The Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont and New York, USA and Quebec, Canada includes a large lake and watershed with complex management issues. A transboundary comprehensive management plan prepared for the lake includes 11 goals across many issue areas. We developed a choice experiment to examine public preferences for alternative Lake Champlain management scenarios across these issue areas. Five...

Regionality is a term used in the tea industry to describe particular style of produced by growing region. Determining characteristics specific regions can help growers predict plant quality before harvesting and eventually production. As such, this study, we collected representative Oolong samples from 15 8 countries. Quantitative description analysis (QDA) flavor wheel were analyze their sens...

physical properties of fruits and vegetables are the subject of many researches because of its importance in designing of agricultural machinery. banana fruit is one of important fruit. in this study some physical properties of banana fruit (cavendish variety) were determined. properties which were measured included weight of whole fruit peel and pulp weight, dimensions, surface area and projec...

Product lines evolve out of existing products. In order to evaluate the potential of creating a product line from existing products it is necessary to ‘mine’ their architectures and analyze the commonalities and variabilities across those architectures. To manage the evaluation process in a disciplined way this paper introduces the MAP (Mining Architectures for Product lines) method. MAP outlin...

Voice quality or type of phonation (e.g., a whispery voice) can prime specific sensory associations amongst consumers. In the realm and consumer science, wide range taste-sound correspondences has been documented. A growing body research on crossmodal revealed that people reliably associate sounds with basic taste qualities. Here, we examined largely unexplored between tastes sounds: namely tas...

Digital consumer innovations offer low-carbon alternatives to mainstream consumption practices. We address a lack of research on the factors influencing post-adoption decisions discontinuance for this important class innovations. conducted repeat survey with UK consumers (n = 995) in 2019 and 2020 investigate 16 digital products services across mobility, food, homes, energy domains. Our capture...

Consumers constantly chat online about products using a large vocabulary of words (expressing product attributes with valence or sentiments) in various online platforms such as product reviews. Each of these could scale up rapidly with variations emerging over time. The crossing of thousands of consumers’ posts by thousands of attributes and sentiments creates a large dimensionality problem of ...