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When corporations are confronted with a crisis, well-crafted CEO apologies can serve to repair, restore, and rebuild damaged corporate image. In prior research, the use of linguistic resources exhibited in apology discourse for different crisis response strategies has not been sufficiently examined. Drawing on appraisal framework subsumed resources, this study analyzed discursive construction l...

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Global biodiversity continues along a trajectory of decline despite enormous conservation efforts (Rands et al., 2010). This is also true in China, one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world (Liu and Raven, 2010; Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 2010a). To fundamentally change this trajectory, it is essential to understand complex interactions among various forces af...