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Olson, Denise L., James R. Nechols, and Charles W. Marr. "Consumers' Preference for Insecticide-free Pumpkins in Eastern Kansas." HortTechnology 5, no. 3 (July 1995): 274–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.5.3.274.

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A survey conducted at farmers' markets in eastern Kansas showed that more consumers purchased pumpkins for jack-o-lanterns than for cooking. One to four jack-o-lantern pumpkins are purchased annually per consumer. Whether or not the pumpkins are treated with insecticides to control squash bugs and regardless of their intended use, consumers preferred U.S. no. 1 grade, which sell at the higher retail price of $0.33/kg. At least 90% of the consumers surveyed would pay 20% more than the retail price for insecticide-free pumpkins. About two-thirds of those polled would pay 30% more. Cost-benefit data indicate that the higher prices consumers would pay may not be sufficient for growers to produce insecticide-free pumpkins economically using only biological control. However, if biological control is integrated with host-plant resistance, the higher prices may be sufficient for growers to produce insecticide-free pumpkins.
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Zhao, Xin, Edward E. Carey, and Fadi M. Aramouni. "Consumer Sensory Evaluation of Organically and Conventionally Grown Spinach." HortScience 40, no. 4 (July 2005): 1093C—1093. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.40.4.1093c.

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Consumers of organic food tend to believe that it tastes better than its conventional counterpart. However, there is a lack of scientific studies on sensory analysis of organic food. A consumer taste test was conducted to compare the acceptability of organically and conventionally grown spinach. Spinach samples were collected from organically and conventionally managed plots at the Kansas State University Research and Extension Center, Olathe. One hundred-twenty-two untrained panelists (80 female and 42 male) participated in this consumer study. Fresh and 1-week-old spinach leaves were evaluated by 60 and 62 consumers, respectively, using a 9-point hedonic scale (9 = like extremely, 5 = neither like nor dislike, 1 = dislike extremely). The ANOVA results showed that fresh organic spinach had a higher preference score than corresponding conventional spinach, although not at a significant level (P = 0.1790). For the 1-week-old spinach, the difference diminished, and instead, conventional spinach had a higher preference rating. Among 61 consumers who made comments regarding the sensory evaluation, 29 claimed that organic spinach was more tasty and flavorful; 19 consumers thought conventional spinach was better; 13 consumers could not tell the difference. Even though this consumer study did not reveal significant differences in consumer preference for organic vs. conventional spinach, further well-designed sensory tests are warranted given the trends indicated in our study. Assessment of sensory attributes of organic vegetables after storage also deserves further attention. Ideally, both consumer tests and descriptive analysis using trained panelists will be considered.
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MAUGHAN, CURTIS, EDGAR CHAMBERS, SANDRIA GODWIN, DELORES CHAMBERS, SHERYL CATES, and KADRI KOPPEL. "Food Handling Behaviors Observed in Consumers When Cooking Poultry and Eggs." Journal of Food Protection 79, no. 6 (June 1, 2016): 970–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-15-311.

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ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that many consumers do not follow recommended food safety practices for cooking poultry and eggs, which can lead to exposure to Salmonella and Campylobacter. Past research has been done primarily through surveys and interviews, rather than observations. The objective of this project was to determine through observations whether consumers follow food safety guidelines. Consumers (n =101) divided among three locations (Manhattan, KS; Kansas City, MO area; and Nashville, TN) were observed as they prepared a baked whole chicken breast, a pan-fried ground turkey patty, a fried egg, and scrambled eggs. The end point temperature for the cooked products was taken (outside the view of consumers) within 30 s after the consumers indicated they were finished cooking. Thermometer use while cooking was low, although marginally higher than that of some previous studies: only 37% of consumers used a thermometer for chicken breasts and only 22% for turkey patties. No one used a thermometer for fried or scrambled eggs. Only 77% of the chicken and 69% of the turkey was cooked to a safe temperature (165°F [74°C]), and 77% of scrambled and 49% of fried eggs reached a safe temperature (160°F [71°C]). Safe hand washing was noted in only 40% of respondents after handling the chicken breast and 44% after handling the ground turkey patty. This value decreased to 15% after handling raw eggs for fried eggs and to 17% for scrambled eggs. These results show that there is a high prevalence of unsafe behaviors (undercooking and poor hand washing technique) when cooking poultry and eggs and a great need for improvement in consumer behavior with poultry and eggs.
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Marr, Charles W., and Karen L. B. Gast. "Reactions by Consumers in a Farmers' Market to Prices for Seedless Watermelon and Ratings of Eating Quality." HortTechnology 1, no. 1 (October 1991): 105–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.1.1.105.

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Consumers in six farmers' market locations in Kansas indicated that they would pay an additional 5¢ per pound for seedless watermelons. When asked to rate seeded and seedless melons on a 1 to 10 scale after tasting samples, consumers rated the seedless melon 7.35 and the seeded melon 7.01. There were no practical differences among the six locations studied. With the difficulties in growing seedless melons and greater costs of production, growers and marketers need to assess carefully the market potential for seedless watermelons and plan a merchandising strategy to differentiate seedless from seeded melons. Our studies indicated a slight eating quality preference for seedless melons.
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Rapp, Charles A., Diane McDiarmid, Doug Marty, Sarah Ratzlaff, Anna Collins, and Sadaaki Fukui. "A two-year longitudinal study of the Kansas Consumers as Providers training program." Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 32, no. 1 (2008): 40–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2975/32.1.2008.40.46.

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Neujahr, Jennifer, and Karen L. B. Gast. "Determining Consumer Interests and Preferences in the Consumer Horticultural Industry: Results of a Consumer Interest and Market Survey of Garden Show Attendees." HortScience 31, no. 4 (August 1996): 700b—700. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.31.4.700b.

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Consumer interest and market surveys play an important role in determining what consumer wants and needs are from an industry. These surveys can also serve the role of preparing students for their future jobs in the industry. The horticulture industry is no different. Companies need to know what consumer interests and needs are so they can serve them better. Likewise, students need to know what areas of horticulture are receiving the highest demand by consumers so they can prepare themselves better. A consumer preference study was conducted at the Topeka, Kan., “Lawn, Garden, and Flower Show” by members of the Kansas State Univ. Horticulture Club. The objectives of the survey were to determine: 1) the specific gardening interests of the respondents, 2) the demand for educational materials on specific gardening areas by the respondents, 3) what the respondents' garden buying habits were, and 4) what the respondents' plant selection preferences were. Survey respondents indicated that, when selecting plant material, plant quality was the most important criterion used, while plant packaging was of least importance. Plant size and price were only given some importance in the plant selection decision. Other results of the survey will be presented.
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Pomeranz, Jennifer L., and Mark Pertschuk. "Key Drivers of State Preemption of Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy: A Thematic Content Analysis of Public Testimony." American Journal of Health Promotion 33, no. 6 (January 6, 2019): 894–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0890117118823163.

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Purpose: Local communities are often active public health policy makers, so state preemption—when the state withdraws authority from local governments—can hinder public health progress. Kansas enacted the most sweeping law in the nation preempting food, nutrition, and agricultural policy. Design: Qualitative thematic content analysis was used on public comments to identify and evaluate common and key arguments. A codebook was developed using an iterative process. Open coding was applied to all comments. Setting: All testimony and comments submitted by individuals and organizations to the Kansas State Legislature on the preemptive bill. Participants: Eight types of commentators submitted 34 written and 12 oral comments. Measures: The data were evaluated on a latent level to examine underlying drivers of preemption. Results: Comments addressed 18 themes, referenced 366 times; 68% in opposition. Common themes included local control, food labeling, public health, need for statewide standards, and debate over food regulation. Key themes included the need for state and federal uniformity to support businesses and consumers, debate over topics not in the bill, the value of local control, confusion over bill coverage, and outside influences. Conclusion: Confusion about bill language and coverage, the combination of food and agricultural issues, and backing by multinational corporations helped propel preemption forward in Kansas. Food policy stakeholders nationally can anticipate similar arguments and strategies in their state.
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POUILLOT, RÉGIS, MERYL B. LUBRAN, SHERYL C. CATES, and SHERRI DENNIS. "Estimating Parametric Distributions of Storage Time and Temperature of Ready-to-Eat Foods for U.S. Households." Journal of Food Protection 73, no. 2 (February 1, 2010): 312–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-73.2.312.

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Home refrigeration temperatures and product storage times are important factors for controlling the growth of Listeria monocytogenes in refrigerated ready-to-eat foods. In 2005, RTI International, in collaboration with Tennessee State University and Kansas State University, conducted a national survey of U.S. adults to characterize consumers' home storage and refrigeration practices for 10 different categories of refrigerated ready-to-eat foods. No distributions of storage time or refrigeration temperature were presented in any of the resulting publications. This study used classical parametric survival modeling to derive parametric distributions from the RTI International storage practices data set. Depending on the food category, variability in product storage times was best modeled using either exponential or Weibull distributions. The shape and scale of the distributions varied greatly depending on the food category. Moreover, the results indicated that consumers tend to keep a product that is packaged by a manufacturer for a longer period of time than a product that is packaged at retail. Refrigeration temperatures were comparable to those previously reported, with the variability in temperatures best fit using a Laplace distribution, as an alternative to the empirical distribution. In contrast to previous research, limited support was found for a correlation between storage time and temperature. The distributions provided in this study can be used to better model consumer behavior in future risk assessments.
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Khatamian, Houchang, and Alan Stevens. "355A COMPARISON OF REGIONAL CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR PACKAGING OF NURSERY STOCK." HortScience 29, no. 5 (May 1994): 481f—482. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.29.5.481f.

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During the Spring of 1992 a survey of over 2000 respondants was conducted as personal interviews at Flower/Garden Shows in Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Portland. When asked how the plants you buy are packaged? Nine percent of the Los Angeles (LA) sample said they purchased trees as balled and burlapped (B & B) while over 40% of the consumers from the other regions purchased trees as B & B. Over 40% of all respondents purchased shrubs in “container”. When asked how would you like to have landscape plants packaged? While only 31% of the LA sample chose to purchase trees as B & B, over 70% of the consumers from other regions preferred to buy in a B & B form. More than 50% of all respondents also preferred to purchase trees in “Container”. By a two to one margin consumers chose to purchase ornamental shrubs in “Container”. Regardless of the region of the country, “bare-root” and “plastic package” were least desired. About 1/2 of the respondents were couples, 80% owned their own homes, over 50% had an income of $25,000 to $75,000 and more than 75% did own plantings.
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Lewis, Frank D. "American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870–1920. By Brian C. Hosmer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xvi, 309. $35.00." Journal of Economic History 61, no. 4 (December 2001): 1141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050701005782.

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In recent years the study of native Americans has emphasized their response to incentives, among them the economic incentives associated with European contact. Despite the initial cultural and religious divide between aboriginals and the newcomers, historians are becoming increasingly of the view that, in many dimensions, Indians approached the market much as did nonnative consumers and producers. Brian Hosmer's American Indians in the Marketplace is firmly in this once-revisionist tradition. Hosmer presents case studies of two bands that developed successful, resource-based, economies; the Menominees of north-eastern Wisconsin, and the Tsimshians of Metlakatla, on the northern coast of British Columbia. Central to the economic and social development of these groups were the relations between band members and nonaboriginals, relations that are the focus of Hosmer's narrative.
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Stadtlander, Mark D. "Trash collection efficiency and consumer knowledge: municipal trash collection in Manhattan, Kansas." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13158.

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Master of Science
Department of Landscape Architecture Regional and Community Planning
Huston Gibson
The provision of services in a community is often taken for granted, or done the way things have always been done. It is sensible to examine those practices to see if the system in place is advantageous to all parties involved. This paper examines the forms of municipal trash collection used in the United States and specifically Manhattan, Kansas. This examination includes a literature review of forms of solid waste collection and how informed vs. uninformed consumers act when purchasing goods and services. The specific traits of seven municipal trash service providers in Manhattan are analyzed. The findings of this project include a spread in prices that economic theory alone may not explain. These finding, supported by literature, would suggest that there is a breakdown in the transfer of information between service providers and consumers.
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McDonald, Jennifer. "Factors influencing premiums on local wines: an exploratory assessment of Kansas wine." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32727.

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Master of Agribusiness
Department of Agricultural Economics
Vincent R. Amanor-Boadu
While understanding consumer decisions about food choices is complex, the nature of wines makes it even more difficult to decipher how consumers arrive at their choices. Given the perceived importance of "local", how willing are consumers to pay for locally-produced wine? And, what characteristics of the wine influence the premium that consumers pay for it? These are the two related questions that this research seeks to address. The research uses a case study approach to explore how five wine characteristics of local Kansas wine influence the premium consumers are willing to pay. The five characteristics are appearance, aroma, body, taste and finish. The study uses four pairs of wine in the following groups: sweet white, dry white, semi-sweet red and dry red. Each pair is made up of a Kansas wine and a non-Kansas wine. A very well-defined set of focus group participants were invited to taste these wine without knowing the identity of the wines and score them according to their characteristics and then provide an indication of how much they are willing to pay. The case results indicate that the focus group participants were willing to discount Kansas wines in all cases of the four pairs. The factors affecting the discount were finish for sweet white wines, appearance for sweet red wines, taste and aroma for dry white and dry red wines. The implication of this exploratory case study is that while most local residents proclaim their willingness to pay a premium for local wines, when tested against national or international competitors, consumers are unwilling to pay a premium for these local wines because the local wines lack the desired quality the international wines have. The information is important because it provides direction for an entrepreneur seeking to develop local wines to focus on understanding and addressing the characteristics which influence consumers' willingness to pay a premium even as she determines which particular wines current players in the local Kansas industry has the potential to be competitive if they address the characteristics upon which they are penalized by consumers. This, despite this being an exploratory case study, it provides important direction for entrepreneurial action.
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Baudouin, Quentin. "Consumer demand for Community Supported Agriculture: a comparative study of the Kansas City (USA) and Midi-Pyrenees (France) regions." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7047.

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Master of Science
Department of Agricultural Economics
Hikaru H. Peterson
Farmer-to-consumer direct marketing institutions have expanded significantly in the last decades. In particular, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has developed exponentially in the US and in Europe. CSAs consist of a contract in which the consumer buys a share of the farm production at the beginning of the season and receive in exchange a bundle of products regularly. CSAs still account for a marginal share of food sales today and many questions remain unanswered, such as the level of knowledge of the general public about CSA, the potential size of the market, its consumer characteristics, and the main motivations and barriers that lead consumers to either join or not join CSAs. This study focused on addressing these questions for the Kansas City area and the central region in France. Another objective was to give recommendations to farmers on how to develop CSAs. Two versions of the surveys were designed and conducted in the US and in France to address the objectives. Particularly, two types of questions were used in order to elicit willingness to pay (WTP): an open-ended question and a choice experiment. A Tobit model and discrete choice models were run to analyze results from the open-ended question and the choice experiment, respectively. Results show that around 80 percent of the population knew little about CSAs. The understanding of the demand for CSAs shows that a potential market, accounting for around 25 percent of the population, exists, but consumers are very exigent and farmers need to provide well-considered contracts to attract consumers. Recommendations to farmers are presented following the 4P method. For the Product, the variety offered seems to be the most important point. For Price, it has been estimated from the demand at $300 in the US and €400 in France for a basic share. Promotion would need to focus on education. Having various delivery locations would be the best option concerning Place; home delivery was found to be unnecessary. Tendencies found in the US and in France were similar except for educational activities: the French are looking more for these opportunities than Americans who care more about convenience.
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Boonsener, Prach, and Thazali Siti Nur Shahizah Mohd. "Furniture Consumption in Thailand : A Kano model study of IKEA with implications for the strategy making process." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-7727.

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This thesis is a study of Thai consumer behavior that affects the purchasing and servicing in the furniture retail industry. A market survey was conducted in Thailand to support this study. The target group of this study is people residing in Bangkok aged 25 year old and above. In order to find a suitable strategy for the new IKEA in Thailand, the data gathered was analyzed and discussed by applying the type of Kano’s model with IKEA’s strategies. It was also analyzed in terms of conceptual level between Kano’s model and research strategy. The study reveals that consumer behavior and characteristics of consumer requirements in Thailand are different from others counties. IKEA has to adapt suitable strategies that are consistent with Thai consumer behavior to achieve consumer satisfaction. This thesis also discussed that Kano model can inform strategy making process in term of quality and customer satisfaction as the results from Kano model quantitative analysis provide understanding of customer requirements and their attributes.
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Cantrell, Joyce Ann. "The effect of wife's employment on consumption satisfaction for residents in seven non-metropolitan Kansas counties." 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/27598.

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Lynch, Nancy Marie. "Flavor, aroma and color influences on consumer acceptance and flavor profile analysis of polyvinyl chloride and vacuum packaged ground beef." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/27486.

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CHU, YA-CHI, and 曲雅琪. "A study on using KANO’s Model to explore the eating out Vegetarian consumers choice preferences." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59wfkb.

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碩士
輔仁大學
餐旅管理學系碩士班
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It is a great challenge for vegetarian customers to choose a suitable restaurant. In the case of fast and easy, buffet become the first choice for lots of people. However, there are still few restaurants afford food for vegetarian. If the research can find the innovation services which potential customers are looking for, it could increase opportunities of vegetarian restaurants and help them extend customer base to unusual vegetarian. Once the numbers of vegetarian restaurants increase, it would also benefit vegetarian. This research investigates customers’ perception of "dining environment", "taste", "overall service", and "marketing activities" of vegetarian restaurants through Kano two-dimensional quality model. The researcher modified from scale of documents, and composes the questionnaire after discussing with experts. Subjects are people who have been to vegetarian restaurants, and collecting data is analyzed by convenience sampling. There were 458 questionnaires be distributed to staff, and 454 valid questionnaires were received, with a response rate of 99%. The research shows that (1) the most important thing of the environment is neat and bright; the main consumer market area is the place which have good transport facilities. Comparing to most traditional vegetarian restaurants which have obvious religious symbols, modern people prefer the vegetarian restaurant with fashion style design. (2) Ingredients should be original with light taste, and customers prefer new dishes. Most of non-vegans sometimes choosing vegetarian restaurants base on health; therefore, they would prefer to choose ingredients in season and choose the cooking method that can keep original flavor. They don’t like strong flavor or greasy. In addition, V they hope vegetarian food can have more different new taste, or the restaurants can even provide some foreign cuisine such as Indian curry or Italian Pizza. (3) Professional can make customer eat at ease. Hanging cook license in restaurants can increase professionality of restaurants. Then, if waiters can clearly understanding the main ingredient and cooking method; notice customers and say ”welcome” when they enter the restaurant, it can let customers feel at home. Moreover, it is better for restaurants to provide a customer suggestion box or 0800 customer service hotline for customers to express their opinions. And, they also hope restaurants can provide receipt. These would gain customers’ favorable impression. (4)Health and Longevity become social tendency. The motion why people eat vegetarian is definite. Therefore, they would not influence by food TV programs or celebrity endorsements. On the other hand, they would influence by public service image or awareness of environment protection more than marketing activities held by restaurant. This result reflects that regardless of it is based on religious, environmental or health factors, these customers have a higher public awareness. This study is expected to provide analysis results for vegetarian restaurants as a reference for future operating and service strategy; moreover, to improve overall quality of vegetarian restaurant and in line with the trend of healthy diet.
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Chang, Shih-Feng, and 張世芬. "Using Kano’s model to explore consumer’s key demands for buying eye-care healthy food." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/755ex3.

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國立臺北大學
企業管理學系
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This research is mainly to explore “the key demands of consumers for buying eye-care healthy food”. First, using the modified Delphi method to find out the core demands. Passing through the in-depth interview with experts and literature collection to sort out the structural questionnaire. Using the Likert scale to converge expert’s opinions to consolidate the important and consistent product properties. Using Kanos model to explore “the key demands of consumers for buying eye-care healthy food”. To understand which product properties are valued by consumers? Which product properties are not valued but be over-provisioned ? Providing some information of consumer demands for improving sequencing and resource allocation. This research for converging the product properties is retained the opinions of the experts on the importance and consistency of consensus. Sorting out 20 product properties which including the absorption, availability, quality, safety, effectiveness, effective for symptoms, convenience, efficacy, professionalism, compliance with specifications, omnidirectional treatment, identification, recognition, high efficiency, reliability, price, promotion, convenient and fast, easy to take, nature. Using the questionnaire with “have” and “partially” instead of using “have” and “do not have” as the Kano’s model for research and analysis. The product properties are classified into five categories according to the definition of Kanos model. There are “Attractive quality element”, “One-dimensional quality element”, “Must-be quality element”, “Indifferent quality element” and ”Reverse quality element”. The “Must-be quality element” must be provided. Otherwise, it will lead to dissatisfaction. The “One-dimensional quality element” should be as much as possible and avoid missing. “Attractive quality element” will be used as a competitive strategy to increase sales. The “Reverse quality element” should be avoided as much as possible. The “Indifferent quality element” whether it is available or not will not have much impact, so it can be ruled out under the consideration of cost reduction.
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Wang, Chih-Feng, and 王志峰. "The Study for Consumer Demand of Mobile Phone-Base on the Framework of Kano’s Model." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01434089788401241454.

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碩士
逢甲大學
經營管理碩士在職專班
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In the twentieth century, computer is the most powerful invention. Because it changes people’s work type and improve the quality of life. It influences people a lot. But when it comes into twenty-first century, the importance of computer industry seems to be replaced by communication industry which focuses on mobile communication. In Taiwan, the quantities of mobile phone users are over ten million in the end of 1999 and it has exceeded ordinary phone users. An average of 1/2 people in Taiwan own mobile phones. The quantity of mobile phone user is over the user of ordinary phone and the quantity of computer. Now the user of mobile phone is growing up with amazing speed and cause many factories join in the research and development. But for customers, they don’t need every quality attribution. The definition of quality would be different as the time changes. Now the definition of quality is based on the customer satisfaction. Therefore, many factories believe that the customer satisfaction investigation is really important. In the past, the viewpoint for quality is one-dimensioned. It means that the customer satisfaction has a positive relationship with quality. However, we could not figure out the really opinions for quality from customers only by one-dimensioned quality to measure the value of commodities or service which on customers’ mind. Kano san improve the defects of one-dimensioned quality and bring up two-dimension quality model which includes must-be quality, one-dimensioned quality, attractive quality, indifferent quality, and reverse quality to measure the customer satisfaction for commodities and service. This study applies Kano’s two-dimensioned quality model on mobile phone’s commodities to confer customers’ demand for mobile phone quality. We could apply Kano’s two-dimensioned quality model to design the investigation sheet and have a sampling to figure out five different mobile phone qualities from customers. The result of this investigation shows that indifferent quality item is in the majority and the next are must-be quality and one-dimensioned quality and there is no reverse quality. The result of this study shows that: (1)In the 20 items, 1 item is classified as attractive quality, 2 items are classified as one-dimensional quality, 9 items are classified as indifferent quality, and 8 items are classified as must-be quality. There is no reverse quality. The most attributions are belonging to two-dimensioned. (2)This study uses Matzler and Hinterhuber’s quality improvement index to calculate the extent of satisfaction and extent of dissatisfaction. The result of study could be for reference to improve the quality.
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Chang, Yu-hsin, and 張瑜昕. "The Application of Kano’s Model in the Study of Consumer Behavior - Take Furniture Industry as Example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32098440927990903815.

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東海大學
工業設計學系
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With the awakening of the brand generations, consumer market was changed from original producer-oriented to consumer orientation. Therefore, consumer demand has become an important issue. After the understanding of consumer demand, how to maintain the loyalty of consumers repeat purchasing, Is an important part of the study to the current market and product’s design and development. Taiwan’s furniture industry was the major industry on the global export. However, in recent years as the global liberalization, internationalization and technological innovation, international competitive pressures have become more intense.In medium and small enterprises of the furniture industry, production and development processes is almost consider by responsible person of the company and marketing staff in cost-based producer. It does not meet the current needs of the consumer-oriented market. If to enhance consumer demand for product from development design and development phase, Can not only make furniture production to achieve balance between the needs of producers and consumers, but also to enhance the designers of the importance of traditional industries. This study explored consumer buying behavior for furniture products, with consumer behavior research, Help furniture industry to clarify the emphasis on consumer needs and attitudes of product value. In this study, questionnaires by Kano’s two-dimensional quality model survey the furniture product’s properties of elements are classified for the consumer. And use Customer satisfaction coefficient to explore overall consumer satisfaction, to establishment the furniture product development strategies. This study suggests that the idea of planning in the development of front-end part of the market research and consumer demand data collection and to enhance new product functionality on research and development. To design a unique type of consideration In middle stages of product design development. Part of the follow-up sales service is to enhance the sales channel management and education. Understand consumer satisfaction with the furniture products to help sort the development process, to enhance the importance of designers in the furniture manufacturing industry, and to producers and consumers demand balance.
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Books on the topic "Consumers – Kansas"

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The Kansas ad valorem tax refund: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, June 8, 1999. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1999.

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Harris-Kojetin, Lauren D. The Kansas City evaluation of Medicare & you and Medicare CAHPS: Results from focus groups with aged, disabled, and dual eligible beneficiaries. Research Triangle Park, N.C.]: Research Triangle Institute, 1999.

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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Aging. Elder justice and protection: Stopping the abuse : hearing before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, on examining the serious problem of elder abuse, determining ways of prevention and ensuring that crimes against the elderly are reported and those responsible are prosecuted, August 19, 2003 (Kansas City, MO). Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2004.

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McKinley, Robert B. Kansas Bank Credit Card Guide: Consumer Edition. Ram Research Pub Co, 1989.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City., ed. Housing, housing finance, and monetary policy: A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 20-September 1, 2007. [Kansas City, Mo.]: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Consumers – Kansas"

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Barnes, Cathy, Tom Childs, and Stephen Lillford. "Kansei/Affective Engineering for the European Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry." In Kansei/Affective Engineering, 253–74. CRC Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/ebk1439821336-10.

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"Kansei/Affective Engineering for the European Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry." In Kansei/Affective Engineering, 267–88. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/ebk1439821336-13.

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"Kansei/Affective Engineering for the European Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Industry." In Kansei Engineering, 2 Volume Set, 421–42. CRC Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16799-31.

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Friedline, Terri. "Only Sharks in the Tank." In Banking on a Revolution, 93–113. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190944131.003.0006.

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This chapter explores the coordinated relationship between banks and payday lenders by examining the recent attempts of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to regulate the payday lenders in Kansas City. While payday lenders and other higher-cost alternative financial services are criticized for their predatory practices, banks often escape a similar level of scrutiny despite their punishing fee structures and risk-based calculations. Both banks and payday lenders have largely escaped federal oversight. The disproportionate harms inflicted by payday lenders on Black and Brown communities are often treated as tolerable, perhaps considered causualties of doing business to dismiss these lenders from the oversight they deserve.
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Karakostas, Bill, and Yannis Zorgios. "An Overview and Summary." In Engineering Service Oriented Systems, 375–88. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-968-7.ch011.

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This book has introduced a model-driven approach for identifying, designing, deploying, and managing business services in software. The concept of e-service is an extension of conventional business services, made possible thanks to the rapid explosion in popularity of the Internet and the World Wide Web (Rust & Kannan, 2003). The first generation of e-commerce was based largely on retailing commodity goods, such as books and CDs, and used mass media advertising to contact consumers. The premise of first generation e-commerce was that operational efficiencies (i.e., minimizing the need and therefore the expense to keep physical stores) would reduce the costs of selling. Unfortunately, selling commodities has low profit margins due to competition. An alternative is required, that allows companies to built sustainable competitive advantage, based on their capability to deliver more individualized and hence more profitable e-services.
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Petrova, Krassie. "Mobile Commerce Applications and Adoption." In Mobile Computing, 1593–601. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-054-7.ch127.

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The potential advantages of mobile commerce applications have been discussed extensively in the recent literature, with many industries offering mobile services. Examples from the financial sector include instant funds transfer (mobile banking) and share trading (mobile brokerage). Commuter services such as sending schedule change alerts or using a mobile phone to pay for parking have become widespread. Applications based on the location of the user (e.g., offering mobile coupons to customers in the vicinity of a shop or a restaurant) are also being trialled (Barnes, 2002; Siau, Lim, & Shen, 2001; Varshney, Vetter, & Kalakota, 2000). Despite the potential benefits (for example, improved customer service) mobile commerce applications have not been widely adopted across business sectors. Mobile banking illustrates the point: initially, seen as the “killer application” of mobile commerce (Kannan, Chang, & Whinston, 2001), it has now been termed a “dead end” (Semrau & Kraiss, 2001). It has also been classified as an application which has not yet matured (Mallat, Rooi, & Tuunainen, 2004). However, innovative applications continue to emerge, for example, breaking news alerts (CNN, n.d.), and a mobile tutoring service (Butte, 2004). It has become important therefore to identify the determinants of mobile commerce adoption and the emerging adoption patterns. A significant number of results in this area have been reported in the literature. Recent examples include studies of mobile services adoption in areas characterized by relatively high penetration of mobile devices—such as Denmark (Constantiou, Damsgaard, & Knutsen, 2004), Singapore (Samtani, Leow, Lim, & Goh, 2004), and Finland (Carlsson, Hyvonen, Repo, & Walden, 2005). The identified drivers and inhibitors of mobile commerce adoption can be broadly classified as factors related to mobile infrastructure access, and factors relating to perceived consumer value. This article proposes a mobile commerce reference model which incorporates both infrastructure access and customer value and can be used to formulate research questions related to mobile commerce adoption. The remainder of the article is organized as follows: first, mobile commerce is defined and compared to electronic commerce. The next section introduces a mobile commerce reference model and discusses mobile commerce adoption. The article continues with a review of future trends and a brief conclusion.
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Conference papers on the topic "Consumers – Kansas"

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Widiyati, Khusnun, and Hideki Aoyama. "A Study of Kansei Engineering in PET Bottle Silhouette." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48066.

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Today’s customers see the product not only based on its functionality and its value, but also based on its aesthetic view. And from day to day, the level of consumers’ aesthetic satisfaction is advanced. Companies have to struggle in recognizing and feeding the customers with higher and higher level of aesthetics design, in order to win the competition. Kansei Engineering is a powerful tool during product designs that analyze the design in relation with consumers’ feeling toward the product. In this saturated market, moreover, the application of Kansei Engineering might be a way out to provide a product emotionally attached to the customers’ feeling. PET bottles, particularly bottles distributed in Japan, is an example of “everyday-beverage-container” which has many variations in the shape. Among the many product attributes, product form/shape is one of the product attribute that can attract emotional attachment to the customer. In this paper, physical attributes of PET bottle which evoke consumers to have certain emotional attachment were evaluated using Kansei Engineering. In order to do this, 18 models of PET bottle generated using Taguchi Methods, and 9 emotional evaluation words were applied in a questionnaire. By using Taguchi Methods, important shape parameters that evoke customer to certain emotional feeling were identified. Validation to the Taguchi Methods’ finding was validated using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The validation was performed by mapping the Kansei/emotional space to shape parameter space. Evaluation towards the result from Taguchi Methods and ANN was performed. Comparison between Taguchi Methods’ and ANN’s result showed that both result were correlated.
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Weilin Wang and Changying Li. "Estimating the diameter and volume of Vidalia sweet onions using the consumer-grade RGB-depth camera." In 2013 Kansas City, Missouri, July 21 - July 24, 2013. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/aim.20131593519.

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Da-Qing, Li, and Wei Da-Peng. "A study about Kansei quality of consumer goods." In EM). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icieem.2009.5344362.

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Yamazaki, Koetsu, Takanori Chihara, Ryoichi Itoh, Jing Han, and Sadao Nishiyama. "Evaluation Method of Drinking Ease for Aluminum Beverage Bottles." In ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2007-35637.

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This paper has investigated effects of the bottle opening size on drinking feelings in order to improve the comfort level of consumers when drinking directly from the opening of aluminum bottle. A survey over 120 subjects has been performed based on a drinking test using three kinds of bottles with opening diameters of 28, 33 and 38 mm, respectively. Two questionnaires have been conducted. Statistical analysis results of Questionnaire 1 have shown that 33-mm opening is best for adult consumers with no matter the type of contents, gender and the mouth size. The factor analysis results of Questionnaire 2 based on Kansei Engineering have shown that drinking feeling is affected by two common factors, which considered as the flow from the bottle to the mouth and the flow adjustability. Moreover, the fluid-dynamics analysis model has been developed to simulate the bottled liquid in a drinking action consisting of survey results and experimental observations of consumers’ drinking actions. Numerical simulations have been performed to understand how consumers control the flow during the drinking actions. It is found that the consumers usually try to realize the ideal and preferable condition by adjusting the inclination angle of the bottle.
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Yoshimura, Masataka, Tsutomu Nishimura, and Kazuhiro Izui. "Acquisition of Product Design Guidelines Considering User Kansei Data Pertaining to Product Environments." In ASME 2005 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2005-85160.

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Recently, almost all industrially manufactured consumer goods have a high level of engineering excellence, and product designers face an increasingly difficult task of creating products that will stand out in a competitive marketplace. At present, users tend to base their purchasing decisions on the product’s degree of fitness to their preferences, not the degree of functional fulfillment that the product offers. The development of products that are more attractive to users requires the consideration of human preferences and sensibilities, so-called “Kansei,” as well as the skillful application of these factors to the design sequence. The process of identifying and clarifying Kansei suggests that personal preferences concerning a given product are strongly influenced by both the person’s environment and the circumstances in which the product will be used. Analyzing both of these clarifies the influence that subconscious desires and human nature have on the expression of Kansei. This paper proposes a method for extracting the Kansei of potential customers and applying it to product designs that aim to maximize their human appeal, rather than their technical superiority.
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Xing-yuan, Wang, and Yang Xu. "Study on Consumer's Kansei Image Evaluation for High-tech Consumable Products." In 2006 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icmse.2006.314011.

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Tanaka, Seiichi, Hiroshi Mori, Masao Kasuga, and Kenji Shoji. "KANSEI evaluations of super high resolution images." In 2012 IEEE 1st Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/gcce.2012.6379906.

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Tanaka, Hitoshi, Masatoshi Higuchi, and Seiichi Hisamoto. "Comfortable Pushing/Pulling Force Exertion for the Design of Consumer Products." In 2011 International Conference on Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icbake.2011.20.

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Shibata, M., T. Hayashi, R. Konaka, T. Araki, and Y. Sagara. "Application of Food “Kansei” Model to Quality Design for Margarine conforming the preference of consumers." In 13th World Congress of Food Science & Technology. Les Ulis, France: EDP Sciences, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/iufost:20060796.

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Kinoshita, Yuichiro, Yuka Masaki, Tsuyoshi Muto, Kenji Ozawa, and Tomohiko Ise. "Scenery based Kansei music selection for car audio systems." In 2009 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isce.2009.5157047.

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Reports on the topic "Consumers – Kansas"

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Bonner Cozad, Aisha, and Kadeem Thorpe. Consumer Fraud in Kansas: Is Your Identity at Risk? AARP Research, August 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.26419/res.00171.017.

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Small Wind Electric Systems: A Kansas Consumer's Guide. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/914664.

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