Symbiosis between the TRECVid benchmark and video libraries at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Audiovisual archives are investing in large-scale digitisation efforts of their analogue holdings and, in parallel, ingesting an ever-increasing amount of born- digital files in their digital storage facilities. Digitisation opens up new access paradigms and boosted re-use of audiovisual content. Query-log analyses show the shortcomings of manual annotation, therefore archives are complementing these annotations by developing novel search engines that automatically extract information from both audio and the visual tracks. Over the past few years, the TRECVid benchmark has developed a novel relationship with the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision (NISV) which goes beyond the NISV just providing data and use cases to TRECVid. Prototype and demonstrator systems developed as part of TRECVid are set to become a key driver in improving the quality of search engines at the NISV and will ultimately help other audiovisual archives to offer more efficient and more fine-grained access to their collections. This paper reports the experiences of NISV in leveraging the activities of the TRECVid benchmark

DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF TEACHER’S CULTURAL IDENTITY SCALE IN EFL CONTEXT: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING APPROACH

Due to the importance of culture in each society, several researchers have offered different definitions. Several studies have also been conducted on language, ego, ethnic, national, religious and modern identity. However, no validated model is proposed for Iranian cultural identity in English Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. Therefore, this research constitutes a relatively new area through developing and validating teacher’s cultural identity scale in the EFL context. Drawing on existing literature and various categorization of culture, the researchers used different sources, including Persian literature, social and cultural education, theology and history books to extract different components of culture. One hundred and thirty items were created primarily based on operational definitions of each component. The items were reviewed by a group of experts. After reviewing the items, the researchers piloted and tested the questionnaire using a sample of 305 EFL teachers. A final model of Iranian cultural identity with fifty-eight items underlying the eleven-factor model was specified in exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of items with Cronbach’s alpha (a=0.864) for the whole instrument was found to be adequate. Furthermore, the convergent and discriminate validity of the items has been found to be satisfactory

Urban Studies

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender, architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban society and culture, and urban history

Folklore in the Digital Age: Collected Essays. Foreword by Andy Ross

Online and digital cultures are among the most personally gripping effects of globalisation in our increasingly networked world. While global multimedia culture may seem to endanger traditional folklore, there is no doubt that it creates new folklore as well. Folklore in the Digital Age vividly illustrates the range of e-folklore studies in updated papers and essays from the author’s 21st-century research. The themes covered include not only the most serious issues of the day, such as the 9/11 attacks and natural disasters, but also cheerier topics, such as online dating and food culture. In these essays Professor Krawczyk-Wasilewska paints a convincing picture of digital folklore as a cultural heritage. She covers a wide range of issues from all levels of society and offers fascinating insights into how online culture affects our postmodern lives

Tourism in contemporary cities. Proceedings of the International Tourism Studies Association Conference: University of Greenwich, London, UK 17–19 August 2016 Conference Proceedings

The 6th International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA) Biennial conference was held at the University of Greenwich, London, England from 17‐19 August 2016. This was the first time that the conference had been held in Europe and it provided a unique opportunity to meet, hear from and network with tourism scholars and professionals from across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North and South America. ITSA has a mission to encourage interaction and cooperation between developing and developed countries and the conference was successful in attracting 130 delegates from 29 countries. The main theme of the conference was 'Tourism in Contemporary Cities' with four conference sub‐themes of ‘Tourism Cities and Urban Tourism’, ‘The Chinese Market for European Tourism’, ‘River, Cruise and Maritime Tourism’, and ‘Heritage Tourism in Cities’, The subthemes were chosen to reflect the unique location of the conference on the UNESCO Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site, and London which is Europe’s most visited tourist destination. The conference also presented ‘Dark Tourism and Cities’ and ‘Tourism and Communist Heritage’ as special sessions

Proposta de conceptualização de uma marca de luxo

This dissertation aims to broaden the understanding of luxury consumption and luxury brands. As there is no globally accepted definition of “luxury brand”, it is the purpose of this dissertation to propose a workable definition of luxury brand that can be employed to accurately describe the construct in the different product categories and sectors. Based on the literature review, a conceptual model was developed to explain the luxury brand construct through 12 dimensions: (1) awareness, (2) identity, (3) image associations, (4) aesthetics, (5) quality, (6) consumer expectations, (7) co-creation value, (8) autarchic financial value, (9) exclusivity, (10) authenticity, (11) desirability, and (12) emotional connections. To meet this goal, this dissertation overviews (a) the history of luxury, (b) the etymological origins and semantic evolution of its associated terms, (c) the analysis and critique of current definitions for luxury, luxury brands, and luxury products, (d) the meta-theoretical recommendations for the development of a good definition, (e) the consumer’s perceptions on luxury, and (f) the luxury brand’s managerial idiosyncrasies. Suggestions for future research are provided at the end of this dissertation.A presente dissertação tem por objetivo aprofundar o conhecimento na área do consumo de luxo e das marcas de luxo. Por não existir uma definição de “marca de luxo” universalmente aceite, é o propósito desta dissertação propor uma definição operacional de marca de luxo que seja capaz de descrever o conceito com precisão em diferentes categorias de produto e setores de atividade. Com base na revisão da literatura, é desenvolvido um modelo conceptual para explicar o constructo marca de luxo através de 12 dimensões: (1) awareness, (2) identidade, (3) associações à imagem, (4) estética, (5) qualidade, (6) expectativas do consumidor, (7) co-criação de valor, (8) valor financeiro autárquico, (9) exclusividade, (10) autenticidade, (11) desejo, e (12) ligações emocionais profundas. De forma a alcançar o objetivo a que se propõe, a presente dissertação (a) descreve o panorama geral da história do luxo, (b) estuda as origens etimológicas e evolução semântica dos termos associados ao luxo, (c) faz a análise crítica das definições atuais de luxo, marca de luxo, e produto de luxo, (d) considera as recomendações metateóricas para a criação de uma boa definição, (e) estuda as perceções do consumidor relativas ao luxo, e (f) expõe as especificidades das marcas de luxo e da sua boa gestão. No final desta dissertação, são ainda propostas algumas recomendações para investigações futuras.Mestrado em Línguas e Relações Empresariai