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Key factors of information management for crowdfunding investor satisfaction

2021

Abstract Crowdlending platforms are becoming increasingly important as a collective financing mechanism for entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially those at an early stage. This study, which is based on a survey of investors on a Spanish crowdlending platform, uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine investor satisfaction with crowdlending platforms. Specifically, the study examines communication policies and the quality of the investor experience based on the information provided by these platforms. The value of this article lies in its examination of the antecedents of crowdlending investor satisfaction. The analysis shows that the…

Emerging Markets and the Global Financial Crisis

2010

Over the 1990s, crises developed in emerging markets and, while they did send shockwaves across the world, their effects were perceived mostly by other emerging markets.1 The domestic and international policy recommendations that followed focused on strategies to reduce this instability, seen as a threat to the world economy. At the end of the 2000s, the world seems to have gone upside down. The 2008/2009 global financial crisis started earlier in 2007 with a sharp rise in defaults on sub-prime mortgages in one of the most advanced nations, the US, and quickly spread through the interbank market to become an international credit and liquidity squeeze. The credit crisis involved other indust…

Perceptual odor blending is influenced by chemical complexity of odorant mixtures

2008

International audience; Perfumers and flavorists are familiar with odor blending phenomenon and often report that a minimum number of odorants has to be mixed for a good odor blend to arise. Previous studies in humans and animals suggested that a configural process could be involved in the perceptual analysis of mixtures of odorants. It has been proposed that the perceptual blending phenomenon corresponds to a configural perception of odorant mixtures. In the present study, we investigated the influence of chemical complexity on the configural perception of odorant mixtures. Six mixtures including 2 to 6 odorants as well as each unmixed odorant were assessed for their odor quality by a pane…

Pharmacophore study of a blending six-component odor mixture

2016

The first step of odor perception is an interaction between odorants and olfactory receptors [1]. The corresponding transduced olfactory signals, conveyed by olfactory sensory neurons, are then processed by the brain [2]. It is now accepted that the main strategy used to discriminate thousands of odors results from a combinatorial coding [3]. Moreover, odors perceived in our environment are mainly the result of mixtures of odorants; however, the specific mechanisms involved in their processing remain poorly understood [4]. In previous studies performed in the CSGA of Dijon [5-7], we investigated the perception of a mixture of 6 components: vanillin, oxanone (4-(4-hydroxyphenyl)butan-2-one),…

Exploring the network of odours shared by an aroma blending mixture

2019

International audience; The first step of odour perception is an interaction between odorants and olfactory receptors [1]. Moreover, odours perceived in our environment are mainly the result of mixtures of odorants; however, the specific mechanisms involved in their processing remain poorly understood [2]. In previous studies performed at INRA-CSGA [3], the perception of a mixture of ethyl isobutyrate (Et-iB, strawberry-like odour, STR) and ethyl maltol (Et-M, caramel-like odour, CAR) was investigated in comparison with a reference (allyl hexanoate, Al-H, pineapple-like odour, PNA) chosen to evoke an odour close to the one expected in the mixture. The binary specific mixture of Et-iB and Et…

Understanding the odor mixture

2013

International audience

Chapter 5 - Perceptual interactions in complex odor mixtures: the blending effect

2011

Exploring of odor blending in odorant mixtures by a pharmacophore approach

2015

The first step of odor perception is an interaction between odorants and olfactory receptors (ORs) [1]. It is now accepted that the main strategy used by Humans to perceive thousands of odors results from a combinatorial coding [2]. Moreover, odors we perceived in our environment are mainly the result of mixtures of odorants; however, the processes involved remain poorly understood [3]. In previous studies performed in the CSGA of Dijon[4, 5], the perception of a mixture of specific proportions of ethyl isobutyrate (Et-iB, strawberry-like odor) and ethyl maltol (Et-M, caramel-like odor) was investigated in comparison with a reference (allyl hexanoate, Al-H, pineapple-like odor) chosen to ev…

Exploring the odorant and molecular characteristics of molecules sharing the odour notes of an aroma blending mixture

2021

Online event (Live and on-demand); International audience; To perceive a huge number of odors from few hundreds ORs, the human olfactory system encodes odor identities by an olfactory scheme whereby one olfactory receptor (OR) recognizes multiple odorants while one odorant activates different combinations of ORs [1, 2]. Odors perceived in our environment are mainly the result of mixtures of odorants, but the specific mechanisms involved in their processing remain poorly understood [3]. In previous studies performed at INRAE-CSGA [4], the perception of a mixture of ethyl isobutyrate (Et iB, strawberry-like odor, STR) and ethyl maltol (Et-M, caramel-like odor, CAR) was investigated in compari…

Janus Nanostructures from ABC/B Triblock Terpolymer Blends

2019

Lamella-forming ABC triblock terpolymers are convenient building blocks for the synthesis of soft Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) by crosslinking the B domain that is &ldquo