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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Xinhua"”.
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A quarter century of creative chaos: Xinhua News Agency 1980-2005
… thesis has investigated the Chinese news agency, Xinhua, by employing Fuzzy Logic which captures the complexity of the change in the agency's business structure and journalistic practices over last 25 years. The change is also examined by scrutinizing the role of journalists in the interrelations …
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A Comparative Analysis of Weibo and Xinhua in Framing Chinese Civic Engagement
… media Weibo and government-run news website Xinhuanet cover three Chinese civic events: the Guo Meimei Event (2011), the Wenzhou Train Crash Event (2011), and the Kindergarten Abuse Event (2012). The findings indicate that Xinhua is more likely to use individualized frames to cover civic …
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News, activism and social media: reporting the Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath by Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, RT and XINHUA
… news organizations: Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, RT and XINHUA. Textual analysis is used to look at possible lexical consonance between activists’ entries on social media and the non-attributed lexical choices identified in news stories. The textual analysis is supported by two sets of surveys that …
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Agenda Setting, Framing, and International Relations: A Thematic Analysis of RussiaToday's and Xinhua News' Coverage of the United States on Social Media
… and a Chinese news agency: RussiaToday and Xinhua News, respectively. The study incorporates agenda-setting, framing theory, and previous research to understand the themes present in the coverage of the United States during 2020. Additionally, the lengthy history of Russian and Chinese …
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Chinese Governmental Post-Crisis Management of 2003 SARS Epidemic: Evaluation of Governmental Communication Strategies and Frame Correlation between Government and Mass Media
… of several media outlets — Chinese Version of Xinhua News Agency, English Version of Xinhua News Agency, The Toronto Star, The New York Times, The Times (London) — were examined on the same issue in the post-crisis period from June 25, 2003 to September 9, 2003. Chinese media and Western media …
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The times and life of Rose Smith in Britain and China, 1891-1985 : an interplay between community, class and gender
… working for the Daily Worker in London and Xinhua in Beijing. The factors that might have influenced her in her choice of activities are discussed. The socio-political environments in which she operated are described. The approach adopted in the thesis has been proposed by Peter Leonard. …
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The impact of perceptions of China’s human rights and sustainable development on its soft power initiatives in South Africa
… media reach in Africa through platforms such as Xinhua, China Central Television (CCTV) and People’s Daily to provide counter stereotypical images of being “a mysterious, exotic and unknowable force” (Wasserman, 2012). Dominant media discourses have represented China as lacking concern for good …
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… that they have been entered into the official Xinhua dictionary. The goal of this study was to examine the attitude of young Chinese Internet users towards Internet slang and to investigate claims made by other researchers that Internet slang contaminates Standard Mandarin and should be …
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Optical Control and Spectroscopic Studies of Collisional Population Transfer in Molecular Electronic States
The quantum interference effects, such as the Autler-Townes (AT) effect and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) applied to molecular systems are the focus of this Dissertation in the context of high resolution molecular spectroscopy. We demonstrate that the AT effect can be used to …
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<i>In Vivo</i> Murine Melanoma Tumor Responses to Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field Treatment
<p>High intensity nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEF) were applied to melanoma tumors to observe functional and structural biological changes and to investigate the possible molecular mechanisms responsible. An animal model was set up by injecting B16F10 mouse melanoma cells into SKH-1 mice. …
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Heat transfer, evaporation and carbon dioxide transfer in soil
<p>Latent heat flux associated with soil water evaporation connects the surface water balance with the surface energy balance. Soil water evaporation and soil carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes both involve soil gas transport processes and properties, and both impact the soil environment and physical, …
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Improving Object Classification in X-ray Luggage Inspection
X-ray detection methods have increasingly been used as an effective means for the automatic detection of explosives. While a number of devices are now commercially available, most of these technologies are not yet mature. The purpose of this research has been to investigate methods for using x-ray …
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Can we forecast conflict? A framework for forecasting global human societal behavior using latent narrative indicators
… Agence France Presse, the Associated Press, and Xinhua over the last 30 years, is used to construct a database of more than 29 million global events in over 300 categories using the TABARI coding system and CAMEO event taxonomy, resulting the largest event database created in the academic …
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The tension of national allegory: the search for Chinese identity and modernity – an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization
… For this purpose, as one example, Scar by Lu Xinhua (published in 1978) is reread intertextually with Benediction by Lu Xun (published in 1928), and with The Song of Youth by Yang Mo (published in 1958). The critical perspective adopted develops further both Julia Kristeva’s theory of …