127 research outputs found
Construction and Validation of Indian Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale: The Ice-Scale
Globalization has unlocked and exposed domestic and overseas marketers to superior market opportunities. Additionally, it presents consumers worldwide with a vast number of local and foreign brand choices. Indian consumers, also now, have a broader choice of merchandise at their disposal as economic liberalization and privatization along with globalization have reduced the barriers to trade. In such a setting, the concept of consumer ethnocentrism can deliver deep insights about the preference of consumers toward domestic merchandise. The study aims to develop the Indian Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale (ICE-Scale) and validate the same. Data are collected using a structured questionnaire from urban and rural regions. The study constructed the Indian Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale (ICE-Scale), explored its dimensionality on a sample of 450 respondents, and validated the scale with another sample of 450 using exploratory factor analysis. It was established that the ICE-Scale encompasses two dimensions, namely, protective ethnocentrism and patriotic ethnocentrism. Additionally, the validity testing for the proposed scale and both the constructs were conducted through confirmatory factor analysis. The study advances the existing pool of information in the field of international economics, consumer psychology and global marketing. It also assists domestic producers to get an improved understanding of consumers’ ethnocentric tendencies which in turn would assist them in choosing superior marketing strategies and boosting their sales. The study will not only deliver certain social and policymaking insights to the domestic firms and government but also to the foreign firms functioning or planning to operate in India
Characterization of Eclipsing Binary System EPIC 211982753
We present the physical parameters of an eclipsing binary system EPIC
211982753 derived through photometric and radial velocity data modeling. We
make use of photometric data from NASA's K2 mission, ASAS-SN, and 1.3-m
Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) while spectroscopic data have been
acquired from the HERMES spectrograph at the 1.2-m Mercator telescope. The
linear ephemeris for the system is updated using the K2 mission data. The
synthetic light curve and radial velocity curves are generated with the help of
eclipsing binary modeling package PHOEBE 1.0. The masses of primary and
secondary components are determined as 1.64 0.02 and 1.55 0.01
, respectively. The radius for primary and secondary components are
estimated as 1.73 0.02 and 1.47 0.02 , respectively. The
distance of the system is calculated as 238 4 pc. The eclipsing binary is
found to be a total eclipsing system with a high mass ratio of q=0.94.Comment: Proceeding paper of the 3rd Belgo-Indian Network for Astronomy and
Astrophysics (BINA) workshop, Accepted for publication in the Bulletin of
Li\`{e}ge Royal Society of Science
Peeping into recent star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds
Here, we study the distribution of Fundamental-mode Cepheids in the
Magellanic Cloud as a function of their positions and ages using the data from
the OGLE~IV survey. Age of the Cepheids are determined through well known
period - age relations for the LMC and SMC Cepheids which are used to
understand the star formation scenario in the Magellanic Cloud. The age
distributions of the Cepheids in LMC and SMC show peak around
Myr and Myr, respectively. This indicates that a major star
formation event took place in the Magellanic Cloud at about 200\,Myr ago. It is
believed that this event might have been triggered by a close encounter between
the two components of the Magellanic Cloud or due to a possible tidal
interaction between the Magellanic Cloud and Milky Way galaxy during one of its
pericentric passages round the Milky Way. Cepheids are found to be
asymmetrically distributed in both the LMC and SMC. A high-density clumpy
structure is found to be located towards eastern side of the LMC and south-west
direction of the SMC from their respective galactic centres.Comment: Accepted to the Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy, contribution to
the proceedings of "Star formation studies in the context of NIR instruments
on 3.6-m DOT
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