Investigating attitudes towards three South American destinations in an emerging long haul market using a model of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE)

Despite the importance of destination image in market competitiveness, and the popularity of the field within tourism literature, there remains a dearth of published research examining travellers’ perceptions of destinations in South America. This manuscript addresses this gap by testing a model of consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) associated with three South American countries; Chile, Brazil and Argentina. The introduction of direct air links and a free trade agreement in 2008 has led destination marketing organisations (DMOs) in these countries to increase promotional efforts in the Australian market. This study shows that the CBBE model is an appropriate tool to explore consumers’ attitudes in the long haul travel context. The findings provide DMOs of the three countries studied, with benchmarks against which to compare the impact of future marketing communications in Australia. The results provide increased transparency and accountability to stakeholders, such as South American tourism businesses and Australian travel intermediaries.

Thermal activation and thermal transfer of localized excitons in InAs self-organized quantum dots

We have investigated the temperature dependence of photoluminescence (PL) properties of a number of InAs/GaAs heterostructures with InAs layer thickness ranging from 0.5 monolayer (ML) to 3 ML. The temperature dependence of the InAs exciton energy and linewidth was found to display a significant difference when the InAs layer thickness is smaller or larger than the critical thickness around 1.7 ML, indicating spontaneous formation of quantum dots (QDs). A model, involving exciton recombination and thermal activation and transfer, is proposed to explain the experimental data. In the PL thermal quenching study, the measured thermal activation energies of different samples demonstrate that the InAs wetting layer may act as a barrier for thermionic emission of carriers in high quality InAs multilayers, while in InAs monolayers and submonolayers the carriers are required to overcome the GaAs barrier to thermally escape from the localized states. (C) 1998 Academic Press Limited.

The First Crusade and the Crusader States, 1073-1192.

Cumple con los requisitos para la especificación OCR AS de Historia, opción A. Su contenido estudia los límites de la Europa medieval, en la víspera de la Primera Cruzada, y explica las razones para su organización y los motivos de su éxito, la creación y desarrollo del reino de los cruzados entre 1100 y 1130, así como su transformación en un estado militar; también, analiza el impacto de la Segunda Cruzada, los cambios en el mundo musulmán como respuesta al reino cristiano de los cruzados y el fracaso de la Tercera Cruzada. Cada capítulo contiene actividades para ayudar a la comprensión del tema y desarrollar habilidades con la historia, análisis de acontecimientos relevantes, debates y controversias, breves biografías de personajes clave de la época y definiciones de palabras nuevas.

No eres la muñeca de nadie.

Mención honorífica de la convocatoria de premios 'Irene: la paz comienza en casa 2006'. Incluye, como anexos, los catálogos diseñados

Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme (SUEWS): development and evaluation at two UK sites

The Surface Urban Energy and Water Balance Scheme (SUEWS) is evaluated at two locations in the UK: a dense urban site in the centre of London and a residential suburban site in Swindon. Eddy covariance observations of the turbulent fluxes are used to assess model performance over a twoyear period (2011-2013). The distinct characteristics of the sites mean their surface energy exchanges differ considerably. The model suggests the largest differences can be attributed to surface cover (notably the proportion of vegetated versus impervious area) and the additional energy supplied by human activities. SUEWS performs better in summer than winter, and better at the suburban site than the dense urban site. One reason for this is the bias towards suburban summer field campaigns in observational data used to parameterise this (and other) model(s). The suitability of model parameters (such as albedo, energy use and water use) for the UK sites is considered and, where appropriate, alternative values are suggested. An alternative parameterisation for the surface conductance is implemented, which permits greater soil moisture deficits before evaporation is restricted at non-irrigated sites. Accounting for seasonal variation in the estimation of storage heat flux is necessary to obtain realistic wintertime fluxes.

Left-right asymmetries in polarized lepton-lepton scattering

Several parity-violating left-right asymmetries in Miller electron-electron and muon-muon scattering are considered in the context of the electroweak standard model at the tree level in fixed target and collider experiments. We show that in colliders the asymmetry with only one of the beams polarized is large enough to compensate the smaller cross section at high energies. We also show that these asymmetries are very sensitive to a doubly charged vector bilepton resonance but they are insensitive to scalar ones.

Kleine Parteien sind die Verlierer des föderalen Wahlsystems

Wahlsysteme prägen entscheidend den Charakter eines politischen Systems. Durch sie werden die politischen Präferenzen der Wähler in Mandate für die Repräsentationsorgane wie den Nationalrat übersetzt. Die Gestaltung des Wahlsystems ist damit auch immer eine zentrale Machtfrage, die darüber entscheidet, welche politischen Gruppierungen die Parlamentsmehrheit stellen und welche in der Minderheit sind. Der Artikel sucht nach Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Wie wirkt sich das schweizerische Wahlsystem auf den Erfolg der Parteien bei den Nationalratswahlen aus? Ist eine Systemreform angezeigt?

Puerto Rico and Greece: A Tale of two defaults in a monetary union. CEPS High-Level Brief. 18 June 2015, Update 30 June 2015

It is widely argued that the problems of Greece in the eurozone derive not only from mistakes made by successive Greek governments, but from deep-seated problems with the design of the euro area. The euro area is judged to be incomplete because it does not have any fiscal shock absorbers, nor a federal transfer system, and, according to many, it has imposed senseless austerity on the country. The US, by contrast, is often held up as an example of a complete monetary union in this type of problem could not arise. However, the working of the US is much less perfect than it appears from afar. The ‘genuine’ economic and monetary union, which undoubtedly exists in the US, also has problems in dealing with low-performing states in terms of productivity and governance. Puerto Rico exemplifies these difficulties and shows that in such an integrated area similar problems, including a fiscal crisis can arise. Both Puerto Rico and Greece are very special and extreme cases within their respective unions, but the strength of a system can be measured by how it deals with these cases.