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Social Sciences, 2018 The purpose of this content analysis was to examine how death depictions in animated Disney films has changed in the past 14 years and the coping mechanisms used to process death within these films.
James A. Graham +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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A Study of Disney’s Business Development [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesThe establishment of The Walt Disney Company can be traced back to the year 1923, when two brothers, Walt and Roy O. Disney, founded a small animation studio that has further developed into a global media organization through strategic innovation ...
Han Xiaoyu
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Quid Pro Quo? Private Information Flows in Shareholder Activism: Evidence from Mutual Fund Families
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper hypothesizes that information flows from target firms to large shareholders during activist campaigns and that these flows have governance consequences. Focusing on actively managed mutual fund families, we find that informed trading by large‐holding fund families increases during activist campaigns relative to smaller‐holding fund ...
EUNJEE KIM, HAI PHAM
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Storytelling for Geeks. A Multimodal Analysis of Disney’s Stickers
Altre Modernità, 2018 In September 2016, the Walt Disney Company launched a series of packs of stickers featuring characters and art from Disney stories. Stickers are – along with emoji, GIFs, videos and images – graphical devices or “graphicons” (Herring and Dainas 2017 ...
Ilaria Moschini
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Macroeconomic Performance and the Design of Public Pension Programmes [PDF]
I examine the impact of the design of the Irish public pension programme on two dimensions of Ireland’s macroeconomic performance - employment and the average saving rate.
Richard Disney
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The Case Against Cosmology [PDF]
, 2000 It is argued that some of the recent claims for cosmology are grossly overblown. Cosmology rests on a very small database: it suffers from many fundamental difficulties as a science (if it is a science at all) whilst observations of distant phenomena are
C. Impey +10 more
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract Accurate estimation of individual tree above‐ground biomass (AGB) and its component‐wise allocation is crucial for advancing ecological research and forest management. However, current biomass estimation methods, such as destructive sampling and allometric equation–based approaches, face limitations in both operational efficiency and cost ...
Qi Dong +11 more
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The issue of ageing and saving has two distinct facets. On the one hand, there is the individual issue. Each of us is getting older and wants to make sure that our savings plans are appropriate. I term this the ‘microeconomic’ aspect of saving and ageing.
Richard Disney
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Ill-health and retirement in Britain: a panel data-based analysis [PDF]
, 2003 We examine the role of ill-health in retirement decisions in Britain, using the first eight waves of the British Household Panel Survey (1991-98). As self-reported health status is likely to be endogenous to the retirement decision, we instrument self ...
Disney, R., Emmerson, C., Wakefield, M.
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