28 research outputs found
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Saving the Australian dream
No full textMark and Marija discuss Scott Morrison's exit from politics, before housing affordability campaigner Maiy Azize joins us to propose solutions to Australia's housing crisis.
Will Australia's political leaders have the ambition and ability to sell substantial housing policy changes to the public? What might a fairer system look like? And how will Scott Morrison fashion his career post-parliament? On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Maiy Azize, author of a new report recommending changes to tax and investment policies for housing, joins Professor Mark Kenny and Marija Taflaga to discuss the policy and politics of Australia’s housing crisis.
Maiy Azize is the Deputy Director of the Anglicare Australia and spokesperson for Everybody’s Home, a national campaign that aims to fix the housing crisis
REFLECTION OF CUSTOMER-BRAND ENGAGEMENT ON PURCHASE INTENTION IN SOCIAL MEDIA
No full textCreating and developing purchase intention in social media is an important strategic goal for businesses. Marketers, in particular, feel the need to invest in consumer-brand engagement (CBE) in social media marketing more than ever before as social media platforms are available for consumers to socialize and interact with each other. However, current research in marketing provides little guidance to marketers how brand pages in Facebook can be leveraged to engage customers and create purchase intention for the brands. Toward filling this gap, the present research examines the customer's brand engagement-purchase intention link with the mediating role of customer's information motivation in social media. Using data from 298 surveys of brand pages are analysed in partial-least squares (PLS) structural equation modelling (SEM). The research fills a gap in the literature through its analysis of the mediating role of information motivation of consumers in the relationship between customer-brand engagement and purchase intention in social media. The specific strategies, and the implications of this research for theory and practise are discussed. (C) 2017 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.U
Synthesis, Cytotoxicity, and Pro-Apoptosis Activity of Etodolac Hydrazide Derivatives as Anticancer Agents
No full textEtodolac hydrazide and a novel series of etodolac hydrazide-hydrazones 315 and etodolac 4-thiazolidinones 1626 were synthesized in this study. The structures of the new compounds were determined by spectral (FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, HREI-MS) methods. Some selected compounds were determined at one dose toward the full panel of 60 human cancer cell lines by the National Cancer Institute (NCI, Bethesda, USA). 2-(1,8-Diethyl-1,3,4,9-tetrahydropyrano[3,4-b]indole-1-yl)acetic acid[(4-chlorophenyl)methylene]hydrazide 9 demonstrated the most marked effect on the prostate cancer cell line PC-3, with 58.24% growth inhibition at 105M (10 mu M). Using the MTT colorimetric method, compound 9 was evaluated in vitro against the prostate cell line PC-3 and the rat fibroblast cell line L-929, for cell viability and growth inhibition at different doses. Compound 9 exhibited anticancer activity with an IC50 value of 54 mu M (22.842 mu g/mL) against the PC-3 cells and did not display any cytotoxicity toward the L-929 rat fibroblasts, compared to etodolac. In addition, this compound was evaluated for caspase-3 and Bcl-2 activation in the apoptosis pathway, which plays a key role in the treatment of cancer
The Impact of Store Deals on Consumer Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Value Consciousness
No full textThis study aimed to examine the direct impact of store deal proneness on value consciousness and consumer satisfaction, alongside the mediating effect of value consciousness within these dynamics. Data were collected with an online survey from grocery store consumers in Turkey, and the proposed relationships were analyzed via partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) utilizing a sample comprising 500 Turkish consumers who demonstrate deal proneness and a preference for private labels. The findings reveal that store deal proneness positively affects consumers’ value consciousness and satisfaction. Moreover, value consciousness has a positive effect on consumer satisfaction and has a mediating role in the relationship between store deal proneness and satisfaction. The present research provides valuable managerial insights for enhancing consumer satisfaction. The study findings will contribute to retailers developing effective, value-driven strategies by emphasizing store deals that shape consumers’ value consciousness and overall satisfaction. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved
Effects of different irrigation practices using treated wastewater on tomato yields, quality, water productivity, and soil and fruit mineral contents
No full textWastewater use in agricultural irrigation is becoming a common practice in order to meet the rising water demands in arid and semi-arid regions. The study was conducted to determine the effects of the full (FI), deficit (DI), and partial root-zone drying (PRD) irrigation practices using treated municipal wastewater (TWW) and freshwater (FW) on tomato yield, water use, fruit quality, and soil and fruit heavy metal concentrations. The TWW significantly increased marketable yield compared to the FW, as well as decreased water consumption. Therefore, water use efficiency (WUE) in the TWW was significantly higher than in the FW. Although the DI and the PRD practices caused less yields, these practices significantly increased WUE values due to less irrigation water applied. The water-yield linear relationships were statistically significant. TWW significantly increased titratable acidity and vitamin C contents. Reduced irrigation provided significantly lower titratable acidity, vitamin C, and lycopene contents. TWW increased the surface soil and fruit mineral contents in response to FW. Greater increases were observed under FI, and mineral contents declined with reduction in irrigation water. Heavy metal accumulation in soils was within safe limits. However, Cd and Pb contents in fruits exceeded standard limits given by FAO/WHO. Higher metal pollution index values determined for fruits also indicated that TWW application, especially under FI, might cause health risks in long term
The Effects of Brand Experiences, Trust and Satisfaction on Building Brand Loyalty; An Empirical Research On Global Brands
No full textAbstractMarketing academics and practitioners have acknowledged that consumers look for brands that provide them with unique and memorable experiences. As a result, the concept of brand experience has become of great interest to marketers. The present field study, conducted with actual consumers, addresses the question whether different consumers prefer different experiential appeals and whether experiential types create the relationships between brand experiences, satisfaction, trust and loyalty. Brand experience is conceptualized as sensations, feelings, cognitions, and behavioral responses evoked by brand-related stimuli that are part of a brand's design and identity, packaging, communications, and environments. Brand experience affects satisfaction, trust and loyalty. From the customer viewpoint, brands are relationship builders. In this present research, we propose the effects of brand experiences to build long-lasting brand and customer relationship with brand trust, satisfaction, and loyalty. The study was conducted on 258 respondents. As a result of this study, brand experiences, satisfaction, trust have positively effects brand loyalty
Flow details of a circular cylinder mounted on a flat plate
No full textThe main purpose of this study is to investigate the flow structure up- and downstream of a circular cylinder mounted on a flat surface in the boundary layer region using a Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) technique for Reynolds numbers ranging from 750 to 9600. The interaction between the primary, incoming, and counter-clock-wise rotating vortices and the trail of the horseshoe vortices formed at the upstream base of the cylinder are quantitatively identified in terms of the instantaneous and time-averaged flow data. The entrainment is shown to be activated between the main and separated flow regions across the shear layer by interactions of opposite signed rotating vortices which are responsible for scour in the upstream region of the cylinder. The surface fluid bursts to create counter-clock-wise rotating vortices upstream of the cylinder to split the incoming clock-wise rotating vortex into an independent vortex. Since the counter-clock-wise rotating vortices are not fed continuously by the surface fluid, they gradually expand in size but lose the strength and later are swept away by the developing vortices. © 2008 International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research
The Application of AHP Approach for Evaluating Location Selection Elements for Retail Store: A Case of Clothing Store
No full texthe aims of the study at using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) are two-fold. First, the study aims to determine the relative importance or weight of multiple criteria and its attributes in the decision problem of location selection. The second aim of the study is to identify a location with the highest potential among alternatives for retailers by using a series of criteria and attributes determined. By the means of the AHP method, decision makers put weighted values to the evaluation criteria with respect to the related goal and the attributes with respect to the corresponding criteria. In addition, the priority weight for every location alternative on each criterion and attribute is estimated. The AHP process involves hierarchically structuring decision problem, setting priority weights, establishing a judgment matrix and weight vector, and then ranking the order of location alternatives. To substantiate the feasibility of this standard approach, a case study is conducted with location selection for a clothing store in this study
PIV measurements of flow past a confined cylinder
No full textThis study investigates the flow past a confined circular cylinder built into a narrow rectangular duct with a Reynolds number range of 1,500 ≤ Re d ≤ 6,150, by employing the particle image velocimetry technique. In order to better explain the 3-D flow behaviour in the juncture regions of the lower and upper plates and the cylinder, respectively, as well as the dynamics of the horseshoe vortex system, both time-averaged and instantaneous flow data are presented for regions upstream and downstream of the cylinder. The size, intensity and interaction of the vortex systems vary substantially with the Reynolds number. Although the narrow rectangular duct with a single built-in cylinder is a geometrically symmetrical arrrangement, instantaneous flow data have revealed that the flow structures in both the lower and upper plate-cylinder junction regions are not symmetrical with respect to the centreline of the flow passage. The vortical flow structures obtained in side-view planes become dominant sometimes in the lower juncture region and sometimes in the upper juncture region in unsteady mode. © 2008 Springer-Verlag
Cihan Aktaş’ın "Azize’nin Son Günü" adlı öykü kitabında Azerbaycan ve Azeriler
No full textDüşünce, inceleme kitaplarıyla olduğu kadar öyküleriyle de tanınan Cihan Aktaş, 1992 – 2009 yılları arasında dokuz öykü kitabı yayımlamıştır. Özellikle Azize’nin Son Günü (1997) adlı öykü kitabında olmak üzere, öykülerinde Azerbaycan’dan ve Azeri Türklerinden bahseden yazar, bu metinlerde gerek Azeri Türklerinden ilginç portreleri edebiyatımıza kazandırmakta, gerekse Azerbaycan kültürüyle, folkloruyla, sosyal ve siyasi hayatıyla, ekonomik şartlarıyla ilgili önemli bilgiler aktarmaktadır. Ayrıca başta Baku olmak üzere Azerbaycan coğrafyasına ve çevre bölgelere ilişkin izlenimlerini öyküleştirmektedir. Bu makalede, Cihan Aktaş’ın Azize’nin Son Günü adlı öykü kitabına yansıyan Azerbaycan ve Azeri Türkü imgesi/algısı incelenmeye çalışılacaktır.Cihan Aktaş who is known by his books of thought and review as well as short stories published nine short story books between 1992 and 2009. The author, who refers to Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis, especially in his short story book titled the Last Day of Azize (1997), either brought interesting portraits of Azerbaijani Turks in these texts or conveyed important information related to the culture, folklore, social and political life and economical conditions of Azerbaijan. He also narrated his impressions related to Azerbaijan geography and environmental area, especially to Baku. In this article, we will attempt to understand image/perception of Azerbaijan and Azerbaijanis reflecting on the book of Cihan Aktaş titled “the Last Day of Azize”
