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Consumer behaviour towards Ready-To-Eat (RTE) food on food-related lifestyle in Peninsular Malaysia / Ana Batrisyia Azman and Norsyakirah Mazlan
Get PDFFood is essential for human growth and ensuring the normal functioning of the body parts. Consumer interest in ready-to-eat (RTE) food is growing due to changes in lifestyles among the urban residents in Malaysia. This research aims to identify the determinants of food-related lifestyle on consumer behaviours towards ready-to-eat (RTE) food and to determine the most influential food-related lifestyle determinants of consumer behaviours towards RTE food consumptions in Peninsular Malaysia. Four determinants were analysed (health-orientation, taste-orientation, convenience-orientation, and tradition-orientation) to explain the ready-to- eat food towards consumers’ food-related lifestyles. In this study, a quantitative method and the descriptive research design were applied to fulfil the research objectives and as guideline to collect and analyse the data. The close-ended structured questionnaires through online survey were applied to gather data from 385 consumers in Peninsular Malaysia via convenience sampling. This study is focusing on the six (6) most developed states (Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malacca, Perak, Johor, and Penang) where the trend of urbanisation has brought in lifestyle changes in urban areas. The research revealed that convenienceorientation is the most influential factor of consumer behaviour towards RTE food. Thus, the findings throughout this paper can be useful for the RTE food manufacturers in planning their marketing strategies by understanding the consumer behaviours towards RTE food
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
Exploring Survival Strategies and Family Role in Micro-Family Food Business: Piloting for Interviews in Qualitative Research
No full textA range of philosophical perspectives, techniques, and comprehensions are gleaned from the viewpoints of the participants in qualitative research. Understanding how people view their experiences and actions is a significant purpose. However, it could be challenging for a novice researcher to carry out the interview with a qualitative approach. Particularly in qualitative research, where it highlights the changes to the major study, the pilot study was a crucial component in assessing the viability and evaluation of the study. The significance of pilot studies, the techniques used, and the lessons acquired during the process are all described in this article. The pilot interview was conducted with two owners of the micro-family food businesses (MFFB), as preparation for a thesis in developing the research instruments further an in-depth understanding of the challenges, adaptation and the family role influences in family food business amid COVID-19 post-pandemic in Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. In addition to demonstrating the benefits of pilot studies, this paper also discusses the changes that were made to the main research as a result of the pilot test. These account for the interview guide's adjustment, specifically the interview questions
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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