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Using the right CSR communication strategy:The impact on consumer attitude and behavior

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an useful tool for companies to engage in environmental and social projects and is, moreover, an effective marketing tool which gains more and more popularity within companies. However, CSR communication is a difficult undertaking because it bears a variety of threats and opportunities. For this reason the right CSR communication strategy is essential to effectively influence consumer attitude and behavior. In this thesis two studies were conducted to, firstly, gain an insight into the actual status of CSR in the Netherlands and, secondly, to analyze how the degree of proactivity in a company’s CSR communication strategy influences consumer attitude and, finally, consumer behavior. In the study about the general insight about CSR in the Netherlands it was found that Dutch consumers have a positive attitude regarding CSR and are interested in this topic. They see companies, the government but also themselves in obligation to contribute in environmental and social causes. Dutch consumers state that they already have some knowledge about environmental and social topics but are also interested to get more information about these topics. The second study showed that a more reactive communication strategy compared to a more proactive communication strategy has got a more positive impact on consumer attitude and behavior because it reduces consumer skepticism and it increases the company’s image and the perceived intrinsic motives. Moreover, it partly reduces the consumers’ perceived extrinsic motives for the company’s engagement. This positive attitude showed to go along with positive consumer behavior like increase Word-of-Mouth (WoM) about the company in general as well as over its CSR engagements and the consumers’ purchase behavior. It was also found that consumer attitude towards the companies CSR communication was more positive when the project the company engages in fits with the company’s image. Due to the high interest and positive consumer attitude companies should start or increase their engagement in CSR. Due to the fact that a more reactive communication strategy has got better effects on consumer attitude and behavior, it is advised that companies should use this kind of communication strategy. Additionally, companies should try to provide an informational message rather than a commercial one to provide information for the consumers. Moreover, they should support a project which fits with the company’s image. Future research should conduct researches including the impact of communication source as well as the message content to analyze how these factors together with the degree of the proactivity of communication influence consumer attitude and behavior.
The impact of social network marketing on consumer purchase intention in Pakistan: A study on female apparel

Article history: Received: February 3, 2019 Received in revised format: March 10, 2019 Accepted: March 26, 2019 Available online: March 26, 2019 The main objective of this study is to explore and investigate the impact of social network marketing on purchase intention of female’s consumers in fashion apparel and how it is affected by mediating role of brand engagement and consumer motivation. Deductive approach is used to determine the variables influencing purchase intention of female fashion apparel’s consumer. The study is conducted in Karachi, the hub of Pakistan’s economy. A total 150 questionnaires were distributed using random sampling technique among females of Karachi, out of which 127 responded. Data is analyzed using mean, frequencies and standard deviation with the help of SPSS. The study reports that social network marketing was significantly associated with consumer purchase intention. The study further reveals that brand engagement and customer motivation act as a partial mediator on how social network marketing impact on purchase intention of females’ fashion apparels. © 2019 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, Canada
Sheafifiable homotopy model categories

If a Quillen model category can be specified using a certain logical syntax (intuitively, ‘is algebraic/combinatorial enough’), so that it can be defined in any category of sheaves, then the satisfaction of Quillen's axioms over any site is a purely formal consequence of their being satisfied over the category of sets. Such data give rise to a functor from the category of topoi and geometric morphisms to Quillen model categories and Quillen adjunctions.
Rab7 is required for the normal progression of the autophagic pathway in mammalian cells

Autophagy is a normal degradative pathway that involves the sequestration of cytoplasmic components and organelles in a vacuole called an autophagosome that finally fuses with the lysosome. Rab7 is a member of the Rab family involved in transport to late endosomes and in the biogenesis of the perinuclear lysosome compartment. To assess the role of Rab7 in autophagy we stably transfected CHO cells with wild-type pEGFP-Rab7, and the mutants T22N (GDP form) and Q67L (GTP form). Autophagy was induced by amino acid starvation and the autophagic vacuoles were labeled with monodansylcadaverine. By fluorescence microscopy we observed that Rab7wt and the active mutant Rab7Q67L were associated with ring-shaped vesicles labeled with monodansylcadaverine indicating that these Rab proteins associate with the membrane of autophagic vesicles. As expected, in cells transfected with the negative mutant Rab7T22N the protein was diffusely distributed in the cytosol. However, upon induction of autophagy by amino acid starvation or by rapamycin treatment this mutant clearly decorated the monodansylcadaverine-labeled vesicles. Furthermore, a marked increase in the size of the monodansylcadaverine-labeled vacuoles induced by starvation was observed by overexpression of the inactive mutant T22N. Similarly, there was an increase in the size of vesicles labeled with LC3, a protein that specifically localizes on the autophagosomal membrane. Taken together the results indicate that a functional Rab7 is important for the normal progression of autophagy.
R(+)-Baclofen, but Not S(−)-Baclofen, Alters Alcohol Self-Administration in Alcohol-Preferring Rats

Racemic baclofen [(±)-baclofen] has repeatedly been reported to suppress several alcohol-motivated behaviors, including alcohol drinking and alcohol self-administration, in rats and mice. Recent data suggested that baclofen may have bidirectional, stereospecific effects, with the more active enantiomer, R(+)-baclofen, suppressing alcohol intake and the less active enantiomer, S(−)-baclofen, stimulating alcohol intake in mice. The present study was designed to investigate whether this enantioselectivity of baclofen effects may also extend to the reinforcing properties of alcohol in rats. To this end, selectively bred Sardinian alcohol-preferring (sP) rats were initially trained to lever respond on a fixed ratio 4 (FR4) schedule of reinforcement for alcohol (15%, v/v) in daily 30-min sessions. Once responding had stabilized, rats were tested with vehicle, (±)-baclofen (3 mg/kg), R(+)-baclofen (0.75, 1.5, and 3 mg/kg), and S(−)-baclofen (6, 12, and 24 mg/kg) under the FR4 schedule of reinforcement. Treatment with 3 mg/kg (±)-baclofen reduced the number of lever responses for alcohol and estimated amount of self-administered alcohol by approximately 60% in comparison to vehicle treatment. R(+)-baclofen was approximately twice as active as (±)-baclofen: treatment with 1.5 mg/kg R(+)-baclofen decreased both variables to an extent similar to that of the decreasing effect of 3 mg/kg (±)-baclofen. Conversely, treatment with all doses of S(−)-baclofen failed to affect alcohol self administration. These results (a) confirm that non-sedative doses of (±)-baclofen effectively suppressed the reinforcing properties of alcohol in sP rats and (b) apparently do not extend to operant alcohol self-administration in sP rats the capability of S(−)-baclofen to stimulate alcohol drinking in mice.
Improving the Effect of Work Satisfaction on Job Performance through Employee Engagement

The purpose of this study to examine the effectiveness of employee engagement increases the effect of job satisfaction on job performance. This research is quantitative causality using a survey method that examines the relationship and influence between variables of research by analyzing 138 workers any mining companies that most cannot meet production targets in Kalimantan. The findings revealed that absorption full mediated the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance Management must invite employees to formulate job satisfaction, pay attention to employee conditions, selectively select employees, provide training to increase employee engagement. This paper is the first one to examine how employee engagement can function to mediate the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance.
Adaptive Observation Strategies with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

Adaptive observation strategies (AOS) aim to improve forecasts by adding additional observations at a few locations that have no standard observations. Lorenz and Emanuel (1998) designed experiments to evaluate different adaptive strategies with Lorenz 40-variable model. Routine observations are observed over “land” (grid points from 21 to 40) every 6 hours. One adaptive point is chosen from one of the points over “ocean” (grid points from 1 to 20) every 6 hours. They found that the performance of adaptive methods (multiple breeding, multiple replication, singular vector) is better than random choice. The best result was obtained from multiple replication (a variation of multiple breeding with perturbed observations). With a 1024 ensemble members Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) assimilation scheme, Hansen and Smith (2000) got comparable results from singular vector adaptive observation strategy (SVAOS) as with the other methods investigated by Lorenz and Emanuel (1998), who had concluded that SVAOS is inferior to the other methods. Trevisan and Uboldi (2004) used the most unstable vector of the observation-analysis-forecast (OAF) system (obtained by breeding) to choose the adaptive point and to define the analysis increment. Their average analysis errors over the ocean were reduced by 50% compared with Lorenz and Emanuel (1998). Here we explore the use of an optimal adaptive method with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF, Hunt, 2005). LETKF is a square root EnKF that does data assimilation over small local patches around each grid point and is thus very parallel and efficient. In these experiments we use only 15 ensemble members, and use different measures of ensemble uncertainty to choose the point of maximum uncertainty where the next adaptive observation should be made. The strategies include ensemble-spread method, local a P method and a combined method. All three methods result in similar results that are better than previous results. Ensemble-spread method is almost computational free, but it doesn’t consider the possible effect of the future adaptive observation error. Local a P method considers the effects of the adaptive observation error, but it is very expensive. The combined method combines the advantages of both methods.
An ecological cost of plant defence: attractiveness of bitter cucumber plants to natural enemies of herbivores

Plants produce defences that act directly on herbivores and indirectly via the attraction of natural enemies of herbivores. We examined the pleiotropic effects of direct chemical defence production on indirect defence employing near-isogenic varieties of cucumber plants (Cucumis sativus) that differ qualitatively in the production of terpenoid cucurbitacins, the most bitter compounds known. In release–recapture experiments conducted in greenhouse common gardens, blind predatory mites were attracted to plants infested by herbivorous mites. Infested sweet plants (lacking cucurbitacins), however, attracted 37% more predatory mites than infested bitter plants (that produce constitutive and inducible cucurbitacins). Analysis of the headspace of plants revealed that production of cucurbitacins was genetically correlated with large increases in the qualitative and quantitative spectrum of volatile compounds produced by plants, including induced production of (E )-b-ocimene (3E )-4,8-dimethyl-1,3,7-nonatriene, (E,E)-a-farnesene, and methyl salicylate, all known to be attractants of predators. Nevertheless, plants that produced cucurbitacins were less attractive to predatory mites than plants that lacked cucurbitacins and predators were also half as fecund on these bitter plants. Thus, we provide novel evidence for an ecological trade-off between direct and indirect plant defence. This cost of defence is mediated by the effects of cucurbitacins on predator fecundity and potentially by the production of volatile compounds that may be repellent to predators.
Is antisocial personality disorder continuous or categorical? A taxometric analysis

Background. Although the DSM-IV-TR is organized into discrete disorders, the question of whether a given disorder possesses a dimensional or a categorical latent structure is an empirical one that can be examined using taxometric methods. The objective of this study was to ascertain the latent structure of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Method. Participants were 1146 male offenders incarcerated in state prisons (n=569), or court-ordered to residential drug treatment (n=577). Participants were interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Personality Disorders (SCID-II) to assess ASPD symptoms; they also completed the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4) ASPD scale. Taxometric analyses were performed to examine whether ASPD is underpinned by a discrete category or a dimensional construct. Results. Multiple taxometric procedures using two different sets of indicators provided no evidence that ASPD has a taxonic latent structure. Instead, the results were far more consistent with the proposition that ASPD exists on a continuum, regardless of whether it is assessed using a structured interview or a self-report measure. Conclusions. Evidence that ASPD is dimensional suggests that it is best studied using continuous measures and that dichotomizing individuals into ASPD versus non-ASPD groups will typically result in decreased statistical power. The findings are also consistent with a multifactorial etiology for ASPD and with recent attempts to conceptualize ASPD within the framework of extant dimensional models of personality.
Eﬀect of splay fault rupture on open ocean tsunamis with application to the 2004 Indian Ocean event

We seek to determine if the signature of coseismic activation of a subduction zone splay fault will be preserved and recognizable in the ocean bound tsunami wave-form. The Jason-1 satellite altimetry measurements of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami recorded a lead wave with two peaks of similar amplitude and wavelength. We determine that coseismic activation of both a splay fault and the updip portion of the sub-duction interface will result in two areas of uplifted seaﬂoor, and this is capable of generating two peaks in the leadwave, as observed. We model the seaﬂoor deformation, and resulting tsunami, in 1D and 2D, albeit for a model with uniform sea depth, to determine under what conditions the resulting waveform will approximate that observed by Jason-1. Standard shallow water wave theory is shown to be inadequate and it is only with the inclusion of dispersion that the waveform evolves with distance traveled, and accurately represents this structure. Additionally, we back project points of the observed waveform to constrain potential uplift patterns and ﬁnd that a source involving a signiﬁcant component of splay faulting on a fault located ∼ 110 km from the trench is consistent with the Jason-1 satellite data. This further constrains the average updip rupture propagation speed to be about 2 km/s. We also show that a later-passing satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon, which did not detect a doubly peaked lead wave, sampled a more northerly segment of the margin than the segment inﬂuencing the Jason-1 observation, suggesting a limited along-strike activation of splay rupture.
Early Entry in the NBA Draft

In an influential article, “Unraveling in Matching Markets,"Li and Rosen (1998) note that the first 7 picks, and 17 among 29 first-round selections, of the 1997 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft were not college seniors. By 2004, the first pick was a high school senior, and 25 of the first 29 picks were not college seniors. We suggest that recent NBA contract provisions implemented to slow the early entry of talented players have instead provided additional incentives to both players and firms for early entry into the NBA. We explore two competing models that predict why teams choose a talented player sooner in the new rookie contract system: the human capital model and Lazear's option value model. To test why unraveling occurs, we use a panel study of all NBA players for 12 years, from 1989 through 2002.
RATT: Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool

Second-generation sequencing technologies have made large-scale sequencing projects commonplace. However, making use of these datasets often requires gene function to be ascribed genome wide. Although tool development has kept pace with the changes in sequence production, for tasks such as mapping, de novo assembly or visualization, genome annotation remains a challenge. We have developed a method to rapidly provide accurate annotation for new genomes using previously annotated genomes as a reference. The method, implemented in a tool called RATT (Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool), transfers annotations from a high-quality reference to a new genome on the basis of conserved synteny. We demonstrate that a Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome or a single 2.5 Mb chromosome from a malaria parasite can be annotated in less than five minutes with only modest computational resources. RATT is available at http://ratt.sourceforge. net.
Consumer vulnerability and the transformative potential of Internet shopping: An exploratory case study

Abstract Ten million individuals in the UK who suffer from long-term illness, impairments, or disability can be considered as vulnerable consumers (Office for Disability Issues, 2010). Despite this, there are few studies on the use of the Internet for grocery shopping by the disabled and none which offers an understanding of the multiple facets of consumer vulnerability. The purpose of this study is to contextualise the use of the Internet for grocery shopping using an exploratory case to provide fresh insights into the ‘actual’ vulnerability of ‘Danni’ – a disabled housewife and mother. The consumer-focussed methods used here were combined multiple complementary approaches. The findings illustrate that whilst the use of the Internet reduces the impracticalities of shopping in-store, the normalcy afforded to Danni through shopping in-store (including her sense of self) was not met by the technological offerings. The paradoxes associated with using online provision and the strategies adopted to manage these by Danni demonstrate engagement/disengagement and assimilation/isolation. Policy implications and insights for retailers are provided.
Intracluster light and the extended stellar envelopes of cD galaxies: an analytical description

We have analysed deep R-band images, down to a limiting surface brightness of 26.5 R-mag arcsec −2 (equivalent to ∼28 B-mag arcsec −2 ), of five cD galaxies to determine the shape of the surface brightness profiles of their extended stellar envelopes. Both de Vaucouleurs R 1/4 and Sersic R 1/n models, on their own, provide a poor description of the surface brightness profiles of cD galaxies. This is due to the presence of outer stellar envelopes, thought to have accumulated over the merger history of the central cluster galaxy and also from the tidal stripping of galaxies at larger cluster radii. We therefore simultaneously fit two Sersic functions to measure the shape of the inner and outer components of the cD galaxies. We show that, for three out of our five galaxies, the surface brightness profiles are best fitted by an inner Sersic model, with indices n ∼ 1-6, and an outer exponential component. For these systems, the galaxy-to-envelope size ratio is 0.1-0.4 and the contribution of the stellar envelope to the total R-band light (i.e. galaxy + envelope) is around 60-80 per cent (based on extrapolation to a 300 kpc radius). The exceptions are NGC 6173, for which our surface brightness profile modelling is consistent with just a single component (i.e. no envelope) and NGC 4874 which appears to have an envelope with a de Vaucouleurs, rather than exponential, profile.
The timing and magnitude of Stroop interference and facilitation in monolinguals and bilinguals

Executive control abilities and lexical access speed in Stroop performance were investigated in English monolinguals and two groups of bilinguals (English–Chinese and Chinese–English) in their first (L1) and second (L2) languages. Predictions were based on a bilingual cognitive advantage hypothesis, implicating cognitive control ability as the critical factor determining Stroop interference; and two bilingual lexical disadvantage hypotheses, focusing on lexical access speed. Importantly, each hypothesis predicts different response patterns in a Stroop task manipulating stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). There was evidence for a bilingual cognitive advantage, although this effect was sensitive to a number of variables including proficiency, language immersion, and script. In lexical access speed, no differences occurred between monolinguals and bilinguals in their native languages, but there was evidence for a delay in L2 processing speed relative to the L1. Overall, the data highlight the multitude of factors affecting executive control and lexical access speed in bilinguals.
Analysing the concept of quality in model-driven engineering literature: A systematic review

The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) research must manage a diversity of conceptions despite the global truth about the use of conceptual models as one way for representing and managing the development of complex information systems. Due to this diversity of conceptions and the multiple MDE compliance interpretations, a pletora of definitions about quality in models are emerging, each one tackling specific dimensions involved in MDE projects. In order to explore a consensus about quality in models and model-driven contexts an identification of the previous proposals for quality in models is needed. The main contribution of this work is the identification of representative trends about quality definition in MDE, and therefore, exposing the implications of the multiple quality interpretations as consequence of the diversity in MDE compliance works.