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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"public opinions"”.
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Chinese Intellectuals and China's Policy Toward Japan
… brought by popular nationalist discourses and public mobilization to Chinese foreign policy decision makers. Chapter 4 investigated the cases study of the controversy over the Yasukuni Shrine Visit, defined as "major/minor interest issue/ sensitive issue (Issue 3)," and the discourses from the …
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Factors affecting public support of transportation policies : using an international survey and hybrid discrete choice modeling
… transportation policies is a way to understand public needs, to understand how the public evaluates and envisions the role of government in shaping the current as well as future urban transport system, and to anticipate difficulties of implementing certain types of policies due to public …
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Determining Public Perceptions toward Wildland Fire in the Veluwe Region of the Netherlands
… The purpose of this study was to identify public</p> <p>perceptions toward wildland fire in the forested Veluwe region of the country. The</p> <p>Dutch have little experience with wildland fires or fire as a management tool. In a</p> <p>collaborative effort between Stephen F. Austin State …
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A Psychological and Empirical Investigation of the Online Echo Chamber Phenomenon
In the public debate it is often assumed that communication in so-called “Echo Chambers” - online structures in which like-minded people share mostly messages that confirm their mutual, shared attitudes - can lead to negative outcomes such as increased societal polarization between groups holding …
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Public Opinion, Press Coverage and the Pempho Banda Case: Contesting Sex Work Criminalization in Malawi's Developing Tourism Sector
… without fear of being arrested. The case, The Republic v. Pempho Banda and 18 Others, sparked a national debate over the social and legal status of sex workers in the southern African country. It also brought to light that efforts to stimulate tourism had inadvertently boosted the country's sex …
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Virtual Opinion Leaders and Opinion Change: An Examination of Blogging through the Framework of the Two-step Flow of Communication
The introduction of a new medium provides an opportunity for scholars to revisit existing theories of mass communication. Blogging is a medium that has grown tremendously in recent years, from just a few dozen blogs in 1999 to more than 42 million blogs today. One function of blogging is providing …
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Sexualisation of the feminine in perfume advertisements on Vogue and her magazines from December 2017-December 2018: A semiotic and poststructural feminist approach
… and (re)presentations of the feminine shape public opinions and perceptions on/about gender and sexualities as well as how the language of these advertising is used in gendered ways. A qualitative research and explorative research design were utilised because of the nature of the study. As a …
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Networks, Polarization, and Voting: Models for Information Aggregation in Social Settings
… form of polarization in high-dimension emerges: public opinions not only radicalize on each issue, but also correlate across issues. We demonstrate that this type of polarization could arise as an unintended byproduct of influencers’ natural effort to promote a product or an idea. We analyze this …
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Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Microblogs
… Twitter, much information reflecting people's opinions and attitudes is published and shared among users on a daily basis. This has recently brought great opportunities to companies interested in tracking and monitoring the reputation of their brands and businesses, and to policy makers and …
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Adult Attitudes Regarding Sex Education in South Dakota Schools
… adult attitudes regarding sexuality education in public school curricula. Questions regarding religious and political conservative or liberal views reported relationships and correlations toward sexuality education attitudes. The methodology utilized a randomized registered voter sample of 68to …
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Outsider Within: Examining Homosexuality and the Black Church on YouTube
… institutions such as churches have always had opinions on homosexuality yet the conversations stayed within the church or at the very least within the community. The increase in participatory media outlets such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube has taken the dialogue surrounding homosexuality …
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Public perceptions of child sex offenders
… abuse of children is a pervasive social problem, public health concern, and egregious criminal offence. High prevalence rates and the numerous adverse effects associated with child sexual abuse makes the prevention of these offences a critical priority. Existing research has shown public …
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Contextual text mining
… is written, and the author(s) of a biomedical publication, or implicit, such as the positive or negative sentiment that an author had when she wrote a product review; there may also be complex context such as the social network of the authors. Many applications require analysis of topic …
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Stochastic propagation and planning models for broadband fixed wireless access links
… to cause a shift change in uptake and that public perception also needs to be considered. This paper identifies the public perception of hydrogen technology (with specific interest in biologically produced hydrogen) and determines whether it meets the public expectation in terms of its …
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Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of mothers of young children related to healthy eating: comparing rural and urban perspectives in Nepal.
… on this topic in Nepal but very little from a public health perspective. This thesis has been designed to cover gaps in this understanding, especially mothers’ decision-making around feeding their children and is based on a general public health/behavioural change model conceptualised by Marks …
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Sensing Urban Dynamics Through Crowdsourced Data with the Support of Machine Learning Techniques
… location-based social media data, and sensing public opinion from social media data. These studies illustrate the capability of machine learning techniques in dealing with the challenges of crowdsourced data-driven studies in the context of urban research. Finally, this thesis discusses the …