The recent spree o f cam pus, a n t i­ sweatshop protests across the country continued Tuesday, as students from Princeton and Harvard held demonstra­ tions in anticipation o f the meetings Ivy League adm in istrators held beginning Wednesday. Students gathered to show their desire for an increase in rules that form the code o f conduct fo r the C o lleg ia te Licensing Company (CLC). The CLC i...

This paper used the three-dimensional discursive analysis of Fairclough as a premise on political and power ideologies involved in images visual grammar Kress Leeuwen to unveil representational, interactive, compositional choices undertaken disseminate notion resistance against racial inequality injustice through interaction multimodality resemiotization. It sought identify meta-functions sub-m...

This paper presents a low-cost, portable, multi-view table tennis umpiring framework, as viable alternative to the current expensive systems which are almost exclusively restricted elite professional sports. Table has been selected sport evaluate this framework primarily because it comprises many different complex match elements, including service, return and rally governed by strict set of reg...

Abstract We study the protest behavior of teenagers linked to a student killed by stray bullet coming from policeman in Chile. use administrative data follow schoolmates victim and those living nearby shooting hundreds non-protest days. find that police violence causes lower participation street rallies but more adherence test boycotts. These effects appear among not students killing. Negative ...

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, became a reality in Kenya on 13 March 2020 when first confirmed case was publicly announced. The spread across country and had posted over 300, 000 cases 5, deaths 2022. With some risk factors, for COVID-19, remaining: close contacts, coughing, sneezing infected person, poor air flow, crowded places with...

This study considers the implications of corporate political activity and political risk on asset pricing. It is found that firms which operate an affiliated political action committee (PAC) outperform firms that do not. Among firms that operate a PAC, we find that those that spend relatively less on politics outperform those that spend more and that political risk is successfully hedged by fir...

Political correctness (PC) norms are highly controversial and have been subject to political and philosophical debate for decades. Yet, surprisingly little empirical research has been conducted to understand if they have any impact at all and, in particular, if and how they affect the perception of and interaction between social groups. In this chapter, we will argue that PC language has tangib...

n fall 1997, the democratic movement in Russia will celebrate its tenth anniversary. In November 1987, a group of young intelligentsia from Moscow (creators of the then unknown historical-educational organization Memorial) marched to Arbat to collect signatures. Those signatures were not calling for the dissolution of the Soviet system, but for the creation of a memorial to the victims of Stali...