Consumers Reactions to Tesco's market entry in Taiwan - a comparison with the UK experience

The purpose of this paper is to research consumer response to retail branding models in Taiwan by means of exploratory qualitative research comparing Tesco’s retail branding in the UK and Taiwan in order to find out the level of consumer acceptance of Tesco in Taiwan as a new market entrant. From the consumers’ viewpoint, Taiwanese Tesco’s retail corporate images, store positioning and retail branding process are not understood or clearly differentiated and identified by local consumers. This was a big problem for grocery shoppers and should therefore be considered as one of the key factors in Tesco`s withdrawal from the Taiwan market. It demonstrates the consumer acceptance issues even a strong retail brand faces transferring its brand to a new market with consumers unfamiliar with its retail brand proposition

Spanning Trees on Hypercubic Lattices and Non-orientable Surfaces

We consider the problem of enumerating spanning trees on lattices. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the spanning tree generating function for a hypercubic lattice of size N_1 x N_2 x...x N_d in d dimensions under free, periodic, and a combination of free and periodic boundary conditions. Results are also obtained for a simple quartic net embedded on two non-orientable surfaces, a Moebius strip and the Klein bottle. Our results are based on the use of a formula expressing the spanning tree generating function in terms of the eigenvalues of an associated tree matrix. An elementary derivation of this formula is given.Comment: latex, 9 pages, no figures, to appear in Lett. Appl. Mat

Victorian entertainments : "we are amused" : an exhibit illustrating Victorian entertainment.

Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Meeting (2007)published or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Orchestral Performance Practices in the Nineteenth Century: Size, Proportions, and Seating, by Daniel J. Koury.

Reviews and Critiques Koury\u27s 1986 book

Studies on the bound nucleotide of muscle fibrils

The possibility was investigated that phosphorus uptake from ATP or uptake of ATP molecules by the muscle proteins occurs during contraction and relaxation of rabbit myofibrils. It was found that the phosphorus content was the same in myofibrils contracted with ATP and the control myofibrils although phosphorylation of actin, if it occurred, may not have been detectable. An examination by paper chromatography of the UV-absorbing substances in washed frog and rabbit myofibrils revealed the presence of the adenine nucleotides, IMP, hypoxanthine, and adenine. ADP gave the most intense UV-absorbing spot and was presumably derived from F-actin. An oligo- or polynucleotide, possibly derived from RNA, and a green pigment, were also found. The adenine nucleotides in HCl and HC10 extracts of washed frog myofibrils were estimated. Approximately 2.90 - 3.10 umoles/gm. dry weight of adenine nucleotides were present, most of which was ADP. Considerably more ATP was found in the HCl extracts than was present in the HC1O4 extracts, in which most of the nucleotide was ADP. The concentration of ATP in the HC1 extracts was observed to alter after neutralization in association with a change in the ADP content. It is suggested that a phosphokinase is present in the HC1 extracts, but not in the HC10 extracts, which becomes active after neutralization and synthesises the ATP from ADP and an unidentified substance XP. A higher ATP/ADP ratio was found in the HCl extract from control myofibrils than in the extract from myofibrils contracted with ATP.When a frog muscle homogenate was washed with successive small volumes of water, the myofibrils swelled and structural protein passed into solution, to a much greater extent when conditions favoured relaxation than contraction of the fibrils. The extracted protein was precipitated by Mgions and contained adenine nucleotide. It was concluded to be a form of actomyosin containing F-actin in a low state of polymerisation. A theory of contraction is suggested which is consistent with these observations.<p

Autopoiesis de la Dance-Tech: Una aproximación a la relación entre Danza y Tecnología desde la Teoría Sistémica

Observaremos desde la perspectiva de la teoría sistémica de Nicklas Luhmann, el desarrollo y consolidación del fenómeno artístico, que toma relieve a lo largo del siglo XX; el del entrejuego entre la danza y la tecnología. Primacía de lo metonímico en las dinámicas autopoiéticas, necesidad de incorporar nociones como “tecnología expandida” y “corporalidad”, son algunos de los puntos nodales que se presentarán en las siguientes líneas y que permiten clarificar algunas de las lógicas que caracterizan al sis- tema Danza-Tecnología como un terreno de tensiones. Tensiones que se entretejen entre los extremos de la historia de la hominización, el de su origen y el de su presente

The Question of Purpose in Music Theory: Description, Suggestion, and Explanation

Is musical structure something in the mind of the listener, in which case its elucidation involves the description of (perhaps unconscious) psychological processes and representations? Or is it something that resides in the musical object itself perhaps, in large part, not normally part of the listener's hearing and experience, but revealed by the analyst with the aim of enhancing that experience? Temperley explores the purpose and definition of music theory

Kofi Agawu. African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xx, 217 pp., 19 plates; compact disc.

Among the three branches of musicology-historical musicology, theory, and ethnomusicology it is the relationship between the last two that is most distant and tenuous.It is not difficult to see why. In terms of their subject matter, the theorist's domain (mainly Classical, Romantic, and twentieth century art music) is essentially a subdomain of the historical musicologist's (Western art music as a whole); and this, in turn, is non overlapping with the ethnomusicologist's (everything else). The more serious divide between ethnomusicology and theory, however, is in their philosophy and approach. This article discusses the rhythm and meter, and different aspects of African music through an analysis of Agawu's work