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Would you rather be a hero (unsung) or a celebrity?
Academia Mental Health & Well-BeingThis study aimed to provide further validation for a brief measure of the widely used Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) in an American sample. We administered a brief version of a measure of admiration for one’s favorite celebrity, the Celebrity ...
Jeremy Grabbe +4 more
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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The quantitative measure and statistical distribution of fame
, 2018 Fame and celebrity play an ever-increasing role in our culture. However, despite the cultural and economic importance of fame and its gradations, there exists no consensus method for quantifying the fame of an individual, or of comparing that of two ...
Hagen, Stephen J., Ramirez, Edward D.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agricultural soils offer great potential for carbon sequestration through humus formation. One way to motivate farmers to build up humus is through humus programs. These are still at an early stage of development, poorly explored, and the number of participating farmers is low. Our aim is to explain the heterogeneity of farmers' willingness to
Julia B. Block +2 more
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WHEN CELEBRITY DESTROYS ARTISTIC REPUTATION: THE CASE OF FRENCH ARCHITECTS [PDF]
This paper suggests understanding better the debate between reputation and celebrity, by analyzing how various types of reputations can combine (or not) to achieve celebrity.
Amélie Boutinot +2 more
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Is straight the new queer? David Beckham and the dialectics of celebrity [PDF]
, 2004 In his book, Understanding Celebrity (2004), Turner provides a comprehensive overview of the vast literature which has developed on issues of celebrity and fame, painting a broad picture of concerns divided between the significance of the apparent ...
Rahman, Momin
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study introduces a real‐time light detection and ranging‐camera fusion framework for vehicle detection and tracking. Using a Gaussian mixture model‐based association and improved affinity metrics, the method enhances tracking reliability in dynamic conditions.
Muhammad Adeel Altaf, Min Young Kim
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Feature Disentangling and Combination Implemented by Spin–Orbit Torque Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Spin–orbit torque magnetic tunnel junctions (SOT‐MTJs) enable efficient feature disentangling and integration in image data. A proposed algorithm leverages SOT‐MTJs as true random number generators to disentangle and recombine features in real time, with experimental validation on emoji and facial datasets.
Xiaohan Li +15 more
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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]
, 2018 Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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