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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Public sentiment"”.
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Public Sentiment on Immigrants and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. A Cross -National Multilevel Analysis
… arises is: How different are the ex-socialist publics in their representations of immigrants and immigration policies among themselves and, taken together, compared to Western Europe? To answer this, I draw on and extend the existing theoretical and empirical contributions on prejudice and …
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The Short-term and Long-term Relationship between Public Sentiment and Insurgency Violence in 3 Southern Provinces of Thailand
… the theory on the intrastate conflict and public sentiment as well as the conventional wisdom on the conflict study as well as developing new analytical framework for studying intrastate conflict and for informing policymakers to deliver or adjust for a better policy to cope with this …
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Analyzing Causality between Actual Stock Prices and User-weighted Sentiment in Social Media for Stock Market Prediction
In this thesis, an improved sentiment analysis algorithm is proposed which reflects the impact of user, and to analyze whether public sentiment calculated by the proposed algorithm can contribute to stock prediction. The proposed sentiment analysis algorithm reflects the factors of Twitter which …
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Best Interests Of The Child Principle In The Context Of Parent Separation Or Divorce : As Conceptualised By The Community
… Given that one of the aims of law is to reflect public sentiment (Green, 1996), the current study explored the general public’s conceptualisation of BIC. More specifically, I sought to determine what community members think the term “best interests” means and what factors they believe need to be …
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Garfield County resident perceptions of the indirect effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics
… theory, the study sought to better understand public sentiment regarding the upcoming mega-event. Certain resident values were examined in relation to tourism; The results show that some residents perceive that the Olympics will bring opportunities, but most residents do not anticipate any …
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Colin Powell's 2000 keynote address: Compassionate conservatism in an age of cynicism
… he delivered his keynote address at the 2000 Republican National Convention, including the existing political atmosphere and public sentiment, the political implications of a Republican victory, the influence of technology on campaign rhetoric, and audience attitude toward him. Despite …
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Kairotic Eclipses in Vaccine Legislation: How Overlapping Spheres of Discourse Create Ideal Public Policy Climates
… confronts its fourth measles outbreak of 2015, public health officials must quickly address declining vaccination rates. This thesis explores public sentiment about vaccination as it relates to public policy communication and private health practices though a rhetorical history of Hepatitis B …
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A Step toward Ending Long Airport Security Lines: The Modified Boarding Pass
… were used alone. In an airport survey to gather public sentiment, three-quarters of the respondents saw value in the idea of the modified boarding pass. Although the majority of the respondents were receptive to it becoming an option for future travel, many also felt that the modified boarding …
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Corporate Social Irresponsibility: A Critique of American Businesses’ Vacillating Stakeholder Strategies in Reaction to Public Opinion
… CSR strategies are unduly influenced by public opinion that supplants transcendent ethical principles. To test this claim, I examine changes in CSR behaviors before and after the racially charged events that took place in the United States in 2020, including the killing of George Floyd …
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Wild West in Upstate New York: Native American Culture, Performances, and Public Debates about Indian Affairs, 1880s-1930s
From the 1880s to the 1930s, Americans flocked to public performances by Native Americans. As this thesis examines, these events –Wild West shows, dances, living museum exhibits, mock battles with torturing, and so on—were just as popular in upstate New York as around the nation. Focusing on the …
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Evidence-Based Sentencing as Applied in a Circuit Court Using Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission Recommendations
… effect on African-Americans, which magnified the public sentiment that the criminal justice system was broken. During the same period, the concept of evidence-based sentencing was being developed. Some form of it was adopted in federal courts and almost half the states, including Missouri. …
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The impact of the EU internet gaming policies on Malta
… of gambling in different states according to public opinion and wishes. In the 1980's gambling was completely banned, but in the 1920's it was allowed to slowly come back due to public sentiment, until in 1931 it was completely legalized in Nevada. In the 1970's 'Riverboat' and 'Indian …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… offers the best possibility of understanding public sentiment toward Texas annexation and the presidential election of 1844. The evidence examined in this study indicates that Texas annexation became a decisive issue in the presidential election of 1844. It also shows that, although the press …
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Mathematical modeling of urban water management strategies
… the legal interpretation of water right laws, public sentiment towards reuse, consolidation of water supply and wastewater treatment responsibilities, and water quality control philosophies.
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Sentiment analysis using unsupervised learning for local government elections in South Africa
Understanding public sentiment is vital for political parties in order for them to be able to structure their election campaigns around voter expectations. The study focuses on unsupervised learning to assess the variation of polarity sentiment in tweets during the 2021 South African local …
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Analyzing Twitter Data for Emergency Management
… of information that comes directly from the public; it can reflect public sentiment, needs, and questions. In this research, I performed an interview study to find the use cases and challenges that emergency-related organizations encounter when dealing with social media. The findings reveal …
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Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North
… sensible even urgent. Third, they orient public sentiment towards a “future anterior,” a form of temporal longing that I argue impedes a deep reading of the historical present and participates in a politics of deferral. Fourth, they rely on and reproduce a chronotopically constrained …
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Office of Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle
… all others during the past legislative session. Public Administration attempts to teach us how to be responsible managers of human and financial resources, as well as students of people and organizations. During my internship with the General Assembly in Georgia I was exposed to a wide range of …
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Factors Predicting Public’s Willingness to Support National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Artemis Mission
… face of this significant undertaking, gauging public sentiment and understanding the factors driving public support becomes necessary. The current study aimed to address a critical gap in the literature by examining public support for NASA’s Artemis mission, which is essential for sustaining …
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Immigration policy and the role of political discourses in the relationship between foreign nationals and crime in England and wales
… nationals and crime and elevating negative public sentiment and the relationship with media reports. This research highlights the limitations of existing data relating to the criminality of foreign nationals in offending records in England and Wales, partly due to the disorganised recording …
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