumers are based on a common set of semantic categories and theoretical dimensions that are coherent with those applied by previous studies. The age of consumers impacts the relevance attributed to the categories and income contributes to the explanation of the conceptual relations among the categories that determine food behaviours. The approach to food of younger and mature consumers AROP is strongly driven by constraints such as price and time. The study did not confirm a link between a poor health attitude and low socio-economic status.
Research limitations/implications
– The outcomes achieved can be strengthened by quantitative analyses to characterise the relations occurring among the factors and dimensions that influence the food behaviours of consumers AROP.
Originality/value
– The study increases knowledge about Italian female consumers and provides an initial contribution to the analysis of the food behaviour of the population AROP
Gli alimenti salutari per i consumatori a rischio povertà. L'industria e la distribuzione sono interessate?
No full textL'obiettivo del paper è indagare l’interesse dell’industria e della grande distribuzione alimentari verso i consumatori a rischio povertà, quale segmento target di consumatori per la produzione e commercializzazione di alimenti salutari. La ricerca, di tipo qualitativo, è stata realizzata attraverso interviste dirette con rappresentanti di 49 imprese che operano nella produzione e distribuzione di alimenti in quattro paesi: Finlandia, Italia, Lituania e Serbia. I risultati emersi mostrano come, nonostante la notevole dimensione assoluta e il trend numericamente crescente di consumatori a rischio povertà, l’industria e la distribuzione manifestano scarse aspettative nei confronti dei consumatori Rop in generale, ed ancor meno quale segmento target per la produzione e commercializzazione di alimenti salutari
CONSUMER FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION in Italy, Lithuania, Serbia and Finland - KULUTTAJEN FOKUSRIHMAKESKUSTELUJA ITALIASSA, LIETTUASSA, SERBIASSA JA SUOMESSA
No full textResults from a European research project which e.g. studies obstacles and facilitators of a
healthy diet. From the group discussions that were carried out as a part of data collection, we gained
information of meanings connected to meat as a part of a healthy diet.
There were four countries involved in the research: Italy (I), Lithuania (L), Serbia (S) and Finland
(F). The text is based on two focus group discussions from each country: Italy women (26-40 y., 42-
58 y.), Lithuania women (25-57y.) and men (42-61 y.), Serbia women (26-61 y.) and men (30-65 y.),
and Finland women (65-72 y.) and men (65-83y.). Common to the discussants was that their income
level was low, but they could not be considered as poor. The income level of the Finnish participants
was the highest while the participants from Lithuania and Serbia had the lowest income level.
Differences in the income levels were reflected in the contents of the discussions.
It is typical for the focus group discussions to flow freely. Due to this and as the participating
consumer groups were chosen along criteria important for each country there is variation in the
contents of the discussions. Due to the nature of the data, it is not possible to draw generalizations or
comparisons between the countries
Offering Low-Cost Healthy Food: an Exploration of Food Manufacturers’ and Retailers’ Perspectives
No full textThis study investigates food manufacturers and retailers attitudes concerning offering healthy and low-cost food to consumers. Results show that the main barriers are: price perception, costs of production, easy accessibility of unhealthy food, and lack of supporting public policy. Solutions include consumers’ heightened awareness and knowledge, affordability, better food chain coordination, positioning strategy, and healthy food campaigns. Bigger food manufacturers and retailers, although cautious, are more capable than smaller size enterprises in implementing relevant investment strategies. All food system actors, from agribusinesses to consumers and policymakers, need to play a role in furthering the initiative
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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