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Consumers' purchasing motives of local foods in Indonesia: a means-end chain approach.
Get PDFThis study aims at examining: (a) the consumers’ perceptions of local foods, (b) the motives for purchasing local foods, and (c) the market segmentations involved in local food markets. From an understanding of how consumers think and behave, the central messages for local food promotion can be advanced. Means End Chain (MEC) is employed as the main analytical procedure. This study involves a sample of 533 Indonesian consumers of local foods. The study also investigates both the ethnic and geographical differences among consumers. Three major ethnic groups are involved in this study namely, the Javanese, the Sundanese and the Minangese living in urban or rural areas. The respondents are selected by using a multistage random sampling procedure. This study identifies three main characteristics of ‘local’ when compared to ‘national’ and ‘imported’ food products that involve ‘place produced’, ‘price’ and ‘quality’. In short, a geographical concept is a generally accepted definition of local foods. When consumers are asked the meaning of ‘place produced’, they mainly refer to ‘village’ with respect to the political boundaries in Indonesia. Respondents also consider that local foods are cheaper and have higher quality than ‘national’ and ‘imported’ foods. It is suggested that the Indonesian Government can create a database of potential local resources that is based on ‘village’ and that promotes the local resources as well as a higher level of political boundaries in Indonesia such as sub-districts, regencies or cities, provinces or even islands and the country as a whole. This study also finds that respondents have a relatively low-level of knowledge of local food policy. Therefore, greater publicity and education are needed in order to ensure that the central messages are better delivered. The most effective way suggested by this study is through the mass media, such as, through cooking programs as well as through a promotional program that explores the local food sources from specific areas of Indonesia. The motives for purchasing local foods that are associated with the four major consumption situations namely: (a) everyday eating, (b) eating at restaurants, (c) eating when travelling and (d) eating when celebrating religious festivals involve three main motives. These motives are: ‘save money’, ‘health benefits’ and ‘easy in preparation’. The ‘save money’ motive is considered to apply to all consumption situations whereas the motive of ‘health benefits’ is reported to apply to three consumption situations: every day eating, eating at restaurants and eating when travelling. The motive of ‘easy in preparation’ is primarily associated with everyday eating. These motives can be used by the Indonesian Government and local businesses in the promotion of local foods. Three specific motives are considered by respondents when making decisions to buy local foods among urban and rural Javanese, Sundanese and Minangese people, namely ‘save money’, ‘controlling budget’ and ‘health benefits’. The motive of ‘save money’ and ’controlling budget’ are more important in both urban and rural Javanese and urban Sundanese areas when compared to the other areas. The motive of ‘health benefits’ is considered stronger for urban Sundanese people and both urban and rural Minangese people when compared to the other areas. Eight segmentations of local foods are identified with respect to urban and rural locations and ethnic groups, as well as four different consumption situations, namely: ‘save money’, ‘health benefits’, ‘controlling budget’, ‘fun and enjoyment in life’, ‘support local communities’, ‘easy in preparation’, ‘taste matters’ and ‘sustain local culture’. The respondents’ characteristics for each market segment differ with respect to urban and rural locations as well as the four different consumption situations. The central messages specific to each segment are advanced and can be used for the development of promotional strategies associated with local foods in the mass media.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, 201
Pengolahan Limbah Cair dari Industri Kecil Pengolahan Tahu secara Biofiltrasi Menggunakan Enceng Gondok (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms)
Get PDFSebagian besar industri tahu merupakan industri rumah tangga yang belum memiliki unit pengolahan limbah. Padahal sebanyak 1,5-3 m3 limbah cair akan dihasilkan untuk setiap pengolahan satu kuintal kedelai. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengolah limbah cair tahu secara biofiltrasi dengan menggunakan enceng gondok sebagai unit pengolahan limbah yang mudah dan murah bagi industri kecil tahu dan membuat model matematika dari pengolahan limbah cair tahu secara biofiltrasi menggunakan enceng gondok. Penelitian menggunakan bak kaca kapasitas 60 liter dengan komposisi enceng gondok menutupi 50% luas permukaan bak penampung dan limbah cair tanpa enceng gondok. Debit pompa sebesar 163,10-6 m3/dtk dengan lama aerasi 6 menit 6 detik dan waktu aerasi setiap 6 jam. Variabel yang diamati adalah warna, dan bau, sedangkan variabel yang diukur adalah suhu, pH, BOD, COD, dan TSS yang dilakukan setiap 2 hari selama 6 hari waktu retensi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pengolahan limbah cair tahu secara biofiltrasi menggunakan enceng gondok pada waktu retensi 6 hari mengalami penurunan nilai BOD sebesar 68,06% dan nilai COD sebesar 72,76%, serta mengalami peningkatan nilai TSS sebesar 7,29% dan nilai pH sebesar 47,56%. Model matematika yang dihasilkan dari analisis regresi adalah: BOD (mg/l) = - 447,878 – 11,706 jenis perlakuan – 11,629 warna + 11,378 bau + 21,307 suhu (oC); COD (mg/l) = 1220,602 – 149,330 waktu retensi (hari) + 317,602 jenis perlakuan – 93,295 warna; TSS (mg/l) = - 4,543 + 0,079 waktu retensi (hari) + 0,210 jenis perlakuan + 0,085 warna + 0,117 bau + 0,177 suhu (oC); dan pH = 2,306 + 0,559 waktu retensi (hari) – 0,427 jenis perlakuan – 0,133 warna + 0,560 bau
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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