scholarly journals Exploring the past Behaviour of New Brand Buyers

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 733-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arry Tanusondjaja ◽  
Giang Trinh ◽  
Jenni Romaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Private Labels ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
The Past ◽  
Packaged Goods ◽  
Parent Brand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Buying Behaviour ◽  
The Uk

This research examines the retrospective buying behaviour of customers acquired by a new brand, both at category and brand level. New brand launches are risky endeavours for marketers, as many fail to attract a sustainable customer base. We examine new brand launches in six packaged goods categories in the UK, across a wide range of brand and category conditions, including premium brands and private labels. The results show that, in the pre-launch period, buyers of a new brand are more likely to have been heavier (more frequent) category buyers and, where applicable, heavier buyers of a parent brand. However, despite disproportionately drawing from heavy category buyers, the buyers of new launches tend to become only light brand buyers. This suggests that new brands are more likely to ‘slip’ into the repertoire of heavy category or parent brand buyers. This research contributes to our understanding of repertoire formation in packaged goods categories. It also has implications for the pre-testing of new launches and the scheduling of marketing activities.

scholarly journals Stimulant use still going strong

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Seivewright ◽  
Charles McMahon ◽  
Paul Egleston
Keyword(s):  
Mood Disorders ◽  
Dual Diagnosis ◽  
Drug Screening ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Stimulant Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Paranoid Psychosis

Amphetamines, cocaine and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ‘ecstasy’) have been prominent on the UK drugs scene over the past decade. Much cocaine is now in the form of ‘crack’, which produces particularly acute versions of well-known complications including paranoid psychosis, mood disorders and cardiovascular problems. Ecstasy has additional hallucinogenic properties, and the slightly different range of psychiatric effects can be long-lasting. Assessment for stimulant misuse should include drug screening more than is currently common in general settings. Management comprises psychosocial (particularly behavioural counselling) and pharmacological approaches. A wide range of dopaminergic and other medications have been studied in cocaine misuse, and specialised substitute prescribing may be appropriate for heavy amphetamine injecting. There has been recent focus on problems of dual diagnosis, with particular strategies required to address stimulant misuse by people with severe mental illnesses.

The Performance of Multilingual and ‘Ultralingual’ Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Rosowsky
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
British Muslims ◽  
The Uk

This book examines the wide range of multilingual devotional performances engaged in by young Muslims in the UK today. It evaluates the contemporary mosque school in the UK and contrasts this with practices from the past and with prevailing discourses (both political and other) which suggest that such institutions are problematic.

Passing the Baton:

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 191-195
Author(s):  
Jerry Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Law Library

I work for the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a cooperative with some 900 participating members. Most are in the US, with a fair number in Canada and some in Australia, the UK and sixteen other countries. For over a quarter of a century LLMC has provided its member libraries with a wide range of legal titles, including much Commonwealth material, on microfiche. We grew hoary in that task, but have been rejuvenated in a new role. We've just launched an on-line digital library, LLMC-Digital, which will provide vastly enhanced access to our materials. The foundation for this endeavour is our backfile of 92,000 volumes (some 49-million page images) filmed during the past 27 years. To that base will be added every new title acquired in LLMC's future filming or scanning.

The UK Government’s Global Partnership Programme: Its Achievements Over the Past Five Years and Challenges Ahead

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Heyes
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Partnership ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Nuclear Security ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Made In

Through the Global Partnership the UK continues to make a significant contribution to improve national and global security. Over the past year the UK has continued to implement a wide range of projects across the breadth of its Global Partnership Programme. As well as ensuring the Programme is robust and capable of dealing with new challenges, the UK has cooperated with other donor countries to help them progress projects associated with submarine dismantling, scientist redirection, enhancing nuclear security and Chemical Weapons Destruction. The Global Partnership, although only five years old, has already achieved a great deal. Some 23 states, plus the European Union, are now working closer together under the Global Partnership, and collectively have enhanced global regional and national security by reducing the availability of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) materials and expertise to both states of concern and terrorists. Considerable progress has already been made in, for example: • Improving the security of fissile materials, dangerous biological agents and chemical weapons stocks; • Reducing the number of sites containing radioactive materials; • Working towards closure of reactors still producing weapon-grade plutonium; • Improving nuclear safety to reduce the risks of further, Chernobyl style accidents; • Constructing facilities for destroying Chemical Weapons stocks, and starting actual destruction; • Providing sustainable employment for former WMD scientists to reduce the risk that their expertise will be misused by states or terrorists. By contributing to many of these activities, the UK has helped to make the world safer. This paper reports on the UK’s practical and sustainable contribution to the Global Partnership and identifies a number of challenges that remain if it is to have a wider impact on reducing the threats from WMD material.

scholarly journals Identity-by-descent detection across 487,409 British samples reveals fine-scale population structure, evolutionary history, and trait associations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juba Nait Saada ◽  
Georgios Kalantzis ◽  
Derek Shyr ◽  
Martin Robinson ◽  
Alexander Gusev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Exome Sequencing ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
Uk Biobank ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Shared Ancestry ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Common Ancestors

AbstractDetection of Identical-By-Descent (IBD) segments provides a fundamental measure of genetic relatedness and plays a key role in a wide range of genomic analyses. We developed a new method, called FastSMC, that enables accurate biobank-scale detection of IBD segments transmitted by common ancestors living up to several hundreds of generations in the past. FastSMC combines a fast heuristic search for IBD segments with accurate coalescent-based likelihood calculations and enables estimating the age of common ancestors transmitting IBD regions. We applied FastSMC to 487,409 phased samples from the UK Biobank and detected the presence of ∼214 billion IBD segments transmitted by shared ancestors within the past 1,500 years. We quantified time-dependent shared ancestry within and across 120 postcodes, obtaining a fine-grained picture of genetic relatedness within the past two millennia in the UK. Sharing of common ancestors strongly correlates with geographic distance, enabling the localization of a sample’s birth coordinates from genomic data. We sought evidence of recent positive selection by identifying loci with unusually strong shared ancestry within recent millennia and we detected 12 genome-wide significant signals, including 7 novel loci. We found IBD sharing to be highly predictive of the sharing of ultra-rare variants in exome sequencing samples from the UK Biobank. Focusing on loss-of-function variation discovered using exome sequencing, we devised an IBD-based association test and detected 29 associations with 7 blood-related traits, 20 of which were not detected in the exome sequencing study. These results underscore the importance of modelling distant relatedness to reveal subtle population structure, recent evolutionary history, and rare pathogenic variation.

Grassland pests – an unseen enemy

1980 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
R O Clements
Keyword(s):  
Insect Pest ◽  
Pasture Grass ◽  
Pest Damage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Varietal Susceptibility ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk

Except when it is newly sown, pasture grass in the UK rarely shows any obvious sign of attack by the large burden of insects and other invertebrates that inhabit it. As a result of studies carried out over the past ten years, however, it now seems that large and widespread losses do occur as a result of insect pest damage. Lowland ryegrass-dominant swards are worst affected and may lose up to a third of the total annual yield, but there is a wide range of varietal susceptibility.

scholarly journals Assertive outreach teams in London: Patient characteristics and outcomes

2003 ◽  
Vol 183 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Priebe ◽  
Walid Fakhoury ◽  
Joanna Watts ◽  
Paul Bebbington ◽  
Tom Burns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Misuse ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Assertive Outreach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Outreach Services ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Team Types

BackgroundAlthough the model of assertive outreach has been widely adopted, it is unclear who receives assertive outreach in practice and what outcomes can be expected under routine conditions.AimsTo assess patient characteristics and outcome in routine assertive outreach services in the UK.MethodPatients (n=580) were sampled from 24 assertive outreach teams in London. Outcomes – days spent in hospital and compulsory hospitalisation – were assessed over a 9-month follow-up.ResultsThe 6-month prevalence rate of substance misuse was 29%, and 35% of patients had been physically violent in the past 2 years. During follow-up, 39% were hospitalised and 25% compulsorily admitted. Outcome varied significantly between team types. These differences did not hold true when baseline differences in patient characteristics were controlled for.ConclusionsRoutine assertive outreach serves a wide range of patients with significant rates of substance misuse and violent behaviour. Over a 9-month period an average of 25% of assertive outreach patients can be expected to be hospitalised compulsorily. Differences in outcome between team types can be explained by differences in patient characteristics.

scholarly journals Awareness of marketing for high fat, salt or sugar foods, and the association with higher weekly consumption among adolescents: a rejoinder to the UK government’s consultations on marketing regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (14) ◽  
pp. 2637-2646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Critchlow ◽  
Linda Bauld ◽  
Christopher Thomas ◽  
Lucie Hooper ◽  
Jyotsna Vohra
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Nutritional Knowledge ◽  
High Fat ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Consumption ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

AbstractObjective:Exposure to marketing for foods high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) reportedly influences consumption, nutritional knowledge and diet-related health among adolescents. In 2018/2019, the UK government held two consultations about introducing new restrictions on marketing for HFSS foods. To reinforce why these restrictions are needed, we examined adolescents’ awareness of marketing for HFSS foods, and the association between past month awareness and weekly HFSS food consumption.Design:Cross-sectional survey that measured past month awareness of ten marketing activities for HFSS foods (1 = everyday; 6 = not in last month). Frequencies were converted into aggregate past month awareness across marketing activities and grouped into three categories (low/medium/high). Consumption was self-reported for fifteen foods (twelve HFSS) (1 = few times/d; 9 = never). For each food, frequency was divided into higher/lower weekly consumption.Setting:United Kingdom.Participants:11–19-year-olds (n 3348).Results:Most adolescents (90·8 %) reported awareness of a least one marketing activity for HFSS foods, and at least half reported seeing ≥70 instances in the past month. Television, social media and price offers were the marketing activities most frequently reported. Awareness was associated with higher weekly consumption for ten of the twelve HFSS foods. For example, those reporting medium marketing awareness were 1·5 times more likely to report higher weekly consumption of cakes/biscuits compared with those reporting low awareness (AOR = 1·51, P = 0·012). The likelihood of higher weekly HFSS food consumption increased relative to the level of marketing awareness.Conclusions:Assuming there is a causal relationship between marketing awareness and consumption, the restrictions proposed by the UK government are likely to help reduce HFSS consumption.

scholarly journals IALS@70: the Growth of the IALS Library and its Development of Digital Initiatives for the UK Legal Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Services

AbstractIn this article, David Gee, Deputy Librarian & Academic Services Manager at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in the University of London, writes about the launch of IALS Digital. As a way of placing the launch into context, he outlines the growth of the IALS Library over the past 70 years and describes the development of a wide range of digital initiatives over the past 30 years.

scholarly journals Identity-by-descent detection across 487,409 British samples reveals fine scale population structure and ultra-rare variant associations

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juba Nait Saada ◽  
Georgios Kalantzis ◽  
Derek Shyr ◽  
Fergus Cooper ◽  
Martin Robinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Relatedness ◽  
Geographic Distance ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Median Error ◽  
Shared Ancestry ◽  
The Uk

AbstractDetection of Identical-By-Descent (IBD) segments provides a fundamental measure of genetic relatedness and plays a key role in a wide range of analyses. We develop FastSMC, an IBD detection algorithm that combines a fast heuristic search with accurate coalescent-based likelihood calculations. FastSMC enables biobank-scale detection and dating of IBD segments within several thousands of years in the past. We apply FastSMC to 487,409 UK Biobank samples and detect ~214 billion IBD segments transmitted by shared ancestors within the past 1500 years, obtaining a fine-grained picture of genetic relatedness in the UK. Sharing of common ancestors strongly correlates with geographic distance, enabling the use of genomic data to localize a sample’s birth coordinates with a median error of 45 km. We seek evidence of recent positive selection by identifying loci with unusually strong shared ancestry and detect 12 genome-wide significant signals. We devise an IBD-based test for association between phenotype and ultra-rare loss-of-function variation, identifying 29 association signals in 7 blood-related traits.

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