42 research outputs found
Does corruption relieve foreign investors of the burden of taxes and capital controls?
No full textIn a sample of fourteen source countries making bilateral investments in forty five countries, the author finds that taxes, capital controls, and corruption, all have large, statistically significant negative effects on foreign investment. Moreover, there is no robust support in the data for the"efficient grease"hypothesis - that corruption helps attract foreign investment by reducing firms'tax burden and the irritant of capital controls.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Capital Markets and Capital Flows,Decentralization,Fiscal&Monetary Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Economic Theory&Research,International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Governance Indicators,National Governance,Capital Flows
Nutritional evaluation of supplementary value to a poor rice Or ragi diet of low-cost locally available foods 1. Evolving suitable combinations
No full textPrevalence of and Risk Factors for Self-reported Voice Problems Among Hindu Temple Priests
No full textNutritional evaluation of the supplementary value to a poor rice or ragi diet of low-cost locally available foods 2. Evaluation of the protein quality of the diets through rat growth studies
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White is the new brown
No full textThroughout this chapter, the author considers how Amy Jackson, an 'outsider', as a white woman of British origin, has emerged as a prominent figure within Tamil cinema. However, this distinction has an important role in differentiating between ideas of whiteness as an aesthetic and social norms of acceptable behaviour in Tamil Nadu: two factors that equally contribute to Jackson's appeal. Whiteness as an aesthetic of beauty is clearly exemplified in both Rai and Jackson, who are respectively Western-enough and Indian-enough to switch between national and transnational contexts. On a basic level, Jackson's whiteness is not stigmatised as the people have seen it can be when viewed through the nativist paradigm of the Westernised woman. Simultaneously, Jackson's promotion as a glamorous figure on screen is aided by the idea of whiteness as a transnational aesthetic of beauty. In contrast, Gethu glorifies Jackson's ethnicity, in the newer tradition of Whiteness as a globalised aesthetic of beauty
Taxonomies and design within the interactive documentary genre: A practitioner’s research project
No full textThe evolution of technology has enabled the creation of many alternative modes of interaction. This has allowed the scope of interactive documentaries (i-docs) to extend far beyond simply altering the narrative structure of a linear story. I-docs are like many other emerging fields, where the lack of definitions and taxonomies not only confuse our understanding but also makes a systematic mapping of the field difficult.
Sandra Gaudenzi, a theoretical scholar of the i-docs genre, proposed four modes of interactivity to categorise i-docs which could expand to encompass both existing and future interactive platforms. To review her proposition from a practical and evidential perspective, this research has been undertaken based on a practitioner based research model, and aims to test the four modes model based on practice-based data from the actual creation of interactive documentaries. The creation and viewing of the final work allowed for a practical response to the interactive work allowing for a critique of the presupposition at the heart of the whole theory: the role of author and the function of the user in each interactivity mode, and the technical potential for applying this model to new technologies. The final result shows Gaudenzi’s four modes model is valid. However, it lacks precision and contains the possibility of a need for a reframing of its categories. A final objective of the research project is to provide a practical and participant-orientated contribution to future studies on i-doc taxonomies
The Framing of Climate Change in New Zealand Newspapers
No full textClimate change is the major global environmental challenge of our time. The urgency and ambition with which world leaders come to respond to this challenge will be determined in part by public perceptions of the issue, and the extent of their support for strong measures to tackle it. Despite a firm consensus within the scientific community regarding the threat posed by climate change however, the public appear to hold ambivalent beliefs and attitudes regarding the priority of the problem, and the evidence for its anthropogenic causes. Given the influential role the news media is understood to play in shaping public perceptions of and attitudes towards climate change, understanding this disparity (and eventually attempting to address it) necessitates a consideration of how the problem has been framed in news discourse. This thesis investigates how climate change has been framed across recent coverage in New Zealand’s three most widely read daily newspapers with the aim of building upon and contributing to the current literature.
The study was carried out through the use of a quantitative content analysis of articles published in the New Zealand Herald, The Press and The Dominion Post between June 2009 and June 2010. The study sample of 540 articles was collected through the electronic news database Factiva using the search terms “climate change” OR “global warming”. Frames were analysed deductively according to an experimental frame typology, and coding was carried out by the author. Using a coding scheme developed by McComas and Shanahan (1999) frames were coded as either “absent”, “dominant”, or “present”. Sources appearing in articles were coded similarly as either “absent” or “present”, and basic descriptive data recorded.
The results of the content analysis showed that Politics (26%), Social Progress (21%) and Economic Competitiveness (16%) frames were the most prominent in coverage, whilst frames emphasising potential Consequences (12%), Scientific Controversy (6%) and Moral (5%) considerations were the least common. Political actors (33%) and Academics (20%) appeared most commonly as sources whilst “Sceptics” represented just three percent of the total identified.
Building upon the current literature, these results suggest that New Zealand newspapers have framed climate change in terms largely in accordance with the scientific consensus position. Furthermore, this study has shown that rather than focus on the problem itself, the New Zealand Herald, The Press and The Dominion Post have framed climate change in terms emphasising potential political, behavioural and technological responses to the challenge of climate change, and the potential costs and benefits of these potential “solutions” to individuals, economies and society more generally.
Further research into how the issue has been framed in different media such as TV, popular magazines and websites is called for. This thesis presents a foundation of knowledge from which further studies may build
