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Specialty farming in Idaho: Is it for me?
No full textBulletin no. 743 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1992-01-01. Author(s): Barney, D.L.; Finnerty, T.L. ; Laughlin, K.M
The Responsible Management of Ecotourism Experiences: Exploring Ecotourism Selfies
No full textAn emerging theme in the discussions of managing the impacts of tourist experiences on destinations is the need to take a systems thinking approach to identifying the impact issues, challenges, and management options. This chapter will use the phenomenon of tourist selfies as a core element of contemporary experiences in the context of ecotourism. A systems model will be developed outlining how tourist selfies act as part of ecotourist experiences and how they are used to present ecotourist experiences to others. This systems approach will then be used to explore the ways in which ecotourist experiences can have both negative and positive impacts on their settings, to identify the challenges that these impacts generate for responsible management of ecotourism, and to suggest strategies and options available for managers of these types of tourist experience
Author Correction:A cattle graph genome incorporating global breed diversity
No full textThe original version of this Article omitted from the author list the 12th and 13th authors Dennis Muhanguzi and Wilson Amanyire, who are from the ‘School of Biosecurity, Biotechnology and Laboratory Sciences (SBLS), College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, P.O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda’. Consequently, the final sentence of the Author Contributions incorrectly read ‘D.W., P.T., E.A.J.C., C.E., E.T.O., E.R.A., A. Tijjani, K.M., A.F., B.R.F., A.Q., U.C. and P.W. provided samples and expertise for the studies’. This has been replaced with ‘D.W., P.T., W.A., D.M., E.A.J.C., C.E., E.T.O., E.R.A., A. Tijjani, K.M., A.F., B.R.F., A.Q., U.C. and P.W. provided samples and expertise for the studies’. This has been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Author Correction: Structural transformation of layered double hydroxides: An in situ TEM analysis
No full textArt. 11, 1 S.Correction to: npj 2D Materials and Applications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-018-0048-4, Published online 21 February 2018 The Author contributions section has been amended to account for the full contributions of two of the authors, K.M. and M.C.D.M. This has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of this article.
Czyje jest miasto? Kilka uwag o jednej powieści K.M. Bakowa
No full textThe article looks at the question of using urban studies as a set of interpretive techniques in analyzing popular literature – especially in its most popular genre – crime fiction. On the basis of K.M. Bakow’s debut novel Albatros i hiena [Albatross and hyena], set in Bielsko-Biała, the author of the article shows how the criminal intrigue is enriched by a specific way of showing urban space and how it relates to the main character, detective Ewa Orlowska. The proposed model of interpretation can be used
in discussing subsequent novels by the author of Padlinożercy [Scavengers] and fits into the framework of geopoetics and text [email protected] Literaturoznawstwa, Uniwersytet ŚląskiBakow K. M. (2009), Albatros i hiena, Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo STO.Bielak Tomasz (2008), Proza Macieja Słomczyńskiego (Joe Alexa), Katowice: Wydawnictwo WSZOP.Harvey David (2009), Prawo do miasta: ekonomia polityczna urbanizacji, przeł. J. Maciejczyk, „Le Monde Diplomatique. Edycja polska”, nr 4 (38), s. 1, 10–12.Engels Fryderyk (1952), Położenie klasy robotniczej w Anglii, przeł. A. Długosz, Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza.Lefebvre Henri (1996), The Right to the City, w: H. Lefebvre, Writings on Cities, red. E. Kofman, E. Lebas, Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, s. 147–159.Markowski Marek Paweł (2021), Uczta czystego rozumu, „Dwutygodnik.com”, https://www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/9722-uczta-czystego-rozumu.html.Opacki Ireneusz (1995), „W środku niebokręga”. Poezja romantycznych przełomów, Katowice: „Para”.Sendyka Roma (2013), Pryzma – zrozumieć nie-miejsca pamięci (non-lieux de memoire), „Teksty Drugie”, nr 1–2, s. 323–344.Stiegler Bernard, Kolektyw Internacja [red.] (2023), Konieczna bifurkacja. „Nie ma alternatywy”, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.Toeplitz Krzysztof Teodor (1970), Mieszkańcy masowej wyobraźni, Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy.Ustroń Zawodzie – sanatorium, piramidy i wyjątkowa architektura, https://www.bryla.pl/bryla/7,158929,24594311,ustron-zawodzie-sanatorium-piramidy-i-wyjatkowa-architektura.html.2222123
P2PEdge : A Decentralised, Scalable P2P Architecture for Energy Trading in Real-Time
No full textAuthor Contributions: Conceptualization, J.K., D.H.-S., R.N.A., B.S. and K.M.; Formal analysis, J.K., D.H.-S. and B.S.; Investigation, J.K.; Methodology, J.K.; Project administration, K.M.; Supervision, K.M. and D.H.-S.; Validation, J.K. and D.H.-S.; Visualization, J.K.; Writing—original draft, J.K.; Writing—review & editing, J.K., K.M., D.H.-S., R.N.A. and B.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Funding: This research received no external funding.Peer reviewe
Internet Identifiability and Beyond: A Model of the Effects of Identifiability on Communicative Behavior
No full textK.M. Douglas and C. McGarty (in press) demonstrated that being identifiable to an ingroup
audience in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) setting leads people to describe
anonymous outgroup targets in more abstract, or stereotypical ways. Based on these findings,
and on the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE: S.D. Reicher, R. Spears,
& T. Postmes, 1995), we aimed to test a model of the effects of identifiability on
communicative behavior, in and beyond CMC. Participants in three studies, one CMC and
two pen/paper, were asked to write responses to controversial messages. In all three studies,
communicators who were identifiable to an ingroup audience used more stereotypical
language to describe anonymous outgroup targets. Although Study 1 suggested that this
increase in stereotypical language use may be strategic, Studies 2 and 3 suggested instead that
it may result from more subtle, or implicit communicative processes. These results are
discussed in relation to the revised SIDE model and a final model is proposed
Cross-Cultural Construct and Predicative Validity of the Social Return Scale
No full textBackground of the study:
While travel has long been a conspicuous activity with symbolic aspects (Dimanche & Samdahl, 1994), social media has fundamentally changed how tourists symbolically convey travel images to their peers. How the vacation will be viewed by one’s peers on social media has firmly cemented itself into the tourist psyche and how they plan and travel. One scale recently developed to understand the anticipated social media attractiveness of different destinations is the Social Return Scale (SRS) (Boley et al., 2018). The SRS is designed to measure the anticipated positive social media feedback one will receive from posting pictures of a travel experience either at the destination level or at the individual business level. Anticipated “Social Return” has been shown to be a significant predictor of tourists’ intention to visit destinations such as Cuba, participate in ecotourism (Beall et al. In press), and stay at independent accommodations (Boley & Woosnam, 2020).
Purpose of the study:
While the SRS has been shown to be construct valid with the ability to significantly explain intent to visit destinations and tourism businesses, it has yet to be tested outside of a North American context. Therefore, the purpose of this abstract is to test the SRS’ cross-cultural construct and predictive validity across the United States of America’s top 5 international travel markets (Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan, & China).
Methodology:
The survey research company Qualtrics was used to acquire panels of frequent international travelers from each of the U.S.’ top five markets (n=1,653; Canada=316; China=320; Japan=320; Mexico=349; U.K.=348). The translations of SRS followed Mahltora et al.’s (1996) guidelines of using native speakers to ensure functional and conceptual equivalence of the items making up the SRS. The metric equivalence of the SRS was assessed using CFA. The predictive validity of the SRS was assessed within a theory of planned behavior framework including travelers’ attitudes towards the U.S. and their perceived behavior control of visiting the U.S. within the next year (starting in June, 2020) and a more long-term time-horizon of three years to account for the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results:
The SRS exhibited strong convergent validity across all five samples with factor loadings above 0.50 for each sample and Average Variance Extracted estimates above 50% for each sample. The SRS also had construct reliability estimates above the 0.70 threshold in each sample. The SRS also exhibited discriminant validity with AVE values exceeding squared correlation values for the constructs of “Attitudes toward the U.S.” and “Perceived Behavioral Control” of visiting the U.S. As for predictive validity, the SRS was a significant predictor of intention to visit the U.S. within the next year for the samples from Canada (β=0.38; p=.001), China (β=0.31; p=.001), Japan (β=0.20; p=.007), and the U.K. (β=0.52; p=.001). There was no significant relationship between the SRS and intention to visit the U.S. within the next year for the Mexican sample (β=0.11; p=.14). For the intentions to visit the U.S. within the next three years, those who indicated they would very likely travel within the next year to the U.S. were removed from the sample before performing the analysis. This reduced the sample from 1,653 to 1,274 (Canada=237; China=278; Japan=304; Mexico=196; U.K.=259). The SRS was found to have a diminished influence on influence on intent to visit the U.S. within the next three years. It was only a significant predictor for the sample from Canada (β=0.18; p=.007); China (β=0.25; p=.001), and Japan (β=0.14; p=.04) with the strength of the relationship slightly reduced across each sample.
Conclusions:
With the SRS only being previously applied with in North American English-speaking countries, the purpose of this research was to assess the construct and predictive validity of the scale within the top five U.S. travel markets. The psychometric properties of the scale appear to be reliable and valid across all five samples providing further credence to the validity of the scale. The scale was also a significant predictor of intent to visit the United States in four of the five samples demonstrating the scale’s importance as an antecedent to travel behavior.
Research implications and limitations:
More research needs to assess the cross-cultural validity of the SRS across a variety of languages before the scale can truly be embraced as having universal validity. Second, this data collection was during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It would be prudent to continue to test “Social Return’s” influence on intent to travel as the pandemic continues on as well as when it ends to see how the influence of “Social Return” waxes and wanes with changes in restrictions and perceived risk.
References:
Beall, J., Boley, B., Landon, A., & Woosnam, K.M. (Published Online) What drives ecotourism: environmental values or symbolic conspicuous consumption? Journal of Sustainable Tourism. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09669582.2020.1825458
Boley, B. B., Jordan, E. J., Kline, C., & Knollenberg, W. (2018). Social return and intent to travel. Tourism Management, 64, 119-128.
Boley, B. B., & Woosnam, K. M. (2020). Going Global or Going Local? Why Travelers Choose Franchise and Independent Accommodations. Journal of Travel Research, 0047287520904786.
Dimanche, F., & Samdahl, D. (1994). Leisure as symbolic consumption: A conceptualization and prospectus for future research. Leisure Sciences, 16(2), 119-129.
Malhotra, N. K., Agarwal, J., & Peterson, M. (1996). Methodological issues in cross‐cultural marketing research. International marketing review.
Munar, A. M., & Jacobsen, J. K. S. (2014). Motivations for sharing tourism experiences through social media. Tourism management, 43, 46-54
City Port Bridge Rotterdam: In search of perpetual state of motion
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