scholarly journals How to Be an Informed Consumer of Evidence Ratings: It’s in the Details

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Bergum ◽  
Lael Grigg ◽  
Marjory L. Givens ◽  
Bridget Booske Catlin ◽  
Julie Willems Van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consumer

Reading and Reviewing Research: Tips for the Informed Consumer

2000 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Informed Consumer

Those who work in the field of human services are bombarded with research of all types and levels of quality. The task of reviewing research for publication can lend a number of helpful concepts to those who are consumers of such research. This brief piece suggests a number of tactics for becoming a more effective consumer of research reports and, by extension, a better producer of human services research.

Impact of Online Reviews on Purchasing Decisions

2016 ◽  
pp. 278-291
Author(s):  
Dhiraj Jain ◽  
Lovish Bhansali ◽  
K. Sanal Nair
Keyword(s):  
Online Reviews ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Electronic Products ◽  
Consumer Reviews ◽  
Online Consumer Reviews ◽  
Online Sales ◽  
Purchasing Behaviour ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Informed Consumer ◽  
The Relationship

Internet has enabled today's consumer to transform himself from passive to an active and an informed consumer who can share his experiences, opinions about product or services with an infinite number of consumers around the globe. These reviews or opinions are further used by potential buyers of that particular product or service via electronic Word of Mouth (e-WOM). The study on the impact of e-WOM on online sales has gradually emerged but a number of questions still remain unanswered. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of one type of e-WOM i.e., the online consumer reviews, on purchasing decisions of electronic products. This empirical study also focuses on the relationship between reviews and purchasing behaviour. An instrument was prepared to measure the proposed constructs, with questionnaire items taken from prior studies but adapted to fit the context of e-commerce. The survey was applied to academicians in India through internet. The results show that consumer reviews have a causal impact on consumer purchasing behaviour and they have an effect on choosing the products by consumer. Finally, the results and their implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Species dynamics and interactions via metabolically informed consumer-resource models

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-518
Author(s):  
Mario E. Muscarella ◽  
James P. O’Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Species Dynamics ◽  
Informed Consumer ◽  
Consumer Resource

A review of the welfare issues for sows and piglets in relation to housing

2001 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Barnett ◽  
P. H. Hemsworth ◽  
G. M. Cronin ◽  
E. C. Jongman ◽  
G. D. Hutson
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Maternal Behaviour ◽  
Group Housing ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Conventional Alternative ◽  
Informed Consumer ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Piglet Survival ◽  
Research Recommendations

This review of sow welfare addresses all aspects of housing for adult female pigs, including the issue of piglet welfare during lactation. It puts the issue of sow welfare in perspective by briefly outlining different approaches to the scientific assessment of welfare, the ‘feelings, preference, nature, and the functional or homeostasis’ approaches. We believe the last approach currently offers science the best assessment of welfare and is the approach that is utilised in this review. It involves comparing housing or husbandry systems and risks to welfare on the basis of relative changes in biological (behavioural and physiological) responses and corresponding decreases in fitness (growth rate, reproductive performance, or health/injury/immunology). The review discusses the following areas: (i) housing of individually housed pregnant pigs, with subsections on tethers, stalls, reproductive performance, exercise, and new stall designs; conventional, alternative, and outdoor group housing with subsections on aggression, electronic feeding stations, ecoshelters, and other alternative group housing designs; and other issues, such as lameness, culling, straw and other substrates, diet and hunger, quality of stockpeople, and housing around mating including oestrus detection and mating; and (ii) farrowing and lactating pigs with subsections on farrowing crates and alternative farrowing systems, stress around farrowing and during lactation, maternal behaviour and piglet survival, and sow and piglet injury and lameness. Conclusions and recommendations arising from the review include the need for public education to provide an informed consumer base that will result in some consensus on welfare issues among diverse interest groups and the need for industry education that results in better animal welfare and a sustainable industry. Some specific research recommendations include space allowance and the duration of housing for individually housed pigs, welfare issues of breeding sows in ecoshelters, piglet mortality in alternative systems, aggression in conventional and large groups, bedding, and hunger.

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