scholarly journals The international extent and elasticity of lifestyle television

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (45) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Pia Majbritt Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Local Markets ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Lifestyle Television

Lifestyle is a TV genre that exists predominantly on the screens of Northern Europe and Anglophone countries such as the UK, the USA and Australia. Hence, lifestyle formats are not traded globally but rather trans-nationally within a distinct geo-linguistic region. Nonetheless, lifestyle programming is still produced very differently within this region according to the media systemic conditions of the specific national TV markets and the specific broadcasters and channels in question. As such, the lifestyle genre is indeed tremendously flexible and elastic and can be used in a diverse number of ways, catering for local broadcasters’ image and target groups, local markets’ competitive conditions, media regulations, and history. This article investigates the international extent of the genre and looks into possible explanations for its Anglophone and Northern European bias. Subsequently, the great elasticity of the genre is examined by way of a thorough analysis of the Australian and Danish versions of the program format The Block, which will demonstrate precisely how the genre can be adapted radically differently to suit two diverse broadcasters and their diverse conditions. Livsstilsgenrens internationale udbredelse og elasticitet Artiklen tager et produktionsperspektiv på livsstils-tv, der er en relativt ny underholdningsgenre. Den har sine historiske rødder i de didaktiske faktagenrer, men dens moderne, mere underholdende[,] version blev født på britisk tv’s primetime i 1990’erne, hvorfra den spredtes internationalt, hovedsageligt til andre angelsaksiske lande samt Danmark og resten af Nordeuropa. Et andet karakteristika ved genren er, at livsstilsprogrammerne i stigende omfang handles på det internationale tv-marked som programformater, der efterfølgende versioneres lokalt på en sådan måde, at de passes ind efter markedsforhold uden for deres originale hjemmemarked. Livsstilsformaterne danner således en ny og anderledes og stærkt globaliseret forretnings- og produktionsmodel. På trods af det synes livsstilsgenren at være umådeligt elastisk, og de samme livsstilsformater produceres på meget forskellige måder fra land til land alt efter de lokale markeders mediesystemiske forhold. Artiklen undersøger først den internationale udbredelse af livsstilsgenren og mulige forklaringer på dens angelsaksiske og nordeuropæiske bias. Gennem en komparativ analyse af henholdsvis den australske og den danske versionering af formatet The Block (på dansk Huset) undersøges herefter genrens elasticitet. Den komparative analyse demonstrerer, hvordan genren versioneres radikalt forskelligt i de to lande, og hvordan formatet tilpasses to forskellige broadcastere og deres forskellige forhold på to nationale markeder, der hver for sig er præget af konkurrencemæssige, mediepolitiske og tv-historiske forskelle. Til slut argumenterer artiklen for, at nationale kulturforskelle blot kan tilbyde en mindre del af forklaringen på de radikale forskelle mellem de to versioneringer. I stedet vil en nærmere analyse af de lokale mediesystemiske forhold, der former lokale produktionsforhold, give en mere detaljeret og tilbundsgående forklaring på og forståelse af forskellene.

Implications of Ionospheric Scintillation for GNSS Users in Northern Europe

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcio Aquino ◽  
Terry Moore ◽  
Alan Dodson ◽  
Sam Waugh ◽  
Jock Souter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Ionospheric Scintillation ◽  
Electron Content ◽  
Total Electron ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Amplitude Fluctuations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Time Delay Effect ◽  
Electron Density Irregularities ◽  
The Impact

Extensive ionospheric scintillation and Total Electron Content (TEC) data were collected by the Institute of Engineering Surveying and Space Geodesy (IESSG) in Northern Europe during years of great impact of the solar maximum on GNSS users (2001–2003). The ionospheric TEC is responsible for range errors due to its time delay effect on transionospheric signals. Electron density irregularities in the ionosphere, occurring frequently during these years, are responsible for (phase and amplitude) fluctuations on GNSS signals, known as ionospheric scintillation. Since June 2001 four GPS Ionospheric Scintillation and TEC Monitor receivers (the NovAtel/AJ Systems GSV4004) have been deployed at stations in the UK and Norway, forming a Northern European network, covering geographic latitudes from 53° to 70° N approximately. These receivers compute and record GPS phase and amplitude scintillation parameters, as well as TEC and TEC variations. The project involved setting up the network and developing automated archiving and data analysis strategies, aiming to study the impact of scintillation on DGPS and EGNOS users, and on different GPS receiver technologies. In order to characterise scintillation and TEC variations over Northern Europe, as well as investigate correlation with geomagnetic activity, long-term statistical analyses were also produced. This paper summarises our findings, providing an overview of the potential implications of ionospheric scintillation for the GNSS user in Northern Europe.

Lilioceris lilii (lily leaf beetle).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Kenis
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Leaf Beetle ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Control Methods ◽  
Cut Flowers ◽  
Lilioceris Lilii ◽  
Lily Leaf Beetle ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Canadian Provinces ◽  
The Uk

Abstract L. lilii is a Eurasian chrysomelid beetle that was first found in Quebec, Canada, in 1943, from where it has spread to several Canadian Provinces, and Vermont and Maine in the USA. It was also reported in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1992, and it is now found in several New England States. It is also alien and invasive in the UK and, probably, in Northern Europe. The beetle most probably spreads with the sale and movement of potted lilies, flowering bulbs or cut flowers. In countries where it is invasive, it is a serious pest of cultivated lilies and fritillaries. Without control methods, leaves and flowers are totally defoliated by larvae. In North America, it also represents a threat to native lilies.

scholarly journals Media coverage of mental health care in the UK, USA and Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 331-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Huang ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

Aims and MethodWe aimed to assess the contents and tone of articles on mental health care in the UK print media by comparing them with reporting in the USA and Australia. Two broadsheets from each country were analysed using the Internet for a random 4 months over a 1-year period. The number of articles, their content and the views expressed in them were identified and compared.ResultsA total of 118 articles on mental health care issues were found. The predominant tone of the articles in all three countries was negative, though there were slightly more positive articles in the USA and Australian media. Positive articles highlighted in the UK media covered mostly medical conferences and research findings.Clinical ImplicationsEfforts to achieve a more positive attitude towards people with mental illnesses in the public, such as anti-stigma campaigns, operate against a background of predominantly negative coverage of mental health care issues in broadsheets. The coverage in the UK may tend to be even less positive than in the USA and Australia. Medical conferences and research findings can, however, be used to promote positive views of mental health care in the media.

scholarly journals Examining the portrayal of homophobic and non-homophobic aggression in print media through an integrated grounded behavioural linguistic inquiry (IGBLI) approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Birch ◽  
Rebecca Ozanne ◽  
Jane Ireland
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Media Report ◽  
Content Type ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Innovative Research ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Linguistic Inquiry ◽  
The Uk

Purpose The role of the media in supporting an understanding of the social world is well documented. The representation of homosexuals in the media can therefore impact on homophobia within society. The purpose of this paper is to examine how homosexuals are portrayed in the media generally, before examining and comparing newspaper reports of homosexual aggression with heterosexual aggression. Design/methodology/approach Utilising a new and innovative research methodology, an integrated grounded behavioural linguistic inquiry (IGBLI) approach, four daily newspapers in circulation within the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia are examined. Findings While there are similarities in the way print media report on these aggressive incidents, the differences which emerge from the findings are of interest which require further, more in-depth study. Practical implications To extend the methodology of IGBLI to other forms of media content in order to further validate the approach. To reduce the differences between LGBTI news reports and heterosexual news reports. To hold the media to account for the ways in which they express their content. To encourage users of the media, in particular print media, to be critical of what they read. Originality/value Typically, analysis of media utilises the research method of content analysis. This paper adopts a new and innovative research method, an IGBLI approach, which incorporates a behavioural assessment in the form of a SORC.

scholarly journals The Properties of Red Blood Cells from Patients Heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC Genotype)

Anemia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hannemann ◽  
E. Weiss ◽  
D. C. Rees ◽  
S. Dalibalta ◽  
J. C. Ellory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Inherited Disorders ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Tropics

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the commonest severe inherited disorders, but specific treatments are lacking and the pathophysiology remains unclear. Affected individuals account for well over 250,000 births yearly, mostly in the Tropics, the USA, and the Caribbean, also in Northern Europe as well. Incidence in the UK amounts to around 12–15,000 individuals and is increasing, with approximately 300 SCD babies born each year as well as with arrival of new immigrants. About two thirds of SCD patients are homozygous HbSS individuals. Patients heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC) constitute about a third of SCD cases, making this the second most common form of SCD, with approximately 80,000 births per year worldwide. Disease in these patients shows differences from that in homozygous HbSS individuals. Their red blood cells (RBCs), containing approximately equal amounts of HbS and HbC, are also likely to show differences in properties which may contribute to disease outcome. Nevertheless, little is known about the behaviour of RBCs from HbSC heterozygotes. This paper reviews what is known about SCD in HbSC individuals and will compare the properties of their RBCs with those from homozygous HbSS patients. Important areas of similarity and potential differences will be emphasised.

scholarly journals From SA to the USA: Election forecasting

ORiON ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Jenny P Holloway ◽  
Hans W Ittmann ◽  
Nontombeko Dudeni-Tlhone ◽  
Peter MU Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Election Forecasting ◽  
Early Results ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ultimate Result ◽  
The Uk

Elections draw enormous interest worldwide, especially if these involve major countries, and there is much speculation in the media as to possible outcomes from these elections. In many of these recent elections, such as the UK and USA, however, forecasts from market surveys, electoral polls, scientific forecasting models and even exit polls, obtained from voters as they leave the voting stations, failed to predict the correct outcome. Election night forecasts, which endeavour to forecast the ultimate result before the final outcome is known using early results, were also carried out, with some more accurate than others.After successfully predicting most of the metropolitan region results correctly in the South African local 2016 municipal elections, using an election night forecasting model developed for South Africa (SA), the question of adapting the model to work outside of SA on a different electoral system was raised. The focus of this paper is to describe the results obtained for the 2016 USA presidential election, on election night, using an adapted version of the SA model. This paper also addresses the applicability of the model assumptions as well as the data issues involved in forecasting outside of South Africa. It is shown that even with many hurdles experienced in the process the model performed relatively well.

scholarly journals Labour History and the Case against Colonialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pepijn Brandon ◽  
Aditya Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Labour History ◽  
The Uk

AbstractThe controversy around Bruce Gilley's article “The Case for Colonialism” has drawn global attention to a stream of revisionist claims and visions on the history of colonialism that has emerged in academia and in the media in recent years. Authors such as Nigel Biggar in the UK, Niall Ferguson in the USA, and Pieter Emmer in the Netherlands, have all published similarly revisionist claims about colonialism, arguing that postcolonial guilt and political correctness blind the majority of their colleagues to the positive side of the colonial project. Their argument chimes with wider societal trends, transforming the revisionist defenders of empire into heroes of a reinvigorated nationalist right within and beyond academia. The public influence attained by these approaches to colonialism requires historians to expose the deep methodological flaws, misreading of historical facts, and misrepresentations of prior scholarship that characterize the writings of this emerging revisionist trend. It is for this reason that the Editorial Committee of theInternational Review of Social History(IRSH) has decided to devote its first ever Virtual Special Issue to labour history's case against colonialism. This article, also an introduction to the Virtual Special Issue, sifts through the logical implications of the claims made by Gilley and like-minded scholars, providing both a contextualization and a rebuttal of their arguments. After assessing the long absence of colonial labour relations from the field of interest of labour historians and the pages of theIRSHitself, this article shows the centrality of a critique of colonialism to labour history's global turn in the 1990s. Using a selection of articles on colonial labour history from theIRSH's own archive, the article not only reconstructs “labour history's case against colonialism”, but also shows why labour history's critical insights into the nature of colonialism should be deepened and extended, not discarded.

scholarly journals Media coverage of mental health care in the UK, USA and Australia

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (09) ◽  
pp. 331-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Huang ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

Aims and Method We aimed to assess the contents and tone of articles on mental health care in the UK print media by comparing them with reporting in the USA and Australia. Two broadsheets from each country were analysed using the Internet for a random 4 months over a 1-year period. The number of articles, their content and the views expressed in them were identified and compared. Results A total of 118 articles on mental health care issues were found. The predominant tone of the articles in all three countries was negative, though there were slightly more positive articles in the USA and Australian media. Positive articles highlighted in the UK media covered mostly medical conferences and research findings. Clinical Implications Efforts to achieve a more positive attitude towards people with mental illnesses in the public, such as anti-stigma campaigns, operate against a background of predominantly negative coverage of mental health care issues in broadsheets. The coverage in the UK may tend to be even less positive than in the USA and Australia. Medical conferences and research findings can, however, be used to promote positive views of mental health care in the media.

The Social Responsibility of Business and New Governance

2002 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Moon
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
New Governance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

This Article Considers The Social Responsibility Of Business, why it exists, why governments might be interested in it, and its place in new governance. The discussion is primarily conceptual, informed and stimulated by empirical findings from Australia and the UK, countries which have been associated neither with the extent of business social responsibility long-witnessed in the USA nor with the extent of neo-corporatism characteristic of parts of northern Europe and Scandinavia.

scholarly journals Relationship between Social Media Promotion and Consumer Behaviors for CASIO Wristwatches in Japan, the USA, and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Hideki Takei
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Consumer Behaviors ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Uk

CASIO standard wristwatches (C-CASIOs) have been popular topics for social media, especially in Japan, the USA, and the UK. Most of the media have shown reviews, durable tests, cerebritis who wear C-CASIOs, fashions with it, and unique stories. While C-CASIOs have been popular with such enthusiasm on the media, CASIO decided not to promote it. CASIO may not see the necessity of sales promotion because CASIO has sold it very well worldwide without the promotion. However, CASIO may not need promotion if social media in the three countries have promoted C-CASIOs. Therefore, in this paper, we will find if social media have promoted C-CASIOs for such a successful sales record.

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