A great deal of communications research, ranging over decades and subjects, has examined how to raise concern about social issues among the public.
By ranging over decades, family sagas offer general as well as personal history, giving Sullivan an opportunity to sketch Boston's past, especially the shameful aspects that affect her characters: the busing crisis and the scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.
The novel's settings have ranged over decades from well-to-do west London to rural Bangladesh to academic Oxford to post-9/11 Afghanistan; its characters have included financiers, the English upper classes and Pakistani power-brokers.
The cultural references range over decades (including touchstones like "Star Wars" and Bon Jovi), but the roots of the winking sensibility can be traced to the early and mid-'90s.
His characters were not necessarily new arrivals — in Mr. Hijuelos's books, which sometimes ranged over decades, they certainly didn't remain so — but in various stages of absorbing the sometimes assaultive American culture while holding on to an ethnic and national identity.
Organized by the museum in association with Riofilme and the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, the program is presenting 59 features and 15 short films ranging over four decades.
On Friday the Miller Theater opens its series of Composer Portraits with a program devoted to Mr. Salonen's works, ranging over three decades, including two recent pieces in their New York premieres.
Such an analytical system exhibited very good performances, with a cycle time of 2 min and a detection limit of 15 pmol (detection ranging over four decades at least), and an unusual long operational stability of 200 measurements (CV, 3.5%).
Since the design of fusion power plants involves long-term issues, ranging over several decades, it is useful to try to foresee under what kind of regulations the first fusion plants are to be operated.
A design of a "two-time constant with a delay" gated trapping strategy using "idealized" potentials in a normalized system is given as an example to establish that in principle gated trapping strategies can capture ions that range over three decades of m/z and two decades in velocity.
Although it is set in 1984, the summer before the election which will return Ronald Reagan to power, the novel ranges over several decades of modern American history, but predominantly that of the self-styled era of revolution, the Sixties.
