Title: Research of football popularity in the Czech republic Objectives: The aim is to determine the public attitude to football, and public opinion on the football competitions. I own contribution will be recommendations for the Football Asocciation of the Czech republic, clubs and media, that could help increase interest in football. Methods: For questioning the Czech public a method of the German marketing agency UFA Sports Hamburg was used and adjusted for Czech conditions. A method of electronic questioning was used in order to obtain the data from respondents. By evaluating the research results the methods data analysis and measuring of dependence were used. Results: Upon the research a relationship between the public and the Czech and world football was discovered as well as the public opinions relativ to football competitions. On the base of the obtained information, some recommendation or problematic questions werw specifik, that the Football associations of the Czech republic, clubs and media should have been focused on in an effort to increase the popularity of football. Keywords: marketing research, popularity of sport, football

<p>The associations between religiosity, popularity, problem behavior, and adolescent romantic involvement were examined with both concurrent regressions and longitudinal cross-lagged models in this three-year longitudinal study of 869 high-school Indonesian Muslim adolescents. A problem behavior construct was formed from three variables (i.e., self-reported tobacco use, self-reported alcohol use, and self-reported deviancy). Religiosity, problem behavior, and adolescent romance were self-reported, and popularity was peer-reported. Indonesian adolescents reported high percentages of romantic involvement across three grades, and their romantic involvement increased with age. In the concurrent analyses, both problem behavior and popularity were positively associated with romance at tenth grade, but the main effect of popularity was significant for girls only. Religiosity was negatively associated with romance for girls at tenth grade. In the cross-lagged models, tenth-grade popularity was positively associated with changes in adolescent romance from tenth to eleventh grade. Bidirectional associations emerged between problem behavior and adolescent romance across three grades. No gender difference emerged in the longitudinal analyses. These patterns of association showed both similarities and differences to those found in the US. This study provides evidence that adolescent romance is intertwined with other aspects of adolescent development in Indonesia, and highlights the importance of exploring the influences of culture on adolescent romance in future studies.</p>

In this short- term longitudinal study (N=428), the unique predictive association between the positive peer nominated characteristic of being fun and peer status (peer preference and popularity) was assessed in a sample of fourth through sixth grade students. Concurrent hierarchical regression analyses and longitudinal structural equation modeling analyses found that peer nominated fun positively predicted preference and popularity, after accounting for the contribution of predictors potentially confounded with being fun, such as prosocial behavior, academic achievement, relational aggression, and physical aggression. The longitudinal association between fun and preference was qualified by grade in school, such that being fun predicted increases in preference for younger children but not for older children. There were bidirectional associations between peer status and fun; fun predicted increases in peer preference and popularity, but peer preference and popularity also predicted later increases in fun. The findings point to the need to expand existing conceptualizations of the antecedents of peer status beyond known predictors and to examine the developmental shifts in the landscape of children’s peer interactions that make certain characteristics more desirable at different ages. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

This dissertation investigates how three significant nineteenth-century American female writers strategically transform a central Gothic motif – the virtuous heroine pursued by a villain who lusts for sexual and socioeconomic power – to tell new stories about gendered bodies and the erotic relations between them. Established in the genre-defining British Gothic novels of the late eighteenth century, this popular motif endured throughout the nineteenth century in texts written and read on both sides of the Atlantic. This project examines understudied texts by E.D.E.N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, and Julia Ward Howe that exhibit a striking intertextual awareness of the motif, reformulating it to critique the era’s marital and inheritance practices that enable and reinforce persistent gender inequities. These texts presciently recognize the performative nature of gender, centering on protagonists that move fluidly between genders with strategic choices about dress, speech, and social roles. By examining these texts together, this project shows that they anticipate the insights of contemporary feminist and queer theory as their protagonists deliberately calculate how to blend traditionally gendered behaviors and transform sexual threats into situations in which they can either consensually participate or cleverly elude. Chapter One argues that E. D. E. N. Southworth’s popular serial novel The Hidden Hand (1859) rewrites the narrative pattern that situates Gothic heroines as vulnerable to rape by positioning its heroine as aware of her fictional status and therefore capable of using her metafictional knowledge to reconfigure sexually threatening situations. Chapter Two examines how Louisa May Alcott’s sensation tale A Long, Fatal Love Chase (1866) blends traditionally male and female Gothic narratives to cast its heroine as a female Faust figure whose desperate desire for freedom leads her to enter naively into a bigamous partnership with a Mephistophelean man whose relentless pursuit ultimately causes her death. Chapter Three contends that Julia Ward Howe’s recently recovered manuscript The Hermaphrodite (1848) situates its ambiguously sexed but male-identifying protagonist as a Gothic “heroine” who employs unconventional strategies to cope with conventional threats to his physical and financial autonomy and rejects all interpersonal bonds because of the gendered restrictions they impose upon him. / 2019-07-31T00:00:00Z

Vi vill med denna studie bidra till att förstå hur barns status och popularitet påverkas av kläder i grundskolan. Våra resultat visar att kläder påverkar popularitet och status i ett komplext samspel med andra faktorer, såsom beteende och umgänge. Kläder börjar bli viktigt för status och popularitet någon gång under mellanstadiet. Det är då barnen börjar bry sig om sin egen, och andras, klädsel. De måste förhålla sig till ett socialt spel där bl.a. kläder påverkar barnets position i statushierarkin på skolan. Hur barnen gör detta kan variera och vissa försöker ställa sig utanför ”popularitetstjafset”, medan andra tar till förtryckande taktiker för att själva stiga i status. Vi har undersökt detta genom att intervjua sju ungdomar i åldrarna 15-18 år om deras upplevelser i mellan- och högstadiet. Dessa intervjuer har vi sedan tolkat med en fenomenologisk analysmetod för att kunna förstå hur barnen upplever att kläder påverkat dem. För att tolka våra resultat har vi använt Goffmans dramaturgiska perspektiv och Adler &amp; Adlers beskrivning av klickar. En artikel som betytt väldigt mycket för oss under planerandet av denna studie är Jon Swains artikel The Right Stuff som utforskar hur klädsel påverkar barnen i en brittisk mellanstadieskola. / The purpose of this stydy is to contribute to the understanding of how clothing affects the popularity among children. Our results show that clothing affects popularity and status i a complex interaction with other factors, such as behaviour and associates. Clothing becomes an important factor for popularity sometime during the ages middle school. This is when the children begin to care about theirs, and others, clothing. They have to relate to a social game where clothing affects their position in the status hierarchy. How they relate to this game may vary and some of them try not to compete for popularity, while others act opressively in order to gain status. We have studied this by interviewing youths ages 15-18, on their experiences during junior school. We have interpreted these interviews with an phenomenological method of analysis in order to understand how the youths experience the effects of clothing. We have used Goffmans dramaturgical perspective and Adler &amp; Adlers description of clique dynamics in order to better understand this phenomenon. Jon Swains article The Right Stuff has proven to be of great aid during the planing of our stydy. In his article he explores how clothing affects the children in a junior school in england.

Car-commercials are something that many people come in contact with on a daily basis. This is a study on commercials for cars and is focusing on visual effects that are made in post-production. In this report we are trying to find out if and how visual effects in commercials for cars affect how the observer remembers them. The second subjects that we use in this report is popularity and we try to find out if and in that case how visual effects affect the commercials for cars popularity. We also investigated how frequently commercials for cars are showed on TV and how the visual effects are in them, it gives a better foundation to the other parts. The methods we applied were interviews, quantitative and qualitative content analysis of car commercials and also observation analysis of the 6 swedish TV-channels that shows commercials and have the most viewers, to get an idea how frequently these commercials are shown. The commercials that were applied in this paper was from late 2011 to early 2012. Interviews were made with people from the ages 16 to 76 years old with an equal distribution of sexes. We used 4 different commercials for cars in our interviews with 4 different degrees of the amount of visual effects. We analyzed 6 Swedish TV-channels that show commercials and that have the most viewers to get an idea about how frequently commercials for car are shown. The result of our research showed us that there was no connection between visual effects and popularity and that a larger amount of visual effects can increase the observers tendency to remember a commercial with 15 percentage. Most commercials from the studied period was without visual effects and 13,3% had a larger amount of visual effects

This dissertation investigates how presidents build successful legislative coalitions and enact their agenda into law in the United States Congress. It argues that constituencies and electoral incentives cause members of Congress to respond to the president’s agenda in a systematic manner. The president’s strength in members’ constituencies interacts with members’ electoral incentives to determine whether members will vote for or against the president. The theoretical claims presented in this dissertation are supported by a combination of case studies and quantitative analysis. The empirical analysis utilizes a dataset with observations for every member of Congress from 1957 to the present. I find that constituency-level presidential strength causes systematic variance in members’ response to the president’s agenda. Vulnerable members of Congress are particularly sensitive to the president’s strength in their constituencies, while safe members of Congress are a bit less attentive to their constituencies. These findings contribute to our understanding of American politics by showing that the president’s ability to enact agenda items into law is affected by much more than mere party politics. This conclusion is especially relevant in the modern, polarized era in American politics. / text

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar o processo de criação e manutenção de fanfics escritas em língua portuguesa da saga Harry Potter e identificar razões pelas quais os usuários leitores e colaboradores optam, ou preferem, certas fics em detrimento de outras. O trabalho agrega, em seu corpo, um apanhado sobre a saga, desde sua autora, passando por seus personagens e enredo, até uma contextualização da relação de sucesso dessas Obras com a prática de publicações e manutenções de fanfictions, sendo abordados e registrados aspectos relevantes sobre essa atividade. São trazidos à tona os principais entendimentos teóricos relacionados ao universo das fics, tais como a preservação do tradicional sobre o novo (seguir o cânone), assim como à presença de alguns padrões comunicacionais e textuais (periodicidade e qualidade no texto), como fatores de relevância para a popularidade de uma história. Finalmente, são analisados dados de questionários encaminhados à parte mais significativa da amostra escolhida, com o objetivo de investigar quais fatores são preponderantes para que uma fanfiction se torne popular, uma vez que esta atividade está inserida num espaço tecnológico, no qual a inovação é força motriz / The purpose of this study is to analyze the process of creating and maintaining fanfics written in Portuguese of the Harry Potter saga and identify reasons why readers users and contributors opt, or prefer, certain fics over others. The paper aggregates, in his body, an overview about the saga, since its author, through his characters and plot, to a contextualization of the successful relationship of these Works with the practice of publications and maintenance of fanfictions being addressed and recorded relevant issues on this activity. The main theoretical understandings related to the universe of fics comes up, such as the preservation of traditional over the new (follow the canon), as well as over the presence of some communication and textual patetrns (frequency and quality in the text), as factors of relevance to the popularity of a story. Finally, are analyzed data from questionnaires sent to the most significant part of the sample chosen, in order to investigate which factors are crucial for a fanfiction to become popular, since this activity is embedded in a technological space, in which innovation is impellent

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-06-15T11:55:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 22731208 bytes, checksum: 4134c36b1c760915c073c3e8c6dd8c1c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-15T11:55:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 22731208 bytes, checksum: 4134c36b1c760915c073c3e8c6dd8c1c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-01 / This study aims to analyze the Lula's speech, seeking reveal the socio-cultural values ​​that explain its popularity. We used the greimasian semiotics as a basic theoretical model, especially that sóciossemiótica takes care of non-literary texts social. Investigated a corpus composed of four manifested discourses that portray different times of Lula's political career: President Lula syndicalist early stage denouncing the business class; Squid Congressman it is critical that the maintenance of indirect elections president; Lula and the letter to the Brazilian is the speech that redefines his political career President Lula of Brazil, speech after the first victory at the polls. The speeches were analyzed following the trajectory of the generative course of meaning in the underlying popular search. On the narrative level, we investigated the relationship between the semiotic subjects and their valuables. In the discursive level, there were the interpersonal relations of enunciation and utterance and spatiotemporal projections and key highlight was the ideology underlying the speeches. Studies have shown that semas democracy, citizenship and ethics, implicit in the texts analyzed, have a number of restrictions, including considerations are that: only worker is honest, the poor must live in hope and that maintaining "Storylines" enthusiasts is the solution to the problems that crucify the country. The analysis and comparison of the four texts also showed that the popular arguments are tactical procedures used masterfully in speeches as the intentions of the producers in order to produce a discourse of domination that seems include dominated in decision-making. In fact, they tend to further strengthen domination. This allows us to say that political actors appeal to the doctrines sentimentalists oriented abstract conceit, subordinating reason to feeling. / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o discurso de Lula, buscando revelar os valores sócio-culturais que explicam sua popularidade. Utilizou-se a semiótica greimasiana como modelo teórico básico, em especial a sóciossemiótica que se ocupa dos textos sociais não-literários. Investigou-se um corpus composto de quatro discursos manifestados que retratam momentos diferentes da trajetória política de Lula: Lula presidente sindicalista da fase inicial que denuncia a classe empresarial; Lula Deputado federal trata-se que critica a manutenção das eleições indiretas para presidente; Lula e a carta aos brasileiros é o discurso que redefine seu percurso político Lula presidente do Brasil, discurso pronunciado após a primeira vitória nas urnas. Os discursos foram analisados seguindo a trajetória do percurso gerativo da significação em busca do popular subjacente. No nível narrativo, investigaram-se as relações entre os sujeitos semióticos e seus objetos de valor. No nível discursivo, observaram-se as relações intersubjetivas de enunciação e enunciado e as projeções espaço-temporais e no fundamental destacou-se a ideologia subjacente aos discursos. Os estudos mostraram que os semas democracia, cidadania e ética, implícitos nos textos analisados, apresentam uma série de restrições, entre elas estão considerações de que: somente o trabalhador é honestos, que o pobre deve viver de esperança e que a manutenção de "enredos" entusiastas é a solução para os problemas que crucificam o país. A análise e comparação dos quatro textos evidenciou ainda que os argumentos populares constituem procedimentos táticos, empregados com maestria nos discursos, conforme as intenções dos produtores com vistas a produzir um discurso de dominação que parece incluir o dominado nos processos decisórios. Na verdade, tendem a fortalecer mais a dominação. Isto permite dizer que os atores políticos apelam para as doutrinas sentimentalistas voltadas para o convencimento abstrato, subordinando a razão ao sentimento.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / O objetivo do presente estudo é analisar o processo de criação e manutenção de fanfics escritas em língua portuguesa da saga Harry Potter e identificar razões pelas quais os usuários leitores e colaboradores optam, ou preferem, certas fics em detrimento de outras. O trabalho agrega, em seu corpo, um apanhado sobre a saga, desde sua autora, passando por seus personagens e enredo, até uma contextualização da relação de sucesso dessas Obras com a prática de publicações e manutenções de fanfictions, sendo abordados e registrados aspectos relevantes sobre essa atividade. São trazidos à tona os principais entendimentos teóricos relacionados ao universo das fics, tais como a preservação do tradicional sobre o novo (seguir o cânone), assim como à presença de alguns padrões comunicacionais e textuais (periodicidade e qualidade no texto), como fatores de relevância para a popularidade de uma história. Finalmente, são analisados dados de questionários encaminhados à parte mais significativa da amostra escolhida, com o objetivo de investigar quais fatores são preponderantes para que uma fanfiction se torne popular, uma vez que esta atividade está inserida num espaço tecnológico, no qual a inovação é força motriz / The purpose of this study is to analyze the process of creating and maintaining fanfics written in Portuguese of the Harry Potter saga and identify reasons why readers users and contributors opt, or prefer, certain fics over others. The paper aggregates, in his body, an overview about the saga, since its author, through his characters and plot, to a contextualization of the successful relationship of these Works with the practice of publications and maintenance of fanfictions being addressed and recorded relevant issues on this activity. The main theoretical understandings related to the universe of fics comes up, such as the preservation of traditional over the new (follow the canon), as well as over the presence of some communication and textual patetrns (frequency and quality in the text), as factors of relevance to the popularity of a story. Finally, are analyzed data from questionnaires sent to the most significant part of the sample chosen, in order to investigate which factors are crucial for a fanfiction to become popular, since this activity is embedded in a technological space, in which innovation is impellent