Commercial Channels Research Articles

Evolution of institutional repositories: Managing institutional research output to remove the gap of academic elitism

The article tries to highlight the evolution and conceptual framework of institutional repositories and their impact on the academic and scholarly circles in terms of better visibility, wider audience and earlier communication of research. The characteristics associated with the institutional repositories are also highlighted, which makes them stand out from the crowd in the family of open access scholarly platforms. The study is based on the examination and evaluation of the articles published across various peer-reviewed journals showcasing numerous dimensions of institutional repositories, ranging from their evolution to open scholarly acceptance. A preliminary search on institutional repositories was carried through two well-renowned indexing/abstracting databases of peer-reviewed literature, Clarivate Analytic’s, Web of Science and Elsevier’s Scopus. Search terms like institutional repositories, institutional research output, open access repositories, green open access, open access, open access publishing, open access initiatives, digital libraries, directory of open access repositories, open DOAR and scholarly communication were run across the databases for article retrieval, and the relevant studies were extracted accordingly. To make the study more comprehensive and current, the studies citing the retrieved articles were also consulted. The study reveals that the benefits associated with institutional repositories are manifold. They recounter users with the information which was otherwise unavailable due to the reasons ranging from the non-availability of supplementary information (like unpublished reports and working papers, multimedia and audiovisual items, learning objects, other special item types, bibliographic references, datasets, lecture notes and so forth) to the paywall/subscription models adopted by commercial channels of scholarly communication. Furthermore, the social, research and technological factors tend to be the main motivating factors for their wider acceptance by the scholarly community at global, national, organizational, and individual levels. They enhance the preservation of institutional research output with increased viewership and prestige apart from achieving a potential research impact. They, in a real sense, have abrogated the unilateral assault orchestrated by the commercial publishers on the author community by democratizing their scholarly voices via open and barrierless scholarly platforms. They are the future of the academic output of an institution/author as they perform successfully within the constitutional boundaries of scholarly and academic publishing, thus safeguarding the rights and claims of every academic actor. Given the importance of institutional repositories for a more democratic, barrierless and impactful information communication, they are for sure going beyond various scholarly circles by breaking the traditional and rigid walls of scholarly endeavours. The study presents a useful overview of the progression of the institutional repositories, their intended purpose and how they serve to fill the gaps in scholarly publishing and meet the needs of the wider academic community. The article summarizes in one place a concise overview of the use and impact of institutional repositories. The study is also an eye-opener for scholars interested in the research in the field of institutional repositories.

Online First? Multi-Channel Programming Strategies of German Commercial Free-to-air Broadcasting Companies

ABSTRACT Broadcasters are faced with a strongly changing situation due to digitalization. Although linear TV usage is still at a high level, the relevance of non-linear content distribution (i.e., via media libraries) continues to grow. By interviewing eleven managers from commercial broadcasting channels, this article examines the planning processes and distribution decisions in a multi-channel context. The research shows: Various distribution channels are used in addition to linear TV. Strategies for providing content online can be assigned to the three strategies of catch-up, online-first and online-only – mostly still strongly dependent on the linear program. From the experts’ point of view, the most important factors influencing their distribution decisions are strategic issues in competition, revenue and budget, and the reach to be achieved against the background of the increasing shift in user behavior.

Examining Australian’s beliefs, misconceptions and sources of information for COVID-19: a national online survey

ObjectivePublic cooperation to practise preventive health behaviours is essential to manage the transmission of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. We aimed to investigate beliefs about COVID-19 diagnosis, transmission and prevention...

Zwischen Information und Persuasion: Mediale Wirklichkeitskonstruktionen in Fernsehnachrichten

The paper deals with pivotal aspects of the transformation of extra-media reality in the context of TV news. In the first part I concentrate on information texts and persuasion methods in media reports and communication. Together with it I present major concepts of reality construction in media. In the second part I characterize patterns of reporting by using selected TV news from public and commercial television channels in Poland. The pertinent persuasion strategies shall come into focus. The discussion is based on TV news covering the parliamentary election in Hungary; they were broadcast on 9 April 2018 in the aforementionend television stations.

Longitudinal Evidence of How Media Audiences Differ in Public Health Perceptions and Behaviors During a Global Pandemic.

The current study investigates how public attitudes and perceptions about the COVID-19 pandemic evolve over time and influence self-reported health behaviors (e. g., social distancing). Specific attention was paid to respondents' exposure to different news media channels (public vs. commercial). We used data from a two-wave panel study with a 3-week interval (W1 at the start and W2 at the peak of the pandemic) and a large sample of the adult population in Flanders, Belgium (n = 870). The results of mixed ANOVAs indicate that besides a time-effect there was also a significant effect of the different types of news media exposure and respondents' support for protective health measures and behaviors. Whereas, perceived vulnerability to disease, feelings of loneliness, and solidarity were mostly determined by respondents' overall frequency of media exposure, support of governmental measures and self-reported health behaviors were mostly determined by the type of news media exposure. Respondents with a predominantly public/quality news media diet had the highest scores on these variables. A stepwise linear regression analysis with individual's change scores demonstrated that (self-)protective behavior was positively determined by respondents' age, solidarity, and the belief that the measures are necessary, but negatively determined by one's cumulative exposure to commercial/tabloid news media. This longitudinal study provides a new perspective on the role of news media in times of a public health crisis. It offers support for (A) the “double bind hypothesis” (i.e., while news media consumption encourages (self-)isolation, it fosters feelings of loneliness); and (B) the “dual effects hypothesis” (i.e., exposure to commercial/tabloid news media generates different outcomes than exposure to public/quality news media). Affective responses and socio-psychological perceptions are influenced by overall news media exposure, whereas support for the government and its handling of the crisis are mainly determined by one's selection of media channels, whereby audiences of public news media evaluate these outcomes more positively than the audiences of commercial news media channels.

Measurements and characterisation of low and medium voltage residential, commercial, and industrial NB‐PLC networks for AMI

This study investigates the feasibility of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) based on narrowband power line communications (NB-PLC) by incorporating all possible types of low voltage (LV) and medium voltage (MV) power line channels. The extensive field measurements are carried out on six selected sites that include residential, commercial, and industrial LV and MV NB-PLC channels. On the basis of measured results, NB-PLC channels of various under evaluation sites are segregated into two classes i.e. worst and good channels for both LV and MV networks. The simulation models for the modelling of LV and MV NB-PLC channels by considering the practical data of measured sites are developed and thus proposed. The proposed methods are validated by comparing the measured and simulated results. A sophisticated mechanism for the modelling of LV and MV network impedances and capacitive coupling device is formulated. The proposed analyses and simulation-based NB-PLC channel models can play a key role in examining the characteristics of various types of NB-PLC channels. This research work will help to standardise the future smart metering equipment and sensing devices of power system protection.

A microfluidic reactor application for the continuous-flow photocatalytic selective synthesis of aromatic aldehydes

Benzyl alcohol and a set of para-substituted derivatives (–NO2, –Cl, −CH3, −OCH3 and −OH) were converted to the corresponding aldehydes in a commercial continuous-flow microfluidic reactor. Due to the dimension and the rigidity of the commercial microfluidic reactor channels, a stable suspension with few-layer graphitic carbon nitride nanoparticles (GCN-TS) was used to avoid the blockage of the photocatalyst in the channels of the reactor. Preliminary photocatalytic batch experiments revealed that different reaction yields were obtained depending on the aromatic ring activating/deactivating nature of the substituent groups. Regarding the experiments under continuous-flow, the highest aldehyde production was obtained for the reactions with 4-methoxybenzyl alcohol as starting molecule, corresponding to 0.19 mM at a retention time of merely 0.75 min. The results show the possibility of employing microfluidic reactors for the selective photocatalytic conversion of aromatic alcohols for both process intensification and screening applications due to the drastic decrease of reaction time.

Pedagogic and Educational Function of China's TV for Children and Peculiarities of Its Implementation

The article deals with functions of China’s TV programs for children and forms in which they are implemented. The variety of the genres and thematic content is aimed at one of the biggest TV audiences and is broadcast on both universally available and commercial thematic channels, which determines the topicality of the research. The authors conceptualize the pedagogic and educational influence of TV programs for children, and distinguish its key aspects, which include delivering moral values and social norms, propagating cultural and scientific knowledge, encouraging interest in learning, and developing the ability for self-actualization and world cognition. The qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to analyze which of the aspects are realized by means of TV programs and animated films for children in China. The study covers 34 programs and 74 animated films for children shown on 33 universal and 4 most popular special TV channels. The results of the research are as follows. One of the most popular forms of content on TV channels for children is animated films, whose key function is delivering moral values and social norms. Magazine format is a rather common form of journalist content. TV programs are mostly aimed at encouraging children’s interest in learning. Since it is rather difficult to combine entertainment and educational components, on universally available channels there is a large number of TV programs for children that fulfil their pedagogic and educational function only formally.

Thrift and Credit Cooperative Lending Channel under Prolonged Low-Interest Rates: The Case of Thailand

Objective – Considerable research indicates that during times of prolonged low interest rates, commercial bank lending channels are less effective in conveying the impact of expansionary monetary policies. What is the impact of easy money policy through lending channels of non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) such as thrift and credit cooperatives (TCCs) and why should this result occur? The objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of monetary policy through TCC lending channels compared to bank lending channels from 2008 to 2017. Methodology/Technique – Annual data from 546 TCCs was used in this investigation. A fixed effects model for TCCs and random effect for banks were employed to examine the data. Two models of each institution, one with lagged interaction terms and the other with contemporaneous interaction terms, were tested and compared. The impact of institutional characteristics such as size, deposit, liquidity and equity, and macroeconomic variables such as GDP growth and yield spread, on lending channels were also examined. Finding – As expected, the results show that TCC lending channels respond positively to prolonged low interest rate policies, whilst bank lending channels respond negatively in one model. Thus, if monetary authorities wish to increase the effectiveness of expansionary monetary policy, TCCs should be allowed to develop under careful supervision. Novelty –This study concludes that incremental budgeting caused by regulation must be borne by TCCs. Type of Paper: Empirical. JEL Classification: E44 E51 E52 E58. Keywords: Thrift and Credit Cooperatives (TCCs); Prolonged Low-Interest Rates; Transmission Mechanism; Lending Channels; Fixed Effects. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Charnvitayapong, K. 2020. Thrift and Credit Cooperative Lending Channel under Prolonged Low Interest Rates: The Case of Thailand, J. Bus. Econ. Review 5(2) 59 – 71 https://doi.org/10.35609/jber.2020.5.2(2)

El modelo del ciclo de vida del producto desde una perspectiva en las ventas del periodo 2016 – 2018 en el sector calzado de la ciudad de Ambato

Plasticaucho S.A is a company dedicated to the manufacture and commercialization of footwear, being one of the biggest footwear companies in the province of Tungurahua, satisfying its customers under strict quality processes, thanks to this the company is recognized at a national level under product lines, areas and commercial channels. For this reason, the following research work emphasizes a model of population growth based on the life cycle of the product that responded to a quantitative approach, not an experimental one of longitudinal character and relational reach, including the description of the participants, the design of the study and the evaluation instrument. It was sought to nuance: 1) to locate the lines of products according to the CVP; 2) to classify the commercial zones; 3) to identify the participation of the distribution channels. To reach these elements, we explored the sales budget (pairs), seasonality (months) and the 10 percent growth rate. The sales reports for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018 were used to develop the logistical model for population growth, thus demonstrating the approval of the limited life of the products and the seasonality of sales with the calculation of the Fisher coefficient with a result of: 0.08338, which helped to locate in which stage of the CVP each line, zone and commercial channel is located, attaching the stage of turbulence in the study as an emphasis for decision making. After the study carried out in the company Plasticaucho S.A, it is suggested that in the school, relax and sports footwear, the innovation of designs with avant-garde products should be promoted as a market demand and new marketing strat

Commercial channels vs free distribution and screening of agricultural learning videos: A case study from Benin and Mali

AbstractFarmers’ access to reliable information is crucial to improving rural livelihoods, food security, and national economies in West Africa. This paper discusses the dynamics of accessing and using agricultural learning videos from commercial channels, vs project and non-project channels in Benin and Mali. Using combinations of different models to assess the effectiveness of agricultural extension programs, the findings showed that farmers were motivated to pay for videos and watch them by themselves, without facilitation. Farmers who watched the videos through project support have also continued to watch on their own if the videos are of interest to them. Nevertheless, farmers were less motivated in the learning process when they received the Digital Video Disc (DVD) free and without support to watch them. We also found that the distribution of learning videos through commercial channels reaches more serious users and increases farmers’ self-determination for learning, and farmers are more motivated to provide feedback than viewers who receive DVDs for free or via project support, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), or farmer organizations. Although buying a DVD is an individual action, they like to watch the videos in groups. After buying the DVD, about 43% of respondent borrowed DVD players and one person in five bought a DVD player to watch the videos. Efforts to promote improved technologies need to expand beyond the conventional focus on research and extension services. Support to agricultural technology dissemination must go beyond assistance to smallholder farmers and NGOs (practical implication). As the private sector has a role to play, both in making technologies available and in teaching farmers how to use them, their contribution would create space for innovation (theoretical implication). Our findings suggest that successful development intervention programs can be sell audiovisual material to farmers, who will use it proactively.

Gendering ‘Hunger in the midst of commodity surplus’: the food stamp plan and American women in the great depression

ABSTRACT The food stamp plan started in May 1939 and was administered by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC) under the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Its primary purpose was to sell surplus commodities through commercial channels, while increasing the purchasing power of the poor. In spite of the gender-neutral words of the law, the plan targeted low-income women and tried to transform their image from miserable entities lining up for food at a commissary into autonomous ‘consumers’ who enjoyed purchasing food of their own choice for their family. But in actuality, women’s access to the plan remained limited, because of the gendered principle of the New Deal relief and welfare policies. This article demonstrates that despite the newly created image of low-income women as ‘consumers,’ their actual participation in the plan had no significant impact on their dietary conditions.

Demonstration of Stealthy and Encrypted Optical Transmission Below Adjacent 50 GHz DWDM Channels

A stealthy and encrypted transmission is demonstrated in a dense-WDM network. The residual gap between two neighboring commercial channels is utilized for the transmission of the secured channel, hidden below the amplifier noise at negative -10 dB/0.1nm OSNR. The stealthy and encrypted channel is generated by a digital replication of the baseband signal together with a digital spectral phase mask. This technique provides encryption and steganography as it exclusively allows the eligible user to obtain a considerable processing-gain, and to recover extremely low OSNR signals. In this work the secured channel is explored under stringent network conditions. A stealth transmission was tested between two high OSNR public channels, separated 50 GHz apart: Unshaped 25 Gbps NRZ channel and digitally shaped coherent PM-QPSK 112 Gbps channel. Although it is significantly overlapped by adjacent channels and covered by the ASE noise, we demonstrate error-free detection of the secured channel, without significant effect on the commercial channels.

General-television programming in Europe (UE5): Public versus commercial channels

Technological convergence has affected the media context of generalist television, modifying access and the consumption of content. The design of the scheduling of the general-interest linear television is a key element in understanding the policies that the operators follow when offering genres and formats, and in observing the similarities and differences between public and private ownership. This article analyses the television schedules of 25 generalist channels, public and commercial, operating in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Some of the findings of this investigation show a) little diversity of genres, b) that the editorial policy of public broadcasters clearly differentiates them from private ones by prioritizing informational offerings, national fiction, and documentary info-shows, and c) strategic differences of genres by ownership in each country.

Context perspective on University-Industry Collaboration processes: A systematic review of literature

Studies on University-Industry Collaboration (UIC) have mainly focused on processes at the individual and institutional levels. The result has been a proliferation of literature on aspects of UIC implementation processes often accounting for contextual differences. A survey of previous systematic reviews showed a gap in integration of knowledge on UIC implementation processes from a holistic and economic context perspective. This systematic review of the literature seeks to cover that gap by integrating the literature on UIC implementation processes from developed and developing countries contexts. In total 68 publications were reviewed and the data extracted were qualitatively analyzed using a grounded theory approach. Three major themes are distinguished: channels of interaction, UIC mechanisms, and barriers to UIC. The channels of interaction were often presented in categories. The most comprehensive were found to be bi-directional, traditional, commercial and service channels. It was found that commercial channels are ranked by both industry and academia as the least important and the least preferred by collaboration actors. The review discerned three major forms of UIC implementation processes: (1) educational collaboration, (2) academic entrepreneurship and (3) research related collaboration. Mechanisms of implementing these three forms of interaction vary, but continuous interactions are frequently proposed as the best method of knowledge transfer, contrasting with the traditional linear view of UIC processes. Regarding barriers to collaboration, five categories of barriers (misalignment barriers; motivation related barriers; capability related barriers; governance-related barriers and contextual barriers) are identified. The review indicated also that there is still a research coverage gap in developing countries compared to developed countries, and that the educational collaboration form is somehow neglected. It is therefore recommended to use an action research approach to advance research in developing countries and to provide extra attention to educational collaboration mechanisms since this form is among the preferred means of UIC.

Media Images of Anorexia: Effects of Moderate vs. Extreme Anorexia-Related Messages on Young Women.

The aim of the study was to examine which type of anorexia-related messages have been presented on television and how they have affected young women in Israel. An empirical study was performed in two parts: (1) Anorexia-related stories that had aired on the news editions of commercial TV channels in Israel were categorized by code page. (2) A random sample was conducted among 291 women, aged 13-35. Every interviewee was requested to complete one online questionnaire that differed in its attached video message: an extreme or a moderate anorexia-related message. 71.4% of the tv-stories featured a young anorexic woman suffering from extreme underweight. Moreover, the extreme message resulted in higher reaction than the moderate message and less agreement with the message (rejecting anorexia and preferring that it be eradicated). Theoretical and practical implications of the findings will be discussed.

Lajfstajl televizijski format - perspektive u Srbiji

The aim of this paper is to inquire into the phenomenon of lifestyle TV programmes as a specific segment of reality TV. The corpus of this paper are the shows from two commercial foreign TV channels: Fine living and HGTV, as well as two shows of the Serbian public broadcasting service RTS - S Tamarom u akciji and Prva bašta Srbije. The units of analysis are these TV shows. The theoretical starting point of the paper is The Uses and Gratification Theory. The analysis has shown that the American lifestyle reality programmes, under the influence of media popularization, present only one style of home renovation, with the obligatory elements such as specific types of furniture or house layouts and do not accept anything differing from that particular style. It can be noticed that such a home style is expected when people purchase or renovate homes in other parts of the world (Europe, Central America and Canada). The analysed Serbian TV shows are entirely different from the American, since they have humanitarian or competitive character.

New Dimensions in Code-Mixing and the Sri Lankan Case: An Exploratory Study

Code-switching and code-mixing, two by-products of language contact situations, are widely used linguistic strategies, not only in informal conversational contexts but also in the informal media discourse. The reasons hitherto applicable for the mixing of codes seem non-relevant in some code-mixing situations today. This is true to certain segments of the Sri Lankan media context, too, in that the popular Sri Lankan commercial broadcasting media is accused by prescriptivist groups of making excessive use of code-mixing. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and explore the seminal research articles available in the field of code alternation so as to better understand the Sri Lankan situation of code-switching and code-mixing, as practiced by its general bilingual populations and by the popular commercial media channels.

Broadband measurements of the acoustic target strength of mesopelagic fishes

The mesopelagic zone (∼200–1000 m) is defined by depths where small amounts of sunlight still penetrate but light levels are insufficient to support photosynthetic activity. This region is one of Earth’s largest ecosystems and is home to a diverse community of marine animals. Biomass estimates for mesopelagic regions, based on acoustic measurements, suggest small fishes at these depths may dominate total fish biomass. These estimates, however, are generally made using surface echosounder measurements at 38 kHz. These measurements are subject to numerous confounding factors including unknown species compositions, physiology, target strength distributions as a function of depth, calibration, and low signal-to-noise measurements. To address these challenges, in addition to questions that require non-acoustic technologies, a towed, integrated sensor platform, the Deep-See, was developed to measure the mesopelagic zone at depth (Lavery et al., 2019). This talk focuses on the acoustics package, which includes commercial and custom split-beam channels from 1–500 kHz. System calibrations and target strength spectra are presented for towed depths up to 700 m, where individual targets are still present in relatively high abundance. Target strength measurements as a function of frequency are considered with an emphasis on their relationship to narrowband, surface-based measurements.

“M@dNotes Project”. Giving colour to Grey Literature

Sharing the results of research and scientific production is crucial for the survival and development of all disciplines. Health information is becoming uncertain and powerful economic interests disrupting medical information has triggered a loss of credibility. M@dNotes project (in Spanish NotasL@cas), is the by-product of nonprofit collaborative international knowledge network with participation of students, general practitioners, family physicians, and healthcare workers. One of the aims of this network is to discuss the validity of the information available on sensitive subjects and build a knowledge exchange network inside a community of practice. It has been created to share different materials excluded from traditional academic publishing and commercial distribution channels: monographic reports, commented articles, files with references searches. These materials product of learning process are qualified with an appropriate level because there were submitted to a peer review or judged by a scientific committee to get an approval. Includes an indexing method (Q Codes and ICPC) to manage and retrieve the materials received. The project provides a particular folder to upload and share the documents. A web blog is the dissemination friendly tool or interface to share and retrieve the documents available in the network. Through a facility in the cloud, it is possible to access an excel file with all the materials shared, codes assigned and the hyperlink to get a pdf file of each material.