Tweeting the issues in the age of social media? intermedia agenda setting between The New York Times and Twitter [PDF]
, 2010 This dissertation examined the intermedia agenda setting relationship between the online publication of the New York Times (i.e., NYTimes.com) and Twitter. This relationship was examined within the context of the changing media environment.
Kushin, Matthew
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Progress and challenges in maternal health in western China:a Countdown to 2015 national case study [PDF]
, 2017 Background China is one of the few Countdown countries to have achieved Millennium Development Goal 5 (75% reduction in maternal mortality ratio between 1990 and 2015).
Fang, Hai +12 more
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Inter-media agenda-setting effects among Chinese newspapers, Chinese blogs and the New York Times during coverage of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2009 The unique characteristics of blogs make them a new important media outlet. As the population of Internet users grows rapidly, blogging has become one of the most popular online activities in China.
Qian, Xiaomin
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Potential Water Quality Changes Due to Corn Expansion in the Upper Mississippi River Basin [PDF]
, 2011 While biofuels may yield renewable fuel benefits, there could be downsides in terms of water quality and other environmental stressors, particularly if corn is relied upon exclusively as the feedstock.
Gassman, Philip W +4 more
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Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda on People's Republic of China: The Role of Complementary Education Reforms [PDF]
, 2005 This paper evaluates the poverty impact of mutlilateral trade liberalization under Doha Round WTO negotiation, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Hertel, Thomas, Zhai, Fan
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School Dropouts and Conditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural China’s Junior High Schools. [PDF]
Recent anecdotal reports suggest that dropout rates may be higher and actually increasing over time in poor rural areas. There are many reasons not to be surprised that there is a dropout problem, given the fact that China has a high level of poverty ...
Brinton, Carl +5 more
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Educational Technology Topic Guide [PDF]
, 2014 This guide aims to contribute to what we know about the relationship between educational technology (edtech) and educational outcomes by addressing the following overarching question: What is the evidence that the use of edtech, by teachers or students ...
Gater, Rosalind +3 more
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Construção social da realidade e da memória no de Papel Periódico Santafé de Bogotá (1791 1797) [PDF]
, 2023 Este estudio tuvo como objetivo conocer las agendas informativas y los procesos de construcción de realidad y memoria desde las notas publicadas en El Papel Periódico de Santafé de Bogotá (1791 1797), primer periódico que circuló en Colombia.
Gadea Aiello, Walter Federico +2 more
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CCAFS annual report 2010: World’s largest coalition of researchers on climate change, agriculture and food security gears up [PDF]
, 2011 2010 saw the culmination of the most significant reform of the CGIAR system in its some 40 years of existence. A key element of this reform was the reorganization of the CGIAR around research programs that cut across Centres.
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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Mass deworming to improve developmental health and wellbeing of children in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis, considered among the neglected tropical diseases by WHO, affect more than a third of the world's population, with varying intensity of infection.
Awasthi, Shally +14 more
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