Built for people! Corporate social responsibility of contractors: a special reference to the Malaysian construction industry by Sufian, Azlinor, Abdul Ghadas, Zuhairah Ariff

“…Despite continuous complaints by house buyers, non-profit organizations (NGOs), consumer associations and environmentalists, housing projects particularly the residential home proceeded as usual (if not more) in the amidst of the unresolved issues. …”
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Level of awareness towards personal financial planning among young adult in Melaka Tengah / Nur Diyana Yaakop by Yaakop, Nur Diyana

“…Federation of Malaysian Consumers Associations (FoMCA) president claimed that more than 80,000 Malaysians were declared bankrupt between 2005 and 2010 and these shows young adult in Malaysia generally cannot manage their personal finances. …”
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Exploring the links between colours and tastes/flavours by Spence, C, Levitan, CA

“…The colour and other visual appearance properties of food and drink constitute a key factor determining consumer acceptance and choice behaviour. Not only do consumers associate specific colours with particular tastes and flavours, but adding or changing the colour of food and drink can also dramatically affect taste/flavour perception. …”

Wholegrain Consumption and Risk Factors for Cardiorenal Metabolic Diseases in Chile: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 2016–2017 Health National Survey by Fabian Lanuza, Raul Zamora-Ros, Nicole Hidalgo-Liberona, Cristina Andrés-Lacueva, Tomás Meroño

“…WG consumption was categorized as regular (≥every two days), sporadic (≥once a month), and non-consumers. Associations were analyzed by multivariable logistic regressions adjusted for confounders taking into account the complex sample design of the survey. …”
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Fostering Social Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Dynamic Interplay of Support Systems and Cultural Intelligence by Gohar Mahmood, Fazeel Abdullah, Nasir Abbas, Muhammad Ali Raza

“…The study's objective is to provide details on the motivations and actions of those who deliberately take action to harm a brand by eroding consumer associations. Design/Methodology/Approach: Data for the study comprises a sample of 178 Pakistani university students using survey questionnaires. …”
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Promoting Decentralized Sustainable Energy Systems in Different Supply Scenarios: The Role of Autarky Aspiration by Franz Ecker, Ulf J. J. Hahnel, Hans Spada

“…We assumed that, in addition to the energetic perspective, consumers associate other non-energetic facets such as independence, autonomy, self-sufficiency, or control with the concept of autarky. …”
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Uruguayan consumers' perception of mandarins: insights for selection and marketing of new cultivars by Joanna Lado, Fernando Rivas, Ana Inés Moltini, Florencia Alcaire, Gastón Ares

“…A word-association task was used to identify consumers' associations with mandarins, whereas a best-worst scaling was used to estimate the relative importance of specific characteristics. …”
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Cost drivers for voluntary medical male circumcision using primary source data from sub-Saharan Africa. by Lori Bollinger, Adebiyi Adesina, Steven Forsythe, Ramona Godbole, Elan Reuben, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli

“…METHODS AND FINDINGS:We examined the main cost drivers (i.e., personnel and consumables) associated with providing VMMC in sub-Saharan Africa along a number of dimensions, including facility type and service provider. …”
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Organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of future managers’ leadership competence with in the University Environment by Nestulya Svitlana

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The Nuances of Brand Personality: A Corpus-assisted Linguistic Analysis of Web-based Communications of Fashion Brands by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

“… The ability to establish a particular brand personality (i.e. a set of human personality traits that consumers associate with a brand) is a key component of fashion brand management and communication. …”
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Challenges of weed management in rice for food security in Africa: A review by Daramola Olumide Samuel, Adigun Joseph Aremu, Olorunmaiye Patience Mojibade

“…Hoe weeding is tedious, inefficient, time consuming, associated with high labour demands and often too expensive for the average farmer to afford. …”
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Beeldebevordering as 'n promosiestrategie en uitvloeisel van sosiaal-verantwoordelike handelinge - 'n studie in die wynbedryf by J. H. Visser, I. van W Raubenheimber

“…Seven hypotheses about the way in which consumers associate firms with their products in the wine industry are formulated and tested on a sample of 220 students. …”
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Do you say it like you eat it? The sound symbolism of food names and its role in the multisensory product experience by Favalli, S, Skov, T, Spence, C, Byrne, D

“…Participants assessed three pairs of sandwiches, culturally defined by specific names, in a novel and traditional form, and rated them using four pencil-and-paper based line bipolar scales.The results revealed that the sounds of the product names were associated with both sensory and conceptual attributes. Consumers associated a different sounding name (and different sensory-conceptual attributes) to the novel food product than to those suggested by its traditional form.These findings have a number of important implications for the naming, branding, and advertising of food products - both traditional and novel. …”

Accurate costs of blood transfusion: a microcosting of administering blood products in the United Kingdom National Health Service by Stokes, E, Wordsworth, S, Staves, J, Mundy, N, Skelly, J, Radford, K, Stanworth, S

“…For each input, data collection forms were developed to capture staff time, equipment and consumables associated with each step in the transfusion process. …”

Objective ambulatory pH monitoring and subjective symptom assessment of gastroesophageal reflux disease show type of carbohydrate and type of fat matter by Cihang Gu, Timothy Olszewski, Michael F. Vaezi, Kevin D. Niswender, Heidi J. Silver

“…Conclusion: Of the many foods and nutrients tested, the type (not amount) of carbohydrate (simple sugars) and the type (not amount) of fat (saturated vs unsaturated fat) consumed associated with objective and/or subjective GERD testing. …”
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Gekkōsō and Nakamura Yōko. Coin Shine Under the Moon: About the Gallery’s Activities and the Market for Soviet Art in Japan by V. V. Belozerov

“…The vigorous activity of the gallery director Nakamura Yōko and her chosen promotion strategy demonstrated the complex process of presenting Soviet art to Japanese consumers, associated with an attempt to de-ideologize the artists’ work while at the same time making it attractive for the art market in Japan. …”
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Meat from wild ungulates: ensuring quality and hygiene of an increasing resource by Massimo Trabalza Marinucci, Claudia Russo, Silvana Mattiello, Luigi Esposito, Maria Paola Ponzetta, Oliviero Olivieri, Giuseppe Marsico, Paola Lupi, Carmen Casoli, Maurizio Ramanzin, Andrea Amici

“…However, these properties also show a great inter- and intra-specific variability. Risks for the consumer associated with contaminants (heavy metals, radionuclides, organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls) and zoonoses are considered to be low. …”
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Punitive damages in consumer public interest litigation in China: an empirical study by Xingmei Zhang, Yu Wang

“…Since the implementation of China’s consumer public interest litigation system in 2013, the number of cases involving punitive damages filed by procuratorates or consumer associations has steadily increased. These cases have mainly concerned the fields of food and medicinal product consumption. …”
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A Pill for the Ill? Patients' Reports of Their Experience of the Medical Encounter in the Treatment of Depression. by Andreas Vilhelmsson, Tommy Svensson, Anna Meeuwisse

“…The Swedish non-profit organization Consumer Association for Medicines and Health (KILEN) has offered the possibility for consumers to report their perceptions and experiences from their use of medicines in order to strengthen consumer rights within the health care sector.…”
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'Yellow is good for you': Consumer perception and acceptability of fortified and biofortified cassava products. by Aurélie Bechoff, Ugo Chijioke, Andrew Westby, Keith Ian Tomlins

“…A majority of consumers (85%) had previous knowledge of biofortified cassava. Consumers associated 'yellow colour' with 'good for eyesight', 'good for children's health' and 'new'. …”
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