Engagement in Games: Developing an Instrument to Measure Consumer Videogame Engagement and Its Validation by Amir Zaib Abbasi, Ding Hooi Ting, Helmut Hlavacs

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Shifting Musical Imaginaries at the Polynesian Cultural Center by Cynthia L. Van Gilder, Dana R. Herrera

“…Polynesian music and dance performances are the definitive centerpiece of the PCC experience, and visitors are treated to live entertainment repeatedly throughout the park. These presentations can be read as performative texts and are here subjected to semiotic and discursive analysis. …”
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Long Memory of Pathfinding Aesthetics by Ron Coleman

“…These conclusions will be of interest to researchers investigating games as well as other forms of entertainment, simulation, and in general nonshortest path motion planning.…”
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Revenge pornography on the internet by Evelyne Wanjiku

“…This article uses discourse analysis to explore the motivations behind non-consensual pornography, reasons and motivations for its prevalence, which include revenge and punishment, entertainment/fun, the sexual objectification of women, “slut shaming”, and denigration of the victim’s character. …”
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Features of online sociological studies of risks of financial behavior of the population in the information and communication network Internet by M. Kibakin

“…Separately, the characteristic of the obtained primary sociological data has been given by the method of technological access – analysis of blogs, the use of search engines for keywords, the inclusion of intelligent monitoring systems and analysis of social media, which are implemented either on stationary or mobile computer devices. …”
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Automated text processing: topic segmentation of educational texts by Marina I. Solnyshkina, Iskander E. Yarmakeev, Elzara V. Gafiyatova, Farida Kh. Ismaeva

“…Based on the corpus of educational texts and analysis of quantitative text parameters, we suggest a new way of text ranking so that they correspond linguistic abilities of pupils. …”
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Study of the use of special effects in cinema by Yu. V. Vorontsova, E. A. Alieva

“…Special effects used to  enhance the entertainment of   an audio visual work can act as   such tools. …”
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Moral Aspects of Some Combat Sports by Jacek Meller

“…Nowadays, sport is very popular as a way of spending free time, taking care of one’s health and physical condition, as well as being an entertainment worth watching; sport is also judged positively, when it comes to moral aspects. …”
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DELINEATION OF WOMEN IDENTITY IN THE DISNEY ANIMATED FILM ECANTO (2019) by Agustin Diana Wardaniningsih, E. Ngestirosa Endang Woro Kasih

“… Disney's animated films is produced not only to provide entertainment but also to deliver messages in it. Most Disney animated films have a target audience of children. …”
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Komischer Diskurs: kognitiv und kulturbedingt by Oksana Zubach

“…The study focuses on comic texts from Internet sources that reflect people’s attitudes through comments not only on comic texts as a means of entertainment, but also on situations and phenomena. …”
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The place and role of leisure in the Moscow students’ everyday life in the context of the information society development by Yu. P. Nadekhina, A. A. Kolchin, E. V. Kryukova

“…Special attention is paid to modern forms of leisure for students, such as: spending time on the Internet, visiting experimental theaters and cinemas, watching talk shows and entertainment programs, visiting immersive shows, participating in modern youth organisations, etc. …”
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“Tik Tok” Application Impact in English Learning Experience on Motivation and Learning Student Achievement by Nadila Natasya, Adinda Siregar, Angellia Bheriani By, Bambang Nur Alamsyah Lubis

“…The results of this research are that the results of data analysis show that using Tiktok can significantly increase student motivation and learning achievement. …”
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SOCIOPROFESSIONAL HUMOR AT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LESSONS by Oleg Kharchenko

“…A stylistic, cognitive, and pragmatic analysis of a sample of English-language jokes about journalists and editors is offered. …”
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Destination Image and Travel Motivation as Predictors of Revisit Intention: A Study of Domestic Tourists in Alor Island by Mesak Yamres Awang, Elia Maruli

“…Culture, history, entertainment, social interaction, and access to information can increase tourists' intention to revisit.…”
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De l’ordre moral à l’ordre social. L’application des lois pénalisant la sexualité prémaritale selon des lignes de classe by Mériam Cheikh

“…The analysis of sex-work practices in terms of intimate economy in Morocco allows, on the one hand, to link generally separated sexual practices (acts of prostitution and intimate sexual acts not prostitution) and, on the other hand, to observe how these practices are addressed by the police in a country where sexuality outside marriage remains illegal. …”
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The Breaking of the Square: Late Victorian Representations of Anglo-Sudanese Warfare by Luisa Villa

“…From the early 1880s (with the rise of the Mahdi, the disastrous defeat of General Hicks at Shaykan, the siege of Khartoum and its fall) to the late 1890s (with the slow advance of Kitchener’s army through the desert and along the Nile culminating in the battle of Omdurman), the military operations conducted in the Sudan not only fuelled a lively public debate, but provided exciting material for literature and popular entertainment. Indeed, with its austere desert landscape, its immemorial river and its warlike populations, the Sudan was marketed to the general public as the site for the perfect martial adventure. …”
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Automatic Recommendation Algorithm for Video Background Music Based on Deep Learning by Hong Kai

“…As one of the traditional entertainment items, video background music has gradually changed from traditional consumption to network consumption, which naturally also has the problem of information overload. …”
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Cricketing Insights Unveiled: Python-Based Information Extraction from IPL by Kubra Bashir, Afsheen Maroof, Fatima Maqbool, Kiran Bashir, Syeda Iqra Hassan

“…In today’s data-driven world, the importance of data analytics is growing exponentially. Data analysis aims to extract valuable insights from large datasets and facilitate informed decision-making. …”
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Behavior comparison between bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops spp.) living in Bali Exotic Marine Park captivity and Lovina Beach, Bali by David Keane Wijaya, I Wayan Nuarsa, Gede Surya Indrawan

“…The bottlenose dolphin is a species often used in the entertainment industry worldwide. They are the most commonly encountered type of dolphin in aquariums and water parks, where they are featured in shows. …”
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The Image of Central European Immigrant in Popular Fiction and Its Adaptations: A Case Study of the Detective Murdoch/Murdoch Mysteries Series by Biljana Oklopcic

“…The analysis focuses on Maureen Jennings’s Detective Murdoch series (Except the Dying (1997), Poor Tom Is Cold (2001), and Vices of My Blood (2006)) and its TV adaptation Murdoch Mysteries (2008–).…”
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