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  • Consumers' shopping value and their responses to visual merchandise displays in an in-store retail setting

    Creator:
    Fister, Sarah E.
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    The purposes of this study were to investigate consumers' responses (aesthetic response, approach response, and perceived risk) to two types of visual merchandise displays (full size mannequin and flat hanging display) in an in-store retail setting. An interest for this study arises from retailers' constant effort to differentiate themselves from...
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    Masters Thesis
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    results of this study support the significance of visual merchandising by in a retail environment. This

  • ASLC_Guide_to_Marine_Life_08.pdf

    Creator:
    Uscian, John M. and Hansen, Gayle I.
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    The purpose of this book is to provide you with a bit more information about the organisms maintained at the ASLC so that you may deepen your understanding and appreciation of them. However, as a prelude to the more species-specific information contained in this document, there are three short chapters...
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    professional. Funding for this project was provided by Alaska Sea Grant (Fairbanks office) and The Alaska

  • Personalization of bedrooms by urban adolescents in Botswana : expressing identity and developing place attachment

    Creator:
    Fidzani, Lily Clara
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    This qualitative study investigated how urban adolescents' in Botswana personalized bedrooms to express identity and develop place attachment because identity development in adolescents is important. Participants living in Gaborone, capital city of Botswana, were purposively selected from local schools. There were ten (10) non-sharing urban adolescents aged 14-18 years. Data...
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    Dissertation
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    sense of belonging and a sense of identity with the place (Hay, 1998). This can be achieved by

  • Non-industrial textile production as optimal experience : applicability of the Flow Theory to clothing and textiles subject matter

    Creator:
    Blood, Janet
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow Theory by Csikszentmihalyi as it relates to non-industrial textile production activities. In using the Flow Theory, researchers attempt to explain why individuals continue participation with a specific activity; namely that the activity induces...
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    The purpose of this research study was to test a psychological theory of motivation called the Flow

  • Chapter 2: The Consumption and Production of Fisheries Information in the Digital Age

    Creator:
    Webster, Janet G. and Uhlinger, Eleanor
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    Fisheries scientists persistently create, communicate, and use information. In fact, if they did not, there would be no fisheries science. To exist, science must be part of a continuum where shared information, from casual hallway communications to rigorously reviewed articles, documents the questions asked and the solutions suggested. Relevant information...
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    andmore difficult as the amount of information increases within the digital environment. The access to

  • Factors influencing source credibility of consumer reviews : apparel online shopping

    Creator:
    Shin, KoEun
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    The EBM model of consumer decision making was used to guide the present study. According to this model when consumers make purchase decisions, they search for information from either internal and/or external sources. When consumers do not have enough information from internal sources, such as knowledge and experiences, they search...
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    model of consumer decision making was used to guide the present study. According to this model when

  • Emotional effect of curvilinear vs. rectilinear forms of furniture in interior settings

    Creator:
    Dazkir, Sibel Seda
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    This study focused on people’s emotional responses to curvilinear and rectilinear lines in interior environments. Emotional reactions towards simulated interior settings were tested by having subjects complete an online survey. The survey tested respondents’ emotional reactions triggered by different forms of furniture. The survey included questions about six simulated interior...
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    environments. It was aimed that the findings of this study would provide foundation for further research and

  • A. W. N. Pugin and St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate : a nineteenth-century English gothic revivalist and his church

    Creator:
    Burton, Kathryn Lee
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    A. W. N. Pugin was a driving force in the Gothic Revival movement in England during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was an architect and a writer who expounded on the virtues of reviving Gothic architecture, not only for its reflection of the sacred mystery of ancient...
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    church, St. Augustine’s Church in Ramsgate, England, as the focal point the purpose of this study was

  • Predictors of Florida retirees' housing decisions and housing adjustments

    Creator:
    Yamamoto, Toshiko
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    This thesis addresses the issue of comfortable and functional living environments to provide seniors with opportunities for "age in place," that is, living in one's own house after retirement. Such living environments enhance seniors' life satisfaction since the majority of seniors prefer to stay in their own houses and live...
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    environments. These logical concepts of the theory will be examined by this study; whether or not

  • Homeownership : still the American Dream? Perceptions of homeownership in the post crisis era

    Creator:
    Micek, Thomas P.
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    "The American Dream" is an expression familiar to all Americans and the realization of the American Dream is tied closely to homeownership (Clinton, 1995). The recent financial crisis, with the housing and financial markets at levels not seen since the Great Depression, has resulted in widespread unemployment, continually dropping home...
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    , 2011, p. 57) The above definition was added to the beginning of this section as an afterthought