Black Cup Research Articles

Dancing in the purple rain: color affinity and oviposition choices in Aedes sierrensis (Diptera: Culicidae).

The western tree hole mosquito, Aedes sierrensis (Ludlow) (Diptera: Clucidae), is a pestiferous mosquito with a range extending over the entire pacific seaboard and into portions of the intermountain west. As a peridomestic heartworm vector, it demands at least some level of surveillance to understand its abundance. However, the species is refractory to a majority of conventional vector surveillance approaches for tracking mosquitoes. To find more options for Aedes sierrensis surveillance, a variety of oviposition attractants were evaluated in arena-style choice assays using colony reared adults. A range of infusion treatments (e.g., alfalfa, oak, and beetroot) were examined and then combined with investigations of liquid color as well as ovicup color and entryway position. These studies revealed that Ae. sierrensis have an affinity for purple coloration, plain water, and larger entryway sizes for oviposition cups. A prototype ovicup was 3D-printed using purple filament and multiple types of entryways, and used to re-test infusion waters. No particular attraction differences were detected after normalizing for purple color. Comparisons to black 3D-printed cups yielded surprising observations that male mosquitoes also aggregated on purple cups while females sheltered, but not necessarily oviposited, in black cups. Although this was only a laboratory-based assessment, these studies provide useful information for future field trials of potential oviposition traps for surveillance of Ae. sierrensis.

The Influence of Customer Value, Product Innovation, and Brand Image on Customer Satisfaction at Black Cup Coffee Jalan Flamboyan Manado

Black Cup is a local coffee shop that has five branches, one of which is on Jalan Flamboyan Manado. Data collection in this study used questionnaires and documentation with 50 respondents (saturated sample) who had made purchases more than twice using purposive sampling as the population. This research aims to analyze the influence of customer value, product innovation, and brand image on customer satisfaction at Kedai Kopi Black Cup Manado. The results of this research are: 1) Customer value has a significant influence on customer satisfaction at Kedai Kopi Black Cup Manado. 2) Product innovation has a positive and significant influence on customer satisfaction at the Black Cup Manado Coffee Shop. 3) Brand image has a positive and significant influence on customer satisfaction at the Black Cup Manado Coffee shop.

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONSUMER PREFERENCE BETWEEN KOPI KENANGAN AND BLACK CUP COFFEE CUSTOMERS

The presence of coffee house modern or coffee shop has given a change of culture in Indonesia, where it is no longer only a big fan of coffee who wants to go to a coffee shop because nowadays it is not only to fulfill the functional needs, but it leads to emotional needs. It became the part of modern lifestyle where some people need to consume coffee before they do their own activity. Consequently, coffee consumption in Indonesia continues to increase, and it also increase consumer demand for Coffee business. The aim of this research is to analyze consumer preferences of coffee shop between Kopi Kenagan and Black Cup Coffee in Manado measure by brand image, brand loyalty, perveived price and electronic word of mouth. This research is quantitative type of research, which uses primary data obtained through questionnaires and uses independent sample t-test as the analytical tool. The population of this research is peoples in Manado who has experience in Kopi Kenagan and Black Cup Coffee, where the sample size is taken from 130 respondents who also has experience with both stores. The result from this research found that there is no significant difference between Kopi Kenagan and Black Cup Coffee measured by brand image, brand loyalty, perceived price and electronic word of mouth. Kopi Kenagan and Black Cup Coffee should more considering and be more focus on these factors that influence the consumer buying behavior. Keywords: brand image, brand loyalty, perceived price, e-wom, consumer preferences, coffee shop

Analisis Persepsi Konsumen Terhadap Aspek Bauran Pemasaran (Marketing Mix 7p) Pada Black Cup Coffee Roaster Di Kota Manado

This research aims to determine how consumers' perceptions of aspects of the existing marketing mix at Black Cup Coffee Roaster Manado. This research was conducted from March 2022 to June 2022. The data used in this study were primary data and secondary data. Primary data isobtained from direct interviews with consumers using questionnaires, to 60 respondents. Secondary data is obtained from the documents of Black Cup Coffee Roaster. Secondary data was also obtained through the internet using Google Scholar in the form of books, journal articles and theses related to the research topic, namely Consumer Perception Analysis on Aspects of the Marketing Mix (Marketing Mix 7P) at Coffeeshop. The results showed that consumer perceptions of aspects of the marketing mix (Product, Price, Promotion, Place, Process, People and Physical Evidence) on the Black Cup Coffee Roaster were classified as good. In terms of the marketing mix (Product, Process, and People) applied by Black Cup Coffee Roaster, it is classified as very good. In the aspect of the marketing mix (Price, Promotion, Place, and Physical Evidence) it is quite good.

THE ANALYSIS OF BRAND IMAGE ON PRODUCT PURCHASE DECISIONS AT BLACK CUP COFFEE & ROASTER MANADO

The formulation of the problem in this study is how does brand image affect purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee & Roaster Manado. The aim of this research is to find out how brand image affects purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee & Roaster Manado. In this study, the researcher took a descriptive type of research using a qualitative approach because the purpose of this study was to make a systematic, factual, and accurate description, picture, or painting of the facts, characteristics, and relationships between the phenomena being investigated.the researcher concluded that the brand image of a business is sufficient to determine the purchase decision to buy the products offered by business actors, among the most dominant from the informants, namely having their own characteristics and having good product quality, so that it makes customers comfortable and getting used to it. come to Black Cup Coffee and Roaster. The management of Black Cup Coffee & Roaster must pay attention, there are several points that become complaints, namely, coffee quantity is lacking, there is no wifi, only one toilet,insufficient seats and still not comfortable. And it would be nice, all aspects that become complaints must be corrected immediately for the convenience of future customers who come.

The Influence of Store Atmosphere and Consumer Emotion on Purchasing Decisions at Blackcup Coffee and Roastery Manado

This study will analyze the effect of store atmosphere and customer emotions on purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee and Roastery Manado. The formulation of the problem in this study is whether there is an influence between store atmosphere and customer emotions on purchasing decisions. This research is a field research with a quantitative research model. The type of data used in this study is primary data collected using a questionnaire given to 100 customers of Black Cup Coffee and Roastery Manado. The analysis used in this study is the classical assumption test and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that there is a negative and not significant effect of store atmosphere on purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee and Roastery with a t value of -0.517. On the significant influence between customer emotions on purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee and Roastery with a t value of 5.628. Simultaneously store atmosphere and emotions have a significant effect on purchasing decisions with a calculated f value of 21,092, which affects store atmosphere and customer emotions affect purchasing decisions at Black Cup Coffee and Roastery Manado.

Goats (Capra hircus) From Different Selection Lines Differ in Their Behavioural Flexibility

Given that domestication provided animals with more stable environmental conditions, artificial selection by humans has likely affected animals' ability to learn novel contingencies and their ability to adapt to changing environments. In addition, the selection for specific traits in domestic animals might have an additional impact on subjects' behavioural flexibility, but also their general learning performance, due to a re-allocation of resources towards parameters of productivity. To test whether animals bred for high productivity would experience a shift towards lower learning performance, we compared the performance of dwarf goats (not selected for production, 15 subjects) and dairy goats (selected for high milk yield, 18 subjects) in a visual discrimination learning and reversal learning task. Goats were tested individually in a test compartment and were rewarded by choosing either a white or a black cup presented by the experimenter on a sliding board behind a crate. Once they reached a designated learning criterion in the initial learning task, they were transferred to the reversal learning task. To increase the heterogeneity of our test sample, data was collected by two experimenters at two research stations following a similar protocol. Goats of both selection lines did not differ in the initial discrimination learning task in contrast to the subsequent reversal learning task. Dairy goats reached the learning criterion slower compared to dwarf goats (dairy goats = 9.18 sessions; dwarf goats = 7.74 sessions; P = 0.016). Our results may indicate that the selection for milk production might have affected behavioural flexibility in goats. These differences in adapting to changing environmental stimuli might have an impact on animal welfare e.g., when subjects have to adapt to new environments or changes in housing and management routines.

The effect of age on discrimination learning and self-control in a marshmallow test for pigs

Both humans and nonhuman animals need to show self-control and wait for a larger or better reward instead of a smaller or less preferred but instant reward on an everyday basis. We investigated whether this ability undergoes ontogenetic development in domestic pigs (similar to what is known in human infants) by testing if and for how long nine- and 16-week-old pigs wait for a larger amount of their preferred reward. In a delay-of-gratification task, animals first learned that a small reward was hidden under a white cup and a large reward under a black cup, and then the delay to deliver the large reward was gradually increased. The results show that older pigs could wait longer for a larger reward than younger pigs (10.6 ± 1.3 s vs. 5.2 ± 1.5 s), thereby confirming our hypothesis of ontogenetic development of self-control in pigs. This self-control is likely to be regulated by the behavioural inhibition system and associated systems. Self-control or, more specifically the lack of it may be involved in the development of abnormal behaviours, not only in humans but also in animals. Therefore, research on self-control in decision-making might provide a new perspective on abnormal behaviours in captive animals.

The Coffee Set

This video essay focuses on the representation of a black and white coffee set in four sequences of Que horas ela volta (Anna Muylaert, 2015). While throughout the film the mismatched colors seem to celebrate the possibility of class mobility and interracial relations, the unexpected final rearrangement—white cups with white saucers and black cups with black saucers—alludes to the persistence of the status quo in Brazil despite the individual success of the two protagonists.

ANALISIS PENGUKURAN DAN PELAPORAN BIAYA KUALITAS SEBAGAI ALAT PENGENDALIAN BIAYA KUALITAS PADA CV. BLACK CUP INDO UTAMA MANADO

Quality costs are costs incurred by the company in order to improve product quality which refers to all costs incurred to prevent the occurrence of defective goods or costs that must be incurred due to defective goods. Quality costs can be divided into two groups, namely the first quality costs associated with control activities consisting of prevention costs and valuation costs and the second is costs associated with failure activities consisting of internal failure costs and external failure costs. This study aims to determine the measurement and reporting of quality costs as a quality cost control tool on the CV. Indo Utama Black Cup Manado. The research method used in this thesis research is a descriptive method in which the purpose of each data collected is analyzed then drawn a conclusion and the type of research used is descriptive qualitative. The results obtained that the measurement and reporting of quality costs on the CV. Indo Utama Manado Black Cup has not yet taken cost measurements and has not presented separate quality cost reporting, so it cannot be used as a quality cost control tool.

Aedes albopictus oviposits with other Aedes species in artificial oviposition cups: a case study in Knox County, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Interspecific associations between two mosquito species can lead to effects such as competition, species displacement, and species stability. To better understand Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and other Aedes species, we monitored eggs in artificial oviposition cups (ovitraps) within Knox County, TN, U.S.A., during the 2016 and 2017 mosquito seasons. In 2016, one black and one white ovitrap were placed at 18 sites for 21 weeks, while in 2017 black and white ovitraps baited with grass-infused or deionized water were placed at 11 sites for nine weeks. Eggs were identified to species and resulting counts were used to determine the degree of interspecific association using Cole's coefficients (C7 ) and the degree of heterogeneity across space and time using generalized linear mixed models (GLMM). Here, Aedes mosquitoes are generally ovipositing in black cups with grass-infused water, and Ae. albopictus eggs co-occurred with other Aedes species more often than would be expected. Finding a positive significant interspecific association between Ae. albopictus and other Aedes eggs suggests that methods used to control Ae. albopictus may also control other Aedes mosquitoes. Finding that Ae. albopictus co-occurs with other Aedes mosquitoes warrants additional research to evaluate outcomes associated with co-occurrence within the study area.

Effect of milk and non dairy creamer on human bioavailability of coffee phenolic acids

Chlorogenic acids are antioxidants found in coffee. They are becoming of interest for their health promoting effects, but their human bioavailability is not well known.We hypothesized that adding whole milk or non dairy creamer to instant coffee might alter the bioavailability of coffee phenolics. Nine healthy subjects were asked to drink in a cross‐over design instant coffee, instant coffee and 10% whole milk or instant coffee, non‐dairy creamer and sugar already pre‐mixed. Blood was collected for 12h after ingestion and plasma samples extracted via a liquid‐liquid method that included a full enzymatic cleavage to break down all chlorogenic acids into smaller phenolic acids. Hence, we focused our LC‐ESI‐MSMS detection and quantification on caffeic (CA), ferulic (FA) and isoferulic acid (iFA). Compared to a regular black cup, the addition of milk did not significantly alter the area under the curve (AUC), maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) or the time needed to reach Cmax (Tmax). Cmax of CA and iFA were significantly lower and T max of FA and iFA significantly longer for the non dairy creamer group compared to black coffee. However, the AUCs were not significantly different. As a conclusion, adding whole milk did not alter the overall bioavailability of coffee phenolic acids. Adding non dairy creamer affected the time and maximum concentration but not the overall plasmatic delivery of coffee phenolics.

Container Color and Location Affect Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in Artificial Treeholes in Panama

I investigated the effects of habitat color and location on community structure in artificial water-filled treeholes in the forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama. The macroinvertebrate fauna of 9 replications (5 in understory, 4 in tree-fall gaps) of black, blue, red, and green 650 ml plastic cups were censused weekly for 7 wks. Macroinvertebrate abundance and species richness were greater in understory cups than in gap cups. Seven species colonized black cups exclusively. Black cups in the understory, and red and black cups in gaps, attracted more species on average than other colors. Species richness and abundance were consistently lowest in green cups. Species were more broadly distributed among cup colors in the understory, suggesting that diffuse light conditions influenced color perception. There was no overlap in species composition between water in the artificial treeholes and water held by red Heliconia bracts or green tank bromeliads.

A Geometric well at Knossos

The neighbourhood of the Vlychia stream, a little distance to the south-west of the Palace of Minos, has already been noted as an area of settlement in Geometric times. This is now further confirmed by the discovery of a well at about 50 metres north of the stream slightly to the west of the main road to Heraklion; with the exception of a small quantity of stray Middle and Late Minoan sherds in the first 2 metres, the finds ranged from Protogeometric to Early Orientalizing.The diameter of the well was 0·90 m. At a depth of 1·4 m. began a deposit of Geometric pottery which continued in large quantities down to the sixth metre, mixed with animal bones, pebbles, large stones, brown clayey earth, and a little charcoal. Farther down pottery became rarer and consisted mostly of large coarse wares, while the earth became looser. Between 9 and 10 metres fine pottery virtually ceased, except for small pieces of black cups as 60 and 61 below: much of the space was taken up by the sherds of one enormous coarse basin. Since no fragments of its bottom were found, we may conjecture that it was used as a well-head which either collapsed or was destroyed owing to the drying up of the well. Hence all pottery above the ninth metre is a rubbish fill, which will henceforth be referred to as the Upper Deposit.

Effect of Elimination of the Specular Component on Efficiency and Error of the Integrating Sphere

Given a perfect comparison type integrating sphere and a standard with perfectly diffuse reflection, the black cups (as used on the General Electric recording spectrophotometer) for eliminating the specular reflection component cause a decrease of efficiency, do not effect the sphere error, but may increase the actual error because the total flux measured is decreased while the instrumental error remains constant.