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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"Attentiveness"”.
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Signal Processing of Electroencephalogram for the Detection of Attentiveness towards Short Training Videos
… that measures indicators of a participant’s attentiveness while they are watching a short training video. The results are promising, including 85% or better accuracy in identifying whether a participant is watching a segment of video from a boring scene or lecture, versus a segment of video …
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Exploring the link between conscientiousness and positive affect
… emotions and overall positive affect, but that attentiveness and authentic pride were most strongly associated with conscientiousness. Further, Study 1 showed that attentiveness fully accounted for the relation between conscientiousness and positive affect. Study 2 (N = 274) tested the …
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Impact of Incidental Aesthetics on Consumer Evaluations
… the target product. The second paper, 'Consumer Attentiveness to Beauty in the Ordinary,' examines an understudied dimension of beauty. The construct of attentiveness to beauty in the ordinary is defined as the degree to which individuals mindfully identify and formulate an aesthetic judgment of …
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Gorilla-Visitor Interface at a Zoo Exhibit: Positioning Effects of Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Zoo Visitors
… proximity to visitor viewing areas on visitor attentiveness was examined in indoor and outdoor gorilla exhibits. Visitor experience surveys were collected from visitors exiting the outdoor exhibit. Stepwise multiple regressions revealed group and individual gorilla proximity effects on visitor …
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The Effects of Diet and Predation on Nesting Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) in Pukaskwa National Park
… gull reproductive success by examining gull nest attentiveness with camera traps. Gulls utilizing anthropogenic food sources exhibited reduced levels of stress-associated hormones, increased egg size, and increased day-time nest attentiveness. Gulls were significantly more attentive to their nests …
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Selected aspects of common tern reproductive biology
… relationship was found between either incubation attentiveness and reproductive success or between incubation attentiveness and clutch size* At no time did food availability appear to be a factor limiting the successful upbringing of two chick broods. While fCf chicks (i.e. chicks hatching from …
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The impact of literature circles on reading comprehenson in a fourth grade class
… whole group instruction. A rubric measured the attentiveness and behavior of the students in literature circle, whole group, and small group settings. The study was bookended by two Fountas and Pinnell benchmark reading assessments that were compared for signs of reading comprehension …
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Performing the encounter; a practice-led inquiry
… to consider how verbatim theatre can foster attentiveness to the complexities of lived experience while avoiding ethical paralysis in creative work with real-life narratives. By prioritising the process of encounter over fixed notions of truth or authenticity, these projects explore how the …
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Role of the Parabigeminal Nucleus in Predictive Tracking of Moving Targets
… Finally, SC responses are enhanced by good attentiveness, but only for the real targets.
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Agenda-setting in the states: An institutional analysis
… careful inspection reveals vast differences in attentiveness to major issues. In this project I map major characteristics of state policy agendas and develop and test models that account for interstate variation in agenda attention to redistributive issues. I develop a model of state policy …
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Thrownness, Attunement, Attention: A Heideggerian Account of Responsibility
… should be understood in terms of attention or attentiveness, a notion that is developed through phenomenological analysis, and in dialogue with the work of Iris Murdoch. Through the use of the examples of the film 'Locke' and the novel 'Disgrace', I propose that attentiveness, with its accent …
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Which Reader? Interpretive Virtue, Ecclesial Context, and Social Location in Ephraim Radner and Richard Hays's Proposals for Theological Interpretation of Scripture
… humble receptivity while Hays highlights poetic attentiveness. While I note that this divergence is a matter of emphasis rather than being a matter of mutual exclusion, I do claim that the distinct emphases relative to interpretive virtue raise a series of important questions for the field. These …
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The bioaccumulation of persistent contaminants by zebra mussels and their effects on state-endangered common terns
… often affected by PCB exposure, parental attentiveness. PCBs are known to cause endocrine disruption which ultimately results in reduced brooding of young and incubation of eggs. I used temperature sensors to quantify nest temperatures and parental attentiveness during incubation. High …
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utilising a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): a narrative inquiry on the experiences of caregivers in special care centres with online professional development
… of care framework comprising of four phases - Attentiveness, Responsibility, Competence, and Responsiveness - guided the deductive analysis, while subthemes were identified inductively. Results: The findings revealed that participants demonstrated a significant gain in knowledge, skills and …
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In the Margins: Thresholds of Text and Identity in U.S.-Mexico Border Literature
… writers. It advocates and advances a sustained attentiveness to the conditions under which border literature can and does get produced. Authors discussed include María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Rolando Hinojosa, Jovita Gonzàlez and Eve Raleigh, Ana Castillo, Margarita Cota-Càrdenas, Aristeo Brito, …
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Social Media in Healthcare: Responsible Use of Illness Narratives
… use social media responsibly, which involves attentiveness to the potential uses and limitations of social media in the healthcare setting.
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Emocijų dienoraštis /
… of excitement, becoming more imagination, attentiveness and willingness to give its internal state of an object, to express to others in accessible formats. Choice and freedom of expression is a necessary condition for artistic creativity.
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
… focus is given to the way vision and patterns of attentiveness ground our capacities for genuine morally responsible action. Therefore, in this study, I draw on important works in philosophical and Christian ethics to examine both the ethics of responsibility and the central role that an ethics of …
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Exploring Male And Female Healthcare Provider Communication With Alzheimer’s Patients: A Qualitative Study
… during interaction. Without knowledge and attentiveness of how gender may affect patient-provider communication, healthcare providers may become more frustrated in their attempts to apply unadjusted skills, which can cause further breakdown and stress. This study is to explore how gender …
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