Sustainability marketing at the farmers’ market: An ethnographic analysis of ambiguous communication

Farmers’ markets have grown rapidly in recent decades. One explanation for this growth relates to consumers’ view that farmers’ market products are more sustainable. While many have analyzed customer preferences at farmers’ markets, few have examined farmers’ message strategies in this space. Little has been done to analyze the ways farmers use sustainability as a marketing approach. This ethnographic research is based on 100 hr of observation and in‐depth interviews with 36 participants and analyzes the ways farmers position their products as sustainable to customers. The findings indicate that sustainability is not a primary topic of conversation during customerfarmer interaction. However, related concepts such as environment, local, organic, and chemical serve as the proxies for sustainability, even though these messages are presented ambiguously.     

谈英语课堂中的非言语交际

非言语交际是交际行为的一个重要组成部分。在英语课堂教学中,教师可以恰当地运用非言语交际来提高学生的学习积极性,加强师生的交流,从而达到良好的教学效果。     

网络营销中的实战策略和技巧

随着网络技术的应用,电子商务得以快速的发展,从而改变了人们的生活、工作和学习、合作和交流的环境。网络营销作为一种营销活动形式,在企业的营销战略中的作用逐渐明显。本文通过阐述网络营销的特点,分析网络营销沟通的技巧,同时提出相应的政策建议,进而为实施网络营销提供参考依据。     

完善高职院校二级教学管理沟通机制

目前高职院校的办学规模不断扩大,导致管理难度的加大,如果要进一步提高教学质量,培养出符合高职人才培养目标要求的高素质技术应用型人才,就必须要提高高职院校教学管理的效率。进行有效的二级教学管理改革,是高职院校必然的发展趋势。只有尽快完善高职院校二级教学管理沟通机制才能转变思路,从而适应高职院校二级教学管理的变革。     

地区农网营业站通信解决方案探讨

本文就阳泉地区农村电网各营业站点的电力专用通信网建设问题进行讨论,阐述了利用VOIP模式和传统PDH+PCM方式的优缺点,并结合阳泉地区实际情况提出了解决方案。     

The Communication Skills of Accountants: What we Know and the Gaps in our Knowledge

Abstract

This paper critically reviews 19 studies published between 1972 and 2012 that investigated the written and/or oral communication skills of practicing accountants. The core aim of the review was to identify skills considered important and highlight gaps regarding what is known about existing and desired communication skills in the accounting profession. Key findings include that most studies did not detail the basis used to select the skills examined, used very broad skill-set categories and/or did not sufficiently incorporate information already established in the literature. Differing views on the importance of communication skills were found between educators and accountants. Knowledge gaps identified relate to the communication skills considered most important at varying career stages and different career paths, the specific types of oral and written communication skills needed and the role and importance of oral versus written and informal versus formal communication skills. A fundamental concern is that much of the existing communication skills research is crucially out of date. Of the 19 studies reviewed, only three have been published in the past decade. This suggests that further research is needed in the area.     

工程造价专业教学改革的探索

总结比赛经验,充实教学内容,深化教学改革,使培养出的学生成为企业的首选。对于高职院校人才培养,要求工程造价专业的学生通过学习,具备建筑预算行业人才要求,成为造价师的储备人才。     

Under the influence of a blogger: The role of information‐seeking goals and issue involvement

Bloggers in the postmodern era can influence the behaviour of consumers and alter their perceptions. The current study looks at the blogger influence phenomenon from a different theoretical perspective than existing literature did. By combining information behaviour and communication theory, it proposes a new conceptual framework by relying on the characteristics of the blogger, the blog content, motivation, and goals of information seeker. In this model, information seekers’ objectives and issue the involvement are important drivers of blog selection and determinants of the blog's influence. The framework was empirically tested in a sample of American users of beauty blogs. The results provide a confirmation of the postulated relationships. Three types of blog visits are identified and their effects and their attributes that make a blog influential are examined.     

Central bank disclosure as a macroprudential tool for financial stability

The Basel Capital Accord (pillar 3) states that disclosure of information (transparency) is essential to financial stability. This study analyzes, through inflation reports, the disclosure of information from the Central Bank of Brazil concerning the credit market. We consider credit risk and capital buffers as measures of financial stability in this analysis. Furthermore, in order to measure the perception of the monetary authority on the credit market, we built two indices based on the central bank’s communication on credit development. We performed a panel data analysis based on a sample of 125 banks for the period from June 1999 to September 2014 (7000 observations). The findings suggest that central bank communication regarding expectations concerning the credit market contributes to financial stability. Therefore, this kind of communication of central banks (about credit development) may constitute an important macroprudential tool to improve financial stability.     

基于多维频谱地图的干扰规避

针对复杂电磁环境下卫星移动通信系统可靠通信需求，利用频谱地图多维数据呈现优势，提出了基于多维频谱地图的干扰规避方法。通过建立卫星移动通信系统波束、时隙、子频带、干扰强度等多维信息关联的频谱地图，利用数据挖掘方法对频谱可用情况进行预测，基于预测结果及用户QoS(Quality of Service)需求生成干扰规避策略，通过星地联合频谱资源调配实现系统干扰规避。该方法为卫星移动通信系统干扰规避提供了一种全新的思路，可提升卫星移动通信系统干扰防护能力。