Influence of country and city images on students’ perception of host universities and their satisfaction with the assigned destination for their exchange programmes

ABSTRACT: This research focuses on the effect that country image, city image and university image has on students’ a priori satisfaction with the assigned destination for their international exchange programme (Bachelor and Master). In particular, this study establishes six hypotheses related to the causal relationships among the different typologies of image and their effects on students’ satisfaction with the assigned destination to study at least one semester in a host university. In order to contrast these hypotheses, a quantitative research was carried out in the Spanish city of Santander (Spain), by obtaining a sample of 245 international students who participated in an exchange programme at the University of Cantabria. The research findings are: (1) students’ satisfaction with the assigned destination is positively influenced by the university image; (2) the university image is positively influenced by the city image; and (3) the city image is positively influenced by the country image

An organizational impression management perspective on the formation of corporate reputations

Researchers have only recently turned their attention to the study of corporate reputation. As is characteristic of many early areas of management inquiry, the field is decidedly multidisciplinary and disconnected. This article selectively reviews reputation research conducted mainly during the past decade. A framework is proposed that views reputation from the perspective of organizational impression management. Corporations are viewed as social actors, intent on enhancing their respectability and impressiveness in the eyes of constituents

Carbon-13 chemical shift tensors in polycyclic aromiatic compounds. 9. Biphenylene

abstractThe principal values of the 13C chemical-shift tensors of natural abundance biphenylene were measured at room temperature with the FIREMAT experiment. Of 18 crystallographically distinct positions (three sets of six congruent carbons each), the three primary bands have been resolved into seven single peaks and four degenerate peaks (two double, one triple, and one quadruple). Hence, eleven different chemical-shift tensors are reported. An interpretation of the data is made by comparison to carbon chemical-shift tensors in other molecules with similar chemical environments. Experimental and theoretical values based on a model of the asymmetric unit of the crystal unit cell are in good agreement

Hunters vs Pastoralists in the Sahara: Material Culture and Symbolic Aspects (Acts of the XIV UISPP Congress, Lieges Sept. 2001,Symposium 51.1, Commission XXV)

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Investigation of the structural conformation of biphenyl by solid state 13C NMR and quantum chemical NMR shift calculations

abstractThe principal values of the 13C chemical-shift tensor (CST) for biphenyl have been determined with the FIREMAT experiment. The internal dihedral angle between the benzene rings in biphenyl is estimated to fall between 10 and 20° on the basis of quantum mechanical calculations of the CST principal values. A composite model of motion in the system, with contributions both from internal jumping between enantiomeric structures and from overall molecular librations, yields the smallest variance between predicted and measured values for an internal twist angle of 15° between the rings and a mean libration angle of ±12° from the most favored molecular orientation. The composite model is clearly preferred to a motionless model (with >98% probability) and is also preferred over either of the isolated contributing dynamics, i.e., only libration or only internal jumping