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Dean B Carson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the blogosphere as a market Research Tool for tourism destinations a case study of australia s northern territory
Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2008Co-Authors: Dean B CarsonAbstract:Monitoring the attitudes of visitors has been an important but problematic task for destination marketing organizations (DMOs). Standard approaches have included tick box surveys and focus groups, in-depth interviews and other qualitative methods. The former are relatively cheap to administer but provide generally poor data, while the latter may provide rich data but can be expensive to implement. Consumer generated web content (including, but not limited to `blogs') may offer a way for destinations to monitor visitor attitudes. There may be particular value in a blog based market Research Tool because the content is provided in a less artificial setting than in surveys or interviews. The Research examined different sources of consumer generated web content about travel to Australia's Northern Territory and evaluated the authorship and readership as well as the nature of the content itself. The findings suggest that valuable data can be drawn from travel blogs, but that locating and analysing relevant con...
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the blogosphere as a market Research Tool for tourism destinations a case study of australia s northern territory
Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2008Co-Authors: Dean B CarsonAbstract:Monitoring the attitudes of visitors has been an important but problematic task for destination marketing organizations (DMOs). Standard approaches have included tick box surveys and focus groups, in-depth interviews and other qualitative methods. The former are relatively cheap to administer but provide generally poor data, while the latter may provide rich data but can be expensive to implement. Consumer generated web content (including, but not limited to `blogs') may offer a way for destinations to monitor visitor attitudes. There may be particular value in a blog based market Research Tool because the content is provided in a less artificial setting than in surveys or interviews. The Research examined different sources of consumer generated web content about travel to Australia's Northern Territory and evaluated the authorship and readership as well as the nature of the content itself. The findings suggest that valuable data can be drawn from travel blogs, but that locating and analysing relevant content is time consuming. The author proposes a targeted approach to monitoring blogs that takes into account the market segments likely to engage in blogging and the aspects of the destination likely to come under scrutiny.
Markus Heinrichs - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the trier social stress test for groups tsst g a new Research Tool for controlled simultaneous social stress exposure in a group format
Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2011Co-Authors: Bernadette Von Dawans, Clemens Kirschbaum, Markus HeinrichsAbstract:Psychological stress is an ubiquitous challenge across human cultures affecting mental and physical health. Recent evidence indicates that performance tasks combining elements of socio-evaluative threat and uncontrollability elicit reliable stress responses. The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is the most frequently used psychological protocol in stress Research; however, to date it has only been available in a single-subject version. In particular, there is an increasing need in several emerging Research fields such as stress Research or social neurosciences for a standardized Research Tool to expose relatively large groups of subjects to controlled simultaneous stress. In search of a laboratory stressor that allows simultaneous stress exposure in a group format, we exposed a total of 25 healthy male participants to the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G; public speaking and mental arithmetic tasks in front of a panel of two evaluators in groups of six participants) and a specific control condition. Results showed that the TSST-G induced significant increases in cortisol, heart rate, and psychological stress responses. The TSST-G provides a novel, effective, and economical protocol for experimental paradigms requiring simultaneous stress induction in multiple participants.
James M Tiedje - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis program a web based Research Tool for microbial community analysis
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2000Co-Authors: Terence L Marsh, Paul Saxman, James R Cole, James M TiedjeAbstract:Rapid analysis of microbial communities has proven to be a difficult task. This is due, in part, to both the tremendous diversity of the microbial world and the high complexity of many microbial communities. Several techniques for community analysis have emerged over the past decade, and most take advantage of the molecular phylogeny derived from 16S rRNA comparative sequence analysis. We describe a web-based Research Tool located at the Ribosomal Database Project web site (http://www.cme.msu.edu/RDP/html/analyses.html) that facilitates microbial community analysis using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism of 16S ribosomal DNA. The analysis function (designated TAP T-RFLP) permits the user to perform in silico restriction digestions of the entire 16S sequence database and derive terminal restriction fragment sizes, measured in base pairs, from the 5′ terminus of the user-specified primer to the 3′ terminus of the restriction endonuclease target site. The output can be sorted and viewed either phylogenetically or by size. It is anticipated that the site will guide experimental design as well as provide insight into interpreting results of community analysis with terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms.
W. Puech - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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FullAnalyze: a Research Tool for Handling Processing and Analyzing Full-waveform Lidar Data
2009Co-Authors: A. Chauve, F. Bretar, S. Durrieu, M. Pierrot-deseilligny, W. PuechAbstract:Airborne lidar systems (ALS) provide 3D point clouds of the topography by direct time measurement of a short laser pulse after reflection on the Earth surface. For the last decade, this technique has proved to be the ideal remote sensing Tool for delivering very accurate digital terrain model (DTM) of the Earth surface, and then for answering main environmental issues such as natural hazard prevention and natural ressource management. Moreover, such active systems, also called "multiple echo lidar", allow to detect several return signals for a single laser shot. It is particularly relevant in case of vegetation areas since a single lidar survey allows to acquire not only the canopy top (the only visible layer from passive sensors), but also points inside the vegetation layer and on the ground underneath. Thus, among the different remote sensing techniques, airborne laser scanning has also proved to be the most efficient technique to characterize both forest structure and ground topography. For a few years, new airborne laser scanning systems called full-waveform lidar systems have emerged, providing not only 3D point clouds as classical ALS systems, but entire altimeter profiles of reflected energy from the Earth surface. These profiles represent the laser backscattered energy as a function of time. They give to the end-user more control and flexibility on the signal processing steps and enable to extract more information than classical multi-echo lidar data. A detailed state-of-the-art of such systems can be found in [1]. However, managing these data with spacial and time dependency is much more complex than images or 3D point clouds : raw full-waveform lidar data are sets of range profiles of various lengths that are stored in the sensor geometry following both the scan angle of the lidar system and the chronological order along the flight track. Moreover, the data volume is drastically larger than 3D point clouds: it takes about 140 GB for an acquisition time of 1.6 h with a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 50kHz. Furthermore, there is neither commercial nor opensource Toolkit to handle full-waveform lidar data, but some constructor solutions, that are black boxes, can only extract 3D point clouds from raw data and are designed to their own sensors. Finally, there is not standard file format for full-waveform data (such as the LAS format for multi-echo data). Managing full-waveform lidar data is therefore a challenging task, and we adress this issue by developping a specific Research Tool: FullAnalyze.
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FullAnalyze: A Research Tool for handling, processing and analyzing full-waveform lidar data
2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2009Co-Authors: A. Chauve, F. Bretar, S. Durrieu, M. Pierrot-deseilligny, W. PuechAbstract:Full-waveform (FW) lidar systems provide range profiles of the Earth topography. They are acquired from airborne platforms or from satellites. Many applications derive from the use of such data, from the extraction of 3D point clouds to the inversion of vegetation profiles. Nevertheless, handling range profiles is much more difficult than handling 3D point cloud. The aim of this paper is to present a Research Tool based on opensource libraries that can process and visualize such data. We focused our work on the implementation on the 2D/3D interface that gives the possibility to visualize the interaction between the lidar electromagnetic waves and the Earth topography. Moreover, this Tool integrates several processing steps of FW Lidar data.
Moghana S Lavanya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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NETNOGRAPHY:A QUALITATIVE Research Tool
International Journal of Management Research and Reviews, 2012Co-Authors: Andukuri Raj Shravanthi, Moghana S LavanyaAbstract:Consumers making product & brand choices are increasingly turning to computer-mediated communication for information on which to base their decisions. Besides perusing advertising & corporate websites, consumers are using newsgroup, chat rooms, email & other online formats to share ideas, build communities & contact fellow consumers who are seen as more objective information source. Marketing Researchers use a variety of methods to study consumers. NETNOGRAPHY is one such qualitative & explorative Research approach to analyse the consumer dialogue in online communities in order to gain unbiased consumer insights. These consumer insights in turn are converted into solutions. If these solutions are implemented in the product or service, it can capture lot of market. This review focuses on virtual/digital communities, Research methodology Tool, the procedure to conduct Netnograhy, result dimensions of Netnograhy, its scope and limitations and managerial implications along with an example of netnographic product produced by Campbell. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
