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Effect of Pulp Pigmentation Intensity on Consumer Acceptance of New Blood Mandarins: A Cross-Cultural Study in Spain and Italy
2022
One of the current objectives of different citrus breeding programmes is obtaining new pigmented mandarins. This study investigates to what extent consumer preferences, expectations and purchase intention are affected by the appearance of new mandarins, specifically pulp pigmentation intensity. Four hundred consumers from both Italy and Spain (800 in all) participated in the study. In each country, half were informed about the healthy properties of the anthocyanins responsible for red pulp colouration, while the other half were not. Italians more readily accepted new mandarin varieties than Spaniards, which was linked to them being more familiar with blood oranges. In Italy, both slight- an…
Effects of Grammatical Structure of Compound Words on Word Recognition in Chinese
2018
Two lexical priming experiments were conducted to examine effects of grammatical structure of Chinese two-constituent compounds on their recognition. The target compound words conformed to two types of grammatical structure: subordinate and coordinative compounds. Subordinate compounds follow a structure where the first constituent modifies the second constituent (e.g., , meaning snowball); here the meaning of the second constituent (head) is modified by the first constituent (modifier). On the other hand, in coordinative compounds both constituents contribute equally to the word meaning (e.g., , wind and rain, meaning storm where the two constituent equally contribute to the word meaning).…
Evaluation of menstrual irregularities after COVID-19 vaccination: Results of the MECOVAC survey
2022
Abstract We investigated menstrual irregularities after the first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. Women answered a customised online questionnaire (ClinicalTrial.gov ID: NCT05083065) aimed to assess the vaccine type, the phase of the menstrual cycle during which the vaccine was administered, the occurrence of menstrual irregularities after the first and second doses, and how long this effect lasted. We excluded women with gynaecological and non-gynaecological diseases, undergoing hormonal and non-hormonal treatments, in perimenopause or menopause, as well as those who had irregular menstrual cycles in the last 12 months before vaccine administration. According to our data analysis…
Unpopular policies and the theory of representative democracy
1993
Their platforms reflect concern with enhancing the probability of being elected, but some candidates often, or all candidates occasionally, voluntarily adept stances that reduce that probability. Governments care about their popularity, but sometimes they choose, even before an election, to announce or implement policies that are unpopular. For most people, the phenomenon is no news and is not altogether a unhappy one. Deprecating words such as demagogy or "mob rule" and praising ones such as leadership or statesmanship express a deeply-rooted, widelyshared concern about the possibility that democratic politicians could be too subservient to public opinion.(...)
Sekularyzacja. Kilka uwag w perspektywie myśli J. Ratzingera - Benedykta XVI
2020
Religia od początku towarzyszyła ludzkości. Zajmowała na przestrzeni dziejów różne miejsce i odgrywała w społeczeństwie zmieniającą się rolę. Był okres sojuszu ołtarza z tronem, a od oświecenia drogi te zaczynały się coraz bardziej rozchodzić. Na obecność tego procesu współcześnie wskazuje także papież Benedykt XVI. Sekularyzacja jednak nie jest dla niego procesem na wskroś negatywnym. Uznaje on słuszność autonomii rzeczy stworzonych, a zatem również autonomii uprawiania nauki oraz organizowania społeczeństwa. Niebezpieczeństwo kryje się w źle rozumianym sekularyzmie, który wyklucza obecność Boga w życiu społecznym i spycha religię do życia jedynie prywatnego. Zdaniem papieża powinna istnie…
Directional sense in familiar environments misaligned with the cardinal directions: Poster
2021
Directional sense in familiar environments misaligned with the cardinal directions: Oral presentation
2021
Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterising the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem-Gnat…
2020
Morphological variation (disparity) is almost invariably characterised by two non-mutually exclusive approaches: (i) quantitatively, through geometric morphometrics, and (ii) in terms of discrete, 'cladistic', or categorical characters. Uncertainty over the comparability of these approaches diminishes the potential to obtain nomothetic insights into the evolution of morphological disparity and the few benchmarking studies conducted so far show contrasting results. Here, we apply both approaches to characterising morphology in the stem-gnathostome clade Osteostraci in order to assess congruence between these alternative methods as well as to explore the evolutionary patterns of the group in …
Solidarietà post-coniugale, assegno di divorzio e autonomia privata
2021
Il saggio esamina la questione dell'assegno di divorzio nella prospettiva della solidarietà post-coniugale, analizzando criticamente l'esito di cripto-indissolubilità del matrimonio che emerge dalla consolidata lettura della relativa obbligazione come tendenzialmente priva di termine finale. The essay examines the issue of the divorce allowance from the perspective of post-marital solidarity, critically analyzing the outcome of the crypto-indissolubility of marriage that emerges from the consolidated reading of the relative obligation as tendentially without a final term.
Dystopian fiction in English: a corpus-driven analysis of esteem in Veronica Roth’s "Divergent" trilogy
2020
In light of the recent wave of popularity of dystopian fiction for young adults, and in particular of Veronica Roth’s trilogy Divergent, research has begun to focus on this subgenre. However, the focus tends to be on educational and gender approaches to the novels, while the psychological aspects of the characters have been largely ignored. My study focuses on the representation of esteem and self-esteem in the trilogy through an analysis based on annotation. The results shed light on the factors that affect the protagonist’s role and self-representation.