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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"SUPERSTAR"”.
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Predicting the obvious : a machine learning approach to superstar inventions
… and, contrary to what one might expect, superstar patents are the most predictable while patents in the middle of the distribution are most contaminated with noise. We show predictability of patents increases monotonically over the patent distribution - with the most valuable being the …
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From chef to superstar : food media from World War 2 to the World Wide Web
This thesis examines representations of food in twenty-first century media, and argues that the media obsession with food in evidence today follows directly from U.K. and U.S. post-war industrial and economic booms, and by the associated processes of globalisation that secure the spread of emergent …
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Bulimic bodies and “bearers of production” : representing bulimia in Todd Haynes’s Superstar: the Karen Carpenter story and Mika Rottenberg’s NoNoseKnows
… rather than fasting—is forgotten. Similarly, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), a film by Todd Haynes which uses Barbie dolls to reenact Karen’s life and stardom leading up to her death, describes Carpenter as anorexic, even though images of Ex-Lax, Ipecac, and toilets populate the …
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Managing bacterial wilt, caused by Erwinia tracheiphila, on muskmelon with early control of striped cucumber beetle ( Acalymma vittatum (F)), and through varietal selection
… susceptible cultivars. Without row covers, ‘Superstar’, ‘Aphrodite’ and ‘Wrangler’ produced significantly greater yield than the lowest yielding cultivars at all locations. With row covers, early season beetle populations did not differ among cultivars and BW was greatest in ‘Dream Dew’ and …
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That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success
… show, devoted to finding “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” transforms the historically maligned drag queen from a hegemonic masculine failure into a celebrated superstar. Created, coproduced, and hosted by one of America’s few famous drag queen entertainers, RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race …
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The creative destruction of the "winner-take-all" society? Property rights and the economics of the long tail in the music industry
… and nascent artists enjoy more sales, or a 'superstar effect' where a small number of top artists take the lion's share of sales. I find that the market is characterized by an extremely skewed sales distribution profile which reaches a peak in both sales and inequality in 2006 while sales and …
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Three Essays on the Economics of Sport
… violations on retention. Day to Day with the NBA Superstars I use censored regression (Tobit) analysis on NBA game-level attendance data to examine the superstar externality effect identified by Berri and Schmidt (2006): star players increase road attendance, and since home teams (at least in the …
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Essays on human capital and financial economics by Jialan Wang.
… capital spillovers generated by 112 academic "superstars" who died prematurely and unexpectedly, thus providing an exogenous source of variation in the structure of their collaborators' coauthorship networks. Following the death of a superstar, we find that collaborators experience, on average, …
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Babe Ruth: American Hero.
… the life of sport's greatest legend and first superstar. The manuscript and performance represent over a year of research, writing and rehearsing. The process to produce a first draft of a manuscript began by researching biographies, autobiographies, documentaries, and the websites including …
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King James holds court: A qualitative examination of the athlete brand community phenomenon
While superstar athletes’ relatable personalities, on-field achievements, and attractive brand image facilitate a direct connection with the target demographic, little is known about how this indelible bond manifests itself in athlete brand communities. The literature concerning identification …
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The Flower Shop
… with maintaining his image, an alcoholic superstar, and two women disillusioned with the predatory industry, David must decide what matters more—being a celebrity or being true to himself. Inspired partially by the author’s time working in close proximity with aspiring musicians and his …
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Positioning the Intellectual: Žižek as a Sociological Phenomenon
… to prominence of Slavoj Žižek—the Slovene philo-superstar and intellectual celebrity. Drawing upon cultural sociology and the sociology of intellectual interventions, the dissertation widens the application of Positioning Theory, suggesting that Žižek’s unique mode of intellectual intervention, …
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Dual Narration and Externalizing Interiority in Esther Yi's 'Y/N'
… self-insert fanfiction based around K-pop superstar Moon. It specifically argues that the core of N’s conflict is not a romantic or sexual obsession with Moon, as has been claimed by previous critics, but her need to project onto him, displacing her internal monologue onto him rather than …
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The forging of modern Broadway Sound Design Techniques amid the Fires of the Rock Musicals in the Late 1960s and 1970s.
… the sound designer of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, led the efforts to create a modern approach to sound design. Relying on his rock-and-roll touring experience and the introduction of technological advancements within the recording industry, Jacob and others forged a modern approach to …
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StarSung: A Timeslip Novel
… performance, the main character Marian, a viola superstar, experiences the first timeslip, finding herself briefly in the body of a young girl witnessing a terrifying attack in a burning cathedral. Too shaken to play her exquisite viola, Grif, she and her manager and best friend cellist Julian, …
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Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity
… of over 20 magazine cover stories for opera superstars yields a pattern of mediation that glamorizes the all-American girl as the American contribution to opera as a cultural field. The alternation of this discourse with the periodic rise of non-American superstar tenors is related to both …
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Three Essays on Rental Housing Markets in the United States
… far away from their rental properties, in superstar cities and throughout the country. I use a network-science approach to identify the core locations of landlords, which I call the “landlord market area.” In the second paper, I identify landlords who have significant market shares in a …
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The construction of 'learning cultures' : an ethnographically-informed case study of a UK conservatoire
… learners, appearing to privilege those 'superstar' students who visibly demonstrate high levels of symbolic cultural and social capital. In a climate where the call to 'change the cultures' of conservatoires is oft heard, the learning cultures of this particular conservatoire reveal …
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Information extraction with network centralities : finding rumor sources, measuring influence, and learning community structure
… networks: a power-law degree distribution and a superstar node with very high degree. Using these results, we argue that rumor centrality is correctly quantifying the influence of users on Twitter. These scores form the basis of a dynamic influence tracking engine called Trumor which allows one …
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Essays on Production Structure and Economic Integration
… distribution and relatively more very large --- `superstar’ --- firms. Embedding this setup in a two-country model with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic saving behaviour, I show that if the home is more competitive, then: (1) it enjoys a higher aggregate profit rate than foreign; (2) its …
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