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Sustainable Fashion in the UAE: Does it Stand a Chance? A qualitative study investigating the awareness, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours of sustainable fashion among expatriate female consumers in the United Arab Emirates
Get PDFFashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world; it is a flagbearer for unsustainable environmental practices. Fashion and sustainability are oxymorons as the industry is in denial of resource scarcity and encourages excessive consumption. The volume of fashion consumption has more than doubled in the last 15 years, clearly highlighting the scale of the impact. The situation is problematic in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); Dubai, one of its largest Emirates produces 2.8 million tons of waste annually out of which only twenty-five percent gets recycled. As a result of the UAE's well-developed fashion retail sector and high consumption rates, urgent changes in consumption behaviour are needed to alleviate the ecological impact. This study examined whether female consumers in the UAE were likely to adopt sustainable fashion (SF) options based on their awareness, intentions and perceived barriers. According to this research, sustainable fashion relates to the circularity aspect of fashion and included all clothes that already existed in the value chain (clothes in second-hand stores, clothes in fashion rentals and fashion libraries, clothes being exchanged on swapping platforms, clothes being upcycled and mended). This study employed a qualitative exploratory approach to interpret participants' experiential insights, offering a deeper understanding of the complex decision-making processes involved in sustainable fashion consumption (SFC).Using a purposive quota sampling method, 25 in-depth interviews were conducted with female fashion consumers in the UAE. Using NVivo 12 software, data was coded and analysed using thematic analysis.The research identified the unique needs and preferences of consumers in relation to sustainable fashion. It applied three theories; Social Identity Theory (SIT), Self-Concept Theory (SCT) and Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as theoretical lenses to examine attitudes and behaviours related to Sustainable Fashion Consumption (SFC). The research revealed that cultural and religious expectations, income levels, and accessibility limitations shaped intentions and behaviours. By examining the influence of reference groups on consumer behaviour towards SFC, this study highlighted unique barriers that pertain to SFC. Such barriers include a lack of awareness, unfamiliarity, shame, social stigma, unstructured markets, connotations with frugality, mistrust, pandemic induced fear, and social pressures were identified. Furthermore, it also highlighted consumer emotions and external interventions as playing an important role in influencing consumer behaviour in relation to SFC.The outcome of this research has practical implications for designers, retailers, policy makers and consumers. The findings will help in formulating targeted retail strategies and in implementing sustainable development policies with a potential to change consumer behaviour
Factors affecting tax administration in the informal sector: a case study of Lusaka district.
Get PDFThesis of Master of Science in Human Resource ManagementThe Study is an evaluation of Factors Affecting Tax Evasion in the Informal Sector: A case Study of Lusaka. The study was guided by the following objectives, To establish factors that lead to non-compliance on tax remittance in informal sector. To identify the challenges that affect revenue mobilization by Zambia Revenue Authority from the informal sector and to determine how ZRA can improve upon tax collection in the informal sector by incorporating good tax Administration principles,procedures and practices in Zambia. The study adopted a mixed method design that was used in this study was a convergent parallel mixed-methods design. An approach to inquiry that embeds both qualitative and quantitative methods concurrently, prioritizing both methods almost equally throughout the process of data collection. A total of sixty – eight (68) respondents were interviewed and with closed and open-ended questions. A total of three (3) ZRA key informants were interviewed with open ended questions. The research used mixed method research design in order to come up with the findings. The research also used both secondary and primary data. The empirical result obtained from the study showed that tax evasion in the informal sector is mainly influenced by low incomes, illiteracy, complicated tax processes and the tax rate been too high. The study also established that the non-permanent place of work of informal sector participants, cash-based transactions and poor record keeping in the sector were among the many challenges that the Zambian Revenue Authority faced in taxing the informal sector. The study also found out that Tax advertisement and education, increase of ZRA pay points, Mandatory registration of informal businesses would encourage the informal sector to pay tax. Finally, study has recommends among othe that the Zambian government in conjuction with ZRA should reduce tax rates, expand tax pay points, embark on serious tax education and advertisement, employ more tax administrators and simplify the process of
remitting tax in order to increase tax revenues from the informal sector
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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