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Narratives on value experience through activities of an individual’s well-being
No full textAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore individuals’ activities related to their own well-being and how these activities are linked to individuals’ value ex periences while improving their well-being. To address a need to move away from a service firm’s viewpoint, the authors adopt the customer-dominant (C-D) logic perspective of services. The analysis of individuals’ narratives reveals core, related and other activities following the idea of C-D logic, and a framework for value experience of three different types of individuals namely ‘Want to do’, ‘Need for motivation’ and ‘Have to do’. Theoretical and practical implications to service marketing suggest to shift the focus from a service firm’s view to individuals’ lives and processes, and to provide a fresh view to the role of individuals to control their value experiences through activities.Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to explore individuals’ activities related to their own well-being and how these activities are linked to individuals’ value ex periences while improving their well-being. To address a need to move away from a service firm’s viewpoint, the authors adopt the customer-dominant (C-D) logic perspective of services. The analysis of individuals’ narratives reveals core, related and other activities following the idea of C-D logic, and a framework for value experience of three different types of individuals namely ‘Want to do’, ‘Need for motivation’ and ‘Have to do’. Theoretical and practical implications to service marketing suggest to shift the focus from a service firm’s view to individuals’ lives and processes, and to provide a fresh view to the role of individuals to control their value experiences through activities
Multiple Representation of Reaching Space in the Medial Posterior Parietal Area V6A
No full textDuring foveal reaching, the activity of neurons in the macaque medial posterior parietal area V6A is modulated by both gaze and arm direction. In the present work, we dissociated the position of gaze and reaching targets, and studied the neural activity of single V6A cells while the eyes and reaching targets were arranged in different spatial configurations (peripheral and foveal combinations). Target position influenced neural activity in all stages of the task, from visual presentation of target and movement planning, through reach execution and holding time. The majority of neurons preferred reaches directed toward peripheral targets, rather than foveal. Most neurons discharged in both premovement and action epochs. In most cases, reaching activity was tuned coherently across action planning and execution. When reaches were planned and executed in different eye/target configurations, multiple analyses revealed that few neurons coded reaching actions according to the absolute position of target, or to the position of target relative to the eye. The majority of cells responded to a combination of both these factors. These data suggest that V6A contains multiple representations of spatial information for reaching, consistent with a role of this area in forming cross-reference frame representations to be used by premotor cortex
Recurrent pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma with infiltration of the left coronary artery
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Aboriginal responses to climate change in arid zone Australia
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Given the broad scale and fundamental transformations occurring to the natural environment due to anthropogenic climate change in the present era, what does the future hold for Aboriginal people in remote arid regions of Australia? In searching for answers to this question, this study takes an interior arid-zone region, the Upper Georgina River Basin in northwest Queensland (Figure 1) as the focus for a scoping study in which to investigate and document Aboriginal perceptions and knowledge of climate change, and the capacity of regional communities to respond and adapt to such change at a number of levels; specifically anticipatory adaptation or preparedness for particular types of climate change, land and riverine management, housing and settlement adaptation as well as enterprise development opportunities arising from new forms of adaptation processes. Based on these findings, a set of Regional Climate Change Adaptation Planning principles and strategies has been generated. The relevance of aspects of this adaptation plan can be extrapolated for use in other arid zone regions where applicable. The study also analyses the implications for climate change adaptation policy relevant to Aboriginal communities at different jurisdictional levels, including across state and local government borders. The study was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and local community and business personnel who are already engaged in research projects in the region, led by staff of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at University of Queensland and Myuma Pty Ltd, an Aboriginal enterprise and training organisation at Camooweal in north-west Queensland.
Figure 1: Map of the study region showing the five main communities and extent of the Upper Georgina River Basin.
Please cite this report as:
Memmott, P, Reser, J, Head, B, Davidson, J, Nash, D, O’Rourke, T, Gamage, H, Suliman, S, Lowry, A, Marshall, K 2013 Aboriginal responses to climate change in arid zone Australia: Regional understandings and capacity building for adaptation, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, pp. 285.Abstract
Given the broad scale and fundamental transformations occurring to the natural environment due to anthropogenic climate change in the present era, what does the future hold for Aboriginal people in remote arid regions of Australia? In searching for answers to this question, this study takes an interior arid-zone region, the Upper Georgina River Basin in northwest Queensland (Figure 1) as the focus for a scoping study in which to investigate and document Aboriginal perceptions and knowledge of climate change, and the capacity of regional communities to respond and adapt to such change at a number of levels; specifically anticipatory adaptation or preparedness for particular types of climate change, land and riverine management, housing and settlement adaptation as well as enterprise development opportunities arising from new forms of adaptation processes. Based on these findings, a set of Regional Climate Change Adaptation Planning principles and strategies has been generated. The relevance of aspects of this adaptation plan can be extrapolated for use in other arid zone regions where applicable. The study also analyses the implications for climate change adaptation policy relevant to Aboriginal communities at different jurisdictional levels, including across state and local government borders. The study was carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and local community and business personnel who are already engaged in research projects in the region, led by staff of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at University of Queensland and Myuma Pty Ltd, an Aboriginal enterprise and training organisation at Camooweal in north-west Queensland
Successful first-in-man Melody transcatheter valve implant in a dehisced mitral annuloplasty ring transapical valve-in-ring implant
No full textPublic risk perceptions, understandings and responses to climate change in Australia and Great Britain
No full textThis final report presents and discusses national survey findings from a collaborative and cross-national research project undertaken by Griffith University (Australia) and Cardiff University (UK) examining public risk perceptions, understandings and responses to the threat and unfolding impacts of climate change in Australia and Great Britain. The Australian national survey was undertaken between 6 June and 6 July, 2010 and involved a representative and geographically and demographically stratified national sample of 3096 respondents. The British survey was undertaken between 6 January and 26 March, 2010 and involved a representative quota sample of 1822 respondents residing in England, Scotland and Wales. These articulated surveys were distinctive in their cross-national comparative collaboration, in their psychological and social science nature, focus, and design, in their indepth nature, and in their focus on underlying public understandings and psychological responses to climate change
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
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