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Rural landscapes provide a high variety of environmental and recreational benefits, yet knowledge of the amenity values associated with land use is still limited. This paper analyses the amenity values associated with d...

Urban Green Spaces (UGS), such as parks and forests, provide a wide range of environmental and recreational benefits. One objective in the conservation efforts of UGS is to analyse the benefits associated with UGS in or...

Consumer researchers' growing interest in consumer experiences has revealed that many consumption activities produce both hedonic and utilitarian outcomes. Thus, there is an increasing need for scales to assess consumer ...

Marketing via social media has fast communication and diverse consumers. The research applies the Pleasure-Arousal Dominance (PAD) Model to show the influence of pleasure to explain the influence of stimulation on a pers...

The burgeoning smokeless industry faces fierce competition, prompting restaurants to devise effective strategies to satisfy customers and maintain profitability. A study examined factors influencing customers’ perceive...

The authors examine two aspects of brand loyalty, purchase loyalty and attitudinal loyalty, as linking variables in the chain of effects from brand trust and brand affect to brand performance (market share and relative p...

This research examines the determinants of agricultural land prices in the Mendoza River Basin, with emphasis on the marginal contribution of irrigation water as a strategic resource in an arid context. An original geore...

Wine is a multi-attribute product and one of great differentiation. Consumers do not know wines’ intrinsic properties before its purchase; consumers need and look for extrinsic signals that allow them to infer those in...

The basic hedonic hypothesis is that goods are valued for their utility-bearing characteristics and not for the good itself. Each attribute can be evaluated by consumers when making a purchasing decision and an implicit ...

Avaliaram-se as características sensoriais e determinou-se a força de cisalhamento de cortes de carne de paca (Agouti paca). As análises foram realizadas nos cortes desossados de paleta, lombo e pernil de nove pacas, ...

Moringa contains nutrients that benefit the food and health sectors. The part that has many benefits is the leaves. Moringa leaves contain the compound quercetin (flavonoid), which has antioxidant properties. Kelulut hon...

In times of accelerating inflation, financial instruments that protect capital against loss of value are becoming increasingly important. Therefore, an open question remains as to what to invest in to, if not outstrip, a...

BackgroundIn many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), like Ghana, cereal-based baked products such as cakes are widely consumed due to their affordability and convenience. However, conventional wheat-based cakes ar...

Commercial muffins, often rich in saturated fat and simple carbohydrates while lacking sufficient dietary fibre and protein, do not adequately meet nutritional demands, especially in regions facing malnutrition. The deve...

This study aimed to analyze the frequency of orange-fleshed sweet potato and pumpkin consumption, the social representations of sous-vide cooked vegetarian ready-to-eat meals (vegetable millefeuille, vegetable mix, and s...

Perceived exertion, as measured by psychometric scales, has been proven to be a valid tool to assess training load, and to highly correlate with physiological and mechanical dimensions of physical effort. However, little...

PurposeUser acceptance is a necessary precondition to implementing self-driving buses as a solution to public transport challenges. Focusing on potential users in a real-life setting, this paper aims to analyze the facto...

las lógicas tradicionales que influyen en la fijación del valor del suelo urbano se han visto modificadas, en los últimos tiempos, por las múltiples dinámicas que ocurren en las ciudades intermedias. El crecimiento ...

This paper extends the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to study acceptance and use of technology in a consumer context. Our proposed UTAUT2 incorporates three constructs into UTAUT: hedonic mot...