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Fast Fashion as a continuing trend or a shift towards more sustainable clothing choices: a case study of employees and students at the Estonian University of Life Sciences
No full textBakalaureusetöö
Keskkonnakaitse õppekavalKiirmoe populaarsus on viimase kümnendi jooksul kiiresti kasvanud, pakkudes tarbijatele taskukohaseid ja trendikaid riideid kiireks garderoobi uuendamiseks. Samas on see kasv toonud kaasa tõsiseid keskkonna- ja inimõiguste probleeme, nagu tehasetöötajate kehvad töötingimused, ülemäärane ressursitarbimine ja suurenenud jäätmeteke. Seetõttu on oluline mõista, millised tegurid mõjutavad tarbijagruppide ostuotsuseid rõivaostude tegemgemisel ning mis ajendid suunavad inimesi eelistama jätkusuutlikumaid rõivavalikuid. Antud tö ö põ hineb Eesti Maaülikooli üliõpilaste ja töötajate seas lä bi viidud uuringul, mis toimus vahemikus 21.01.2025 kuni 20.02.2025 Google Forms keskkonnas. Bakalaureusetöö eesmärk on välja selgitada, millised tegurid mõjutavad erinevate tarbijagruppide (generatsioonid beebibuumer, X ja Z) käitumise ja valikute muutumist rõivaostude tegemisel ning mõista, mis suunab inimesi eelistama teadlikumaid ja jätkusuutlikumaid valikuid rõivaste ostmisel?
Uuringust selgus, et enamik vastanutest peab end keskmiselt või üle selle teadlikuks kiirmoe keskkonna- ja ühiskonnamõjust ning üle poole vastanutest oleks valmis maksma rohkem jätkusuutlike rõivaste eest. Selgus, et riiete ostmisel Z-põlvkonna jaoks on kõige olulisem tegur hind, X-põlvkonna puhul mugavus ja beebibuumeritel kvaliteet. Väike osa vastanutest tõdes, et turundus ja sotsiaalmeedia on mõjutanud nende ostuharjumusi ning suunanud tegema teadlikumaid valikuid rõivaste ostmisel. Sotsiaalmeedia on aidanud mõista kiirmoe kahjulikke mõjusid, suurendanud huvi taaskasutuspoodide ja Yaga platvormi vastu ning parandanud teadlikkust kohalike toodete ja disainerite osas. Veel selgus, et enamik vastanuid ei pea rõivaste tootjapoolse info lugemist prioriteediks, kuid samas peetakse läbipaistvust oluliseks teguriks keskkonnasõbralike ja vastutustundlike ostuotsuste tegemisel. Selgus, et tarbijate ostuotsuseid mõjutab tugevalt nende majanduslik olukord. Keskkonnasõbralikke valikuid toetaks sissetuleku kasv ja taskukohasemad hinnad.
Järgmised uuringud võiksid keskenduda konkreetsemalt ostuotsuseid mõjutavatele teguritele ning põhjalikumalt analüüsida ka Y-põlvkonna tarbimiskäitumist.The popularity of fast fashion has rapidly increased over the past decade, offering consumers affordable and trendy clothing for quick wardrobe updates. However, this growth has brought about serious environmental and human rights issues, such as poor working conditions for factory workers, excessive resource consumption, and increased waste generation. Therefore, it is important to understand which factors influence consumer groups’ purchasing decisions when buying clothing, and what motivations lead people to prefer more sustainable clothing choices. This thesis is based on a survey conducted among students and employees of the Estonian University of Life Sciences between January 21 and February 20, 2025, using the Google Forms platform.
The aim of this bachelor’s thesis is to identify the factors that influence the behavioral changes and choices of different consumer groups (Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Z) when purchasing clothing, and to understand what motivates people to make more conscious and sustainable choices.
The study revealed that most respondents consider themselves moderately or highly aware of the environmental and social impacts of fast fashion, and more than half of them would be willing to pay more for sustainable clothing. It was found that the most important factor in clothing purchases is price for Generation Z, comfort for Generation X, and quality for Baby Boomers. A small number of respondents admitted that marketing and social media have influenced their purchasing habits and directed them towards making more conscious clothing choices. Social media has helped raise awareness of the harmful effects of fast fashion, increased interest in second-hand stores and the Yaga platform, and improved awareness of local products and designers.
Furthermore, the majority of respondents do not consider reading manufacturer-provided information a priority, although transparency is regarded as an important factor in making environmentally friendly and responsible purchasing decisions. The results also showed that consumers’ purchasing decisions are strongly influenced by their financial situation. Environmentally friendly choices would be supported by increased income and more affordable prices.
Future studies could focus more specifically on the factors influencing purchasing decisions and provide a more in-depth analysis of Generation Y’s consumption behavior
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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