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Govind. "Entity-level Event Impact Analytics." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC260/document.
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Notre société est de plus en plus présente sur le Web. En conséquence, une grande partie des événements quotidiens a vocation à être numérisée. Dans ce cadre, le Web contient des descriptions de divers événements du monde réel et provenant du monde entier. L'ampleur de ces événements peut varier, allant de ceux pertinents uniquement localement à ceux qui retiennent l'attention du monde entier. La presse et les médias sociaux permettent d’atteindre une diffusion presque mondiale. L’ensemble de toutes ces données décrivant des événements sociétaux potentiellement complexes ouvre la porte à de nombreuses possibilités de recherche pour analyser et mieux comprendre l'état de notre société.Dans cette thèse, nous étudions diverses tâches d’analyse de l’impact des événements sociétaux. Plus précisément, nous abordons trois facettes dans le contexte des événements et du Web, à savoir la diffusion d’événements dans des communautés de langues étrangères, la classification automatisée des contenus Web et l’évaluation et la visualisation de la viralité de l’actualité. Nous émettons l'hypothèse que les entités nommées associées à un événement ou à un contenu Web contiennent des informations sémantiques précieuses, qui peuvent être exploitées pour créer des modèles de prédiction précis. À l'aide de nombreuses études, nous avons montré que l'élévation du contenu Web au niveau des entités saisissait leur essence essentielle et offrait ainsi une variété d'avantages pour obtenir de meilleures performances dans diverses tâches. Nous exposons de nouvelles découvertes sur des tâches disparates afin de réaliser notre objectif global en matière d'analyse de l’impact des événements sociétauxOur society has been rapidly growing its presence on the Web, as a consequence we are digitizing a large collection of our daily happenings. In this scenario, the Web receives virtual occurrences of various events corresponding to their real world occurrences from all around the world. Scale of these events can vary from locally relevant ones up to those that receive global attention. News and social media of current times provide all essential means to reach almost a global diffusion. This big data of complex societal events provide a platform to many research opportunities for analyzing and gaining insights into the state of our society.In this thesis, we investigate a variety of social event impact analytics tasks. Specifically, we address three facets in the context of events and the Web, namely, diffusion of events in foreign languages communities, automated classification of Web contents, and news virality assessment and visualization. We hypothesize that the named entities associated with an event or a Web content carry valuable semantic information, which can be exploited to build accurate prediction models. We have shown with the help of multiple studies that raising Web contents to the entity-level captures their core essence, and thus, provides a variety of benefits in achieving better performance in diverse tasks. We report novel findings over disparate tasks in an attempt to fulfill our overall goal on societal event impact analytics
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Berridge, Graham. "Event experiences : design, management and impact." Thesis, University of West London, 2015. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1374/.
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The papers submitted for this PhD by publication represent research centered on event experiences and their design, management and impact. They are the result of research projects that have produced seven published peer-reviewed papers and one book. The body of work has made an original, significant and sustained contribution towards the development of an emerging field of study in events. The work has made a major contribution towards furthering understanding of the human experience that results from the management of events, their design and their impact. At the heart of this submission is a consideration for how events are experienced and what factors and components contribute to the depth of that experience. The majority of papers analyses and reflects upon the construction of experience settings (their design) and essentially seeks knowledge to identify the variables that shape any experience of events (Ryan, 2012). In doing so the research undertaken has embraced a less restrictive set of methodologies usually afforded by statistical exercises in favour of a more embodied, immersive and participative approach. This has included not only observation and autoethnography, but also reflection on that which has been observed. In turn this reflection and analysis has drawn upon a range of theories and models to advance understanding of the social occasions that we call events where human interactions with the designed programme and environment illicit a range of responses that may culminate in a memorable and unique moment in time. The research therefore touches upon the emotional response to event experiences, the study and interpretation of the meaning of events, and notably their signification to an intended audience. In the course of this research I have evaluated and reflected upon the study and practice of event management across a range of event types and genres. Seeking to initially clarify the role of design in creating event experience led me to questioning the paradigmatic model for event management and resulted in the development of an alternative consideration for event planning and management - Event Experience Design Framework (EEDF). Unlike existing models this places design as the central and pivotal driving force that inhabits all areas of the event management process and upon which all events should then be based. The contribution of this body of work can therefore be summarised as follows: 1. Development of a paradigmatic concept that places design as the central and essential practice that underpins the planned event experience. 2. Theoretical positioning of how designing event experiences impacts on stakeholders 3. Recognition and application of theoretical models and tools relevant to event design and creativity, and further use of conceptual models to analyse experiential outcomes 4. Identification and awareness of the broader socio-cultural impact of planned events This submission provides evidentiary material that I have made a positive and meaningful contribution to raising the profile of events through research, teaching and learning by an acknowledged excellence in events management education and as a recognised (and first) National Teaching Fellow in Events. Furthermore, the submission provides a reflection on this research and development that has enabled me to make such a pivotal contribution to the field. It concludes with an outline of plans for the future.
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Werner, Axel, and Daniel Mårtensson. "Option markets impact on stock markets : An event study." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18649.
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In this study we examine the stock price response around interim reports and the differ-ence between companies with listed stock options and companies without is measured. The focus of the study is OMX Nordic large cap list during the years 2010 and 2011 which gave us a sample of 1096 interim reports. A conventional event study were per-formed where the abnormal return around the release of the interim report were meas-ured. The abnormal returns were not different from zero at the 95% confidence level for the pre and post-announcement period. Abnormal returns on the event day were differ-ent from zero at the 95% confidence level in all cases and companies with listed stock options had a significantly higher abnormal return. We found a difference around one percent in stock price response between the two types of companies. The size and the systematic risks of the companies had a significant correlation to abnormal returns but none of them fully explained the differences between the two types of firms. Either the option market causes this difference or an untested systematic difference does.
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Gebru, Selam Mulugeta. "Calculation of wind borne debris impact in tornado event." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111521.
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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-61).
In strong wind events like tornado and hurricane, significant destruction is caused to buildings due to wind-borne debris, which are usually damaged structural members and components with insufficient attachment. This debris, also referred to as missiles, can penetrate building walls and roofs and jeopardize human life. Because of this, there are standard impact criteria provided by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA-P-320, 2014; FEMA-P-361, 2015) and International Code Council (ICC-500, 2014) that need to be met when designing safe rooms or storm shelters. The national wind institute at Texas Tech University has done extensive impact testing on different types of structural and non-structural components, which are the basis for current design guidelines. This thesis focuses on investigating previously developed methods for evaluating the perforation of concrete and steel targets and selecting the most relevant formulas that can be applied for the design of tornado safe rooms. For cast-in-place(CIP) concrete, precast concrete and concrete masonry units (CMU), the best method to estimate perforation limit is the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) Formula. For Steel target, both the Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) Formula and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) give useful estimate for perforation limit. These selected concrete and steel target perforation limit formulas can be used for preliminary design of buildings, to withstand the required impact criteria, giving engineers the flexibility to design structures without depending only on using structural components that have been tested to meet the FEMA criteria.
by Selam Mulugeta Gebru.
M. Eng.
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Jassani, Amir. "Mood, judgment and the impact of a life event." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1055519339.
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Kapur, Arjun. "The Impact of Mega Sporting Event Host Country Selection on Construction and Industrial Sectors of Stock Markets: An Event Study." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/734.
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Nations have always competed vigorously during the bidding process to host mega sporting events. The selection of the host nation is a much anticipated decision that results in the promotion of a country on a global platform. In this paper, I use a market adjusted return (index) model to conduct an event study in order to examine abnormal returns in the stock market surrounding the selection of a nation for the Summer Olympics and the FIFA World Cup. I also focus specifically on the construction and industrial sectors, as well as analyze the impact of selection on the nation emerging as the runner up in the bidding process. The research finds that the outcome of the selection process is partially anticipated by investors, resulting in a market reaction that does not accurately measure the financial impact of hosting the event. As developing nations have demonstrated an increased interest in the hosting of events over the years, this paper also addresses the resulting policy implications, as well as the opportunity cost and the economic effects of crowding out and substitution.
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Banks, Jonathan Britten. "The Impact of Event Familiarity on the Complexity and Coherence of Children's Narratives of Positive Events." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11042004-221924/.
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The coherence of individuals? narratives of negative events has been shown to have significant positive effects on a variety of indicators of adaptive functioning (Klein & Boals, 2001; Pennebaker, Mayne, & Francis, 1997). Relatively little is known, however, about the processes through which individuals form coherent narratives of important personal experiences. This research examined the role of familiarity with the event on changes over time in the measures of narrative complexity, coherence and intrusive thoughts. In addition, the relationships among three previously used measures of coherence (a count of words in relevant categories, an overall rating, and a measure of causal connections between clauses) were examined, and the association between each measure and a criterion measure, Story Grammar, was explored. Two groups of 16 children participated in either a familiar event, a soccer tournament, or an unfamiliar event, soccer tryouts for a more competitive leaguer. All participants were interviewed within one week of the event and six weeks after the first interview. In contrast to expectations, familiarity with the event did not result in higher initial levels of coherence, and the coherence of the account of the less familiar event did not increase over time. The alternative measures of coherence were related to Story Grammar as expected, but were not correlated with each other.
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Materazzo, Felicity. "Witnessing a stressful event : impact of anxiety on eyewitness identification /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsm425.pdf.
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Regan, Jessica Ann. "Impact of Pro-Biotic Administration on an Acute Coronary Event." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244752.
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Aims: Recent studies have suggested promising health benefits for pro-biotics in humans. Most of these studies focus on the advantages of pro-biotics in relation to immune function, but little has been done to evaluate the impact of pro-biotics on inflammatory response and cardiovascular health. In the present study we investigated the impact of pro-biotic administration on mice prior to and following an acute coronary event. Methods and Results: We compared male mice on high-fat or normal diet that were gavaged for 4 weeks with a B. lactis strain of probiotic or with saline for control. Mice were then subjected to myocardial infarction or sham surgery. Mice administered B. lactis were found to have an attenuated weight gain on both high-fat and normal diet compared to saline controls. Mice treated with B. lactis displayed an infarct area of 10.5±3.0%, which is significantly less (p<0.01) than the infarct area of saline treated mice (29.5±4.7%). Serum glucose, cholesterol, triglyceride, C-reactive protein (CRP) and endotoxin levels were measured following surgery and hearts were preserved for histological and molecular analyses. Conclusions: Our data show promising insights to a beneficial role of pro-biotic administration in relation to metabolic changes in mice and the acute inflammatory response.
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Cam, Marie-Anne, and marie cam@rmit edu au. "The Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Financial Markets." RMIT University. Economics, Finance & Marketing, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080731.102528.
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This thesis investigates the impact of terrorist attacks on equity financial markets. It employs traditional event study approaches to identify and measure stock market reactions to terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and subsequent terrorist attacks in Madrid, London and Bali. Three studies are presented. The first study investigates the impact of September 11 on the tenant firms within the World Trade Centre. The second study investigates industry effects following the Madrid and London bombings. The third study undertakes a sensitivity analysis to different event study techniques over the various terrorist attacks. The results from the three studies suggest that equity markets can remain efficient in the wake of terrorist events. Terrorist events can trigger large abnormal movement in both equity prices and volume traded. These price and volume effects are influenced by industry effects. Terrorism has a differential impact on stock markets and industry portfolios within stock markets. The detailed analysis presented in this thesis can be used to exploit that industry effect and can be employed to guide diversification strategies that could minimize terrorist risk through industry diversification. The thesis has also evaluated alternative event study methods and produced a critical analysis of event study methodology. It shows clearly that methodological choices can and do significantly influence results. The thesis contributes to eliminating some uncertainty about the markets response to terrorist events, and identifies opportunities for reducing terrorist risk in stock markets.
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de, Klerk Anneke. "The impact of event management software on the standards of practice within the event management sector in Cape Town." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1770.
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Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Technology: Business Information Systems
in the Faculty of Business
at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2013Event management is a very competitive field; therefore, event managers must work hard to distinguish themselves from other event management companies. One way of doing this is by using event management software to provide a holistic service which allows for better efficiency in the workplace. Technology is constantly changing; therefore it is imperative to keep abreast of trends in technology in order to improve one’s business and services. As an event manager, one should also consider what it takes in order to organise a successful event. The internationally accredited Event Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK) has identified several areas that are crucial for an event manager to constantly control and manage in order to create an exceptional event, and these domain areas encompass a set of guidelines to ensure successful event projects. However, one should determine if the software is able to assist event managers with all the necessary features and functions required to organise a successful event as per the outline from EMBOK. The research aimed to analyse the software in terms of its capabilities and compare it to the EMBOK guidelines. The aim of the study was to further identify whether the software is able to complete all the tasks outlined by EMBOK and if not, what else would be needed to fill the gaps. The research also reviewed what impact the software has on events, that is, how it assists or improves tasks conducted or how it does not assist or becomes problematic in accomplishing the various phases and tasks. Qualitative research was selected as the appropriate method in order to gain an understanding of the events managers’ point of view with regards to the software. The research required detailed descriptions and narratives of the software as well as the experiences and opinions of the user. For this reason it was determined that qualitative research would best suit the needs of the research. In order to get detailed answers a semi-structured in-depth interview guide was used and the answers transcribed in order to analyse and get results. The software was selected based on its international usability and because of its use by South African government departments such as the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The Cape Town-based individuals from the software’s client list were contacted and selected to participate in the study. The research was conducted with five representatives with previous experience of the software in the events industry in Cape Town. The interview guides were compiled with Likert-scale questions and open-ended questions. The questions were carefully compiled to link the functionality of the software and the criteria as identified by EMBOK. The answers were recorded and transcribed to analyse and determine the opinions of the representatives on the functionality and comprehensiveness of the software to be used for event management. The interviews established that the move towards technology is preferable as it creates efficiency in the workplace. The software assists in alleviating the workload of event managers; however, the interviews also indicated that the software does not always fulfil the requirements for all the tasks. Several tasks required the use of combinations of software; in some instances, the manager preferred to do the task manually. It was concluded that the software does not provide the level of flexibility required in event management, which is a vital criterion, owing to the field’s changing nature.
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Sousa, Almeida Telma Sofia de. "The impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder on event memory and accuracy." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285408.
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Children who have developmental disorders that involve memorial deficits and impairments in social interaction and communication, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), can present challenges to professionals seeking their testimony when they are victims or witnesses of a crime. Most forensic interviews involve long delays after an event, underscoring the importance of conducting experimental studies which consider the effect of delay on children's memory. In this research, fifty-nine children (age 6-15 years) with ASD (N=27) and without disabilities (N=32) were questioned about their participation in a set of activities after a two-week delay and again after a two-month delay, using the Revised National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Investigative Interview Protocol. A detailed coding scheme was designed to code and analyse the interviewers' utterances and the children's responses in 118 interviews. Transcripts were coded for completeness (with respect to the gist of the event), amount of narrative details, and accuracy. Results indicated that autistic children did not differ from typically developing (TD) peers on any dimensions of memory after both delays. Specifically, both groups of children provided equivalently complete accounts on both occasions. However, children in both groups provided significantly fewer narrative details about the event in the second interview, and the accuracy rates were lower. Recall prompts elicited more detailed and more accurate responses from children in both groups than recognition prompts. Although autistic children recalled fewer correct narrative details than TD peers when questioned using open-ended recall prompts, they were as accurate as TD peers in response to recognition prompts. The informativeness and accuracy of children's reports remained unchanged over time. Finally, social support was beneficial when children were interviewed for the first time but not after a longer delay. The findings indicate that autistic children can provide meaningful and reliable testimony about an event they personally experienced, but several aspects of their memory reports deteriorate over time.
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Ribeiro, Catarina Peres. "Event marketing : an innovative promotional tool and its impact on consumer." Master's thesis, reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/20335.
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Event Marketing represents a common promotional strategy that involves direct
contact between brands and consumers at special events, namely concerts, festivals, sporting
events and fairs. Brands have been investing in sponsorship as a means of associating
themselves with particular events, essentially with the goal to enhance brand image and brand
awareness. Interestingly, the response of consumers to event marketing has not yet been fully
understood. This dissertation fills this gap. More specifically, it intends to determine the
extent to which sponsoring brands at events favors brand awareness (recall and recognition)
and how it relates to brand attitude. Based on three Portuguese music festivals, two studies
were conducted to ascertain event sponsorship’s impact on consumer memory, notably Brand
Recall and Brand Recognition, and correlation with attitudes towards the brands such as
familiarity and liking. The key findings of these studies show that recognition is much higher
for those respondents who attended the festivals, presenting a score of 73,9%, in comparison
with recall, presenting a much lower score of 37,5%. Further, and surprisingly, it suggests that
the ability to recall and recognize sponsoring brands is not associated to consumer attitudes
towards the brands. Instead, it relates to the time consumers dedicated to these particular
events, that is, the number of music festivals attended.Marketing em Eventos representa uma estratégia promocional comum que envolve contacto direto entre marcas e consumidores em eventos pontuais, nomeadamente concertos, festivais, eventos desportivos e até feiras. As marcas têm investido em patrocínios como um meio de associação a eventos específicos, principalmente com o objetivo de intensificar a sua imagem e notoriedade. Interessantemente, as reações dos consumidores relativamente ao marketing em eventos não foi ainda inteiramente compreendida. Esta é precisamente a lacuna que esta dissertação tenciona preencher. Mais especificamente, esta pretende determinar em que medida o patrocínio de marcas em eventos favorece verdadeiramente a notoriedade das mesmas, e a correlação com as atitudes do consumidor. Baseados em três festivais de música Portugueses, foram conduzidos dois estudos com o objetivo de averiguar o impacto do patrocínio em eventos na memória do consumidor, particularmente Brand Recall e Brand Recognition, e a correlação com as atitudes para com as marcas, tal como familiaridade e agrado. As principais descobertas destes estudos, mostram que o reconhecimento das marcas (brand recognition) é mais alto para os consumidores que frequentaram os festivais, apresentando um resultado de 73,9%, comparativamente com a lembrança das mesmas (brand recall), apresentando um resultado mais reduzido de 37,5%. Para além disso, e surpreendentemente, sugere que a capacidade de lembrar e reconhecer as marcas patrocinadoras não está associada às atitudes do consumidor para com as marcas, mas sim relacionada com o tempo dedicado a este tipo de eventos, isto é, ao numero de festivais de música em que participa.
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Hansson, Gusten, and Philip Hausenkamph. "Financial Magazines impact on the Swedish Stock Market : An event study." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85638.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of a stock recommendation from the leading financial magazines in Sweden. The study aims to measure the impact a recommendation illustrates in true value. The measurements are mean abnormal returns (AR), mean cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) and mean abnormal volume (AV). Conducting an event study to monitor, not only the date of announcement, but to also validate or invalidate the recommendation as a fundamental changer in the stock case. Where the calculations are made before, on and after the event occurs. With the aim to test if the market is efficient and in line with the rational theories, or if there are other explanatory theories, like the behavioral financial approach, that can explain the results. The sample consists of 571 recommendations that have been announced 2017 and 2018, divided into categories of buy and sell. The sample of buy and sell are also tested in subcategories of small and large companies, to measure the impact due to size of the firm, as a dependent variable. The empirical results shows that there are AR and AV existing due to recommendations. Small companies have the highest measured AR, with sell recommendations having the largest effects. The sell recommendations changes the value and the fundamentals of the stocks, while buy recommendations react positive to the recommendations on the day of announcement, then reverses back to the same price in the end of the event window. Suggesting that the market act both efficient and rational, but also irrational and ineffective, depending on what type of recommendation that is being released and how large and well monitored the company, that gets the recommendation is.
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Angliss, Katie. "An evaluation of the impact of event attendance on perceptions of the host organisation's reputation : a university case study." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/9822.
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Reputation is an important asset for organisations worldwide. Many researchers have attempted to develop a measurement construct to assess an organisation’s reputation, with the RepTrak System being recognised to be the world’s first tool that assess reputation across multiple stakeholders and areas of the organisation. Nevertheless, the characteristics, methods and stakeholders to include within an assessment of this intangible asset continues to be widely debated. Organisations are under intense scrutiny by their stakeholders, with reputation being an organisational asset on which many opinions are formed. Universities in the UK are no different, as they compete for students from around the world, with the institutions thought to have the best reputations, attracting more students. Nevertheless, no agreed measure for assessing a university’s reputation exists, with many organisations relying solely on league table rankings. Thus, this thesis evaluated existing reputation measurement characteristics, to determine their applicability in assessing the reputation of a UK university. The antecedents of reputation are also widely debated. Authors suggest that stakeholders’ prior knowledge and experience, and communication they receive from an organisation contributes to their perceptions of that organisation’s reputation. The Media Richness Theory suggests a hierarchy to this communication, with face-to-face communication recognised to be of increasing importance due to its ‘rich’ nature. Consequently, the use of events as a strategic communication tool for marketing and public relations purposes has become increasingly popular. Nevertheless, the impact of these events on an organisation’s reputation has yet to be assessed. Thus, the aim of x this thesis is to evaluate the impact that these events have on stakeholders’ perceptions of a UK university’s reputation. A case study methodology, using mixed methods, and underpinned by a pragmatic philosophical perspective was adopted. Five semi-structured interviews were held with senior managers during the first phase of data collection and analysis. Results from these interviews were used to determine the strategic purpose of events as a communication tool. In phase two of the research, the study’s main variables (Reputation, Event Influence, Knowledge and Familiarity, Future Intentions) are combined into a model to assess their relationships. These are tested using Structural Equation Modelling, and data collected from 23 university events and 592 event attendees, using a quantitative questonniare. This study contributes to our knowledge and understanding of the benefits of using events as a form of communication, and highlights the necessity of using a variety of communication channels to inform different stakeholder groups. Findings within this research contradict existing knowledge within the UK Higher Education Industry, by suggesting that university league tables were not the most frequently used method of assessing a university’s reputation, and that rather stakeholders base their perceptions on their personal experience with the institution. Consequently, attending events is found to have a positive influence on attendees’ perceptions of the university’s reputation, however a threshold level exists for stakeholders with high levels of familiarity with the university. Therefore, evidence of the impact of using events as a communication tool is found with a positive return on investment in terms of reputation gains. Thus, findings can be used to inform communication strategy within the higher education industry within the UK.
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Oeur, Rachanna Anna. "The Effects of Reconstructed Head Impact Event Parameters on Risk of Sport Related Concussions." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37354.
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Falls and collisions are the most common types of events leading to sports-related concussions where impacts to the head play an important role on the onset of traumatic brain injury. Each event can be described by impact parameters that define the loading conditions on the head and brain and are necessary for accurate accident reconstruction employing physical impact tests, anthropometric headforms, and finite element (FE) modelling. It was the purpose of this research to describe the effects and interactions of impact velocity, compliance, mass and impact location on head acceleration and brain tissue strain measures associated with risk of concussions in sports.
Impact parameters were varied to capture responses from no-injury up to concussive levels. Study one examined the effect of impact parameters on fall events simulated using a monorail drop tower. Impact mass was varied using three different headforms representing child, adolescent, and adult sizes measuring peak linear and angular acceleration and maximum principal strain. Regression analysis revealed that impact compliance was the most influential on peak linear and angular acceleration measures, meanwhile FE strain was most affected by changes in impact velocity. Smaller headforms tend to produce higher acceleration and strain values, supporting the need for age and size related mechanical definitions of risk.
Study two examined the effect of impact parameters for collision events simulated using a multi-mass pendulum to represent common striking masses in sport measuring peak linear and angular acceleration and strain. Study three provided further insight into collision impacts by evaluating the distribution of peak strains in different brain lobes and the volume of the brain experiencing strains passed a critical level. Results show that compliance was similarly the most influential on peak head acceleration whereas peak strain and volume were most affected by impact velocity. Mass-velocity interactions had effects where a 9 kg mass had greater response than 15 kg, but similar to 21 kg. The temporal lobe consistently contained the highest strains with the rear boss non-centric impact location producing the largest values. Interacting impact parameters illustrate the challenges with predicting associated risk of concussion from head collisions in sport and supports the need to identify effective performance ranges of protective materials.
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Atallah, Zackarias, and Amrani Nassim El. "Follow the Insider : An event study on the impact of Insider transactions." Thesis, Stockholm University, School of Business, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-5965.
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Although there are as many trading strategies as there are people in this world, the traditional opinion is that investments should be based on sound fundamental analysis which in turn is partly based on information that by law should be given to the financial market without delay. The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) states that prices quickly adjust to new information and that current prices are accurately reflected by all the information about the asset in question (Fama, 1970). Thus, no investor should have an advantage in forecasting future stock prices since no one is supposed to have access to information that has not already been made public. But what if the markets do not apprehend important information immediately? What if there are asymmetries that are being taken advantage of? The aim of our Master thesis was to study the phenomena of Insider trading and the potential abnormal returns these may cause. In other words, the question we asked was whether replicating Insiders is a good trading strategy? The findings from our comprehensive study and its results speak of a considerable high abnormal return. The following computations of the statistical significance of our results further reinforce the credibility in them. This implies, in contrast to other similar studies made in Sweden, that it in fact is possible to gain on Insider trading.
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Toh, Kim Sai 1964. "Impact of IT-enabled organizational change on firm performance : an event study." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8465.
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Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-47).
Past event-studies on the impact of Information Technology (IT) on organizations have focused on the different types of IT initiatives from various perspectives, for e.g., an organizational perspective (joint venture, outsourcing, appointment of Chief Information Officer), type of business model (828, B2C), comparisons of returns between conventional and e-business firms and between initiatives involving digital and tangible goods. This thesis however, focuses on how industry structure can influence the firm's performance and the value created for shareholders via IT initiatives. It will study how organizational structure and management changes enabled by IT influence the performance of firms. Current literature suggests that the potential impact of such organizational structure and management changes on future firm performance has not been fully explored. The results of the study show that industry structure does affect the variance in firm performance and certain organizational structure changes resulting from the IT initiative such as management change and creation of a new IT group can generate higher reliability and value of the firm's future performance.
by Kim Sai Toh.
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Song, Ziqian. "The Impact of Corporate Crisis on Stock Returns: An Event-driven Approach." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99847.
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Corporate crisis events such as cyber attacks, executive scandals, facility accidents, fraud, and product recalls can damage customer trust and firm reputation severely, which may lead to tremendous loss in sales and firm equity value. My research aims to integrate information available on the market to assist firms in tackling crisis events, and to provide insight for better decision making. We first study the impact of crisis events on firm performance. We build a hybrid deep learning model that utilizes information from financial news, social media, and historical stock prices to predict firm stock performance during firm crisis events. We develop new methodologies that can extract, select, and represent useful features from textual data. Our hybrid deep learning model achieves 68.8% prediction accuracy for firm stock movements. Furthermore, we explore the underlying mechanisms behind how stakeholders adopt and propagate event information on social media, as well as how this would impact firm stock movements during such events. We adopt an extended epidemiology model, SEIZ, to simulate the information propagation on social media during a crisis.
The SEIZ model classifies people into four states (susceptible, exposed, infected, and skeptical). By modeling the propagation of firm-initiated information and user-initiated information on Twitter, we simulate the dynamic process of Twitter stakeholders transforming from one state to another. Based on the modeling results, we quantitatively measure how stakeholders adopt firm crisis information on Twitter over time.
We then empirically evaluate the impact of different information adoption processes on firm stock performance. We observe that investors often react very positively when a higher portion of stakeholders adopt the firm-initiated information on Twitter, and negatively when a higher portion of stakeholders adopt user-initiated information. Additionally, we try to identify features that can indicate the firm stock movement during corporate events. We adopt Layer-wised Relevance Propagation (LRP) to extract language features that can be the predictive variables for stock surge and stock plunge. Based on our trained hybrid deep learning model, we generate relevance scores for language features in news titles and tweets, which can indicate the amount of contributions these features made to the final predictions of stock surge and plunge.Doctor of Philosophy
Corporate crisis events such as cyber attacks, executive scandals, facility accidents, fraud, and product recalls can damage customer trust and firm reputation severely, which may lead to tremendous loss in sales and firm equity value. My research aims to integrate information available on the market to assist firms in tackling crisis events and providing insight for better decision making. We first study the impact of crisis events on firm performance. We investigate five types of crisis events for SandP 500 companies, with 14,982 related news titles and 4.3 million relevant tweets. We build an event-driven hybrid deep learning model that utilizes information from financial news, social media, and historical stock prices to predict firm stock performance during firm crisis events. Furthermore, we explore how stakeholders adopt and propagate event information on social media, as well as how this would impact firm stock movements during the events. Social media has become an increasingly important channel for corporate crisis management. However, little is known on how crisis information propagates on social media. We observe that investors often react very positively when a higher portion of stakeholders adopt the firm-initiated information on Twitter, and negatively when a higher portion of stakeholders adopt user-initiated information. In addition, we find that the language used in the crisis news and social media discussions can have surprising predictive power on the firm stock. Thus, we develop a methodology to identify the importance of text features associated with firm performance during crisis events, such as predictive words or phrases.
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Nørlund, Charlotte Camilla Flindt. "Evacuation simulation modelling in the event of a Near Earth Object impact." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412800/.
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Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), a group of small interplanetary objects whose orbits around the Sun approach the Earth's orbit to within 45 million km (~0.3 Astronomical Units), have the possibility to impact with the Earth. Such a hazard could potentially cause major damage and result in many casualties depending on impact location and impactor composition and energy. Unique to this type of natural hazard is the possibility of advance warning and the ability to reduce or remove the NEO threat through mitigation such as deflection and evacuation. This work investigates the human vulnerability in the form of human injuries and fatalities expected from an NEO impact on Earth along with the ability to evacuate. New models have been developed to predict the potential human loss from six individual land impact hazards, using historical data about earthquakes and large explosions, models regarding roof collapse and casualties due to ignition exposure and the uncertainty in the data available. Models have also been developed that mimic human travel behaviour during an evacuation. These models were based on survey data regarding human behaviour during evacuations from hurricanes in the US along with models that estimate local road network capacity and flow-time. The development of a decision support toolbox, the Near Earth Object Mitigation Support System (NEOMiSS) supports this research. NEOMiSS is a collection of tools that individually and in collaboration provide useful information to decision-makers regarding human vulnerability (i.e. the number of human injuries and fatalities), ability to evacuate, physical impact effects and uncertainties in models, input data and risk corridor knowledge. This enables decision-makers to gain a better knowledge about the potential consequences of their decisions. A number of case studies were investigated using NEOMiSS. These illustrate how the impact location and impactor energy can result in very different outcomes with regards to human vulnerability. They also illustrate how local road networks and the location of local settlements along with the evacuation strategy affect the ability to perform a successful evacuation. The success of such an evacuation will influence the human vulnerability by reducing the number of expected casualties.
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Price-Rhea, Kelly. "Sport Environment/Atmospherics: Impact on the Physical and Online Spectator Event Experience." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/474.
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This chapter discusses atmospherics as a sport marketing strategy. Even though it has traditional retail roots, atmospherics have emerged as a strategy that may be utilized in the physical, online, and mobile sport environments. A comprehensive review of major traditional and sports atmospheric variables, online atmospheric variables, and applications to sport are discussed. In addition, the spectator experience cycle is introduced with atmospheric correlations. The purpose of the chapter is to explain why atmospherics are important to the sport industry and to demonstrate how sport marketers may use physical, online, or mobile atmospherics to enhance spectator experience, increase loyalty, impact attitude, consumer choice, and impact purchase behavior. In addition, the chapter is meant to emphasize the importance of atmospherics to ultimately achieve promotional and marketing objectives. Finally, future research directions are recommended.
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Ishac, Wadih. "Furthering national development through sport, the case of Qatar." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH037/document.
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Lorsque nous parlons de relations internationales, nous parlons généralement de diplomatie et d'investissement, Le sport peut être utilisé comme outil pour améliorer la diplomatie entre les pays, ainsi que pour développer les intérêts économiques et sociaux. De plus, le sport occupe une place importante dans le repositionnement de l'image d'une nation, tout en améliorant le processus d'intégration des jeunes générations dans le monde. L'un des principaux intérêts, du point de vue du gouvernement, est de créer un lien affectif positif avec la nation hôte de l’évènement sportif. Ce qu'on appelle le soft power. Le but de ce travail est d'explorer certaines des façons dont le sport est utilisé pour générer ce pouvoir, et comment il peut contribuer à générer du contrôle ou à provoquer de l'influence, en se concentrant sur l'État du Qatar. Ce travail est séparé en trois parties principales. Je présente d'abord le développement du sport et la manière dont les événements sportifs ont été utilisés par différents pays et régimes politiques, ainsi que l'impact généré. Deuxièmement, j'essaie de comprendre l'impact généré par l'investissement du Qatar dans l'équipe de football française du Paris Saint-Germain. Et troisièmement, en mesurant l'impact socio-psychologique généré par la jeune génération en organisant des événements sportifs internationaux, le cas du championnat du monde de handball 2015. Ce travail vise à clarifier comment un tel investissement est perçu comme une opportunité de développement au sein de la société, et d'améliorer la diplomatie. En se concentrant sur l'évolution dont le sport est utilisé comme un outil important dans le processus de socialisation des jeunes dans la société mondiale. Sur la base de mes recherches, le résultat de l'investissement dans le Paris Saint-Germain était une situation «gagnant-gagnant» entre la France et le Qatar sur le plan social, économique et politique. De plus, l'utilisation des événements sportifs a eu un impact émotionnel positif, faisant admirer aux résidents la vision du gouvernement. La jeune génération, quelle que soit sa nationalité, a une vision positive des efforts du gouvernement pour s'améliorer et se développer. La vision du gouvernement du Qatar était saillante pour la jeune génération au QatarWhen we mention international relations, we generally talk about diplomacy and investment, but there are other ways of promoting the interests of a government on the international stage. Sport can be used as tool to improve diplomacy between countries, as well as developing economic and social interests. Additionally, sport takes an important place in shaping the image of a nation, while it improves the integration process of young generations into the world. One of the main interests, from a government perspective, in the use of sport, is to generate a positive emotional connection to a host nation - what is known as soft power. The aim of this work is to explore some of the ways in which sport is used to generate this power, and how it can provide a type of control or influence. Specifically, it will focus on the State of Qatar. This work is separated to three main parts. First I present the development of sport and the way sport events were used by different countries and political regimes, and the impact generated. Second, I try to understand the impact generated from Qatar investment in the French football team Paris Saint-Germain. And third, I measured the socio-psychological impact generated on the young generation from hosting international sport events, as in the case of the Handball World championship 2015.This work sets to clarify how allowing such investment is perceived as an opportunity for development within the society, and to improve diplomacy. Additionally, focussing on the young generation allows me to study the evolution of how sport is an important tool in the process of socialization of young people into global society. Based on my research, I argue that the result of the Paris Saint-Germain investment was a "win-win" situation between France and Qatar on the social, economic, and political level. Also, using sport events generated positive emotional impact, making the residents admire the vision of the government. The young generation, regardless nationality has a positive view of government efforts to improve and develop itself - the Qatari government's vision was salient to the young generation in Qatar
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Motale, Matebello Dieketseng Bethsheba. "The social impact of arts festivals : a case of the ABSA Klein Karoo National Arts Festival / M.D.B. Motale." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1774.
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Zhang, Tong Niu Guofu. "Impact of charge collection mechanisms on single event effects in SiGe HBT circuits." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1799.
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Cammer, Sarah Schillawski. "Storm event impact on organic matter flux, composition and reactivity in Taskinas Creek, VA." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068589.
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Carbon export from the land to the ocean are an important part of the global carbon cycle, linking terrestrial watersheds and the global carbon cycle. Burial of terrestrial organic carbon represents a long term sink for atmospheric CO2. Approximately 0.4 Pg Cy-1 is delivered to the global ocean from rivers, equally divided between POC and DOC. However, the amount of carbon entering the ocean is a small portion of the total amount entering rivers from the terrestrial environment, suggesting a large amount of processing in inland waters and estuaries. Most monitoring efforts have focused the processing of organic matter on baseflow conditions. However, recent studies have shown that POC and DOC exported during storm events, a small time period during a hydrologic year, can account for the majority of the annual carbon exported from small watersheds.
This dissertation identifies the impact different magnitudes of storm events have on the source, composition and reactivity of organic carbon released to downstream waters from the terrestrial environment at Taskinas Creek, Virginia. The proximity of the Creek to the York River estuary, the changes in water table at the site, along with the small size of the watershed allowing opportunity to examine the connectivity between the watershed processes and delivery of organic matter made the site ideal for identifying how hydrology and environment alter POM and DOM export and reactivity. The sources, composition and flux of DOM and POM were measured during four storm events of different magnitudes to determine how events impacted the sources and fluxes of organic matter and the % reactive DOC exported. Events of different magnitudes with varying sources of DOC and POC had similar % reactive DOC that was not predicted using excitation emission spectroscopy. The events resulted in DOC fluxes 1.5-490 fold higher than baseflow. POC fluxes for storm were 6.7-55 times higher than DOC fluxes. Although the % reactive DOC did not increase during storm event conditions, coupled with the overall flux, storm events represent a considerable pulse of % reactive DOC to downstream waters, well above baseflow levels. When considered with increases in storm intensity due to climate change, storm event fluxes of reactive OM may have broad impacts on estuaries and the global carbon cycle through changes in carbon storage.
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SWANSON, LUKE A. "A DETAILED EXAMINATION OF THE PRESSURE PRODUCED BY A HYDRODYNAMIC RAM EVENT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1195587339.
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Smith, David A. "An integrated approach to evaluating the environmental impact following a radiological dispersal event." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1148312072.
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Svatek, Mike E. "High Impact Weather Associated with a Predecessor Rain Event Over Misawa Air Base." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/6876.
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Two significant rain events of greater than 100 mm 24 h-1 occurred over Japan in direct association with tropical moisture transport from Typhoon (TY) Roke in September 2011. The first event occurred over Misawa Air Base, Japan during 1719 September 2011. Based on analysis of satellite imagery and numerical simulations, the Misawa rain event is classified as a predecessor rain event (PRE). A PRE is defined as a region of heavy rainfall that occurs thousands of kilometers poleward of a tropical cyclone (TC). The second rain event occurred over Nagasaki on 18 September 2011 and does not meet the requirements for PRE classification. The Department of Defense (DoD) TC warning process focuses on TC induced sustained high winds and their proximity to landfall. This analysis shows the link between the Misawa PRE and Roke via the poleward transport of deep tropical moisture. Because excessive rainfall is considered a destructive force associated with TCs, it is the purpose of this thesis that the U.S. Navys tropical cyclone conditions of readiness (TCCOR) procedures reflect PRE conditions in order to raise awareness within all meteorology communities amongst the DoD in efforts to minimize risks to DoD installations and personnel.
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Fairbairn, Roslyn Deidre. "An event study to investigate the impact of BEE announcements on share price." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5859.
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Thesis (MBA (Business Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This event study examines the effect that Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) announcements have on a companies' share price. The average mean return model is applied to study a sample of companies from the Financial Mail Top 200 Empowerment Companies list, 2007. The mean price change observed in a 7-day window around the event announcement is found to be significant relative to the calculated critical value. Results of the test statistic calculated relative to the probability shows that at a p-value of 0,00113, the result is significant and the null hypothesis is rejected at a 95% confidence level. This result of this study supports the fact that markets react positively to the announcements of BEE events.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die verhouding tussen die verandering van 'n maatskappy se aandele prys wanneer hierdie maatskappy 'n aankondiging maak oor 'n Swart Ekonomiese Transaksie (SET). Die Financial Mail Top 200 Empowerment Companies 2007 lys is gebruik om maatskappye te kies vir die studie. Die gemiddelde verandering in aandele prys in a 7-dag venster rondom die SET aankondiging blyk merkwaardig te wees wanneer met 'n berekende kritiese waarde vergelyk word. Die toets statistiek bewys dat met 'n p-waarde van 0,00113 daar met 95% sekerheid die nul hipotese kan verwerp. Die resultaat van hierdie studie ondersteun die feit dat markte positief reageer teenoor maatskappye wat nuus oor SET transaksies aankondig.
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Kouzoubasis, Thomas, and Sakka Homam Al. "The Impact of Short Selling on Stock Returns - An Event Study in Sweden." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-54600.
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Short selling, and its informational role in the formation of stock prices have been the epicenter of prior literature. Is there a relationship between short selling and abnormal returns? While numerous studies found a negative relationship, researchers do not unanimously agree on the existence, nor the strength, of this relationship. Using net short positions extracted from the registry of the FI for stocks listed in the OMX Stockholm 30 Exchange from January 2017 to December 2020, we examine this relationship exclusively in Sweden. The results have been scrutinized via regression analysis to verify if there is any significant relationship between the announcements of total net short positions and the non-adjusted, as well as the risk-adjusted abnormal returns. We did not find enough evidence to validate previous studies that supported the notion that heavily shorted stocks generate negative abnormal returns for the long buyers. There was a perceptible increase in both risk-adjusted and non-adjusted abnormal returns within a three-day window after the announcement of a short position. Yet, the value was merely zero, inferring that a higher level of short interest does not lead to negative stock returns.
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Newquist, Amanda Nicole. "Texting and Its Impact on Post-Event Processing and Symptoms of Social Anxiety." TopSCHOLAR®, 2018. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3055.
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate how individuals with social anxiety perceive a social event after a texting conversation compared to a face-to-face conversation. This review is known as post-event processing. This study included 154 participants (89 males and 65 females). These participants were recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each participant was asked to imagine a social situation where they experienced a high level of anxiety. The results of the study showed evidence that the self-reported level of trait anxiety was positively correlated with the self-reported level of state anxiety. Self-reported level of trait anxiety was positively correlated with self-reported level of PEP in an individual. Additionally, self-reported level of state anxiety was positively correlated with self-reported level of PEP. Individuals who reported higher levels of trait anxiety reported lower levels of PEP in the texting conversation compared to the face-to-face conversation.
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Björklund, Olle, and Sepehr Sharafuddin. "Outside Influences: How Moody's Credit Ratings Impact the Swedish Stock Market." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-76441.
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The credit rating industry is a global industry with only three major actors, Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings. The “big three” control the majority of the credit rating market and have powers, in the form of credit rating issuances, which they use to influence financial markets worldwide. Ever since their involvement in the fall of corporate giants in early 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008, the power and influence of the credit rating agencies, as well as questions regarding conflict of interest and transparency, have been a hot topic of debate. The impact of credit ratings can be seen across multiple markets; however the focus of this study is on the stock market where every day investors can be affected. As Moody’s is one of the three largest CRAs in the world and is present worldwide, we apply their credit ratings when investigating the impact. Due to different characteristics of large and small markets, and since the US market is well studied; this study is conducted on the Swedish market. Thus, the aim of our study is to investigate the impact credit ratings from Moody’s have on the Swedish stock market and also, give a perspective on how the financial crisis of 2008 influences the potential impact. We apply an event study method to isolate the events and measure the abnormal returns. To estimate the expected market return we use the market model on estimation periods of 60 to 120 days. The sample contains 71 individual credit rating changes from 17 firms listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and considers all uncontaminated credit rating changes issued by Moody’s on the Swedish market during the time period of 1990 to 2012. Empirical evidence showed that the Swedish stock market is susceptible to Moody’s negative credit ratings but almost unaffected by the positive credit ratings. These findings are in line with previous research of Holthausen & Leftwich (1986) amongst others. Still, the effects discovered were not prolonged and no clear difference in impact was found after 2008.
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Wanderoy, Göransson Nikki, and Kibtia Maria E. "We Would Love to Meet You! : A study about the impact of event marketing on customer-brand relationships." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-39470.
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Research questions: How can event marketing be studied as a part of relationship marketing?How can event marketing be used to strengthen customer-brand relationships? Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study event marketing as a part of relationship marketing, by analysing the elements of trust, commitment, brand involvement, brand emotions, brand attitudes and customer value. Method: This research was conducted using a quantitative research method, where the primary data was collected via an online-survey distributed to visitors at Chokladgästabudet at Waxholms Hotel and GastroNord, two food-related events. In total, the study received 102 respondents. Conclusion: The study found support for previous studies regarding events having an effect on the customer-brand relationships. However, this study also found that events have a particular effect on the emotional aspects of the theories used in the study, which are believed to lead to stronger relationships.
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Beltran, Gutierrez Javier, and Song Yujiao. "Methods for Verification of Post-Impact Control including Driver Interaction." Thesis, KTH, Fordonsdynamik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-78765.
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This thesis project focuses on the verification method of a safety function called PICthat stands for Post-Impact Control which controls the vehicle motion of passengercars after being exposed to external disturbances produced by a 1st impact, aiming atavoiding or mitigating secondary events.The main objective was to select a promising method, among several candidates, todevelop further for testing the function and the interaction with the driver. To do thisis was first necessary to map the real destabilized states of motion that are targeted bythe function. These states are referred as Post-Impact problem space and are acombination of variables that describes the host vehicles motion at the instant thedestabilizing force has ceased. Knowing which states are requested by the solutioncandidates, it is possible to grade the rig candidates based on the capability ofcovering the problem space. Then, simulating the proposed rig solutions withMatlab/Simulink models to investigate which candidate fulfils best the problem space.The result of the simulations and other criteria is that a moving base simulator(Simulator SIM4) is most fitted to research verification. The second mostadvantageous solution is the rig alternative called Built-in Actuators.
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Haydar, Oliver Samer, and Marcus Reilimo. "The Impact of OPEC Announcements on Stock Returns." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Jönköping University, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49078.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of OPEC oil production cut announcements on stock returns of specified companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Two categories are constructed from stocks of companies operating in oil, gas and mining sectors and companies operating in pharmaceutical, industrial engineering and industrial transportation sectors, respectively. The study is based on the theories of EMH and findings of behavioural finance and applies a CAPM model in the context of an event study methodology. Our findings show that in four out of five cases OPEC production cut announcements have significant effects on stocks in the chosen categories around the releaseof a supply cut announcement. The difference between post-announcement CAARs of the constructed categories is significant on one occasion. Organisations and investors can use these findings to better understand the impact of OPEC news announcements on the stock performance of companies in specified sectors.
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Åström, Mathilda, and Katarina Lindström. "Stressreaktioner hos patienter med diagnostiserad prostatacancer och deras partner : Med kvalitetssäkring av enkät "Impact of Event Scale”." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-201440.
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Bakgrund: Prostatacancer är den vanligaste formen av cancer bland män i Sverige. Att få en cancerdiagnos innebär stress för både patienten och dess partner.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka grad av stressreaktioner i form av undvikande beteende och påträngande tankar hos patienter med prostatacancer och deras partner. Ytterligare ett syfte var att kvalitetssäkra mätinstrumentets formulering och svarsalternativ.Metod: Arbetet var en kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie. Datainsamlingen gjordes med hjälp av enkät “Impact of Event Scale” (IES) samt en enkät utformad enligt “The Question and Answer Model” (QAM) för att kvalitetssäkra IES. Enkäterna delades ut på kirurg- och onkologmottagningar i Uppsala och Falun under våren 2013. Studiens inklusionskriterier var att de patienter som tillfrågades vid ankomst till mottagningarna hade prostatacancer och en partner (n = 34). 12 respondenter deltog. Data analyserades deskriptivt och med Mann- Whitey-test.Resultat: Det visade sig att patienter (n = 6) med prostatacancer har måttlig grad av stressreaktioner i form av undvikande beteende. Partner (n = 6) till patienter med prostatacancer visade sig ha kraftig grad av stressreaktioner i form av påträngande tankar. Det gick inte att se någon signifikant skillnad mellan patienter och partners grad av stress. Majoriteten av deltagarna i studien (n = 11) var säkra på sina svar i enkät IES.Slutsats: Partners tycks ha en högre grad av stress än patienter med prostatacancer, vilket går i linje med liknande studiers resultat. Interventioner för att nå denna grupp och se till dess behov är önskvärt. Fler studier fodras. Det övergripande resultatet tyder på att mätinstrumentet IES är av god kvalitet och mäter det som är avsett att mätas.Background: Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among men in Sweden.Getting a cancer diagnosis is stressful for both the patient and their partner.Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the degree of stress responses in the form of avoidance behavior and intrusive thoughts in patients with prostate cancer and their partners. Another purpose was to assure the quality and design of the measuring instrument and its response options.Method: The study had a quantitative cross-sectional design. The data was collected using the questionnaire "Impact of Event Scale" (IES) and by a questionnaire framed according to "The Question and Answer Model" (QAM) to safeguard the quality of the IES. Questionnaires were distributed at surgical and oncology clinics in Uppsala and Falun during the spring of 2013. Inclusion criteria for the study were patients with prostate cancer and their partners (n = 34). 12 respondents participated. The data were analyzed descriptively and with Mann-Whitey test.Results: It was found that patients (n = 6) with prostate cancer have moderate degree of stress responses in the form of avoidance behavior. Partners (n = 6) were found to have strong degree of stress responses in the form of intrusive thoughts. Any significant difference between patients and partners dit not appear. The majority of study participants (n = 11) were confident of their answers in the IES.Conclusion: Partners seem to have a higher level of stress than patients with prostate cancer, which is in line with similar studies' results. Interventions to reach this group and ensure its need is desirable. More studies are lined. The overall results indicate that the measuring instrument IES is of good quality and are measuring the concepts that it indicate to measure.
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Sales, Stephanie Doirado. "Rip curl pro peniche : análise do impacto económico-financeiro, turístico e social no concelho." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/9981.
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Mestrado em Ciências EmpresariaisNo âmbito da realização anual do evento RipCurl Pro Peniche, torna-se fundamental refletir sobre os efeitos positivos e negativos ao nível económico, financeiro, turístico e social, que a passagem do Campeonato Mundial de Surf tem no concelho de Peniche desde 2009. Foram realizadas entrevistas a diversas entidades locais, desde organizadores do evento a comerciantes locais, utilizando o método de análise qualitativa. Ao nível económico e financeiro, este evento desportivo tem contribuído para um forte desenvolvimento da economia local, uma vez que alavancou a abertura de novos negócios ligados à modalidade de Surf e não só, assim como, para o aumento das entradas de receitas turísticas no concelho de Peniche. Quanto ao nível turístico, permitiu o acelerar do processo de desenvolvimento da modalidade de Surf, e aumentar a procura de visitantes à região. Desta forma a época balnear aumentou, e a sazonalidade sentida nos meses de inverno diminuiu bastante. Do ponto de vista social, teve bastante impacto na vida da população residente, pois desde 2009 o número de praticantes de Surf aumentou exponencialmente, contribuindo para um estilo de vida saudável. Para além disso, o aumento dos negócios existentes na região, permitiu a criação de novos postos de trabalho. No que toca aos efeitos negativos consideram-se irrelevantes quando comparados com as vantagens que o evento trouxe para o concelho de Peniche. A conquista da passagem do Campeonato Mundial por Peniche é um exemplo de sucesso da realização de um evento que contribuiu para o desenvolvimento de uma região.
In scope the annual competition of the Ripcurl Pro Peniche, it is essencial to reflect about the positive and negative impacts on the economic, financial, tourist and social, that the passage of the World Surfing Championship has in Peniche county since 2009. Interviews were conducted at various local entities, from event organizers to the local merchants, using qualitative analysis method. We can say that the economic and financial level, this sporting event has contributed to a strong development of the local economy, once leverage the opening of new business in the Surf sector and beyond, as well as to increase tourism revenue in Peniche county. As for the tourist level allowed the speed of the sport of Surfing development process, and increase demand for visitors to the region. In this way the bathing season increased, and seasonality felt in the winter months has decreased considerably. From the social point of view, it had enough impact on the lives of the resident population, because since 2009 the number of Surf practitioners increased exponentially, contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Furthermore, the increase of existing businesses in the region, allowed the creation of new jobs. As for the negative impacts are considered irrelevant when compared to the benefits that the event brought to the county of Peniche. The conquest of the passage of the World Championship for Peniche is a successful example of the realization of an event that contributed to the development of a region.
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Vinh, Sean, Rebecca Maloney, Addison Lawson, and Emily K. Flores. "Impact of Interprofessional Healthcare Student Teams at a Remote Area Medical Event in Rural Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2019/schedule/79.
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Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare is vital to the nation’s health and interprofessional education is of significant interest in the current academic climate and practice environment. Remote Area Medical is a non-profit healthcare organization that partners with community hosts to provide dental, vision, and medical services to medically underserved patients in remote areas of the United States and abroad. RAM mobile clinics have served over 785,000 people since their founding in 1985, providing vital healthcare services free of charge through the volunteer services of healthcare professionals. RAM mobile clinics provide an excellent opportunity for interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education as learners partner with volunteer professionals to serve the community. The RAM mobile clinic in Gray, Tennessee was first established in 2017 and implemented the innovate utilization of undergraduate and graduate health professional students from the East Tennessee State University Academic Health Sciences Center in student teams. Interprofessional student teams along with precepting faculty are flexible in location and services offered to best serve the needs of the mobile clinic at any given time. Interprofessional student teams work to improve patient utilization of services offered at the event and assist with medication histories and health screens while growing student interprofessional patient care skills in the process. The objective of this research is to describe the impact of interprofessional student teams on patient care at the Gray, Tennessee RAM mobile clinic during the first two years. Data was collected from the years 2017 and 2018 by the student volunteer coordinator then analyzed by student researchers. The interprofessional student teams consisted of 87 student volunteers that were training in Clinical and Rehabilitative Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, or Pharmacy over the course of the three-day mobile clinic in 2017 and 109 different student volunteers in 2018. Student teams were precepted by interprofessional faculty and logged 2,332 interventions in 2017 and 1,130 interventions in 2018. The top two interventions in 2017 were Medication Histories and Blood Glucose Screens while the top two interventions in 2018 were Medication Histories and Health Screens. Variation in number of interventions logged and type of interventions logged can be explained by event characteristics that differed between the two years. Student participants commented positively on their engagement with one another and discussions they had to better understand each other’s professions between patient encounters. This research attempts to demonstrate that the impact of interprofessional student teams at a RAM mobile clinic is worth the investment of faculty resources in planning and execution to engage student learning while benefitting the patient population being served. This research also provided a hypothesis for additional research to be conducted around the 2019 Gray, Tennessee RAM mobile clinic.
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Tsoi, Ada. "The Potential of Event Data Recorders to Improve Impact Injury Assessment in Real World Crashes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73805.
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Event data recorders (EDRs) are an invaluable data source that have begun to, and will increasingly, provide novel insight into motor vehicle crash characteristics. The "black boxes" in automobiles, EDRs directly measure precrash and crash kinematics. This data has the potential to eclipse the many traditional surrogate measures used in vehicle safety that often rely upon assumptions and simplifications of real world crashes. Although EDRs have been equipped in passenger vehicles for over two decades, the recent establishment of regulation has greatly affected the quantity, resolution, duration, and accuracy of the recorded data elements. Thus, there was not only a demand to reestablish confidence in the data, but a need to demonstrate the potential of the data. The objectives of the research presented in this dissertation were to (1) validate EDR data accuracy in full-frontal, side-impact moving deformable barrier, and small overlap crash tests; (2) evaluate EDR survivability beyond regulatory crash tests, (3) determine the seat belt accuracy of current databases, and (4) assess the merits of other vehicle-based crash severity metrics relative to delta-v.
This dissertation firstly assessed the capabilities of EDRs. Chapter 2 demonstrated the accuracy of 176 crash tests, corresponding to 29 module types, 5 model years, 9 manufacturers, and 4 testing configurations from 2 regulatory agencies. Beyond accuracy, Chapter 3 established that EDRs are anecdotally capable of surviving extreme events of vehicle fire, vehicle immersion, and high delta; although the frequency of these events are very rare on U.S. highways. The studies in Chapters 4 and 5 evaluated specific applications intended to showcase the potential of EDR data. Even single value data elements from EDRs were shown to be advantageous. In particular, the seat belt use status may become a useful tool to supplement crash investigators, especially in low severity crashes that provide little forensic evidence. Moreover, time-series data from EDRs broadens the number of available vehicle-based crash severity metrics that can be utilized. In particular, EDR data was used to calculate vehicle pulse index (VPI), which was shown to have modestly increased predictive abilities of serious injury compared to the widely used delta-v among belted occupants. Ultimately, this work has strong implications for EDR users, regulatory agencies, and future technologies.Ph. D.
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Werner, Todd C. "Elasto-Plastic Impact of a Cantilever Beam Using Non-Linear Finite Elements and Event Simulation." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu997556281.
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Pierazzo, Elisabetta 1963. "The Chicxulub impact event and the environmental catastrophe at the end of the Cretaceous Period." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282564.
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Impact events may have affected the evolution of life on Earth. The mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, which includes the demise of the dinosaurs, has been linked to the large impact event that produced the Chicxulub structure located in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Unfortunately, the geologic record is too spotty to prove any causal relation between the impact event and the mass extinction event that occurred 65 Myr ago. However, the size and location of the impact structure have drawn attention to impact-related abrupt perturbations of the climate and their effects on the biota. My main approach to studying these impact-related perturbations is through hydrocode models of the impact event. Few simulations of the Chicxulub impact event have previously been done. In these simulations the event was modeled as an asteroid impact, using two-dimensional hydrocodes that permit modeling only vertical impacts (i.e. perpendicular to the surface). This work presents the results of a series of high-resolution two- and three-dimension hydrocode simulations of the Chicxulub impact event. The simulations span several different projectile sizes, cover asteroid as well as comet impacts, and explore the effects of impact angle on the impact event. The focus of the simulations is to obtain reliable estimates of the climatically active gases, namely S-bearing gases, CO₂ and water vapor, released to the atmosphere by the impact event. These estimates will be used in modeling the perturbation of the climate of the end of the Cretaceous, and, hopefully, will shed new light on the relation between the impact event and the mass extinction that occurred 65 Myr ago.
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Rowland, Ann-Stacy Kahler. "Emotional state, event-related impact and blame cognitions : a study of secondary victims of murder." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15412.
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Previous studies have found a relationship between attributions of blame and traumatic events such as crime, illness, and accidents/disasters, albeit inconclusive as to the benefits or detriments of self- and other-blame on adjustment outcome (e.g., Janoff-Bulman, 1979; Joseph, Brewin, Yule & Williams, 1991,1993; Derry & McLachlan, 1995; Frazier & Schauben, 1994). The effects of attributions of blame on the adjustment outcome of family members bereaved through murder has been neglected. Therefore, little is known about such benefits to adjustment in this population. In addition, no longitudinal research has been conducted so little is known about this process of adjustment. A retrospective longitudinal study investigated emotional state and event-related impact, attributions of blame, control and just world cognitions, revenge and disabling distress. Thirty-four family members, recruited from "Families of Murdered Children", were interviewed and completed four psychological measures. They were followed up six and twelve months later. On all three occasions, subjects showed high levels of negative emotional state and event-related impact, especially older, female and support seeking subjects. Self-blame and feelings of revenge were linked to higher levels of negative emotional state and event-related impact, especially in female subjects. Control and just world cognitions were not related to emotional state and event-related impact. Negative emotional state at Time 1 was predictive of poor overall adjustment at Time 2 and Time 3, while gender was predictive of poor overall adjustment at Time 2. Subjects suffering from distress that interfered with their daily lives at Time 3 had higher negative emotional state and event-related impact at Time 1, Time 2 and Time 3. In order to further investigate the effects of blame attributions on mood, a randomised between-subjects laboratory study was conducted. Eighty-seven undergraduates were assigned to one of three writing conditions (self-blame, other-blame and no blame/control) with mood being assessed before and after writing. Results showed that negative mood had been cognitively induced, however, no condition effects occurred. The mood effect was greater for women than men. Implications for theory, practice and future research in relation to the main findings are discussed.
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Andel, Stephanie A. "The Impact of Traumatic Event Exposure in the Emergency Medical Services: A Weekly Diary Study." Scholar Commons, 2017. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7391.
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Emergency Medical Service (EMS) professionals are consistently exposed to a variety of traumatic events on the job, such as cases that involve the death or injury of a patient, being physically threatened, or encountering a mass casualty incident. Not surprisingly, research has found that such traumatic exposure has major implications, as it has been related to a plethora of negative strain outcomes such as posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms and burnout. However, at this point, research has not empirically examined the mechanisms by which these traumatic events lead to strain. Therefore, this study aims to further investigate these mechanisms by incorporating the role that emotion regulation (i.e., expressive suppression) plays in this process. Further, this study investigates various moderators in this process, including one individual difference factor (i.e., implicit theories about emotion expression) and two contextual factors (i.e., social support and organizational constraints).
To test the links in the aforementioned process, a weekly diary study was conducted online with 200 current EMS professionals. Specifically, participants completed a baseline survey (Time 0) that measured trait-level variables and demographics. Then, participants completed 10 weekly diary studies that included measures of exposure to traumatic events, negative affective reactions, expressive suppression, and strain outcomes. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to test the study hypotheses.
Results of this study show that within person, traumatic event exposure was related to strain. Further, although traumatic event exposure was not consistently related to expressive suppression, the positive link between expressive suppression and strain was consistent. Additionally, organizational constraints were found to serve as a moderator in the relationship between expressive suppression and strain, such that higher organizational constraints exacerbate this relationship. Overall, these results provide a better understanding of the process that links traumatic event exposure to strain in the EMS profession. This research has implications for organizations, as it examines various factors that may be addressed in order to ensure that EMS professionals are better equipped to deal with these unfortunate exposures. Ultimately, the results of this study will hopefully prove helpful in devising interventions to enhance the wellbeing of EMS professionals in the wake of exposure to traumatic events.
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Montgomery, Bruce Ray. "The Impact of the User Interface on Simulation Usability and Solution Quality." NSUWorks, 2011. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/253.
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This research outlines a study that was performed to determine the effects of user interface design variations on the usability and solution quality of complex, multivariate discrete-event simulations. Specifically, this study examined four key research questions: what are the user interface considerations for a given simulation model, what are the current best practices in user interface design for simulations, how is usability best evaluated for simulation interfaces, and specifically what are the measured effects of varying levels of usability of interface elements on simulation operations such as data entry and solution analysis. The overall goal of the study was to show the benefit of applied usability practices in simulation design, supported by experimental evidence from testing two alternative simulation user interfaces designed with varying usability.
The study employed directed research in usability and simulation design to support design of an experiment that addressed the core problem of interface effects on simulation. In keeping with the study goal of demonstrating usability practices, the experimental procedures were analogous to the development processes recommended in supporting literature for usability-based design lifecycles. Steps included user and task analysis, concept and use modeling, paper prototypes of user interfaces for initial usability assessment, interface development and assessment, and user-based testing of actual interfaces with an actual simulation model. The experimental tests employed two interfaces designed with selected usability variations, each interacting with the same core simulation model. The experimental steps were followed by an analysis of quantitative and qualitative data gathered, including data entry time, interaction errors, solution quality measures, and user acceptance data.
The study resulted in mixed support for the hypotheses that improvements in usability of simulation interface elements will improve data entry, solution quality, and overall simulation interactions. Evidence for data entry was mixed, for solution quality was positive to neutral, and for overall usability was very positive. As a secondary benefit, the study demonstrated application of usability-based interface design best practices and processes that could provide guidelines for increasing usability of future discrete-event simulation interface designs. Examination of the study results also provided suggestions for possible future research on the investigation topics.
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Nikyar, Sadaf, and Nardos Tewolde. "The Impact of CSR on Investors’ Behaviour." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-208967.
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There has been an increased attention to sustainability in the society which has affected bothconsumers’ and investors’ behaviour. Consequently, companies are pressured to include CSR intheir businesses. Further, the media is quick to report when companies are acting sociallyirresponsible. For this reason it is of interest to investigate whether these news reports affectinvestors. One way to examine this is to study the stock price during such events. In addition, ithas been shown that women tend to value sustainability higher than men when consuming goodsand services. Hence, it is relevant to study if this trend is shown in their investment attitudes aswell. The method in this study consists of an event study which has been used to investigate theimpact of CSR events on stock prices of Swedish listed companies. In addition, a survey wasconducted to examine the attitudes towards CSR among Swedish private investors.The average two-day CAR for negative events was -0.18 percent, which suggests an existingeffect of negative CSR events on stock prices of listed Swedish companies belonging to OMX30.The findings in the survey showed that there is a great interest in CSR among Swedish investors.Further, a larger proportion include CSR in their investment decision compared to those who donot. Our findings showed that there exist differences in attitudes towards CSR within differentcategories of investors such as gender, age and trading habits. A larger proportion of femalerespondents have a greater interest in CSR and include CSR aspects in their investmentdecisions compared to males. A greater amount of female participants believe that a company'sCSR performance is at least as important as its financial one compared to males. Further, asignificant smaller proportion of investors between 18-24 years include CSR aspects when theymake investment decisions compared to those between 55-64 years. Our results suggest that themain underlying reason for respondents to include CSR was risk mitigation for the ones who trademore often and moral concerns for those who trade less often. Lastly, a larger proportion of thosewho trade less frequently believe that a company's CSR performance is at least as important asits financial one, compared to those who trade more frequently.
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Li, Xiaotong. "Who's Afraid of the Patent Trolls? Assessing the Market Impact of Landmark Patent Troll Litigation Outcomes." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/433.
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Patent trolls have changed the innovation and patent policy landscape. This thesis is an empirical event study that focuses on two landmark cases of patent troll litigation, RIM v. NTP and eBay v. Mercexchange, to determine whether pro-troll litigation outcomes significantly impact the market values of the firms in the high-tech industries they target. I find that the Supreme Court ruling in eBay v. Mercexchange did seem to significantly impact a proportion of firms in the market. The decisive factors in distinguishing affected vs. unaffected firms include a firm's R&D to Sales ratio, market value, and NAICS code specification.
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Suves, Patrick. "The Economic Impact of a Major Sports Event : An analysis what effect the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in Levi, Finland has on the local economy." Thesis, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, GIH, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-487.
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The aim of this study has been to determine the economic impact on the local economy of a large scale international sporting event, namely the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in Levi, Finland. In addition, it seeks to investigate the regional origins of visitors to the event and the relationship between residence and expenditure.
Method
The methodology consisted of two key stages: the estimation of visitor expenditure and the calculation of the economic impact of this. Information about visitor expenditure and background was collected by survey on site during the event. This has been additionally completed with interviews with key persons associated with the event concerning organizational and infrastructure spending.
Results
The results of the survey indicate that the event gives a direct boost of an estimate of six and a half million Euros to the local economy. When taking into consideration the tourism multipliers for the area the total economic impact of the event ranges between 7,5 and 9,5 million Euros. Additionally the results also point out a clear relationship between the residence and expenditure of the event visitors.
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The results of the economic impact can be used by the Organization Committee as a tool to show and justify future investments with public funding. Additionally the background and origins of the attendees gives a great deal of information for the people behind the marketing and sponsorship strategies. Further studies regarding the calculation of specific factors within economic impact studies would though be greatly needed.
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LIN, CHIN-JUNG, and 林僅嶸. "The impact of event experience on destination image and event satisfaction in event tourism." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rrrgpt.
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Event tourism is recognized as an integrated way of developing and marketing of a destination. This study investigates the influence of participants event experience, destination image, and event satisfaction in event tourism. Through a review of relevant literature, this study explores the relationship between event experience, destination image, and event satisfaction in variety of events. A questionnaire was developed for this quantitative study to examine the hypotheses of this studys framework. A total of 229 questionnaires were collected. SPSS 23 was used to analyze the data. The results show that participants event experience and destination image significantly and positively affect event satisfaction in event tourism. The findings help to strengthen critical knowledge about the role of event experience and destination image in event tourism, suggestions are provided to the stakeholders in event tourism.
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Patrício, João Tiago Dias. "Lisbon’s Web Summit : an event and tourism impact study." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/25378.
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The Web Summit, founded in 2009, began as 400-person a technology conference with the aim
of joining together tech-enthusiasts and businesses in a community that would allow for greater
networking and spreading of ideas, projects and even relationships. Today, it has an attendance
rate of around 60,000 people and is considered to be the epitome of technology conferences,
joining together the most iconic and revolutionary speakers in an environment where
communication and bonding is key.
In 2016, Web Summit moved deeper into European territory and is now located in Lisbon,
Portugal, bringing with it large volumes of attendees. What this thesis aims to identify are the
internal pressures that a hallmark event such as the Web Summit has on the local community,
using benchmarks of the local event paradigm for a better understanding of the event’s
specificities, and how the event and governmental entities are combating these. These hallmark
events are classified through their large attendance volumes that have the power to both benefit
and disrupt the local community. Therefore, an in-depth analysis on attendee expenditure into
the community in the form of recreational activity will be put forth in order to understand what
the event is offering in term of tourism add-on.
The conclusions aim to understand if in fact the Web Summit does provide this touristic addon
and to what extent the Web Summit is enhancing or damaging the local community with its
presence.O Web Summit, fundado em 2009, começou como uma conferência de tecnologia para cerca de 400 pessoas que tinha o objetivo de reunir empresas e amantes de temas relacionados com tecnologia numa comunidade que permitisse incentivar o networking e transmitir ideias, projetos e, até, criar relacionamentos. Atualmente, esta conferência, considerada o protótipo das conferências tecnológicas, conta com uma assistência média de cerca de 60 mil pessoas e reúne os mais icónicos e revolucionários oradores num ambiente em que a comunicação e as ligações entre os participantes são peças chave. Em 2016 o Web Summit deslocou-se para Lisboa trazendo consigo o, já referido, significativo número de participantes. Esta dissertação pretende identificar as pressões internas influenciadas por um evento desta dimensão na comunidade local, utilizando-se de comparações com eventos locais paradigmáticos para melhor perceber as especificidades deste evento, assim como perceber como é que as Entidades governativas combatem estas mesmas especificidades. Eventos distintivos como o estudado nesta tese são classificados através do seu elevado nível de assistência que, por sua vez, tem o poder de não só beneficiar como influenciar a comunidade local. Assim sendo, por forma a compreender melhor o que é que um evento desta envergadura acrescenta a nível de turismo ao seu país anfitrião, será levada a cabo uma análise profunda aos gastos dos participantes do Web Summit em atividades de lazer durante a sua estadia. Em suma, este estudo pretende tirar conclusões sobre o valor acrescentado pelo Web Summit no sector do Turismo, assim como em que ponto é que este evento beneficia ou prejudica a comunidade local.
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CHIU, TING-HSUAN, and 邱婷萱. "Environmental Radiation Impact of Fukushima Nuclear Event To Taiwan." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28975914897289852542.
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A Richter scale intensity of 9.4 earthquake occurred off the coast of Miyagi county in northeastern region of Japan in March 11, 2011. The earthquake triggered a tsunami caused corruption of many buildings, public water and electricity utilities, and many of the people injured and dead in the disaster. we referred it as the "311 Earthquake." Tsunami caused a series of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant damage, which is the most serious nuclear accident after the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred in 1986. The main purpose of this study is focused on the environmental radiation impact of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident to Taiwan. This study include the radiation source term analysis, assessment of gases effluent by atmospheric dispersion model , evaluation of oceanic pollution , collection of environmental radiation monitoring data and foodstuff survey data . Finally we evaluate the maximum effective dose may caused to the people in Taiwan according to the dose assessment model. Results showed that a trace amount radionuclides, including iodine-131, cesium-134, cesium-137 and H-3 were measured in the environmental samples of aerosol filter and water tray in Taiwan. After considering each possible exposure pathway, The assessed external effective dose is 6.92 × 10-6 mSv / y in the first and second quarter of 2011. The internal effective doses to the highest observation station in Kaohsiung was 1.88 × 10-4 mSv / year. In total, estimated maximum effective dose to Taiwan residents amounted to approximately 2 × 10-4 mSv / year. This result is far below the dose limit of 1 mSv/y standard under routine radiation practice for general public. In total 53,337 pieces of imported foodstuff were inspected. Only 196 samples contain trace amounts of artificial radionuclides , but were far below regulatory limits. There is no food safety concern. Analysis of environmental water samples showed no tritium contamination is found.