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Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr): An Examination Of Consumer Awareness, Evaluation And Purchase Action, Alan A. Pomering Jan 2005

Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr): An Examination Of Consumer Awareness, Evaluation And Purchase Action, Alan A. Pomering

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Despite marketplace polls reporting heightened consumer interest in and support for companies acting in socially-responsible ways, there remains to date little evidence of such consumer support translating into general purchase behaviour. There is a gap in our knowledge regarding which particular socially-responsible behaviours are likely to prove most influential with consumers and be rewarded with supportive purchase behaviour, and how awareness of firms’ commitments to these behaviours is to be brought to consumers’ attention. It appears from the marketplace success of some socially-responsible, or ‘ethical’ brands, such as The Body Shop and recently launched clothing brands such as American Apparel …


Toxicity, Biotransformation, And Mode Of Action Of Arsenic In Two Freshwater Microalgae (Chlorella Sp. And Monoraphidium Arcuatum), Jacqueline L. Levy, Jennifer L. Stauber, Merrin S. Adams, William A. Maher, Jason K. Kirby, Dianne F. Jolley Jan 2005

Toxicity, Biotransformation, And Mode Of Action Of Arsenic In Two Freshwater Microalgae (Chlorella Sp. And Monoraphidium Arcuatum), Jacqueline L. Levy, Jennifer L. Stauber, Merrin S. Adams, William A. Maher, Jason K. Kirby, Dianne F. Jolley

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The toxicity of As(V) and As(III) to two axenic tropical 15 freshwater microalgae, Chlorella sp. and Monoraphidium arcuatum, was determined using 72-h growth rate inhibition bioassays. Both organisms were tolerant to As(III) (72-h IC50, concentration to cause 50% inhibition of growth, of 25 and 15 mg As(III)/L, respectively). Chlorella sp. was also tolerant to As(V) with no effect on growth rate over 72 h at concentrations up to 0.8 mg/L (72-h IC50 of 25 mg As(V)/L). M. arcuatum was more sensitive to As(V) (72-h IC50 of 0.25 mg As(V)/L). An increase in phosphate in the growth medium (0.15 to 1.5 …