Time Availability as Moderating Variable to the Influence of Price Reasonability, Store Attitude and Product Diversity on Impulse Buying

Dalam kurun waktu 5 tahun perkembangan atau pertumbuhan toko modern yang ada di Gresik ada kenaikan sebesar 40 %, ini yang menjadikan persaingan semakin meningkat. Dimasing – masing toko modern juga menjual produk frozen food sehingga menambah tingkat persaingan di pasaran. Berdasarkan kondisi diatas menjadikan Outlet Minamart Gresik dengan Produk beku dan produk makanan olahan beku (Frozen Food) harus mengembangkan strategi agar dapat bertahan ditengah persaingan dengan melakukan terobosan – terobosan baru dengan program pemasarannya guna untuk bertahan dan juga mencapai tujuan perusahaan yang telah ditargetkan dengan cara meningkatkan volume penjualan, mendorong pengunjung dengan menciptakan pembeli untuk mengambil keputusan guna membeli produk di outlet tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa Pengaruh Suasana Toko terhadap Impulse Buying dengan Ketersediaan Waktu sebagai Moderasi dan untuk menganalisa Pengaruh Keragaman Produk terhadap Impulse Buying dengan Ketersediaan Waktu sebagai Moderasi. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap Konsumen yang berbelanja di Outlet Minamart Gresik, dengan menggunakan metode Kuantitatif. Sampel yang digunakan adalah individu yang berbelanja di Minamart berjumlah 150 responden. Pengujian Hipotesis yang digunakan adalah SEM-PLS Hasil penelitian ini menunjuhkan bahwa semua hipotesis yang diajukan terbukti signifikan secara statistic berpengaruh terhadap Impulse Buying dan berdasarkan nilai T statistics sebesar 4,309 dan nilai ρ-value 0,000 maka variabel Ketersediaan Waktu terbukti secara signifikan sebagai variabel Moderasi antara Suasana Toko terhadap Impulse Buying sedangkan berdasarkan nilai T statistics sebesar 4,097 dan nilai ρ-value 0,000 maka variabel Ketersediaan Waktu terbukti juga secara signifikan sebagai variabel Moderasi Keragaman Produk terhadap Impulse Buying Kata Kunci : Ketersediaan Waktu, Kewajaran Harga, Suasana Toko, Keragaman Produk, Impulse Buyin

The impact of culture on money attitudes: Understanding honor, face, and dignity and their relation to money scripts

Doctor of PhilosophySchool of Family Studies and Human ServicesMajor Professor Not ListedHanNa LimCultural awareness in financial planning is of increasing importance as the world’s cultures continue to blend. This dissertation aims to distinguish three types of culture: honor, face, and dignity (HFD) (Leung & Cohen, 2011). Utilizing prior research to validate the HFD distinctions for the individuals surveyed, this research explored cultural correlations with money scripts (Klontz & Britt, 2012). Data was collected from 750 participants within targeted regions and demographics using Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Honor, face, and dignity, used for the independent variables, were each analyzed using scales similar to those from Yao et al. (2017). An exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis were used to validate the HFD scales. HFD were important pieces to the cultural component of this research. It extends cross-cultural research beyond traditional east-west/individualistic-collectivistic comparisons and breaks east/collectivist cultures into honor and face. It offers a more comprehensive cultural lens that we aspire to use to look at different money attitudes. The money attitudes, used for the dependent variables, were each analyzed using the KMSI-R questions and scales developed by Taylor et al. (2015). The four money attitudes are money avoidance, money status, money worship, and money vigilance. An exploratory factor analysis and a confirmatory factor analysis were used to validate the four scales. Understanding the relationship between different cultures and their money attitudes was important for this study as it aims to observe the relationships between culture and financial planning/financial psychology. Ordinary Least Squares regression analyses were run to analyze the various relationships. Results from this study reveal that there are statistically significant relationships between HFD and money avoidance, money worship, and money vigilance. For money status, honor and dignity had statistically significant relationships. These findings are an addition to cross-cultural financial planning and financial psychology literature. This exploratory research should be of interest to financial planners, financial psychologists, financial therapists, and behavioral scientists

Scattering polarization of hydrogen lines in the presence of turbulent electric fields

We study the broadband polarization of hydrogen lines produced by scattering of radiation, in the presence of isotropic electric fields. In this paper, we focus on two distinct problems: a) the possibility of detecting the presence of turbulent electric fields by polarimetric methods, and b) the influence of such fields on the polarization due to a macroscopic, deterministic magnetic field. We found that isotropic electric fields decrease the degree of linear polarization in the scattered radiation, with respect to the zero-field case. On the other hand, a distribution of isotropic electric fields superimposed onto a deterministic magnetic field can generate a significant increase of the degree of magnetic-induced, net circular polarization. This phenomenon has important implications for the diagnostics of magnetic fields in plasmas using hydrogen lines, because of the ubiquitous presence of the Holtsmark, microscopic electric field from neighbouring ions. In particular, previous solar magnetographic studies of the Balmer lines of hydrogen may need to be revised because they neglected the effect of turbulent electric fields on the polarization signals. In this work, we give explicit results for the Lyman-alpha and Balmer-alpha lines.Comment: 15 pages, 6 figure

The Hustle and Bustle of the Coast Salish Potlatch An Exploratory Case Study of Gift Economic Exchange and Bird Resources at the Village of Xwe’Chi’eXen, 45WH1

Bird remains are regularly found in archaeological deposits in the Salish Sea region. Predominant paradigms to explain the distribution of archaeological faunal remains primarily focus on diet. Yet, uses of bird remains for purposes other than food are also widely represented in ethnographies. The economic structure of the potlatch is an alternative model to account for the presence of archaeological avifauna. Avifaunal materials contribute to a continuous social system as both food and wealth objects. How avian resources were harvested, transformed into commodities, and used to signal rank and prestige in the context of the potlatch are considered. This study explores how these themes are reflected in the archaeological record over the last 3,500 years of occupation at the village of Xwe’Chi’eXen, 45WH1. A total of 2,109 bird bones were analyzed from two time components that generally correspond with the Locarno Beach and Marpole typological phases. Several patterns consistent with formalization of the gift economy over time were observed. A high frequency of duck wings, and evidence of butchery suggests that wings were intentionally removed, possibly for their flight feathers. Concentrations of bird remains at two locations may indicate potlatch or other ritual related deposition. Increases in frequency of naturally aggregating taxa, and changing patterns of avian diversity over time, are interpreted as increasing reliance on mass harvest hunting techniques. These lines of evidence are argued to represent intensification in the gift economy that result in the formalization of harvest locations as lineage property

Landslide hazards in The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon

Human activity has led to the reactivation of portions of a Pleistocene landslide complex in The Dalles, Oregon. Slope movements are in rocks of the Chenowith formation: agglomerate, conglomerate, tuff breccia, sandstone, and siltstone. Slope movements occur in at least two distinct areas in The Dalles. At one, the shear surface is defined by the contact between the Chenowith formation and the underlying Columbia River Basalt. Data from inclinometer readings at the other area fail to reveal a well-defined shear surface. Slope movements in The Dalles cause tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage annually and may present a threat to human safety. So far there has been little organized response to this hazard

The Money Scripts Related to the Use and Trust of Investment Advice

This study examines the association between four money scripts (i.e., money avoidance, money worship, money status, and money vigilance) and the use of investment advice and trust in that advice from a variety of sources (i.e., family and friends, financial software, financial professionals, and one’s own research). Using primary data, we found that money avoidance was negatively associated with trust in professional financial advice. Money worship is positively associated with receiving investment advice from financial software and doing one’s own research. Money status was negatively associated with trusting one\u27s own research. Money vigilance was positively associated with using a financial professional for investment advice and trusting advice from a financial professional and family and friends. This study\u27s findings provide implications for financial professionals and researchers focused on helping consumers with different money attitudes seek investment advice, utilizing narrative financial therapy and financial education

Nanoparticle Solar Cell Final Technical Report

The purpose of this work was to demonstrate all-inorganic nanoparticle-based solar cells with photovoltaic performance extending into the near-IR region of the solar spectrum as a pathway towards improving power conversion efficiencies. The field of all-inorganic nanoparticle-based solar cells is very new, with only one literature publication in the prior to our project. Very little is understood regarding how these devices function. Inorganic solar cells with IR performance have previously been fabricated using traditional methods such as physical vapor deposition and sputtering, and solution-processed devices utilizing IR-absorbing organic polymers have been investigated. The solution-based deposition of nanoparticles offers the potential of a low-cost manufacturing process combined with the ability to tune the chemical synthesis and material properties to control the device properties. This work, in collaboration with the Sue Carter research group at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has greatly expanded the knowledge base in this field, exploring multiple material systems and several key areas of device physics including temperature, bandgap and electrode device behavior dependence, material morphological behavior, and the role of buffer layers. One publication has been accepted to Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells pending minor revision and another two papers are being written now. While device performance in the near-IR did not reach the level anticipated at the beginning of this grant, we did observe one of the highest near-IR efficiencies for a nanoparticle-based solar cell device to date. We also identified several key parameters of importance for improving both near-IR performance and nanoparticle solar cells in general, and demonstrated multiple pathways which showed promise for future commercialization with further research

Perioperative assessment of cardiological risk in non-cardiac surgical interventions

During the postoperative period, cardiological complications occupy the first position regarding morbidity and mortality rates. They depend on various factors such as compromised cardiovascular history and type of surgical intervention, features and type of anesthesia, water balance and postoperative care of the patient. To prevent complications, one should reply two questions: is there a risk of cardiovascular complications in the perioperative period and how to avoid them. The article presents a review of the literature on current views on the perioperative assessment of cardiac risks in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the complex therapy for septic shock in a patient with severe lung damage caused by COVID-19

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been used for more than 20 years in the treatment of severe respiratory distress syndrome. However, ECMO in some categories of patients is not sufficiently covered in the literature, due to a small number of registered cases. This group includes pregnant women and women in labor. During the intensive care of such patients, the entire available range of therapeutic manipulations and measures that can favorably affect the outcome of the disease should be used. We have describe a clinical case of successful ECMO in a patient with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and obstetric sepsis developed in the early postpartum period

Excess of L-Alanine in Amino Acids Synthesized in a Plasma Torch Generated by a Hypervelocity Meteorite Impact Reproduced in the Laboratory

We present a laboratory reproduction of hypervelocity impacts of a carbon containing meteorite on a mineral substance representative of planetary surfaces. The physical conditions of the resulting impact plasma torch provide favorable conditions for abiogenic synthesis of protein amino acids: We identified glycine and alanine, and in smaller quantities serine, in the produced material. Moreover, we observe breaking of alanine mirror symmetry with L excess, which coincides with the bioorganic world. Therefore the selection of L-amino acids for the formation of proteins for living matter could have been the result from plasma processes occurring during the impact meteorites on the surface. This indicates that the plasma torch from meteorite impacts could play an important role in the formation of biomolecular homochirality. Thus, meteorite impacts possibly were the initial stage of this process and promoted conditions for the emergence of a living matter