An Empirical Investigation into the Influence of Media Types on Design Cognition and Methodologies

Citizens' engagement on local governments' Facebook sites. An empirical analysis: The impact of different media and content types in Western Europe

Studies on the impact of different media, influence of temperature and pH on the growth, cultural and morphological characters of pathogen is greatly influenced for successful management of crop diseases. Therefore, the present study was carried out during 2017 at the Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India to assess the growth of Alternaria solani in different media, temperature and pH. A. solani was inoculated with different media, range of temperature and pH and assess their growth by agar plate method. All the experiments replicated thrice. The study clearly revealed that among the media tested both solid and liquid, PDA and PD broth was found to be the best in supporting the mycelial growth (88.67mm) and mycelial dry weight (289.51mg) of the pathogen. Also, the study proved that temperature of 30ºC was suitable for A. solani and recorded maximum mycelial growth of 69.52mm. Whereas, the optimum pH for the growth of pathogen 6.5 and recorded maximum mycelial growth of 71.52mm. It is concluded that the isolate will be further tested for their aggressiveness in early blight disease incidence.

Bali has favorable conditions for the production and expansion of citrus plantations. However, citrus cultivation in Bali often faces challenges, including reduced yield caused by pest infestations and pathogenic diseases. One significant pest affecting citrus plants is the whitefly. A potential method for controlling whiteflies is the use of natural enemies. The entomopathogenic fungus Aschersonia placenta is one of natural enemy that can effectively manage whitefly infestations. However, the succesful utilization of A. placenta requires a specialized approach, particularly in selecting an appropriate growth medium. This study aimed to investigate the impact of different growth media on the development of the entomopathogenic fungus A. placenta. The research began with field sampling, followed by the isolation and morphological identification of A. placenta to obtain a pure culture. Subsequently, media tests were conducted to evaluate fungal growth. Nine treatments were implemented to examine the impact of different media: (1) Water Agar (WA), (2) Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA), (3) Potato Sucrose Agar (PSA), (4) Water Agar + Weaver Ant Eggs Flour (WA-WAEF), (5) Potato Dextrose Agar + Weaver Ant Eggs Flour (PDA -WAEF), (6) Potato Sucrose Agar + Weaver Ant Eggs Flour (PSA-WAEF), (7) Water Agar + Cricket Flour (WA-CF), (8) Potato Dextrose Agar + Cricket Flour (PDA-CF), and (9) Potato Sucrose Agar + Cricket Flour (PSA-CF). The results demonstrated that incorporating cricket insect flour (Gryllidae: Orthoptera) or weaver ant egg flour (Oecophylla smaragdina) into potato sucrose media provided the most optimal growth environment for A. placenta.

This experiment investigates the impact of different media presentations on children's story comprehension. The purpose of the study was to analyze whether a combined media approach might influence the way in which a story is remembered and understood. Forty‐four third graders were randomly assigned to one of three story medium combinations: a) televised story followed three days later with a repeated presentation in the same medium; b) televised story‐illustrated storybook; and c) illustrated storybook followed by illustrated storybook. Retellings, analyzed by Morrow's adapted measure of story structure, expressive language, and cued recall indicated no significant differences between groups. Findings suggest that the communication medium alone by which a narrative is conveyed might have little importance for comprehension.

Impact of Aggressive Media on the Interlaminar Shear Strength of Innovative Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyurea/Polysilicate Hybrid Resins

The PhD thesis presented in this paper investigates the impact of different media on collaborative music making in shared workspaces. Studies will explore the difference between virtual reality and screen-based media, with experimental adjustment of individual viewpoint and co-temporality of sound playback. Artefact design in the project is conducted in a research through design methodology incorporating a user-centred design cycle of ethnographic studies, co-design workshops, and iterative prototyping. Summative evaluation will assess changes to collaborative process in music making tasks under experimental conditions, to better understand the design of media configurations for professional music making, when supporting individual users preference and perspective.

Under the current policy of medium of instruction, schools in Hong Kong may use either Cantonese or Putonghua to teach Chinese Language subject. In this research, different media of instruction have been designed based on literature review and were imposed in five classes of primary one student studied in the same school. This study aims to examine the impact on using Putonghua, Cantonese or diglossia as the medium of instruction in Chinese language learning and teaching as well as the development of students’ general Chinese competence.
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\nData were collected from multiple sources, validated and checked for consistency using triangulation. Quantitative analyses were conducted via quasi-experimental study and questionnaire surveys to examine the impact on the development of students’ general Chinese competence as well as students’ learning. Qualitative analyses were executed via multiple case studies, classroom observation, teacher-student interviews and text analysis of transcripts of interview protocols to examine the impact on teaching and learning.
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\nThe research results show that, using different media of instruction have no negative impact on teaching and learning. Among those media of instruction, Cantonese, the mother tongue, is the preference of teachers and students. Nevertheless, qualified and experienced teachers and well-planned lessons and curriculum are the prerequisites for using Putonghua, Cantonese and Diglossia as the medium of instruction of Chinese language learning.
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\nThe research results show that there are positive impacts on the Chinese language development of students. However, students have different performances in the mastery of mental lexicons, writing and reading abilities among the five classes. These results reflect that the teaching goals, strategies and the allocation of teaching time are affected by the different media of instruction.
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\nIn brief, this study is a basic research that provides information for future studies on the media of instruction of Chinese language learning and teaching. Moreover, the result of this study can also serve as a reference to policy makers and teachers in making their decision in selecting the medium of instruction of Chinese language learning.

The impact of vegetation and media on evapotranspiration in bioretention systems

In this article, well-established characterization methods for nanoparticles (NPs) are discussed, in particular their application under physiological conditions. The impact of different media, mimicking physiological conditions, on NP stability in terms of physiological ionic strength and formation of the NP–protein corona is described. In order to characterize NPs under physiological conditions, we distinguish between scattering and correlation methods, microscopy-based methods, and methods based on hydrodynamic separation. Features and limitations of relevant characterization methods are reviewed, as well as challenges arising in physiological media from enhanced aggregation tendency and the presence of proteins. We conclude that no available method for NP characterization in physiological media is able to describe the colloidal system completely and satisfactory. On the contrary, combining well-chosen analytical methods by taking benefits and disadvantages into account may provide detailed characterization results.KeywordsCharacterization methodsNanoparticlesPhysiological mediaProtein corona

This paper identifies and discusses a set of criteria relevant to assess the impact of using different media in the design of user interfaces for safety-critical systems. An evaluation of different options concerning the allocation of such media during the design of an application in the Air Traffic Control domain is shown to illustrate and clarify our approach. Particular attention is paid on how different choices in allocating tasks among air traffic controllers affect usability and safety of operators' interactions.

Electrospray is a process based on creation and acceleration of small sized droplets based on electrostatic repulsion. Spraying plasmid containing liquids this process may be used to transfer genes into cells. Within this paper we report on a method for accessing and evaluating the spray modalities using high speed imaging system with a post processing of image data to obtain estimated volume and velocity of emerging droplets first. Second we investigate on the impact of different media on the spray modalities. Third we evaluate the impact of the spray on cell viability and on transfection efficiency of an eGFP plasmid as reporter gene obtained in an in vitro setup on alveolar epithelial like cells (A549).

Industrial marketing management digital media optimization for B2B marketing

The COVID-19 epidemic is the largest human public crisis event after the outbreak of SARS, and it is also a significant information dissemination event in which the media has demonstrated enormous influence. This study is based on a survey questionnaire distributed to the public who have experienced the epidemic, focusing on dimensions such as the frequency of media information exposure, epidemic prevention behaviors, risk perception, opinion leader dissemination influence, and government credibility, and specifically analyzes the impact of media on the audience's cognition and behavior. The study found that using a specific medium has a weak impact on the audience's risk perception, and opinion leaders have a greater impact on the audience in the dissemination of major public crisis events. The development of optimized channels for information dissemination should be a collaborative effort to avoid the leakage and spread of false information, in which the government should play a major role in improving public awareness and prevention.

In the face of demands for researchers to engage more actively with a wider range of publics and to capture different kinds of research impacts and engagements, we explored the ways a small number of environmental researchers use traditional and social media to disseminate research. A questionnaire was developed to investigate the impact of different media as a tool to broker contact between researchers and a variety of different stakeholders (for example, publics, other researchers, policymakers, journalists) as well as how researchers perceive that their use of these media has changed over the past five years. The questionnaire was sent to 504 researchers whose work had featured in a policy-oriented e-news service. 149 valid responses were received (29%). Coverage in traditional media (newspapers, broadcast) not only brokers contact with other journalists, but is a good source of contact from other researchers (n=47, 62%) and members of the public (n=36, 26%). Although the use of social media was limited amongst our sample, it did broker contact with other researchers (n=17, 47%) and the public (n=10, 28%). Nevertheless, few environmental researchers were actively using social media to disseminate their research findings, with many continuing to rely on academic journals and face-to-face communication to reach both academic and public audiences.

Recognition and recall are important components of effective advertising. The impact of different media over recall and recognition is also different. The debate is centered around which group of media has an edge over the others in terms of advertising effectiveness, while accepting the notion about their effectiveness in this regard. However it ignores the mutual interdependency and nature of interdependency between the two categories of media, i.e. electronic and non-electronic media, especially the outdoor media. In the present study, we have taken the same issue for systematic investigation to find out the mutual interdependency and its characteristics in a particular region of India having its own unique socio-economic and cultural features. In this sense, our basic question is whether the outdoor media has primary or secondary role, or supplementary and catalyst role in advertising effectiveness. It appears that television (TV) media has a crucial role in initiating and creating interest in ads, but the strategic role of sustaining and promoting interests in ads is in the hands of other media exposures, viz., outdoor, in-store display, etc. In this sense, outdoor and other media, including in-store display, have the role of a catalyst for TV media-created ad interests and recall at the point of purchase.