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Showing 1 to 20 of 14767 for “"Action."”.
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From Intention to Action: Neural Dynamics of Voluntary Action
<p>We experience our actions as under our control. Yet when neuroscience starts to show that this control can be reduced to brain activity that precedes our own awareness of it, our intuitions unravel. The field of volition neuroscience has long uncovered brain signals that precede our awareness of …
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Line of Action
Line of Action is a comic book-based play exploring the current youth of the United States.
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Approaches to action
… recent philosophy of mind to philosophy of action in an attempt to evaluate the three currently dominant theories of action. These theories each concur with the general consensus in philosophy of action that the acts of an agent are causally derived. Yet, there is still dispute regarding the …
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Egocentric Action Anticipation
In this PhD thesis, we examine the problem of action anticipation from egocentric (first-person) videos. Action anticipation is the ability to predict and prepare for future events, and is a key component of both human and machine intelligence. Egocentric videos provide a unique perspective on a …
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Action-first attitudes
In this thesis, I present an action-first theory of knowledge and belief. We have a mutual interest in the successful action of our peers, and the significance of belief and knowledge stems from their role in promoting this success. Knowledge states tend to guide successful action, in an …
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Understanding expressive action
… to make the real environment responsive to our actions. It is not enough for environments to respond simply to the presence of people or objects: they must also be aware of the subtleties of changing situations. If all the spaces we inhabit are to be responsive, they must not require encumbering …
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Agency, Structures and Peru: Action and in-action during 1980-2000
<p>The Shining Path along with Alberto Fujimori's presidency in Peru (encompassing the years 1980-2000) created a terrifying chaos that was wound up in both state and insurgent terrorism, corruption, and massacres. While this chaos is inextricably linked to Peru's history, I fear is being all too …
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Observation inflation and self-action inflation. Investigation of source memory errors as a result of action observation and action performance
… errors: observation inflation, where observed actions are misremembered as being performed; and self-action inflation in which self-performed actions are misremembered as having been performed by somebody else. It has been proposed that these inflations occur because of overlapping brain …
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Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Are Affirmative Action Plans Helpful or Hurtful?
… lawsuits, many employers implemented affirmative action plans to employ and promote minorities and females. Preferential treatment of minorities under affirmative action plans then resulted in lawsuits by Caucasian males alleging reverse discrimination claims. Caucasian males claimed that …
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Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses
… Side Are You On? : Mob Violence and Collective Action through the Eyes of Revolutionary America Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses in the 21st Century Applications of New Knowledge: Student-Centered Resources Focusing on Collective Action in America …
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Action identification in chronic pain: how do people construct meaning in action?
Background: Action Identification Theory holds that every action has different 'levels' of meaning. High levels confer greater meaning and are preferentially sought but when the action is interrupted lower level identities with reduced meaning are elicited. The primary aim of this research was to …
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Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action
… human cognition have entailed that notions like action, consciousness, and intersubjectivity have gained renewed scientific interest. On the other hand, these elements have always retained crucial importance in theatre practice, not least in the actor’s process from the written text to action on …
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ICT as political action
… to exercise our agency through communicative action (Habermas 1975). This is accomplished through realising the potentials of ICT as a form of communicative action within actual and virtual communities of practice, which becomes a significant feature of the originality of my contribution to …
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Action, alienation and Bacchus
In order to counter the alienated condition of man it is necessary to promote the reconciliation of the Dionysian and Apollonian. These are the forces that characterize the eternal swing from nature to artifice. While evidence of the Apollonian will to construct an ordered reality abounds in the …
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