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Overweight and Obesity in Sexual-Minority Women: Evidence From Population-Based Data
Boehmer, Ulrike; Bowen, Deborah J.; Bauer, Greta R. - 2007
OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether lesbians have higher rates of overweight and obesity than women of other sexual orientations.METHODS: We compared population estimates of overweight and obesity across sexual orientation groups, using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family...
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Essays on innovation and communication
Kay Peters - 2008
The dissertation has been written within the post graduate program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on “Business Aspects of Loosely Coupled Systems and Electronic Business”. This program focuses on research related to the diffusion of innovations in the digital age. Accordingly, the...
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Taking Behavioralism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation
Kysar, Douglas A.; Hanson, Jon - 1999
settings such as gas stations and supermarkets, and examines environmentally oriented and fear-based advertising. The article …
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
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Symbolic visuals in advertising: The role of relevance.
Holmes, Gary R. - 2008
(TOR). TOR can help researchers and marketing managers by explaining how consumers may interpret visuals in advertising …. TOR explains why some visuals thought to be unconnected with the product become relevant in advertising. This study makes … is used to provide greater explanatory power of consumers' interpretation and response to advertising visuals than what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475018
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Stereotypes in Retail Print Advertising: The Effects of Gender and Physical Appearance on Consumer Perceptions
Allen, Charlotte - 2001
The retail sector spends millions of dollars each year advertising to consumers. This is a considerable investment for …
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Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk Tradeoffs
Nastis, Stefanos A.; Michailidis, Anastasios - 2010
This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the laboreconomics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In thecontext of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on healthstatus are willing to work for...
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Changes in Food, Alcohol and Cigarettes Consumption during Transition: Evidence from Russia
Herzfeld, Thomas; Huffman, Sonya Kostova; Oskam, Arie J.; … - 2009
This paper examines the changes in nutritional behavior of Russian adults over the ten-year transition period, between 1994 and 2004. We present evidence on the impact of individual as well as regional characteristics on changes in fat, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on...
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