This paper analyses the determinants of happiness in seven Eastern European transition countries during the early phase of economic transition. The analysis of representative survey data in an ordered logit model shows that those core socio-demographic and economic variables known to be relevant from studies on the US and Western European countries have a similar impact on happiness in Eastern ...

Why are shares of the motion picture market so unequally distributed? Do the different qualities of the movies account for such an enormous difference in the market shares? Are mass media campaigns so effective to convince almost all movie visitors to see the same movies? Or are there social processes that affect the movie visitors’ decision making and direct them to visit the same movies? In t...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of cinema advertising. Specifically: To quantify the proportion of cinema audiences who had an opportunity to see advertising messages screened prior to a movie; to calculate the number of brands recalled by movie goers exposed to advertising messages; and to detail the level of advertisement recognition displayed by movie goers exposed...

Movie-goers have always looked to France for slick, beautifully photographed drama, but in general the stars are human. The movie Microcosmos, from which the images above are taken, has a cast almost entirely made up of insects. Entomologists Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou made the movie in an attempt to bring their research to a wider audience. They've achieved that beyond the wildest dre...

Linguistics is traditionally a university subject.We describe here comprehensive efforts that the University of Arizona’s Linguistics Department makes to engage with additional audiences: K–12 and community college students, lifelong learners, and festival-goers. Our coordination of these efforts is relatively recent, and this article emphasizes what we are learning in areas like adjustment to ...

Alcohol-related burn injuries carry significant mortality and morbidity rates. Flaming alcoholic beverages served in trendy bars and clubs are becoming increasingly popular. The dangers associated with an ignited alcoholic drink are often underestimated by party goers whose risk assessment ability is already impaired by heavy alcohol consumption. The authors present two cases demonstrating the ...

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of Orthodox church samizdat in second half 20th century. term used this refers a set texts reproduced an artisanal way and distributed goers circle without sanction or secular authorities. In conditions Soviet reality, circles were deep periphery public life was formed from marginalized those pushed out by authorities social margins. specific position pe...

Trra establishment of the two fine lines of Pacific steamers, and the opening of the trans-continental railway from San Francisco to Omaha, have rendered the home journey via China and America so easy and pleasant, that the number of Indian officers who choose that route has already become considerable, and is sure to increase yearly, till tlie new road becomes almost as familiar as the old Cap...