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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Industry Studies"”.
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THE ECONOMICS OF MOBILE INTERNATIONAL ROAMING
… roaming is a hot topic in the telecommunications industry. Many countries have witnessed a downward trend in mobile domestic prices. On the contrary, international roaming prices remained reluctant to follow the domestic trend. In Europe, the service has been regulated with price cap since 2007, …
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We are in Convergence: Intergenerational Synergies in Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Franchises
… media economies, the field of adaptation studies has remained reluctant to engage with children’s media culture and its products, leaving the discussion to fall into the hands of scholars of children’s literature, wherein the field’s well-documented distrust of commercial media forms and …
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Media industry events as platforms for social justice : moving from inspiration to impact in creative production
This dissertation examines media industry events to understand their capacity as platforms for social justice in creative production. Organizations and individuals throughout the United States expressed vocal commitments to social justice following mass protests in 2020 over the murder of George …
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Comportamento in vitro de Chalara paradoxa sob diferentes condições de cultivo
… high losses in fruit for the fresh market and industry. Studies are scarce regarding the knowledge and nutritional morphophysiological best conditions of this pathogen involving different culture conditions, such as culture media, temperatures and luminosities, which are key factors in …
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The Screenplay Business: Managing creativity in script development in the contemporary British independent film industry
… of how films are created. Film business studies has traditionally avoided close study of the screenplay development process, perhaps as a result of the film studies emphasis on analysing the text of the completed film, and the auteur theory emphasis on the importance of the director; both …
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Emerging South-South media flows: Chinese media in Africa
… Africa has given rise to a burgeoning pay-TV industry. Amid this technological transition, a Chinese pay-TV provider StarTimes has become a major player with multinational operations in Africa. This dissertation looks beyond West-driven media globalization to explore emerging South-South media …
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Econometric Analysis of Pricing and Operational Strategies
… An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Automotive Industry," uses a detailed dataset of the U.S. auto industry to examine the relationship between production flexibility and responsive pricing. Our analysis shows that deploying production flexibility is associated with a reduction in observed …
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"""Painting with faces"": The casting director in American theatre, cinema, and television"
… casting directors rarely figure in industry studies because these analyses typically focus on directors or producers. Archival documents such as memoirs, memos, and casting idea lists indicate, however, that casting personnel were not simply clerical workers, but, rather, by …
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Hierarchy in industry architecture : transaction strategy under technological constraints
… big picture of the eco-system. Goal -- Previous industry studies have focused on the question if a transaction with an external firm is needed rather than in-house production, and on empirical work from single industries or bilateral relationships between firms. Meanwhile, the firms' positions in …
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Determinants of green construction adoption in the Malaysian housebuilding industry
… adopting green construction in the construction industry has gained growing attention among related organisations and governments worldwide and contributed to various efforts to promote its adoption and implementation. However, current evidence suggests the struggles of individual practitioners …
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Producing Representation: Re-Visiting Jewish Women in/on the American Sitcom
… entertainment media. I then analyze three case studies: Rhoda Morgenstern of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77) and Rhoda (1974-79); Fran Fine of The Nanny (1993-99); and Ilana Wexler and Abbi Abrams of Broad City (2014-19). To uncover the production contexts of these case studies, I analyze …
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Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network
… By doing so, Netflix up-ended both the TV industry's traditional content release structures and viewers' habits. By shifting TV distribution to the Internet, Netflix drastically increased the control viewers have over where, when, and on what devices viewers watch TV.</p> <p>In its third …
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
… of what television—as both a concept and an industry—represents in the twenty-first century. This project unpacks Bravo’s network strategies and explores how postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies are presented through the channel’s most successful franchise, The Real Housewives. I focus on …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… The second research methodology is indus•ry case studies. Two industry studies presented in this study are cigarettes and cement. The study begins with an overview of the evolution of Indonesian trade and industrial policies and the salient features of the manufacturing sector. An analysis of the …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… The second research methodology is indus•ry case studies. Two industry studies presented in this study are cigarettes and cement. The study begins with an overview of the evolution of Indonesian trade and industrial policies and the salient features of the manufacturing sector. An analysis of the …
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Open mic? Gender and the meritocratic myth of authenticity in the cultural production of stand-up comedy
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 109811 Lift date: 2021-02-07T20:44:35Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Residues of cypermethrin, dimethoate and metalaxyl in locally harvested carrots
… in its validation stage in the European Union; • studies of recovery are also still in their validation stage in the European Union. Regarding the second aim, none of the 3 pesticides studied were found to be present in the locally harvested carrot samples. Keeping in mind the quantities of …
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Using high pressure to study thermal transport and phonon scattering mechanisms
"The aerospace industry studies nanocomposites for heat dissipation and moderation of thermal expansion, and the semiconductor industry faces a Joule heating barrier in devices with high power density. Be it for the nanocomposite frame of a satellite's solar panel array, or a miniaturized …
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Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry
Studies of hog industry structure often invoke risk reduction and transaction costs explanations for empirical observations, but fail to directly examine the relevant transaction attributes. This study employs unique survey and accounting data to explain Illinois producers' marketing arrangements …
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Structural relationship model of causes and effects of construction changes in UAE construction industry
Studies have shown that changes happened in late construction project phases contributed in major failure of a project. Hence, this study is intended to develop structural relationship model of causes and effects for construction changes from the perspective of the UAE construction practitioners. …