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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"political opinion"”.
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Nukes or no nukes: how does the community view the Salem & Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations
<p>This study addresses resident and political opinion surrounding the Salem and Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Stations (SHCNGS) owned by Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) by analyzing survey responses of residents and politicians living within 0-10 miles, 11-30 miles and from 31-50 miles from …
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The effects of NCLB on Whitehall Elementary School
… The purpose of the research was to avoid political opinion and concentrate on factual data. After a preliminary survey indicating various opinions of NCLB and a Corel WordPerfect presentation on NCLB fact finding, a final survey was presented to evaluate differences in opinion of a small …
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The Impact of Newspaper Opinion Writing on South Dakota Legislators
… Throughout the history of the United States, political opinions written in newspapers championed causes to affect change. This study examines how South Dakota state legislators react to opinions written in South Dakota’s 11 daily newspapers and if they take those opinions into consideration …
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Contested Majority: The Representation Of The White Working Class In Us Politics From The 1930s To The 1990s
… politicians, journalists, pollsters, pundits, political commentators, social movement groups, and others have studied, written about, and claimed to speak for white working class people and how this work has shaped American politics. Most existing literature on the role of the white working …
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Essays on Regional Recessions, Spatial Interactions and Forecasting
… Nielsen, investigates a unique data set of daily political opinion polls in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015. This work explores the forecasting capabilities of the recently developed fractionally cointegrated vector auto-regressive (FCVAR) model. The results show that the FCVAR model delivers …
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Finding Our Way: Female Students at Oakland International High School
… based on their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group; additionally, 30% are undocumented, 24% are unaccompanied minors, and 47% are considered SIFE (students with interrupted formal education). However, one of the most outwardly noticeable …
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New Zealand newspapers 1840-1880: a sociological analysis of the political and organizational concerns
… relationship between the organizational and political concerns of newspaper controllers. The various newspapers began under the influence of the Crown Colony Government or of the New Zealand Company and its offshoots. Prior to the gaining of self-government in 1853, newspapers became a major …
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Popular political oratory and itinerant lecturing in Yorkshire and the North East in the age of Chartism, c. 1837-60
… of newspapers and tracts in disseminating political ideas and forming public opinion. This thesis demonstrates the importance of older, traditional forms of communication. Inert printed pages were no match for charismatic oratory. Combining personal magnetism, drama and immediacy, the …
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A 'harvest' in Malawi: the position of albinism in Refugee Law
… which includes race, religion, nationality, political opinion and membership of a particular social group. The dissertation seeks to unravel whether the international law grants refugee status to people with albinism. In response to the question, the dissertation analyses the definition of a …
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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Rio Grande Arrival/Departure Shelter
… responsible for creating both geographic and political havoc. In between a border are thresholds that signal a transition between layers, spaces, times, and countries. This project engages within this Liminal space, an in-between of the threshold. Prompted by humanitarian and political crises, …
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The political debate over war strategy, 1689-1712.
The dissertation covers 1689-1712 in English political history. It deals with the debate between the Whig and Tory parties, and their internal conflicts, over the strategy necessary to defeat France in the two wars of this period: the Nine Years' and Spanish Succession Wars. It describes the …
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Sino-African journalism and journalistic fields: CGTN Africa’s workers between worlds
Much academic criticism and public-political opinion has been made of China’s “going out” in Africa, and particularly of its media apparatus’ role in this project. But there has been little concerted research into the forces that influence production at these news organisations. Why do they produce …
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Evaluating the alignment of the refugee status determination process with international and national human rights and refugee law: a cross-country analysis of Sweden and South Africa
… to grounds such as race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership to a particular social group.7 However, regardless of the provided grounds, South Africa has at times shown to fail to recognize such grounds during the refugee status determination process. With the country's …
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Análisis de sentimientos aplicado a la opinión política en Twitter: un sistema de clasificación en tiempo real
… del análisis de sentimientos, obteniendo las opiniones por medio de la clasificación del texto de los tweets utilizando un conjunto de algoritmos de aprendizaje supervisado. La preparación de los datos de entrenamiento se ha llevado a cabo implementando técnicas simbólicas de procesamiento del …
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Competición política, modelos geométricos
… través de encuestas de opinión, para conocer sus opiniones acerca de algunos temas determinantes sobre su opción de voto, puede ser interesante permitir una flexibilidad en las políticas. Así, un partido puede cambiar su programa electoral, teniendo en cuenta ciertas restricciones, con el objetivo …
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Mining Ethos In Parliamentary Debate
… both argumentation (e.g. argument from expert opinion) and within conversation and debate, as sometimes a stronger character outweighs logical reasoning. Despite the importance of ethos, it has not been considered computationally in a solitary sense rather than as a bi-product of argumentation …