410 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No full textAt the request of the Journal Editors and SAGE Publishing, the following article has been retracted.Wood, M., & Shukla, P. (2019).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 https://doi.org/10.1177/1524500419831084The article has been retracted after the journal became aware that substantial portions of the article were taken from the 2015 thesis titled ‘Is parental resilience associated with child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
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
Particles and Fields in Superfluids: Insights from the Two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii Equation
No full textWe study the dynamics of active particles in two-dimensional superfluids at temperature , for a variety of initial configurations, by carrying out extensive direct-numerical-simulations of the two-dimensional, Galerkin-truncated Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our study elucidates the interplay of particles and fields, in both simple and turbulent flows. We show that particle collisions can be inelastic, if the repulsive interactions between particles is weak, and elastic otherwise. We show that assemblies of many particles and vortices yield turbulent spatiotemporal evolutions
Managing customers' expectations in E-era: a research on automobile industry
No full textNearly two third of Indian companies fail to satisfy the needs of their customers. The only reason being failing to understand the expectations of the customers. While eera fetches traditional marketing to a new platform, the expectations of customers have also improved on all dimensions. The prerequisite to becoming an emarketing organization, a company needs to be fast, agile, quick in response, proactive and customer oriented too. Automobiles have become a necessity of our life. While taking the example of the automobiles industry the author attempts to find out how customers’ expectations have changed over a period of a decade. The author suggests about what the companies of tomorrow will have to do to manage the customer expectations. An attempt has been made to provide an insight into the same arena with the 3C model of strategic shift in customer expectations
Author Correction: Reprogramming triggers endogenous L1 and Alu retrotransposition in human induced pluripotent stem cells.
No full textThis Article contains an error in the author affiliations. The correct affiliation for author Ruchi Shukla is 'MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK', and is not 'Mater Research Institute - University of Queensland, TRI Building, Woolloongabba QLD 4102, Australia'
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