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Tuesday 22 November 2016

Isolation and characterization of mold fungi and insects infecting sawmill wood, and their inhibition by gamma radiation

Published Date
December 2015, Vol.117:191197, doi:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.08.016

Author 
  • Aparna Kalawate a,c,
  • Sayaji Mehetre b,c,,
  • aZoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Vidyanagar, Sector-29, P.C.N.T. Post, Rawet Road, Akurdi, Pune 411044, India
  • bNuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
  • cIndian Plywood Industries Research & Training Institute, Bangalore, India


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    Corresponding author at: Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India.


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The terminologies associated with development and marginalisation for Orang Asli in Malaysia

Published Date
Pages 933-948 | Received 13 Aug 2015, Accepted 08 Jun 2016, Published online: 03 Oct 2016

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Previously, any failure of Orang Asli development activity in Malaysia, was characterised by using a single term in all situations − “marginalisation”. This generalisation was unfair to everyone involved in the Orang Asli development process, made it difficult to resolve problems, and resulted in tendencies to blame certain people. Based on ethnographic research in Kuala Gandah, Pahang, Malaysia, this article allocates three terms in the Orang Asli development marginalisation discourse: “secluded”, “isolated”, and “marginalised”. “Secluded” refers to development activity that accidentally marginalises. “Isolated” refers to development activity that directly and deliberately marginalises. “Marginalised” refers to the Che Wong that were eliminating or avoiding development. These terms were exposed by weaknesses in the implementation of development, namely the role of a single dominant approach in development activities – the top-down approach – and a tendency to generalise the marginalisation of the Orang Asli. This article recommends that more care be taken to apply a development approach that deals with situations on a case-by-case basis and that utilises the partnership approach to development, involving all parties in all phases.

Dans le passé, tout échec d’activités de développement parmi les Orang Asli de Malaisie était caractérisé au moyen d’un seul terme pour toutes les situations — « marginalisation ». Cette généralisation était injuste pour toutes les personnes impliquées dans le processus de développement des Orand Asli, rendait difficile la résolution des prolèmes et aboutissait à une tendance à rendre responsables certaines personnes. Sur la base de recherches ethnographiques menées à Kuala Gandah, à Pahang, en Malaisie, cet article assigne trois termes au discours sur la marginalisation du développement des Orang Asli : « retiré », « isolé » et « marginalisé ». Le terme « retiré » concerne les activités de développement qui marginalisent accidentellement. « Isolé » fait référence aux activités de développement qui marginalisent directement et délibérément. « Marginalisé » concerne les Che Wong qui éliminaient ou évitaient le développement. Ces termes ont été exposés par des faiblesses sur le plan de la mise en Å“uvre du développement, notamment le rôle d’une approche dominante unique dans les activités de développement — l’approche directive (top-down) — et une tendance à généraliser la marginalisation des Orang Asli. Cet article recommande de prêter une plus grande attenton à l’application d’une approche de développement qui aborde les situations au cas par cas et qui utilise l’approche du développement axée sur les partenariats et fasse intervenir toutes les parties prenantes dans toutes les phases.

Anteriormente, cualquier fracaso de las actividades orientadas a promover el desarrollo de los pueblos orang asli de Malasia era caracterizado recurriendo a un solo término: marginalización. Semejante generalización resultaba injusta para los diversos actores involucrados en el proceso de desarrollo, a la vez que dificultaba la resolución de problemas y daba lugar a tendencias de culpar a ciertas personas. A partir de investigaciones etnográficas realizadas en Kuala Gandah, estado de Pahang, Malasia, el presente artículo aporta tres palabras referidas al discurso de marginalización vinculado con el proceso de desarrollo de los orang asli: apartado, aislado y marginalizado. El término “apartado” hace referencia a aquella actividad de desarrollo que, sin intención de hacerlo, marginaliza. “Aislado” da cuenta de la actividad de desarrollo que, directa y deliberadamente, marginaliza. Mientras que “marginalizado” alude a personas de habla che’ wong, que habían estado eliminando o evitando el desarrollo. Estos términos resultaron del análisis de las debilidades atribuibles a la implementación de actividades para el desarrollo, principalmente al rol desempeñado por un enfoque único y predominante en dichas actividades —el enfoque vertical— y a la tendencia a generalizar al referirse a la marginalización de los orang asli. En este sentido, el artículo recomienda tener mayor precaución a la hora de impulsar un enfoque de desarrollo, que los casos se atiendan en función de cada situación y que se utilice el enfoque de alianzas para el desarrollo en que todos los actores participan en todas las etapas.

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Young travelers' intention to behave pro-environmentally: Merging the value-belief-norm theory and the expectancy theory

Published Date
April 2017, Vol.59:7688, doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2016.06.018

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  • Kiattipoom Kiatkawsin 
  • Heesup Han ,
  • College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Sejong University, 98 Gunja-Dong, Gwanjin-Gu, Seoul 143-747 South Korea


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Kiattipoom Kiatkawsin is currently undertaking a Ph.D. degree in Hospitality and Tourism at the Collage of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Sejong University, Korea. He received his MSc degree in Hospitality and Tourism management from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. In addition, he has earned his MBA in Hospitality Management and Postgraduate Diploma in Events Management from the Hotel and Tourism Management Institute, Switzerland.
Heesup Han is an Associate Professor in the College of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Sejong University, Korea. His research interests include airline, medical tourism, green hotels, and hospitality and tourism marketing. His papers have been selected as the most downloaded and read articles in many top-tier hospitality and tourism journals.
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Remembered experiences and revisit intentions: A longitudinal study of safari park visitors

Published Date
December 2016, Vol.57:286294, doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2016.06.014

Author 
  • Stuart J. Barnes a,,
  • Jan Mattsson b,
  • Flemming Sørensen b,

  • aSchool of Management and Business, King's College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, United Kingdom
    bDepartment of Communication, Business and Information Technology, Roskilde University, PO Box 260, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
    Received 15 June 2015. Revised 3 December 2015. Accepted 17 June 2016. Available online 1 July 2016.

    Highlights

    • We test a model of remembered positive affect and tourist revisit intentions.
    • The research uses longitudinal data collection and PLS path modelling.
    • Longer-term remembered experiences have the strongest impact on revisit intentions.
    • Remembered positive affect is temporally unstable and declines over time.
    • Contribution: a theory of serial remembered positive affect and revisit intentions.
    Abstract 

    Tourism is an experience-intensive sector in which customers seek and pay for experiences above everything else. Remembering past tourism experiences is also crucial for an understanding of the present, including the predicted behaviours of visitors to tourist destinations. We adopt a longitudinal approach to memory data collection from psychological science, which has the potential to contribute to our understanding of tourist behaviour. In this study, we examine the impact of remembered tourist experiences in a safari park. In particular, using matched survey data collected longitudinally and PLS path modelling, we examine the impact of positive affect tourist experiences on the development of revisit intentions. We find that longer-term remembered experiences have the strongest impact on revisit intentions, more so than predicted or immediate memory after an event. We also find that remembered positive affect is temporally unstable and declines over time.

    Keywords

  • Remembered experiences
  • Attractions
  • Revisit intentions
  • Positive affect
  • PLSPM

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    Stuart J. Barnes is Professor of Marketing at King's College London. He holds a first class honours degree in Economics and Geography from University College London and a PhD from Manchester Business School. His primary research interests centre on understanding consumer psychology, both online and offline, in different industry sectors. He has published five books (one a bestseller for Butterworth-Heinemann) and more than a hundred and fifty articles, including those in tourism research, marketing and other areas of management.
    Professor Jan Mattsson has the chair in business administration at Roskilde university since May 1996. He has held several professorships and visiting professorships in New Zealand, Australia and Scandinavia. He received a Doctorate (Dr. Econ.) in Business Administration at Gothenburg University, Sweden, in 1982 and was promoted there to Associate Professor in 1985. Professor Mattsson is currently active in services marketing, service innovation and international marketing research. He has authored more than a hundred scholarly publications and serves on many editorial boards of international journals in marketing and services. He carries out international research funded by the Swedish Research Council.
    Flemming Sørensen is an associate professor at the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is a member of the university's research group on Service and Experience Innovation. His main research interests include issues relating to innovation management, innovation networks, user and employee driven innovation, innovation geography, innovation experiments and local economic development based on tourism and related sectors. He has published peer reviewed articles and book chapters about innovation in services, tourism and the experience economy.
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    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0743016714000527

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