Marketing and sustainability

'Marketing and sustainability' is based on an original booklet written by Martin Charter in 1990. The text has been updated and re-written to take account of the changing and emerging debate of marketing’s role in relation to sustainable development. This booklet has been produced as a supporting publication for the Sustainable Marketing Knowledge Network (Smart: Know-Net) a web-based information and communication platform for marketers interested in sustainability, available at www.cfsd.org.uk/smart-know-ne

Talking theatre: an audience development programme for regional Queensland and the Northern Territory 2004-2006

Talking Theatre was a three year research project funded by the Australian Research Council, NARPACA, Arts Queensland, Arts Northern Territory, and the Queensland University of Technology. Talking Theatre sought to build new audiences both in the short and long term for the fourteen regional performing arts centres associated with the project. The research endeavoured to develop a profile of non-theatregoers in regional areas, to understand their reasons for non-attendance, and to discover their reactions to live performances, and to the performing arts centres who presented them

Stanislavski’s Rehearsal Processes Re-Viewed

A Stanislavski Symposium was held in Stockholm in 1986, where some of the last surviving actors and directors who had been trained by Stanislavski himself discussed and worked ‘on the floor’ with over 300 Swedish actors and directors from all over the country. My paper is concerned with re-viewing the documentation of this Symposium, mostly as presented in a report, which I co-authored whilst a PhD candidate at the University of Stockholm. Further documentation of this embodied practice is available at the Swedish Theatre Museum and the Archive for Sound and Moving Images in Stockholm, where actors from Stanislavski’s Moscow Arts Theatre spoke about and demonstrated the rehearsal methods they had experienced with him. The use of anecdotal evidence from actors who actually shared the rehearsal room with Stanislavski has the potential to modify our perceptions of what might have been involved in Stanislavski’s processes – processes which have hitherto been disseminated only indirectly, particularly in North America. The implications of this material will lead to a new understanding of Stanislavski’s rehearsal processes and acting methodology, which is now emerging from Russian sources.The conference was sponsored by A.D.S.A., the Department of Performance Studies, the School of Letters, Arts and Media, and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sydney

Stanislavski’s Rehearsal Processes Re-Viewed

A Stanislavski Symposium was held in Stockholm in 1986, where some of the last surviving actors and directors who had been trained by Stanislavski himself discussed and worked ‘on the floor’ with over 300 Swedish actors and directors from all over the country. My paper is concerned with re-viewing the documentation of this Symposium, mostly as presented in a report, which I co-authored whilst a PhD candidate at the University of Stockholm. Further documentation of this embodied practice is available at the Swedish Theatre Museum and the Archive for Sound and Moving Images in Stockholm, where actors from Stanislavski’s Moscow Arts Theatre spoke about and demonstrated the rehearsal methods they had experienced with him. The use of anecdotal evidence from actors who actually shared the rehearsal room with Stanislavski has the potential to modify our perceptions of what might have been involved in Stanislavski’s processes – processes which have hitherto been disseminated only indirectly, particularly in North America. The implications of this material will lead to a new understanding of Stanislavski’s rehearsal processes and acting methodology, which is now emerging from Russian sources.The conference was sponsored by A.D.S.A., the Department of Performance Studies, the School of Letters, Arts and Media, and the Faculty of Arts of the University of Sydney

Towards the improvement of self-service systems via emotional virtual agents

Affective computing and emotional agents have been found to have a positive effect on human-computer interactions. In order to develop an acceptable emotional agent for use in a self-service interaction, two stages of research were identified and carried out; the first to determine which facial expressions are present in such an interaction and the second to determine which emotional agent behaviours are perceived as appropriate during a problematic self-service shopping task. In the first stage, facial expressions associated with negative affect were found to occur during self-service shopping interactions, indicating that facial expression detection is suitable for detecting negative affective states during self-service interactions. In the second stage, user perceptions of the emotional facial expressions displayed by an emotional agent during a problematic self-service interaction were gathered. Overall, the expression of disgust was found to be perceived as inappropriate while emotionally neutral behaviour was perceived as appropriate, however gender differences suggested that females perceived surprise as inappropriate. Results suggest that agents should change their behaviour and appearance based on user characteristics such as gender

Effects of 2-Chloroethyl-phosphonic Acid (Ethephon) As a Male Gametocide for Induction of Sterility in Wheat and Barley

Exploitation of induced male sterility has now become a potential tool in plant breeding. Ethephon (2-chloroethyl-phosphonic acid) has induced male sterility in winter cultivars of wheat and barley. The purpose of this research was to further elucidate the response of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L. em Thell), and winter barley (Hordeum vulgate L.) to foliar application of ethephon. Ethephon was foliarly sprayed on winter cultivars of wheat and barley which were Arthur and Blueboy, and Barsoy and Volbar respectively, at 0.05, 0.10, and 0.20 and 0.40 percent active ingredient, when plants were in mid-boot and late boot stages in the field study at Knoxville, Tennessee. In the growth room wheat winter cultivars Arthur and Blueboy, and barley winter cultivars Keowee and Harrison were sprayed at 0.02 and 0.05 percent active ingredient at the late boot stage of development. The most effective level was 0.40 percent ethephon in mid-boot and late boot stages for both cultivars of wheat and barley in the field study. Concentration, replication, date, cultivar, date X concentration, date X cultivar, concentration X cultivar, date X concentration X cultivar effects were significant for all variables except seed weight, date headed, and date mature. No overall replication, date X concentration, date X cultivar, and concentration X cultivar effects occurred for seed weight. No overall date X concentration X cultivar effect occurred for date mature. Concentration and cultivar effects per plant were strongly and positively associated with induction of male sterility. Clearly female fertility was not impaired to any great extent from ethephon treatments from data obtained from open-pollinated spikes. Certain beneficial effects, such as reduced height and lodging, were accompanied by reduced yields. The successful utilization of this technique using ethephon in enhancing production of hybrid plants, however, depends on the economics of hybrid seed production. The results of this research project indicate the induction of male sterility with ethephon in wheat and barley appears feasible

Interkulturelle Kommunikation: ein Business-Knigge-Kurs zum Selbststudium

La communication interculturelle devient de plus en plus importante dans le monde des affaires. Par la mondialisation, les rencontres entre personnes de différentes cultures se multiplient et les entreprises internationales augmentent. Il est donc important de connaître les règles et les origines de sa propre culture, mais aussi de savoir comment se comporter face aux cultures étrangères. C’est le seul moyen de conclure des affaires internationales avec succès. Au début de ce travail, les notions de « culture » et de « communication » sont expliquées par différentes théories. Ensuite, divers exemples mettent en évidence les caractères distincts de différentes cultures. Et finalement, les résultats obtenus par une approche théorique aboutissent un cours, disponible en ligne sur Internet, d’étique des comportements dans les relations d’affaires internationales. Ce cours donne des informations à l’utilisateur de manière simple en expliquant les principales règles de conduite à adopter pour les pays suivants : l’Inde, la Chine, le Japon, la Russie et les États-Unis. Le cours a été créé comme un cours e-learning sur une plateforme d'apprentissage basée sur moodle. Ainsi, il est facile d'accès, dans un cadre protégé, et il est bien adapté pour l'autoformation individuelle.Die interkulturelle Kommunikation erlangt in der Geschäftswelt immer mehr Bedeutung. Durch die Globalisierung der Welt kommt es vermehrt zu Zusammentreffen von Personen aus verschiedenen Kulturen und immer mehr Unternehmen sind international tätig. So wird es immer wichtiger, nicht nur die Verhaltens- und Benimmregeln der eigenen Kultur zu kennen, sondern sich auch in fremden Kulturen mit einer gewissen Sicherheit frei bewegen zu können. Nur so können Geschäfte auf internationaler Ebene erfolgreich abgeschlossen werden. Diese Arbeit erklärt zu Beginn, anhand von verschieden Modellen die Begriffe Kultur und Kommunikation. Im Anschluss werden mit Hilfe von Beispielen Unterscheidungsmerkmale von verschiedener Kulturen aufgezeigt. Die Erkenntnisse der theoretischen und beispielhaften Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema führen schlussendlich zu einem Business-Knigge Kurs, der auf einfache Art und Weise das Thema dem Nutzer näher bringt und ihm die wichtigsten Verhaltensregeln für folgende Länder erklärt: Indien, China, Japan, Russland und USA. Der Kurs wurde als E-Learning-Kurs auf einer moodle-basierten Lernplattform erstellt. Somit ist er in einem geschützten Rahmen einfach zugänglich und eignet sich daher für das individuelle Selbststudium

What are the likely changes in society and technology which will impact upon the ability of older adults to maintain social (extra-familial) networks of support now, in 2025 and in 2040?

This report reviews evidence on how changes in information and communication technology might affect the ability of older people to maintain social networks of support. It considers both traditional and new forms of social media, along with technological advances in support such as robotics and telecare

Vie et mort de Marie-Elisabeth de France (1572-1578), fille de Charles IX et Elisabeth d'Autriche

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Thermoconditional modulation of the pleiotropic sensitivity phenotype by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PRP19 mutant allele pso4-1

The conditionally-lethal pso4-1 mutant allele of the spliceosomal-associated PRP19 gene allowed us to study this gene’s influence on pre-mRNA processing, DNA repair and sporulation. Phenotypes related to intron-containing genes were correlated to temperature. Splicing reporter systems and RT–PCR showed splicing efficiency in pso4-1 to be inversely correlated to growth temperature. A single amino acid substitution, replacing leucine with serine, was identified within the N-terminal region of the pso4-1 allele and was shown to affect the interacting properties of Pso4-1p. Amongst 24 interacting clones isolated in a two-hybrid screening, seven could be identified as parts of the RAD2, RLF2 and DBR1 genes. RAD2 encodes an endonuclease indispensable for nucleotide excision repair (NER), RLF2 encodes the major subunit of the chromatin assembly factor I, whose deletion results in sensitivity to UVC radiation, while DBR1 encodes the lariat RNA splicing debranching enzyme, which degrades intron lariat structures during splicing. Characterization of mutagen-sensitive phenotypes of rad2{Delta}, rlf2{Delta} and pso4-1 single and double mutant strains showed enhanced sensitivity for the rad2{Delta} pso4-1 and rlf2{Delta} pso4-1 double mutants, suggesting a functional interference of these proteins in DNA repair processes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae