Factors affecting the attractiveness and tourists’ word-of-mouth intention to the Southern Folk Cake Festival

The study aims to determine factors impacting the attractiveness and word-of-mouth (WOM) intentions with the Southern Folk Cake Festival. Research data were collected from a survey of 202 visitors who have visited the Southern Folk Cake Festival. Applying the structural equation modeling (SEM), the study shows six impacting factors to the attractiveness of the Southern Folk Cake Festival. They include typical cuisine, festival content, promotion, festival information, festival environment, and facilities. Among them, festival content has the most impact on the attractiveness of the festival itself. Besides, the attractiveness of the festival positively affects tourists’ WOM intentions.

International Counseling Students’ Practicum Experience in a Counseling Program in the United States

Limited attention has been given to international counseling students (ICSs) enrolled in U.S. counseling programs. This phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of six ICSs in a U.S. counseling program regarding factors that impacted their practicum experience. The study identified three themes: learning and growth process, positive impacting factors, and negative impacting factors. It also provided stakeholder recommendations

Factors Influencing market access of green pomelo farmers in Ben Tre Province

The study goal is to determine factors affecting the market access of green pomelo farmers in Ben Tre Province. The study collected data from 148 households growing green pomelo in Chau Thanh, Mo Cay Bac, Giong Trom, and Cho Lach Districts. The study has demonstrated six impacting factors to the market access of pomelo farmers by the logit regression. They include age, training, telephone, connection, distance, and acreage. In particular, training is the most affecting factor to the market access of green pomelo growers in Ben Tre Province.

Waste-to-Energy Potential Using Municipal Solid Waste as One Implementation of Jakarta Smart City

The background of this research is the escalation of DKI Jakarta’s residence which lead to the other two impacting factors, the use of electricity that increase to 5.8% in 2019 and the municipal waste escalation. The objective of this research is to find potential electrical energy that can be produced from waste-to-energy (WTE) technology of IWMS (Integrated Waste Management Site) Bantargebang (Bekasi), where most of the waste come from the people of DKI Jakarta. Furthermore, with the application of WTE, there is also a potential from the smart city implementation in DKI Jakarta. By using the mathematical model and secondary data gathering from the government of DKI Jakarta, we found that the potential of electrical energy that can be produced can reach 8.6 GWh/day, which contributed up to 9% to from the energy distributed to DKI Jakarta. Moreover, by applying WTE, there is also a potential of implementing other indicators of smart city that has been propagated by the government of DKI Jakarta.

Possible Directions of Evolution for Banking Activity in European Union under the Impact of Blockchain Technology

European Union banking industry is subject to numerous changes in the daily activities performed, having to adapt the business to a wide range of impacting factors. Among these, the blockchain technology has a significant potential in updating the current context, aspect highlighted by academic environment, researchers and innovation specialists. Current research paper has the intent to identify the areas where the blockchain technology could impact the EU banking industry, analyse the scenarios and make possible praises for the evolution of business in banking.

Organic Agriculture: Farmers Perception and Adaptation in Northern Thailand

This study aimed to examine factors impacting on farmers’ decision to convert from conventional to organic agriculture in Phayao and Nan Provinces, Thailand. The perceptions in conversion from conventional agriculture to organic agriculture toward the intention to change behavior, attitudes, and decision-making were analyzed. The data were collected by questionnaires administered to 124 farmers. The theory of planned behavior and the impacting factors of farm practices using logit model were used for analysis. The reasons for adopting organic agriculture were separated into three categories: (1) knowledge and understanding; farmers understood healthy farming but had little organic farm management information; (2) farm size impacts the costs of production; and (3) farm economics, including costs of delivery, storage, and markets, were a barrier to organic farming. These influenced attitudes, group norms, and perceived behavior. The study found that 50% of farmers using conventional practices were unwilling to change their practices, 16.1% had not decided, but 25.8% decided to change to organic practices. Organic agriculture in the study area increased to approximately 30.65%. The study suggests that farmers’ long-term benefits were implementation of agricultural policies supporting equipment, financial resources, knowledge, green technologies, training, and extension.

Analysis on Marketing Strategies and Consumer Behavior during Online Shopping Carnival in China

As online shopping carnivals held by giant e-commerce platforms have achieved huge commercial success in terms of both, profit scales and brand building, the marketing strategies that the companies have adopted to promote their ideas and so swiftly influence consumer behavior have attracted wide attention. This article will first begin with the introduction on the phenomenon of online shopping carnival in China especially, the largest one which is the “Double Eleven” Global Online Shopping Carnival where there will be a brief discussion on its nature, history, scale, and huge influence on the Chinese society. Then, the discussion will be focused on the marketing secrets of its contagiousness and the reasons why everyone talks about it from three dimensions whereby it provides social currency, it is of practical value, and it evokes emotions. An analysis will then be done on the marketing contributors to its high sales volume of “Why people are participating?” with purchase motivation theory, social influence theory (SIT), and conformity theory. Finally, the passage will explore the definition of impulse buying as well as its impacting factors in online shopping experiences, and then explain the high incidence of this phenomenon during carnivals from two dimensions which include the low-price strategy and the stimulation from shopping environment. This article aims to help people understand online shopping and shopping carnivals better while the tips of promotion strategies and analysis on consumer behavior would provide a referential value for companies that are interested to raise certain brands’ publicity in addition to attract more consumers.

Health literacy assessment of Vidzeme statistical region

Data on Health Literacy in the population of Latvia is limited. The aim of the study was to determine the Health Literacy impacting factors of inhabitants of Vidzeme Statistical region in Latvia (LV008). Respondent survey (n = 383), using a paper-and-pencil self-administered approach and telephone interviews, was conducted based the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q47). In order to ensure internal consistency and reliability, the authors used Cronbach’s α test (α = 0.965). The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) allowed to determine that factor results differentiate between genders and there is a strong positive correlation (r = 0.945), that impacts results. Factors Access, Appraise and Apply explained each 30 % of the variance, and factors Understand explained 31 %. HL index division by gender indicated that 47.4 % of female respondents and 46.6 % of male respondents have “limited health literacy” (“inadequate” + “problematic”). The largest age group among respondents are 18-39-year old where there is lower level of education and lower income. However, cases have been observed when respondents even with higher education have “limited health literacy,” which indicates towards a need for further HL research in Latvia, because compared to HL of other member states, LV008 HL index is by 38.9 % larger than the EU average (47.6 %).

COVID -19: Case report of assertive treatment in diabetic patients

COVID 19 is currently one of the most impacting factors in world society, both because of the ineffectiveness of pharmacological measures and because of socioeconomic inequality. Diabetes is one of the comorbidities that makes the body more vulnerable to the development of severe COVID-19. Diabetes does not increase the patient's risk of becoming infected with the new coronavirus, but it does increase the chances of complications from the infection. This study uses a descriptive and observational methodology of the assertive evolution of the COVID-19 case report. It is a descriptive, exploratory, non-invasive method, with mediated intervention, in a 42-year-old male patient, type 2 diabetic, undergoing pharmacological monitoring and in treatment of lichenoid pityriasis with 500mg tetracycline hydrochloride, on alternate days. During treatment for pityriasis lichenoid, the patient contracted the coronavirus, changing the antibiotic for daily use, resulting in the remission of symptoms after 3 days of medication. This new scenario opens the possibility for clinical and scientific research through randomized studies of the antibiotic tetracycline hydrochloride 500 mg, to investigate its action on the viral replication of the new coronavirus.