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Lagon Revue: No. 7: Pluie
No full textLagon Revue: No. 7: Pluie is a 312 page book with accompanying English-French translation booklet. It is a collaborative work exploring comics in different graphic styles. It includes works in color, black and white, and in metallic and neon inks. The work is paperback and features an exposed spine. It is a part of an anthology, and 2000 editions were printed. The cover is a collage of photography of dark blue mud or water, and a mud-covered figure over a black and white comic panel featuring finely inked plants and the lower half of a figure’s head spitting into their hands. Internally, the book is a collection of comics in disparate styles and subjects featuring both English and French.https://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/1159/thumbnail.jp
Tracing Florida Journeys: Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now
No full textHow has Florida’s land changed across five centuries? What has stayed the same, and what remains only in memory? In Tracing Florida Journeys, Leslie Poole delves into the stories of well-known explorers and travelers who came to the peninsula and wrote about their experiences, looking at their words and the paths they took from the perspective of today. In these pages, John Muir and Harriet Beecher Stowe write about their visits to Florida, reflecting their expectations of a place that was touted to be “paradise.” John James Audubon finds riches of bird life in the Keys. Zora Neale Hurston travels to turpentine camps and sawmills documenting the stories and music of workers and residents. Jonathan Dickinson and Stephen Crane recount shipwrecks along a sparsely populated coastline. Using journals and articles by these and other authors that date back to the early European exploration of the region, Poole retraces their steps. The land they write about is often hard to imagine in today’s Florida, a top destination for tourists filled with almost 22 million residents. These stories show the evolving history of the state and the richness of its natural resources. Poole’s comparisons also point to the people who have been displaced and the ecosystems that have been dramatically altered by exploration and development. Highlighting the Florida that was and the Florida that exists now, Poole brings together historical research, interviews with experts, and her personal experiences to tell a revealing story of the state’s natural history
Building Trust Between Cobots and Human Workers Working in a Warehouse Environment
Get PDFRobots utilized in warehousing have existed for years. Robots in the workplace have evolved from the traditional view of being a tool to being a teammate. Since workers are teaming up with robot coworkers, or “cobots,” there is now a new type of social interaction that depends on trust. The present study explores a model where warehouse workers will trust cobots more when formally trained in the technology. This model also proposes that the effectiveness of training in building trust would be moderated by worker experience with cobots, gender, and age of workers, and the worker’s psychological comfort with technology (i.e., level of technophobia). In a survey of 310 warehouse workers who currently work with cobots, it was found that formal training was positively related to cobot trust, but only in terms of employees who were “given reading materials about the robots (for example, handouts, brochures, or manuals)” as part of their cobot education. Also, as predicted, technophobia was negatively related to cobot trust. Experience with cobots, age, and gender were not significant predictors of cobot trust, nor did they moderate the relationship between training and trust. Results add to a sparse literature on cobots in warehouses and suggest applications for best practices in training workers about cobots and processes that could be implemented that might reduce technophobia and build trust
Parasite Prevalence and Innate Immunity in Mud and Musk Turtles
Get PDFTurtles are being infected by both ectoparasites (typically leeches) and endoparasites (typically blood parasites). It is unknown what the parasite intensity is of wild Central Floridian turtles is, and what effect this parasite load has on them. In order to determine these factors wild turtles (Sternotherus odoratus, Kinosternon baurii, and Kinosternon subrubrum) were caught from two locations, Mead Botanical Gardens, and Lake Virginia. Hoop traps were used to catch the turtles, which were then sampled and released. Captured turtles went through a series of measurements as well as a blood draw before release. Blood parasite levels were taken from the blood draw along with measures of three key energy metabolites (glucose, ketones, and uric acid). It was found that there was 100% parasite prevalence throughout all the sampled individuals. There was statistical significance between the species of turtle and the parasite intensity. It was also found that the more glucose that was detected in the blood, the lower the parasite intensity was. There was no significant difference in H:L ratio between species (F = 1.616, p = 0.236). these findings should be able to aid researchers in helping wild turtles by understanding the effect that parasitism is having on wild individuals
The Influence of Celebrity Endorsers on Brands\u27 Perceived Warmth and Competence
Get PDFThe utilization of celebrity endorsers has become a prevalent strategy among marketers in recent years, serving to enhance brand communication and audience engagement. This study examines the dynamic relationships of celebrity endorsements, specifically investigating the impact of perceived warmth and competence on celebrity endorsers through the stereotype content model (SCM). The model was introduced to fill the research gap in a marketing context on the influence of the perceived warmth and confidence of endorsers on the perception of brands and, subsequently, consumer behavior. Furthermore, the research evaluates the consequential effect of brand image on key brand elements, including purchase intention, net promoter score (NPS), and brand loyalty. A quantitative study was conducted using Qualtrics with a sample of 252 participants randomly assigned to one of four stimuli, each aligning a celebrity endorser’s warmth and competence perceptions inversely with the brand. Analysis revealed no significant correlation between celebrity endorser’s perceived warmth and brand’s perceived warmth. Despite the alignment with their extreme, brands did not exhibit notable changes along the warmth dimensions. However, analysis did reveal a significant correlation between low celebrity competence and its negative impact on perceived brand competence. Additionally, the study identified correlations between brand image and brand loyalty, purchase intention, and net promoter score based upon the participants’ responses, though further research is needed to establish potential causal relationships. Finally, the study offers suggestions for future research directions and practical applications
Does empowering leadership affect SMEs\u27 sustainability performance through knowledge transfer?
No full textToday’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) require greater engagement across organizational boundaries. This study examines the relationship between empowering leadership, knowledge transfer, and the sustainability performance of SMEs in three countries. It aims to enrich the field of empowering leadership and knowledge transfer in SMEs by demonstrating their impact on financial, environmental, and social performance. To do so, we use a sample of 392 SMEs from France, India, and the USA. The results suggest that empowering leadership has a direct effect on financial performance but hinders environmental performance. Additionally, although knowledge transfer may limit financial performance, it enhances environmental and social performance. This work is one of the first studies to examine the role of knowledge transfer as a mediator between empowering leadership and sustainability performance. Moreover, it may be used as a reference for improving the sustainability performance of SMEs
Women\u27s Metaphors About BRCA Gene Testing and How They Can Inform Health Communication Theory and Practice
No full textGenetic testing can detect whether an individual carries a harmful variant in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 (Breast Cancer 1 or 2) gene which, if present, drastically increases a woman’s risk for breast and ovarian cancer. The experience of BRCA gene testing can be an emotionally laden process yielding significant uncertainty. In this study, we examined women’s experiences of BRCA gene testing by exploring how participants communicatively framed and made sense of this process through the use of metaphors. Comparing uncertain and unfamiliar experiences to familiar references through metaphor can help people in challenging health-related situations with sense-making and communicating complex emotions. Furthermore, metaphors can be employed as a therapeutic tool by health care professionals, but their use has not often been studied regarding experiences of genetic testing, including BRCA gene testing. We conducted in-depth interviews with 42 women who have undergone BRCA gene testing (regardless of results), and analyzed data using constant comparative techniques. Eight categories of metaphors that women used surrounding BRCA gene testing were evident in the data, including those related to (a) knowledge is power; (b) gambling; (c) a journey; (d) a rollercoaster; (e) battle, disaster, or wreckage; (f) Pandora’s box or a can of worms; (g) doom and gloom; and (h) the release or placing of a weight. Results enhance our understanding of women’s experiences related to the uncertainty-inducing process of BRCA gene testing and lead to valuable theoretical implications and practical recommendations, including regarding the potential use of metaphors in patient-provider communication about BRCA genetic risk