The shift towards more sustainable consumptions and habits have had tangible impacts on food markets, which accepted this challenge by offering a variety of certification systems to pull consumers aside. However, purchasing choices are also guided ethical, environmental cultural motivations, functioning as drivers acquiring. This study aimed at assessing the influence consumers’ attitudes in an...

This paper investigates the epistemic and attitudinal meanings of rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts. Previous accounts of list intonation have made claims about epistemic meanings for list intonation, though without experimental evidence. In our first study, a metalinguistic task, subjects perceived rise and rise-plateau contours in listing contexts as having epistemic but also...

The aim of this paper is to identify and understand the role of the attitudinal factors involved in annoyance reported due to railway vibration. Many non-acoustical factors have been identified with various degrees of association with annoyance due to noise exposure. In particular, attitudinal factors have shown a large effect on noise annoyance reporting. However, the novelty of this work lies...

Abstract We consider the extent to which temporal shifts have been responsible for an increased tendency females sort into traditionally male roles over time, versus childhood factors. Drawing on three cohort studies, follow individuals born in UK 1958, 1970 and 2000, we compare shift of these cohorts compared males, combined effect a large set variables. For all cohorts, find strong evidence s...

Sometimes it seems that an existing bearer of value should be preserved even though could destroyed and replaced with something equal or greater value. How can this conservative intuition explained justified? This paper distinguishes three answers, which I call existential, attitudinal, object-affecting conservatism. raise some problems for existential attitudinal conservatism, suggest how they...

in many signal processing applications, an appropriate measure to comparetwo signals plays a fundamental role in both implementing the algorithm andevaluating its performance. several techniques have been introduced in literature assimilarity measures. however, the existing measures are often either impractical forsome applications or they have unsatisfactory results in some other applications....