Autoethnnography: A reflexive tool for event festival managers

ETHNOGRAPHIC EVENTS Lisa M Hayes and Jan C Robertson Dept. Sport & Leisure Studies, University of Waikato AUTOETHNOGRAPHY A REFLEXIVE TOOL FOR EVENT/FESTIVAL MANAGERS Practice and Advocacy: Doing Ethnography on the Ground Abstract: High‐quality production is the everyday expectation of people seeking leisure experiences through sporting events and/or (performance) festivals. People participate in events because "celebration can be experienced individually, but is realised more profoundly in significant social settings" deLisle (2009, p.6). However it is not only the event itself that contributes to the experience, it is a combination of the event and the ancillary services together that provide a 'seamless' consumer experience. There are a many strategies that can be employed to evaluate an event's successes and/or identify areas for enhancement, such as surveying participants during and post event. This paper explores an additional strategy, using auto‐ethnography as a reflexive tool, to assess an event's effectiveness in meeting consumer expectations. Two event managers attended WOMAD, Taranaki 2010, as participants, to experience the event and ancillary services provided, to identify the impacts ancillary services had on the overall WOMAD experience. This paper will take the form of a conversation between the two event managers critiquing 'space',accommodation, parking, access, catering, children's opportunities, facilities, signage and event personnel. An audio‐visual display will accompany this presentation highlighting some of the 'critical' factors that we, as participants, identified influenced our perceptions of the event's success. Watch the video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/CbfBsuCP36

Sensory ethnography: Enhancing logistical event management planning

We argue that students learn through employment of multiple senses. When concepts are complex, understanding can be greatly enhanced if theory is ‘explained’ in conjunction with case studies, examples and experience. Ethnographic storying, especially the use of photographic, and video media are examples of sensory ethnography. With the development of social media, such as You Tube and Flicker, one can create, at minimal expense short clips that have the potential to be employed as educational tools that facilitate comprehension of, often complex theory and theoretical practices. This paper provides a series of Flicker clips that have been developed and applied in WINTEC’s graduate event management papers. The focus of these clips has been on Event Management Logistics: having the ‘right’ thing, in the ‘right’ place, at the ‘right’ time, to ensure positive/satisfactory consumer experience. We will discuss how we collected, edited, and compiled these clips. We will also share the students’ responses/reactions to these clips and their perceptions as to whether our stated intention: to facilitate comprehension of, often complex theory and theoretical practices has been achieved. Lisa Hayes - bio is found on the previous page Jan Robertson is a senior tutor at WINTEC in the Faculty of Business. A keen tramper, photographer, and advocate for host community consideration in the provision of local, regional and national events, Jan teachers on the Bachelor of Applied Management, specializing in the EventsManagement endorsed programme. Jan is an advocate of the adage – a picture tells a thousand words. She has been actively exploring ways through which her teaching is enhanced to provide relevant and meaningful interpretation of leisure and event management theory to students from diverse backgrounds with divergent event management career aspirations. With developments of social media technologies Jan has been exploring uses of Flicker, You Tube and other forms of photographic and video representation to create educational clips from a variety of NZ events, to employ with her classes. Watch the videos here: • http://youtu.be/fevvJNlorZg • http://youtu.be/yFLiVVy69yU • http://youtu.be/t3p7ZX9PPMA • http://youtu.be/NGS94lU6L5U • http://youtu.be/Rh3gXGM6Nlc • http://youtu.be/4FDYCVs4Tv

The Digital Age: Reminder and Confirmation Preference in Blood Donation

Introduction: It is widely accepted that individuals are more likely to comply and follow through with responsibilities when reminded and asked to confirm their commitments. With the American Red Cross’ access to fast and affordable communication and this notion in mind, there is potential to develop new recruitment strategies and better methods of ensuring blood donation commitments. In particular, understanding modes of communication with the donor population can have significant implications: avoiding loss of follow up, improving donor experience, and ensuring appropriate use of resources and staff; therefore, the American Red Cross is interested in understanding demographic differences among those who prefer different modes of communication for blood donor appointment reminders and confirmations.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/comphp_gallery/1223/thumbnail.jp

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BlackOPs: Increasing confidence in variant detection through mappability filtering

Identifying variants using high-throughput sequen-cing data is currently a challenge because true biological variants can be indistinguishable from technical artifacts. One source of technical arti-fact results from incorrectly aligning experimen-tally observed sequences to their true genomic origin (‘mismapping’) and inferring differences in mismapped sequences to be true variants. We de-veloped BlackOPs, an open-source tool that simu-lates experimental RNA-seq and DNA whole exome sequences derived from the reference genome, aligns these sequences by custom parameters, detects variants and outputs a blacklist of positions and alleles caused by mismapping. Blacklist

A functional-cognitive framework for attitude research

In attitude research, behaviours are often used as proxies for attitudes and attitudinal processes. This practice is problematic because it conflates the behaviours that need to be explained (explanandum) with the mental constructs that are used to explain these behaviours (explanans). In the current chapter we propose a meta-theoretical framework that resolves this problem by distinguishing between two levels of analysis. According to the proposed framework, attitude research can be conceptualised as the scientific study of evaluation. Evaluation is defined not in terms of mental constructs but in terms of elements in the environment, more specifically, as the effect of stimuli on evaluative responses. From this perspective, attitude research provides answers to two questions: (1) Which elements in the environment moderate evaluation? (2) What mental processes and representations mediate evaluation? Research on the first question provides explanations of evaluative responses in terms of elements in the environment (functional level of analysis); research on the second question offers explanations of evaluation in terms of mental processes and representations (cognitive level of analysis). These two levels of analysis are mutually supportive, in that better explanations at one level lead to better explanations at the other level. However, their mutually supportive relation requires a clear distinction between the concepts of their explanans and explanandum, which are conflated if behaviours are treated as proxies for mental constructs. The value of this functional-cognitive framework is illustrated by applying it to four central questions of attitude research

Sequencing of 15 622 Gene-bearing BACs Clarifies the Gene-dense Regions of the Barley Genome

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) possesses a large and highly repetitive genome of 5.1 Gb that has hindered the development of a complete sequence. In 2012, the International Barley Sequencing Consortium released a resource integrating whole-genome shotgun sequences with a physical and genetic framework. However, because only 6278 bacterial artificial chromosome (BACs) in the physical map were sequenced, fine structure was limited. To gain access to the gene-containing portion of the barley genome at high resolution, we identified and sequenced 15 622 BACs representing the minimal tiling path of 72 052 physical-mapped gene-bearing BACs. This generated ~1.7 Gb of genomic sequence containing an estimated 2/3 of all Morex barley genes. Exploration of these sequenced BACs revealed that although distal ends of chromosomes contain most of the gene-enriched BACs and are characterized by high recombination rates, there are also gene-dense regions with suppressed recombination. We made use of published map-anchored sequence data from Aegilops tauschii to develop a synteny viewer between barley and the ancestor of the wheat D-genome. Except for some notable inversions, there is a high level of collinearity between the two species. The software HarvEST:Barley provides facile access to BAC sequences and their annotations, along with the barley–Ae. tauschii synteny viewer. These BAC sequences constitute a resource to improve the efficiency of marker development, map-based cloning, and comparative genomics in barley and related crops. Additional knowledge about regions of the barley genome that are gene-dense but low recombination is particularly relevant

Comparison of analyses of the QTLMAS XII common dataset. I: Genomic selection

<p>Abstract</p> <p>A dataset was simulated and distributed to participants of the QTLMAS XII workshop who were invited to develop genomic selection models. Each contributing group was asked to describe the model development and validation as well as to submit genomic predictions for three generations of individuals, for which they only knew the genotypes. The organisers used these genomic predictions to perform the final validation by comparison to the true breeding values, which were known only to the organisers. Methods used by the 5 groups fell in 3 classes 1) fixed effects models 2) BLUP models, and 3) Bayesian MCMC based models. The Bayesian analyses gave the highest accuracies, followed by the BLUP models, while the fixed effects models generally had low accuracies and large error variance. The best BLUP models as well as the best Bayesian models gave unbiased predictions. The BLUP models are clearly sensitive to the assumed SNP variance, because they do not estimate SNP variance, but take the specified variance as the true variance. The current comparison suggests that Bayesian analyses on haplotypes or SNPs are the most promising approach for Genomic selection although the BLUP models may provide a computationally attractive alternative with little loss of efficiency. On the other hand fixed effect type models are unlikely to provide any gain over traditional pedigree indexes for selection.</p

Induced pseudoscalar coupling of the proton weak interaction

The induced pseudoscalar coupling $g_p$ is the least well known of the weak coupling constants of the proton's charged--current interaction. Its size is dictated by chiral symmetry arguments, and its measurement represents an important test of quantum chromodynamics at low energies. During the past decade a large body of new data relevant to the coupling $g_p$ has been accumulated. This data includes measurements of radiative and non radiative muon capture on targets ranging from hydrogen and few--nucleon systems to complex nuclei. Herein the authors review the theoretical underpinnings of $g_p$, the experimental studies of $g_p$, and the procedures and uncertainties in extracting the coupling from data. Current puzzles are highlighted and future opportunities are discussed.Comment: 58 pages, Latex, Revtex4, prepared for Reviews of Modern Physic