The shrine of remembrance Melbourne: a short study of visitors' experiences

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia opened in 1934 to articulate the social memory of the Great War of 1914–1918. The site has developed to incorporate other memorials and a Visitor Centre. An exploratory study of visitors indicated that the traditional and new memorials continue to evoke a number of responses to war. People expressed a sense of sadness and gratitude for sacrifices made by all those who have fought in war. Many people had poor knowledge of the battles which had initiated the creation of the Shrine. The study indicates the Shrine's complexity which now commemorates multiple conflicts. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Heterogeneous expectations and long-range correlation of the volatility of asset returns

Inspired by the recent literature on aggregation theory, we attempt to relate the long-range correlation of the stock return volatility to the heterogeneity of the investors' expectations concerning the level of the future volatility. Based on a semi-parametric model of investors' anticipations, we make the connection between the distributional properties of the heterogeneity parameters and the auto-covariance/auto-correlation functions of the realized volatility. We report different behaviors, or change of convention, the observation of which depends on the market phase under consideration. In particular, we report and justify the fact that the volatility exhibits significantly longer memory during phases of a speculative bubble than during the recovery phase following the collapse of a speculative bubble.     

Is There Long Memory in Indian Stock Market Returns? An Empirical Search

The issue of long memory, though has important theoretical and practical implications, has not received much attention in India. This article examines the issue of long memory in mean of the stock returns by employing a set of sophisticated time-series tests including a bias reduced log periodogram test of Andrews and Guggenberger. The study used daily values of 29 major indices including sectoral indices traded on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange from April 2003 to March 2012, which provide insights into relation between composition of indices and long memory. The findings of the study suggest significant presence of long memory in mean returns of the medium- and small-sized indices and weaker evidences for large cap indices. Further, the study identifies a relationship between presence of long memory and market structure variables. The use of linear models in the presence of long memory would result in incorrect inferences, and this calls for investigation of appropriate long memory model to generate profits in Indian stock market.     

Non‐Recognition of Print Advertising: Emotion Arousal and Gender Effects

Research in the behavioral sciences has found that memory tends to be enhanced by exposure to emotion‐arousing stimuli. While this relationship is not fully understood, the linkage appears to be more pronounced for females than for males. While the majority of prior studies dealing with memory have relied on the use of visual stimuli in a clinical experimental setting, this research examined the impact on memory resulting from exposure to actual print advertisements of varying degrees of arousal‐producing content. Differences in the relationship between arousal and memory were explored for male and female participants. In general, females were found to exhibit higher memory levels than males. As a single combined group, subjects exposed to emotion arousing versus emotion neutral ad. stimuli exhibited no significant difference in memory. For the set of emotion neutral ad. stimuli, no difference in memory was found between sexes. However, retention was significantly higher for females than males for the set of emotion‐arousing stimuli. The study identifies opportunities for further applied memory research.     

Increasing advertising effectiveness through incongruity-based tactics: The moderating role of consumer involvement

Developing effective advertising communication has been traditionally regarded as an increasing function of the fit between consumers' perceptions and the content of the transmitted messages. Given that, relevant research has given only limited attention to the consideration of incongruent and dissonant communication. Against this background, the present study explores how consumers react to brand information that is in conflict with established perceptions. The moderating role of consumer involvement in the decision process is also examined. Consistent with predictions, the results support a positive effect for moderately incongruent communication, which, however, is attenuated in high-involvement decisions. The theoretical and managerial implications of these findings are discussed.     

The objective of a privately owned firm under imperfect competition

This paper proposes a model of imperfect competition among privately owned firms that act in the best interest of their shareholders. The existence of a solution for the model is proved under weaker conditions than the ones generally used in the literature. In particular, the results did not require the existence of a continuous equilibrium price selection or concavity assumptions on the profit function.      

词块对英语听力理解的影响

词块这一语言现象出现频率高,具有整体性、固定性、可预测性等特点。增强词块意识,把词块作为记忆的基本单位,可扩大短时记忆的信息加工量,有效地提高英语学习者的听力理解水平。     

多媒体英语教学模式探讨——设计符合大脑神经科学规律的多媒体课件

依据心理语言学家对大脑神经科学的研究,应设计符合大脑神经学习规律的多媒体语言输入课件。课件应强调对视觉和听觉系统的刺激作用,能激活大脑神经中枢、开发人的程序性记忆、使语言输入模式次序化并突出语言项的结合力量。此外,教学要有助于语言学习技能的拓展,要将计算机辅助语言教学与教室人性化教学相结合。。     

复杂产品系统研发团队的交互记忆系统与团队效能关系研究

本文采用实证研究,针对复杂产品系统的研发团队,从团队成员所具有的心理资本出发,探索团队成员心理资本对团队成员交互记忆系统的形成及发展的影响,进而得出其对团队效能的影响。从而为复杂产品系统中研发团队的建设提供建议,进而提升团队效能。     

C++编程中遇到的一系列问题及主要解决方法

在C++学习及编程过程中,会遇到很多问题,特别是对于一些初学者而言,这些问题阻碍了学习的深入。但是,当解决之后才发现其实这些问题都是一些细小的技巧性问题。本文主要对三个具体的问题展开讨论,这三个问题都是编程中经常出现或者混淆的概念。通过文中的分析对于C++编程初学者有一定的帮助。