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Although there is increasing research on Chinese consumers' apparel purchasing behavior, there is limited information examining the relationships between Chinese consumers' knowledge of counterfeit goods, face-saving, materialistic, and ethical values with their attitudes toward counterfeit fashion goods sold in China's marketplaces. Understanding the behavior of Chinese consumers is significant given that China is the world's largest apparel producer and exporter and maintains the greatest consumer marketplace today. China also has the world's largest counterfeit market. In the Chinese marketplace, a majority of goods are counterfeited, including fashion products. This has become a serious and costly issue among fashion brands as they endeavor to protect their intellectual property rights. A total of 1192 participants (736 female and 456 male) residing in China participated in this study. Among the findings, significant relationships between Chinese consumers' knowledge of counterfeits, face-saving, materialistic, and ethical values and their attitudes toward counterfeits existed. The results of this study provide a reference for other scholars exploring the three tiers of sustainability. Previous research has shown evidence that the production of counterfeit goods is linked to terrorism, poor working conditions, and the health and safety of consumers—all issues pertaining to social individual responsibility and social corporate responsibility.

The effective parliamentary democracy implements the policies, programs, procedures, & processes that encourage optimal constituency service, effective departmental performance, thoroughly considered & well-formulated government policies, public responsiveness, & accountability. This paper uses a case study of health administration to highlight some of the problems presented in seeking to establish parliamentary accountability in Jamaica. It argues that the ineffectiveness & lack of accountability in & of Parliament have flourished in a context of poor economic growth & deep political & social divides. Accountability requires more than ad-hoc institutional interventions; it depends on social & political change. Adapted from the source document.

The effective parliamentary democracy implements the policies, programs, procedures, & processes that encourage optimal constituency service, effective departmental performance, thoroughly considered & well-formulated government policies, public responsiveness, & accountability. This paper uses a case study of health administration to highlight some of the problems presented in seeking to establish parliamentary accountability in Jamaica. It argues that the ineffectiveness & lack of accountability in & of Parliament have flourished in a context of poor economic growth & deep political & social divides. Accountability requires more than ad-hoc institutional interventions; it depends on social & political change. Adapted from the source document.

Although significant numbers of the recently widowed are in the labor force, little attention has been directed to how employment counselors, supervisors, personnel managers, and colleagues can be more supportive to grieving employees and maintain harmony, productivity, and employer‐employee satisfaction. This article outlines normal reactions to the death of a spouse, the needs and problems of the newly widowed, and techniques of helping the recently bereaved worker. The author discusses the benefits of those involved in counseling, supervising, or advising employees in terms of investment in employee productivity, good personnel practices, and improving human relations.

The study assessed the factors that affect the adoption of vegetable farmers of High Value crops Development Program in Nagcarlan, Laguna. The specific objectives were to: describe the operation of HVCDP compare the socio-demographic characteristics, employment status, farm profile, other program participation, perception and the cost and return, of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries identify the factors that affect the adoption of HVCDP and determine the level of adoption of HVCDP?s support services. A total of 60 tomato framers randomly selected and interviewed using a pre-tested questionnaire, 30 of them are HVCDP beneficiaries while the other 30 are non-beneficiaries. Descriptive statistics such as averages, frequency counts, and percentages were used to compare the factors that could affect the adoption of farmers of HVCDP. Cost and return analysis with t-test results were used to determine the effects of the adoption and non-adoption of the program on net farm income of famers. Profit analysis was employed to identify the significant factors that affect the adoption of HCVDP and to determine the marginal effects of these factors. Wald test was used to determine if the restrictions of the variables in profit model harms the fitness of the model. Poisson count regression analysis with incident rate ratios was used to identify the significant factors that affect the level of adoption of HVCDP?s support services. The descriptive analysis results of the study showed that the farmer beneficiaries are male, have higher tomato farming experience, have lower years of schooling, have more secondary occupation, have larger farm area, have farms nearer to vehicular road and to output market, have favourable topography, and have lesser program participation than the non-beneficiaries. The cost and return analysis revealed that there were significant differences in the returns, costs and net farm incomes per hectare of HVCDP?s beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. In the probit regression analysis, it was found that the years of schooling, farm, size, and distance of farm to output market were the significant factors. Results showed that an increase in farm size increases the probability of adoption while an increase in the years of schooling and in the distance of farms to vehicular roads decreases the probability of adoption. The Wald test chi-squares results indicated that the significant factors were statistically significant to improve the fit of the model. The Poisson count regression revealed that age, household size, and distance of farm to output market were the significant factors. It was found that increase in age and household size increase the level of adoption of HVCDP?s support services. On the other hand, an increase in the distance of farm to output market decreases the level of adoption of support services. Tomato farmers who are older, have higher household size, have lesser educational attainment, have larger farms with lesser distance to vehicular road and to output marker should therefore be targeted by policy-makers in promoting the HVCDP. The government must modify the negative view of educated farmers to farming by providing an environment with business-like approach. It is also suggested that there is a need to increase public investment for decent road and farm to market infrastructure to increase the adoption and level of utilization of the farmer?s services provided by HVCDP.