597 research outputs found
Retracted. Resilience, parenting style, and children’s eating behavior
No full textAt the request of the Journal Editors and SAGE Publishing, the following article has been retracted.Wood, M., & Shukla, P. (2019). Resilience, Parenting Style, and Children’s Eating Behavior. Social Marketing Quarterly, 25(2), 123–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524500419831084The article has been retracted after the journal became aware that substantial portions of the article were taken from the 2015 thesis titled ‘Is parental resilience associated with child feeding practices related to an authoritative parenting style and a reduced likelihood of childhood obesity?’ by Daisy Hopson, who was a student advisee of the first author, Matthew Wood, while he was a professor overseeing her writing of the thesis and Daisy was a student at the University of Brighton.The authors informed the journal that second author, Prof. Paurav Shukla, was responsible for additional data analysis, which was not part of Hopson’s thesis. The authors further informed us that the second author took no part in the article’s literature review and discussion.Original abstract:This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between parental resilience and parenting styles and the impact of these characteristics on children’s eating behaviors and weight. Through a quantitative examination, we found parental concerns about their child’s weight positively relate to family attitudes toward fruits and vegetables but negatively relate to actual consumption of fruits and vegetables. Contrarily, advance planning of healthy meals among parents is negatively associated with family attitudes toward fruits and vegetables but positively associated with children’s consumption of fruits and vegetables. Family attitudes toward fruits and vegetables have a significant influence on children’s consumption of fruits and vegetables. The personal competence component of parental resilience has a significant moderating influence on the relationship between parental concerns about their child’s weight and his or her consumption of fruits and vegetables. The “acceptance of self and life” component of parental resilience has a significant moderating influence on the relationship between advance planning of healthy meals among parents and children’s consumption of fruits and vegetables
Complexity of Scheduling in Synthesizing Hardware from Concurrent Action Oriented Specifications
No full textConcurrent Action Oriented Specifications (CAOS) formalism such as Bluespec Inc.'s Bluespec System Verilog (BSV) has been recently shown to be effective for hardware modeling and synthesis. This formalism offers the benefits of automatic handling of concurrency issues in highly concurrent system descriptions, and the associated synthesis algorithms have been shown to produce efficient hardware comparable to those generated from hand-written Verilog/VHDL. These benefits which are inherent in such a synthesis process also aid in faster architectural exploration. This is because CAOS allows a high-level description (above RTL) of a design in terms of atomic transactions, where each transaction corresponds to a collection of operations. Optimal scheduling of such actions in CAOS-based synthesis process is crucial in order to generate hardware that is efficient in terms of area, latency and power. In this paper, we analyze the complexity of the scheduling problems associated
with CAOS-based synthesis and discuss several heuristics for meeting
the peak power goals of designs generated from CAOS. We also discuss
approximability of these problems as appropriate
The changing landscape of JIBS authorship
No full textIn this study, we examine the landscape of JIBS authorship over time to assess: (1) the accessibility of JIBS to new contributors, and (2) the diversity of authors contributing to JIBS. Our analysis of author data from 1972 to 2014 shows that JIBS is becoming more accessible, as indicated by the high and sustained proportion of first-time contributors to the journal. This is also evident from the recent decline in the share of authors with multiple past JIBS publications. With regard to diversity, our findings show that JIBS has a much wider geographic scope of authors on its landscape in comparison to previous decades. This may be attributed partly to increasing travel and communication in scholarly communities, and partly to the increased migration of scholars in the recent decades. Our analysis of migration patterns of JIBS authors suggests that about 51 % of prominent international business scholars are employed outside their country of birth. Of the 49 % employed in their country of birth, 12 % are return migrants. In our sample, China, South Korea and Canada have the highest number of returnees. The USA, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and China have the highest number of natives, whose country of birth, country of PhD-granting institution and country of university affiliation are identical.Peer reviewe
WTO and Survival of Small-scale Industry: The Five Myth Entrepreneurial Framework with Case Study of Rajkot Diesel Engine Industry
No full textThis article is an attempt to see the impact that WTO has made on the small- scale sector and also to see how the same, if addressed in the right perspective, could lead to increasing competitiveness thereby requiring the need for change. The article has tried to understand how the small-scale, which is known for being innovative, collaborative and friendly, would survive in this changed situation. This study is located in the once successful and now declining Rajkot diesel engine industry in India. The author presents to the readers a conceptual frame—'five myth framework', as an outcome of this study. The author also gives an elaboration of possible solutions that entrepreneurs could adopt to overcome some of these myths
The impact of organizational efforts on consumer concerns in an online context
No full textAs organizations spend a significant amount of their resources on online channels, it is vitally important to understand the effects of this cost on consumer behavior. The author developed and empirically tested an integrated model combining the effects of organizational efforts on consumer concerns, process satisfaction, and purchase intentions. The results of this effort suggested that consumers are still skeptical of the organizational efforts in an online context and their concerns remain a critical factor in influencing their satisfaction and purchase intention. The study provided insights for managers about how they may reduce shopping cart abandonment in online purchasing environment by focusing on consumer concerns. © 2013 Elsevier B.V
"To Tell a Story is to Affirm Life". Death and Storytelling in Vikram Chandra's "Red Earth and Pouring Rain"
No full textIn Vikram Chandra’s first published work, "Red Earth and Pouring Rain", characters and situations are defined by the stories told, and "All stories have in them the seed of all other stories; any story, if continued long enough, becomes other stories". In other words, the narration does not aspire to recounting the reality of things as they are but to constructing "a finely coloured dream, a thing of passion and joy, a huge lie that will entertain and instruct and enlighten [...] the Big Indian Lie". The orality of traditional narrative drawn upon by the author is recreated on paper through a series of imaginative licences that have more in common with South American magical realism than the classic models of the middle-class Anglo-Saxon novel. Starting from these assumptions, this essays aims ai demonstrating that, although the novel breaks with the space-time continuum and with normal narrative cause-and-effect mechanisms in a way shared with postmodern narrative, the way in which this conception of time, History, and stories is used leads to a reconstruction and redefinition of a reality observed from a new viewpoint, which has very little to do with the postmodern rhetoric of terminality. It recalls, rather, an openness towards the unknown, a readiness to accept change and the fantastic, and a community-based element that are characteristics of traditional narration
Forest Ecology and Conservation
No full textThis book is dedicated to forest ecology and conservation on ecological and conservation aspects of forest. The book is divided into two sections: the first section "Forest Ecology" with four chapters deals with forest ecological aspects, while the second section "Forest Conservation" with two chapters looks into new techniques for conserving the forests. This book will bridge the gaps in the knowledge about some new emerging issues on forest ecology and conservation. It will be an interesting and helpful resource to all those in the field of forestry working for its sustainable use and conservation
Characterizing Predictability of Fire Occurrence in Tropical Forests and Grasslands: The Case of Puerto Rico
No full textGlobal estimates of fire frequency indicate that over 70% of active fires occur in the tropics, and the size and frequency of fires are increasing every year. The majority of fires in the tropics are an unintended consequence of current land-use practices that promotes the establishment of grass and shrubland communities, which are more flammable and more adapted to fire than forests. In the Caribbean, wildland fires occur mainly in dry forests and in grasslands and crop lands. Climate change projections for the Caribbean indicate increasing area of drylands and subsequent increasing potential for wildland fire. We assessed the last decade of fire occurrence records for Puerto Rico to quantify the relative importance of time, climate, land cover, and population to inform predictive models of fire occurrence for projecting future scenarios of fire risk. Kruskal-Wallis, generalized linear models, robust regression, simple and multiple regressions, and tree models were used. We found that hour of the day (time), mean minimum temperature (climate), and percent forest cover (land cover) significantly influenced fire occurrence, while population showed a weak effect. Many variable interactions showed to be important. These significant variables and interactions should be considered in fire-predicting models for the island.Fil: Monmany, Ana Carolina. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; ArgentinaFil: Gould, William A.. Instituto Internacional de Silvicultura Tropical; Puerto RicoFil: Andrade Núñez, María José. Universidad de Puerto Rico; Puerto RicoFil: González, Grizelle. Instituto Internacional de Silvicultura Tropical; Puerto RicoFil: Quiñones, Maya. Instituto Internacional de Silvicultura Tropical; Puerto Ric
Effects of Forest Stand Structure in Biomass and Carbon
No full textBiomass has been gaining and increased interest due to their importance in sustainable forest management and in carbon sequestration. The biomass in each forest stand varies according to their structure and influences not only the biomass per area unit but also their distribution in space and time. The structure analysis with absolute stand density measures and structure and diversity measures and indices for the number of trees and basal area does not always reflect the above ground biomass distribution and variability. The use of above ground biomass as an absolute density measure and the development of diversity measures and indices derived from it enable further details in the stand structure characterisation. The results of this study highlighted the differences between pure even-aged, pure multiaged, mixed even-aged and mixed multiaged structures. The measures and indices of above ground biomass are considered primordial as they integrate the horizontal and the vertical distribution, thus enabling a more detailed evaluation of biomass and carbon stocks
Multi-species stand classification: definition and perspectives
No full textThe increasing demands for products and services from forests enhanced new approaches
to stand composition, structure, and management, which encompass multiple use systems,
frequently mixed either even aged or uneven aged. Stand classification is frequently
based on one density measure (number of trees, basal area, volume or crown cover). As no
standard criteria exist, the direct comparison between the different stand classifications is
difficult. This created a need for a stand classification that incorporates not only the forest
species and composition but also their horizontal and vertical arrangements. The four
criteria stand classification incorporates the number of species and their proportion, their
horizontal and vertical distribution. The application of this methodology enables an integrated
approach, bridging the gap between composition and stand structure. Its use in the
National Forest Inventories and in research studies is simple, as shown in the two cases of
study presented. It also allows the evaluation of stands in a certain moment in time and
their dynamics
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