Evaluating 350 newspapers — factors contributing to their success

What is it that helps printed newspapers successfully compete with other media for the audience — their marketing efforts, the content they offer, or their design? This paper summarizes the results of an extensive research program, the evaluation of 350 typical local dailies in Germany. They were analyzed thoroughly in 1989 and again in 1994. In addition, a survey provided extensive information about their marketing measures during that period. Finally, socio-demo-graphic and other conditions that newspapers are confronted with in their trade areas were included in the analysis. Criteria for success were the circulation and the reach of every newspaper. Newspaper design, in general, proved to be a little more important than content and marketing for attracting new readers and for keeping old ones. Different strategies, though, seem to apply depending on whether a newspaper wants to reach young or less educated readers or has to compete with other local papers. In general, however, an 'airy,' well-structured design, a greater variety of topics every day, more local orientation and the strict separation of news and entertainment were the best recipes for newspaper success.

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1996 Ornamental Research Program of IR-4

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.32.3.493c ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 493C-493

Author(s):

J. Ray Frank

Keyword(s):

Plant Growth ◽

Plant Growth Regulators ◽

Growth Regulators ◽

Research Program ◽

Green Industry ◽

Cooperative Program ◽

Extensive Research Program ◽

Commercial Landscape

More than 14,000 ornamental research trials have been conducted in this program since 1977. This extensive research program has led to more than 4900 label registrations for fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, nematicides, and plant growth regulators. During 1996 alone, 890 ornamental label registrations were obtained. This cooperative program is conducted by federal and state workers in cooperation with the green industry,including growers of floral, forestry, nursery, and turf crops. Registrations are also developed for the commercial landscape and the interior plantscape.

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General Tendencies of the Behaviour of Vegetables Developed in a Soil Contaminated with Heavy Metals

Revista de Chimie ◽

10.37358/rc.20.2.7897 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

pp. 85-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Augustina Pruteanu ◽

Valentin Vladut ◽

Petru Cardei ◽

Despina Bordean

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Mathematical Models ◽

Research Program ◽

Accumulation Rate ◽

Experimental Results ◽

Extensive Research Program ◽

Rate Behaviour ◽

Plant Behaviour

The paper presents experimental results obtained in the study of heavy metals transfer from soil to vegetables. The experiments for which the raw and statistically processed data are presented in this paper are preliminary experiments within an extensive research program of plant behaviour in soils contaminated with heavy metals. These experiments underlie the development of primary statistical mathematical models that are also presented in the paper. These experiments will also form the basis for far more consistent experiments that follow plants throughout the life cycle. The statistical mathematical models presented in this paper facilitate extracting important conclusions about how plants accumulate heavy metals as well as about the accumulation rate behaviour during experiments. Both experiments and mathematical models will form the basis of complex experiments and dynamic mathematical models in the next stage of research.

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Quality and Ergonomics Management

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193120004401208 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 44 (12) ◽

pp. 2-467-2-470 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jan RC Axelsson

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Research Program ◽

Integrative Approach ◽

Extensive Research Program

Although there are many conceptual similarities in-between the areas of quality and ergonomics, and despite that several indicators point to the fact that poor ergonomics causes quality deficiencies, there are up to date few examples of integrated improvement efforts. As a consequence there is also lack a well-grounded common theory. To overcome some of the gaps this paper outlines a conceptual framework for an integrative approach to the development of quality and ergonomics in concert – the reasoning and results based on a extensive research program involving experience from twenty-five Swedish organizations during a period of eight years.

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Response to Heppner, Witty, and Dixon

The Counseling Psychologist ◽

10.1177/0011000003262796 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 439-449 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

James M. O'Neil

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Primary Prevention ◽

Research Program ◽

General Public ◽

Counseling Psychology ◽

Future Research ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

Extensive Research Program ◽

High Level ◽

Theoretical Foundations

This reaction evaluates Heppner and his colleagues' extensive research program on problem-solving appraisal. The research program is assessed as inspiring, high-level scholarship and a unique contribution to counseling psychology. The theoretical foundations of the Problem Solving Inventory (PSI) and the strength of the data are very impressive and significant. This article makes recommendations on reporting the PSI diversity data, the need for research on gender role variables, and the clinical and programmatic uses of the PSI. The author believes problem-solving appraisal is uniquely qualified to promote primary prevention and makes suggestions to promote future research and make problem-solving appraisal available to the general public.

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Capital stock in Spain and its distribution by territories (1964-2012)

REGION ◽

10.18335/region.v2i1.72 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Matilde Mas ◽

Francisco Perez ◽

Ezequiel Uriel

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Research Program ◽

Capital Stock ◽

Extensive Research Program

Since 1995 the BBVA Foundation and the Ivie have been conducting an extensive research program on Spanish economic growth. The regularly-updated database "Capital stock in Spain and its distribution by territories" are the basis of this program, providing information on the accumulation of capital in Spain over the last four decades.

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Dynamic Monitoring and Seismic Response of a Historic Masonry Tower

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.628.55 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 628 ◽

pp. 55-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Antonella Saisi ◽

Carmelo Gentile ◽

Marco Guidobaldi ◽

Man Xu

Keyword(s):

Seismic Response ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Research Program ◽

Dynamic Monitoring ◽

Historic Masonry ◽

Extensive Research Program ◽

Continuous Dynamic Monitoring ◽

Continuous Dynamic ◽

Masonry Tower

After the Italian earthquakes of May 2012, an extensive research program had been performed to assess the state of preservation of the tallest historic tower in Mantua, Italy. Subsequently, a continuous dynamic monitoring system was installed in the tower, with seismic and structural health monitoring purposes. After a brief description of the investigated tower and its state of preservation, the paper summarizes some results of the long-term dynamic monitoring.

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Tinkering with cognitive gadgets: Cultural evolutionary psychology meets active inference

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x19001018 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Benjamin Badcock ◽

Axel Constant ◽

Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead

Keyword(s):

Evolutionary Psychology ◽

Research Program ◽

Active Inference ◽

Innovative Research ◽

Cognitive Faculties ◽

Cultural Evolutionary ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Cognitive Gadgets offers a new, convincing perspective on the origins of our distinctive cognitive faculties, coupled with a clear, innovative research program. Although we broadly endorse Heyes’ ideas, we raise some concerns about her characterisation of evolutionary psychology and the relationship between biology and culture, before discussing the potential fruits of examining cognitive gadgets through the lens of active inference.

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