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M, Potenza, P, Verhoeff, E, Weiss
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Conceptualizing and measuring consumers’ negative attitudes towards online shopping
Abstract Despite the advantages of online shopping, increasing evidence indicates the prevalence of negative consumer attitudes towards online shopping (NATOS). Yet existing research exhibits a nearly exclusive focus on measuring positive attitudes, creating limited conceptual breadth. Moreover, despite the existence of conceptually related constructs (
Kaj‐Johanna Stichnoth +1 more
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Electronic data.; Title from title screen.; "November 22, 2005."; Discusses if any law requires comic books to be rated for content or subjects them to other parental controls.; Harvested from the web on 12/15 ...
Price, Susan.
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Toward speech text recognition for comic books
International audienceSpeech text in comic books is placed and written in a particular manner by the letterers which raises unusual challenges for text recognition. We first detail these challenges and present different approaches to solve them.
Ogier, Jean-Marc +7 more
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Vulgar Minimisers in English and Spanish1
Abstract In this paper, we investigated whether vulgar minimisers form a natural class in English and Spanish by evaluating (i) their similarities and differences with respect to non‐vulgar minimisers and (ii) whether vulgar minimisers are inherently negative in these languages.
Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández +1 more
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
This case study investigates how readers read comics. The work, based upon Roland Barthes' concept of relay discussed in Image, Music, Text (1977), considers that a reader understands the comic at the higher level of the diegesis by switching between ...
Helsby, Wendy Frances, Helsby, W.F.
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The Comic Book Conundrum: Defining Comic Books as a Literary Genre
: Since the early 1900s, the world has seen the emergence, growth, and now boom of a new literary genre: the comic book. The comic book industry has existed for nearly a hundred years now as a subculture of American literature and popular culture ...
Guffey, Dylan C
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Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Subject cataloging and access to comic books [PDF]
Stripovi su građa koji ima bogat kulturološki koncept i problematizira širok spektar tema, a zbog specifičnosti nositelja, privlačna je osobama svih uzrasta. Svaka narodna knjižnica sadrži zbirku stripova, od onih koje broje tek par desetaka naslova, sve
Ljubić, Josipa
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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