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LU-167.029b, Block print of the Rotunda in blue
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LU-167.047b, French Building
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LU-167.032b, Inside of the Rotunda with Joannie on the Stony in center
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LU-167.041b, Business Managers Home across the street from Rotunda
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An analysis of UK swap yields
No full textJohn Maynard Keynes argued that the central bank influences the long-term interest rate through the effect of its policy rate on the current short-term interest rate. However, Keynes’s claim was confined to the behavior of the long-term government bond yield. This paper investigates whether Keynes’s claim holds for the yields of spread products and over-the-counter financial derivatives by econometrically modeling the dynamics of the pound sterling (GBP)–denominated long-term interest rate swap yield. It uses the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity modeling approach to examine the relationship between the month-over-month change in the current short-term interest rate and the month-over-month change in the long-term swap yield, while controlling for several key macroeconomic and financial variables. The month-over-month change in the current short-term interest rate has a positive and statistically significant effect on the month-over-month change in the long-term swap yield. This finding reinforces and extends Keynes’s conjecture concerning the central bank’s influence over the long-term interest rate. The investigation’s empirical findings and their policy implications are discussed from a Keynesian perspective
Presence: consumers’ different reactions to service and manufacturing firms with low CSR in social conduct
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This study aims to explain why low social conduct in corporate social responsibility (SC-CSR), especially employee exploitation, has a stronger negative impact on consumer reactions for service firms than for manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach
Five experiments compared consumer reactions to service and manufacturing firms with low SC-CSR. Study 1 used a choice-based conjoint design to examine the relative importance of various shared attributes when consumers chose services versus goods. Study 2 revealed that low SC-CSR led to more pronounced negative consumers reactions toward service firms. Studies 3A and 3B explained this difference through a serial mediation analysis. Study 4 ruled out an alternative explanation regarding the differentiated effects. Findings
The results reveal that consumer reactions to employee exploitation in service firms are more negative compared to manufacturing firms. This is because consumers’ sense of presence (i.e. feeling of being there) is stronger in a service setting, leading to more intense empathetic emotions toward service employees. Originality/value
This research contributes to the CSR literature by challenging the conventional notion that sweatshops are more problematic for manufacturing firms. By contrast, the results indicate a stronger negative effect on service firms. It contributes to the services marketing literature by conceptualizing a novel cognitive mechanism. Traditionally, consumers’ negative reactions are driven by anger. However, the authors show that empathetic feelings toward mistreated employees play a predominant role. While it is imperative for all firms to ensure fair treatment of their employees, the findings underscore the heightened significance of this aspect for service firms, given their susceptibility to more pronounced negative effects
Right, Left, Right: Dance Training Impacts on Postural Control
Full text linkBackground: Studies have shown a lack of definitive findings examining postural control amongst dominant and non-dominant stance limbs. Neuromuscular training may have limb dependent impacts and is a possible contributor across dance training, other athlete training, and active population members. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare postural control between dominant and nondominant single limb stances in trained dancers and compare those results with the single limb postural control of recreationally active college females. Methods: The study recruited 18 participants who met the set criteria for one of two groups: recreationally active females (N=10) and female dancers (N=8). Participants were instructed to stand still for 30 seconds on a TekScan Standing Balance Mat (SB mat) in a two feet condition and one-foot stances for both dominant and non-dominant limbs. Using a counterbalance design, participants completed three standing trials in each of the three conditions: two feet, dominant one-foot stances, and non-dominant one-foot stance. The variables measured included: center of gravity (COG) Area, COG Distance, COG Anterior-posterior sway, and COG Left-right sway. Results: The results found that there were statistically significant differences found between the two-feet and one-foot stances, with all four variables measured having p-values of \u3c0.0001. The COG-Area between dancers and recreationally active females was found to have a p-value of 0.070 and was the closest value to significance but did not meet the p\u3c0.05 level. Conclusion: Although statistical significance was found between two-feet and one-foot stances, the data did not find statistically significant data to support that female dancers have better postural control compared to recreationally active females across the four measured variables
Sympathy for the Robot: A screenplay and critical paper
Full text linkSympathy for the Robot is a feature-length science fiction screenplay following Dr. Marcus Hammond and his former student Adria Lansford on their journey to resurrect Diana, an artificial intelligence program that paralyzed Marcus and massacred dozens of his coworkers decades ago. Throughout the process of writing this screenplay I drafted, conducted research, and revised several times
