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International Journal of Hospitality Management Csr and Financial Performance: the Role of Csr Awareness in the Restaurant Industry

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) CSR awareness Stakeholder management Financial performance Social performance a b s t r a c t Initiatives for corporate social responsibility (CSR) often have served business as a source of competitive advantage. However, despite firms' attempts to capitalize on their CSR efforts, stakeholders' low awareness of these initiatives makes it difficult to realize the full value of the strategic CSR. In this study, we propose and test in the context of the restaurant industry whether CSR awareness, measured by CSR media coverage, moderates the relationship between the social and financial performance. Our results support the notion that stakeholders' CSR awareness affects the manner in which CSR initiatives can result in financial gain. Our research has implications both for firms' investment policies in social initiatives and for highlighting the importance of communicating CSR initiatives to relevant stakeholders.
Young Dutch Somalis in the UK: Citizenship, Identities and Belonging in a Transnational Triangle

Abstract In this article the case of young Somalis with a Dutch passport living in the UK is taken as an example to illustrate that new mobilities have resulted in complex transnational orientations on the part of migrants that may involve more than two different countries. In the early 1990s many Somalis arrived in the Netherlands as asylum seekers. Ten years later, however, a third of the Dutch Somali community had moved to the United Kingdom, many of them at a very young age. These Dutch citizens with a Somali background who now live in the UK are orientated towards the Netherlands (a country where most have resided for more than ten years and where some were even born), the UK (their new ‘home country’), as well as Somalia where they themselves or their parents were raised. These complex affective links with various countries challenge us to reflect critically on the relationships between citizenship, identities and belonging and have an impact on Dutch Somalis’ return mobilities.
New BCH-derived sequences for CDMA systems

New BCH-derived PN-EB (pseudo-noise even balanced) sequences suitable to be used in CDMA systems are presented in this paper. It is assumed a new definition for processing gain, which better accounts for the system performance regarding the narrow band noise rejection, and it is shown how to obtain high processing gain values, namely, by using zero mean spreading signals in channels with selective noise. The new sequences have low autocorrelation levels, exist in large numbers and can provide higher processing gain with selective noise.
Specific replication origins promote DNA amplification in fission yeast

To ensure equal replication of the genome in every eukaryotic cell cycle, replication origins fire only once each S phase and do not fire after passive replication. Failure in these controls can lead to local amplification, contributing to genome instability and the development of cancer. To identify features of replication origins important for such amplification, we have investigated origin firing and local genome amplification in the presence of excess helicase loaders Cdc18 and Cdt1 in fission yeast. We find that S phase controls are attenuated and coordination of origin firing is lost, resulting in local amplification. Specific origins are necessary for amplification but act only within a permissive chromosomal context. Origins associated with amplification are highly AT-rich, fire efficiently and early during mitotic S phase, and are located in large intergenic regions. We propose that these features predispose replication origins to re-fire within a single S phase, or to remain active after passive replication.
An Open-Source Monitoring System for Remote Solar Power Applications

Renewable energy systems are an increasingly popular way to generate electricity. As with any new technological paradigm, new challenges have emerged which are unique to the utilization of renewable energy systems. One of these challenges in particular is the development of effective monitoring technologies to compensate for the decentralized nature of remote power generation. This project details the development of an open-source monitoring system for remote solar power systems. The problem space that this project is specifically concerned with deals with the reduction of cost and the use of open platforms to make solar monitoring viable in developing countries where both the resources and general knowledge required to undertake such efforts are particularly scarce. Currently, solar monitoring technologies are expensive, limited in their application, and for the most part proprietary. It is arguable that such systems can be developed using non-customized hardware and open-source software that can be obtained and run anywhere in the world. This project is one such argument. This proof of concept is sufficient to show that solar remote monitoring is neither expensive nor particularly cumbersome to implement and thus warrants further investigation and development by the open source community.
Response to stress in Drosophila is mediated by gender, age and stress paradigm

Abstract All living organisms must maintain equilibrium in response to internal and external challenges within their environment. Changes in neural plasticity (alterations in neuronal populations, dendritic remodeling, and synaptic turnover) are critical components of the homeostatic response to stress, which has been strongly implicated in the onset of affective disorders. However, stress is differentially perceived depending on the type of stress and its context, as well as genetic background, age and sex; therefore, an individual's maintenance of neuronal homeostasis must differ depending upon these variables. We established Drosophila as a model to analyze homeostatic responses to stress. Sexually immature and mature females and males from an isogenic wild-type strain raised under controlled environmental conditions were exposed to four reproducible and high-throughput translatable stressors to facilitate the analysis of a large number of animals for direct comparisons. These animals were assessed in an open-field arena, in a light–dark box, and in a forced swim test, as well as for sensitivity to the sedative effects of ethanol. These studies establish that immature and mature females and males represent behaviorally distinct populations under control conditions as well as after exposure to different stressors. Therefore, the neural substrates mediating the stress response must be differentially expressed depending upon the hormonal status of the brain. In addition, an adaptive response to a given stressor in one paradigm was not predictive for outcomes in other paradigms.
Anxious cognitions in children: An exploration of associations and mediators

To investigate sources of influences connecting mothers' and their children's anxious cognitions, 65 children (aged 10 to 11 years) completed self-report measures of anxiety. Children and mothers responded to an ambiguous scenario questionnaire and measures of parenting style and life events. Mothers also reported expectations about their child's reaction to ambiguous situations. Mothers' and children's threat cognitions were significantly correlated (r = .31), and partially mediated by mothers' expectations about their child. Mothers' anticipated distress was associated with expectations for their child's distress, which was associated with the child's own anticipated distress. Parenting and life events were significantly associated with children's interpretative bias, but did not mediate the intergenerational association in interpretative bias. The results suggest influences on children's 'anxious cognitive style' and potential targets for preventing and reducing maladaptive cognitions in children.
Dominance Behavior as a Function of Infantile Stimulation in the Rat

In recent years there have been an increasing number of investigations concerned with effects of early experience on behavior and development in rats and mice. The relevant literature has been reviewed by a number of investigators. 1,2,4,7,15 A series of studies have been concerned with the effects of tactual stimulation in the form of handling or gentling administered either prior to or immediately following weaning of the organism. It has been shown that rats which are gentled or handled gain more weight, 13,17 are less emotionally reactive to novel stimuli, 6,11,17 show greater resistance to a variety of Stressor agents, 9,13,16 and exhibit greater learning ability 3,8 than nonhandled controls. However, there has been a paucity of research concerned with the relationship between tactual stimulation and social behavior in rats and mice. Levine 11 has shown that mice which are handled daily during infancy are more aggressive than unhandled
An exploration of adjustment to pain: interactions with attribution and individual difference variables

This study explored the nature of and the interactions between self-defined adjustment to pain, attributions, and individual difference variables. Sixty-two pain sufferers were interviewed using a semi-structured measure to allow them to define psychological, physical and social adjustment. Changes in psychological adjustment were also examined, using retrospective and current reports. Responsibility and blame were measured to determine the adaptive nature of attributions to the self and others, using these outcomes. The main results indicated the following. Individual differences in adjustment emerged. Various physical and social limitations of pain were reported, and they were frequently reported by participants aged 60 years and over. Additionally, adjustment outcomes not measured by more structured adjustment measures emerged, including positive statements. These were frequently reported by arthritis sufferers, and people with pain for over nine years’ duration. Descriptive analyses suggested that positive statements along with negative emotions changed for different times in the pain experience, in terms of their nature and frequency. Other-responsibility attributions were positively associated with negative psychological adjustment (p<0.05). Implications of these findings for future research are discussed.
Deliberative and Participatory Democracy? Ideological Strength and the Processes Leading from Deliberation to Political Engagement

We draw on a nationally representative sample of American adults who reported having participated in face-to-face deliberation (N = 756). We use structural equation modeling to first ask whether perceived political diversity differently influences follow-up engagement in various civic or political activities among strong, weak, and moderate ideologues. We also examine the processes-cognitive and affective-that lead from perceived diversity to follow-up engagement, and assess whether these processes depend on ideological strength. We find that follow-up political engagement among strong ideologues is primarily affected by their prior civic and political participation. Weak ideologues, in turn, are mobilized through cognitive reactions to perceived diversity, and moderates through affective reactions. Our results add to the debate on deliberative versus participatory democracy, suggesting that research should more closely attend to individual characteristics and underlying mechanisms.
The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts: Discerning lies from truths: behavioural cues to deception and the indirect pathway of intuition

Can you tell whether suspects are lying based on what they say, how they say it, how they sound when they say it, or how they look? Can you do so even without any special equipment, such as a polygraph to monitor physiological responses (Honts, this volume) or a camera to record interviews, which can then be studied in microscopic detail (O'Sullivan and Ekman, this volume)? These are the questions we will address in this chapter. Reading this chapter will not give anyone grounds for feeling smug about his or her deception detection prowess in forensic contexts (nor in any other contexts, for that matter). The study of verbal and non-verbal behavioural cues to deception is an inexact science, and probably always will be. We will offer hints, based on the current state of the science, about the kinds of behaviours that are more or less likely to intimate that a suspect may be lying. Our suggestions may be of some value in cases in which more definitive evidence, such as DNA, is not available or has not yet been uncovered. We hope our review will also prove useful in demonstrating why sweeping statements about perfect cues to deception are deserving of deep scepticism. There are two fundamental questions in the study of verbal and nonverbal cues to deception. First, are there any such cues? That is, are there any behaviours that indicate whether a person may be lying?
A REVIEW OF RECENT PAPERS ON ONLINE DISCUSSION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This paper presents a review of a sample of recent case studies on the use of asynchronous online discussion in higher education. These studies are analyzed in terms of curriculum design, assumptions about teaching and learning, and claims and reported conditions for using online discussion. The claims made for asynchronous online discussion—in particular the opportunities for interaction between learners, and permanent access to these interactions—are found to be frequently based on social constructivist principles. Asynchronous online discussion is seen as offering additional value by providing learners with experience of computer communication tools and opportunities for taking part in group work. Several constraints on participation within online forums are described. These are discussed in relation to the nature of curriculum design, software design, tutor support, and learners’ attitudes and previous experience. The conditions under which asynchronous online discussion may best support learning are set out, and avenues for future research are suggested.
Use of Audiovisual Information in Speech Perception by Prelingually Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants: A First Report

Objective Although there has been a great deal of recent empirical work and new theoretical interest in audiovisual speech perception in both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired adults, relatively little is known about the development of these abilities and skills in deaf children with cochlear implants. This study examined how prelingually deafened children combine visual information available in the talker’s face with auditory speech cues provided by their cochlear implants to enhance spoken language comprehension. Design Twenty-seven hearing-impaired children who use cochlear implants identified spoken sentences presented under auditory-alone and audiovisual conditions. Five additional measures of spoken word recognition performance were used to assess auditory-alone speech perception skills. A measure of speech intelligibility was also obtained to assess the speech production abilities of these children. Results A measure of audiovisual gain, “Ra,” was computed using sentence recognition scores in auditory-alone and audiovisual conditions. Another measure of audiovisual gain, “Rv,” was computed using scores in visual-alone and audiovisual conditions. The results indicated that children who were better at recognizing isolated spoken words through listening alone were also better at combining the complementary sensory information about speech articulation available under audiovisual stimulation. In addition, we found that children who received more benefit from audiovisual presentation also produced more intelligible speech, suggesting a close link between speech perception and production and a common underlying linguistic basis for audiovisual enhancement effects. Finally, an examination of the distribution of children enrolled in Oral Communication (OC) and Total Communication (TC) indicated that OC children tended to score higher on measures of audiovisual gain, spoken word recognition, and speech intelligibility. Conclusions The relationships observed between auditory-alone speech perception, audiovisual benefit, and speech intelligibility indicate that these abilities are not based on independent language skills, but instead reflect a common source of linguistic knowledge, used in both perception and production, that is based on the dynamic, articulatory motions of the vocal tract. The effects of communication mode demonstrate the important contribution of early sensory experience to perceptual development, specifically, language acquisition and the use of phonological processing skills. Intervention and treatment programs that aim to increase receptive and productive spoken language skills, therefore, may wish to emphasize the inherent cross-correlations that exist between auditory and visual sources of information in speech perception.
DrugE-Rank: improving drug–target interaction prediction of new candidate drugs or targets by ensemble learning to rank

Motivation: Identifying drug–target interactions is an important task in drug discovery. To reduce heavy time and financial cost in experimental way, many computational approaches have been proposed. Although these approaches have used many different principles, their performance is far from satisfactory, especially in predicting drug–target interactions of new candidate drugs or targets. Methods: Approaches based on machine learning for this problem can be divided into two types: feature-based and similarity-based methods. Learning to rank is the most powerful technique in the feature-based methods. Similarity-based methods are well accepted, due to their idea of connecting the chemical and genomic spaces, represented by drug and target similarities, respectively. We propose a new method, DrugE-Rank, to improve the prediction performance by nicely combining the advantages of the two different types of methods. That is, DrugE-Rank uses LTR, for which multiple well-known similarity-based methods can be used as components of ensemble learning. Results: The performance of DrugE-Rank is thoroughly examined by three main experiments using data from DrugBank: (i) cross-validation on FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) approved drugs before March 2014; (ii) independent test on FDA approved drugs after March 2014; and (iii) independent test on FDA experimental drugs. Experimental results show that DrugE-Rank outperforms competing methods significantly, especially achieving more than 30% improvement in Area under Prediction Recall curve for FDA approved new drugs and FDA experimental drugs. Availability: http://datamining-iip.fudan.edu.cn/service/DrugE-Rank Contact: zhusf@fudan.edu.cn Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Is PAWP the “real” sperm factor?

Mammalian embryo development is initiated by intracellular Ca2+ oscillations that result in oocyte activation following gamete membrane fusion. It is widely believed that oocyte Ca2+ oscillations are triggered by a sperm-specific protein, phospholipase C-zeta (PLCζ) that activates InsP3 production leading to repetitive Ca2+ release from intracellular stores. However, a recent report in the FASEB Journal by Aarabi et al. challenges this view by proposing postacrosomal WW domain-binding protein (PAWP) as another sperm-derived protein that can also initiate Ca2+ oscillations and zygotic development at fertilization. Here we discuss these new findings and examine the evidence suggesting PAWP as the “real” sperm factor.
Who gets in? Ideology and government membership in Central and Eastern Europe

Studies of government participation in established democracies demonstrate that ideological factors significantly influence whether or not a party gets into government. Thus far, research on government participation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) indicates that ideological considerations have been insignificant. This is unexpected given what we know from the literature on parties and party systems in the region. Party systems have become more stable and parties themselves rapidly developed identifiable policy platforms. I argue that one of the reasons for this disparity between the government participation literature in new and established democracies is the failure to understand the ideological space across the CEE region. Although party competition can be conceptualized as a one-dimensional space in each country, the policies that underpin notions of ‘left’ and ‘right’ vary. Imposing a definition of the ideological space that was developed for West European countries ignores the ideological context of CEE. This article finds that when the left–right space is defined in a way that is meaningful to CEE countries, ideological factors are highly significant indicators of government membership across the region. Specifically, ideological proximity to the formateur and proximity to the median significantly increase a party’s probability of participating in government.
Auditory substitution of vision: pattern recognition by the blind

Pattern recognition in a computer environment was investigated in 6 early blind and 6 blindfolded sighted subjects using auditory substitution of vision. Subjects had to scan visual patterns displayed on a PC screen by moving the pen of a graphics tablet, which lead to corresponding displacements of the cursor on the screen. A small screen area centered on the pointer was then translated into sounds according to a visual-auditory transcription code. Subjects were trained to learn this code during 12 one-hour sessions. Performance of both groups significantly increased with practice. This indicates that mental representations Of Visual patterns can be acquired through the auditory channel, even in the absence of visual experience. Moreover, blind subjects performed significantly better than sighted subjects did. This could be interpreted as a result of partial compensation for their loss of vision. Pattern recognition in a computer environment is thus possible using a fairly natural vision-to-audition coding scheme. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Towards Stable Semantic Ontology Measurement

Stable semantic ontology measurement is crucial to obtain significant and comparable measurement results. In this paper, we present a summary of the definition of ontology measurement stability and the preprocessing for stable semantic ontology measurement from [5]. Meanwhile, we describe two existing ontology metrics. For each of them, we compare their stability from the perspectives of structural and semantic ontology measurements, respectively. The experiments show that some structural ontology measurements may be unusable in cases when we want to compare the measurements of different models, unless the pre-processing of the models is performed.