Assessment of an e-training tool for college students to improve accuracy and reduce effort associated with reading nutrition labels

Objective: Nutrition labels are often underutilized due to the time and effort required to read them. We investigated the impact of label-reading training on effort, as well as accuracy and motivation. Participants: Eighty college students (21 men and 59 women). Methods: The training consisted of a background tutorial on nutrition followed by three blocks of practice reading labels to decide which of two foods was the relatively better choice. Label-reading effort was assessed using an eye tracker and motivation was assessed using a 6-item scale of healthy food-choice empowerment. Results: Students showed increases in label-reading accuracy, decreases in label-reading effort, and increases in empowerment. Conclusions: The nutrition label e-training tool presented here, whether used alone or as part of other wellness and health programs, may be an effective way to boost students’ label-reading skills and healthy food choices, before they settle into grocery shopping habits.     

Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions

Since the 1970s, Tamworth has become well known as Australia's ‘country music capital’. Its annual Country and Western Music Festival has become the leading event of its type in Australia, attracting over 60,000 visitors every year. The festival, and country music more generally, have become central to the town's identity and tourism marketing strategies. This article discusses the social constructions that have surrounded Tamworth's transition to ‘country music capital’—of the ‘rural’, and of ‘country’—within the context of debates about the politics of place marketing. Textual analysis of promotional material and built landscapes reveals representations of rurality (or ‘senses of the rural’). In their most commercial form, representations of rurality converge on a dominant notion of ‘country’, quite different from the ‘countryside’ and ‘rural idyll’ in England. This dominant, or normative ‘country’ forms the basis of imagery for the festival, the Town's marketing strategy, and associated advertising campaigns by major sponsors. It is predominantly masculine, white, working class and nationalist. But links between musical style and discourses of place are complex. Colonial British histories, Celtic musical traditions and North American popular culture all inform ‘country’ in Tamworth, dissipating nationalist interpretations. Normative constructions also contrast with other, heterogeneous ruralities in Australia, that include the lived experiences of rural Australians, and on stage—in country music—where multiple ‘ruralised’ identities are performed. Even those who stand to benefit from place promotion have been uncertain about country music and ‘the country’, because of associated discourses of Tamworth as ‘hick’ and ‘redneck’. In the final section of the paper, reactions of residents to constructions of Tamworth as country music capital are discussed, via the results of a simple resident survey. In contrast to previous studies of the disempowering politics of place marketing, Tamworth residents were on the whole supportive of the new associations and images for the town, despite ‘hick’ connotations, as it has become a centre for ‘country’, and for country music. Reasons for this are explored, and resistances discussed. The result is a complex and entangled politics of national identity, gender, race and class, where meanings for place are variously interpreted and negotiated.     

基于企业顾客态度视角的制造业“服务悖论”分析

基于企业顾客态度视角,以长三角、珠三角、华中地区共215家服务化程度较高的制造业企业为研究对象,对制造业企业秉持的顾客价值态度如何对制造业“服务悖论”现象构成影响进行实证分析。研究发现：制造业企业服务提供能够改善企业绩效,但绩效的改善与提升会受到制造业企业对待顾客态度的影响与制约,即制造业企业“服务悖论”现象的生成与制造业企业服务化战略转型过程中所秉持的顾客价值态度存在强相关关系;制造业企业在服务化战略转型过程中若能假以顾客情感嵌入,将对制造业企业建构稳定的顾客关系、塑造顾客业务忠诚、触动顾客对企业所期待的业务行为倾向以及有效遏制制造业“服务悖论”现象的生成具有极为重要的积极影响。     

基于环境价值的钢铁企业环境绩效DEA评价研究

通过搜集国内具有代表性的大中型钢铁企业近三年的能源消耗、环境排放以及财务数据,对钢铁企业环境绩效进行全要素生产效率分析表明,马鞍山钢铁由于企业管理不 到位导致综合技术效率偏低,应避免盲目扩张,着重提高其规模经济水平;山东钢铁以及太钢不锈由于技术创新不足导致Malmquist指数较低,应在节能降耗的技术上进行重点投入 。效率值结果分析表明,钢铁行业样本企业之间差异较为明显,河北钢铁、马鞍山钢铁以及武钢集团的新水使用、能源消耗、二氧化硫排放是其环境绩效管理的薄弱环节,若不加 以控制可能会对社会环境造成较为严重的影响。相关钢铁企业应通过加强资源循环利用效率、减少三废排放、积极履行信息披露义务等得力措施,切实改善环境绩效。     

“Parent Advocacy” as an Ideological Code: LGBTQ Parents Engage with Disability Services

What does the work that LGBTQ parents do to find resources for their disabled children reveal about the social organization of services? This article presents findings from an institutional ethnography study based on interviews with 15 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents and six key community informants in Toronto, Canada. The analysis focused on the work parents did to engage with disability service systems on behalf of their children, and the ways in which families’ social privilege and/or marginalization affected their experiences. Particular attention was paid to the ways in which “parent advocacy” was taken up, responded to, and critiqued in these interviews. “Parent advocacy” was found to operate as what Dorothy Smith has called an “ideological code” (Smith 1999), offloading systemic responsibilities onto parents, shielding inequities, and promoting individualized competition between service users. This study suggests that the systemic organization that makes “parent advocacy” necessary also renders parents’ relative privilege or marginality central to what their children receive.     

高寒地区秸秆气化集中供气技术应用研究

根据近年来秸秆气化集中供气技术应用推广情况，提出秸秆气化集中供气项目建设必须重视经济效益，并对此进行了分析，指出使用秸秆燃气采暖是提高秸秆气化站经济效益的有效方式。     

“世俗之神”的智性审视——鲁迅小说中金钱话语的意蕴分析

以金钱为核心话语的经济活动及其意义是<呐喊>和<彷徨>的重要内容.在中国现代文学史上,鲁迅的小说文本最早建构了具有多重现代性内涵的金钱话语,并且具有鲜明的现实指向性,表现出强大的人文力量和实践力量.鲁迅既对人际关系的金钱化倾向心存忧虑和愤慨,同时又认为金钱在现代社会是个体生存和自由的保障.对现代社会中经济结构向人类精神结构渗透和影响这一现象的关注和思考,是鲁迅智性思维方式的深度所在.     

Prioritizing Environmental Health Risks in the UAE

This article presents the results of a comparative environmental risk‐ranking exercise that was conducted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to inform a strategic planning process led by the Environment Agency‐Abu Dhabi (EAD). It represents the first national‐level application of a deliberative method for comparative risk ranking first published in this journal. The deliberative method involves a five‐stage process that includes quantitative risk assessment by experts and deliberations by groups of stakeholders. The project reported in this article considered 14 categories of environmental risks to health identified through discussions with EAD staff: ambient and indoor air pollution; drinking water contamination; coastal water pollution; soil and groundwater contamination; contamination of fruits, vegetables, and seafood; ambient noise; stratospheric ozone depletion; electromagnetic fields from power lines; health impacts from climate change; and exposure to hazardous substances in industrial, construction, and agricultural work environments. Results from workshops involving 73 stakeholders who met in five separate groups to rank these risks individually and collaboratively indicated strong consensus that outdoor and indoor air pollution are the highest priorities in the UAE. Each of the five groups rated these as being among the highest risks. All groups rated soil and groundwater contamination as being among the lowest risks. In surveys administered after the ranking exercises, participants indicated that the results of the process represented their concerns and approved of using the ranking results to inform policy decisions. The results ultimately shaped a strategic plan that is now being implemented.     

基于目标成本的成本控制研究

目标管理最早出现在美国．是由美国著名管理学家彼得德鲁克首先提出的，以泰罗的科学管理和行为科学理论（特别是其中的参与管理）为基础形成的一种现代管理制度。经过实践证明这是一种有效的科学管理方法，目前在我国许多企业中已有应用。目标成本管理是根据企业的经营目标，在成本预测、成本决策、测定目标成本的基础上，进行目标成本的分解、落实、分析控制、考核、评价的一系列成本管理工作。目标成本管理是目标管理与成本管理的统一，有其独有的特点。中国企业现在在目标成本管理应用中仍存在一些问题，应及时的调整来应对。主要有观念上的调整，恰当地制定控制目标及准确定位目标戍本。