Attractive Term Research Articles

An 18-country analysis of the effectiveness of five front-of-pack nutrition labels

Various front-of-pack food labels (FoPLs) are being introduced across the world, and discussion continues about the most effective label formats to improve consumers’ (i) understanding of the relative healthiness of alternative products and (ii) product choices. Of increasing interest is the relative ability of different types of labels to steer consumers away from unhealthy options (aversion) versus steer them towards healthier options (attraction). The aim of this study was to assess aversion and attraction outcomes for five FoPLs (Health Star Rating, Multiple Traffic Lights, Nutri-Score, Reference Intakes, and Warning Label) across 18 countries (n = 18393). Descriptive analyses assessed improvements in consumer understanding and choice outcomes for each label across three different types of food products. Binary logistic regressions were used to compare the relative ability of the labels to improve respondents’ understanding of product healthiness and their product choices, using the industry-developed Reference Intakes as the comparator. Aversion and attraction effects were assessed for each label/food type combination. Across the total sample, the Nutri-Score performed best in terms of both attraction and aversion results for understanding and simulated choice outcomes, followed by the Multiple Traffic Lights. The Reference Intakes exhibited the weakest performance overall, with the Warning Label and Health Star Rating falling in between. The most effective FoPLs featured a colour-coded spectrum design. The results indicate that front-of-pack labels that are effective in guiding consumers towards healthier food products can also be effective in steering them away from unhealthy options.

Structural relaxation dynamics of colloidal nanotrimers.

By Molecular Dynamics simulation, we investigate the dynamics of isotropic fluids of colloidal nanotrimers whose interactions are described by varying the strength of attractive and repulsive terms of the Mie potential. To provide a consistent comparison between the systems described by different force fields, we determine the phase diagram and critical points of each system, characterize the morphology of high-density liquid phases at the same reduced temperature and density, and finally investigate their long-time relaxation dynamics. In particular, we detect an especially complex dynamics that reveals the existence of slow and fast nanotrimers and the resulting occurrence of non-Gaussianity, which develops at intermediate timescales. Deviations from Gaussianity are temporary and vanish within the timescales of the system's density fluctuations decay, when a Fickian-like diffusion regime is eventually observed.

Large irides enhance the facial attractiveness of Japanese and Chinese women

Since large eyes are often perceived to enhance facial attractiveness, many individuals are motivated to change their eyes' appearance. Colored contact lenses are often used by young women to darken the limbal rings of their irides, to increase their facial attractiveness. Among Westerners, wearing contact lenses with limbal rings enhances facial attractiveness; a similar effect might exist for East Asians whose irides are darker; although, the mechanism underlying these preferences in Westerners and East Asians might differ. In this study, we investigated whether larger irides increased the attractiveness of Japanese and Chinese women, and whether this effect was accompanied by changes in perceived friendliness or youthfulness. We manipulated eye size by enlarging only the iris or the whole eye, and asked participants to rate face stimuli in terms of facial attractiveness, friendliness, and youthfulness. We found that larger irides enhanced not only attractiveness but also perceived youthfulness and friendliness, and that there was a significant correlation between attractiveness and friendliness. Further, iris-enlarged faces were perceived as more attractive even when the iris was originally dark, as enlarged dark irides were confused with dilated pupils, which are often perceived as a sign of attraction.

Business Model Development for a High-Temperature (Co-)Electrolyser System

There are increasing international efforts to tackle climate change by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. As such, the use of electrolytic hydrogen as an energy carrier in decentralised and centralised energy systems, and as a secondary energy carrier for a variety of applications, is projected to grow. Required green hydrogen can be obtained via water electrolysis using the surplus of renewable energy during low electricity demand periods. Electrolysis systems with alkaline and polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) technology are commercially available in different performance classes. The less mature solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) promises higher efficiencies, as well as co-electrolysis and reversibility functions. This work uses a bottom-up approach to develop a viable business model for a SOEC-based venture. The broader electrolysis market is analysed first, including conventional and emerging market segments. A further opportunity analysis ranks these segments in terms of business attractiveness. Subsequently, the current state and structure of the global electrolyser industry are reviewed, and a ten-year outlook is provided. Key industry players are identified and profiled, after which the major industry and competitor trends are summarised. Based on the outcomes of the previous assessments, a favourable business case is generated and used to develop the business model proposal. The main findings suggest that grid services are the most attractive business sector, followed by refineries and power-to-liquid processes. SOEC technology is particularly promising due to its co-electrolysis capabilities within the methanol production process. Consequently, an “engineering firm and operator” business model for a power-to-methanol plant is considered the most viable option.

Promotion of Eco-tourism and Livelihood Development in the Tonle Sap Lake of Cambodia

More than half of the respondent (65.3%) believe that their communities in the Tonle Sap Lake are attractive enough to be eco-tourism sites. Moreover, eco-tourism is an important source of people’s livelihood in terms of income generation (70.1%), tourist attraction (43.8%), good environment (19.6%), ecosystem support (15.4%), cultural value (9.9%), and other (1.0%)

Volution of the Concept of Popularity of a Classical Musician: Historical and Cultural Analysis

Music culture plays an important role in historical development of culture. Performers face the problems of finding their place in the world, choosing the trajectory for their personal evolution and professional development and nowadays these issues have become pressing for the professional community of musicians. One of the complex issues researchers need to address is the evolution of the concept of popularity of music performance. Even though the topic of the popularity of the musician, especially in the spectacular genres of performance, has been extensively studied, there are very few works, which focus on the performer of classical music in the context of cultural pragmatics. The study of a significant historical period in the development of European culture from the Ancient World to the present reveals a number of features in the interpretation of the concept of popularity in different historical periods. Complex cultural analysis as the primary method of research was used to investigate the unique features of each period. The study analyzed popularity of the performer of classical music within a particular sociocultural context and resulted in a set of distinct historyspecific concepts of popularity. This paper presents the findings on the evolution of public’s attitude toward musical performance and investigates historical group values determining popularity. It is noted that popularity is a matter of both church and secular music. Classical music performer, intentionally or not, addresses the problem of cultural education of the public and forms their values. At the same time, musicians directly depend on the existing tastes and preferences of their audience. This paradox of popularity has existed through all ages of European music culture. Popularity may take various forms from adoration to hate. In the field of classical music, popularity is achieved by people who have a certain charisma that in terms of attractiveness to the public matters more than professionalism.

Examining gastronomy festivals as the attractiveness factor for tourism destinations: The case of Turkey

This study examined a sample of 287 gastronomy festivals organized in Turkey in 2021 in terms of tourism destination attractiveness, focusing on unprocessed agricultural food products and processed food and beverages. Based on the findings, the gastronomy festivals were grouped under 26 titles within two sub-themes, which revealed the festivals’ purpose, scope, social activities, gastronomic methods, techniques, and exemplary applications. Gastronomy festivals can provide important attraction elements for participants, such as regional and national development, social and cultural interaction, promotion of cities, collection, storage, production, and consumption of traditional food products.

Real gas effects in sound wave propagation through two-phase systems

We study sound wave propagation through a two-phase system of gas with dispersed liquid droplets. The key element of the study is a combination of real gas effects, entering the model via a suitable equation of state, with steady and unsteady contributions to the drag force and heat transfer. This feature makes the model applicable for arbitrary pressures and temperatures. In the cases of low and high wave frequencies, ω, analytical solution is derived. At low ω, the model yields a generalization of the homogenous flow approximation to real gases. At high ω, the speed of sound tends to its value in the real gas in the absence of droplets while the attenuation coefficient diverges as ω. The model predicts the phenomenon of resonant attenuation demonstrated by the maximum of the growth rate of attenuation coefficient when ω is close to the eigen frequency of particle relaxation. In the absence of droplets (single-phase limit) for the gas satisfying the van der Waals equation of state, the model yields the corresponding states principle for the speed of sound: The ratio of the actual speed of sound to its ideal-gas value is the universal function of reduced density and temperature. This ratio demonstrates a nonmonotonous behavior of the speed of sound as a function of density reflecting the competition between the repulsive and attractive terms in the intermolecular interaction potential.

Comparison of Tourism Attractiveness and Buying Behaviors According to Tourist Typology

This study aimed to compare the attractiveness of tourism and the buying behaviors of touristic products according to the tourist typologies that are influential in the destination choice. The questionnaire, which served as the data collection technique in the study, was applied to the sample group of 578 foreign tourists. The data obtained were analyzed using statistical techniques such as percentages, frequencies, independent sample t-test, and one-factor analysis of variance. The conclusion of the research was that foreign tourists visiting Turkey exhibit a more rationalist tourist typology, that the most influential factor affecting buying behavior is economic factors, and that recreation factors are influential in terms of attractiveness in destination choice. It was determined that tourists belonging to the study's all typologies are affected by buying behaviors, but those belonging to the hedonic tourist typology are affected more. While tourists with rationalist, habitual, and restricted typologies are primarily influenced by historical factors, tourists with habitual, opportunistic, and restricted typologies are primarily influenced by the recreation factor.

The link between corporate sustainability and willingness to invest: new evidence from the field of ethical investments

In recent decades, academia has addressed a wide range of research topics in the field of ethical decision-making. Besides a great amount of research on ethical consumption, also the domain of ethical investments increasingly moves in the focus of scholars. While in this area most research focuses on whether socially or environmentally sustainable businesses outperform traditional investments financially or investigates the character traits as well as other socio-demographic factors of ethical investors, the impact of sustainable corporate conduct on the investment intentions of private investors still requires further research. Hence, we conducted two studies to shed more light on this highly relevant topic. After discussing the current state of research, in our first empirical study, we explore whether besides the traditional triad of risk, return, and liquidity, also sustainability exerts a significant impact on the willingness to invest. As hypothesized, we find that sustainability shows a clear and decisive impact in addition to the traditional factors. In a consecutive study, we investigate deeper into the sustainability-willingness to invest link. Here, our results show that improved sustainability might not pay off in terms of investment attractiveness, however and conversely, it certainly harms to conduct business in a non-sustainable manner, which cannot even be compensated by an increased return.

Development of Local Wisdom Realistic Mathematics Education Based Students Activity Sheet on Students' Mathematics Problem Solving Ability

The selection of Student Activity Sheets (LKPD) is carried out to direct students' independent learning to help them understand the learning material. With local wisdom RME-based LKPD, students have a relatively firm understanding of mathematical problems. The purpose of this study is to develop LKPD products based on Realistic Mathematical Education (RME) with local wisdom of DAM Raman and Capit Urang Metro tourism objects on KPK and FPB materials that are suitable for use and are effective in mathematical problem-solving abilities. This type of research is research and development research and development (RnD) Borg and Gall. The population of this study was fourth-grade elementary/MI students in the Madrasah Working Group (KKM) 2 Metro City. The sampling technique used the class IV purposive sample technique at MINU Metro. The results of this study indicate that the development of RME-based LKPD products with local wisdom is declared feasible based on the results of validation from experts and is practical to use in terms of attractiveness, convenience, and usefulness. RME-based worksheets are effectively used in students' mathematical problem-solving abilities.

Analysis of selected functional properties, resource demands, and energy consumption of freeze‐dried vegetable snacks

The study aimed to investigate a possibility of using fruits (apple and blackcurrant) pomace as carrier agents in freeze-dried snacks and analyze selected properties of obtained products in comparison to snacks with addition of pectin as traditional carrier in terms of physical and functional characteristics modification. The addition of fruits pomace powders caused significant porosity and hygroscopicity reduction. The type of carrier also affected color and structure of the freeze-dried snacks. Moreover, applied additives influenced textural properties inducing products with fruits pomace powders brittle and more fragile in comparison to material with pectin. Reformulation did not affect energy consumption that was determined mostly by freeze drying (90%), but replacement of hydrocolloid with fruit pomace powders may reduce environmental impact of freeze-dried products. Considering obtained findings and possibilities resulting from application of pomace in new food products, further research is needed, especially in terms of influencing nutritional value and storage properties by such additives. Novelty impact statement The manuscript is focused on the newest approach in food technology related to management of food waste and by-products as additives modifying properties of freeze-dried materials. Our study included examination of the impact of fruits pomace powders as carrier agents in freeze-dried fruit and vegetable snacks in relation to traditional hydrocolloid carrier on selected properties that are important in terms of stability and attractiveness of food products. Second part of the study was assessment of resource demand of manufacturing such products aimed on the possibilities of environmental impact reduction.

Pelestarian Adat Hajat Solokan Sebagai Daya Tarik Wisata Budaya di Cikondang Desa Lamajang

Lamajang village, has potential in tourism development both in terms of culture, agriculture, and unique tourist attractions. One of the important activities carried out in Lamajang Village is about cultural preservation, namely the Solokan Hajat Adat where this activity aims to express gratitude and gratitude. Researchers conducted research on these activities with the aim of knowing the process of implementing the Indigenous Hajat Solokan and efforts to preserve the Indigenous Hajat Solokan tradition which is used as a cultural tourist attraction. The research method used is a qualitative method with both primary and secondary data collection techniques, while both primary and secondary data collection is carried out by observation, interviews and documentation studies. Meanwhile, in analyzing data through the process of reduction, presentation and verification, primary data sources were obtained from the management of Lamajang Village, traditional leaders and community leaders and secondary data through the history book of the Cikondang Traditional House, journals regarding cultural preservation and sources relevant to the problems studied by the researchers. The results of the study concluded that the process ofimplementing the Solokan Hajat Adat had met the rules of a good event process, while in the preservation efforts for the protection element, the utilization of development had been fulfilled in the activity but there were still shortcomings, especially in the development element, it was not maximized because there was still a lack of involvement of the younger generation. With the existence of the local government as well as the community, the implementation of the Solokan Hajat Indigenous activities becomes mutual cooperation and goes well.

What is a good design for a cycle street? – User perceptions of safety and attractiveness of different street layouts

Cycle streets have been implemented in many urban areas around the world in recent years to make cycling safer and more attractive. In these streets, cyclists have priority over motorised traffic. They are allowed to use the entire roadway and determine traffic speed. However, there have been no standardised design guidelines for cycle streets to date. Moreover, there is limited understanding of the individual perception of different cycle street designs. Yet, positive evaluations of safety and attractiveness are especially important for pleasant travel in public spaces. Therefore, this study examines the individual perceptions of three cycle street designs: conventional, flow and shared space. Visualisations of these designs were implemented in a written household survey conducted in the urban Rhine-Main metropolitan region in Germany (n = 701). Participants were asked to assess the different designs in terms of safety, clarity, attractiveness and fun. Furthermore, bivariate analyses and regression models were performed to investigate whether individual travel preferences and attitudes, regular mode use and socio-demographic characteristics affect assessments of the designs. The results show that the shared space design is rated as the safest, most attractive and most fun. The conventional cycle street is evaluated as the most clearly structured. Individual affinity towards cycling and walking favours a good evaluation of the shared space design, while a high car affinity and having a migrant background positively affect the assessment of the conventional design. In addition, younger participants and members of households without a car assess the flow design more favourably.

Self-interacting particle-antiparticle system of bosons

The thermodynamic properties of a system of interacting boson particles and antiparticles at finite temperatures are studied within the framework of the thermodynamically consistent Skyrme-like mean-field model. The mean field contains both attractive and repulsive terms. Self-consistency relations between the mean field and thermodynamic functions are derived. We assume a conservation of the isospin density for all temperatures. It is shown that, independently of the strength of the attractive mean field, at the critical temperature ${T}_{\mathrm{c}}$ the system undergoes the phase transition of second order to the Bose-Einstein condensate, which exists in the temperature interval $0\ensuremath{\le}T\ensuremath{\le}{T}_{\mathrm{c}}$. We obtained that the condensation represents a discontinuity of the derivative of the heat capacity at $T={T}_{\mathrm{c}}$, and condensate occurs only for the component with a higher particle-number density in the particle-antiparticle system.

Perceptual Cue Weighting Is Influenced by the Listener's Gender and Subjective Evaluations of the Speaker: The Case of English Stop Voicing.

Speech categories are defined by multiple acoustic dimensions and their boundaries are generally fuzzy and ambiguous in part because listeners often give differential weighting to these cue dimensions during phonetic categorization. This study explored how a listener's perception of a speaker's socio-indexical and personality characteristics influences the listener's perceptual cue weighting. In a matched-guise study, three groups of listeners classified a series of gender-neutral /b/-/p/ continua that vary in VOT and F0 at the onset of the following vowel. Listeners were assigned to one of three prompt conditions (i.e., a visually male talker, a visually female talker, or audio-only) and rated the talker in terms of vocal (and facial, in the visual prompt conditions) gender prototypicality, attractiveness, friendliness, confidence, trustworthiness, and gayness. Male listeners and listeners who saw a male face showed less reliance on VOT compared to listeners in the other conditions. Listeners' visual evaluation of the talker also affected their weighting of VOT and onset F0 cues, although the effects of facial impressions differ depending on the gender of the listener. The results demonstrate that individual differences in perceptual cue weighting are modulated by the listener's gender and his/her subjective evaluation of the talker. These findings lend support for exemplar-based models of speech perception and production where socio-indexical features are encoded as a part of the episodic traces in the listeners' mental lexicon. This study also shed light on the relationship between individual variation in cue weighting and community-level sound change by demonstrating that VOT and onset F0 co-variation in North American English has acquired a certain degree of socio-indexical significance.

An Investigation of the Challenges Faced by the Disabled Population and the Implications for Accessible Tourism: Evidence from a Mediterranean Destination

The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges and deficits faced by people with disabilities and the implications for the development of accessible tourism in the case of North Cyprus. Although this destination market represents a significant portion of tourism in the Mediterranean, it is still poorly understood. In this study, 250 questionnaires were distributed to people with disabilities. Linear regressions, ANOVA, and t-tests were used for data analysis. The results show that despite the destination’s great potential in terms of attractions and recreational facilities, there are measurable deficits in accessible tourism. If tourism operators want to take advantage of the rising tide of accessible tourism to attract more tourists and have a competitive advantage in this growing niche market, they should improve infrastructure facilities to meet the needs of disabled tourists. In particular, this includes providing information for disabled tourists, improving the existing inadequate access to various venues, equipping transportation modes and refreshment facilities for the disabled population, and ensuring adequate access to public places. Last but not least, a cultural orientation approach that educates residents to respect and accept the rights of the disabled population must be adopted. This study provides insights into the needs of people with disabilities and formulates guidelines for adapting and developing this market for destinations that depend on tourism.

Development Augmented Reality (AR) Learning Media for Pencak Silat Course at Faculty of Sports and Science Universitas Negeri Padang

Learning activity must contain aspects of practicality, attractiveness and could motivate student, to facilitate the implementation of learning. Interesting learning media and effective also very necessary for students in the pencak silat course at the sports science faculty which contains practical and theoretical material. It should be considered in the selection of media, namely learning objectives, effective, easy to obtain, flexible use and able to visualize something abstract into reality. One of the developments of learning media that is currently still new is learning media using Augmented Reality (AR). AR is a technology application that can present virtual objects in virtual 3D in real form and presented in real time, then be able to present abstract concepts more real. The purpose of this research is to produce pencak silat learning media in terms of practicality aspects, attractiveness and validity. The research development model uses Borg and Gall, with the following stages: (1) Data collection; (2) Planning (3) Development; (4) Design Validation (5) Design Revision (6) Product Trial (7) Product Revision (8) Usage Trial (9) Product Revision (10) Mass production. The results of the study according to the results of expert validation on the development of Augmented Reality-based pencak silat learning media showed very good results and were suitable for use as learning media. The average acquisition of validation results by experts is 91.8%. Student responses to the use of this media in learning pencak silat were very good with scores in the small group trial of 89.97% and the large group trial of 87.15%. Conclusion hfinal result this finding in the form of learning media Augmented Reality in martial arts courses that are valid, practical and effective.

Study of Potential of Cascade Direct Use to Utilize Exhaust Steam from Back Pressure Turbine at Ulumbu Geothermal Power Plant

The Indonesian government has fixated Flores Island for geothermal utilization due to its potential to reach about 776 MW. Of these potentials, one that has been utilized is at PLTP Ulumbu with a 10 MW energy reservation. 2 backpressure units at PLTP Ulumbu generate power 2×2.5 MW. The exhaust on the backpressure unit of the PLTP Ulumbu has an average temperature of 99°C with enthalpy ranging from 2,430 to 2,435 kJ/kg. Instead of releasing the steam to the environment, it would be wiser to utilize the brine’s heat through cascade direct use based on Lindal Diagram. The cascading system will be arranged from high to low temperature to use excessive energy efficiently. The direct use application is selected based on the best potential-for-fit commodities and the energy of the heat source. This paper aims to perform a feasibility study of cascade direct use of geothermal energy that uses an exhaust steam backpressure turbine at Ulumbu geothermal power plant. The Ulumbu area will be transformed as the center of agricultural, stockbreeding, factory, and geothermal tourism. From potential commodities, the four applications selected are coffee bean drying, egg-hatching incubator, brick factory, and new tourism site. Additionally, several preliminary scenarios are available regarding plant development components (e.g., stakeholder and partnership type). Hence, the comprehensive determination of the ‘best scenario’ will be discussed in terms of feasibility and economic attractiveness.

National tourist rating of Russian regions: Typological diversity

In the context of increasing interest in the development of the tourist and recreational sphere of activity, the rating of Russian regions, which makes it possible to identify leaders and outsiders in the development of domestic and international inbound tourism, is one of the effective tools for strategic planning and management at the federal and regional levels of government, at the same time contributing to the formation of preferences of Russian citizens about the possibilities of leisure and recreation. The aim of the study is to identify typological groups of Russian regions and the main trends in the development of their tourist attractiveness based on the dynamics of the values of the National Tourist Rating for the period 2016-2020. The approach based on the dynamics of the values of the National Tourism Rating for the period 2016-2020 and their medians allows us to identify typological groups of the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of tourist attractiveness, oftourist potential and popularity among domestic and foreign tourists, as well as to determine the main trends in its development.The open data of the official website of the National Tourism Rating for the period 2016-2020 as well as scientific developments on the issues under study by Russian researchers are used. The analysis revealed five typological groups of Russian regions in terms of the level of tourist attractiveness: high (12.9%), increased (16.5%), medium (18.8%), insufficient (32.9%) and low (18.8%). In addition, three main trends in the development of regional tourist attractiveness have been identified. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tourist development of Russian regions is different. The part of the regions of the Russian Federation received benefits and strengthened their positions with varying degrees of growth in the National Tourism Rating (38.8%), a large share reduced their values (47%), the fifth part of the regions retained their positions in the ranking (21.2%). The material is of interest to researchers focusing on the tourist competitiveness and tourist attractiveness of Russia in general and in the regional context, to regional authorities, specialists as well as students of specialized institutions.