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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"banners"”.
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An Examination of American Sideshow Banners as Folk Art, ca. 1920-1960
… of scholarly attention paid to painted circus banners produced in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century by exploring the extent to which American folk art painting scholarship, methodologies, and objects can be used to articulate the meaning and significance of banner …
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Effects of location, size, and animation on the response rate to a promotional Web banner
… the layout and design of promotional Web banners on a company home page. To accomplish this, three variables; location, size and animation were used to test their effect on the response rate to those banners. Response rates were calculated by dividing the total number of click-throughs to …
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The Role of Topography on the 7 June 2012 Tornadic Supercell near Wheatland, WY
… mountains created low-level flow channeling and banners of strong potential vorticity that enhanced another storm near Laramie, WY and made it become tornadic. This study intended to find out whether these two tornadoes occurred under similar conditions. Stability, shear, low-level and …
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Response of a cave aquatic community to groundwater pollution
… and pools disturbed by septic system effluent in Banners Corner Cave, Russell Co., Virginia. Data from six physicochemical parameters indicate slight to high disturbance in five pools in reference to two undisturbed sites. Disturbed sites had high levels of conductivity, nutrients, and fecal …
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Silent Control: The Ideological Construction in Xi’s Era and the Political Expression from Grassroots
… has precipitated a reuse of Mao-era street banners and slogans. These artifacts are strategically embedded into the fabric of daily life with the ubiquity of commercial advertisements, forming an omnipresent semiotic web that envelops the daily life of the people. By broadcasting narratives …
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Internet Advertising: Are We Breaking Ground Or Moving Dirt?
… website, participants were exposed to the test banners on the site's homepage. Due to the limited number of click-throughs, the relationship between the independent variables and click-through could not be established. However, as hypothesized for the low involvement condition, source liking …
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Gangs, Race, and ‘the Street’ in Prison: An Inductive Analysis
… shared racial background are strong unifying ‘banners’ under which many prison gangs operate, and violence is an integral part of life in ‘the gang’. However, reflecting the academic literature, gang members often contest the terminology around ‘gangs’, showing the polarized discourse around …
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The impact of workplace physical activity interventions on university employees health, wellbeing and behaviour change
… demonstrated that 84 participants noticed the banners, 54 were influenced to take the stairs, 68 felt physical, and 66 felt mental benefits of taking the stairs, whilst 88 suggested that the banners displayed in the workplace will influence them to take the stairs in future. Intervention five …
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Trace and history: an investigation of Kurdish banner-making through contemporary art practice.
… have absorbed traces of slogans written on banners for many different purposes over extended periods of time. The permitted appropriation of these backing-board palimpsests provides material for the development of an innovative genre of abstract painting, deploying calligraphy to embody a …
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Viewability prediction for display advertising
… messages to attract customers through graphic banners on webpages. Display advertising is also the most essential revenue source of online publishers. Currently, advertisers are charged by user response or ad serving. However, recent studies show that users barely click or convert display ads. …
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Home Movie, Nowhere
… <em>Union Maids </em>(1976), <em>With Babies and Banners</em> (1979), <em>Roger and Me</em> (1989), and <em>American Dream</em> (1990) illuminates how the genre shifts the Midwestern landscape in the American imagination through the perspective of working class people. Ultimately, the critical …
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Le Nouveau Cirque
… when artists would make many fliers and banners to advertise a show. In my work I portray aspects of traditional circus and contemporary circus because I find they always reference each other by various acts and characters, such as a circus clown. The images used in my art are all clown …
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Money market funds in the US and the EU: a legal and comparative analysis
… to the much shallower European markets under the banners of harmonisation. Instead, this thesis advocates a harmonised international approach to the transparency of money market fund activities and the creation of a global database of market 5 exposures that would subject asset managers to public …
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Framed: COP17 on South African television
… images of hope and guilt and the role of banners, posters and maps in climate change stories on television. Though other studies claim that coverage of the summit was "almost invisible" (Finlay 2012, 16) this study shows very high coverage on especially SABC 1 (isiXhosa and isiZulu). The …
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The popular Christian novel in America, 1918-1953
… Our Trespasses (1932), Green Light (1935), White Banners (1936), and Disputed Passage (1939). All were contemporaneous in setting, and paradoxically stressed the practice of altruistic self-giving along with the promise of material rewards for the follower of Christianity. Clearly, Douglas …
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Chinatown: Place and Memory, A Case Study of St. Louis' Chinatown
… by a gateway and legitimized by lanterns, banners or signs in the language of the ethnic group. It has been suggested that a new planned district might be an impetus in bringing people downtown again. At present, there is a perception that downtown St Louis is dying and a thematic district …
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The Material Language of Protest: Textile Art and Clothing Craftivism, Britain 1970-2018
… were sewn, painted or screen-printed onto banners, jackets and jumpers to confront injustice and inequalities. During recent years, there has been a resurgence of artists, designers and amateur makers who employ handcraft to engage with pressing social and political issues, especially those …