Purpose The objective of the study is to identify both reasons for ignoring and paying attention country origin (COO) by consumers when choosing brands durable goods. Design/methodology/approach In this paper a qualitative approach was applied, i.e. 25 in-depth semistructured interviews with Polish goods purposively selected out those who had previously participated in quantitative survey condu...

Disagreements about the definition, nature, structure, ontology, and content of scientific theories are at least partly responsible for disagreements in other debates in the philosophy of science. I argue that available theories of theories and conceptual analyses of theory are ineffectual options for overcoming this difficulty. Directing my attention to debates about the properties of particul...

OBJECTIVE the investigators examined relations between mindfulness and health behaviors in college students, as well as the role of stress in mediating these effects. PARTICIPANTS participants were 553 undergraduates (385 females; mean age = 18.8 years, SD = 2.1) recruited from a university in the northeastern United States. METHODS participants completed questionnaires assessing mindfulnes...

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

BACKGROUND Cross-national research suggests that married people have higher levels of well-being than cohabiting people. However, relationship quality has both positive and negative dimensions. Researchers have paid little attention to disagreements within cohabiting and married couples. OBJECTIVE This study aims to improve our understanding of the meaning of cohabitation by examining disagreem...