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Examining Consumers\u27 Trust in the Food Supply Chain
Consumers are concerned about the quality and safety of their food at all times during the food supply chain, but sensationalized media coverage, lack of knowledge, and recent recalls have made it difficult for consumers to trust the agricultural industry. Because trust drives risk perceptions and acceptance, it is important for agricultural communicators to understand how personal characteristics influence trust in the food supply chain. To fulfill the purpose of this study, a national quota sample of 847 responses to an online questionnaire were collected in March 2019. The results indicated respondents held a moderate level of trust toward production agriculture, food processing, food retail, and food safety regulation, with the greatest level of trust assigned to production agriculture. Trust in these sectors of the food supply chain were also positively correlated to one another. Regression models for trust in each agricultural sector were significant but only accounted for 9% of the variance in the dependent variable at most. Direct engagement in agriculture was a positive predictor in trust across all four areas, and use of social media was a negative predictor for trust. Income and gender were also found to be predictors of trust in production agriculture, food processing, food retail, and food safety regulation. The findings from this study can be used to guide future communication to increase the level of trust in the food supply chain, which would also increase consumers’ purchasing intent
Fuzzy Rings in D6-Branes and Magnetic Field Background
We use the Myers T-dual nonabelin Born-Infeld action to find some new
nontrivial solutions for the branes in the background of D6-branes and Melvin
magnetic tube field. In the D6-Branes background we can find both of the fuzzy
sphere and fuzzy ring solutions, which are formed by the gravitational
dielectric effect. We see that the fuzzy ring solution has less energy then
that of the fuzzy sphere. Therefore the fuzzy sphere will decay to the fuzzy
ring configuration. In the Melvin magnetic tube field background there does not
exist fuzzy sphere while the fuzzy ring configuration may be formed by the
magnetic dielectric effect. The new solution shows that propagating in
the D6-branes and magnetic tube field background may expand into a rotating
fuzzy ring. We also use the Dirac-Born-Infeld action to construct the ring
configuration from the D-branes.Comment: Latex, 15 pages, detailed comments in section 2, typos correcte
Risk homeostasis theory - A study of intrinsic compensation
Risk homeostasis theory (RHT) suggests that changes made to the intrinsic risk of environments are negated in one of three ways: behavioural adjustments within the environment, mode migration, and avoidance of the physical risk. To date, this three-way model of RHT has little empirical support, whilst research findings on RHT have at times been diametrically opposed. A reconciliation of apparently opposing findings might be possible by suggesting that extrinsic compensation fails to restore previously existing levels of actual risk in cases where behavioural adjustments within the environment are incapable of negating intrinsic risk changes. This paper reports a study in which behavioural adjustments within the physical risk-taking environment are capable of reconciling target with actual risk. The results provide positive support for RHT in the form of overcompensation for the intrinsic risk change on specific driver behaviours
The transfer of fibres in the carding machine
The problem of understanding the transfer of fibres between carding-machine surfaces is addressed by considering the movement of a single fibre in an airflow. The structure of the aerodynamic flow field predicts how and when fibres migrate between the different process surfaces. In the case of a revolving-flats carding machine the theory predicts a “strong” aerodynamic mechanism between taker-in and cylinder and a “weak” mechanism between cylinder and removal cylinder resulting in effective transfer in the first case and a more limited transfer in the second
Strings between branes
D-brane configurations containing fundamental strings are constructed as
classical solutions of Yang-Mills theory. The fundamental strings in these
systems stretch between D-branes. In the case of D1-branes, this construction
gives smooth (classical) resolutions of string junctions and string networks.
Using a non-abelian Yang-Mills analysis of the string current, the string
charge density is computed and is shown to have support in the region between
the D-brane world-volumes. The 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole is analyzed using
similar methods, and is shown to contain D-strings whose flux has support off
the D-brane world-volume defined by the Higgs scalar field, when this field is
interpreted in terms of a transverse dimension. The constructions presented
here are used to give a qualitative picture of tachyon condensation in the
Yang-Mills limit, where fundamental strings and lower-dimensional D-branes
arise in a volume of space-time where brane-antibrane annihilation has
occurred.Comment: 35 pages, 16 eps figures, JHEP style; v2: a comment adde
Surface tension in the dilute Ising model. The Wulff construction
We study the surface tension and the phenomenon of phase coexistence for the
Ising model on \mathbbm{Z}^d () with ferromagnetic but random
couplings. We prove the convergence in probability (with respect to random
couplings) of surface tension and analyze its large deviations : upper
deviations occur at volume order while lower deviations occur at surface order.
We study the asymptotics of surface tension at low temperatures and relate the
quenched value of surface tension to maximal flows (first passage
times if ). For a broad class of distributions of the couplings we show
that the inequality -- where is the surface
tension under the averaged Gibbs measure -- is strict at low temperatures. We
also describe the phenomenon of phase coexistence in the dilute Ising model and
discuss some of the consequences of the media randomness. All of our results
hold as well for the dilute Potts and random cluster models
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