The Impact of Restaurant Atmospherics Towards Restaurant Patrons’ Behavioral Intention in Southern Province of Sri Lanka

This study investigated the impact of atmospherics on the behavioral intention of restaurant patrons in Galle and Matara Districts in Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Based on the review of extensive literature pertaining to the store atmospherics, researchers examined four store atmospheric variables as exterior, general interior and decorations, human variable (employees) and layout & design. The data were collected over Mall Intercept Survey technique by randomly administering structured questionnaires to 300 respondents in Galle and Matara districts. First ANOVA test was performed to measure the fitness of the model and simple regression analysis was conducted to investigate the impact of atmospheric variables on behavioral intention. The results of the regression analysis indicated that restaurant atmospherics have an impact on behavioral intention of restaurant patrons. Moreover, it indicated that interior atmospheric variable (Cleanliness, Lighting, Foods/Beverages) was the most significant atmospheric variable which determine the behavioral intention in restaurant industry. Keywords: Atmospheric variables, Behavioral intention, Patrons, Restaurants. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/13-1-02 Publication date: January 31st 2021

Phase transitions and ordering of confined dipolar fluids

We apply a modified mean-field density functional theory to determine the phase behavior of Stockmayer fluids in slitlike pores formed by two walls with identical substrate potentials. Based on the Carnahan-Starling equation of state, a fundamental-measure theory is employed to incorporate the effects of short-ranged hard sphere - like correlations while the long-ranged contributions to the fluid interaction potential are treated perturbatively. The liquid-vapor, ferromagnetic liquid - vapor, and ferromagnetic liquid - isotropic liquid first-order phase separations are investigated. The local orientational structure of the anisotropic and inhomogeneous ferromagnetic liquid phase is also studied. We discuss how the phase diagrams are shifted and distorted upon varying the pore width.Comment: 15 pages including 8 figure

Genetic variability of drought-avoidance root traits in the mini-core germplasm collection of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).

Extensive and deep root systems have been recognized as one of the most important traits for improving chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) productivity under progressively receding soil moisture conditions. However, available information on the range of variation for root traits is still limited. Genetic variability for the root traits was investigated using a cylinder culture system during two consecutive growth seasons in the mini-core germplasm collection of ICRISAT plus several wild relatives of chickpea. The largest genetic variability was observed at 35 days after sowing for root length density (RLD) (heritability, h 2 = 0.51 and 0.54) across seasons, and followed by the ratio of plant dry weight to root length density with h 2 of 0.37 and 0.50 for first and second season, respectively. The root growth of chickpea wild relatives was relatively poor compared to C. arietinum, except in case of C. reticulatum. An outstanding genotype, ICC 8261, which had the largest RLD and one of the deepest root system, was identified in chickpea mini-core germplasm collection. The accession ICC 4958 which was previously characterized as a source for drought avoidance in chickpea was confirmed as one with the most prolific and deep root system, although many superior accessions were also identified. The chickpea landraces collected from the Mediterranean and the west Asian region showed a significantly larger RLD than those from the south Asian region. In addition, the landraces originating from central Asia (former Soviet Union), characterized by arid agro-climatic conditions, also showed relatively larger RLD. As these regions are under-represented in the chickpea collection, they might be interesting areas for further germplasm exploration to identify new landraces with large RLD. The information on the genetic variability of chickpea root traits provides valuable baseline knowledge for further progress on the selection and breeding for drought avoidance root traits in chickpea

Studies on the pathogenesis of murine gamma-herpesvirus (MHV-68)

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