• The results also demonstrate that the perceived threat influences behavior related to climate change, and that threat mediates the effect of party positions. (mdpi.com)
  • Internet public opinion communication is a process that starts with micro individual behavior and ends with macro public opinion emergence, in which all subjects in the network interact with one another according to specified principles and eventually build a stable overall system structure. (hindawi.com)
  • The emergence and growth of online public opinion is largely down to the communication behavior of each individual in the public. (hindawi.com)
  • Against this background, Matt A. Barreto assays the influence of ethnic identification on Latinos' voting behavior. (umich.edu)
  • In a time of intensely focused campaign appeals, Barreto's work has much to tell us about the mechanics of public opinion and the role of race and ethnicity in voting behavior. (umich.edu)
  • Expressing opinions and then influencing others are the primary forms of social behavior of people. (hindawi.com)
  • This paper jointly examines the importance of parental influences, prices, and tobacco control policies on the smoking behavior of youths. (who.int)
  • The key finding is that specific parental influences (such as communication/bonding (extent of discussions about daily issues between parent/adult and child), limit-setting with regard to free time, home smoking rules, and parental smoking behavior) and the extent to which teenagers value their parents' opinions play a significant role in youth smoking decisions. (who.int)
  • For public health emergencies, risk communication includes the range of communication capacities required through the preparedness, response and recovery phases of a serious public health event to encourage informed decision making, positive behavior change and the maintenance of trust. (who.int)
  • Healthy public policies to facilitate behavior change and providing an enabling environment are relevant to promote the required behaviors to prevent and control COVID-19. (who.int)
  • Egdom, 2011) log K ow 2.91 ± 0.29 at pH 3 Since the retention behavior of fenofibric acid decreases at higher pH resulting in a lower K ow and K oc , it can be concluded that the phrase "Fenofibrate (in the form of fenofibric acid) has low potential for bioaccumulation. (janusinfo.se)
  • and 4) social distancing of adults in Scientists and policymakers are concerned about the the community and workplace, which may include cancel- emergence of an infl uenza pandemic for which we will lation of large public gatherings and possible alteration of have neither a strain-specifi c vaccine nor suffi cient antiviral workplace environments and schedules to decrease social medications at the onset of the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • Several studies based on fi ndings from This survey was conducted to gauge public reaction to so- mathematical models and historical analyses suggest that cial distancing and other nonpharmaceutical interventions early implementation of multiple measures, such as social that may be used during a severe pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic online accounts or software robots known as "bots" identified valuable lessons for Australia's public disproportionately contributed to controversial conver- health response including the need for timely, sations online and influenced opinion trends, 5 and this clear and open communication to the public. (who.int)
  • There's just been a study by Martin Gilens , a politics professor at Princeton University, that shows that upper-income public opinion predicts policy outcomes pretty well, but there's absolutely no impact for middle-class and lower-class voters' public opinion. (inthesetimes.com)
  • Some resulted from budget issues and shifting district priorities narrowly focused on standardized testing outcomes (influenced by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top federal policies). (hechingerreport.org)
  • The USSR used its intelligence apparatus and those specific activities to offensively combat the capitalist regime as well as to exert influence and control over its satellite countries. (capitalresearch.org)
  • An agent operating under intelligence instructions who uses his or her officialdom or public position, and other means, to exert influence on policy, public opinion, the course of particular events, the activity of political organizations and state agencies in target countries (KGB Lexicon: The Soviet Intelligence Officer's Handbook, edited by KGB archivist Vasiliy Mitrokhin). (wikipedia.org)
  • In today's context, public opinion communication has taken on many new characteristics, such as strong real-time interaction, rapid communication, a big amount of data, a broad spectrum of communication, and a high number of participants. (hindawi.com)
  • In real life, the spread of public opinion is not only influenced by the interaction between groups but also interfered by the external environment such as media and opinion leaders in social networks [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • We also find that the steady-state distribution is a "contraction" of the initial distribution in the linear and bounded confidence (DW model) interaction cases, which is different from the results of the model with nonself-excitation interaction. (hindawi.com)
  • Public interaction during the reform process was varied, including educational campaigns by civil society groups and government officials. (participedia.net)
  • Schizophrenia Polygenic Risk and Childhood Adversity This meta-analysis found that risk genes for schizophrenia influence childhood adversities in psychosis, but this gene-environment interaction does not fully explain the relationship. (medscape.com)
  • The model incorporates components such as external environmental influences, individual personality characteristics, and interpersonal intimacy, in addition to the law of public opinion dissemination in real society. (hindawi.com)
  • With the help of the life cycle theory in crisis management, the dissemination law of network public opinion of emergencies in colleges is studied, the development life cycle of network public opinion on emergencies in colleges is constructed by gestation period, outbreak period, diffusion period, repetition period, extinction period and long - tail period, and corresponding solutions are proposed for each period. (scirp.org)
  • This study aims to explore influence mechanism of multi-participants risk perception to the public opinion dissemination. (bvsalud.org)
  • The results show the advantage of government information release before large-scale dissemination is that can reduce the spread risk of public opinion. (bvsalud.org)
  • His analysis of in-depth candidate interviews, public opinion surveys, official election results, and statistics finds that it does. (umich.edu)
  • There has been an increasing interest on the perception and prediction of social opinion, such as quantitative investment firms which measure investor sentiment and trade using social media Karppi and Crawford [ 1 ] and prediction of election results [ 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • The current Shiite-led government was seated in December 2010 after nine months of political deadlock over the 2010 parliamentary election results. (gallup.com)
  • These attitudes not only influenced drug law and policy but also led to increased violence against African Americans. (wikipedia.org)
  • The poll confirms a significant shift in public attitudes, with growing concern about the privacy implications of national security efforts. (theguardian.com)
  • Learning about what influences veterinarians' prescribing practices and attitudes toward AR is crucial to understand and address AR in animal medicine. (cdc.gov)
  • CDC worked with Dr. Dan Taylor and the Colorado Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence School of Public Health to assess veterinary prescription practices, identify veterinarian attitudes about AR, and find knowledge gaps. (cdc.gov)
  • Data are drawn from the Audits & Surveys (A&S) 1996 survey of high school students across the United States from "The Study of Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People" to examine the impact of parental influences on the probability of youth smoking in the context of both specific observable parenting behaviors and in terms of youths' perceptions of the importance of their parents' opinions. (who.int)
  • For example, relevant information about the significance, proportions and general context of the results contributes to providing a comprehensive description of the research and its importance and should therefore be included to every possible extent. (lu.se)
  • No appropriated Federal funds can be used by CDC grantees for grassroots lobbying activity directed at inducing members of the public to contact their elected representatives to urge support of, or opposition to, proposed or pending legislation or appropriations or any regulation, administrative action, or order issued by the executive branch of any Federal, state or local government. (cdc.gov)
  • Grantee communications from which an external audience may infer that it should contact legislators concerning specific legislation should be considered carefully because they may run afoul of the prohibition, unless the communications fall within certain recognized exceptions to the definition of "lobbying" or "influencing legislation. (cdc.gov)
  • However, I think the approach that physicians and scientists have is one that can improve the government process and result in better legislation and policies. (medscape.com)
  • Reports of the cocaine epidemic would foreshadow a familiar theme in later so-called epidemics, namely that cocaine presented a social threat more dangerous than simple health effects and had insidious results when used by blacks and members of the lower class. (wikipedia.org)
  • In its place, they set out to build a scientific case against the mounting body of evidence showing that nonsmokers also suffer adverse health effects from secondhand smoke inhaled in bars, restaurants and other public places. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Health care and public education should be considered infrastructure. (durangoherald.com)
  • We report the results of a national survey conducted distancing, school closures, and isolation of sick persons, to help public health offi cials understand the public's re- may be effective in reducing the transmission of the virus sponse to community mitigation interventions for a severe ( 2 - 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Evidence to deter- provide information about realistic expectations for mitiga- mine the best strategies for protecting persons during a pan- tion measures before a public health emergency arises ( 10 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Results of this work are published in Zoonoses and Public Health . (cdc.gov)
  • Gabrovec B. Public opinion on the eligibility of health care for migrants and refugees in Slovenia. (who.int)
  • This Web site is provided by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) ONLY as an historical reference for the public health community. (cdc.gov)
  • approach that encompasses the health During its preparation, key officials within sector, socioeconomic status, determinants the Ministry of Public Health and Population of health and national policies and strategies as well as officials from various other that have a major bearing on health. (who.int)
  • The research community generated a large num- highlights the importance of engaging trusted scientists ber of research studies on COVID-19, with publishers and academic researchers during public health supporting open access and sharing resources to rap- emergencies while ensuring they receive communication idly disseminate scientific information. (who.int)
  • However, they were often chal enged by the tant is communicating research findings to the target public, for example, the effectiveness and side-effects audience to achieve an effective public health response. (who.int)
  • Basseal et al be considered when developing public health messaging Acknowledgements about COVID-19. (who.int)
  • In June 2016, the Executive Board in decision EB139(1) requested the Director-General to develop with the full participation of Member States and in cooperation with other relevant stakeholders a draft global action plan on the public health response to dementia, with clear goals and targets, for consideration by the Seventieth World Health Assembly, through the Executive Board at its 140th session. (who.int)
  • 1 Availab le at http://www.who.int/mental_health/action_plan_2013/en/ (accessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • These parameters have enabled CDC and its public health partners to advance a strong public health agenda, and the new language continues to enable many of these same activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Risk Communication(s) refers the real-time exchange of information, advice and opinions between experts or officials and people who face a threat (hazard) to their survival, health or economic or social well-being. (who.int)
  • FCTC entered into force on 27th February 2005 and it has the first global treaty in the field of public health. (who.int)
  • In particular, Article 5.3 states that the tobacco industry has operated for years with the express intention of subverting the role of governments and of WHO in implementing public health policies to combat the tobacco epidemic. (who.int)
  • Disclosure of current or previous work with tobacco industry by applicants for government positions related to health policy, and of plans to work for tobacco industry by former public health officials. (who.int)
  • The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
  • Essential Public Health Services framework (13) as a con- who report self-care practices to prevent complications ceptual foundation, we discuss the assessment process and often fal s below US levels. (cdc.gov)
  • 5School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, United States of America. (who.int)
  • 150 J. Public Health Epidemiol. (who.int)
  • Healthcare workers (HCW) and first responders often work long, physically and mentally exhausting shifts as they provide care for patients, especially during a public health emergency. (cdc.gov)
  • In recent years' emergencies, netizens are increasingly influenced by the opinions of other members, and even become more extreme, emotional and irrational. (scirp.org)
  • Increasingly, the public's right to be informed of research results is also invoked. (lu.se)
  • Part II considers the political and economic influences that have led to wide regional differences in growth. (cia.gov)
  • Having recruited each consecutive Sultan of Zanzibar under British rule as a khalifa, al-Barawi garnered informal control over sea-based trade routes whose economic influences penetrated deep into the Saxon colonies (Martin, "The Qadiri" 158). (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Finally, these moderators influence respondents' electoral expectations as well. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
  • For the current workplace study, employee engagement results were collected among 73,752 respondents 18 and older in 141 countries via the Gallup World Poll, and 151,335 U.S. respondents using the Gallup Daily tracking survey. (gallup.com)
  • Polls were also conducted on both the public's knowledge and opinion of electoral systems. (participedia.net)
  • This study leverages a survey experiment in the lead up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election to evaluate how partisan biases, poll results, and their methodological quality interact to shape people's assessments of polling accuracy and electoral expectations. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
  • He goes on to describe the dynamic of voting in the Latino community and sharpens our appreciation of how ethnic considerations influence the electoral choices of Americans more generally. (umich.edu)
  • Attempts to reform the Canadian province of British Columbia's electoral system involved educational outreach, a citizen's assembly to determine the best alternative to the current first-past-the-post system, and public hearings, culminating in a popular referendum. (participedia.net)
  • Plans to reform BC's electoral process were initiated by a growing public opposition to the existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system. (participedia.net)
  • Anomolous electoral results in 1996 and 2001 were blamed on FPTP and party leaders and civil society groups began calling for reform. (participedia.net)
  • Public support through referendum was required to reform the electoral system. (participedia.net)
  • The propagation of public opinion on the Internet has become a serious issue affecting economic and social development, as well as national security. (hindawi.com)
  • Furthermore, a scale-free network is introduced to develop a network public opinion propagation model based on the scale-free network to tackle the problem that the existing public opinion propagation model cannot fully reflect the law of public opinion propagation in real life. (hindawi.com)
  • The media information release later than the government has a positive effect on the risk prevention and control of public opinion propagation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Ethics Council sup- ports these principles as benchmarks for the University's own work and as a basis for dialogue with the media, politicians and the general public. (lu.se)
  • Both remained deeply skeptical of Washington's professions of friendship and concerned by America's growing influence around Russia's borders. (lewrockwell.com)
  • US Office of the Director of National Intelligence releases unclassified version of intel community's findings on Russia's attempts to influence US presidential race via cyberattacks, leaks, and pure propaganda. (darkreading.com)
  • Russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. (darkreading.com)
  • Active measures is the Soviet term for a form of political action aimed at foreign public opinion, political elites, and decision makers. (capitalresearch.org)
  • These measures are political actions implemented via deceptive techniques aimed at influencing foreign public opinion, decision makers, and foreign intelligence services. (capitalresearch.org)
  • [5] Cultural opinion makers, nationalists, and religious leaders have also been targeted to serve as individual agents of influence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Czech women's nongovernmental organizations and other gender oriented civic groups use to influence policy makers, as well as the public opinion. (lu.se)
  • A push poll is an unethical strategy used sometimes in political campaigns intended not to gauge public opinion but to influence it: "If you knew that Candidate A had a history of drowning puppies and pulling wings off flies, would that make you more or less likely to vote for them? (jewishindependent.ca)
  • By using individual-level and country-level data, I examine if this variability in public opinion is partially caused by political party elites. (mdpi.com)
  • The results show that when elites are united in their support for environmental issues, the perceived threat of climate change is higher than in countries where party elites are divided. (mdpi.com)
  • The problem of network public opinion of college emergencies in the Crowd intelligence network has gradually become a hot topic for scholars to study. (scirp.org)
  • In view of this, this paper analyzes the challenges and existing problems of the network robustness of colleges in the Crowd intelligence network facing the network public opinion of emergencies. (scirp.org)
  • The problem of network public opinion of college emergencies in the Crowd intelligence network is related to the fluctuation of college students' thoughts and emotions, and the security and stability of the campus has gradually become a hot pot of research for scholars. (scirp.org)
  • Thus, the network public opinion of college emergencies can be reduced from the point of explosion to the point of calming down, thus improving the credibility of the school. (scirp.org)
  • In broad terms, the survey is likely to be interpreted as evidence that President Obama's cautious approach to foreign policy is backed by a public wary of becoming too embroiled in problems abroad. (theguardian.com)
  • Prefatory Note The views and conclusions in this report are solely the author's and should not be interpreted as representing the official opinion or policy of the US Government. (cia.gov)
  • Think tanks exercise significant influence on both policy and public opinion, and they are virtually all coin-operated slot machines anxious to please donors. (inthesetimes.com)
  • According to your investment theory of party competition, it's not voters that influence policy results. (inthesetimes.com)
  • The operation included cyber espionage attacks against policy groups, US primary campaigns, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2015, as well as propaganda and online 'troll' activity that included fake news meant to influence public opinion. (darkreading.com)
  • Continuing our series on deception in politics and public policy. (capitalresearch.org)
  • With their supersized profits, insurance companies are spending more to influence public opinion, sometimes using misinformation to influence public policy as well as elections. (durangoherald.com)
  • This article is part of a series of U.S. Foreign Policy Opinion Briefings aimed at helping to inform U.S. leaders on pressing foreign policy issues. (gallup.com)
  • In fact, speaking about the Middle East, as TomDispatch 's Ben Freeman, director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, points out today, right at the top of that list are the royals of Saudi Arabia. (tomdispatch.com)
  • Researchers differ over the potential effectiveness of lic opinion and input can help inform policy decisions and such community mitigation measures. (cdc.gov)
  • The sympathy for an imprisoned world-class criminal was largely the result of successful lobbying to influence Western public opinion. (antiwar.com)
  • 9 ] proposed a framework of opinion dynamics named SLANT, providing accurate predictions of users' opinions. (hindawi.com)
  • Disclaimer: The information and views set out on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, or the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC. (who.int)
  • Its and defines a strategic framework for formulation is the result of analysis of the working in and with the country. (who.int)
  • The premise of this paper is that the setting of an agenda represents an interactional process between the mass media agenda, the political agenda, and the public agenda. (repec.org)
  • Therefore, by studying the image of local government institutions in mass media, one can make inferences about the political agenda and the public agenda. (repec.org)
  • We discuss the implications for journalistic coverage of polls, public opinion, and political polarization. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
  • Critics like Thomas Ferguson, a political science professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston, regard the current system of campaign finance and the influence of big money as a threat to democracy. (inthesetimes.com)
  • We assess that the GRU operations resulted in the compromise of the personal e-mail accounts of Democratic Party officials and political figures. (darkreading.com)
  • A typical influence operation entailed covert financial support to leftist parties and political leaders, whose positions were advantageous to the Soviet Union. (capitalresearch.org)
  • Widespread joblessness and weak infrastructure are fueling public discontent, even as Iraqi leaders engage in sectarian political power struggles. (gallup.com)
  • I'm not going to get into what's the best form of government, because I'm not a political scientist and don't claim to have an enlightened or informed opinion of that. (medscape.com)
  • Researchers have both the right and the duty to engage in public debate through ethical, political or scientific perspectives. (lu.se)
  • However, these works held some limitations: (i) most of these models on opinion dynamics are theoretical and have not proved their effectiveness quantificationally. (hindawi.com)
  • Research results are always affected by varying degrees of uncertainty depending, for example, on the method, research design, data, or theoretical assumptions used. (lu.se)
  • Russian president Vladimir Putin 'ordered' a wide-ranging effort to disrupt and influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential campaign in favor of President-Elect Donald Trump, according to an unclassified report published today by the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence. (darkreading.com)
  • We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. (darkreading.com)
  • From 2016 to 2018, a severe outbreak of Campylobacter in humans was linked to pet store puppies, resulting in illnesses in people across 18 states - demonstrating the need for research on antimicrobial use and infection control practices in breeding kennels. (cdc.gov)
  • 2 Availab le at http://www.who.int/nmh/publications/ncd-action-plan/en/ (a ccessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • 3 Availab le at http://www.who.int/disabilities/actionplan/en/ (accessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • 4 Availab le at http://www.who.int/ageing/global-strategy/en/ (accessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • 5 Availab le at http://www.who.int/hrh/resources/globstrathrh-2030/en/ (a ccessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • 6 Availab le at http://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11087%3A2015-54th- directing-council&catid=8811%3Adc-documents&Itemid=41537&lang=en (a ccessed 22 November 2016). (who.int)
  • Over 50 public hearings were called and written submissions were accepted and considered by the Assembly. (participedia.net)
  • While the citizens' assembly was restricted to those chosen through random selection, the assembly was open to public feedback and made a point of issuing a technical report ahead of the referendum to inform citizens and encourage them to participate in the process through written submissions and over 50 public hearings. (participedia.net)
  • Transparency of government interactions with tobacco industry through public hearings, public notice of interactions, and disclosure of records. (who.int)
  • The Bush administration put the US and Russia on a collision course by expanding American strategic influence into the Baltic, East Europe, Georgia and Ukraine. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a frequent critic of developments in Russia, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has labeled Russia "public enemy number one. (antiwar.com)
  • Once the public realized that cigarettes were also killing nonsmokers, anti-tobacco activists would press forward with increasing success in their campaigns to ban smoking in public places. (sourcewatch.org)
  • If smokers can't smoke on the way to work, at work, in stores, banks, restaurants, malls, and other public places, they are going to smoke less," complained Philip Morris Corporate Affairs Vice President Ellen Merlo in a speech to tobacco vendors. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Some scientists were positioned as public voices in defense of tobacco. (sourcewatch.org)
  • No investments by governments or public officials in tobacco industry. (who.int)
  • Much of the influence for these kind of perceptions came from the widespread publicity given to notorious cases. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the historical reality of cocaine's effect on violence and crime is difficult to disentangle from inflamed perceptions, it does appear that public opinion was swayed by the image of the violent, cocaine-crazed fiend and pushed over the edge by a few violent episodes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The USSR released large-scale strategic deception campaigns against the U.S. sphere of influence throughout the Cold War. (capitalresearch.org)
  • There is a good deal there worth exploring, but let's be realistic: the views of the non-Jewish public - Palestinian or Druze, Christian or Muslim - mean virtually nothing in Israel, nor are they considered much in the halls of the "international community. (lobelog.com)
  • Equally, being pro-Palestinian demands we be pro-Israel, because compromise and coexistence is the only thing that will result in Palestinian self-determination. (jewishindependent.ca)
  • Before this, various factors and groups acted (primarily at the state level) on influencing a move towards prohibition and away from a laissez-faire attitude. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studying the process of public opinion communication in the social network and the key factors influencing communication plays an important role in predicting public opinion and guiding public opinion in time [ 9 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Some of these factors influenced my choice to leave the classroom, certainly. (hechingerreport.org)
  • By taking the influence degree of public opinion into account, I quantify the factors with different ratios to determine how they could be used in information spreading. (scirp.org)
  • Following this line, we consider the self-excitation opinion model and study the collective behaviors of the self-excitation model. (hindawi.com)
  • The implications of such sources of uncertainty for the research results or for other communicated content should be clarified. (lu.se)
  • Heller wrote that "the calculation methodology does not result in real world, market-based rates. (darkdaily.com)
  • Furthermore, the shift in communication medium has a significant impact on the public opinion formation mechanism, exacerbating the difficulties of managing relevant departments. (hindawi.com)
  • It means that opinion formation is seen as a Markov process. (hindawi.com)
  • As a result, an increasing number of scholars are focusing on the incidence and transmission mechanisms of online public opinion communication. (hindawi.com)
  • Public opinion study has steadily expanded beyond communication to include artificial intelligence [ 4 - 6 ], complex systems, numerical computation, physics, cybernetics, and other interdisciplinary topics. (hindawi.com)
  • Our results by age reveal that specific modifications related to improving communication channels and implementing home smoking rules and more general changes that improve the quality of the parent-child relationship so teens place a higher value on their parents' opinions are likely to be particularly effective in the early teen years. (who.int)
  • Except in certain cases of state and local government communication, as part of their normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, as discussed above, grantees are restricted from using federal funds to attempt to influence deliberations or actions by Federal, state, or local legislative or executive branches. (cdc.gov)
  • It is of utmost importance to understand that the behavioural objectives of outbreak response inform the communication objectives and that there may be several communication objectives directed at securing the intended behavioural result which contribute to compliance to the outbreak control measure (which should be technically-sound, realistic, and culturally appropriate). (who.int)
  • Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty , as distinct from the Voice of America (VOA), had been clandestinely funded through the CIA, but, with the VOA, now all come under the authority of a quasi-public corporation, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). (citizendium.org)
  • Is religion losing or gaining influence in America? (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Writing in MedPage Today , pediatric radiologist Richard Heller, MD, National Subspecialty Lead for Pediatric Radiology at Radiology Partners in Chicago, and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board Liaison for Public Information and Corporate Relations, described the QPA as "the insurer's median in-network rate. (darkdaily.com)
  • This article does not address, other than incidental to influencing opinion or actions reasonably associated with CIA security, possibly illegal domestic surveillance. (citizendium.org)
  • [1] Agents of influence are often the most difficult agents to detect, as there is seldom material evidence that connects them with a foreign power, [2] but they can be among the most effective means of influencing foreign opinion and actions as they hold considerable credibility among the target audience. (wikipedia.org)
  • A just-issued World Public Opinion survey finds that opinion of President Obama is generally positive on a personal level and has boosted America's battered image. (lewrockwell.com)
  • Survey results suggest that measures may not be effective ( 8 , 9 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Recently, Taylor also led a nationwide survey that assessed opinions of antimicrobial use in small animal practice. (cdc.gov)
  • See the full report for results by job type and education level. (gallup.com)
  • Parts of environmental data can be found in the public investigation report (PAR/EPAR for medicinal product through a centralized procedure). (janusinfo.se)
  • We're able to focus our attention on publishing impactful journalism in the public interest, and publish it for free for all to read, because we have the support of Tyee Builders. (thetyee.ca)
  • in influencing public opinion, they have a responsibility not to publish inaccurate or misleading headlines that Conflicts of interest cause fear and diminish countermeasures against the SS is an associate editor of the Western Pacific Surveil- outbreak. (who.int)
  • Therefore, in the changing environment of network public opinion, it is particularly important for schools to take timely and effective response measures [1]. (scirp.org)
  • If the network public opinion is not handled properly, the pressure of public opinion will soon upgrade and worsen the situation, which will not only lose the confidence of students, but also directly affect the image of the school. (scirp.org)
  • They show intense public opposition to the pro-US policies of these nations, a recipe for violence or even revolution. (lewrockwell.com)
  • While there were no radical or realistic influences in his parent's home to shape his character, there were humanistic influences there which tended to deepen his inner life. (ditext.com)
  • Secondly, we have calculated specific mass media image indexes, based on previous content analysis results. (repec.org)
  • The main advantage of this procedure is that it can help predict not only the local mass media interest for particular local public administrative themes, but also the impact of the mass media image of local government institutions (local and central) on the local public. (repec.org)
  • Highlighting The Image Of The Local Government Institutions In Mass Media Based On The Results Of The Content Analysis ," Curentul Juridic, The Juridical Current, Le Courant Juridique , Petru Maior University, Faculty of Economics Law and Administrative Sciences and Pro Iure Foundation, vol. 72, pages 39-56, January. (repec.org)
  • Online public opinion is gradually becoming an important medium that influences society's mainstream direction in today's period of rapid development of new media and network oversight. (hindawi.com)
  • and most importantly the popular media all have a large impact on the resulting vote. (womenonwaves.org)
  • Public support for reform began with the anomolous results of the 1996 New Democratic Party election and increased after the Liberal Party came to power in 2001 through similar circumstances. (participedia.net)
  • When research is communicated, the content is to be correct and to provide recipients with a correct understanding of the factual circumstances in terms of both results and underlying research. (lu.se)
  • In this paper, we study the self-excitation opinion dynamics on the large homogeneous network. (hindawi.com)
  • An urgent problem to study and solve is how to deal with them under the supervision of public opinion. (scirp.org)
  • None of our results were consistent with homonationalism, either in an experiment conducted with students (Study 1, N = 110), or in a secondary analysis of data from the same two countries (Study 2, N = 2638). (open.ac.uk)
  • The current study aimed at examining the first step in such influence, which is consumers' attention to ingredient information on food product packaging. (lu.se)
  • Based on sentiment analysis with deep learning, there are many frameworks to perceive opinion on the social network. (hindawi.com)
  • It was hoped that, with adequate public support, the FPTP system could be replaced by either single-transferable-vote or Mixed Member Proportionality - both of which were thought to result in a more fair vote-to-seat ratio. (participedia.net)
  • These long hours can result in fewer adequate breaks for personal care, nutrition, and hydration. (cdc.gov)
  • We propose a Mckean-Vlasov-type integrodifferential equation to describe the asymptotic behaviors of the model and show that the introduced equation, by coupling with the initial distribution, has the ability of capturing the influence of the self-excitation process, which describes the mutually exciting and recurrent nature of individuals. (hindawi.com)
  • We show that when the number of the individuals is very large, the opinion distribution of this system evolves according to a nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) of Mckean-Vlasov type. (hindawi.com)
  • Overall, the results show a need to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in breeder kennels. (cdc.gov)
  • As a result, this research investigates the evolution of public opinion and the evolutionary stability strategy of groups. (hindawi.com)
  • Homonationalism has little utility as a construct for understanding public opinion at this point in time, and research investigating it at other levels of analysis may be more fruitful. (open.ac.uk)
  • 8 Commissioning training to confidently interact with journalists and the research with trusted local researchers and the rapid public. (who.int)
  • At first glance there was no cause for a diplomatic falling out between Washington and Berlin, as no U.S. citizens had been killed - but several Americans were injured, and U.S. public opinion, guided as always by outraged newspaper reports, focused on the fact that the attack could easily have resulted in American fatalities. (mentalfloss.com)
  • It releases a lot of info that should be available to the public, but it also releases information that is of no value to the public while at the same time jeopardizing certain people's lives. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • Aware of an intensifying anti-colonial sentiment, German leadership couldn't be bothered by the changes in public opinion, thinking Sufis too weak to raise an army. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • To this end, numerous methods of public outreach were pursued by government and civil society groups. (participedia.net)
  • As a result of Soviet deception, the West acted timidly toward the Soviets until the Reagan Era. (capitalresearch.org)
  • The term "agent of influence" is often used to describe both individuals and organizations engaged in influence operations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Individuals engaged in this type of influence operation may serve in the fields of journalism, government, art, labor, academia, or a number of other professional fields. (wikipedia.org)
  • [8] When individuals join such organizations in good faith but are in fact serving the interests of a foreign elite, their affiliation becomes infiltration, and cumulatively the organization serves as an agent of influence. (wikipedia.org)
  • The opinion dynamics is a complex and interesting process, especially for the systems with a large number of individuals. (hindawi.com)
  • That year, their forces in Washington included members of more than two dozen lobbying and public relations firms. (tomdispatch.com)
  • An agent of influence is an agent of some stature who uses their position to influence public opinion or decision making to produce results beneficial to the country whose intelligence service operates the agent. (wikipedia.org)
  • A person who is directed by an intelligence organization to use his or her position to influence public opinion or decision-making in a manner that will advance the objective of the country for which that organization operates (Counterintelligence Glossary-Terms & Definitions of Interest for Department of Defense Counterintelligence Professionals). (wikipedia.org)
  • The primary characteristic that distinguishes agents of influence from spies is the lack of absolute control exercised by the foreign power on an agent of influence. (wikipedia.org)