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Additive Manufacturing of Patient‐Specific Intracranial Aneurysm Cell Culture Models

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Patient‐specific intracranial aneurysm models were fabricated using chocolate moulding, 3D printed water‐soluble cores, and direct resin 3D printing. Moulding PDMS around sacrificial cores made of chocolate or 3D printed water‐soluble resin yielded accurate, expandable, and endothelializable models that outperformed resin‐based approaches.
Chloe M. de Nys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of promoting country of origin as an ethnocentric appeal in developing local brands: special reference to telecommunication industry of Sri Lanka

open access: yes
Sri Lanka is emerging as service sector driven economy with the GDP penetration of 50%-60% from service sector. After imposing the open economy policy in 1977, local brands had to gear ahead with intensive competition came from international brands ...
Weerasiri, Sudath, Dissanayake, Ravindra
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A Study on the Country-of-Origin Image and Ethnocentrism on Purchase Intention

open access: yes, 2011
[[abstract]]The purpose of Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement is believed to boost the economic development and economic climate. However, in similarity to FTA, both ECFA and FTA will decrease the custom advantages and bring down the business of ...
Chung-Chih Lin
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Exploring ethnocentrism and country-of-origin effects on brand equity dimensions: insights from Brazilian and Portuguese wine market

open access: yes
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the effects on the dimensions of brand equity of cultural elements such as ethnocentrism and country of origin.
Monticelli, Jefferson Marlon   +2 more
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Bamboo Medical Application: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review presents a structured classification of bamboo's current use in healthcare. It organizes applications into medical textiles and medical devices, with further divisions based on function and level of invasiveness. It also examines material utilization based on bamboo's structural role, highlighting how it supports both protective and ...
Haymanot Beza Lamesgin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

International retail brand origin recognition

open access: yes, 2010
Recent academic literature into consumer perceptions of Country of Origin (C-O-O) raises questions regarding the importance of this concept, indicating that few consumers have clear or accurate perceptions of products’ or brands’ C-O-O.
Moore, Marguerite   +7 more
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Hard‐Magnetic Soft Millirobots in Underactuated Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides a comprehensive overview of hard‐magnetic soft millirobots in underactuated systems. It examines key advances in structural design, physics‐informed modeling, and control strategies, while highlighting the interplay among these domains.
Qiong Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer purchasing decisions and welfare under country of origin. Labelling regulation

open access: yes
This study develops a theoretical framework of heterogeneous consumer preferences to examine the effect of voluntary and mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) on consumer purchasing decisions and welfare when consumers view COOL information as an ...
Yiannaka, Amalia, Awada, Lana
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Conceptualising and measuring the influence of corporate image on country of origin image: The case of Spain

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Place branding scholars and practitioners increasingly highlight the influence that corporate image can exert on the image of the country of origin (COI ...
Lopez Lamelas, Maria del Carmen
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