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185715
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The present study empirically investigates the motives behind users’ attitude formation, behavioural intention, and word of mouth towards electric vehicles. An online survey was conducted among Indian youths who are currently using or potential users of electric vehicles. Data were collected by applying a multi-stage stratified sampling method. The structural equation modelling technique was applied to examine the hypothesized model and tested the proposed hypotheses. This study results show that while positive and social motives influence positive attitudes, the negative motives discourage and negatively affect electric vehicle adoption. The moderating impact of buyer involvement (high vs low) between motives and attitude was also tested. The study findings suggest that stakeholders can shape the motives through government policy and strategic action. Thus, this study provides directions that there is a need for subsidies and incentives, such as hassle-free registration at less cost, tax waive offs from central, state and local government, and also a strategic private-public partnership for infrastructure development to reduce negative motives and boost electric vehicles penetration.
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187164
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Drawing on an examination of Chinese language textbooks for Tibetan ethnic students in the Tibet Autonomous Region of mainland China, this study scrutinises the representation of Tibetan images and the official attitude towards Tibet embedded in the textbooks. Using multimodal discourse analysis (MDA), the paper investigates how government perceptions of Tibet are constructed through the co-deployment of visual and textual semiotic resources in Chinese language textbooks. This study suggests an overall positive attitude towards Tibet shown in the textbooks. However, the references to Tibet or Tibetans are usually situated as topics of the ‘past’, which indicates a sense of their being uncivilised or backwards. The positive yet stereotyped portrayal of Tibet is in line with national identity construction to ensure a unified nation-state. This study examines both text and image in textbooks in order to understand state ideologies and official attitudes towards a minority group.
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111374
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The Swedish Parliament has voted for massive expansion of wind power within the next decade. As in many other countries, the establishment of new wind farms has aroused local opposition. This paper contributes to the literature using a qualitative methodology to analyse attitudes towards wind power. In 2007, we carried out in-depth interviews with 40 stakeholders concerned with two planned near-shore farms in Sweden; despite their location, the wind farms' visual impact provoked strong negative attitudes. However, we found no evidence of the NIMBY-syndrome; rather, those opposing the wind farms question wind power more generally, especially vis-Ã -vis nuclear power. The analysis of attitudes is based on three components: cognition, feeling and action tendency. The results show high consistency between the feeling and cognitive components of attitudes: a negative feeling regarding landscape impact, for example, is accompanied by a belief that wind power is inefficient and unprofitable. However, in many cases the action tendency component is in dissonance with the other two: opponents remain passive despite being against the establishment of new wind farms. These passive opponents represent elements of uncertainty as they may suddenly, at a late stage, turn into active opponents exerting an effect on the decision process.
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169552
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This article considers various aspects of Russia's drive to the East at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, including economic and political components of this process. The author explains reasons for the growing clash of interests between Russia and the United States in the Far East, down to the first systemic crisis in bilateral relations under the influence of Russian expansion in northern China and the Russo-Japanese War. The main positions of American public thought of that time with regard to Russia's Eastern policy are analyzed leading to the conclusion that the Eastern Factor helped shape the negative image of Russia in the eyes of Americans.
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150128
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095694
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112313
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This study explores factors associated with the individual's appraisal of anticipated environmental changes caused by energy production facilities. The study took place in a Swedish village where exploratory drilling, that could eventually lead to a uranium mine, was being conducted at the same time as a wind farm was approved. Results from the survey, which included the total population, were interpreted in the light of cognitive stress theory. Most residents thought that the wind farm would have a positive impact on the village but that the uranium drilling would have a negative impact; these opinions were closely related to attitudes towards wind and nuclear power. Perceiving the wind farm as positive was further predicted by young age, high education, being an ordinary rather than a committed recycler and having attended a meeting about the wind farm. A negative view of uranium drilling was predicted by the individual valuing closeness to nature, being a recycler, and having attended the uranium meeting. Psychological factors such as concerns for the environment (manifested as pro-environmental behaviour), valuing closeness to nature, and involvement impinge on the appraisal process and should be considered when new developments are presented.
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