Reasons and strategies for adopting green marketing

As customers become more environmentally conscious and their demands for eco-friendly products and services increase, many industry professionals have engaged in developing and promoting ecologically sustainable products and services while striving to strengthen their business commitment to sustainability. Green practices enable companies to save on long-term operational costs while gaining a competitive advantage by developing or enhancing a positive image and reputation

Социалистическое учение как составная часть неолиберальной политико-правовой доктрины на рубеже XIX–XX вв.

Processes of convergence of theoretical installations of liberalism and socialism in the neoliberal political and legal doctrine which appeared at the end of XIX — the beginning of the XX centuries are analyzed in the article. The author comes to a conclusion about possibility of the use of so-called «social liberalism» in modern Russian ideology.В статье анализируются процессы конвергенции теоретических установок либерализма и социализма в неолиберальной политико-правовой доктрине, возникшей в конце XIX — начале XX в. Автор приходит к выводу о возможности использования т.н. социального либерализма в современной российской идеологии

Effect of vasopressin V1b receptor antagonist, SSR149415, on anxiety-like behavior and lewis lung carcinoma metastasis in mice

Aim: To study the effect of new vasopressin V1b receptor antagonist, SSR149415, on anxiety-like behavior and Lewis lung carcinoma metastasis in the anxious adult male mice of C57Bl/6J strain. This type of receptors was thought to act as potential targets mediating the effect of negative psychoemotional state on tumor progression. Methods: Anxiety-like psychoemotional state of the animals was produced using chronic social conflict model. Used behavioral tests were elevated plus-maze, social interaction test and open field test. Tumor cells were administrated on background of double or sixfold SSR149415 injections and the number of metastases in the lung were calculated 17 days later. Results: SSR149415 reduced the anxiety-like behavior measured in the elevated plus-maze and social interaction tests and did not affect locomotor activity in the open field test. Double and sixfold administration of the compound to such mice before and after inoculation of the tumor cells produced no effect on the metastasis rate. Conclusion: vasopressin V1b receptor is involved in the mediation of anxious behavior of animals but is not involved in the mechanism underlying the influence of negative psychoemotional state on Lewis lung carcinoma metastasis

Reasons and strategies for adopting green marketing

As customers become more environmentally conscious and their demands for eco-friendly products and services increase, many industry professionals have engaged in developing and promoting ecologically sustainable products and services while striving to strengthen their business commitment to sustainability. Green practices enable companies to save on long-term operational costs while gaining a competitive advantage by developing or enhancing a positive image and reputation

Depressive-like psychoemotional state versus acute stresses enhances Lewis lung carcinoma metastasis in C57BL/6J mice

Aim: The effect of a depression-like status formed by chronic stress on the development of Lewis lung carcinoma metastases in C57Bl/6J mice was investigated. Two types of acute stress (restraint and social stress) were used for comparison. Methods: The depression-like status was induced by eight-week exposure to repeated but unpredictable stressors (chronic mild stress model) and was assessed in the forced swim test. Tumor cells were inoculated an hour after the onset of social stressor or immediately after physical or chronic stressor impacts. The number of metastases was counted 17 days after the inoculation. Results: Chronic mild stress provokes the development of a depression-like state in mice and causes a twofold increase in the number of metastases in the lungs, while both types of acute stress have no such effects. Conclusion: Depressive-like psychoemotional state of animals enhances the metastasis of Lewis lung carcinoma

Herbivory on the pedunculate oak along an urbanization gradient in Europe: Effects of impervious surface, local tree cover, and insect feeding guild

Research ArticleUrbanization is an important driver of the diversity and abundance of tree-associated insect herbivores, but its consequences for insect herbivory are poorly understood. A likely source of variability among studies is the insufficient consideration of intra-urban variability in forest cover. With the help of citizen scientists, we investigated the independent and interactive effects of local canopy cover and percentage of impervious surface on insect herbivory in the pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) throughout most of its geographic range in Europe. We found that the damage caused by chewing insect herbivores as well as the incidence of leaf-mining and gall-inducing herbivores consistently decreased with increasing impervious surface around focal oaks. Herbivory by chewing herbivores increased with increasing forest cover, regardless of impervious surface. In contrast, an increase in local canopy cover buffered the negative effect of impervious surface on leaf miners and strengthened its effect on gall inducers. These results show that—just like in non-urban areas—plant– herbivore interactions in cities are structured by a complex set of interacting factors. This highlights that local habitat characteristics within cities have the potential to attenuate or modify the effect of impervious surfaces on biotic interactionsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Enhanced four-wave mixing via elimination of inhomogeneous broadening by coherent driving of quantum transition with control fields

We show that atoms from wide velocity interval can be concurrently involved in Doppler-free two-photon resonant far from frequency degenerate four-wave mixing with the aid of auxiliary electromagnetic field. This gives rise to substantial enhancement of the output radiation generated in optically thick medium. Numerical illustrations addressed to typical experimental conditions are given.Comment: LaTeX2e, hyperref, 7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in PRA 1 august 200

Status of the Lake Baikal Experiment

We review the present status of the Baikal Underwater Neutrino Experiment and report on neutrino events recorded with the detector stages NT-36 and NT-96.Comment: 5 pages, 4 PostScript figures, uses here.sty and mine.sty, submitted to the Proc. of 5th Int. Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (LNGS INFN, Assergi, September 7-11, 1997

Association of Polymorphisms of Serotonin Transporter (5HTTLPR) and 5-HT2C Receptor Genes with Criminal Behavior in Russian Criminal Offenders

Background: Human aggression is a heterogeneous behavior with biological, psychological, and social backgrounds. As the biological mechanisms that regulate aggression are components of both reward-seeking and adversity-fleeing behavior, these phenomena are difficult to disentangle into separate neurochemical processes. Nevertheless, evidence exists linking some forms of ag