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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"billboards"”.
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Location Analysis of Alcohol Billboards in Bexar County, Texas
… investigate if correlations between the alcohol billboards and age, income, education, or race/ethnicity existed. The findings provide insight into who is targeted for alcohol products in Bexar County, Texas.
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El teatro en la ciudad de Murcia durante la guerra civil
… city of Murcia. It allows a comparison with the billboards of the great theater nuclei, Madrid and Barcelona, and contributes more data to the history of the theater representations in republican Spain during the Spanish civil war. Of the same form, it completes the history of the theater …
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Public Perceptions Towards Billboard Advertising in Tanzania
… comparison with other media, the public ranked billboards’ the second most effective advertising medium after the television. The public perceive billboard advertising regulations ineffective in particular to content and placement regulations, however tax regulations were effective. The study …
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A software tool for the preliminary performance modelling of central receivers and associated power cycles
… to be the best performing fluids for use in billboards and cylindrical receivers, respectively. Water and salt were shown to require the least area for use in billboards and cylindrical receivers, respectively. The effects of power cycle performance on receiver performance and size were …
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The development and justification of a course in alcohol education for secondary schools
… of the advertisements of the liquor industry on billboards, magazines, radio, and newspapers, the alcohol problem has been steadily increasing. It is estimated that two-thirds of the alcoholics begin their drinking while in high school. It would appear then that the high school is the proper …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
… subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge texts of the English Renaissance and exploitation films of late 20th century …
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A comparison of traditional and digital mediums’ effect on reach and purchase intention
… consumers, such as television, print media and billboards. This communication between marketers and consumers is observed from the marketers perspective however the behavior of consumers can not be ignored. This research paper is built on information from interviews conducted by the researchers …
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The salience and visibility of toponymic changes in Makhanda & Gqeberha: A social semiotic perspective
… an analysis of how they are made visible on billboards, shopfronts, and road signs, as well as through interviews with residents living in these areas. This study draws on Van Leeuwen (2005) and the concepts of salience and visibility as key building blocks to understanding the changing …
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Distributed visibility servers
… of large occluding objects (such as buildings, billboards and houses), efficient conservative visibility algorithms have been developed to identify a set of occluded objects in real-time. These algorithms are conservative since they do not identify the exact set of occluded geometry. While …
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Transportation choices : can social marketing make a difference?
… tactics they employ, ranging from advertising on billboards to providing free subway rides, a common thread is that these tactics must be based on careful understanding of the values of the target audience (the people the campaign is meant to reach), and the barriers they see to changing behavior.
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Boredom Escapes Us: A Cultural Collage in Eleven Storeys
… storeys include a consideration and analysis of: billboards, internet advertising, the reflections of an overseas development worker, art installations, a poem, a greeting card, a play, song lyrics and Kafka’s short story character, the hunger artist. Each storey serves to inspire a sociological …
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INTIMATE ENEMIES: VISUAL CULTURE AND U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS, 1945-2000
… the time period's visual culture— advertising, billboards, comic books, films, photographs, political cartoons, posters, and television shows—that the history of foreign relations between Cuba and the United States as an intimate popular experience comes most clearly into focus. It is this …
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Challenges Facing Handicraft Businesses in Implementing Promotion Strategies for Their Products
… promotion strategies like newspapers, radio, billboards, television, magazine, public relations, email and internet use, personal selling and trade fairs are not commonly applicable. Government negligence, exploitation, lack of training, lack of financial support, lack of promotion assistance …
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Going in Circles: Male Cyclic Automobility in U.S. Fictions 1950-1970
… was exciting to witness on television and billboards, it was almost impossible to act out in real life, particularly for post-war men who were expected to raise nuclear families, settle in the suburbs, and commute to work. This clash between ideals of male mobility and the reality of …
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"Settle in the bare desert and cause it to bloom."
… ongoing expansion of the saltbush shrub, large billboards of a cornstalk, an almond tree, stalks of wheat, an alfalfa plant, and an orange tree present monuments as questions of the relationships between human sociology, economy, and ecology. Visitors near and far travel to Allensworth to learn …
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Campaigning for Real Beauty or Reinforcing Social Norms? An Analysis of the Correlation of the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Advertisements in Fashion Magazines
… of five <italic>Campaign for Real Beauty<italic> billboards, commonly referred to as the Dove <italic>Vote Ads<italic>, sought to determine whether the message of the Dove <italic>Vote Ads<italic> was consistent with the <italic>Campaign for Real Beauty's<italic> stated mission of societal change …
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VRCodes : embedding unobtrusive data for new devices in visible light
… light transmitters take the form of digital billboards, signage and overhead lighting built for human use; light-capturing receivers take the form of mobile cameras and personal video camcorders. Following the software-defined approach, we leverage screens and cameras as parameterized …
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A critical analysis of the public signage of the commercial and non-commercial signs in Eenhana town, Ohangwena region
… of language(s) and linguistic forms used on billboards as part of the linguistic landscape of Eenhana Town, in order to examine their communicative potential to the target population as well as establish the attitudes of the target population towards the linguistic landscape. A mixed-method …
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The agricultural industry as percieved by members of the general public of Louisiana
… and expansion in mass media promotion such as billboards, television ads, newspaper articles, web postings, use of “YouTube”, blog sites, and group networking sites. Similarly, the researcher encourages the promotion of “agritourism” endeavors, allowing perceptions to be made based on personal …
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Soft Masculinity and Its Discontents in Contemporary China
… of soft or effeminate idol men on screens, billboards and social media platforms in today’s China has attracted scholarly attention. Researchers repeatedly mention keywords such as cultural globalisation, modernisation, consumerism and increasing gender equality as if this is an emerging …
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