scholarly journals Is Buying Local Food a Sustainable Practice? A Scoping Review of Consumers’ Preference for Local Food

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Lucio Cappelli ◽  
Fabrizio D’Ascenzo ◽  
Roberto Ruggieri ◽  
Irina Gorelova
Keyword(s):  
Local Food ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Nutrition Practices ◽  
Scoping Literature Review ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Sustainable Practice

Access to healthy food and the introduction of sustainable nutrition practices are two important issues today. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to food security but it has also provided opportunities for local food production. The discussion on local food has been gaining attention in recent years, but there is still a lack of clear understanding of the term ‘local food’ in the literature. The relationship between local food and sustainability issues is still unclear and has various connotations. This discordance leads to further discussions on whether buying local food should be considered a sustainable behavior and whether consumer preference for local food can be perceived as a sustainable practice. A scoping literature review was conducted in order to fill this gap and to shed light on the main tendencies of the scientific literature regarding this topic. The outcomes of the research revealed three dimensions of ‘local food’ definitions in the literature: geographical, geopolitical, and organic; while the problem of a unified local food definition remains open. The studied literature did not show any sound evidence for sustainability attributes in the definition of local food and consumer perception of local food.

scholarly journals Biofortification of tomatoes in Italy: Status and level of knowledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Vera Teresa Foti ◽  
Alessandro Scuderi ◽  
Claudio Bellia ◽  
Giuseppe Timpanaro
Keyword(s):  
Natural Processes ◽  
Agronomic Practices ◽  
Consumption Choices ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Lycopene Content ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Clear Information ◽  
High Willingness ◽  
Shed Light

Biofortification is a strategy to reduce micronutrient deficiency in humans by fortifying food through natural processes, agronomic practices and genetic modification. In this study, we seek to shed light on what consumers understand by the term 'biofortified products' and thus to understand their level of knowledge about these products, as well as the reasons that dictate their purchasing choices and the relationship between consumption choices and lifestyles. The analysis focuses on vegetables and, in particular, on tomatoes with a high lycopene content. Research shows that consumers of biofortified food products are generally confused and uninformed, even though they show a high willingness to pay. This confusion seems to result, moreover, from the lack of a clear definition of a biofortified product, as well as from the lack of clear information on the specifics of biofortified products and the benefits they can bring. The future of biofortified products can, therefore, be improved by the creation of clear standards and reference definitions and better information and transparency that would benefit the consumer.

The Moralizing Message of the Senatus Consultum de cn. Pisone Patre

1998 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The recently published senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre provides the opportunity not only to explore afresh an episode in Tiberius' reign recounted by Tacitus, but also to reassess several aspects of political life during the early Principate. This decree outlines the Senate's judgement of the conduct of Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso who had been accused of maiestas for seditious activities in the East, but had committed suicide before the conclusion of his trial. The document adds a considerable number of details to those recorded by Tacitus. Quite apart from its main theme, the text has shed light on such thorny problems as the definition of imperium maius, and the relationship between the fiscus and aerarium The aim of this article, however, is not to investigate such matters, but to consider the rhetorical language with which the Senate treats the whole affair.

scholarly journals GOOD AND OTHER IDEAS OF PLATO

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clear Understanding ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Theory Of Ideas ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Theory Of Forms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The article analyzes Plato’s doctrine of forms, discusses whether the use of the concept of Plato’s theory of ideas (forms) is justified, noted that Plato’s views on this matter are inconsistent and contradictory and that there is, in fact, no theory of forms in Plato’s philosophy. A special place in the philosophy of Plato is the idea of good, which he treats as the highest idea. An analysis of the Platonic understanding of good shows that there is no clear and articulated explanation for Plato in relation to this idea. Plato has the idea of good, but he has no conception of good, and he speaks about good without the expanded definition of this concept. To explain the content of the idea of good, Plato uses allegories. The most famous of them is the likeness of the good of the Sun in the «Politeia» dialogue. The article poses the question of why Plato needed the concept of «idea» and «good» if he did not have a clear understanding of what they are. The author believes that there are two reasons for this. The first of them is pedagogical: Plato deliberately does not answer any of the important issues related to the existence of ideas, the relationship of ideas and things, the relationship between the ideas themselves. Plato reveals all these difficulties, but gives his readers the opportunity to understand these problems independently. The second reason is that Plato’s ideas are not intended for the knowledge of being, they are not philosophical categories. This is especially evident in the case of a good idea. The author of the article concludes that the notion of good first appears in Platos ethics and only then becomes ontological. Plato’s ontology in general is intended to justify his ethics and politics. Proceeding from this, the author comes to the conclusion that the ideas of Plato have a religious nature, and Plato himself is not a philosopher, but a myth-creator, a religious prophet and a teacher.

scholarly journals What Are Companies For?

2022 ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Pablo Cardona ◽  
Carlos Rey
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
A Company ◽  
Specific Definition

AbstractManagement by missions (MBM) starts by asking a fundamental question: What is your company for? It seems reasonable to assume that an organization and its members should have a clear idea of why they exist. In practice, however, that is not always the case. Very often, there is great confusion and conflict of opinion on this point, even within the board of directors or executive committee. In this chapter, we explore this fundamental question first by discussing the role of profit in business (as a mean or an end). Then we propose a specific definition of purpose as the synthesis of the ends of a company. We then introduce the three dimensions of an effective purpose: Authenticity, Coherence and Integrity. Finally, we discuss the relationship between personal and corporate purpose.

Why is Family Firms’ Internationalization Unique? A Meta–Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 801-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean–Luc Arregle ◽  
Patricio Duran ◽  
Michael A. Hitt ◽  
Marc van Essen
Keyword(s):  
Family Firms ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Minority Shareholders ◽  
Family Control ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Country Differences ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Despite its importance, there is no clear understanding of the uniqueness of family firms’ internationalization. This article sheds new light on this issue with a meta–analysis of 76 studies covering 41 countries. We show that the considerable study and cross–country differences in the relationship between family firm and internationalization are explained by the roles of family control, internationalization types, and home countries’ institutional contexts (i.e., minority shareholders protection and generalized trust of people from other countries). Therefore, we examine the existing divergent results using theories that reconcile some of these mixed findings and shed light on family firms’ specific internationalization challenges.

scholarly journals Citizens, Madmen and Children: Equality, Uncertainty, Freedom and the Definition of State.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Hoey
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Individual Agent ◽  
Organic Solidarity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Management Of Uncertainty

In this paper, I argue that a fundamental tradeoff between freedom and equality in human social organization is, in fact, a learnable schedule for the management of uncertainty for an individual agent operating in a social world pervaded with randomness. This implies that political organization and state structures may be viewed as different ways of handling uncertainty, each trading off freedom and equality in a slightly different manner, but each with an equivalent, and theoretically symmetric, balance between the two. I will argue that uncertainty in an intelligent agent arises from one of three primary sources. First, the agent’s logical, objective, mental model of the environment may be noisy. Second, subjective, affective appraisals, of other individuals, their behaviours, and their intentions may present substantial randomness. Finally, the relationship between the objective, real, external world, to the subjective, internal world of the agent may be blurry. As I will show, in any basic two-level Bayesian model of reasoning, these same three sources of uncertainty naturally arise as three learnable parameters. These three parameters govern the operation of the model, but must be traded-off against each other. Furthermore, I will give these three dimensions of uncertainty some theoretical validity, by showing how they pervasively occur across a wide swatch of literatures as three dimensions of political freedom and equality. The relationship between the parameters and the freedoms is a key step in gaining a better understanding of political movements. For example, I discuss how the transition from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity during the industrial revolution in the 19th century, as described by Durkheim, is in fact a shift in the management of uncertainty to one focused on immediate meanings to one focused on trust. Further, such shifts may be purposefully initiated by politically interested groups, by spreading new narratives or introducing new policy. Viewed as uncertainty management, any shifts so induced should be carefully evaluated in terms of what freedoms it compromises, with smoother transitions assured for shifts that remain in a position of equilibrium with respect to freedom and equality.

Writing as resistance: Berber literature and the challenges surrounding the emergence of a Berber literary field in Morocco

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Pouessel
Keyword(s):  
Language Production ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
Alternative Definition ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Political Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This article discusses the development of Berber literature in Morocco and the connections between this literature and Moroccan national identity as well as the pan-Amazigh identity movement. Over the last 40 years, the political conjuncture in Morocco has led Berber writers to affirm an alternative definition of Moroccanness, not exclusively based on Arabness, but one in which Berberity is included. This article aims to shed light on modern Berber literature, and on the social space in which it is embedded. It argues that there is no autonomous Berber literary field, the literature being intrinsically bound up with identity issues, but a Berber literary space, located at the intermingling of several fields (the political field and the field of language production in particular). The article first reconstructs the Moroccan political context by exploring the Amazigh movement, its aspirations and its reality. It then focuses on the relationship between the language issues (alphabet, standardization, etc.) and the emergence of a Berber “neo-literature.” Lastly, it moves beyond Morocco into the wider pan-Berber world — the Maghreb and those countries to which Berbers have emigrated — to question the possibility of a transnational Berber literature.

scholarly journals In Search of the Encounter between Religion and Mathematics

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Wiwit Kurniawan ◽  
Tri Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Objective Knowledge ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Religion and mathematics are perceived as two things that are very reciprocally exclusive; this is due to the opinion asserting that mathematics is considered as valid and objective knowledge. On the other hand, religion is something interpretive and subjective. Historically speaking, religion and mathematics have a strong association and in certain aspects, both of them have points of contact that can permeate each other. The forms of intersection between mathematics and religion need to be analyzed so that we will be able to see more clearly the current religious phenomenon. This study investigates and discovers a potential encounter between religion and mathematics. To see the relationship between religion and mathematics, and even their fusion, the first thing to do is determine the definition of religion and mathematics. With a clear understanding of both, the encounter points will be easier to recognize. The research method used in this study is a literature review. This study collects systematically a variety of literature related to the theme under study. The encounter between religion and mathematics undergoes at five dimensions, they are ontological, epistemological, teleological, theoretical and application dimension. This study more focused on similarities to reveal the connection between religion and mathematics.  

The Satisfaction-Loyalty Relationship in Marketing: A Critical Review and Future Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 92-116
Author(s):  
Tuu Ho Huy ◽  
Olsen Svein Ottar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Combined Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Functional Forms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this study is to critically review and to recommend future research for the satisfaction-loyalty relationship (SLR) in marketing. The paper is based on over 75 papers published by top peer reviewed journals in marketing throughout the world over the past three decades. The results show that the SLR is suggested to be positive. However, this relationship could be linear or nonlinear depending on the nature, the different approaches of measure and definition of satisfaction and loyalty. Moreover, the relationship is affected by many moderators, mediators and other variables. Future research should extend to test other antecedents besides satisfaction and to use different definitional approaches of satisfaction and loyalty to explain loyalty. Different functional forms of the SLR, moderators and mediators are also recommended to test in a separate or combined approach to shed light on the complex nature of this relationship.

Psychometric Definition of Rorschach Determinant Component Structure

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond M. Costello
Keyword(s):  
Lower Order ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Comprehensive System ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Exner's Comprehensive System ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Components Analysis ◽  
Definition Of

This is an empirical examination of Experienced Stimulation (es) and Experience Actual (EA) from Exner's Comprehensive System (CS) for Rorschach's Test, spurred by Kleiger's theoretical critique. Principal components analysis, Cronbach's α, and inter-item correlational analyses were used to test whether 13 determinants used to code Rorschach responses (M, FM, m, CF+C, YF+Y, C'F+C', TF+T, VF+V, FC, FC', FV, FY, FT) are best represented as a one, two, or more-dimensional construct. The 13 determinants appear to reflect three dimensions, a “lower order” sensori-motor dimension (m + CF+C + YF+Y + C'F+C' + TF+T + VF+V) with a suggested label of Modified Experienced Stimulation (MES), a “higher order” sensori-motor dimension (FM + FV + FY + FT) with a suggested label of Modified Experience Potential (MEP), and a third sensori-motor dimension (M+FC+FC') for which the label of Modified Experience Actual (MEA) is suggested. These findings are consistent with Kleiger's arguments and could lead to a refinement of CS constructs by aggregating determinants along lines more theoretically congruous and more internally consistent. A RAMONA model with parameters specified was presented for replication attempts which use confirmatory factor analytic techniques.

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