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The Processing of Threat Appeals in the Prevention of Obesity: Weighing the Weight Issue
No full textThe article presents a study which examines the processing of threat appeal messages in the prevention of obesity. Differences in the perception of consumers about experiencing obesity are highlighted. A meta-analysis demonstrating the influence of the degree of invoked fear on the behavioral intention of consumers is provided
The relationships between responsive and proactive market orientation and innovation performance in family firms
No full textThe relationship between market orientation and innovation performance receives a lot of attention in the academic world. However, despite of the importance of family businesses, research about market orientation in a family business context is limited. Therefore, this study aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between market orientation and innovation performance in family businesses. We propose that this relationship is contingent on one internal variable specific to the family business – generational involvement – and one environmental variable – competitive intensity. Using multiple regression analysis, we find that competitive intensity has a moderating effect on the relationship between market orientation and innovation performance in family businesses
Marketing research with SPSS
No full textIn the past, there have been Marketing Research books and there have been SPSS guide books. This book combines the two, providing a step-by-step treatment of the major choices facing marketing researchers when using SPSS. The authors offer a concise approach to analysing quantitative marketing research data in practice. Whether at undergraduate or graduate level, students are often required to analyse data, in methodology and marketing research courses, in a thesis, or in project work. Although they may have a basic understanding of how SPSS works, they may not understand the statistics behind the method. This book bridges the gap by offering a introduction to marketing research techniques, whilst simultaneously explaining how to use SPSS to apply them
The relationships between responsive and proactive market orientation and innovation performance in family firms
No full textThe relationship between market orientation and innovation performance receives a lot of attention in the academic world. However, despite of the importance of family businesses, research about market orientation in a family business context is limited. Therefore, this study aims to improve our understanding of the relationship between market orientation and innovation performance in family businesses. We propose that this relationship is contingent on one internal variable specific to the family business – generational involvement – and one environmental variable – competitive intensity. Using multiple regression analysis, we find that competitive intensity has a moderating effect on the relationship between market orientation and innovation performance in family businesses
Neural gating of respiratory sensations in patients with self-reported dysfunctional breathing and healthy controls.
No full textBackground. Self-reported dysfunctional breathing (SDB) involves dyspnea without known underlying respiratory pathophysiology. We investigated whether neural gating of respiratory sensations is altered in this patient group.
Methods. 10 DB patients (Nijmegen total score 31±11) and 10 healthy controls underwent three levels of resistive load-induced dyspnea with concurrent electroencephalography measurement. The levels (each 2x4 minutes in counterbalanced order) were individually calibrated to induce “no”, “mild”, and “strong” dyspnea. Dyspnea intensity and unpleasantness were rated on a modified Borg scale for each level. Paired inspiratory occlusions evoked the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP). Neural gating of respiratory sensations (NGRS) was calculated as the ratio of the RREP N1 peak amplitude of the second (S2) over the first (S1) occlusion.
Results. Mixed design ANOVAs showed significant increases in the Borg ratings with increasing dyspnea levels (all p’s<.001). Furthermore, the Borg ratings were significantly higher in the SDB group (p’s<.05) for each dyspnea level. Both, the S1 N1 and S2 N1 peak amplitudes significantly decreased with increasing dyspnea levels (both p’s<.001) and a significant dyspnea level x group interaction effect was found for S2 N1. NGRS did not significantly change across the different levels (p=.08), and did not significantly differ between the SDB and control group (p=.65).
Discussion. The results suggest that SDB patients perceive dyspnea as more intense and unpleasant across different levels. While this difference in experience was not paralleled by different NGRS, the S2 N1 peak amplitude more strongly decreased with increasing dyspnea in patients with SDB in this preliminary sample
Neural gating of respiratory sensations in patients with self-reported dysfunctional breathing and healthy controls.
No full textBackground. Self-reported dysfunctional breathing (SDB) involves dyspnea without known underlying respiratory pathophysiology. We investigated whether neural gating of respiratory sensations is altered in this patient group.
Methods. 10 DB patients (Nijmegen total score 31±11) and 10 healthy controls underwent three levels of resistive load-induced dyspnea with concurrent electroencephalography measurement. The levels (each 2x4 minutes in counterbalanced order) were individually calibrated to induce “no”, “mild”, and “strong” dyspnea. Dyspnea intensity and unpleasantness were rated on a modified Borg scale for each level. Paired inspiratory occlusions evoked the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP). Neural gating of respiratory sensations (NGRS) was calculated as the ratio of the RREP N1 peak amplitude of the second (S2) over the first (S1) occlusion.
Results. Mixed design ANOVAs showed significant increases in the Borg ratings with increasing dyspnea levels (all p’s<.001). Furthermore, the Borg ratings were significantly higher in the SDB group (p’s<.05) for each dyspnea level. Both, the S1 N1 and S2 N1 peak amplitudes significantly decreased with increasing dyspnea levels (both p’s<.001) and a significant dyspnea level x group interaction effect was found for S2 N1. NGRS did not significantly change across the different levels (p=.08), and did not significantly differ between the SDB and control group (p=.65).
Discussion. The results suggest that SDB patients perceive dyspnea as more intense and unpleasant across different levels. While this difference in experience was not paralleled by different NGRS, the S2 N1 peak amplitude more strongly decreased with increasing dyspnea in patients with SDB in this preliminary sample
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
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
Direct antivirals working against the novel coronavirus: azithromycin (DAWn-AZITHRO), a randomized, multicenter, open-label, adaptive, proof-of-concept clinical trial of new antivirals working against SARS-CoV-2-azithromycin (vol 22, 126, 2021)
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