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Showing 1 to 20 of 146 for “"broadcasts"”.
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Generalisations of graph broadcasts
… in what the minimum cost is over all dominating broadcasts. In a broadcast the cost to dominatate distance k is k. In this thesis we consider two models in which this need not be the case. The one model equips a graph with a cost function. This approach has been considered before in [14]. The …
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Over the airwaves: school radio broadcasts in British Columbia 1960-1982
… Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's school radio broadcasts. Agreement between the CBC and the Ministry of Education ensured that the CBC provided the necessary technical arrangements required to air and distribute the broadcasts, while the Ministry of Education agreed to provide the creative …
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Representations of Housewife Identity in BBC Home Front Radio Broadcasts, 1939-1945
… programmes aimed at housewives, specifically broadcasts that dealt with rationing and cooking. Broadcasts regularly emphasized women’s ingenuity and ability to cook nutritious meals using limited food options while also devaluing women’s existing knowledge. Men were frequently considered …
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Anti-colonial radio broadcasts to British East Africa and their audiences, c. 1940-1963
… monitored, interpreted and responded to broadcasts. By tracing debates about the effects of ‘subversive broadcasts’ from the Second World War to the transfer of power in East Africa, it argues that the colonial state was deeply affected by the fear that anti-colonial broadcasting would …
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Viewers' Attitudes Towards Analytical and Traditional Commentary Styles in baseball Broadcasts: A Quasi-Experimental Study
… traditional commentary styles during baseball broadcasts. The attitudes tested were satisfaction and likelihood to watch again (retention). The experiment had two data collection sessions for the athletes and non-athletes where they were exposed to either analytical or traditional commentary. …
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Broadcast copyright and regulatory framework for free access to live football broadcasts in Kenya and South Africa
… and South Africa, they are assimilated into broadcasts which form one of the categories that are copyright protected in the two jurisdictions. At the same time when football games are recorded before transmission, they are protected as audio-visual works within the meaning of the copyright …
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Discursive practices around film and music piracy in selected newspaper articles and radio broadcasts in South Africa
This thesis analyses South African news media discourses on piracy to consider whether corporate interests or those of civil society are served by stories about copyright infringement and piracy awareness campaigns. This thesis employs critical discourse analysis to show that hegemonic interests …
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A Study of the Audience for Religious Radio and Television Broadcasts in Seven Cities Throughout the United States
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:03:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6500894.pdf: 6518083 bytes, checksum: 329c337e153981924fbaaca77c176448 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Framing the game through a sabermetric lens: Major League Baseball broadcasts and the delineation of traditional and new fact metrics
… and discussing statistics within their local broadcasts. From there, the goal was to ascertain how teams differed in their portrayals, with the specific dichotomy of interest being between teams heavy in advanced statistics and those heavy in traditional statistics. With advanced baseball …
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Media Representations and Implications For Collective Memory: A Grounded Theory Analysis of TV News Broadcasts of Hillary Clinton From 1993-2008
In January 2007, Senator Hillary Clinton announced her intention to run in the 2008 presidential primary and became the first woman in United States history to be a front-runner for a major political party's presidential nomination, This dissertation examines television news representations of …
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Uses and Gratification of Sports Media Audiences
… 2003; Phua, 2010). While just watching sports broadcasts, fans are likely to share the game experience with family, friends, and other fans who are following the same team (Gantz & Wenner, 1995). Besides, a significant number of people use social media when they are watching live sports …
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Transmitting the transition media events and post-apartheid South African national identity
… events" - those historic and powerful live broadcasts that mesmerise mass audiences - this thesis assesses the socio-political effect of live broadcasting on South Africa's transition to democracy and the effects of such broadcasts on post-apartheid nationhood. The thesis follows events …
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Bounded Dynamic Source Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
… routing protocols flood the network with broadcasts of route discovery messages, while attempting to establish a route. This characteristic is instrumental in deteriorating the performance of a MANET, as resource overhead triggered by broadcasts is directly proportional to the size of the …
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Radio Broadcast Communication by the Ministry of Education for Basic School Teacher`s Professional development: A case Study of Lusaka District
… employs communication strategies using radio broadcasts to support professional development for teachers. The study sought to establish whether radio broadcast outreach programme is effectively being used to spread information and new innovations in the teaching profession. A sample size of …
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Sacrosanct Values, Controversial Artistic Expression, and Today's Global Society: A Dramatistic Analysis of the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy
… dissemination. Third, the televised broadcasts provide examples of how the controversy was dramatized for American audiences. Together, these rhetorical artifacts allow for analysis of the product of the worldviews as expressed through the cartoons, multiplied by the values and …
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Spatial News : exploring augmented reality as a format for content production, organization, and consumption
… spatial production tools by creating three live-broadcasts in VR and comparing them to broadcasts done by a production team. We also show that users have a bimodal response to 2.5D videos shown in AR. This thesis presents and evaluates a series of interactive spatial experiences to address the …
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Transmitting the Transition: Media Events and Post-Apartheid South African National Identity
… impact that exclusion from globally unifying broadcasts would have on political rule. Television helped to facilitate the sporting and cultural bans and played an important, mostly unexamined role in the transition to democracy. While South Africa was barred from participating in some of …
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'The whole nation on one station'? National FM as a case study of radio for indigenous small linguistic communities in Zimbabwe
… of National FM as the only PSB radio that broadcasts in all local languages. It examines the feasibility of having one radio station broadcasting in all the indigenous languages of Zimbabwe. Language rights are pivotal in human development and many countries have developed many ways that …
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User-Generated Content and Television News
… content is integrated into television news broadcasts. Findings suggest that television news stations exercise extreme caution when determining if they're going to use user-generated content, and those cautions are taken because of concerns about accuracy and credibility. The findings also …
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A system of applications for the integration of BLE Beacons in museums
… different beacon protocols: Eddystone-UID, which broadcasts to a dedicated mobile app; and Eddystone-URL, which broadcasts to mobile browsers via the Physical Web. Each system was tested in a real-world context through experiments hosted by the MIT Museum. I analyzed the success and potential of …
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