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Global Luxury Brands
No full textThe small literature on the business of luxury fashion is located within specialist journalism and privileged ‘designer’ markets or investment banking reports. It is written primarily for clients, the global luxury brands. Neither analyse the fashion branding and management contexts within which global luxury brands and markets operate. This chapter was created to disseminate such analyses and document the principal strategic issues facing the industry.
In order to address the omissions sited above, this chapter identifies and examines several overarching strategic questions. Initially it identifies and explores concepts of ‘real’ and ‘accessible’ luxury and the tensions between the two within the context of changing notions of fashion. It then analyses the strategic use of fashion by luxury brands to re-position themselves in broader markets by providing accessible luxury.
The principal luxury brand groups are delineated and a number of strategic business trends are analysed such as the switch from licensing to directly operated flagship store distribution. The research methodology involved a case study about Burberry, which demonstrated a significant number of theses points. In particular the difficulty in balancing commercial objectives to grow sales through market extensions balanced with a simultaneous strategy to serve exclusive core customers. Francois Pinault, Chairman of PPR Group, highlighted this return to a ‘high luxury’ strategy in December 2006 some months after this publication
Health system resilience and the health impacts of environmental degradation: a global analysis
No full textObjectives: this study examines the impact of environmental degradation, focusing on air pollution and CO2 emissions, as key climate stressors on health outcomes, specifically pollution-related mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). The research explores how healthcare infrastructure, accessibility, quality, and policies contribute to climate resilience by mitigating pollution-related mortality and supporting adaptation to environmental stressors.Study design: using panel data from 145 countries between 2009 and 2017, the study assesses both the direct effects of environmental factors on health outcomes and the mitigating role of healthcare systems. The design incorporates variation across countries and time to better understand these relationships.Methods: panel analysis models estimate the relationship between air pollution, CO2 emissions, and health outcomes. Interaction terms between CO2 emissions and healthcare system indicators are tested to determine if stronger healthcare systems can reduce pollution-induced mortality and DALYs.Results: the study confirms that air pollution exposure is significantly linked to increased mortality and DALYs. While improved healthcare infrastructure, accessibility, and quality help mitigate some pollution-related health risks, they are insufficient to offset the long-term negative effects of CO2 emissions. The interaction terms between CO2 emissions and healthcare resilience are statistically insignificant, suggesting that even well-functioning healthcare systems cannot fully counteract the harmful consequences of environmental degradation.Conclusion: while strengthening healthcare systems is vital for enhancing resilience to air pollution, the persistent adverse effects of CO2 emissions stress the need for integrated environmental and health policies. Emission reduction strategies and stricter environmental regulations must complement healthcare improvements to effectively safeguard public health
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
SEROLOGY OF H3N2 AND H1N1 SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS IN PIGS VACCINATED WITH MAXIVAC® EXCELL™
No full textFleck, Robyn; Rapp-Gabrielson, Vicki; Eddy, Bradley; Theis, David; Jackson, Tim. (2003). SEROLOGY OF H3N2 AND H1N1 SWINE INFLUENZA VIRUS IN PIGS VACCINATED WITH MAXIVAC® EXCELL™. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/160018
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Prosperity without growth? : the transition to a sustainable economy
No full textThis report is summarised by the documents 'Prosperity without growth? : summary' and 'Ffyniant heb dwf? : crynodeb'Prosperity without Growth? analyses the complex relationships between growth, environmental crises and social recession.Publisher PD
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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