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Xu, Zhanghong, and Shuyu Lin. "A Contrastive Study of Image Repair Strategies Between Chinese and English Corporate Apologies." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (April 27, 2020): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v3i1.4817.
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In the era of globalization, social media have become important communication tools for enterprises in crisis. Corporate apologies are issued via social media to repair the tarnished corporate image, which might affect their survival. However, the way of apologizing varies from language/culture to language/culture. This study aims to investigate how Chinese and English corporate apologies are linguistically presented and to explore how damaged corporate image in different culture is repaired respectively. Under the framework of Benoit’s image repair strategies and CCSARP, and based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of the collected data, this paper makes a contrastive study of Chinese and English corporate apologies. The results show that Chinese and English corporate apologies share great similarities in using the strategies of mortification and corrective actions, while they are different in terms of other specific tactics such as bolstering, good intentions, defeasibility and minimization. It is also found that the denial is the least used strategy by both Chinese and English corporations to repair their tarnished image. Furthermore, they are quite t similar in using IFIDs, while intensifiers and hedges are more frequently employed in Chinese corporate apologies.
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Arandas, Mohammed Fadel, and Loh Yoke Ling. "Indonesian Crisis Communication Response after Deliberate Forest Fires and Transboundary Haze." Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication 36, no. 4 (December 11, 2020): 294–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2020-3604-18.
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The issue of deliberate forest fires that set illegally in Indonesia by plantation companies in their slash-and-burn forests to clear lands for lucrative palm oil plantations and its caused transboundary haze became a hot issue for discussion. These fires have a negative influence on Indonesia and its neighbourhood countries, especially on their financial and human resources such as environment, economy, properties, and people. Using the right strategies in responding to any crisis determines the success of its management and coping with that crisis with minimal losses. This study aimed to examine the communication crisis response by Indonesia to this crisis by using image repair theory. Also, this study examined how image repair strategies were used by Indonesia. This study analysed the content of news stories from the website of the New Straits Times newspaper. The time frame of this study was from 2015 to 2019. A total of 87 news stories have pertained to Indonesian response, and 37 stories included image repair strategies. Among the strategies of image repair theory, corrective action strategy was the most dominant with 70%, followed by 10.8% for each shift the blame and attack accuser. The least used strategies were mortification and simple denial with 5.4% and 2.7% respectively. Keywords: Indonesia, crisis communication, image repair, transboundary haze, deliberate fires.
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Masngut, Nasaai, and Emma Mohamad. "Association Between Public Opinion and Malaysian Government Communication Strategies About the COVID-19 Crisis: Content Analysis of Image Repair Strategies in Social Media." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 8 (August 4, 2021): e28074. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28074.
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Background The COVID-19 health crisis has posed an unprecedented challenge for governments worldwide to manage and communicate about the pandemic effectively, while maintaining public trust. Good leadership image in times of a health emergency is paramount to ensure public confidence in governments’ abilities to manage the crisis. Objective The aim of this study was to identify types of image repair strategies utilized by the Malaysian government in their communication about COVID-19 in the media and analyze public responses to these messages on social media. Methods Content analysis was employed to analyze 120 media statements and 382 comments retrieved from Facebook pages of 2 mainstream newspapers—Berita Harian and The Star. These media statements and comments were collected within a span of 6 weeks prior to and during the first implementation of Movement Control Order by the Malaysian Government. The media statements were analyzed according to Image Repair Theory to categorize strategies employed in government communications related to COVID-19 crisis. Public opinion responses were measured using modified lexicon-based sentiment analysis to categorize positive, negative, and neutral statements. Results The Malaysian government employed all 5 Image Repair Theory strategies in their communications in both newspapers. The strategy most utilized was reducing offensiveness (75/120, 62.5%), followed by corrective action (30/120, 25.0%), evading responsibilities (10/120, 8.3%), denial (4/120, 3.3%), and mortification (1/120, 0.8%). This study also found multiple substrategies in government media statements including denial, shifting blame, provocation, defeasibility, accident, good intention, bolstering, minimization, differentiation, transcendence, attacking accuser, resolve problem, prevent recurrence, admit wrongdoing, and apologize. This study also found that 64.7% of public opinion was positive in response to media statements made by the Malaysian government and also revealed a significant positive association (P=.04) between image repair strategies utilized by the Malaysian government and public opinion. Conclusions Communication in the media may assist the government in fostering positive support from the public. Suitable image repair strategies could garner positive public responses and help build trust in times of crisis.
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Len-Rı́os, Marı́a E., and William L. Benoit. "Gary Condit’s image repair strategies: determined denial and differentiation." Public Relations Review 30, no. 1 (March 2004): 95–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2003.11.009.
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Nair, Ramesh, Shairah Hana Sulaiman, Nor Azyyati Md Saad, Puspalata Suppiah, and Maizura Lin. "Mitigating Reputational Risk Through Image Repair Strategies." Asia Pacific Media Educator 29, no. 1 (April 4, 2019): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1326365x19837772.
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This article examines rhetorical strategies as well as the linguistic construction of those strategies in press releases put out by Cadbury Malaysia in response to accusations that it has failed to comply with halal certification standards. Drawing on image repair theory and the concept of the ideological square, six press releases were analysed to identify the rhetorical strategies as well as semantic structures that were used to repair the organization’s image and minimize reputational risk. The analysis reveals how the organization moved beyond denial to also employ the rhetorical strategies of attacking one’s accuser and bolstering. Despite early media reports naming government agencies as the accusers, the press releases put out by Cadbury Malaysia determined the source of accusations as unnamed individuals within the agencies, thereby avoiding confrontations with the relevant authorities. The analysis shows how language is used in press releases to construct the positive self and negative other as Cadbury Malaysia promoted a discourse of renewal to reassert its position within a highly lucrative halal market. This article provides novel insights into understanding how language works within rhetorical strategies of image repair.
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Compton, Josh. "Arby's image repair tactics as a public relations strategy." Public Relations Review 40, no. 1 (March 2014): 122–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2013.11.022.
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Sarfo-Kantankah, Kwabena Sarfo. "Apologia, Image Repair and Rhetoric in the Defence of Electoral Defeat." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 3 (June 30, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.3p.1.
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Using the concepts of apologia, image repair and rhetoric, this paper examines the strategies employed by a former president of the Republic of Ghana to simultaneously maintain his reputation after losing the 2016 Ghanaian general elections and campaign for re-lection as the standard bearer of his party. The paper finds that the former president did not accept responsibility for the electoral loss, but used several indirect ways to deny responsibility for the defeat. He employed bolstering, accusation/attack, playing the victim, throwing a challenge and the God’s will factor as defence strategies in order to repair his image. He exploited the Aristotelian appeals of logos, ethos and pathos to boost his persuasion. In doing so, he deployed several rhetorical tools such as metaphor, allusion, rhetorical questions and parallelism to enhance the expression of the defence strategies. The analysis reveals that, as noted in the literature, some of the image repair strategies espoused by Benoit (1995, 2015), for example, outright denial and mortification, hardly apply to political contexts – the former President’s defence was indirectly expressed. Thus, the paper concludes that combining the concepts of apologia, image repair and rhetoric in the analysis of political discourse can illuminate political discourse analysis. The paper has implications for communicating defence, reputation repair and political rhetoric.
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Eriksson, Göran, and Mats Eriksson. "Managing political crisis: an interactional approach to “image repair”." Journal of Communication Management 16, no. 3 (July 27, 2012): 264–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13632541211245776.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to extend the image repair theory by focusing on the largely ignored context of the face‐to‐face communication. The paper offers an exploratory study of how image repair work is carried out in interviews with politicians in the context of press conferences.Design/methodology/approachThe paper combines theoretical reflections with two qualitative case studies of press conferences of Swedish politicians. These press conferences were held to manage the challenge posed to the politicians’ public image by the media criticism. The analytical frame employed in this study is Conversation Analysis (CA).FindingsThe way journalists act during interviews and how they pose questions have noticeable consequences for the accused actor's image repair work. Image repair strategies like “apologizing” and “mortification” during the speech section of a press conference tend to be more effective as they give the accused greater opportunities to take control of the interaction.Research limitations/implicationsDue to the exploratory nature of this interactional approach and the fact that the analysis involves only two cases, the findings must be seen as provisional.Practical implicationsThe knowledge of how journalists construct a question is of high relevance for crisis communication and image repair work, and therefore of high value of public relations practitioners.Originality/valueThe interactional approach to image repair offers a new theoretical frame for the understanding of crisis management in interview situations. The approach especially highlights the importance of journalists’ questions in image repair work.
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Sheffer, Mary Lou, Brad Schultz, and Willie Tubbs. "#deflategate: Sports journalism and the use of image repair strategy on Twitter." Newspaper Research Journal 39, no. 1 (March 2018): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532918761067.
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This study investigated how different groups of sports journalists covered the NFL “deflategate” scandal through social media, specifically in terms of employing image repair strategies via Twitter. Image repair strategy is typically used within public relations, but its use within journalism has not been examined. A content analysis revealed that while many journalists employed objective reporting, many others engaged in a variety of repair strategies, notably minimization and stonewalling. Discussion and implications focused on two main issues: conflicts of interest between journalists and sports organizations, and the evolving role of social media in crisis coverage.
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Gribas, John, James DiSanza, Nancy Legge, and Karen Hartman. "Organizational Image Repair Tactics and Crisis Type: Implications for Crisis Response Strategy Effectiveness." Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research 1, no. 2 (October 15, 2018): 225–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.1.2.3.
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Existing models of organizational crisis response effectiveness provide useful insights but are limited in terms of offering a guide for practitioners dealing with actual crisis situations. This analysis examines the relative effectiveness of image repair tactics based on differences in root causes of crisis events. Results suggest that certain image repair tactics are seen as the most and the least effective regardless of crisis type. At the same time, there were some differences across crisis types that could guide practitioner tactic choices. Limited results here and in past research raise questions about whether image repair tactic effectiveness can be usefully mapped to situational variables, such as audience or crisis type. This article concludes with discussion on this matter and suggestions for future research.
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Schafraad, Pytrik, and Joost W. M. Verhoeven. "Headwinds in sports sponsoring." International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship 20, no. 3 (August 5, 2019): 538–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijsms-10-2018-0108.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of a crisis situation in a sports team on the credibility of their sponsor and how the sponsor’s use of various crises response strategies may repair the damage done to their credibility. Design/methodology/approach A scenario experiment was conducted with a 2 (pre-/post-crisis) × 4 (sponsor response strategy: denial/distancing/rebuild/no response) mixed factor design. Respondents (n=191) were recruited from a research panel. Findings The results confirmed the existence of a spill-over effect: the sponsor’s credibility dropped as a result of the crisis. More interestingly, the effects of the crisis on sponsor credibility were moderated by the response strategy of the sponsor: the harm that the crisis did to the sponsor credibility was aggravated by a denial strategy, but somewhat weakened by a diminishing strategy. A rebuild response unexpectedly improved the credibility of the sponsor. Practical implications While partnerships in sports can be risky, because crises can be contagious, such partners can also help one another to protect their credibility. Therefore, this study advocates an integral approach of crisis communication. Sponsors may improve their credibility when they frame their contribution to the solution to the problems as an authentic effort to do good. Originality/value Starting from an issue arena perspective, this contribution shows how crises in sports teams also affect sponsors and how sponsors can contribute to the restoration of the damaged credibility with suitable responses to the crisis situation.
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Jiantao Pu, D. S. Paik, Xin Meng, J. Roos, and G. D. Rubin. "Shape “Break-and-Repair” Strategy and Its Application to Automated Medical Image Segmentation." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 17, no. 1 (January 2011): 115–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2010.56.
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Brown, Kenon A., Breann Murphy, and Lindsey C. Maxwell. "Tried in the Court of Public Opinion." Communication & Sport 6, no. 3 (March 6, 2017): 283–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479517697426.
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This study expands the empirical study of Benoit’s image repair theory by serving two purposes using a sports context. First, this study will specifically examine criminal transgressions by comparing the effectiveness of image repair attempts by athletes facing domestic violence charges compared to other crimes. Second, this study will look at the effectiveness of using the mortification (apology) strategy in combination with other predominant strategies used by athletes in order to repair one’s image. Using a 3 × 8 factorial experiment involving 490 participants, results showed that athletes facing domestic violence charges are perceived more negatively regardless of their response to the transgression. In addition, results also showed that using mortification in combination with corrective action is the best response for athletes, regardless of the crime. Finally, using the mortification strategy in combination with other strategies is more effective to repair an athlete’s image, suggesting that it may be better to use combination strategies to respond to transgressions.
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Sawalha, Ihab Hanna. "After the crisis: repairing a corporate image." Journal of Business Strategy 41, no. 6 (August 5, 2019): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jbs-04-2019-0075.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effectiveness of image-repair strategies adopted by organizations to restore their public image and reputation following crisis situations, the lessons learned from these cases and the significance of contextual factors that are likely to affect image-repair efforts and strategies adopted. Design/methodology/approach Three cases have been reviewed in this paper: Weather, Jordan; Nestlé Waters, Jordan; and Victoria College School, Jordan. Information was obtained from published materials, such as YouTube commentaries, local newspapers and online news agents, primarily the Jordan Times, which is considered the number one daily in the country. The discussion of these cases is original and based on academic theory and literature. Findings Organizations differ in terms of the ways they respond to corporate crises and the strategies they are likely to adopt to restore/recover their reputation and public image. Practical implications Corporate reputation or public image is an asset that is built over time. Organizations within all industries seek to secure positive images in the minds of people. The image of an organization however can be threatened by crises. Trust and public image decline when stakeholders feel they have not been adequately informed in times of crises regarding the different attributes of the situation or how the organization is dealing with the crisis. Organizations have the choice to adopt one image-repair strategy at a time or a combination of strategies according to the requirements of the situation. Originality/value Image-repair strategies have been examined in American and European contexts but have, to the author’s knowledge, never been examined in the context of Arab organizations and more specifically in the context of Jordanian organizations. This paper therefore provides a new insight into how to apply these strategies in a unique and new context and will also motivate future research in this regard.
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Ramzy Hasibuan, Muhammad, and Irwansyah Irwansyah. "Strategi Image Repair PT HM SAMPOERNA TBK pada peristiwa ‘karyawan pabrik Surabaya positif covid-19’." Jurnal Komunikasi 15, no. 1 (October 31, 2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/komunikasi.vol15.iss1.art1.
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The use of Image Repair Theory for companies during crisis communication is an interesting study. It is also applied when several PT HM Sampoerna Tbk factory employees are known to have died due to suffering from COVID-19. This event affected the company's image, especially the negative sentiment on the quality of the products produced due to employees affected by COVID-19. This study analyzes the image repair strategy used by PT HM Sampoerna Tbk through press releases published on the company's official website. The research objective is to analyze message options for organizations to use in times of crisis. The study uses a qualitative content analysis method by analyzing text written in press releases, then putting it into categories that have been determined in the image repair strategy. The results showed PT HM Sampoerna Tbk's inconsistency in using the Reducing Offensiveness strategy, which is often used in types of accident and/or challenge crises, including product damage situations. Excessive use of Reducing Offensiveness must be an organization's concern when conducting crisis communication, especially when the audience has a critical view of the organization. Reducing Offensiveness can be more optimally used by neutral third parties than the organization itself; however, the research results show that PT HM Sampoerna Tbk carries out all strategy delivery.
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Muslim, Erlinda. "ANALISIS STRATEGI PENINGKATAN LOYALITAS CUSTOMER B2B E-COMMERCE, STUDI KASUS: GMF AEROTRADE DI PT. GMF AEROASIA." MATRIK 19, no. 2 (March 30, 2019): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.30587/matrik.v19i2.729.
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PT. GMF AeroAsia menawarkan salah satu Business-to-Business E-Commerce terbesar di Indonesia yang bergerak di bidang MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul) memiliki bisnis maintenance pesawat dan sebagai distributor material komponen pesawat yang bernama GMF AeroTrade. GMF AeroTrade merupakan bentuk platform E-Commerce berbentuk web store yang baru berdiri sejak awal tahun 2017. Meningkatnya kebutuhan material setiap tahunnya memberikan dampak yang cukup besar terhadap kompetitifnya pasar distributor kebutuhan komponen pesawat terbang. Dengan perubahan baru dengan diadakannya platform berbasis E-Commerce ini di GMF AeroTrade dan juga melihat adanya banyak kompetitor lainnya di dunia, peran loyalitas pelanggan sangat berpengaruh terhadap keuntungan perusahaan. Maka dari itu GMF AeroTrade membutuhkan strategi yang kuat untuk dapat meningkatkan loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty). Dalam pembuatan strategi tersebut akan diteliti dari pengaruh faktor Image, Perceived Quality, Perceived Value, dan Customer Satisfaction terhadap loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty) dengan menggunakan metode SEM-PLS. Selain itu, digunakan metode Importance-Performance Analysis untuk mendapatkan action items beserta tingkat prioritas pelaksanaan untuk setiap action items. Penelitian ini mengambil pelanggan yang aktif melakukan transaksi pembelian di GMF AeroTrade. Hasil dari penelitian ini merupakan strategi untuk meningkatkan loyalitas pelanggan (Customer Loyalty) GMF AeroTrade, sehingga dapat bersaing dengan kompetitor distributor material komponen pesawat lainnya yang ada di dunia
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Benoit, William. "Crisis and Image Repair at United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies." Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research 1, no. 1 (March 2018): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.30658//jicrcr.1.1.2.
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In April 2017, United Airlines had a passenger removed from one of its airplanes. Video of the bleeding man being dragged off through the aisle went viral the next day. United’s initial response attempted to downplay this offensive act (relying primarily on differentiation and mortification, but not really apologizing for this offensive act). This stance provoked outrage and ridicule. This study applies image repair theory (Benoit, 2015) to the discourse in this case study. United’s CEO, Oscar Munoz, was forced to offer a “do-over,” stressing mortification and corrective action that were actually directed to the offensive act. United finally arrived at the proper response, but it came too late to realize its full potential. This essay argues that corrective action can be an important strategy in crisis communication theory; it also explains that social media have changed the crisis situation (with nearly instant and widespread criticism) and compressed the time in which those accused of wrongdoing can respond.
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Benoit, William. "Crisis and Image Repair at United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies." Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research 1, no. 1 (2018): 11–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.30658/jicrcr.1.1.2.
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In April 2017, United Airlines had a passenger removed from one of its airplanes. Video of the bleeding man being dragged off through the aisle went viral the next day. United’s initial response attempted to downplay this offensive act (relying primarily on differentiation and mortification, but not really apologizing for this offensive act). This stance provoked outrage and ridicule. This study applies image repair theory (Benoit, 2015) to the discourse in this case study. United’s CEO, Oscar Munoz, was forced to offer a “do-over,” stressing mortification and corrective action that were actually directed to the offensive act. United finally arrived at the proper response, but it came too late to realize its full potential. This essay argues that corrective action can be an important strategy in crisis communication theory; it also explains that social media have changed the crisis situation (with nearly instant and widespread criticism) and compressed the time in which those accused of wrongdoing can respond.
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Frederick, Evan, and Ann Pegoraro. "Scandal in College Basketball: A Case Study of Image Repair via Facebook." International Journal of Sport Communication 11, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 414–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2018-0076.
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The purpose of this case study was to determine what image-repair strategies the University of Louisville employed immediately after the announcement of an FBI investigation involving multiple universities and college coaches taking bribes in order to steer high-profile recruits to certain agents. Specifically, this case study examined the image-repair strategies used on the University of Louisville’s official Facebook page and the comments made to those posts to gauge public reaction to the university’s image-repair strategies. The University of Louisville primarily employed the image-repair strategies of transcendence, bolstering, stonewalling, and a newly identified strategy referred to as rallying, or unifying and “moving beyond” the scandal. Three themes emerged from an inductive analysis of users’ comments, including support, rejection, and scandal. The high volume of support indicates that many users were receptive to the university’s attempt to reduce the offensiveness of the scandal through the use of bolstering and transcendence.
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Hassan, Almoatazbillah S. "Evaluating the Marketing Communication Strategy of Volkswagen in Post-Crisis Period: Application of Image Repair Theory." International Journal of Marketing Studies 11, no. 2 (May 23, 2019): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v11n2p87.
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This case study focuses on effective marketing communication activities in a post-crisis period. The phenomenon underpinning the investigation is image repair theory which provides effective communication strategies to overcome these events. The case in point was the emission scandal faced by Volkswagen (VW) in 2015. By implementing a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis, the results showed some correlations between effective public relation activities and the company’s share price. Nevertheless, sales figures showed a negative attribute due to the unstable position of the company in the post scandal period. Results also showed a positive pattern when VW responded to the emission scandal in the early days, providing some strategies to stakeholders such as, mortification, reducing offensiveness and corrective action. However, it can be said that this study is an initial step which provides some indications for future research concerning the effective implementation of marketing communication in a post-scandal period.
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Sheldon, Catherine A., and Lynne M. Sallot. "Image Repair in Politics: Testing Effects of Communication Strategy and Performance History in a Faux Pas." Journal of Public Relations Research 21, no. 1 (December 10, 2008): 25–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10627260802520496.
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Hoeken, H., and J. Renkema. "Can Corrections Repair the Damage to a Corporate Image Caused by Negative Publicity?" Corporate Reputation Review 2, no. 1 (January 1998): 51–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.crr.1540066.
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Toubes, Kênia Soares de, Stephanie Quadros Tonelli, Caroline Felipe Magalhães Girelli, Camila Grasielle de Sá Azevedo, Ana Carolina Tocafundo Thompson, Eduardo Nunes, and Frank Ferreira Silveira. "Bio-C Repair - A New Bioceramic Material for Root Perforation Management: Two Case Reports." Brazilian Dental Journal 32, no. 1 (February 2021): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-6440202103568.
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Abstract These case reports aimed to describe the management of lateral perforation in the middle cervical third of the root in two maxillary incisors with pulp canal calcification using Bio-C Repair, with safe and viable clinical treatment strategies. Digital radiographic exams were obtained with different angles and analyzed using different filters. Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images were requested to show the actual position of the canal, location of the perforation, and guide the strategic planning of the case. Subsequently, cavity access was prepared with the aid of dental operating microscopy. After perforation was identified, granulation tissue was removed and the original canal was identified and then dressed with calcium hydroxide. In the second visit, the perforation was filled with Bio-C Repair and the canal system filled with gutta-percha points and a root canal sealer (Bio-C Sealer). The teeth were restored with glass fiber post, 4 mm beyond the perforation level, and provisory crowns. Both teeth treated as described above were functional and asymptomatic with a 1-year clinical and radiographic assessment. The Bio-C Repair is suggested as a new cement option for the management of lateral canal perforations, with effective results as observed after a one-year follow-up.
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Xu, Zhanghong, and Xiaolin Liu. "A Corpus-Based Study of Corporate Image Restoration via Public Apology." International Journal of Linguistics 12, no. 4 (July 27, 2020): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v12i4.17182.
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As one of the most effective measures for corporations to manage crises, public apology has received extensive attention from both practitioners and researchers. This paper attempts to conduct a corpus-based and interdisciplinary study on English public apologies issued by foreign corporations, and to explore how the corporations repair their images via public apology under the tentative theoretical framework adapted from Benoit’s image restoration discourse theory (IRDT) and Coombs & Holladay’s situational crisis communication theory (SCCT). Results show that three salient linguistic features are identified in corporate apology corpus: (a) highly frequent use of modal verbs “will” and “can”; (b) highly frequent use of personal pronouns “we” and “you”; (c) highly frequent use of demonstrative pronouns “this” and “that”. It is found that five pragmatic strategies (strategy of expressing apology, strategy of intensifying affection, strategy of mitigating responsibility, bolstering strategy, and rebuilding strategy) are most frequently employed to express mortification to the victims, to reduce the offensiveness of acts and to minimize or to evade responsibility. Furthermore, it is also found that corporate image is restored by means of weakening the negative impression and re-building a responsible and benevolent image. These findings would not only shed light on the corporate image restoration studies, but also offer implications for the practitioners in the business world.
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Goosen-Botes, Vida L., and Grant Samkin. "BP’s use of posture to respond to the Deepwater Horizon crisis." Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences 6, no. 2 (July 31, 2013): 359–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jef.v6i2.265.
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This paper focuses on the posture the oil company BP adopted when faced with a legitimacy crisis during one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Against a backdrop of a discussion of the rhetorical aspects of image repair discourse and organisational legitimacy, Hearit’s strategy of corporate apologia was employed to determine the posture BP adopted in relation to the crisis. This paper adds to the literature on image repair strategies by heeding a call by Hearit for the context within which corporate apologia takes place to be taken account of, an approach that warrants a distinct line of research. The literature was further extended by complementing Hearit's strategy with semiotics and analysing its use in both the annual and sustainability reports. The additional focus on the sustainability reports is important, due to the high premium placed on sustainability in the changing business environment. On a practical level this paper contributes to an understanding of how organisations use sustainability reports to respond to legitimacy challenges.
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Smith, J. Scott, and Danny Keeven. "Creating Separation From the On-Field Product: Roger Goodell’s Image Repair Discourse During the Ray Rice Domestic Violence Case." Communication & Sport 7, no. 3 (April 23, 2018): 292–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479518769896.
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This analysis examines National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell’s image repair strategies during the Ray Rice domestic violence crisis. After receiving criticism for only suspending Rice for two games, the attacks against the NFL and Goodell substantially increased when TMZ released a previously unseen video of Rice knocking out his then-fiancée Janay Palmer in a Revel Casino elevator. Facing these new attacks, Goodell relied on a separation strategy that included acknowledging the NFL had a domestic violence problem, shifting the blame to Rice, and highlighting the NFL’s new domestic violence policy which was the most stringent in professional sports. Goodell also used mortification to enhance his separation strategy to suggest that he was responsible for the insufficient punishment of Rice, which shifted the blame to Goodell and away from the NFL product and NFL owners. Unlike other CEOs who only gain notoriety during an organizational crisis, Goodell was already disliked by players and the public prior to the Rice scandal, which may have enhanced his attempts to shield the league from the scandal. Implications are drawn concerning how the public’s perception of an executive can influence the effectiveness of image repair discourse and how a separation strategy can bolster an organization’s defense.
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Heller, Regina. "Russia’s quest for respect in the international conflict management in Kosovo." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 47, no. 3-4 (September 2014): 333–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2014.09.001.
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This article examines the emotion-based status-seeking logic in Russia’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the West, presenting the example of Russia’s reactions to NATO’s military campaign against Serbia in 1999. It is argued that Russian assertiveness in combination with expressive rhetoric must be understood as a result of the ruling elite’s need to have Russia’s identity and self-defined social status as an equal great power in world politics respected by its Western interaction partners. Russia’s reactions to NATO’s intervention, which was not authorized by the UN Security Council, must be read as a strategy coping with the emotion anger about the perceived humiliation and provocation of status denial and ignorance by the West. We find various elements of such a coping strategy, among them the verbalization of the feeling of anger among Russian political circles and the media; uttering retaliation threats, but no ‘real’ aggressive, retaliatory action; minor and temporary activities aimed at restoring Russia’s image and status as an influential an equal power. On the surface, the Kosovo episode did not result in any visible break or rift in the RussianeWestern relationship. However, emotionally it has lead to a significant loss of trust in the respective partner on both sides.
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Muehle, Anja, Isil Uzun, Ziba Jalali, and Ali Khoynezhad. "Perioperative Hemodynamic Management and Pharmacotherapeutics of Patients Undergoing Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair." Advances in Vascular Medicine 2014 (December 30, 2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/586084.
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Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has become an attractive alternative treatment option for many patients with specific thoracic aortic disease. New devices and advanced image-guided procedures are continuously expanding the indications and improve neurological outcomes. Hemodynamic management of these patients is a critical aspect in reducing neurological deficit and it is different compared to patients undergoing open thoracic aortic operations. There are two different phases of blood pressure management for patients with thoracic aortic disease. Before and during the critical steps of TEVAR anti-impulsive therapy facilitates safe positioning and stent deployment. After stent grafts are deployed, controlled hypertensive blood pressure levels are achieved to avoid spinal cord ischemia. This precise blood pressure strategy is essential to ensure a safe procedure and good long-term results.
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Junaeti, Junaeti, and Agus Arwani. "PERANAN PERPUSTAKAAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN KUALITAS PERGURUAN TINGGI (Konstruksi Pelayanan, Strategi, dan Citra Perpustakaan)." LIBRARIA: Jurnal Perpustakaan 4, no. 1 (November 28, 2016): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/libraria.v4i1.1245.
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<p>In an effort to support the implementation of universities, universities need to be supported by a set of facilities and infrastructure. One of the basic and essential facilities are available and a library with adequate service. Libraries who is a supporter of university should be able to play an active role to support the task of universities. The library is a facility or providing a means of reading materials. The purpose of the library itself, especially the college library is to provide information services for learning, research, and community service in order to implement the Tri Dharma College tow. Libraries have a very significant role in the institutions, especially institutions that shelter the college library. With good management, the library will have a positive impact for users it serves. Availability of a wide range of services and knowledge in the college library, will give the user a chance to utilize and develop knowledge independently. Repair image of the library as an institution of professional higher education and provide information services to the campus community will open up the minds of them, that the library can be used as an alternative means that are used to study independently.</p><p>Dalam upaya mendukung terlaksananya perguruan tinggi, lembaga perguruan tinggi perlu ditunjang oleh seperangkat fasilitas serta prasarana. Salah satu fasilitas pokok dan esensial adalah tersedianya perpustakaan dengan koleksi dan layanan yang memadai. Perpustakaan yang merupakan pendukung dari perguruan tinggi harus dapat berperan aktif menunjang tugas perguruan tinggi. Perpustakaan adalah fasilitas atau tempat menyediakan sarana bahan bacaan. Tujuan dari perpustakaan sendiri, khususnya perpustakaan perguruan tinggi adalah memberikan layanan informasi untuk kegiatan belajar, penelitian, dan pengabdian masyarakat dalam rangka melaksanakan Tri Dharma Perguruan Tingg. Perpustakaan mempunyai peran yang sangat berarti dalam institusi lembaga yang menaunginya khususnya perpustakaan perguruan tinggi. Dengan adanya pengelolaan yang baik, perpustakaan akan memberikan dampak yang positif bagi pemakai yang dilayaninya. Ketersediaan berbagai macam layanan dan pengetahuan di perpustakaan perguruan tinggi, akan memberikan kesempatan pemakai untuk dapat memanfaatkan dan mengembangkan pengetahuan secara mandiri. Perbaikan citra perpustakaan perguruan tinggi sebagai institusi profesional dan memberikan layanan informasi bagi komunitas kampus akan membuka cakrawala berpikir mereka, bahwa perpustakaan dapat dijadikan sebagai sarana alternatif yang digunakan untuk belajar secara mandiri.</p>
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Chaiuk, Tetyana A., Iryna O. Alyeksyeyeva, Oksana V. Borysovych, Kateryna S. Karpova, and Olena V. Gayevska. "Celebrities and Microcelebrities in Quarantine: Strategies of Parasocial Communication." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10, no. 5 (September 5, 2021): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2021-0121.
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The research applies the relationship strategies and the image repair strategies frameworks to study and compare celebrities and microcelebrities’ communicative activity on social media during the lockdown in the USA and the UK in spring, 2020. For celebrities, the sample collected on social media in March – April, 2020, reveals qualitative changes: in the quarantine, first-rank celebrities attempted to reduce the assumed gap between themselves and their fans by using the strategies typically associated with microcelebrities, namely openness, positivity, task sharing, and assurance. If applied inappropriately, these strategies damaged the celebrities’ image and the famous chose either to take corrective actions or to ignore the communication failure. The microcelebrities’ messages during the lockdown did not show any qualitative shift: they held on to their typical openness, assurance and task sharing relationship maintenance strategies. Yet, the posts, where some microcelebrities, pursuing the openness strategy, sincerely reported their neglect of the quarantine restrictions, were more destructive to their image than similar posts from celebrities. The negative feedback affected microcelebrities communication on social media quantitatively and qualitatively: the number of messages dropped and the bloggers employed an extensive set of strategies to repair their image. Received: 3 June 2021 / Accepted: 26 July 2021 / Published: 5 September 2021
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Rianti Sukma Nanda, Ni Putu, and Joko Purnomo. "Revisionisme Sejarah Jepang terhadap Peristiwa Pembantaian Nanjing." Transformasi Global 7, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21776/ub.jtg.2020.007.01.3.
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This study examines Japan's historical revisionism related to the Nanjing Massacre during its 1937 invasion in the People's Republic of China. In 2015, UNESCO's response to include the Nanjing Massacre in the "Memory of the World Register" received backlash from Abe's government, resulting in a budget suspension from Japan. Japan wanted to be seen as a good country, leaving behind its past image as a war aggressor through historical revisionism. Using the concept of Shared Beliefs and Therapeutic Value, this article analyses homogeneous Japanese society that regards the Nanjing Massacre as something the Japanese government should not be apologetic about and the heterogeneous historical facts of the massacre itself. Finding suggests that Therapeutic Value from the denial comes from the failure of the U.S. and its allies to provide a deterrent effect post-WWII that resulted in victimization and melodrama promoted by the Japanese government. The government also uses narratives such as Toa Renmei Ron and Kami no Kuni as the main argument to boost Japanese superiority as a country. However, such revisionist strategy of the Nanjing Massacre is proven a failure to promote peace among the younger generation.
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Voronin, Viacheslav, Vladimir Marchuk, Sergey Makov, Vladimir Mladenovic, and Yigang Cen. "Spatio-temporal image inpainting for video applications." Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering 14, no. 2 (2017): 229–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sjee170116004v.
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Video inpainting or completion is a vital video improvement technique used to repair or edit digital videos. This paper describes a framework for temporally consistent video completion. The proposed method allows to remove dynamic objects or restore missing or tainted regions presented in a video sequence by utilizing spatial and temporal information from neighboring scenes. Masking algorithm is used for detection of scratches or damaged portions in video frames. The algorithm iteratively performs the following operations: achieve frame; update the scene model; update positions of moving objects; replace parts of the frame occupied by the objects marked for remove by using a background model. In this paper, we extend an image inpainting algorithm based texture and structure reconstruction by incorporating an improved strategy for video. Our algorithm is able to deal with a variety of challenging situations which naturally arise in video inpainting, such as the correct reconstruction of dynamic textures, multiple moving objects and moving background. Experimental comparisons to state-of-the-art video completion methods demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. It is shown that the proposed spatio-temporal image inpainting method allows restoring a missing blocks and removing a text from the scenes on videos. <br><br><font color="red"><b> This article has been retracted. Link to the retraction <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/SJEE1803373E">10.2298/SJEE1803373E</a><u></b></font>
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Errico, Vito, Sabina Campanelli, Andrea Angelastro, Michele Dassisti, Marco Mazzarisi, and Cesare Bonserio. "Coaxial Monitoring of AISI 316L Thin Walls Fabricated by Direct Metal Laser Deposition." Materials 14, no. 3 (February 1, 2021): 673. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma14030673.
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Direct metal laser deposition (DMLD) is an additive manufacturing technique suitable for coating and repair, which has been gaining a growing interest in 3D manufacturing applications in recent years. However, its diffusion in the manufacturing industry is still limited due to technical challenges to be solved—both the sub-optimal quality of the final parts and the low repeatability of the process make the DMLD inadequate for high-value applications requiring high-performance standards. Thus, real-time monitoring and process control are indispensable requirements for improving the DMLD process. The aim of this study was the optimization of deposition strategies for the fabrication of thin walls in AISI 316L stainless steel. For this purpose, a coaxial monitoring system and image processing algorithms were employed to study the melt pool geometry. The comparison tests carried out highlighted how the region-based active contour algorithm used for image processing is more efficient and stable than others covered in the literature. The results allowed the identification of the best deposition strategy. Therefore, it is shown how this monitoring methodology proved to be suitable for designing and implementing the right building strategy for DMLD manufactured 3D components. A fast and stable image processing method was achieved, which can be considered for future closed-loop monitoring in real-time applications.
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Hwang, Geumchan, and Kyu Soo Chung. "The dynamics of image repair strategy on sport celebrity scandal: how university students' attitudes are shaped according to scandal type, perceived credibility, and sport involvement." International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 18, no. 4 (2018): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsmm.2018.093344.
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Hwang, Geumchan, and Kyu Soo Chung. "The dynamics of image repair strategy on sport celebrity scandal: how university students' attitudes are shaped according to scandal type, perceived credibility, and sport involvement." International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 18, no. 4 (2018): 285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijsmm.2018.10014069.
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Le, Phuong D., Hui Xun Teo, Augustine Pang, Yuling Li, and Cai-Qin Goh. "When is silence golden? The use of strategic silence in crisis communication." Corporate Communications: An International Journal 24, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 162–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-10-2018-0108.
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Purpose Scholars have discouraged using silence in crises as it magnifies the information vacuum (see Pang, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to argue for its viability and explore the type of silence that can be used. Design/methodology/approach Eight international cases were analyzed to examine how silence was adopted, sustained and broken. Findings The findings uncovered three intention-based typologies of strategic silence: delaying, avoiding and hiding silences. Among such, avoiding/hiding silence intensified crises and adversely affected post-silence organizational image when forcefully broken, while delaying silence helped preserve/restore image with primary stakeholders if successfully sustained and broken as planned. Research limitations/implications First, these findings may lack generalizability due to the limited number of cases studied. Second, local sentiments may not be fully represented in the English-language news examined as they may be written for a different audience. Finally, a number of cases studied were still ongoing at the time of writing, so the overall effectiveness of the strategy employed might be compromised as future events unfold. Practical implications A stage-based practical guide to adopting delaying silence is proposed as a supporting strategy before the execution of crisis response strategies. Originality/value This is one of the few studies to examine the role of silence in crisis communication as silence is not recognized as a type of response in dominant crisis theories – be it the situational crisis communication theory or the image repair theory (An and Cheng, 2010; Benoit, 2015; Benoit and Pang, 2008; Xu and Li, 2013).
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Taheri, Shayan, Milad Salem, and Jiann-Shiun Yuan. "Leveraging Image Representation of Network Traffic Data and Transfer Learning in Botnet Detection." Big Data and Cognitive Computing 2, no. 4 (November 27, 2018): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bdcc2040037.
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The advancements in the Internet has enabled connecting more devices into this technology every day. The emergence of the Internet of Things has aggregated this growth. Lack of security in an IoT world makes these devices hot targets for cyber criminals to perform their malicious actions. One of these actions is the Botnet attack, which is one of the main destructive threats that has been evolving since 2003 into different forms. This attack is a serious threat to the security and privacy of information. Its scalability, structure, strength, and strategy are also under successive development, and that it has survived for decades. A bot is defined as a software application that executes a number of automated tasks (simple but structurally repetitive) over the Internet. Several bots make a botnet that infects a number of devices and communicates with their controller called the botmaster to get their instructions. A botnet executes tasks with a rate that would be impossible to be done by a human being. Nowadays, the activities of bots are concealed in between the normal web flows and occupy more than half of all web traffic. The largest use of bots is in web spidering (web crawler), in which an automated script fetches, analyzes, and files information from web servers. They also contribute to other attacks, such as distributed denial of service (DDoS), SPAM, identity theft, phishing, and espionage. A number of botnet detection techniques have been proposed, such as honeynet-based and Intrusion Detection System (IDS)-based. These techniques are not effective anymore due to the constant update of the bots and their evasion mechanisms. Recently, botnet detection techniques based upon machine/deep learning have been proposed that are more capable in comparison to their previously mentioned counterparts. In this work, we propose a deep learning-based engine for botnet detection to be utilized in the IoT and the wearable devices. In this system, the normal and botnet network traffic data are transformed into image before being given into a deep convolutional neural network, named DenseNet with and without considering transfer learning. The system is implemented using Python programming language and the CTU-13 Dataset is used for evaluation in one study. According to our simulation results, using transfer learning can improve the accuracy from 33.41% up to 99.98%. In addition, two other classifiers of Support Vector Machine (SVM) and logistic regression have been used. They showed an accuracy of 83.15% and 78.56%, respectively. In another study, we evaluate our system by an in-house live normal dataset and a solely botnet dataset. Similarly, the system performed very well in data classification in these studies. To examine the capability of our system for real-time applications, we measure the system training and testing times. According to our examination, it takes 0.004868 milliseconds to process each packet from the network traffic data during testing.
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Qu, Shenming, Xuan Liu, and Shengbin Liang. "Multi-Scale Superpixels Dimension Reduction Hyperspectral Image Classification Algorithm Based on Low Rank Sparse Representation Joint Hierarchical Recursive Filtering." Sensors 21, no. 11 (June 2, 2021): 3846. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113846.
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The original Hyperspectral image (HSI) has different degrees of Hughes phenomenon and mixed noise, leading to the decline of classification accuracy. To make full use of the spatial-spectral joint information of HSI and improve the classification accuracy, a novel dual feature extraction framework joint transform domain-spatial domain filtering based on multi-scale-superpixel-dimensionality reduction (LRS-HRFMSuperPCA) is proposed. Our framework uses the low-rank structure and sparse representation of HSI to repair the unobserved part of the original HSI caused by noise and then denoises it through a block-matching 3D algorithm. Next, the dimension of the reconstructed HSI is reduced by principal component analysis (PCA), and the dimensions of the reduced images are segmented by multi-scale entropy rate superpixels. All the principal component images with superpixels are projected into the reconstructed HSI in parallel. Secondly, PCA is once again used to reduce the dimension of all HSIs with superpixels in scale with hyperpixels. Moreover, hierarchical domain transform recursive filtering is utilized to obtain the feature images; ultimately, the decision fusion strategy based on a support vector machine (SVM) is used for classification. According to the Overall Accuracy (OA), Average Accuracy (AA) and Kappa coefficient on the three datasets (Indian Pines, University of Pavia and Salinas), the experimental results have shown that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. The conclusion is that LRS-HRFMSuperPCA can denoise and reconstruct the original HSI and then extract the space-spectrum joint information fully.
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Zhang, Yanhong, and Honghong Yao. "Potential Therapeutic Mechanisms and Tracking of Transplanted Stem Cells: Implications for Stroke Treatment." Stem Cells International 2017 (2017): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2707082.
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Stem cell therapy is a promising potential therapeutic strategy to treat cerebral ischemia in preclinical and clinical trials. Currently proposed treatments for stroke employing stem cells include the replacement of lost neurons and integration into the existing host circuitry, the release of growth factors to support and promote endogenous repair processes, and the secretion of extracellular vesicles containing proteins, noncoding RNA, or DNA to regulate gene expression in recipient cells and achieve immunomodulation. Progress has been made to elucidate the precise mechanisms underlying stem cell therapy and the homing, migration, distribution, and differentiation of transplanted stem cells in vivo using various imaging modalities. Noninvasive and safe tracer agents with high sensitivity and image resolution must be combined with long-term monitoring using imaging technology to determine the optimal therapy for stroke in terms of administration route, dosage, and timing. This review discusses potential therapeutic mechanisms of stem cell transplantation for the treatment of stroke and the limitations of current therapies. Methods to label transplanted cells and existing imaging systems for stem cell labeling and in vivo tracking will also be discussed.
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Luchenciuc Elena-Georgiana, Mihaela Rus, and Tanase Tasente. "Organizational communication and corporate social responsibility. Case study: Romanian vs. International CSR." Technium Social Sciences Journal 3, no. 1 (January 16, 2020): 76–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.47577/tssj.v3i1.62.
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When we say "Organizational communication", we think, unconsciously, about organizations and how they are influenced by the effectiveness of communication both between team members and the external environment. Because the world revolves around ideas, concepts and communication strategies well developed for the purpose of informing, helping or even manipulating local and global communities, the paper will emphasize the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) campaigns and how they influence the environment in the context of sustainable development, various categories of public or the image gained from such an initiative as they may represent a smart strategy to repair a stained name. To emphasize the importance of CSR, we will present some campaigns initiated by an the organization of the food and drink industry, both in Romania and internationally, between 2016-2018. Through this research, we set out to identify the main social responsibility campaigns of the organization, the main areas of action of the social responsibility campaigns and to establish comparative analysis between the particularities of the CSR campaigns in Romania and internationally.
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Cheng, Xiaodong, Michael T. Byrne, Kevin Brown, Marina Konopleva, Steven M. Kornblau, Richard L. Bennett, and W. Stratford May. "PKR Inhibits the DNA Damage Response and Correlates with Poor Clinical Outcomes in AML." Blood 124, no. 21 (December 6, 2014): 1017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v124.21.1017.1017.
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Abstract Introduction: Dysregulation of the double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) disturbs cellular signaling pathways that influence proliferation, differentiation, inflammation and apoptosis. Given the multifaceted functions of PKR in cellular stress signaling and inflammation, how PKR may play a role in tumorigenesis is a significant but underexplored area. Using a proteomic approach, we stratified AML patients according to PKR expression level in CD34+ leukemic cells and find that patients with high PKR expression have inferior clinical outcomes. Significantly, results from both acute leukemia derived cell lines and primary AML BM samples reveal that increased PKR expression leads to inhibition of DNA damage response (DDR) and DNA double strand break (DSB) repair. Thus, high PKR expression/activity in leukemic cells may retard the DNA damage response, enhance genomic instability and facilitate leukemia progression. Method: Peripheral blood and bone marrow specimens were collected from 414 patients with newly diagnosed AML and evaluated for outcomes at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) between September 1999 and March 2007. Samples were acquired during routine diagnostic assessments in accordance with the regulations and protocols (Lab 01-473) approved by the Investigational Review Board (IRB) of MDACC and analyzed under IRB-approved laboratory protocol (Lab 05-0654). Transgenic PKR (TgPKR) and dominant-negative PKR (DNPKR) mice were previously developed in our lab. PKR knockout mice (PKRKO) were provided by Dr. Robert Silverman (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH). The study was approved by UF IACUC protocol #201102224. Sample preparation and RPPA processing was done as described (Kornblau et al., 2011). Proteomic profiling for PKR was performed on AML patient samples by RPPA using the PKR monoclonal M02 antibody (Abnova). Neutral Comet assay and Olive tail moment calculations were performed by Wimasis Image analysis (Munich, Germany). γ-H2AX, p-ATM, p-NBS-1 levels were evaluated by both western blot and flow cytometry. Results: High level of PKR expression in CD34+ blast cells from 414 newly diagnosed AML patients correlates with reduced remission duration and poor survival. Cells with decreased PKR expression or treated with the PKR inhibitor (PKRI) have a significantly more rapid induction of γ-H2AX formation, increased p-ATM and p-NBS1 following ionizing irradiation (IR). On the other hand, bone marrow hematopoietic stem progenitor cells (HSPCs) isolated from transgenic mice overexpressing human PKR (TgPKR) display a decreased level of p-ATm and p-NBS1 indicating a depressed DDR following IR. Significantly in human CD34+ leukemia blasts an inverse relationship exists between PKR expression and γ-H2AX or p-ATM. Results from the Neutral comet assay shows that REH cells with decreased PKR expression or HSPCs from PKRKO mice are able to repair DSBs at a significantly faster rate than HSPCs from WT mice, which repair DSB at faster rate than those from TgPKR mice. In addition treatment of TgPKR cells or CD34+ AML blasts with PKRI can restore the efficiency of DSB repair. Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that PKR inhibits/retards the DDR and DNA DSB repair following genotoxic stress, the consequence of which results in genomic instability. This finding may explain, at least in part, our observation that high PKR expression in primary AML blast cells is associated with poor survival of patients with AML. Therefore pharmacological inhibition of PKR may represent a novel therapeutic strategy that targets and reduces genomic instability in these cells and may improve the clinical outcomes in such AML patients. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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Tereshchenko, V. V. "DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF GROWING UP OF RURAL ADOLESCENTS." Vestnik of Minin University 7, no. 1 (March 17, 2019): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26795/2307-1281-2019-7-1-13.
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Introduction: growing up of a child is a process of constantly changing the structure of his subjective and objective characteristics, including the formation in ontogenesis of the image of adulthood, its development and implementation, as well as the reflection of the development of adulthood by children in the psychological and pedagogical space by participants of the educational process (parents, educators). In the framework of one of the particular hypotheses, we define the psychological and pedagogical space for the development of a rural schoolchild by the dynamics of maturation of the components of self-awareness: self-understanding, self-actualization and selfattitude. The data of an empirical study of the dynamic aspects of the maturing of schoolchildren in the space of the village, who are going through the inter-age transition, are presented. The goal is determined by the need to study the specific characteristics of growing up of rural adolescents living in the Velizhsky and Smolensk districts of the Smolensk region, who are studying in rural schools for a total of 120 people, 68 of which are boys and 52 are girls. Materials and methods: to study the structural and content characteristics of the dynamics of growing up, determined by the development of the components of self-awareness: selfunderstanding, self-actualization and self-relation, we used the following psychological tools: 1) the method of assessing the level of self-actualization of the person (SAMOAL) Kalina (1987); 2) the method of the study of self-attitude (IIA) Pantileev and V.V. Stolin (1989); 3) the method of free self-description of M. Kuhn and T. McPartland (1992). Results: the results of the study showed that adolescents in the studied sample are characterized by high self-understanding scales (χ = 7.82), which is evidence that adolescents are sensitive, sensitive to their own needs and desires, are free from psychological defenses that separate their personality from its own essence, and also not inclined to the substitution of their own tastes and evaluations by external social standards adopted in society. The data of the correlation analysis in the studied sample of adolescents self-understanding positively correlates with p <0.01 with autonomy (r = 0.47), spontaneity (r = 0.31), autosympathy (r = 0.49) and contact (r = 0, 18). High values were determined on the scales of reflected self-relation (χ = 6.05), self-value (χ = 6.89) and selfattachment (χ = 5.92). These data reflect adolescents’ perceptions that their personality, character, and activities are capable of giving others respect, sympathy, approval, and understanding; and also point to some rigidity of their «self-concept», conservative self-sufficiency, denial of the possibility and desirability of developing their self hood against the background of the characteristics of growing up. Discussion and conclusions: the content of adolescents’ self-understanding presents the realities and aspects of their own inner life that are relevant for the development of their personality. High school students seek to understand not only their personal qualities and character traits, interests and abilities, attitudes towards themselves and with other people, but also their feelings and motives, values and beliefs, life plans and goals. The process of growing up of adolescents involves the development of the main components of their self-awareness, and in this process adults can be of great help to the teenager. The data obtained are taken into account in the psychological and pedagogical support of adolescents in the socio-cultural space of the village; a program of socio-psychological training sessions has been developed, aimed at developing their self-understanding, self-actualization and self-relationship, which will ensure the development of their adult self-consciousness. There is a tendency to further research on the influence of sociocultural factors on the implementation of a particular strategy of growing up and the attitude of growing children to it at a distance of adolescence.
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Pang, Augustine, Eada Hogan, and Igor Andrasevic. "The Catholic Church abuse scandal in Ireland: two steps forward, one step back by Pope Francis?" Corporate Communications: An International Journal ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (June 17, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ccij-12-2020-0166.
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PurposeIreland is viewed as the shining base for Catholicism. That image is shattered as survivors revealed the abuse in the Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes, and sexual abuse by priests. This study aims to examine image repair efforts by the Pope during his August 2018 visit.Design/methodology/approachExamined against the Letter of His Holiness released days earlier, this study evaluates all the Pope's speeches during his visit to Ireland using the image repair theory (Benoit and Pang, 2008) as its theoretical lens.FindingsPope Francis used the evasion of responsibility strategy to address the Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes scandal and denial, corrective action and mortification for sex abuse crisis.Research limitations/implicationsAddresses call by Ferguson et al. (2018) to examine the consistency and effectiveness of strategies.Practical implicationsBeyond rhetoric, stakeholders would be looking to organizational leaders to provide relief and concrete steps to recover from their pain.Originality/valueA leader's narratives represent the organization's narratives; thus, insights from this study can help leaders plan what they should say when conducting image repair. It is not just their own reputations that are on the line but, in this case, it is also the reputations of the people they represent
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Heppell, Timothy. "The British Labour Party and the antisemitism crisis: Jeremy Corbyn and image repair theory." British Journal of Politics and International Relations, May 27, 2021, 136914812110159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13691481211015920.
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This article utilises the work of William Benoit on image repair theory as a framework for examining the crisis communication of Jeremy Corbyn in relation to antisemitism within the Labour Party. By examining the self-defence rhetoric of Corbyn on the antisemitism allegations, the article identifies the following. Of the five strategies for crisis communication, Corbyn was overly reliant on denial, evading responsibility and reducing offensiveness; struggled to explain his attempts at corrective action; and reverted to accepting responsibility – that is, apologies – reluctantly and belatedly. Utilising existing perspectives on the most effective strategies for image repair – which emphasise the importance of effective corrective action and accepting responsibility at the expense of denial, evading responsibility and reducing effectiveness – the article argues that Corbyn undermined his own attempts at image repair in the crisis that defined his leadership.
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Wang, Dedong, Ziyao Zhou, and Yongqiang Lu. "Combined strategy of trust repair in construction project organizations: an exploratory study in Chinese management scenario." International Journal of Managing Projects in Business ahead-of-print, ahead-of-print (July 5, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmpb-05-2020-0143.
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PurposeThis study aims to explore the combined strategies leading to successful repair of two types of trust in Chinese construction projects and provide an effective guidance and control trust repair in construction projects. During the research period, the author interviewed 150 managers from 50 Chinese construction projects and collected details of 125 violations. The research examines the effect of combined strategy of trust repair in Chinese management scenario.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a mixed, quantitative, qualitative and exploratory approach. The author first extracted six strategies, namely, apology, denial, penance, communication, promise and compensation, from the literature review and generalization. Then, the author conducted an interview with 150 managers from 50 China construction projects. And the author analyzed the data through qualitative comparative analysis (QCA).FindingsWhen competence-based trust is broken, violators should adopt communication and promise, demonstrate their competence and qualification, and change the attributions of competence from the trustor. When integrity-based trust is broken, violators should apologize, actively admit the mistake, show a positive attitude and seek the forgiveness from the trustor. After reconstructing trustors' perceptions of competence or integrity, violators should also make a promise to trustors for the future. The result of this research not only illustrates the sufficiency and necessity of a single strategy for trust repair but also explores the combination of trust repair strategies that rebuild the trust.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited to 50 construction projects in the Chinese construction context, so conclusions are limited in application. Data used in this research did not provide an in-depth analysis of trust repair failures. Thus, additional research is needed to explore why trust was not repaired. The study is also limited to examining the Chinese construction project organizations only, and future studies should incorporate organizations in other nations and regions.Practical implicationsCompared with using a single strategy, a combined strategy provides a contribution to the future practice of repair broken relationship between construction project organizations. This research helps to organize decisions and benefits managers, from Chinese owners and contractors, in choosing which of these strategies repair trust. The author also provides a specific combination of strategies to repair relationships for international companies that have conflicts with Chinese construction companies.Originality/valueThis research is among the early studies in China that preliminary examines the combined strategy of trust repair between Chinese owners and contractors by using causal attribution theory and QCA. This study makes a valuable contribution toward combined strategy in construction project and the knowledge system of trust repair. Future studies could build on the findings from the current study to develop a cross-cultural research on trust repair.
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"Secure Cloud Storage of Text and Image Files by Giving Access Control to Users." International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8, no. 4 (November 30, 2019): 4618–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.c5172.118419.
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Cloud computing is extensively used but it’s not completely trustworthy. It can be in terms of protecting or securing the confidential data from malicious attacks as well as from cloud providers. Also once the data is deployed on cloud, the user has no control over it. So rather than deploying the original text file the user encrypts the file and then uploads on the cloud. When this file needs to be shared with other it can be done using Cipher text Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE). This gives the central access to the owner and secures the data from external attacks. Besides, the cloud provider serves both as the payee of resource consumption fee, lacking the transparency to data owners. So to reduce these factors a specific encryption strategy is been used and the time for encryption is also taken into account. The files are also encrypted by the priority that are given by the user during the file uploading section. A text file of size 1GB with the CP-ABE encryption strategy requires 174 seconds whereas encryption done using AES is 473 seconds and that of RSA is 330 seconds. Hence, this dissertation work proposes methodology to secure or protect encrypted cloud storage from Economic Denial of Sustainability attacks and give an efficient time constraint approach.
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Kishimoto, Noriaki, Toshihiko Shibata, Kokoro Yamane, Hiromichi Fujii, Yosuke Takahashi, and Takashi Murakami. "Minimally invasive dual-valve repair in situs inversus totalis: strategy for tricuspid valve." Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals, December 29, 2020, 021849232098489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0218492320984891.
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A 70-year-old man, diagnosed with severe mitral regurgitation and moderate tricuspid regurgitation with situs inversus totalis, was referred to our hospital. A minimally invasive approach via a minithoracotomy was performed. The mitral valve was repaired with the loop technique and ring annuloplasty. With an asymmetric shape of the tricuspid valve, the use of a conventional rigid ring was not feasible. Therefore, flexible ring annuloplasty had to be performed. The minimally invasive approach for mirror-image anatomy did not pose an unusual technical challenge. It was safely performed in the context of situs inversus totalis.
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"New Efficient Locust Based Genetic Classifier for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms with Digital Image Processing." International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 8, no. 5 (January 30, 2020): 898–905. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.d9272.018520.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) based Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA) treatment for Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) assess the disease advancement of patients and recognize confusions. Picture preparing is one of the testing and developing medical field. MRI as a hotspot, extracts, distinguishes and classify tainted locale from AAA picture. It is a critical concern yet a troubling and tedious errand performed by radiologists and medical specialist and their experience determine classification precision. Hence it is important to utilize PC supported methods to overcome the above restrictions by utilizing PC supported method. A Locust based hereditary classifier and Gabor wavelet based AAA tumor segmentation and arrangement is proposed in this paper to improve the classification exactness and reduces the acknowledgement complexities of therapeutic picture. The classification performance metrics such as precision, affectability, and explicitness of the proposed strategy is validated for AAA pictures. The accomplished simulated (MATLAB) outcomes of 94.23% of precision, 92.3% of explicitness, and 93.6% of affectability show the enhancement in characterizing ordinary and anomalous tissues of AAA pictures.
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Wang, Qian, Cindy Sing-Bik Ngai, and Rita Gill Singh. "Research Note: A Discursive Analysis of Crisis Response Strategies in CEO Apologies—Drawing on Linguistic Insights from the Appraisal Framework." Management Communication Quarterly, May 19, 2021, 089331892110120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08933189211012009.
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When corporations are confronted with a crisis, well-crafted CEO apologies can serve to repair, restore, and rebuild a damaged corporate image. In prior research, the use of linguistic resources exhibited in CEO corporate apology discourse for different crisis response strategies has not been sufficiently examined. Drawing on the appraisal framework and subsumed linguistic resources, this study analyzed the discursive construction of crisis response strategies in the corporate apology discourse of leading companies listed in the Fortune Global 2000. The findings revealed an integrated use of crisis response strategies in which attitude appraisal resources predominated, while different types of appraisal resources were deployed in various crisis response strategies to achieve rhetorical persuasion in corporate communication. The proposed framework integrating crisis response strategies in CEO apology discourse with appraisal resources could guide CEOs and crisis communicators to use the right words when composing corporate apologies.
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Tweed, TTT, CV Maduro, NH Güneș, M. Poeze, and J. O. Busari. "Diversity matters: the other doctor within the Dutch academic healthcare system." BMJ Leader, September 27, 2021, leader—2021–000488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/leader-2021-000488.
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IntroductionOver the past year, there has been a worldwide increase in the focus on systemic discrimination and inequitable practices within different societies, particularly concerning race and ethnicity. The inherent (experience of) inequity in racism is notonly limited to individuals but also found in different domains of societal structures, including healthcare and academia. In academia and healthcare organisations, junior Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) doctors and students regularly find themselves caught between the leaky pipeline phenomenon and hierarchically dependent positions in academic healthcare settings. Voicing their experiences after such encounters is neither an option nor a choice they can do without repercussions. The prejudices, stigmas, implicit biases present within these environments result in segregated practices, where BAME doctors become the ‘other’ doctor (otherism), and based on their religion, ethnicity, migrant background or physical features are boxed into a specific group or category.Reflections & recommendationsThe outcome of this exercise (re-) emphasised that more improvement in the Dutch healthcare systems concerning stigmas and biases towards race and ethnicity are needed to promote the inclusion of future BAME doctors and students. A pivotal turn is urgently needed to repair the racial stigmas and biases that have distorted the image of BAME doctors/students, limiting their academic and professional progress. By structurally implementing focused strategies to promote inclusivity, the current gap within healthcare and the participation between non- BAME and BAME-doctors/students can be bridged, inevitably leading to better healthcare services, safer learning environments and a balanced representation of our multicultural societies in healthcare.We argue that increased self-reflection from such critical inquiry will ultimately result in clear and objective understandings of (pre) existent inequitable practices in our societies.