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Antenna Array Miniaturization using a Defected Ground Structure
A novel Defected Ground Structure (DGS) is proposed to miniaturize a 2 Modified Corporate Feed Planar Antenna Array (M-CFPA) with a modified corporate feeding network. The DGS altered the surface current distribution and shifted the resonance frequency to the lower side. After running a parametric sweep of length and width of the patch antenna element, achieved the miniaturized antenna array resonating at 2.4 GHz frequency. The proposed antenna array is designed using Rogers/RT Duroid 5,880 (2.2) substrate with a thickness of 1.6 mm. The overall dimensions of the proposed Planar Array with DGS (PA-DGS) is 25.2723 % lesser than M-CFPA. The M-CFPA has a peak gain of 11.53 dB with a-10 dB reflection coefficient bandwidth of 118 MHz. The proposed PA-DGS array exhibits a peak gain of 9.51 dB with 100 MHz-10 dB bandwidth. 2022, Walailak University. All rights reserved. -
Antecedents of visual merchandising decisions: An empirical evidence /
Researchers World, Vol.8, Issue 4, pp. 107-113, ISSN No. 2231-4172. -
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Antecedents of Psychological Capital and Its Consequences on Affective Commitment and Psychological Wellbeing
Jharkhand Education Board stakeholders face the problem of dealing with the educational environment, thereby escalating a teacher's morale. To address this situation, a positive mindset in education, particularly among teachers, is desirable. Hence, based on positive psychology discipline resource theory conservation, and broaden and build theory, the study was carried out using a sequential explanatory mixed-method study design. The research questions addressed in the study were as follows: To what extent can the categories of proactive personality, emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and perceived organizational support predict PsyCap of teachers? To what extent will PsyCap predict the categories of affective commitment and psychological wellbeing? We considered both quantitative and qualitative methods; hence, this study had two phases. In the first phase, the data was gathered from 900 teachers using the survey instruments. The statistical analyses performed were Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling with the software SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0. For teachers of rural Jharkhand, the study found that psychological capital has three dimensions. Besides proactive personality, emotional intelligence, and servant leadership also impact psychological capital. Further, psychological capital affects affective commitment and psychological wellbeing. In the second phase, this study examined the way and the reason behind the functioning of the antecedents of psychological capital using qualitative content analysis. The results offered a comprehensive understanding and identification of the antecedents that form rural teachers' psychological capital. Implications of the research include recommendations for recruiting teachers with higher levels of psychological capital and professional development through in-service teachers' training with a specific focus on psychological capital. -
Antecedents of psychological capital and its consequences on affective commitment and psychological wellbeing
Jharkhand Education Board stakeholders face the problem of dealing with the educational environment, thereby escalating a teacher's morale. To address this situation, a positive mindset in education, particularly among teachers, is desirable. Hence, based on positive psychology discipline, conservation of resource theory, and broaden and build theory, the study was carried out using a sequential explanatory mixed-method study design. The research questions addressed in the study were as follows: To what extent can the categories of proactive personality, emotional intelligence, servant leadership, and perceived organizational support predict PsyCap of teachers? To what extent will PsyCap predict the categories of affective commitment and psychological wellbeing? I considered both quantitative and qualitative methods; hence, this study had two phases. In the first phase, the data was gathered from 722 teachers using the survey instruments. The statistical analyses performed were Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling with the software SPSS 20.0 and AMOS 20.0. For teachers of rural Jharkhand, the study found that psychological capital has three dimensions. Besides proactive personality, emotional intelligence, and servant leadership also impact psychological capital. Further, psychological capital affects affective commitment and psychological wellbeing. In the second phase, this study examined the way and the reason behind the functioning of the antecedents of psychological capital using qualitative content analysis. The results offered a comprehensive understanding and identification of the antecedents that form rural teachers' psychological capital. Implications of the research include recommendations for recruiting teachers with higher levels of psychological capital and professional development through in-service teachers' training with a specific focus on psychological capital. -
Antecedents of organic food consumption in Delhi NCR
The consumption of organic food in increasing rapidly in the country. It has a significant impact on the environment, individuals and public health. This is an attempt to understand the antecedents of organic food and try to re-establish the relationship between the attributes of organic food, the utilitarian and hedonic attitudes and consumer purchase intentions. The SOR model has been used to support the theoretical framework for conducting the research on organic food products. The nutritional values, sensory appeal, environmental concern price and natural content of organic food products have significant and positive relationship on utilitarian and hedonic attitudes of the consumer. Even utilitarian and hedonic attitudes have a positively strong relationship on consumer purchase intentions for organic food products. 2021 Ecological Society of India. All rights reserved. -
Antecedents of online impulsive buying behaviour: A meta-analysis
The advancement of technology has created curiosity among researchers and marketers in identify the possible antecedents to online impulsive buying. The concept of impulse buying is often defined as ?unplanned? purchase behaviour. Researchers have identified few factors based on a systematic review of literature. The factors have then been combined using Meta-Analysis to arrive at variables that act as antecedents to Impulse Buying behaviour. The variables identified include promotion, web atmospherics, online behaviour, shopping context, buyers emotions and buyers personality which all contribute significantly proving to be an important antecedent of impulsive online buying. The above identification of antecedents will help the marketing practitioners to understand and improve the characteristics of each antecedent. Further investigation can be done by further research scholars on finding if any variable could be added in enhancing the sales by creating a better impulse on the online platform. IJSTR 2019. -
Antecedents of Ethical Goods and Services Tax Culture among young adults - Special Reference to Maharashtra and Karnataka
Since the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2017, it has become clear that this new Indian indirect tax system is here to stay. The Indian GST Council is continuously deliberating and making efforts to improve GST revenue collection at the state and central levels. The focus is now on the young adults in the country who will play a vital role in shaping the future of GST compliance. Their tax mentality and behaviour in contributing to GST revenue as daily consumers will determine the ethical tax culture in India. They need to understand how crucial their role is in discouraging evasive practices by sellers in the unorganised retail sector at the point of sale. The study utilized structural equation modelling to test the acceptability of the model. The process was supported by a structured questionnaire, with 324 respondents between the age group of 17-30 years. Understanding GST significantly influences acceptance of GST as a tax system, however, the acceptance of the GST tax system does not significantly lead to young adults discouraging the evasive behaviour of sellers in the unorganised retail sector at the point of sale. And, finally, the discouragement of evasive behaviour by young adults does influence the possibility of an ethical GST tax culture. The respondents majorly represented young adults between 17-20 years of age. The model has not measured the existence of covariance among the variables, nor has any mediating or moderating factors been identified, as GST tax culture in the Indian context is still unexplored and GST in itself is relatively new in the country. 2024 IEEE. -
Antecedents of employee readiness for change in the IT sector and the manufacturing sector: A comparative study
A sample of 305 employees comprising nearly equal numbers from the manufacturing sector and from the information technology (IT) sector in India was assessed in terms of: 1) attributes of the individual employees (practical intelligence and creative behaviour); 2) processes (participation in making decisions and the quality of communication); 3) contextual factors (trust in management and history of change), to predict the readiness of the employees for change. The predictors of employee readiness for change differed between the two sectors, and the factor most closely related to the readiness was prior experience of organisational changes. Copyright 2018 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
Antecedents of consumer attitude and purchase intention towards counterfeit products
This paper aims to investigate the effect of information reliability, risk, and value consciousness on hedonic behaviour, attitude towards counterfeit products, and genuine store trustworthiness. Using a structured survey instrument, this paper gathered data from 449 respondents from three cities major cities (Kochi, Bangalore, and Chennai) in southern part of India. The hierarchical regression render support that: 1) information reliability is positively related to hedonic behaviour and attitude towards counterfeit products; 2) risk is negatively related to hedonic behaviour and attitude towards counterfeit products; 3) value consciousness is positively related to hedonic behaviour and genuine store trustworthiness; 4) hedonic behaviour and attitude towards products are related to purchase intention. In addition, the results also support the moderation hypotheses of materialism, value consciousness and social status. The study suggests that marketers need to understand the importance of non-deceptive counterfeiting is useful and consumers have tendency to prefer to use these products once they are satisfied with their utility. The conceptual model developed and tested in this research enables the marketing managers to understand the antecedents of consumers purchase intention of counterfeit products. Copyright 2024 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
Antecedents of brand love leading to purchase intention towards refurbished video game consoles
This paper examines different constructs that influence purchase intention of refurbished video game consoles to assess its multi-factorial association with brand love. The data was collected from video game console cafes in the cities of Bangalore and Pune, India. The findings demonstrate that adoption determinants and social influence have a positive influence on brand love, while notably, environmental involvement has a positive influence on an individuals purchase intention. Brand love would not singularly influence positive purchase intention in the context of refurbished video game consoles. The paper clarifies that brand love alone cannot influence the purchasing decision of an individual in the context of refurbished video game consoles, the companies selling or remanufacturing these products can benefit by advertising these products as being environmentally involved. This is the first paper that examines the effects of brand love and purchase intentions in the context of refurbished video game consoles. Copyright 2023 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
Antecedents of Behavioural Intention : Study of Indian Consumer Perceptions Towards P2P Lending Using Technology Adoption Model
Fintech is a rapidly developing area of the financial services business where tech-focused startups and other new players are upending how the sector has historically operated. One of the emerging fintech areas under digital lending is Peer to Peer lending or (P2P) lending; Consumers and authorities are both showing interest in this alternative lending innovation. Results of a literature review show that India is still in the early stages of P2P lending research. The study examines the association between behavioural intention to use P2P lending in India and technological and personal adoption factors. The study model was developed with the help of a literature review and tested using data from 536 respondents who completed an online survey and was tested using covariance-based structural equation modelling (SEM). The results confirm that personal innovativeness, performance expectancy, hedonic motivation, effort expectancy, social influence, and perceived risk are the antecedents of the adoption of P2P lending, except for facilitating conditions and price value. In addition, gender moderates the relationship between performance expectancy, hedonic motivation, personal innovativeness, and intention to adopt P2P lending. The study also throws light on the perceptions of both users and non users in terms of the antecedents. The study's conclusions significantly impact the P2P lending industry and provide practical insights for developers, platforms and regulators to improve and enhance the service. The study suggests looking at other moderating factors like age, voluntariness, experience, and actual usage behaviour for further research. Overall, the research contributes to the academic literature by confirming the predictive power of the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). It highlights personal innovativeness after performance expectancy and motivation as an important factor in predicting the usage of P2P lending. Finally, the study lists managerial implications in the domains of technological adoption, which will assist in the P2P lending long-term success in India. -
Antecedents of Adoption of Peer to Peer (P2P) Lending-A Fintech Innovation in India
This study examines the association between adoption variables and behavioural intention (BI) to adopt Peer to Peer (P2P) lending technology platform in India. A critical review of literature on technological and personal adoption factors led to development of the theoretical framework using multiple technology adoption models. Results support the generalizability of technology adoption readiness (AR), a parsimonious higher-order construct for the use and acceptance of technology context In addition, a personal antecedent, personal innovativeness (PIIT) was shown to positively affect behavioural intentions and technology adoption readiness. 2022 IEEE. -
Antecedents and Trajectories of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Crisis: Assimilating Empirically Guided Pathways for Stakeholders
Importance: Amid and following the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing focus on understanding the underlying etiology of the mental health crisis in children and youth. However, there remains a dearth of empirically driven literature to comprehensively explore these issues. This narrative review delves into current mental health challenges among children and youth, examining perspectives from both pre-pandemic and pandemic periods. Observations: Research highlights reveal concerning statistics, such as 1 in 5 children experience mental health disorders. The pandemic exacerbated these issues, introducing stressors such as job losses and heightened anticipatory anxiety. Race relations have emerged as a significant public health concern, with biases impacting students, particularly affecting Asian, black, and multiracial individuals. Substance use trends indicate a rise in overdose deaths, particularly among adolescents, with cannabis use linked to adverse outcomes. Increased screen time and income disparities further compound mental health challenges. Conclusions and Relevance: Proposed public health mitigation strategies include improving access to evidence-based treatments, implementing legislative measures for early identification and treatment of developmental disorders, and enhancing suicide prevention efforts. School-based interventions and vocational-technical education are crucial, alongside initiatives targeting sleep hygiene, social media usage, nutrition, and physical activity. Educating health care professionals about both physical and mental health is essential to address workforce burnout and effectively manage clinical complexities. 2024 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. -
Antecedents and Outcomes of Employee Engagement : A Study on Employees in Travel Organizations
Employee engagement is becoming very vital in the recent years because organizations with engaged employees tend to out-perform than employees who are disengaged. The outcomes of engaged employees are higher performance, lower turnover, increased profitability and many more. However there are some industries ignorant and neglect the importance of having engaged employees. Hence it is necessary to conduct more research on employee engagement which create more awareness to the organizations about the prominence of focusing on employee engagement and also augment to the existing literature. The study was conducted on a sample size of 433 employees working in travel organizations set up in Bengaluru and tested the relationship of psychological climate and psychological capital (antecedent variables) has on employee engagement and in turn its newlinerelationship with organizational citizenship behavior and intent to stay (outcome newlinevariables). The study also tested the mediating relationship of employee engagement newlinebetween the antecedent and outcome variables. Results indicated that psychological newlineclimate and psychological capital has a significant and positive relationship on employee engagement and with respect to outcome variables it was determined that higher the engagement level it leads to higher level of organizational citizenship behavior and intent to stay. Results of the study also indicated that employee engagement mediates the relationship between the antecedent and outcome variables. -
Antecedents and consequences of overconfidence bias of stock market investors in Kerala
Keeping in mind the dynamic changes that have been taking place in the Indian stock market, since the emergence of technology, the advancement of the internet even into the remote regions of the country and active involvement of regulators like SEBI, the proposed study is designed to determine the antecedents of overconfidence bias of stock market investors and its consequences on their investment activities. -
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Antecedents and Consequences of Green Marketing Orientation in Automobile Industry : A Customer-Based Corporate Reputation Mediation Model
This dissertation presents a study that explores the influence of social cost and green innovation on environmental justice and their impact on green marketing. It also examines the role of customer-based corporate reputation as a mediator between customer cost-benefit (CCB) and customer loyalty. The research was conducted using a sample of 382 hybrid and electric vehicle owners in three major cities in India. The findings indicate that green innovation, social cost, and environmental justice significantly contribute to green marketing orientation. Moreover, green marketing orientation positively affects corporate reputation, which subsequently enhances customer loyalty and purchase intention. The study underscores the significance of implementing newlinesustainable and responsible business practices and developing effective green marketing strategies to gain a competitive edge in environmentally conscious markets. newlineThe outcomes of this study have practical implications for automobile companies, newlineoffering insights on how to enhance corporate reputation and customer loyalty through green newlinemarketing strategies. Additionally, future research may explore the moderating effects of cultural and contextual factors on the relationship between antecedents, green marketing orientation, and desired outcomes. newlineOverall, this research contributes to the existing body of knowledge on green newlinemarketing and corporate reputation. It emphasizes the need for automobile companies to adopt a more sustainable and responsible approach in their business practices, aligning with the growing environmental concerns and expectations of consumers.