The public relation firm\u27s perception of the Internet\u27s effect on its growth and profits

The purpose of the study was to learn if the public relations firm believed that using the Internet had a recognizable effect on its growth and profits. The study attempted to show that if the public relations firm saw that its net profits increased, client base grew, and, as a result, employees\u27 paychecks increased, then it perceived that using the Internet had a positive effect on its growth and profits. The sample originally selected consisted of 317 United States public relations firms, a sample which consisted of small and large firms ranging from 10 employees up to 100 employees. A survey consisting of 16 multiple-choice questions was mailed to the sample. Follow-up letters and telephone calls were made to the nonrespondents. Percentages were used to summarize the data.The following major findings of the study were All of the respondents used the Internet for improving their communication with clients and media. More than half of the respondents believed that using the Internet had a positive effect on their growth and profits

Movement Interventions for Appropriate and Coordinated Movement

The purpose of this action research was to determine the effect of fundamental movement lessons and independent movement jobs on appropriate and coordinated movement as well as focus of students. Twenty-five students from a lower elementary class of first, second, and third graders in a public Montessori school participated in the study. Data was collected over a period of six weeks using a coordination scale, student feedback, work plans, and time on task observations. Results show a positive correlation between movement intervention and student coordination, on task behavior, focus, and productivity. All students reported positive associations with the movement jobs and improvement in perceived focus. Increases were observed in concentration and productivity; coordination levels also improved. The data shows movement can be integrated into the classroom to support appropriate movement and student learning. Further research should be conducted over a longer time frame to substantiate these results

Från ruderatmark till ruderatpark

I takt med ökad urbanisering och rådande förtätningsideal blir ruderatmarker ofta utpekade som platser lämpade för exploatering. Ruderatmarker är ytor som tidigare störts av mänsklig inverkan, ofta banvallar och gamla industriområden. Syftet med detta arbete är att bredda förståelsen över vad ruderatmarker är, vad de kan användas till samt vilken plats dem fyller i stadens ekosystem. Arbetet ämnar även att se över hur förvaltningen och olika skötselmetoder kan användas för att omvandla ruderatmark till ruderatpark. Genom en litteraturstudie redogör arbetet för hur ruderatmarker kan gynna artrikedom i staden samt hur de kan fungera som kulturhistoriska element i den urbana strukturen. Ruderatmarker är platser vilka ofta åsamkar polariserande inställningar och används därför på olika sätt av olika grupper i samhället. För att få en inblick hur omvandlingen av dessa ytor kan utföras i praktiken presenteras även tre internationella exempel. För att placera detta i svensk kontext har en undersökning av svenska förvaltningsideal utförts som sedan har kompletterats med ett nedslag i en medelstor svensk kommun. Arbetet visar att ruderatmarker har en potential att vara pusselbitar i stadens stadsväv. Det visar även att det finns en del svårigheter vid omgestaltning av ruderatmarker till ruderatparker i praktiken. Medborgarsamverkan, kommunikation och utbildning är viktiga byggstenar för att möjliggöra ruderatmarkers utveckling

Carbon default swap – disentangling the exposure to carbon risk through CDS

Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms’ credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognizes where and which sectors are better positioned for a transition to a low-carbon economy. Moreover, lenders demand more credit protection for those borrowers perceived to be more exposed to carbon risk when market-wide concern about climate change risk is elevated. Lenders expect that adjustments in carbon regulations in Europe will cause relatively larger policy-related costs in the near future

Carbon default swap – disentangling the exposure to carbon risk through CDS

Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms’ credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognizes where and which sectors are better positioned for a transition to a low-carbon economy. Moreover, lenders demand more credit protection for those borrowers perceived to be more exposed to carbon risk when market-wide concern about climate change risk is elevated. Lenders expect that adjustments in carbon regulations in Europe will cause relatively larger policy-related costs in the near future

Tetra-μ3-tert-butano­lato-tetra­thallium(I)

The title compound, [Tl4(C4H9O)4], featuring a (Tl—O)4 cube, crystallizes with a quarter-mol­ecule (located on a special position of site symmetry ..) and a half-mol­ecule (located on a special position of site symmetry 23.) in the asymmetric unit. The Tl—O bond distances range from 2.463 (12) to 2.506 (12) Å. All O—Tl—O bond angles are smaller than 90° whereas the Tl—O—Tl angles are wider than a recta­ngular angle

The increasingly urban status of the Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis in Uganda, with some observations on its variable breeding seasons and associated species

Cattle Egrets Bubulcus ibis, long known for their expanding geographical range, have in recent years also become increasingly urbanized in Kampala, a city with over 1.5 million people, and elsewhere. First recorded roosting in Kampala over 15 years ago, their numbers now exceed 16 000, spread across several sites, at most of which they have also been breeding for several years. However, the numbers nesting are far lower than might be expected from those that come nightly to roost. Breeding in Kampala shows bimodal peaks, perhaps because some birds breed twice a year—which would partly explain their rapid increase in numbers. Timing of breeding is linked to rainfall, but shows more variation between sites and between years than might be expected. Some birds may always have fed in the area that is now Kampala. Today, some feed at the city’s main land-fill site, but most go to the countryside where their consumption of bush-crickets, grasshoppers and other insects is presumably beneficial to farmers. Overall, for breeding and roosting, and to some extent feeding, Cattle Egrets can now be considered as urbanized in this near-equatorial city

4-[Bis(3-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)meth­yl]benzene-1,2-diol

The title compound, C25H20N4O2, is a ditopic ortho-hydro­quinone-based bis­(pyrazol-1-yl)methane ligand. The dihedral angles between the planes of the pyrazole rings and their attached phenyl rings are 17.4 (3) and 5.9 (4)°. The pyrazole rings make a dihedral angle of 87.84 (16)°. One of the two hy­droxy groups forms an intra­molecular hydrogen bond to the other hy­droxy group, whereas the second is involved in an inter­molecular O—H⋯N hydrogen bond. As a result of these inter­molecular hydrogen bonds, helical chains running along the b axis are formed

Resilience and personality as predictors of the biological stress load during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Since the Covid-19 outbreak, pandemic-specific stressors have potentiated the-already severe-stress load across the world. However, stress is more than an adverse state, and chronic exposure is causally involved in the development of mental and physical disease. We ask the question whether resilience and the Big Five personality traits predict the biological stress response to the first lockdown in Germany. In a prospective, longitudinal, observational study, N = 80 adult volunteers completed an internet-based survey prior to the first Covid-19-related fatality in Germany (T0), during the first lockdown period (T1), and during the subsequent period of contact restrictions (T2). Hair strands for the assessment of systemic cortisol and cortisone levels were collected at T2. Higher neuroticism predicted higher hair cortisol, cortisone and subjective stress levels. Higher extraversion predicted higher hair cortisone levels. Resilience showed no effects on subjective or physiological stress markers. Our study provides longitudinal evidence that neuroticism and extraversion have predictive utility for the accumulation of biological stress over the course of the pandemic. While in pre-pandemic times individuals high in neuroticism are typically at risk for worse health outcomes, extraverted individuals tend to be protected. We conclude that, in the pandemic context, we cannot simply generalize from pre-pandemic knowledge. Neurotic individuals may currently suffer due to their general emotional lability. Extraverted individuals may primarily be socially stressed. Individualized stress management programs need to be developed, and offered in a lockdown-friendly format, to minimize the stress burden caused by Covid-19 or future pandemics and to protect the most severely affected individuals from the development of stress-associated disease