Airports serve as one of the main economic engines and connection hubs for a country, and therefore, their performance is of rising importance. Airport performance can be measured by various methods along numerous dimensions; however, the key remains the passenger-perceived service quality and satisfaction. This paper assumes heterogeneity of passengers by classifying them into generational cohorts and investigating whether there is an intergenerational difference in passenger experience at the Philadelphia International Airport and what factors may explain that. The study utilizes the survey data collected through the questionnaire distributed to departing/connecting PHL passengers. The methodology includes regression analysis, ANOVA model, and cross-tabulations. The findings confirm the presence of variation in passenger experience and satisfaction with the airport depending on their generational affiliation. The intergenerational difference was particularly significant in the overall experience with PHL, which includes 24 items related to experience outside of the airport, outside of the terminal, and inside the terminal, as well as retail/shopping experience and information sources and needs. The intergenerational difference was not significant in the passenger food/beverage experience at PHL. / Tourism and Sport

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Charitable giving has been of great interest to marketing academics because of its importance in understanding the relationships between nonprofit organizations and their customers. The concept of motivation is vital to researchers because authors have long queried about why a donor decides to give money to a charity as opposed to saving, investing, or consuming discretionary goods with these dollars. The first study in this paper was exploratory in nature; in this study, a number of concepts were investigated including differences in preferred site attributes and time viewing sites by digital nativity, as well as changes in donation behavior after the viewing the site. The second study investigates differences in altruism based on digital nativity, generation, and gender. Differences were found in terms of digital nativity, generation, and gender with respect to self-reported altruism scores. The third and final study investigates differences in perceptions of parents' altruism based on digital nativity, generation, and gender. Differences were found in terms of digital nativity and gender, but not with respect to generation, in terms of perceived parents' altruism scores. / Business Administration/Marketing

Retaining and developing high potential managers as part of a leadership pipeline is a critical aspect for business, and understanding not only the strengths these managers bring, but also how they derail and how interventions could be tailored to avoid derailment, or at least lessen the impact, is imperative for sustainable growth. The aim of the research is to highlight differences, if any, between gender and generations, in order to ascertain whether unique developmental programmes or derailment interventions would be required based on an individual's gender and age.

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This paper examines the generational changes in the culture and racial self-identification of Creoles of Color of New Orleans. This study argues that the key to understanding Creole culture is the role that isolationism has played in its history. While White ethnics pursued a path of assimilation, Creoles of Color pursued a path of isolationism. This path served them well during the Jim Crow era, but it suddenly became undesirable during the Black Power era. Now, however, new values of multiculturalism have resurrected Creole identity as a cultural asset.

Retaining and developing high potential managers as part of a leadership pipeline is a critical aspect for business, and understanding not only the strengths these managers bring, but also how they derail and how interventions could be tailored to avoid derailment, or at least lessen the impact, is imperative for sustainable growth. The aim of the research is to highlight differences, if any, between gender and generations, in order to ascertain whether unique developmental programmes or derailment interventions would be required based on an individual's gender and age.

After the surge of Hakka movement in 1980s, Hakka identity has become a public issue. As the Commission of Hakka Affairs in every level of government was constructed and Hakka colleges were founded in several universities in the following years, the category of Hakka people has been institutionalized. But in the meantime, less and less young generation of Hakka people lost the proficiency of the Hakka dialect, which was widely seen as a crucial element of the Hakka identity. This thesis aims to explore how Hakka young generation built their ethnic identity under the paradoxical situation in which the rise of Hakka identify in the public domain has been interwoven with the loss of Hakka proficiency. The author focused on three Hakka groups, including the association of young Hakka in Meinon, the organizations of I-Min Temple (Temple of the Righteous) in Kaohsiung City, and a Hakka dialect classes held by Kaohsiung Municipal government. The author also interview with young Hakka who has no affiliation with any group. The research result found the following results. First, all of the interviewees unanimously refer patrimonial lineage as the criteria of Hakka membership. Second, different groups have different understandings of the contents of Hakka culture. The members in the association of Hakka younger generation in Meinon tend to connect the Hakka identity with local identity, while the interviewees of the organizations of I-Min Temple emphasize the religious practices. The members of the Hakka dialect classes are more responsive to the official version of Hakka identity. Those interviewees without affiliation do not have clear patter and Hakka identity is even not meaningful for many. The study shows that although the public version of Hakka identity emphasizes the diverse sources of identity, but the patrimonial lineage is perceived as the main criteria of Hakka identity. On the other hand, the official category of Hakka does not imply a unified understanding of Hakka ethnicity. This thesis shows the limitation of ¡§groupism¡¨ assumption of which ethnic categories are naturally identical with social groups and social practices. Students of Hakka studies should pay more attention to the complicated relationships between ethnic categories and practices.

Wind power generations have increased impacts on the electric utility power systems. When the wind power is placed into service in an electric system, it becomes a functioning part of the system, which may require other design changes to the system and special practices to integrate it to the system. The presence of the wind power generation units will directly affect voltage profiles along a feeder by changing the direction and magnitude of active/reactive power flows. A number of coordination issues including safety issue, protection, voltages and frequency control presently require study in order to understand technical limits to the penetration of wind power or distributed generation on a given system. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the impacts of wind generators connected to a distribution system. To take load uncertainty and wind power generation uncertainty due to wind speed variation in the analysis, Monte Carlo simulation technique is used. A number of cases are tested to assess the impacts of wind power generations in various scenarios for the studied network. Test results have shown that the when wind power generators are connected to distribution network, it would not only reduce the probability of occurrence of undervoltage but also decrease the feeder losses. The analytical models proposed in this thesis can provide the utility useful information in placing the wind power generators.

Abstract This essay elaborates in a historical perspective on some controversies concerning the human rights conception. The reason why I take a historical perspective as my analytic standpoint lies in the essence of the human rights conception which is recognized as a human-made thing, rather than a natural phenomenon. In other words, the human rights conception is a kind of interpretation, knowledge and narrative. In this essay, I will firstly examine the main changes of philosophical and social conditions influencing the development and evolution of human rights conceptions. After a brief introduction of human rights conception, the following work of this essay is premised on the questions of what might be broadly termed ¡§universalism vs. relativism¡¨, ¡§individual rights vs. collective rights¡¨ and ¡§sovereignty vs. human rights¡¨. Accordingly, it is concerned with focusing scholarly attention on the place of diverse values and cultures in contemporary international society. Besides, I will take ¡§Asian value¡¨ as an object to embody those controversies mentioned above. Briefly speaking, there are four premises on which the ¡§Asian value¡¨ is founded, namely ¡§priority of the socio-economic rights over the politico-civil rights¡¨, ¡§priority of the cultural particularity over the universality of human rights¡¨, ¡§priority of individual rights over collective rights¡¨, and ¡§priority of sovereignty over human rights¡¨. Finally, I will examine the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It is argued that the notion of the ¡§fusion of horizons¡¨, which Gadamer derives from the linguistic and nature and historicity of human existence, provides fruitful responses to those competing opinions outlined above. I suggest that an application of Gadamer¡¦s inspiring ideas opens the way to a more convergent and inclusive human rights conception.