The COVID-19 pandemic has upset everyone’s normal daily activities, generating psychiatric disorders and changing consumers’ preferences. Among others, the agri-food sector experienced strong changes and, during lockdown period, Italian consumers modified their purchasing habits in response to fear uncertainty generated by spread of virus. In order find out main consequences shock suffered peri...

Ethylene treatments provide an effective method for shortening post-harvest ripening periods for winter Anjou pears and allow market availability throughout the year. However, pear quality may vary under different treatments. A sensory experiment and a consumer survey including questions that address valuation, assessments of sensory characteristics, purchasing habits, and demographics were con...

TV commercials are interesting in many respects: advertisers and psychologists are interested in their influence on human purchasing habits, while parents might be interest in shielding their children from their influence. In this paper, two methods for detecting and extracting commercials in digital videos are described. The first method is based on statistics of measurable features and enable...

Porcine Circovirus Diseases (PCVD) and Porcine Circovirus Associated Disease (PCVAD) are synonymous names for a disease syndrome caused by porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and originally described in the mid-1990’s as Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS). 2 While the acronyms PCVD and PMWS have been widely used over the last decade, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians i...

supply chain management is a set of guidelines for integration of chains, which aims to reduce costs and increase system services to customers. one of the most important issues for supply chain stockholders is procuring and purchasing requested items in a timely manner. thus, a variety of models have been proposed as purchasing strategy in supply chains. group purchasing is a system which leads...

Since purchasing food is the primary if not exclusive means by which most of us obtain our food, an examination of food purchasing habits, especially in consumer-driven societies, is entirely appropriate. In this issue of Public Health Nutrition, two articles explore very different aspects of food purchasing habits. Using survey data from the Brisbane Food Study, Turrell and Kavanagh examine fo...

In this study a survey was made for determining honey consumption habits and marketing problems between1-31 March 2010. the consumers based research data were collected from (105 consumers) criterias when buying honey, different kinds health benefits of in Erzurum. According assesments results; it found that 46.66% consumed 5 kg per capita annum taken into consideration using every day. It dete...

Meat consumers around the world are increasingly paying attention to product quality and safety, and are starting to reduce their meat consumption, especially with regard to red meat. This trend is prevalent in households with children who prefer health-certified meat products. Our study compares meat consumption habits in households with and without children or adolescences (0-18 years). A str...