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Paratachycines (Paratachycines) hebeiensis : Zhang, Liu & Bi 2009
No full textParatachycines (Paratachycines) hebeiensis Zhang, Liu & Bi, 2009 (Figs. 12–17) Paratachycines (Paratachycines) hebeiensis: Zhang, Liu & Bi, 2009. Zootaxa, 1984: 66–67. Type specimen: male; type locality: Wulingshan, Xinglong county, Hebei; location of type specimen: Shanghai Entomological Museum, Chinese Academy of Science (SEM, CAS). Material examined. 1♂ 6♀♀, China, Hebei province, Xinglong county, Wulingshan, alt. 600m, 8–9-IX-2007, leg. Xianwei LIU et al..Published as part of Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2019, Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China, pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 4700 (3) on pages 397-398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/354920
Bi-Based Z‑Scheme Nanomaterials for the Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes
No full textA multicomponent
Bi-based Z-scheme photocatalyst, BISB, was developed
through a hydrothermal method. In this sample, two semiconducting
nanostructures, BiOI and Bi2S3, were linked
together with the metal Bi nanoparticle. As compared with BiOI (BI)
and heterojunction BiOI/Bi2S3 (BIS) samples,
the BISB had optimal Rhodamine B (RhB) photodecomposition performance.
High efficiency separation of photoexcited electrons and holes, decreased
band gap energy, extended specific surface area, and promotional redox
potential were key factors for enhancing the photocatalytic activity
of the prepared sample. The photoexcited holes were the key active
radicals during the RhB photodecomposition process over the BISB catalyst,
while ·O2¯ was also involved to a
smaller extent. Additionally, the photocatalyst demonstrated excellent
reusability and stability during the photoreaction process, suggesting
that the BISB sample could be a candidate for water purification applications
Client-consultant interaction practices: Sources of ingenuity, value creation and strategizing
No full textService providers increasingly choose to interact with their clients. Previous studies show that client’s resources and activities can influence the service provider’s ability to create value, to be creative, and to develop competitive strategies. Yet several gaps can be identified in the literature regarding how these abilities are impacted by client-consultant interaction (c-c-i) practices. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to explain the service providers’ varying ability to offer highly valuable solutions to their clients’ problems, in terms of the practices through which consultants interact with their clients. The main research questions are;
How do client-consultant interaction practices influence a firm’s ability to offer unique value propositions and deliver ingenious solutions, and how do these practices influence the formation of the firm’s strategy? These questions are answered through four papers. Each paper answers a sub-question.
Paper 1 focuses on the impact of c-c-i practices on the service providers’ ingenuity capabilities. The paper asks how project teams shatter constraints in ill-structured problem-solving situations, and what implications this finding has for the understanding of creative action in organizations. This paper sheds light on the c-c-i practices through which project teams shatter their constraints and create ingenious solutions.
Paper 2 focuses on the creative aspects of c-c-i practices and presents the experiences of service providers who have been successful in capitalizing on the creative resources provided by their clients.
Paper 3 is an inquiry into the relationship between c-c-i practices and the service providers’ ability to offer unique value propositions. The paper provides a model to define and assess value created through c-c-i practices. The findings of this paper show that value creation is maximized through c-c-i practices that provide access to various forms of capital and practice that enable capital exploitation. Unique value offerings can be developed from knowing what c-c-i practices to enact in different circumstances.
Paper 4 focuses on the implications of c-c-i practices for the emergence of new strategies. The findings show that mundane business operations can be the locus of strategizing, and that clients can play a role in emergent strategy formation. Theoretical resources for this research are drawn from literature on practice theory, strategy, organizational creativity, and value creation. An explorative research design is used and qualitative data are gathered from 30 cases through extensive field work. Both in-depth and comparative case analyses are performed
Effective email marketing: an empirical study of the impact of personalized communication on customer engagement and purchase decisions
No full textMasteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Marketing - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2019This study investigates the impact of behavior-based personalization on
customer engagement and purchase behavior in the context of email marketing. For
this purpose, the author reviews and combines the following research streams in the
literature: email marketing, personalization of marketing communication, and
customer engagement.
To answer the research question at hand, the author designs a field study in
collaboration with Kahoot! AS, a fast-growing Norwegian start-up company
operating in the education technology industry. Kahoot!’s game-based learning and
trivia platform is used in multiple settings – school and university classrooms,
business training and presentations, social, cultural, and other events (retrieved
from kahoot.com). By leveraging marketing automation technology, which
Kahoot! uses for the email campaigns’ creation and management, the author sets
up and runs the experiment. Findings of the study provide marketing managers with
useful insights on the effectiveness of behavior-based personalization in the email
marketing context as well as contribute to the ongoing academic discussion about
personalized marketing communication and customer engagement.
The results reveal that email communication has a significant positive effect
on customer engagement irrespective of behavior-based personalization. This
proves that email is an effective marketing communication channel, and it should,
therefore, remain a key part of the digital media mix used by marketers. However,
based on the lack of a significant difference in the effectiveness of personalized and
non-personalized email campaigns, the author recommends focusing more on highquality
generic content and the design of the email messages. Furthermore,
consistent with the viewpoints of researchers in the field, the study confirms that
customer engagement is a significant predictor of customer purchases, leading to
the conclusion that firms should invest in customer engagement marketing
initiatives to ultimately achieve better firm performance
Multiproject "hostile" environments
No full textBacheloroppgave i Prosjektledelse fra Handelshøyskolen BI, 2017This thesis addresses the problems and challenges of working in a multiproject
environment, and what could we do to improve it.
The thesis has been prepared in connection with the program BIK 6512 Project
Management 3, at BI Department of Management and Organization Oslo.
The author has been working as a project manager himself for the organization
described for the last 5 years. I’m a Spanish construction engineer who moved to
Norway 5 years ago with my whole family because of the Spanish economy crisis.
I have several years of experience as project manager in Spanish construction
industries, and now I'm leading offshore projects for a Norwegian O & G
engineering company (IKM dsc Engineering). I would like to remark that I’m
fluent in Norwegian and English, but I can express myself much better in English
even though is not my mother language. Please have this in mind when reading
the thesis, thanks!
This thesis has been basically prepared for my own learning, but I really hope it
can contribute to improve the way we face daily our work in a multiproject
environmen
Ordering of organic molecules on templated surfaces
No full textThis thesis describes the controlled growth of molecular nanostructures using modified metallic and semiconductor surfaces. The Ag/Si(lll)-(root3 x root3),the Sn/Cu(100) surface alloy system and the Bi/Si(100) nanolines and (2xn) surfaces were all investigated as suitable substrates for the controlled growth of pentacene, (C22H14) or trimesic acid, (C6H3(COOH)3) organic molecules. The following techniques were used in this study; Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), Low Energy Electron Diffraction (LEED), Normal Incident X-Ray Standing Waves (NIXSW) and Temperature Programmed Desorption (TPD).
The room temperature growth and ordering of trimesic acid on the AgfSi(ll1)-(root3 x root3) surface was investigated. An oblique unit cell was determined and a model proposed for the highly ordered close-packed domains.
The discovery of a new submonolayer phase on Sn/Cu(100) and the re-examined known phase are discussed. New models for these reconstructions are proposed. Adsorption of trimesic acid at room temperature on the clean substrate the lowest Sn coverage phase were studied. Two new Sn coverage dependent structures were discovered and bonding schemes in upright and flat orientations are discussed.
BifSi(100)-(2xn) surface was exploited as a template for the ordered growth of pentacene, which exhibited orientation specific adsorption. The Bi/Si(100)-(2xn) single domain surface created on vicinal silicon was used to test the suitable of Daresbury 4.2 beamline for NIXSW Imaging experiments and the quality of the results are discussed
FIGURES 18–24 in Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China
No full textFIGURES 18–24. Paratachycines (Hemitachycines) xiai Zhang, Liu & Bi, 2009. 18. Fastigium of vertex, frontal and dorsal view; 19. Apical spurs of fore tibiae with a median spine, lateral view; 20. Apical spurs of mid tibiae with a median spine, ventral view; 21. Abdominal apex; dorsal view; 22. Male genitalia, dorsal view; 23. Female subgenital plate, ventral view; 24. Ovipositor, lateral view.Published as part of Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2019, Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China, pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 4700 (3) on page 398, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/354920
FIGURES 25–28 in Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China
No full textFIGURES 25–28. Paratachycines (Hemitachycines) xiai Zhang, Liu & Bi, 2009 in nature. 25. Male, lateral view (photographed in Mengshan, Shandong province); 26. Female in, lateral view (photographed in Mengshan, Shandong province); 27. Male, dorsal and posterior view (photographed in Taishan, Shandong province); 28. Female, dorsal view (photographed in Taishan, Shandong province).Published as part of Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2019, Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China, pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 4700 (3) on page 399, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/354920
FIGURES 12–17 in Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China
No full textFIGURES 12–17. Paratachycines (Paratachycines) hebeiensis Zhang, Liu & Bi, 2009. 12. Fastigium of vertex, frontal and dorsal view; 13. Apical spurs of fore tibiae without median spine, ventral view; 14. Apical spurs of mid tibiae without median spine, ventral view; 15. Male genitalia, dorsal view; 16. Ovipositor, lateral view; 17. Female subgenital plate, ventral view.Published as part of Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2019, Review of genus Paratachycines Storozhenko, 1990 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) with a new recorded species from China, pp. 394-400 in Zootaxa 4700 (3) on page 397, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4700.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/354920
Tachycines (Gymnaeta) longicaudus , Karny 1934
No full textTachycines (Gymnaeta) longicaudus Karny, 1934 (Figs. 108–109) Tachycines (Gymnaeta) longicauda Karny, 1934. ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI, BAND 26 a. N:O 2: 4-6; Karny, 1937. Genera Insectorum, 206: 248; Storozhenko, 1990. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 69(4): 848; Jin & Xia, 1994. Jour. Orth. Res., 3: 18. Diestrammena (Gymnaeta) longicauda Rampini, Di Russo & Cobolli, 2008. Monografie Naturalistiche, 3: 130; Zhang et Liu, 2009. Zootaxa, 2272: 34. Specimens studied. 4♂♂, 2♀♀ (larva), Liupanshan, Ningxia, 2000-VII-7 ~14, collected by Bi Wen-Xuan; 3♂♂ (larva), Liupanshan, Ningxia, 2000-VI-23–28, collected by Bi Wen-Xuan. Distribution. China (Gansu *, Ningxia).Published as part of Qin, Yanyan, Liu, Xianwei & Li, Kai, 2019, Review of the subgenus Tachycines (Gymnaeta) Adelung, 1902 (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Aemodogryllinae, Aemodogryllini), pp. 273-310 in Zootaxa 4560 (2) on pages 305-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/262760
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