Flags Of Countries Research Articles

Impact of the colour perception of graphic design on promoting tourist destinations of Southeast Europe

Graphic design plays a crucial role in branding and marketing in the current digital era. Digital marketing impacts the promotion of tourist destinations. Tourism has become an important and growing sector that has influenced the development of a country's economy. Colour as an element of graphic design evokes emotions and sets a certain mood for an image or graphic. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of colour perception in graphic design in promoting tourist destinations of Southeast Europe (SEE). We aim to explore the relationship between graphic design and the tourism industry in SEE countries, focusing on their tourism logos and slogans for advertising their tourist destinations. The analysis of the main characteristics of logos and slogans shows that they can be effective tools for promoting and supporting tourism in countries in the SEE region. It was observed that there is compatibility between the colours used in the logo and the country flag in 64% of the tourism logos of SEE countries. The colour green is the most commonly used colour in logo design.

Texture and Flag Color Extraction in Backpropagation Neural Network Architecture

A flag is a rectangular or triangular piece of cloth or paper used as a symbol of the state, association, body, etc. or as a sign. It is often also used to symbolize a country to show its sovereignty. Along with the large number of countries, the country's flag also has many varieties and colors. The use of computers as a human aid is expected to the extent that the computer's ability can replace the limitations that humans have. Humans can recognize an object by using their eyes and brain, but if the eyes and brain cannot work properly it will hamper human work. In this research, training will be conducted on the Back Propagation Neural Network Architecture. Characteristic data for image recognition is obtained by extracting texture features and RGB color features. So that the network can recognize the flags by matching the feature data obtained from the training carried out. Characteristic data obtained from 24 data consisting of 16 training images and 8 testing images. From the results of the image network training can be identified properly, the accuracy rate of object identification is 87.50%. GUI users are able to identify flag images based on RGB text and color features.

Другий етап розвитку сучасного олімпійського руху відповідно до авторської комплексно-фактологічної періодизації

Другий етап розвитку сучасного олімпійського руху відповідно до авторської комплексно-фактологічної періодизації

PENGEMBANGAN GAME ANDROID TEBAK GAMBAR BENDERA NEGARA SEBAGAI MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN SUBTEMA GLOBALISASI DAN MANFAATNYA

Learning from home activities during covid pandemic are mostly carried out online by using smartphone devices and generally, the embedded operating system is Android. The existence of these smartphones makes students tend to spend more time watching videos or playing games. Educators must try to restore the enthusiasm of students in learning. One of the efforts that can be done by educators is through gamification or integrating learning materials into a game. Therefore, this study aims to develop a game based on the Android operating system about the flags of countries in the world as an additional medium for educators in teaching material on the sub-theme of globalization and its benefits for elementary school students in grade VI (six). This research is development research with the development model used is ADDIE which consists of five stages, namely Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively. The results of the development show that the Android game guessing the images of the flags of countries in the world is suitable for use as a medium of learning in elementary schools on the sub-theme of globalization and its benefits as the validation results from media experts with a percentage of 81%, validation results from material experts with a percentage of 83%, as well as the response of students in small groups using the Android game (game) guess the pictures of the flags of the countries in the world with a percentage of 78%.

STRATEGIES OF SHIPPING COMPANIES IN GREECE

The aim of the current study was to investigate the strategy that the shipping industry is implementing in Greece. The researcher implemented a survey research with the use of a close-ended questionnaire. A convenience sample of 105 employees working in shipping companies in Greece was gathered to answer the research aims. According to the results of the study, most of the companies in which the respondents work were founded more than six years ago. For the most part, companies choose flags of countries with the lowest possible taxation. In relation to the strategy of the companies, most of them evaluate the satisfaction of their customers. Also most companies take care to immediately repair the damage / accidents and work with specific suppliers. Most companies also apply supplier evaluation procedures. The analysis also revealed that companies use environmental protection procedures and have a budget for training costs. They also apply an evaluation of the integrity of the training for all employees, but also an evaluation of the degree of organization of the company. Many of the companies use good working conditions (e.g. new ships), pay and education / training as an incentive to attract seafarers. In addition, the companies under study, as a strategy for their development, place great emphasis on crew training. Most companies also consider formal communication, business goals and financial goals, as well as informal communication, to be quite important. Finally, in almost all companies, formal control systems are used by senior management to gather information about the tasks they want to focus on, and managers maintain control in areas that do not require special attention of senior managers.

Countries flags detection based on local context network and color features

Countries flags are characterized by a combination of special colors. Building an automatic country flag detector is a hard task because of many challenges like deformation and difference in point of view. Motivated by the unique feature of the country flag colors and the power of Deep Learning models, we propose to use color-based features and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a special local context neural network to perform the countries flags detection task. The proposed approach aims to enhance the performance of the ordinary Convolutional Neural Network by adding a local context neural network to enhance the localization task and adding a color-based descriptor to enhance the identification task. The color-based descriptor was used to focus on the color features because of its importance for the studied task. The Convolutional Neural Network was proposed to extract more relevant features for both localization and identification tasks. The local context network was used to localize the flag in the image. In order to train and evaluate the proposed approach, we propose to build a custom dataset for the world countries’ flags. The proposed dataset counts 100 images for each country flag with a total of 20,000 images. The evaluation of the proposed approach proves its efficiency by achieving a mean Average Precision of 89.5% and a real-time processing speed. The achieved results have proved the efficiency of the proposed method. The proposed enhancement was very effective that allows the achievement of high accuracy.

STRATEGIES OF SHIPPING COMPANIES IN GREECE

The aim of the current study was to investigate the strategy that the shipping industry is implementing in Greece. The researcher implemented a survey research with the use of a closeended questionnaire. A convenience sample of 105 employees working in shipping companies in Greece was gathered to answer the research aims. According to the results of the study, most of the companies in which the respondents work were founded more than six years ago. For the most part, companies choose flags of countries with the lowest possible taxation. In relation to the strategy of the companies, most of them evaluate the satisfaction of their customers. Also most companies take care to immediately repair the damage / accidents and work with specific suppliers. Most companies also apply supplier evaluation procedures. The analysis also revealed that companies use environmental protection procedures and have a budget for training costs. They also apply an evaluation of the integrity of the training for all employees, but also an evaluation of the degree of organization of the company. Many of the companies use good working conditions (e.g. new ships), pay and education / training as an incentive to attract seafarers. In addition, the companies under study, as a strategy for their development, place great emphasis on crew training. Most companies also consider formal communication, business goals and financial goals, as well as informal communication, to be quite important. Finally, in almost all companies, formal control systems are used by senior management to gather information about the tasks they want to focus on, and managers maintain control in areas that do not require special attention of senior managers.

EDBCO-19: Emergency Data Base of COVID-19

A coronavirus disease epidemic in 2019 (COVID-19) has occurred in Wuhan China since December 2019 and has quickly spread, now being reported in several countries, approximately 190 out of 252 nations. Screening in high-risk populations and improving measurement sensitivity can help diagnose and handle the asymptomatic infection. To know more about we have a mini-review, which have the daily and auto-notifications after 10 minutes, numerous new reported cases for period-over-period, multiple new confirmed cases for fixed-base, and the period-over-period rate of development of new confirmed cases. Particularly EDBCO-19 provides confirmed cases, number of death, recovered, number of new death, number of new cases, number of critical Cases, number of active cases and density of cases per meter of every country by clicking the country flag, or typing the country name in given search bar, this study aims to provide an easy way to the scientific community about COVID-19 as well as for the public. Computer programming such as Java, PhP, HTML, CSS, etc. is used to build and is freely available at http: //www.habdsk.org/corona_virus.php.

Flags for sale: An empirical assessment of flag of convenience desirability to foreign vessels

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing costs the global economy tens of billions of US dollars annually, although accurate estimates of the current extent of this activity remain uncertain. Those that break or avoid fisheries management rules often employ tactics, such as registering their vessels under foreign flags (commonly known as “flags of convenience” (FoCs)), to carry out their often illegal activities. The practice of using FoCs by fishing vessels impedes prevention efforts to effectively deter or eliminate IUU fishing. While literature has proposed a large number of factors explaining why certain flags are more desirable than others, an empirical assessment of these proposed factors has not yet been made. This research, therefore, fills this gap by empirically evaluating 38 such factors. Results show that desirable flags are flags of countries that are largely non-cooperative with international efforts to sustainably manage shared fish stocks and prevent IUU fishing, regardless of their ratification of major international agreements. The same flags are easy to acquire and allow fishing vessels access to a large number of countries’ exclusive economic zones and areas managed by regional fisheries management organizations. Policy implications are discussed in light of these findings.

Thoughts on Catalonia

Thoughts on Catalonia

The Influence of Country of Origin Cues on Product Evaluation: Evidence from Swiss and German Consumers

This study aimed to investigate the influence of visual symbols on the perception and evaluation of two fictitious products as well as the effect of demographic characteristics (nationality) on consumers’ evaluations. A sample of 373 participants was split into two groups and two experimental conditions (products with Swiss symbols and products without Swiss symbols). One group of participants rated the packaging without a Swiss flag and the other one rated the same packaging with a Swiss flag. A semantic differential scale and the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) were used to assess attitudes toward the products. Results confirm that there are differences between the two independent groups and that nationality has an effect on product perception and evaluation. Visual symbols such as a country flag can lead to a better product perception and evaluation. Finally, implications for research are discussed.

Every Day Is Flag Day!

Flags are used to represent countries, states, provinces, and a host of other organizations. An official country flag has specific dimensions for the height, width, and other embellishment on the flag. In fact, all country flags are rectangles except the flag of Nepal, which is an irregular concave pentagon. A collection of flags from around the world adorns a wall of the Scotia Plaza building in Toronto, Canada (see photograph 1).

Combining geographical information and traditional plots: the checkerplot

The checkerplot is a new type of graphical display that combines geographical information and statistical plots. Hereby, the traditional plots like barplots or polygon lines are visualized in geographical order on a grid. The checkerplots can be seen as a mixture between thematic maps and the grid representation in trellis plots. In a checkerplot, any complex statistical graphics that are produced for geographical areas are placed in a grid. An interpretable checkerplot requires an arrangement of areas on the grid that reflects the underlying geography. A loss function is proposed that represents the distortion of the underlying geography needed in order to place the areas onto a grid. It is demonstrated that the minimization of the loss function does indeed produce interpretable checkerplots. Moreover, the optimization problem can be formulated as a linear programming problem that can be solved using standard linear programming solvers. The proposed checkerplot is applied to US health insurance data to analyze the development of the coverage rate in the health system per state with respect to the different health care programs. Moreover, an example related to the EU-member states is also given. Additional information like the national flags of countries are placed in each grid to allow better visibility and recognition of the countries. The checkerplot is implemented in the R-package sparkTable (Kowarik, Meindl, and Templ, 2012. sparkTable: sparklines and graphical tables for tex and html [online]. R package version 0.9.3 [Accessed 7 February 2012]) and can be freely downloaded from the CRAN repository. It is implemented in a flexible manner and not restricted to the examples given in this contribution.

Introducing Popular Icons Of Political Identity*

A few years back a colleague laughed at the topic of my conference presentation: What, you study postage stamps? Are you professionally self-destructive, or high? He clearly saw little intellectual value in these pieces of paper but listened carefully and asked questions. He then concluded that a change of opinion was needed: I never understood how serious everyday can be. And your students must love it! Sure enough, not only postage stamps but also currency, flags, and other state-issued items designed for everyday (and ceremonial) use make me high. They are a gold mine for a geographer with interest in politics and culture. These items contribute to the expanding understanding about visual methodologies, culture, and data (Mirzoeff 1998; Schwartz and Ryan 2003). The required interdisciplinary sensitivity encourages eye-opening dialogues between geographers and scholars in such fields as semiotics, aesthetics, and material-culture studies. And a revisit to the visual tradition in geography--maps, landscapes, and the basics of propaganda--is most instructive, for it concretizes the length and depth of applicable expertise (Duncan and Duncan 1988; Harley 1988, 1992; Herb 1997; Kosonen 2008). These items support the study of the everyday in geography and generally help kill any remaining prejudice toward soft topics, intimate scales, and the mundane. And they appreciate the concept of power in the study of culture. And yes, the students love it. They are all familiar with this everyday stuff and have ready access to it. Raw material for a show-and-tell can be pulled out of one's pocket. The selection of T-shirts in the classroom has inspired spontaneous discussions about representation, identity, and consuming citizenship. What worldviews inform a particular film or comic book? How are the messages fed to their audiences? What are the motives and effects of using a country's flag on commercials and in product differentiation? The students quickly learn that not only people but products and places, too, have identities and that these connect to complex issues of ideology, power, and territorial affiliation. These questions are guaranteed to catch attention in the classroom and boost the students' self-confidence. The attendees are motivated to participate, for they know about this stuff and can create around it projects that are inexpensive, manageable, and instructive (Morgan 2001; Raento 2006). In the background lurk society, history, and the global media, as well as influential theoretical and methodological frameworks. These include banal nationalism (Billig 1995), imagined communities (Anderson 1991), visual methodologies (Rose 2001), propaganda and persuasion (Jowett and O'Donnell 1999), and geographies of resistance (Keith and Pile 1997). And there is more, for these popular icons of political identity relate to multiple scales. Many iconographic standards have become global in the world of nation-states and global entertainment industries. Products from postage stamps to motion pictures motivate worldwide networks of similarly minded people, generate massive income, and support subcultures: those of collectors, scholars, producers, and consumers. The emblems of a nation-state communicate the way brands do. States (and their supranational coalitions, like the European Union) also produce propaganda films and educate the youth and the illiterate about good citizenship via comic books. Unwanted messages are subject to censorship, but resistance to the dominant view takes a plethora of forms. Involved technologies, conventions, and institutions (Rose 2001) range from printing presses and cameras to color codes and film boards. Representations of national values, or a certain world-view, root in particular territories and particular cultural realms. The message-receiving citizens have multiple, sometimes competing affiliations in their most intimate spheres of belonging. …

The Somali Piracy Problem: A Global Puzzle Necessitating a Global Solution

The Somali Piracy Problem: A Global Puzzle Necessitating a Global Solution

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Chinese in Trinidad Carnival

September 01 1998 Chinese in Trinidad Carnival Carlisle Chang Carlisle Chang Native of Trinidad. Although he is better known in his country as a mural and easel painter, he also designs for theatre and ballet. He has been involved in the promotion of art throughout his 60-year-long career, holding the Hummingbird Medal for Community Service, the bronze medal of the VII Sao Paulo Bienal for painting (1963), and a citation from the Press Club of Lausanne (1972) for Best Foreign Pavilion at the Comptoire Suisse. His paintings have been exhibited in group shows in Europe, London, and the United States. Mr. Chang was also responsible for designing his country's flag and coat-of-arms Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Carlisle Chang Native of Trinidad. Although he is better known in his country as a mural and easel painter, he also designs for theatre and ballet. He has been involved in the promotion of art throughout his 60-year-long career, holding the Hummingbird Medal for Community Service, the bronze medal of the VII Sao Paulo Bienal for painting (1963), and a citation from the Press Club of Lausanne (1972) for Best Foreign Pavilion at the Comptoire Suisse. His paintings have been exhibited in group shows in Europe, London, and the United States. Mr. Chang was also responsible for designing his country's flag and coat-of-arms Online Issn: 1531-4715 Print Issn: 1054-2043 © 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 TDR/The Drama Review (1998) 42 (3 (159)): 213–219. https://doi.org/10.1162/105420498760308571 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Carlisle Chang; Chinese in Trinidad Carnival. TDR/The Drama Review 1998; 42: 3 (159), 213–219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/105420498760308571 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsTDR/The Drama Review Search Advanced Search This content is only available as a PDF. © 1998 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Ideas: Organizing a Mini-Basketball Tourney for Your Classes-Give It Your Best Shot!

tion skills--speaking, writing, reading, and listening. Have you ever thought of holding a minibasketball tourney in Spanish at your school to motivate your students and publicize your Spanish program? Since the Pan-Am Games will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August of 1987, this event helped to interest our students at Ben Davis High School in the sportive aspect of the Spanish language. However, even without the occurrence of the Pan-Am Games, this event will certainly add a unique flavor to your Spanish program. The tournament, which last approximately four hours, is held one evening in your school gymnasium. Each of your Spanish classes adopts a Spanish-speaking country approximately three weeks prior to the tourney. The students are to dress according to the colors of their country's flag, which helps to distinguish among the different countries represented and also gives the teams a sense of unity. Each student is to make a poster dealing with an aspect of sports related to the particular country. Schedules are then drawn up and announced. The following rules of the tournament have been established. Each team must have seven players, two of whom must be girls. These two girls are to play at all times. During the game all players are to speak Spanish. A technical foul is assessed to the team speaking in English. The referee, an advanced Spanish student, awards one point to the opposing team for each word spoken in English. At the conclusion of each game, the judge, a Spanish teacher, awards five extra points to the team who spoke the most Spanish during the game. Each game lasts fifteen minutes. The clock is not stopped. Fouls result in the opposing team receiving the ball out-of-bounds. The championship games lasts thirty minutes with two separate halves. The team with the most points is declared the winner.

Soviet Elections as a Measure of Dissent: The Missing One Percent

A few questions are still hotly debated among students of the Soviet political system, but certainly the nature of Soviet elections is not one of them. Everyone agrees that they are more interesting as a psychological curiosity than as a political reality. They are seen by various writers as ritualized affirmations of regime legitimacy, as methods of involving the masses in supportive activity, as a means of publicly honoring model citizens, and as a crushing display of unanimity designed to isolate the potential nonconformist. Both Western and Soviet writers see Soviet elections from the positive side, from the side of the dutiful 99 percent who invariably vote for the single candidate on the ballot.In fact, Soviet and Western writers are in very close agreement on the major functions of elections in the Soviet Union, although their value judgments tend to differ along the lines one would expect. Taking one typical example from the general Western literature on the Soviet political system, we find the purposes of a Soviet election defined as “a public demonstration of the legitimacy of the regime … an invaluable educational and propaganda exercise … and perhaps most important of all, … proof that the system of control is unimpaired.” In the more detailed Western works on Soviet elections we find the same approach. Thus, Howard Swearer, in a very insightful and valuable article on Soviet local elections, states that “in the Soviet Union, the formal act of voting is comparable in purpose to such civic rituals as singing the national anthem or saluting a country's flag. It is a public display of personal reaffirmation of the Soviet way of life and the party leadership.”

THE EMIGRANT JOURNEY IN THE FIFTIES

THE EMIGRANT JOURNEY IN THE FIFTIES By Karl E. Erickson Edited by Albert O. Barton INTRODUCTION Karl E. Erickson was born on January 9, 1828, at Christiania , Norway, the son of a teacher in a district school. He attended his father's school for several years, later went to higher schools, and finally entered Heltberg's well-known " student factory," where he continued his studies of ancient and modern languages and mathematics. There severe application to his work affected his health, and after a year he was obliged to withdraw from the university. In the spring of 1853 Erickson took passage in the cabin of the bark " Peter Tordenskjold," and on June 23 he arrived at Quebec. From there he went to Milwaukee, and thence to Muskego, where for a time he visited at the home of the Reverend H. A. Stub. In Madison he met Gabriel Bjornson, then county clerk for Dane County, and upon Bjornson 's recommendation he was engaged as clerk in a general store. In the spring of 1854 Erickson accompanied Elias Stangeland to the Wisconsin immigration office at Quebec, where he served as clerk for five months. He returned to Madison with Stangeland and in the fall of the same year assisted him in starting his new paper, Den Norske Amerikaner . Erickson continued to work on this paper until he was relieved by Knud Langeland. Thenceforth Erickson worked both as a store clerk and as translator of state reports; at that time it was customary for the legislatures to order these reports translated into several foreign languages for distribution among settlers not familiar with English. He removed to Lodi, Wisconsin, in 65 66 STUDIES AND RECORDS 1859, and to Black Earth a year later, being occupied as a merchant in both places. In 1855 he married Mrs. Lena Hoal, who died in 1857, and in 1858 he married Mrs. Bollene Erickson, by whom he had two daughters. He acted as district and high school clerk and as town clerk in Black Earth for a number of years. He died October 19, 1903. The accompanying reminiscences were written by Erickson in 1896. They are historically interesting and valuable, particularly for the vivid detail with which they picture the emigrant journey of the fifties in all its stages and aspects. Erickson was a sharp observer and had a good memory. His narrative, however faulty in general organization, is a welcome addition to the literature of Norwegian immigration . A.O.B. i In the first years after 1850 a socialistic agitation headed by the celebrated labor leader Marcus Thrane was started and carried on in the southern part of Norway, with headquarters at Christiania. Many who have emigrated to America since that memorable time will remember the excitement caused by this movement, which was set on foot to expose the wrongs, real or imaginary, that were endured by the poor working classes at the hands of wealthy and powerful employers, the moneyed men, and the aristocracy in general. By lectures and through a weekly illustrated organ, Thrane and his lieutenants exposed many gross injustices, vices of people of standing, and the suffering of the poorer classes. Against this agitation arose the Reverend H. Hailing, a young and energetic clergyman who was a very popular and forceful speaker and exhorter. He would get right up in the gatherings of the agitator Thrane and address the crowds with such force and eloquence that he won over a great many of the more lawabiding and cool-headed people to the maintenance of " law and order." He forthwith formed a society that was called Samfundet paa Enerhaugen, for the suburb in which it was first proposed . A liberal sum of money was raised by subscription and THE EMIGRANT JOURNEY 67 a commodious building was erected and finished, with the country 's flag raised at the entrance in token of the loyalty of the people gathered within its walls. Early in 1853 Elias Stangeland of Norway, Racine County, Wisconsin, appeared in the city. He had emigrated to America a few years before from Karmoen, near Bergen. In America he was a country merchant selling and bartering goods at a little store at Muskego...