ANALYSIS OF FOOD LABELS FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Conjoint analysis is used to measure consumer preferences for alternative biotech labeling formats. The study found that consumers overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling of biotech foods. Results also showed that the preferred labeling format is a text disclosure that describes the benefits of biotechnology in combination with a biotech logo.Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Analysis of consumer perceptions toward biotechnology and their preferences for biotech food labels

Using a sample from the seven largest metropolitan areas in the United States, (Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, and Houston), consumer attitudes concerning agricultural biotechnology is examined. Conjoint analysis is used to examine consumer preferences for the labeling of biotech foods. The study examines the relationship between the consumer’s knowledge and attitudes regarding biotech foods and their preferences for food labels. Consumers’ attitudes regarding a healthy diet, and their risk perceptions regarding biotech foods were found to have a significant effect on the general use of food labels and preferences for labeling of biotech foods. The most significant finding of the study is that consumers prefer mandatory labeling of biotech foods, rather than FDA’s current voluntary labeling policy. The conjoint results show that the most important attribute regarding a biotech label was the presence of a logo, contributing 48.7 % to the preference rating. A text disclosure describing the benefits of the biotech ingredient was determined to be the second most relevant attribute, accounting for 40.87% of the respondent’s preferences for labeling. The third most important attribute (contributing 10.43%) was the location of the logo on the principal display panel (PDP) of the product package

Nursing Professional Capital: A Qualitative Analysis

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to offer qualitative support for the assertion that nurses possess professional capital. BACKGROUND: Nurses embrace professional standards and tenets that have been measured as trust and ethics. By understanding forms of capital and combining quantitative public-opinion surveys and our qualitative findings, a case can be made that nurses possess professional capital. METHOD: This was a focused review of existing interview data and was conducted using inductive content analysis. FINDINGS: Patients provided unsolicited accounts of trust and positive regard for their nurses. CONCLUSION: Evidence supports that in combination with trust and positive regard, nurses possess professional capital. Nurses should judiciously use their professional capital to impact institutional, political, and economic policy

Temperament, attention, and the social world: New empirical approaches to the study of shyness and attention in middle childhood

In order to navigate their social world, children must come prepared to flexibly attend to and shift between the many different aspects of an interaction. For temperamentally shy children, for whom the demands of everyday interactions may be particularly onerous, attention may be particularly critical in predicting their ability to connect with others and achieve positive social outcomes. The studies presented in this dissertation sought to develop new means of assessing the interplay between individual differences in temperament and attention in social contexts in order to better understand how to support the social development of shy children. Chapter 2 examined how 8-year-old children’s ability to shift their attention in a hierarchical figures task varied as a function of shyness and the perception that one’s performance would later be evaluated by peers. As shyness increased, children were slower to respond in the peer monitoring condition relative to the baseline condition, but these changes in response time were not accompanied by changes in accuracy. These results highlight that under social conditions, shy children’s behaviour may be subtly impacted in a way that makes them slower or less efficient to act in line with their goals. Chapter 3 builds on these findings by exploring the fluidity of children’s social behaviour using a novel index of social connection: conversational response time. Nine- to 11-year-old children were observed conversing with an unfamiliar same-aged peer in an unstructured dyadic context. Their communications and behaviours were later coded on the basis of their content and timing. Faster conversational response time was associated with higher ratings of social engagement in both children themselves and (marginally) in their partners. Moreover, as a child’s own shyness increased, the conversational response times of their partner also increased. The findings from this study demonstrate how subtle changes in conversational response time underlie the quality of children’s interactions and may thereby impact their ability to form new social relationships across development. Exploring new means of empirically studying children’s moment-to-moment subjective experiences, Chapter 4 examined 7- and 8-year-old children’s self-reports of mind wandering while keeping time with a metronome via keypress on a keyboard. Consistent with past adult findings, children were less accurate and more variable in their keypresses on trials preceding self-reports of mind wandering, supporting the validity of their reports. Additionally, parent reports of children’s self-regulation difficulties were predictive of children’s keypress behaviour, lending further support for its validity as a measure. Together, the findings from these studies build on existing theoretical work and lay the groundwork for future research that will ultimately serve to optimize the social development of shy and non-shy children alike

Voluntary siting of waste facilities in Canada: A case study analysis.

Canada is in a garbage crisis. The amount of waste needing disposal increases each year despite attempts to such as the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) to alleviate it. This means that facilities need to be sited to handle these wastes. Waste facilities are commonly sited using the traditional process . The failure of this process to site waste facilities effectively has resulted in the call for an alternative process. This failure is due in part to what has been referred to as NIMBYism. The alternative process developed to overcome some of the failures of the traditional process is the volunteer process . The evaluation of this volunteer process will be the focus of this thesis. A case study analysis of volunteer siting cases from across Canada will be undertaken to determine if this process is a viable alternative to the traditional process.Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1999 .M342. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-03, page: 0584. Adviser: Ihor Stebelsky. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1999