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The Relevance of Demographic Similarity and Factuality in Social Influencer Communication Culture – A Comparison Between Hedonic and Utilitarian Conditions

American Business Review
This work identifies differences in the success factors of influencers given consumers’ consumption goals (hedonic vs. utilitarian). Although practitioners have complained about the lack of know-how regarding this issue, research on the topic remains ...
Walter von Mettenheim, Klaus-Peter Wiedmann   +1 more
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The Impact of Conspicuous Consumption and Perceived Value on New Product Adoption Intention

Asia Marketing Journal, 2021
Unidimensional construct of conspicuous consumption which focuses on the ostentation of the economic assets are limited in describing today’s consumers.
Meixiang Cui, Subin Im
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Intraoperative Collection of Ascitic Fluid With Intra‐ or Postoperative Reinfusion in Ovarian Cancer: Safety and Feasibility of a Roller Pumping Method

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Patients with ovarian cancer often present with massive ascites, leading to significant protein loss during surgical procedures. Although cell‐free concentrated ascites reinfusion therapy (CART) is used in palliative settings to mitigate protein loss, its application in intraoperative settings remains unexplored.
Yutaka Yoneoka, Tsukuru Amano, Akimasa Takahashi, Mari Deguchi, Hiroyuki Yamanaka, Yuji Tanaka, Shunichiro Tsuji, Takashi Murakami   +7 more
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Image Configuration of Organic Food and its Motivation for Consumption [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020
The search for organic food has been growing in recent years due to the concern with health and the environment. Evidence shows that the image of organic food can be configured from hedonic meanings, through the symbolic and social dimensions and ...
Deonir De Toni, Gabriel Sperandio Milan, Fabiano Larentis, Luciene Eberle, Aline Weste Procópio   +4 more
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bi-dimensional values and attitudes toward online fast food-buying intention during the COVID-19 pandemic: An application of VAB model

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
The purpose of the study is to determine the factors of online fast food-buying intention among Bangladeshi Millennials during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted the Value-Attitude-Behavior (VAB) model and designed it as a higher-order constructs ...
Chen Yan, Abu Bakkar Siddik, Mohammad Masukujjaman, Qianli Dong, Muhammad Hamayun, Zheng Guang-Wen, Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim   +6 more
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Exploring the UK high street retail experience: is the service encounter still valued? [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose: The relationship between service quality, the service encounter and the retail experience is explored within a changing UK retail environment. Design: Data was gathered from forty customers and twenty staff of an established UK health and ...
Foster, C, Resnick, S, Woodall, T
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Structural insights into lacto‐N‐biose I recognition by a family 32 carbohydrate‐binding module from Bifidobacterium bifidum

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang, Naoki Sunagawa, Toma Kashima, Kiyohiko Igarashi, Akimasa Miyanaga, Shinya Fushinobu   +5 more
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Do psychological costs matter? The mechanism of perceived value on green consumption behaviour

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Green consumption is critical for achieving sustainable development goals. Many studies have focused on explaining why customers choose green consumption, but rarely have scholars considered the significant impacts of the psychological costs.
Changpeng Shao, Sen Lin
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Unproductive expenditure and spectacular merchandise

Comunicação e Sociedade, 2020
In order to fully grasp the spirit of our times, we need to analyse fully the contemporary relationship between spectacle and consumption: spectacular consumption and the spectacle of consumption.
Vincenzo Susca
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