A series of tests were conducted with reduced scale magazines to study the blast reduction effectiveness of closing blocks placed at the entrances of storage chambers of underground ammunition storage magazines. Five small-scale magazines were made of reinforced concrete to investigate design features affecting the effectiveness of closing blocks. Three intermediate-scale magazines were constru...

To help understand how media in China and the United States respond to the growing environmental concern, the authors conducted a comparative content analysis to study environmental advertising claims in two weekly Chinese news magazines—Liao Wang and China News Weekly—and two weekly U.S. news magazines—Time and Newsweek. The use of environmental claims, advertising strategy, and advertiser cha...

.4 framelvork for determining special interest objects in images is presented in the context of determining destination &dress blochs on images of mail pieces such as letters, magazines, and parcels. The images range from those having a high degree of global spatial structure (e.g., carefully prepared letter mail envelopes lvhich conform to specifications) to those with no structure (e.g., maga...

In 1998, the retail sales and marketing division of Time Inc., the largest publisher of consumer magazines in the US, reviewed its newsstand distribution principles and procedures for its magazines. This review affected the three major distribution decisions: the evaluation of each magazine’s national print order, the wholesaler allotment procedure, and the store distribution process. For this ...

The usefulness of several information sources is examined for U.S. farms with sales in excess of $100,000. The results indicate that crop/livestock-specific magazines and general farm magazines are the most useful information sources. Analyses indicate that the types and number of different commodities that the farm produced, as well as Internet use, are the most consistent predictors of attitu...

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) prescription drug advertisements for HIV anti-retrovirals are controversial and have been criticized in the past for including deceptive images and underplaying HIV drug limitations. We sought to describe the state of recent DTC ads for HIV antiretrovirals in popular magazines by performing a content analysis of all complete DTC ads for antiretroviral medications appear...

the open access (oa) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of specialization. open access (oa) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or fr...