Traditionally the study of fish hearing is achieved either by psychophysical method (e.g., behavioral training) or invasive electrophysiological recording (e.g., microphonics, single unit recording). A non-invasive, the auditory brainstem response (ABR) recording method is developed to study fish hearing. With the use of the ABR method and the removal of gas from various gas holding structures,...

This paper examines the determinants of consumers' buying attitudes for houses. Data on buying attitudes are from responses to the Surveys of Consumer Attitudes conducted by the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. The determinants considered include current and expected interest rates, current and expected real disposable income and house prices. The empirical estimates show that a ...

Food marketing environments of Black American consumers are heavily affected by ethnically-targeted marketing of sugar sweetened beverages, fast foods, and other products that may contribute to caloric overconsumption. This qualitative study assessed Black consumers' responses to targeted marketing. Black adults (2 mixed gender groups; total n = 30) and youth (2 gender specific groups; total n ...

This paper tests predictions from bargaining theory about how private information, patience, and bargaining disutility affect the division of surplus between negotiating parties. We do so using the responses to a novel survey of 1,500 new car buyers in California that asks buyers detailed questions about their bargaining behavior, their search for information, and their individual characteristi...

to the ESRC Social Contexts and Responses to Risk, Canterbury Gaivoronskaia G*. Hvinden B. [email protected] Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of Sociology and Political Science . It was observed that even if each case of food risk is special, public policies dealing with food risk have shifted the burden onto the individual responsibility of consumers. It...

National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Information Service (CIS) offers online instant messaging based information service called LiveHelp to patients, family members, friends, and other cancer information consumers. A cancer information specialist (IS) 'chats' with a consumer and provides information on a variety of topics including clinical trials. After a LiveHelp chat session is finished,...

The relationship between the use of cannabis and the decision-making processes was explored. A computerized version of the Iowa Gambling Task (Cards Software) in its normal and reverse version was used, and the Prospect Valence Learning (PVL) model, which characterize the process of decision-making based on the parameters: Recency, Consistency, Loss aversion and Utility shape, was applied. Seve...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of consumers in India about disposal of unused medicines. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire comprising 11 questions evaluating the Knowledge (2), Attitude (3) and Practice (6) of unused medicines was prepared and pre validated before administering to 200 consumers of medicines attending the outpatient department of Civil Hospital...

This study examined plant-based product (PBP) consumption, related motivations and barriers, PBP attributes of importance. An online survey collected responses (n = 456) from consumers non-PBP in the Republic Ireland (ROI) United Kingdom (UK). Responses were analyzed using univariate statistics, binary logistic regression, Principal Component Analysis. Females, those living urban areas more lik...