Brand placement is used as an alternative advertising strategy. This case study aimed at investigating its efficacy in music videos the UK, Spain and Italy through surveys. The first research question determining degree of association between nationality brand familiarity. Results have reported a directional for half brands advertised. second correlation familiarity recall. demonstrated that gr...

Abstract Carl Schmitt and AV Dicey are two of history's most influential constitutional theorists, they offer accounts referendums. In respects, their approaches to referendums in direct opposition each other. On Schmitt's view, the purpose is acclaim executive actors. Dicey's role constrain them. Despite disagreeing about whether should or executive, agree that an agenda-setting for representa...

While expert groups often make recommendations on a range of non-controversial as well as controversial issues, little is known about how the level of expert consensus-the level of expert agreement-influences perceptions of the recommendations. This research illustrates that for non-controversial issues expert groups that exhibit high levels of agreement are more persuasive than expert groups t...

SEE PAGE 1252 L eft ventricular hypertrabeculation (LVHT), also known as noncompaction, is a clinical entity that has gained great visibility after its initial description in 1984 (1). Its relevance relates to the fact that it might have significant clinical implications, including malignant arrhythmias and sudden death. One of the most important challenges regarding LVHT is the clear different...

Al Mele's Free Will and Luck is carefully and intelligently developed, beautifully clear, and persuasively makes a number of important points. That I say all that despite disagreeing with Al on most of the basic issues should suffice to convey my admiration for this fine work. The book is an extended essay on the way in which residual luck plagues a variety of accounts of agential or active con...

Multiuser museum interactives are computer systems installed in museums or galleries which allow several visitors to interact together with digital representations of artefacts and information from the museum’s collection. WeCurate is such a system, providing a multiuser curation workflow where the aim is for the users to synchronously view and discuss a selection of images, finally choosing a ...

Thirty-one nodulating rhizobium strains were collected from root nodules of spring and winter type faba bean cultivars grown in micro ecoarea, i.e. the same field in Chengdu plain, China. The symbiotic efficiency and phylogeny of these strains were studied. Effectively nitrogen fixing strains were isolated from both winter type and spring type cultivars. Based on phylogenetic analysis of 16S rR...

"Agreement" is a grammatical relation between words; e.g., the verbal suffix -s reflects agreement with a singular subject (He run-s). Previous studies with time intervals under 2.5 s between disagreeing words have found a left-lateralized negative brain potential, arguably reflecting detection of the morphosyntactic violation. We tested the neurophysiological effects of number agreement betwee...

We examined blame attribution as a moderator of perceptions of hate crimes against gay, African American, and transgender victims. Participants were 510 Texas jury panel members. Results of vignette-based crime scenarios showed that victim blame displayed significant negative, and perpetrator blame significant positive, effects on sentencing recommendations. Also as hypothesized, victim and per...

Children's thinking about diversity of belief in 4 realms--morality, taste, facts, and ambiguous facts--was examined. Ninety-six participants (ages 5, 7, and 9) were interviewed about beliefs different from their own that were endorsed by characters with different status; their judgments of relativism, tolerance, and disagreeing persons were assessed. Five-year-olds made fewer relative and tole...