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Bastroviruses (Astroviridae): genetic diversity and potential impact on human and animal health
Introduction. Bastroviruses were discovered in the Netherlands in 2016 in human stool samples and show partial genetic similarities to astroviruses and hepatitis E viruses. Their association with disease onset has not yet been established.
German V. Roev +5 more
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Pleasure or Health? The Role of Mental Simulation in Desire and Food Choices
Many times, desire possesses us and impedes us from making healthier food choices. From a grounded cognition perspective, we investigated the role of two types of mental simulation (process and outcome) in desire and food choice to understand the ...
Naomí C. Muñoz-Vilches +2 more
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The consuming or the consumed?
Travel, indeed, struck him as being a waste of time, since he believed that the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience (Huysmans 1959[1888]).
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Are trust and risk important in consumers' electronic commerce purchasing decisions? What are the antecedents of trust and risk in this context? How do trust and risk affect an Internet consumer's purchasing decision?
D. Kim, D. Ferrin, H. Rao
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Cursed Consumers and the Effectiveness of Consumer Protection Policies*
We model firms' quality disclosure and pricing in the presence of cursed consumers, who fail to be sufficiently skeptical about undisclosed quality. We show that cursed consumers are exploited in duopoly if firms are vertically differentiated, if there are few cursed consumers, and if average product quality is high.
Ispano, Alessandro, Schwardmann, Peter
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The purpose of the research is the assessment of the Francisella tularensis occurrence in nature in ticks of the genus Dermacentor; understanding the physiological age in terms of tick infection with tularemia pathogen.Materials and methods.
E. V. Lazarenko +3 more
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Consuming as consumers and not as spectators
Watching television, according to the point of view of the audience, means being passive subjects. However, if we would realize that we are true consumers of mass media, surely we would try to consume them more rationally, while we would be able to confer to this consumption a voluntary and rational nature that would make us to decide «this is what I ...
José Clavero-Berlanga +1 more
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ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker +11 more
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Impact of Covid-19 on consumer behavior: Will the old habits return or die?
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown and social distancing mandates have disrupted the consumer habits of buying as well as shopping. Consumers are learning to improvise and learn new habits.
J. Sheth
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ABSTRACT Background Therapeutic apheresis (TA) is an established treatment modality for hematologic, neurologic, and immunologic disorders, yet access remains severely limited in sub‐Saharan Africa. Donor apheresis, including platelet apheresis collection from healthy donors, represents an important complementary modality supporting blood product ...
Nosa Bazuaye +33 more
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