This article uses a stage model of ethical decision-making to explain consumers’ inclination toward ethical product alternatives. The current paper enhances the stage-model approach by considering ...egoistic purchasing motives and gender as moderating variables. The current study shows that the effect of negative affect on ethical purchasing intention is mediated by ethical judgement and moral obligation. Interestingly, the mediation effect is more pronounced for male respondents. Furthermore, egoistic purchasing motives moderate the effects of the stage-model components on ethical judgment as well as on ethical purchasing intention. These moderation effects are boosted or altered if gender is considered as moderator. Based on the empirical results and considering study limitations, the paper presents practical implications and avenues for future research.
Abstract Although Instagram is widely used among young people, it has only recently caught researchers’ attention. Following the perspective of the I-PACE model, the present study examined the ...relationship between neuroticism and problematic Instagram use (PIU) in Italian university students who had an Instagram account. We assumed that the relationship between neuroticism and PIU could be explained by direct and indirect paths, passing through Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and motives for Instagram use. 362 Instagram users (72.1% female; M age = 25.35, SD = 4.25) filled out a questionnaire assessing demographics, Instagram use features, Neuroticism, Problematic Instagram use, FoMO, and Motivations for Using Instagram. Results showed that neuroticism affected PIU only indirectly through FoMO, escapism and self-expression motives. Additionally, FoMO promoted higher levels of escapism and self-expression motives, increasing participants’ risk of PIU. This is the first study testing the mediating role of motives for using Instagram between personality predisposing factors and PIU. The findings provide new insights into the relationship between the factors that may promote PIU and have important clinical implications. These include the possibility for practitioners to prevent PIU more easily by acting on users’ motivations and cognitions, such as escapism, self-expession and FoMO, rather than working on predisposing personality factors, that are usually more stable over time.
Technology licensing involves the simultaneous competition and collaboration between the partnering organizations (“coopetition”). This paper investigates resource-based, market-based, and ...imitation-based motives in technology licensing partner selection. Using the theoretical foundations of these diverse motives, we identify drivers related to whether firms license-in technologies from science-based organizations (i.e., universities, government, and research institutes) and competitors. Using 307 patent licenses, we found that technological similarity has differing impacts on the choice of science-based organizations and competitors. Our results show that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between technological similarity and choice of competitors, while a U-shaped relationship exists between technological similarity and choice of science-based organizations. We also find that when there are a large number of product-market entries, firms tend to license technologies from competitors. These results confirm that the drivers of technology licensing partner selection vary depending on firms' diverse motivations.
•Technology licensing partner selection is driven by diverse coopetition motives.•U-shaped relationship; technological similarity and selecting science-based partner.•Inverted U-shaped relationship; technological similarity and selecting competitor.•Product market entries positively impact choice of competitors in license alliances.
This Paper is an output of our social empowerment in South Larangan, Tangerang. This program granted by Muhammadiyah higher education through RisetMu batch V year 2022. Our issue why we did this ...program only caused the reason that the existence larangan’s batik has to keep and develop of its motive. We used collaborative method as our approach perspective to run this program. We develop larangan’s batik motive namely Holy Water and added some ingredients such as mathematics geometry and Crow motive. For this program run well, we are in cooperation with Mayang Batik Community which is they are community in South Larangan focused to create and making batik especially Larangan’s batik. As a result, we are success develop motive Larangan’s into 2 new motive Larangan’s batik added mathematics geometry, Kowak, and Muhammadiyah logo
Novel antibacterial therapies are urgently required to tackle the increasing number of multidrug‐resistant pathogens. Identification of new antimicrobial targets is critical to avoid possible ...cross‐resistance issues. Bacterial proton motive force (PMF), an energetic pathway located on the bacterial membrane, crucially regulates various biological possesses such as adenosine triphosphate synthesis, active transport of molecules, and rotation of bacterial flagella. Nevertheless, the potential of bacterial PMF as an antibacterial target remains largely unexplored. The PMF generally comprises electric potential (ΔΨ) and transmembrane proton gradient (ΔpH). In this review, we present an overview of bacterial PMF, including its functions and characterizations, highlighting the representative antimicrobial agents that specifically target either ΔΨ or ΔpH. At the same time, we also discuss the adjuvant potential of bacterial PMF‐targeting compounds. Lastly, we highlight the value of PMF disruptors in preventing the transmission of antibiotic resistance genes. These findings suggest that bacterial PMF represents an unprecedented target, providing a comprehensive approach to controlling antimicrobial resistance.
As an ancient Indonesian art, Batik has been recognized by the United Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Batik is one of the original handicrafts in Indonesia. This research ...explores three main issues of Bakaran batik legend: community leaders’ viewpoint in Juana, Pati Regency; aspects of context and implicatures; and coherences among themes, visual elements, and images. A qualitative method was conducted in this research. It was conducted in February-April 2022 with a case study at Bakaran Juana Pati district. Data collection techniques were employed through in-depth interviews, non-participatory observation, and document analysis. Data was collected using observations and interviews with eight informants. The data was analyzed using pragmatics. The findings revealed that Bakaran batik has its uniqueness explicitly in its patterns. Numerous designs in Bakaran batik patterns are associated with the legend of Nyai Ageng Danowati, a Majapahit Kingdom’s Batik expert figure who escaped from Majapahit and then lived in Bakaran village Juana district, Pati Regency. It implicitly has legendary aspects when analyzed in terms of possible patterns. Bakaran village’s legendary patterns include the Kembang Druju, the Limaran, the Gandrung, and the Magel Ati. The legend pattern’s context is typically connected with the legend of the Batik figure, Nyai Ageng Danowati, and the implicature of the legendary pattern is related to the moment of Nyai Ageng Danowati for spending her life while she was on the escapement. The visual elements and the image of the legend motif are coherent, and the visual form of the Motif theme is relevant to Nyai Danowati’s life story.
The present research explores why consumers hesitate to make purchase decisions depending solely on online search; instead, they prefer webrooming (online search followed by offline purchases). ...Further, it also explores how the need for personal interaction induces webrooming intention among consumers. To understand the complex and varied nature of consumers' webrooming intentions, we propose using the Uses and Gratification Theory and Uncertainty Reduction Theory to gain insights into consumers' webrooming intentions by focusing on both dimensions, i.e., gratifications and the risks involved in webrooming. Based on an online survey a total of 334 responses were collected. The data was analyzed sequentially: SEM (structural equation modeling) and fsQCA (fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis). The finding supported the role of hedonic and utilitarian motives in online search, further influencing offline purchase intention (webrooming intention). fSQCA reported that the presence of online search, hedonic motives, and perceived risk insufficiency conditions help achieve the highest level of intention to purchase from offline stores. The need for personal interaction positively moderated the association between online search and intention to purchase from offline stores. This research contributes to key theoretical and managerial implications related to the decision-making of retail settings (online/offline).
•UGT and URT to get insights about consumers' webrooming intentions•The data was analyzed using SEM and fsQCA.•The findings supported hedonic and utilitarian motive in online search, further influencing webrooming intention.•The need for personal interaction moderated the association between online search and webrooming intention
Melodies are full of repeated patterns of pitch, interval, and rhythm. It has been suggested that these repeated patterns aid the listener in creating an efficient encoding; this raises the ...possibility that compositional practice might have evolved to facilitate this process. I propose three specific hypotheses about compositional practice: 1) Repeated intervallic patterns tend to be metrically parallel, with each instance of the pattern falling at the same position in relation to the metrical structure; 2) Purely intervallic repetitions tend to be confined to short distances (longer-distance repetitions tend to involve repetition of scale-degrees as well); 3) Repeated intervallic patterns tend to involve multiple intervals rather than single ones. In each case, I explain how such a compositional strategy might facilitate efficient encoding. Corpus analyses of classical themes and European folk songs find support for all three hypotheses.
The contribution of the motor capacity to the formation of skills specific to carrying out the combat actions that characterize the modern warfare is immense because it brings together all the motor ...acts performed to maintain relations with the natural or social environment, including those done through the performance of skills specific to certain activities with a military-applicative nature. The acquisition of the knowledge specific to the development of basic motor qualities as well as the consolidation and improvement of basic and utilitarian-applicative motor skills that represent the purposes of physical activity is achieved through intense activity. They are processes that also require a certain set of intellectual activities which involve effort to understand and perform specific activities. Therefore, motor learning capacity also involves the engagement in activity of important body processes such as: affectivity, memory, imagination, thinking or will.
In addition to ∆pH formed across the thylakoid membrane, membrane potential contributes to proton motive force (pmf) in chloroplasts. However, the regulation of photosynthetic electron transport is ...mediated solely by ∆pH. To assess the contribution of two cyclic electron transport pathways around photosystem I (one depending on PGR5/PGRL1 and one on NDH) to pmf formation, electrochromic shift (ECS) was analyzed in the Arabidopsis pgr5 mutant, NDH-defective mutants (ndhs and crr4-2), and their double mutants (ndhs pgr5 and crr4-2 pgr5). In pgr5, the size of the pmf, as represented by ECSt, was reduced by 30% to 47% compared with that in the wild type (WT). A gH+ parameter, which is considered to represent the activity of ATP synthase, was enhanced at high light intensities. However, gH+ recovered to its low-light levels after 20min in the dark, implying that the elevation in gH+ is due to the disturbed regulation of ATP synthase rather than to photodamage. After long dark adaptation more than 2h, gH+ was higher in pgr5 than in the WT. During induction of photosynthesis, gH+ was more rapidly elevated in pgr5 than that in the WT. Both results suggest that ATP synthase is not fully inactivated in the dark in pgr5. In the NDH-deficient mutants, ECSt was slightly but significantly lower than in the WT, whereas gH+ was not affected. In the double mutants, ECSt was even lower than in pgr5. These results suggest that both PGR5/PGRL1- and NDH-dependent pathways contribute to pmf formation, although to different extents. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Chloroplast Biogenesis.
•Two PSI cyclic pathways contribute to pmf to different extents.•In pgr5, a decrease in pmf was accompanied by enhanced proton conductivity (gH+).•Enhanced gH+ by high light in pgr5 was recovered to the low light level.•gH+ was higher in pgr5 than in WT even after long dark adaptation.•In WT, gH+ responded to high light like in pgr5, but with much lower amplitude.
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