Dissertations / Theses: 'Winning awards'

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Yen, Ju-Yu. "The power of advertising awards a comparison of effectiveness between award-winning & none-award TV commercials /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5983.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 29, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Benton, Terry. "The Availability and Accessibility of Award-Winning Multicultural Children's and Young Adult Literature in Public Libraries in Northeast Ohio." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1418075719.

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Montano, Jesse Raúl. "Characteristics of U.S. Hispanic advertising a comparison of award-winning and non-award-winning commercials /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0005381.

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Makhele, Tshepiso. "Akhona leaves Generations." Move, 2013. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000725.

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Dixit, Yamini. "Indian award winning advertisements a content analysis /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010281.

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Senkova, Natalia A. "Advertising message strategy in Russian award-winning commercials." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010444.

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Wilson, Melissa Beth. "Constructions of Childhood Found in Award-winning Children's Literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195174.

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This study explores the connections between childhood and children's literature. In this connection there is an inherent tension between writing and reading "real" childhood, as it is being lived by children now, and interacting with an adult-normative, adult-reconstructed childhood that may or may not have existed in the past. The purpose of this study was to address this tension by analyzing fifteen recently published award-winning children's novels, from the United States, The United Kingdom, and Australia, in order to ferret out how present-day childhood is constructed within this text set. Using a hybrid methodology called critical discourse analysis, buttressed by the frameworks of postmodern childhood studies and critical children's literature studies, the novels were analyzed in a hermeneutic, reader-response oriented approach in order to excavate themes that addressed childhood in the narratives. Findings are presented as a meta-plot, wherein the child protagonists leave a failed home, set out on a journey of knowledge and experience gaining a sense of agency, and, at the end of the novel, construct a new home replete with the child protagonists' personal meaning. This meta-plot includes instances of the child protagonist performing parrhesiatic acts (Foucault) as well as developing non-hierarchical relationships as conceptualized by an I/You relationship (Buber). Other findings include the construction of childhood as a time of "becoming" and a time of "is-ness," childhood as a time of resilience, and childhood as a time of difficult decisions. Conclusions of the analysis speak to the idea of the child serving as a Modern bringer of hope, who manages to create moral order from within an adult-created postmodern milieu. Implications relate to the fields of literacy education, replications of the study with an interpretative community of children, and continuing to define the burgeoning methodology of critical content analysis.

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Carson, Catherine Jane. "Tourist Trap: On Being Raised in Award-Winning Sand." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2258.

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The literary essays in this collection explore the relationships between mind, body, and environment as the narrator explores Orlando, her beachfront hometown of Sarasota, and other "tourist traps." The traditional and experimental essays here question how residents make popular vacation destinations their own and how much trust one can put in strangers, neighbors, city planners, theme-park designers, and lovers. Dance floors, hybrid bikes, flying elephants, swing sets, and swimming pools fill these pages. Worries spiral like disco lights on dance floors, and cultural forces press down with the constant pressure of pedal strokes. With the embodiment of place comes connection between environment and activity; music, buildings, landscape, and physical activity heighten the relationship between personal identity and place. Everything moves, but the appeal of tourist traps remains constant.
M.F.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing MFA

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Talib, Sayjda. "The role and implications of 'award winning' investor relations practices." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485256.

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This thesis investigates the concept of Investor Relations (IR), its role within organisations and its capital market implications. The thesis consists of two independent but related empirical chapters. First~ I examine whether IR is successful in insulating firms from negative market shocks. The wave of high profile accounting and corporate governance scandals that occurred in the US during 2001 and 2002 placed corporate credibility under the microscope and led to both a crisis in investor confidence and increased investor scepticism towards the capital market (Allen, 2002; Asthana et aI., 2003; Bratton, 2003; Eduardo et al., 2003; Smith, 2003). Against this backdrop, I find no evidence in support of the prediction that an established reputation for effective IR helped shield firms from the general market fallout during several event windows that fall within this crisis period, October 2001 through September 2002. On the contrary, results suggest that firms with established i:R reputations actually fared worse on a series of market-related dimensions, including more negative returns to news ~ssociated with financial credibility issues, and a significant decline in press coverage, trading volume, and analyst coverage. These results suggest the overall reputation of the IR industry may have been tarnished during this period. Second, I analyse the association b~tween the effectiv~ness of firms' IR practices and various properties of analysts' quarterly earnings forecasts. I find that analysts are able to forecast earnings at the end of a quarter more accurately for effective IR firms compared to other firms, suggesting that IR helps firms increase the total amount of infonnation available to the market about the firm. !Ii addition, I find that analysts are able to forecast earnings at the beginning of the quarter more accurately for effective IR firms compared to other firms, suggesting that IR facilitates the flow of information to investors in a timelier manner. Moreover, I find evidence that finns recognised for their effective IR practices guide analyst's forecasts downwards in order to meet or beat expectations more frequently compared to other firms. Similarly, I fmd that when initial forecasts in a quarter are pessimistic, effective IR finns have a greater walk up of earnings expectations over the quarter compared to other finns. Similarly, I fmd that when initial forecasts in the quarter are optimistic, effective IR firms have a greater walk down of earnings expectations compared to other finns. This suggests that managing analysts' expectations so that they do not diverge .significantly from reality is a very important aspect of investor relations. Finally, there is evidence to show that forecasts for effective IR finns become more accurate and less dispersed over the quarter compared to other firms.

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Kirk, Joyce, and n/a. "Portrayal of aged characters in Australian award-winning children's novels 1946-1985." University of Canberra. Library & Information Studies, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050711.143505.

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The study investigated the nature of the portrayal of aged characters in children's novels which won Children's Book Council of Australia's awards in the period from 1946 to 1985. By means of content analysis, the demographic, personal and behavioural characteristics of aged characters were identified on a thirty-four item checklist. From these characteristics a portrayal score was derived to represent the extent of variation in the depiction of aged characters in the novels examined. Analysis of variance tests indicated that the level of variation in portrayal scores was significantly related to the position of importance of aged characters in novels. The portrayal of aged characters did not vary according either to the approach to story adopted in Australian award-winning novels, or to the period in which the award was granted. It seems that although aged characters taken as a whole in the novels studied display the variety of characteristics attributed to aged people in the literature of gerontology, individually many of these aged characters are depicted in a somewhat limited way. There is evidence to suggest that aged characters in Australian award-winning children's novels do not adequately reflect the demographic characteristics of aged people in the Australian population. In terms of range of social settings in which they are depicted is restricted. So too, is the range of behaviours in which they engage. This rather limited depiction of aged characters means that readers of Australian award-winning children's novels are presented with a restricted and unrealistic view of the aged and of the condition of being aged. If children's novels serve as one of the socialisation agents for young people, then the limited portrayal of aged characters presented in those novels may be a cause for concern, especially as there are few indications that the depiction of aged characters generally in more recent award-winning novels has become more varied and realistic.

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Ponder, Brenda. "A case study examining ethics training within an award-winning federal agency." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3731430.

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The ethics training program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Alaska District, a recipient of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) 2010 Education and Communication Award, was studied to determine if the training fostered employee awareness of unethical situations within the workplace. The study fills a gap in scholarly literature in that never before had a peer-review study been done to examine how ethics training fosters awareness within an award-winning federal agency. The method and design used for collecting the data was the qualitative exploratory case study. Seven data sources were analyzed using NVivo 10 ^® software and Microsoft Excel and conclusions drawn by use of data source triangulation. Two primary data sources used were responses from two sets of interview questions: one set with 15 employees and another set with two ethics training coordinators. The other five sources of data evidence used were the OGE 2009 Education and Commission Awards Announcement, the OGE 2009 Education and Communication Award Application Form submitted by Alaska District to OGE, samples of the Ethics Monthly Treats, and comments made by the interviewees on the 2-minute ethics video (Secret Ethics Man), and brownbag lunches. The framework for this study was Gagne’s theoretical instructional design model. The three emerging themes were: ethics information was distributed frequently, innovative delivery methods, and content of ethics instruction. The results of the study indicate that the design, delivery, and components of the training program may have been effective in fostering employee awareness of unethical situations within the workplace.

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Roy, Suparna S. "The complex classrooms of three award-winning Ontario high school physics teachers." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/453.

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Fu, Wing Man. "A Case Study of an Award Winning Public School String Orchestra Program." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1242663220.

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Voskuyl, Heather. "Plainsong or polyphony? : Australian award-winning novels of the 1990s for adolescent readers /." Electronic version, 2008. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/923.

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Deng, Qichao. "Creative execution content analysis of Chinese award-winning television commercials in 1997-2003 /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0007065.

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Boyle, Todd A. "Quality management in the R&D departments of quality award-winning manufacturing organizations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0020/MQ48481.pdf.

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Earl, Ryan Michael. "How Award-Winning Family Therapy Educators Engage Their Students in Meaningful Family Therapy Education." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77948.

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Family therapy educators are currently challenged to teach their students in ways that facilitate competencies, but that are also meaningful to students. In this qualitative study, which serves as the second article of this dissertation, twelve award-winning family therapy educators were interviewed about how they facilitate educational practices that family therapy students have defined as meaningful to them. A thematic analysis of the interviews revealed seven primary themes: 1) relationship building, 2) attending to student development, 3) relevance, 4) actively engaging students in the process, 5) enthusiasm and curiosity, 6) providing and receiving honest feedback, and 7) transparency. The implications of these findings are discussed to support meaningful family therapy teaching practices as well as to offer specific suggestions for how family therapy educators can more deeply engage with their students.
Ph. D.

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Whitman, Gretchen M. "Multiple Perspectives of Good Teaching: A Case Study of Award-winning K-12 Teaching." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1541598295330033.

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Moore, Carl Stanley. "Inclusive College Teaching: A Study of How Four Award-Winning Faculty Employ Universal Design Instruction." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216599.

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Urban Education
Ph.D.
Using universal design instruction (UDI) as a framework, this study explores the inclusive teaching practices of four award-winning humanities and social sciences faculty at a large urban Research I university located in the northeastern region of the United States. UDI, a framework used to assist teachers in creating proactively inclusive instructional design, was used as a measure of inclusivity. Using a qualitative case-study approach, the study cross-examined the pedagogy of these faculty and unpacked specific techniques and practices embedded in their pedagogy that aligned with UDI. With each faculty member considered an individual case, structured classroom observations and interviews with target faculty, their colleagues, and student focus groups were conducted. Guided by the UDI framework, a cross-case analysis was then undertaken to determine the extent to which each faculty member met UDI principles. The study yielded descriptive accounts of multidimensional teaching strategies that incorporated universal design instruction.
Temple University--Theses

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Stamper, Christine N. PhD. "Prizing Cycles of Marginalization: Paired Progression and Regression in Award-Winning LGBTQ-themed YA Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523900425403547.

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Rahilly, Timothy J. "Teacher knowledge in the university classroom : inexperienced, experienced, and award-winning professors' critical incidents of teaching." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0022/NQ37015.pdf.

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Boster, Mark. "Gender equity of Traditional and Non-Traditional Career Roles in Newbery Award-Winning and Honor Books." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2005. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Stokes, Eleanor V. "Perceptions of four principals of Southeastern award-winning urban schools on school, family, and community involvement." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009p/stokes.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2009.
Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 1, 2010). Additional advisors: Martha S. Barber, Lois M. Christensen, Dave Dagley, Tondra Loder-Jackson, Boyd Rogan. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-110).

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Baumgartner, Christopher M. "A Performance Analysis of Whirlwind and Shadow Rituals, Ticheli Composition Contest Award Winning Works in 2007." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1236102703.

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Holness, Nelson Anthony. "The analysis of design methods by a comparative study of award-winning industrial architecture (1970-1990)." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326715.

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This thesis advances a proposition that designers of exemplary industrial buildings adopt design heuristics based on evolving conceptual prototypes. The detail design priorities and formal expressions may vary, but the essential structure of their design solution search patterns should show a high degree of commonality. This commonality is based on the balance between rational and intuitive strategies for design decision making. Therefore it is the central objective of this thesis to demonstrate that a pattern between these two cognitive approaches to design thinking occurs across the cases investigated. The research was organised as a comparative study of the design process used by a selection of designers to design industrial buildings which subsequently received design awards for the quality of their design. Through a series of six case studies using semi-structured interviews and follow-up repertory grid analysis, data was obtained which allowed the various design methods to be recorded, analysed and compared. A control sample of designers of non award winning industrial buildings was also conducted as a comparison to validate the classification of designers on the basis of design quality on the grounds of design awards. The thesis will propose that each designer resorted to a constantly evolving genenc 'prototype' for the design of industrial buildings which helps reduce the search area for a design solution. Therefore relatively little time is required to analyse the problem at the beginning of the process before a suitable solution is formulated. The prototype allows the designers to quickly identify aspects of the design that might prove problematic and hence require specific attention. The strategy is then one of rational analysis to solve specific problems rather than an extensive rationally based development of the whole design. Hence the supporting role of rationally based techniques during the design process. Finally, the familiarity that comes from using a design method based on a constantly evolving prototype provides the designer with greater 'outcome certainty', in that they have an increased likelihood of achieving a successful design as the potential of the prototype is known to the designer at the commencement of the project

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Hsu, Yang-hsin. "Blending east and west a content analysis of Taiwanese award-winning TV commercials from 1998 to 2003 /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0010830.

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Harrell, Andrea. "The 1896 Vienna Tonkünstler-verein Competition: the Three Award-winning Works and Seven Anonymous Submissions with Clarinet." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699919/.

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The Vienna Tonkünstler-Verein (1885-1929) was established for the sole purpose of providing extensive support to the music and musicians of Vienna. The society became renowned in Vienna for its outstanding performances of chamber music and counted among its members many of the city’s foremost musicians and composers. Johannes Brahms had a significant influence on the society as its honorary president and assisted in establishing its composition competitions, aimed at promoting and reviving under-developed chamber genres. Of particular interest to clarinetists is the Verein’s competition of 1896, which aspired to promote chamber music literature for wind instruments. Brahms’s recently completed chamber works for clarinet were clearly influential in fin-de-siècle Vienna; for of the twelve works chosen as finalists in the competition, ten included the clarinet in the chamber combination.The purpose of this document is to provide an English-language history of the Vienna Tonkünstler-Verein and a thorough account of its1896 competition based on my study of the society’s annual reports. In addition, this document will provide the first published account of the anonymous submissions for the 1896 competition. It is my hope that this paper will serve as a springboard for future endeavors aimed at uncovering the identities of the anonymous finalists for this competition.

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Merckel, Andrea Beatrice. "Career structures and artistic diversity in Nazi Germany : a study of award-winning painters under the Third Reich." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267742.

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Marshall, Stephen W. "Advertising message strategies and executional devices in television commercials from award-winning "effective" campaigns from 1999 to 2004." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0015220.

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Hoffman, Ashley R. "Connecting Creatively to the Mediavores: An Investigation of Effie Award Winning Campaign Creatives that Successfully Communicated to Millennials." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/135.

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To many marketers, the second Gold Rush has come. The Millennials are on the rise and marketers are ready to strike; but “How?” has become the question. For many marketers, it has taken years of trial & error and data research to understand this target group that is considered to come out of 1981-2000 (Crang, p.1). The biggest hurdle marketers have to overcome is taking their thought process from traditional platforms to the digital technology that this group has grown up on. On top of joining the digital world, marketers have to be more creative than ever. With this group, they have been creating before they could talk, so they know what has been done and what is refreshing. And if that did not seem like enough on the marketers’ plates, Millennials want interactivity and personalization from every brand. To the average person, this seems incredibly demanding; but a few companies were willing to take on this challenge. Old Spice, Doritos, and Syfy found a way to connect with the Millennial audience through incredible creatives and received Effie Awards in recognition of their hard work. This report investigated each brand’s case study and what made their creative so successful. Throughout it, similarities were found, and differentiating elements were discovered, which resulted in why each case received the level of award they did. By the end of this paper, a clear picture of what resonates with this target audience should be painted to inform other researchers in the Millennial targeting field.

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Lear, Laury. "Personality Traits of Young Characters in Caldecott Award Winning Picture Books from Three Time Periods| 1950s, 1980s and 2000s." Thesis, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3706103.

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Educators have a responsibility to choose and share picture books with young children carefully, with a full understanding of the psychological, cultural and developmental potential that these books have for children. Picture books have a profound and lasting effect on children at a most impressionable age. Children identify with the characters in the picture books, sometimes through the personality of the characters, and that identification allows them to acquire ideas and emotions, conscious and unconscious, that promote developmental growth and teach social and cultural constructs.

This study employed a mixed methods research design using content analysis to describe the total personality of young characters in picture books from three decades: the 1950s, the 1980s, and the 2000s. This study looked for changes in the personalities of young characters in those time periods, including changes related to the gender of the characters.

This study found a consistent whole personality for the young characters in the picture books studied that can be described using the Big Five Personality Factors. There were statistically significant differences in the time periods for two of the Big Five Personality Factors. Although there were differences in personality between genders, those differences were not statistically significant.

Significant differences in the personality factors of extroversion and openness to experience in the time periods studied may be related to changes in society that have impacted the lives of children. The use of media, especially television, had exploded into the lives of children in the time periods studied. The relationship between children and nature had changed over the time periods.

Children may need adult intervention in terms of providing context, literary analysis, and discussion when reading picture books. Educators using picture books in instruction may need to carefully consider cultural standards, cultural ideals, and cultural change reflected in the books as part of instructional planning. Educational researchers need to examine the whole personality of characters in picture books so that the findings of their studies may inform and influence those in the home and the school using this powerful tool to help our children achieve their potential.

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Xu, Xianxuan. "A cross-cultural comparative study of teacher effectiveness: Analyses of award-winning teachers in the United States and China." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154197.

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Chen, Yanti. "Rethinking of design excellence via building performance : with particular reference to the RIBA Award-winning schools in the UK." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33623/.

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Too often, buildings do not correspond to the original design aspirations of designers. This PhD project aims to investigate whether or not buildings branded as exhibiting ‘design excellence’ perform well in practice, focusing on the quality of the indoor environment and the satisfaction of occupants. It also intends to explore how to ensure that buildings with design quality achieve good performance in use. Buildings which won reputable design awards are assumed as exhibiting design excellence acknowledged by the architectural profession. With the need for sustainable schools with design quality, the Post-occupancy Evaluation (POE) studies of five RIBA Award-winning schools were conducted in this research, using the case study approach for two years, in order to investigate actual performance of the schools branded as exhibiting design excellence. The POE studies which measured building performance, i.e. environmental performance and energy performance, and architectural performance, i.e. user feedback, handover issues, management and maintenance, were carried out in each of the case studies. The evaluation results were then compared with the latest environmental standards and the corresponding benchmarks. The case studies show that not all the schools studied achieved good performance in practice. Common issues emerged in four of the five schools, related to daylighting, overheating issues, the use of low carbon technologies, gaps between predicted and actual energy performance and occupant experience – use of controls. It indicates that receiving architectural excellence awards cannot assure good performance in use, and hence the ‘performance gap’ between the original design intention of the designers and actual building performance. The performance gap was found due largely to the inappropriate design decisions related to environmental design issues and improper operation and maintenance in use, besides the issues related to construction process which was not studied in this research. The design-related factors – design process and aftercare service – were inferred to have a great impact on building performance. This research project results in three contributions to existing knowledge and practice. The first contribution is to provide guidance for the evaluation of building performance of non-domestic buildings, especially schools. The guidance is composed of three key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be further divided into seven performance indexes, allowing the evaluation undertaken in a holistic manner rather than simply relying on an individual asset. The second contribution is to summarise challenges and constraints in conducting POE studies of schools. Specific recommendations regarding how to collect meaningful data for POE studies of schools were provided, which can be used as a reference for others. The third contribution is the analysis of the impact of design process and aftercare service on building performance and the corresponding suggestions of judging building performance in the RIBA Awards. As it is difficult to judge actual performance of a project in design award schemes due to the ‘time’ effect of awards, the awards submission is suggested to stress on documentation related to these elements in order to assist the jury to judge building performance in a sensible manner. This research highlights the importance of understanding and assessing building performance in determining design excellence. Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) should be made mandatory for all entries for the RIBA Awards and other architectural excellence awards. Alternatively, architectural design awards could be judged on actual performance of the buildings which received the awards after a few years of occupation through a valid POE study. With the technical nature of POE studies, it suggests POE studies for award-winning buildings to be done by a third party.

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Randolph, Amanda. "The Portrayal of the Family Unit In Children’s Choice Award Books." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363622755.

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Unger, Kevin L. "An investigation into the effects of winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award on the performance of hospitals/healthcare systems." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3593456.

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The efficiency and efficacy of the U.S. healthcare system has been in question for decades. We spend more per capita than any other industrialized nation while consistently realizing inferior health outcomes for our population as a whole when compared with many industrialized nations. In 1965, the proportion of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) attributed to healthcare was approximately 6%. Today, the share of GDP spent on healthcare by the United States is almost 18%. This number is 5% higher than the next two countries, the Netherlands and France (spending 12.0% and 11.8% of their GDP on healthcare respectively) according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The proportion of GDP spent on healthcare in 2020 is estimated to reach 20%, with the nation's increasing healthcare expeditors reducing resources available for other worthy government programs, eroding wages, and undermining the competitiveness of U.S. industry.

This dissertation explores longitudinal outcome data for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients in healthcare in the dimensions of patient outcomes (mortality, complications and patient safety), as well as hospital financial and efficiency measures (average length of stay, expense per discharge and profitability). Source data from Truven Health Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) are used to evaluate changes in level, immediacy/latency and trend in the years prior to versus the years after becoming a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient. In support of the hypothesis, being a recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in healthcare explains slight enhancements in clinical outcomes, while hospital financial and efficiency measures all showed overwhelmingly positive operating results.

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Ussery, Susie Robin. "A descriptive study of how African Americans are portrayed in award winning African American children's picture books from 1996-2005." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2006. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-03302006-101045.

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Parrott, Deborah, and Reneé C. Lyons. "Spice Up Your Library With Pura Belpre! Using Award-Winning Titles and Crafts to Engage Hispanic Children and Celebrate Diversity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2375.

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Recent statistical studies suggest the proportion of Hispanic students within our nation’s classrooms is growing at a significant rate, experiencing the highest increase in numbers of any other ethnic group. These students require resources conducive to English language learning which also honor the Hispanic/Latino culture. Yet, out of 3,400 books received by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) in 2011, only 52 were penned or created by Latino authors/ illustrators. This number is expected to decline over the coming years. This insufficiency is an enormous challenge to librarians who strive to empower the Hispanic student population and promote cultural diversity among all students. Empowering Learners, (p. 53) reminds us that librarians offer materials and services to accommodate the needs of children for whom English is a second language. The library program ideally seeks to reflect the linguistic and cultural pluralism of our country. How can we arise to this need? Librarians succeed in supporting Hispanic students by utilizing Pura Belpré award-winning titles. This accolade is presented annually by the Association of Library Services to Children (a division of the ALA) to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work “best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth,” embodying the essence of the Latino culture. The promotion of Pura Belpre’ titles, the delivery of associated crafts and activities as well as the use of online resources serve as indispensable tools to assist the librarian in enriching the literary experiences of Hispanic learners and celebrating the Latino heritage with all children. In our session, we share in-depth knowledge of selected titles with correlating crafts and activities. Attendees will leave the session with practical, concrete instructional ideas, ready for immediate use.

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Lunga, Carolyne Mande. "Investigating at the grassroots: exploring the origins, purposes journalistic practices and outcomes in two award-winning Daily Dispatch editorial projects." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002906.

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This thesis explores the origins, purposes, journalistic practices and outcomes of two award-winning projects namely Broken Homes and Slumlords done by Daily Dispatch's Gcina Ntsaluba in 2009. The projects were described by the paper as investigative journalism but interestingly the original idea came from grassroots driven strategies and they were done by adopting alternative news gathering strategies and immersion in the ordinary people, inspired by public journalism. This thesis follows Christians et al's (2009) normative theoretical framework of press roles summarised as the monitorial, facilitative, collaborative and radical roles. It provides normative prescriptions of public and investigative journalism, development and radical journalism. It then draws on sociological theoretical critiques in order to provide an analytical overview of the complex matrix of political, economic and media contexts which influenced the origins, purposes, journalistic practices and outcomes of the two projects. Drawing on a critical realist case study design, the thesis goes on to provide a narrative account of the two projects based on the in-depth interviews exploring the editorial staffs ideas on the origins, purposes, journalistic practices and outcomes of the projects and a qualitative content/thematic analysis of the journalistic texts related to the projects. This primary data is then critically evaluated against normative theories of press performance, especially Nip's (2008) key practices and Haas's (2007) 'public philosophy' of public journalism. It is also evaluated against a normative framework of what constitutes "good investigative journalism" based on Ettema and Glasser (1998), Waisbord (2000) among others. Protess et al 1991's classic mobilisation model is used to interrogate the projects' outcomes. The thesis established that there was a close connection of the monitorial (investigative journalism), facilitative (public journalism) and radical (tabloid journalism) roles at the paper which shows that the roles are not mutually exclusive. The two projects however fell short of the collaborative role (development journalism) which can, partly, be attributed to the adversarial nature of the relationship between the state and the media. The Daily Dispatch also failed to activate a platform for deliberation and public problem solving. There might thus be more scope in adopting a 'facilitative monitorial role' which would not only expose those who violate other people's human rights, corrupt people and institutions that are not performing well. Instead it will also activate civic life and facilitate 'collaboration' between government and the publics in problem solving.

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Guadagno, Marie Alicia. "Culture and the Clios a comparison of Clio award-winning television commercials from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0016203.

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Powell, Monica S. "Descriptive Analysis of the Association for the Study of Higher Education Dissertation of the Year Award Winning Dissertation and Recipients, 1979 - 2004." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5400/.

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This mixed-methodology study examined a set of award winning dissertations to determine what factors may have led to their receiving recognition by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). The study addressed seven specific research questions which were answered via two different research designs: 1) a survey administered to the 27 recipients of the dissertation award, and 2) through the qualitative assessment of a sample of the winning dissertations. The quantitative survey was distributed to recipients of the Association for the Study of Higher Education Dissertation of the Year award from 1979 through 2004. The survey collected specific information on the personal attributes and characteristics of the award recipients, descriptive information about the award winning dissertations, information concerning the quality of the winner's doctoral experiences, the quality of their relationship with their dissertations advisors and the progression of their careers after winning the award. The qualitative assessment involved applying a set of evaluative questions provided by Gall, Gall and Borg to describe a sample of the award winning documents. The results indicated that recipients of the ASHE award were not representative of education doctoral students as indicated by 2004 data. The results of the study also indicated that, as a group, these dissertations winners were full-time doctoral students, likely recipients of some form of financial assistance (assistantship and fellowships) and were able to complete their dissertations and degrees in substantially less time than typical education doctoral students. The findings also suggest that Gall, Gall and Borg's procedure for evaluating educational research can be used to assess doctoral dissertations.

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O'Skea, Doreen Lynn. "Perpetual girlhood: what the movies have taught us about ourselves : a content analysis of Best Actress Academy Award-winning films from 1961-1997." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133726.

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Empowered, embattled and embittered women seem to be everywhere in the media today. Either in film, on television or on the Internet, there are more and more women being shown in a variety of working roles. Women are being shown in nontraditional jobs, they are allowed to work in the man's world and they can take charge. All of these things are remarkable but a note of caution is needed, for while these women are working the boardroom the girls are taking over.Women in power are increasingly being shown as unattractive, undesirable and unpleasant. While their counterparts- girls, are shown as loving, lovable and sweet. Films are reinforcing the girlish archetypal ideal by allowing girls to be the winners in nearly all situations.Female characters may begin the story as independent women but they are soon shown the error of their ways and are quickly reduced to a more pleasant, more malleable girl by the film's end.The content analysis of 37 Best Actress Academy Awardwinning films revealed that women are reduced to girls nearly 87 percent of the time. These women gave up their careers, or at least their career goals. They changed their appearance, they altered their personal goals and they suddenly found a way to express more emotion than they ever had in their life as a woman.Further analysis revealed that several subthemes were present in the films. In 19 of the 37 films women were raped or they were the victims of attempted rape. In 12 of the 37 films women were widows, they either began the film as a widow or they were to shortly suffer the grief of widowhood. In 22 of the 37 women are the victims of violence or they are threatened with violence and in 15 of the 37 films the characters are threatened with the loss of their home or they are struggling to make the journey to their home.The final analysis revealed that women were either pitied, maligned, abused or raped while girls were celebrated, loved and adored.
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Martin, Kimberly Bartels. "A descriptive view of the portrayal of Jewish and Christian lifestyles in award-winning children's books from 1960 to 1990 using content analysis." Virtual Press, 1990. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722242.

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The extent to which Jewish and Christian lifestyle actions were portrayed in 62 children's books of accepted literary worth was studied. The researcher read the Newbery award book and one Newbery honor book for each year in search of actions that Jewish and Christians active in their faiths deemed important. The sample consisted of the Newbery award book and one Newbery honor book for each year from 1960 to 1990. A content analysis of 13 action categories found that the five most common actions were (1) compassionate/ charitable deeds, (2) telling others about God, (3) prayer, (4) worship attendance and (5) reading the Bible. No significant change in the frequency of the 13 actions was found over time. However, the researcher found that Jewish and Christian lifestyles were portrayed only nominally in the Newbery books. The sample distribution shows that 65 percent of the sampled books contained fewer than the mean of 4.9 actions per 100 pages. Only six books contained strong Jewish or Christian characters - that is, main characters whose faith in God was portrayed as playing an important role in everyday life. Jewish characters of any kind (prominent or obscure) were found in only three books. Of the eight books that contained more than 10 actions per 100 pages, only one was about people in a contemporary setting: The Great Gillv Hopkins (1979). Actions were recorded regardless of which character committed them. In four books, characters' actions seemed inconsistent with the rest of the character's portrayed lifestyle. Some books contained a large number of actions contrary to Judeo-Christian lifestyles, with portrayals of hate and cruelty far outweighing portrayals of Jewish or Christian lifestyle actions. The most extreme of these wereThe Tombs of Atuan (1972) and The Witches of Worm (1973). Other studies have asserted that multicultural literature should be preferred because children need positive exposure to all cultures. This study concludes that portrayal of the cultures of committed Jews and Christians has not been common of the Newbery books since at least 1960.
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Zeng, Deng-song, and 曾登崧. "Enterprise’s design capability and design award winning - A case of international design awards." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10013563291593071743.

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碩士
國立雲林科技大學
工業設計系碩士班
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In recent years, designs by Taiwan firms have won recognitions in many world-known awards such as G-mark, iF, IDEA or reddot. Design capability of a corporate is considered to be a key factor in winning the design awards, which, on the other hand, is an indication of the enterprise’s competitiveness. Since 2004, The Industrial Development Bureau (IDB) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, in view of the importance of design awards, has subsidized Taiwan Design Center (TDC) to guide and assist Taiwan firms to participate in international design competitions; and hence taking world-known design competitions has become another way for Taiwan firms to get publicity. In order to further explore the relationships between design capacity and design award winning, this study aims to: 1) construct an evaluation framework of corporative design capability with respect to design award winning; 2) investigate the relationships between corporate design capability and design reward winning; and 3) investigate the value of winning design awards with respect to corporate performance. Firstly, a theoretical model of design capacity evaluation was drafted according to the result of a literature survey. The model’s feasibility was then validated by intensive interviews in case studies and its contents further modified and finalized. Finally, questionnaires were sent to a sample of 34 Taiwan firms winning and not winning design awards during 2004-2006. The firms were asked with question items related to their design capability, award winning, and corporate performance. The main findings of the questionnaire survey are: 1) The main factors of design capacity in winning awards are product form, core technology, material use, and product performance. 2) The biggest advantage for a firm to win awards is the indirect economic gains, such as the raise of corporate reputation, customer satisfaction, corporate creativity, and media exposure. The result of this research can be an important reference for corporations to develop their design capacity and prepare themselves for winning important international design awards.

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WU, DE-RUNG, and 吳德容. "A Study of Visual Design in Award-winning Print Advertising - An Exploration of "Times Advertising Awards" and "4A Liberty Awards"." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/mudrtb.

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輔仁大學
大眾傳播學研究所碩士班
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This research is to show a induction of advertising creativity through the exploration of print graphic commercial designing features in the prize winning ads process. There are no doubt in mind that designing activity is done with originality. A systematic content analysis was designed to examine the award-winning ads of Taiwan's "Times Advertising Awards"(2002-2006) and "4A Creativity Advertising Awards"(1997-2006). A total of 515 award-winning ads were analyzed. As a whole, award-winning ads design can catch one attention with its simple and suspense pictures to reach or to bring to a higher level meaning in order to provide a best way of eye-catcher. In structured observation, the layout of award-winning ads would be consist of pictures. Moreover, blank-leaving and other main designs are dispersed like a combination platter. In terms of picture-headline interaction, continuation of pictures and copywriter is the most important ingredient. Simply Cool color and computer-aided design is common. In addition to content type, most award-winning ads design is to tell stories that induce someone to read more. So characters or writings play an additional role in print graphic commercial design. Finally, award-winning ads design depends on amazing, unexpected, joyful and something just like emotional appeal. However, endorsement is insignificant statistically. By all means they would like to use semiotics and story marketing to makes favorable impression on the target audience.

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Tsai, Hai-Ping, and 蔡海平. "Are the Winning Companies of the CSR Awards Worthy of the Fame?" Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yurf8q.

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國立東華大學
財務金融學系
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Recently, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become more and more important. The development of Corporate Social Responsibility in foreign countries has become more mature than before. On the other hand, some of related issues have flourished in the past decade in Taiwan. Through the promotion of the CommonWealth Magazine “Corporate Citizenship” and the “Corporate Social Responsibility” of the Global Views Monthly, many companies competed for CSR awards. Given the development of CSR in Taiwan, this study mainly addresses in three questions. First, do CSR award-winning companies have better financial performance? Second, do CSR award-winning companies have more reasonable employee salaries, more stable personnel turnover, and more gender-diversified board? Third, do CSR award-winning companies donate more frequently and less likely to violate the law? To answer these questions, we aim at the information of CSR awards provided by CommonWealth Magazine. The sample period is from 2007 to 2017. We comprehensively compare the award-winning CSR companies and non-prize-winning companies for various dimensions, including financial performance, non-financial performance, and social performance. The empirical finding show that: (1) CSR award-winning companies have the higher net profit after taxes; (2) the proportion of female directors and supervisors is lower in CSR award-winning companies; there is a tendency for executives to have excessive pay differentials at the grass-roots level and the number of quitting employees; (3) although CSR award-winning companies donate more frequently, the number of violations is also increasing in recent years. In sum, we suggest that the winning companies of the CSR awards do not seem to be entirely worthy of the fame.

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Wang, Wan-Zhu, and 王琬筑. "Identifying the Critical Success Factors for Winning Product Design Awards - Case studies of Thermaltake and AsusTek." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6r5v4r.

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國立清華大學
國際專業管理碩士班
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The number of product design awards a company wins has been used to evaluate the performance in design innovation. In this research, we want to identify what the critical factors are for making a company successful in winning product design awards. We also discuss about in what aspects can winning product design awards affect a company. Previous studies have indicated the three dimensions of design innovation, which are the aesthetic, functional, and emotional aspect. These are essential in the criteria in product design awards. However, we want to find out other factors that can influence on a company’s winning awards. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted to reveal specific information generated with the interviewees’ background to obtain deep insights. The research objects are Thermaltake and AsusTek, both of which are Taiwanese companies successful in winning awards. AsusTek has been recognized by the awards with their laptops, tablet PCs, desktops, motherboards, monitors, gaming laptops, gaming keyboards, servers, routers, projectors, etc. Thermaltake has core competencies in their cooling ability and industrial design with the brand image built in the gaming market. On top of that, it has long-term cooperative relationships with the largest GPU manufacturers. It has been recognized by the awards with their PC cases, gaming mice, gaming keyboards, gaming consoles, CPU coolers, etc. We found out that the innovation-driven leadership, building a corporate culture friendly for innovation, making adjustments to match the environment, and keeping connected to the current trends are the common key factors for being successful in winning product design awards. Keywords: Product design awards; Product design; Industrial design; Innovation; Case studies; In-depth interview

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Wu, Shu-Yu, and 吳淑玉. "Analysis on the Types of Print Advertisements─Taking the Print Advertisements Winning the 20th to 30th Times Advertising Awards." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9b7y68.

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臺中技術學院
商業設計系碩士班
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The research aims at finding out the types of the subject matter, the techniques of expression and the layout arrangements of print advertisements. By taking the Print advertisements winning the Times Advertising Award for example, the researcher takes the advertisements winning the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards as the research scope and studies on a total of 534 advertisement samples. By focusing on the qualitative research, the researcher employs different research methods according to the different needs of each research stage. Firstly, the “literature analysis method" is used for the analysis of the related secondary data, research report and literature theories, which will be served as the theoretical basis of the follow-up analysis of the primary data. Secondly, the “content analysis method” is used to analyze and discuss the context and the meanings expressed through data collection. And the phenomenon and the results are sorted out and concluded as follows: 1. The image subjects of the Print advertisement are rich and diverse and after categorization, the works can be divided into three kinds, namely, commodity type, compound type and non-commodity type, among which the last one takes the largest proportion. The three kinds of subjects most commonly used for the compound type are: “figures and goods”, “articles & utensils and goods” and “landscape and goods” while the three kinds of subjects most commonly used for the non-commodity type are: “figures”, “articles and utensils” and “animals”. 2. The expression of the creativity of the works is not confined to the single form of expression, and some of the works will employ two or more kinds of expression forms for the delivery of the creativity of the advertisement. A total of 19 kinds of image expression forms are sorted out and concluded: transformation, pun, word imaging, analogy, close-up, grouping principle, scaling, exaggeration, simplification, sense of humor, combination of foreign body, color, frame, continuous cropping, juxtaposed comparison, suspense, illustration, repetition and the use and expression of the point of sight, among which analogy, transformation, and sense of humor are the most commonly used ones. 3. The researcher analyzes the layout arrangement from the perspectives of the “key points of the layout arrangement” and the “visual composition form”. The key points of the layout arrangement can mainly be divided into the following four types, namely, title type, full picture type, standard type and words type, among which the “full picture type” is the most widely used one; the visual composition form can mainly be divided into the following eight types, namely, vertical type, horizontal type, segmentation type, slant type, L type, U type, clip type and juxtaposition type, among which segmentation type and vertical type are the most commonly used ones.

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DAI, SHENG-EN, and 戴晟恩. "A study on Iconology and Style Analysis –Taking the Nationwide Students Picture Book Creation Awards Winning Works as an Example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kjzs6b.

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明志科技大學
視覺傳達設計系碩士班
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Nowadays, due to the continuous progress in science and technology, the flourishing boom in graphic communication and the pluralistic developmental approach of childrens picture books creation that combine different characteristics, design and presentation style. By means of different elements and story connotation of the childrens picture books, children can learn and their inspiration to reading will generate interest in learning. This can, not only, but also increase the interaction between parents and children but allows the children, as from secondary school, to acquire living routine and knowledge from their parents so as to achieve the living education goals. Therefore, through the collection and organization, sorting out, discussion and analysis of the relevant literature on childrens picture books, using the analysis of the style of the winning works at the National Students Picture Book Creation Awards - Tertiary Students Group, organized by the National Taiwan Arts Education Center. It is the motive of this study to explore the works behind-the-back cause of formation, interpretation of the social background and culture of that time. This study mainly goes through the first, second and third gradation put forward by the Theory of Panofskys Iconology, namely "Pre-Iconographic description, "Iconographical analysis" and "Iconographic interpretation". It will analyze the main contents transmitted by the creator and will further explore the process and development trends of the National Students Picture Book Creation Award competition while sorting out the research results. The results and findings of the study are as follows:1.The creative process is lengthy, it requires tracing the drawing a single page at a time and requires complete narrative skills. It is also impossible to predict the outcome of the Awards results. Most of the teachers participate in the competition as it matches the needs of the course;2.The theme of creation is overly traditional, it lacks innovation, some techniques are not mature enough and does not take into account the needs of the market. The complete work may be affected by the creators own experience, exhibition, other information or may go deep into his/her personality and personal preferences and so on. 3.The National Students Picture Book Creation Award competition will provide an authoring platform in the future, allowing creators to have better planning. On the basis of the results of the Iconological analysis, the following suggestions are put forward: have the departments of design in the countrys universities and colleges or the National Taiwan Arts Education Center set up a Child Picture Book related courses, in order to provide future reference for people interested in Child Picture Book or related fields.

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Subramanian, Roma. "Best Practices of Print Journalists Who Have Won Awards for Mental-Health Reporting: A Qualitative Interview Study." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-12-10475.

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Both in the United States and abroad, newspapers tend to portray people with mental illness negatively, making them vulnerable to social rejection, discrimination, and forced treatment. This portrayal also makes them hesitant to seek treatment for fear of being stigmatized. To help determine how reporting on mental illness can be improved, I interviewed in this study 11 U.S.-based print journalists who had won awards for stories on mental illness about how they covered their stories. The interviews, which were semi-structured, were conducted between October 2010 and February 2011 and were analyzed using a grounded-theory approach. Eight themes were identified in the interview transcripts: determining story idea, evaluating newsworthiness, identifying and obtaining information from interview sources, identifying and obtaining information from non-interview sources, ensuring accuracy, building rapport with sources, writing the story, and factors facilitating reporting. Overall, respondents prepared their stories in accordance with journalistic conventions. What helped them produce quality stories was a mixture of the following organizational and personal factors: editorial support, considerable journalism experience, personal exposure to mental illness, and empathy. Also noteworthy were respondents' opinions on suggestions in reporting guides about imitation or copy-cat suicides, sensitive language, and positive mental illness news. Whereas some agreed that reporting suicide details could lead to imitation suicides, others disagreed, explaining, for example, that the details were important to the story. Similarly, respondents expressed diverse views about the importance of using sensitive language to describe individuals with mental illness. Finally, respondents indicated that instead of calling for positive stories on mental illness, media guidelines should encourage thoughtful and balanced reporting on various aspects of mental illness. In conclusion, the results suggest that it would be valuable to investigate in more detail how journalists' personal attitudes toward mental illness influence their reporting. Also, guidelines for mental-health reporting should be created with the collaboration of journalists and mental-health professionals. Further, there is a need to make journalists aware of the copy-cat suicide phenomenon. Finally, lessons gleaned from respondents' experiences in reporting their award-winning stories can be used to inform mental-health media guides.

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CHEN, CHING-CHIN, and 陳靜錦. "Predicting the Possibility of Winning Awards Based on Students’ Body Mass Index(B.M.I), Exercise Habbit, and Eating Habit: A Case Study of Elementary Students from Grade Five to Six in New Taipei City." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u5ap6w.

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萬能科技大學
資訊管理研究所在職專班
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The number of people who have obesity and chronic diseases has increased. Besides, more and more young people have these problems. The situation is widespread and has become an urgent public health issue which has yet to be addressed . Obesity has directly caused chronic diseases, which then results in economic loss. Consequently, the concepts of physical fitness and holistic health have become the spotlight in the medical field, the education field and in the public. The study aims to find out the variables that most affect physical fitness, the solutions to obesity among students, and to provide reference for promoting physical fitness education. The subjects of the study are fifth and sixth graders in an elementary school in New Taipei City. A model has been developed to predict the possibility of winning medals for students who pass physical fitness tests using decision tree of data mining. The results showed that the possibility of winning medals is high when weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) of those subjects who passed physical fitness tests is normal. Besides, weight and Body Mass Index (BMI) play an significant role in the performance of long jump, 800 and 1600 race walking.

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