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Counterfeiting has become an economic problem of international importance and has led to a variety of countermeasures based on lawful, political, administrative, or business techniques. In order to develop appropriate countermeasures, an understanding of the general phenomenon of counterfeiting as well as the specific reasons why people purchase counterfeit products seems expedient.
The purpose of our study is to review a number of existing studies on the determinants of consumers' intention to purchase counterfeit products, and in doing so, provide an overview of the insights on this topic and identify potential gaps. Based on the results from one qualitative study, we try to enhance the contribution of previous studies by providing further theoretical concepts in order to explain cons...
..., mood-based concepts, and cognitive dissonance as theoretical approaches. . . PREVIOUS RESEARCH... an important influence factor on software, music, and movie piracy rates in previous studies (e.g.,...
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This was a superbly programmed evening of Russian music in all its soulful, intense glory. Gwen Hoebig and Karl Stobbe, violins, Daniel Scholz, viola, Yuri Hooker, cello, and David Moroz, piano, with special guest soprano Valdine Anderson, took us on a sojourn through the steppes with music and poetry as our guides.
Anderson handled the songs' demands with determination and poise, interpreting them with a special vocal dialect, coarser and more nasal. This impressively versatile performer is able to master anything she sings, as shown in the Three Songs for soprano and piano by Rachmaninoff, with pianist David Moroz. Her controlled power in Dissonance, the first rather non-melodic song, along with Moroz's fluid and expressive playing, made for a finely crafted and riveting presentation.
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... of any production in the performing arts, music, dance and variety entertainment, film, radio and ...La seule dissonance, et on la retrouve audit paragraphe 2(1), provient...
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On his tenth album, it appears reading too many newspapers and watching cable news services has bummed [Beck] out. He looks at environmental issues on album highlight Gamma Ray, war on Walls, airplanes shooting chemicals into the sky on Chemtrails and sums up all the evils and despair of the world on album closer Volcano. Even at the album's most buoyant, there's always a sense of darkness. "There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing, just to get on level ground," he sings-speaks over a funky bass on Youthless.
[Deric Ruttan]'s 2003 self-titled disc yielded six chart hits, but lately the Canadian's pen has been writing hits for others, including Dierks Bentley's What Was I Thinkin' and Lot of Leavin' Left To Do, Aaron Pritchett's Hold My Beer and Eric Church's Guys Like Me.
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... Don Pullen-like arpeggios and dissonance. . With Saft's spiritually sensitive arrangements,...
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...I find this dissonance stark and unsettling. . If we examine internationa... laws 'Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Canadian Association of In...
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...This strategy introduces a cognitive dissonance that makes people uncomfortable. We like to think ...If it's a piece of music or a Whitewater rapid or a fluctuation in a commod...
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With [Jamie Saft]'s spiritually sensitive arrangements, [Bob Dylan]'s music takes on new contours. He even enlists gonzo vocalist Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomas) for an eight-minute Ballad of a Thin Man, which turns out to be the best cover I've ever heard of that tune. ««««1/2
... Don Pullen-like arpeggios and dissonance. . With Saft's spiritually sensitive arrangements,...
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.... In our art, music, literature, and in the two great political scheme... the result is invariably some form of dissonance; that is, the music of the self. We reject, angril...
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Dylan O'Connor's Irish Pub (2609 Portage): Chocolate Bunnies From Hell.
HI-FI Club (108 Osborne): DJ Kee$h.Jeffrey's (1420 Henderson): Gin Palace. King's Head (120 King): SubCity.
Ozzy's (160 Osborne, downstairs): Infiltrator, Killbride, Left for Dead and Silent Dissonance.
Today in music history. In 1986, Van Halen released Why Can't Thi...
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... 20th annual Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival (NMF). The 35-year-old composer-in-reside..., forsaking accessibility for flash or dissonance, Ho resists this trend, opting instead for genuine...