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LE TIPOLOGIE DELLE AZIENDE AGRICOLE
No full textIl lavoro consiste in un'analisi degli aggregati economici e delle strutture agricole nella Regione Umbria in un periodo che va dal 1960 al 2003. Particolare attenzione è stata prestata alle nuove imprese agricole e alla caratterizzazione del lavoro familiare in agricoltura
The XVIII International Parvovirus Workshop Rimini, Italy, 14–17 June 2022
Full text link: The XVIII International Parvovirus Workshop took place in Rimini, Italy, from 14 to 17 June 2022 as an on-site event, continuing the series of meetings started in 1985 and continuously held every two years. The communications dealt with all aspects of research in the field, from evolution and structure to receptors, from replication to trafficking, from virus-host interactions to clinical and veterinarian virology, including translational issues related to viral vectors, gene therapy and oncolytic parvoviruses. The oral communications were complemented by a poster exhibition available for view and discussion during the whole meeting. The XVIII International Parvovirus Workshop was dedicated to the memory of our dearest colleague Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (1963-2021)
Updating of non-native macroalgae in the Italian coasts: new introductions and cryptic species.
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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
Which are the sustainable attributes affecting the real consumption behaviour? Consumer understanding and choices
No full textAbstractPurpose – This is an exploratory study on consumer information and behaviour towards green, health, local,social and environmental credentials on labels. It focusses on many dimensions of sustainability in the foodproducts that affect consumer choices with a dual purpose: to identify and define “sustainable consumption”behaviour in broad sense and to investigate empirically the factors affecting the real consumption behaviours.The purpose of this paper is to shed light on consumers’ understanding, motivation and use of sustainablelabelling in order to understand the role sustainability information plays in the food products market.Design/methodology/approach – Two focus groups in order to investigate consumer motivation andbehaviour in-depth and to prepare the questionnaire. Identification of the outcomes that could summarizesustainable consumption combining: purchase of local products, consume only seasonal fruit, prefer productswith recyclable packaging, attention to the fat content in foods, give importance to traceability and purchaseproducts only in the place of origin. Identification of the “at risk” virtuous consumer, using a binary logisticregression approach, taking into account demographic characteristics, the food and nutrition value system,experience, knowledge, institutional factors and marketing.Findings – Results from the focus groups are mainly in line with the empirical analysis, highlighting the keyrole of education in influencing consumer attitude and behaviour. Consumers give little attention toinformation provided on the label for sustainable food consumption and environmental protection and havelittle knowledge of environmental problems. The virtuous consumer appears to give importance to a betterfood nutrition value system, to pay more attention to ingredients and instructions on the label, to be moreattentive to environmental and sustainable attributes, to be concerned about product quality and to beslightly influenced by brands and special offers.Research limitations/implications – The findings from the empirical analysis confirm the results fromfocus groups even if it was not possible from the empirical analysis to investigate in-depth the marketingaspects concerning the food choice. This limit probably comes from the low number of observations.Further research will focus on these marketing aspects.Practical implications – Products with sustainable attributes can become a strategic variable and allowcompanies to gain a competitive advantage, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises. This mayencourage the development of new marketing channels based on the direct relationship between producer andthe new consumer demand, increasingly sensitive to the food security issues.Social implications – There is a potential interest and sensitiveness to having sustainable behaviour in abroad sense, but there is a lack of knowledge about how to behave to be sustainable. In the absence of bindingrules, it is necessary that government promote information and campaigns to generate greater awareness onsustainability, aiming at increasing knowledge to drive the consumer’s choices. This may lead to virtuous resultsin terms of reducing social costs related to an unhealthy diet, food waste and unsustainable consumption.Originality/value – The results show that despite the appearance of attention to the environment and tohealthy food which is associated with this emerging critical consumer in the literature, there remains theproblem of the consumer giving little attention to information provided on the label for sustainable food consumption and environmental protection. This is the problem of “rules of thumb” in purchasing decisionsthat prevail in the following situations: when consumers have an overload of information that exceeds theirprocessing limits; when they tend to base their decision making on heuristics, focussing their choices onbrands as a proxy for high-quality, product-related characteristics
Lightcurve and Rotation Period Determination for 5318 Dientzenhofer and 9083 Ramboehm
No full textPhotometric observations of the main-belt asteroids 5318 Dientzenhofer and 9083 Ramboehm were made in 2016 March and 2015 December, respectively. Analysis of the data found a bimodal lightcurve with a synodic rotation period of 8.062 ± 0.002 h for 5318 Dientzenhofer. A trimodal lightcurve with synodic period of 10.199 ± 0.004 h for 9083 Ramboehm was found to be the most likely solution
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