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-screen smoking and smoking initiation: the greater teens' exposure to smoking in movies, the more likely they are to start smoking …. Conversely, if their exposure to smoking in movies were reduced, proportionately fewer teens would likely start smoking. To track … smoking trends at the movies, previous analyses have studied the U.S. motion picture industry's top-grossing films with the …
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this imagery causes large numbers of adolescents to start smoking. An estimated 52% of adolescent smoking initiation is …-2008 to trace the proportion of smoking and smokefree films, incidence of tobacco imagery in films with smoking, tobacco … reducing adolescent exposure to tobacco in youth-rated (G, PG and PG13) films by modernizing the rating system to rate smoking …
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Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...
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A growing literature examines the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurship, but no previous studies explore whether personality or psychological traits predispose individuals to benefit more from entrepreneurship training. To address selection issues, we use novel data from...
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Drei große Reformenpakete und eine Reihe kleinerer Begleitmaßnahmen prägen das renten¬politische Erbe der rot-grünen Bundesregierung. Einerseits greifen sie Trends in der Reformpolitik seit Beginn der 90er Jahre auf. So verstärkt die Rentenstrukturreform 2001 beispielsweise die...
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Professional management is increasingly important for successful research at universities as well as other organizations. This exploratory review draws on different bodies of literature in order to reformulate the complex challenges of research management by applying newer organizational theory....
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growth. The second part examines innovation in the context of manufacturing, education, information technology, management …
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Bans on traditional tobacco advertising highlight the strongly promotional role of tobacco imagery in films and video programs. On World No-Tobacco Day 2005, less than a year after India implemented its universal ban on tobacco advertising, its Minister of Health and Family Welfare announced a...
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