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Sentiment extraction and analysis methods for blog content

So-called "Web logs" or "blogs" have become the medium of choice for many pundits who might not otherwise have a ready forum for their views (Flynn, 2006; Lang, 2005; Piper & Ramos, 2005).

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Direct and indirect characterization in cinema

While many elements go into making a good movie, characterization may be the most important of those elements.

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Latino college student persistence and academic success

It is widely understood that that Latino community is the fastest growing ethnic / cultural group in the United States. According to the U.S. Census data, California is among the states with fast rising numbers of Hispanics (most often alluded to in this paper as Latinos).

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Developing cross-platform widgets for mobile and web environments

Computer-mediated communication and decision-making applications for teams are extremely varied and ubiquitous, ranging from e-mail to shared bulletin boards for classrooms to remote conferencing.

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Crowdsourcing techniques for value co-creation in call centers

Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in use by for-profit organizations such as Threadless, iStockphoto, and InnoCentive. Speculation in Weblogs and wisdom of crowds theory assumes a diverse crowd engaged in crowdsourcing labor.

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Christine Boyer's concept of cybercities and digital life

Subsuming the heterogeneity of the Internet to a homogenous whole is a reductive move. Furthermore, it risks making the unsupportable conflation of the Internet user with their textual output." (Bassett, et al., 2002, p. 234)

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How video games transmit British political ideologies

Video games have for a long time been associated with the passage of certain ideologies. The concept of video games has therefore been instrumental in the process of passing certain social and political ideologies.

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Reducing fixed-line telecommunications service costs in the Middle East through negotiation and infrastructure

Price-Reduction of Long Haul Fixed-Line Telecommunication Service and Infrastructure in the Middle East The expansion of telecommunications via fixed-line networks depicts a significant contemporary, credible concern, not only in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world as interactions…

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Immigration's impact on American demographic identity and economy

American identity has historically centered on the ethnocentric proclivities of its ruling classes, which are generally constituted of white descendents of European settlers.

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Kinesthetic intelligence and learning for every child

Most educators are aware that there are different styles of learning. However, this does not mean that they are equally aware of each different style or are equally good at honoring each style of learning.

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