This article outlines work in progress on project concerning interactions between the Chinese community New Zealand, ethnic media, mainstream English language particularly around Zealand 2020 general election. A wealth of past research has discussed media diaspora, and elections. study will go beyond previous to include as part resources available Zealanders considering participating voters For...

OBJECTIVE A nationwide anti-tuberculosis drug resistance survey for Mycobacterium tuberculosis was conducted by the Tuberculosis Research Committee (Ryoken) in Japan, 2002, to clarify the recent trend of drug resistant M. tuberculosis. The drug susceptibility testing (DST) results by participating laboratories were compared with the test results by the reference laboratory, in order to evaluate...

Anecdotal evidence suggests that people coming into contact with cattle while participating in outdoor pursuits can sustain severe, even fatal injuries. This has negative implications for farmers, cattle and the public. This study outlines findings from a review of published literature, UK media reports and internet guidelines currently available to the UK public for walking near cattle. A tota...

Vol. XLIX (February 2012), 1 –14 *Ashwin Aravindakshan is Assistant Professor of Marketing (e-mail: aaravind@ ucdavis.edu), and Prasad A. Naik is Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. Kay Peters is a postdoctoral student, Center for Interactive Marketing and Media Management, Institute for Marketing, University of Mu...

There has always been a need for dynamically changing the application behavior quickly and easily, according to how we want it to behave with no or less implementation code change. The application needs to change its behavior dynamically depending on the current resources available in the network and at the client thus making it to behave more efficiently and more intelligently giving better pe...

abstract background: in the age of communication and media that families are rapidly driven towards using satellite channels and other media, considering family health in this regard is essential. a determinant of health is marital satisfaction. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between watching satellite channels and intimacy and marital satisfaction in isfahan, iran. m...

An international multilaboratory collaborative study was conducted to develop standard media and consensus methods for the performance and quality control of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma hominis, and Ureaplasma urealyticum using broth microdilution and agar dilution techniques. A reference strain from the American Type Culture Collection was designat...

Americans spend about a third of their time online, with many participating in online conversations on social and political issues. We hypothesize that social media arguments on such issues may be more engaging and persuasive than traditional media summaries, and that particular types of people may be more or less convinced by particular styles of argument, e.g. emotional arguments may resonate...