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Liberal Attitude Reports
<p>Attitude reports are sentences such as “Tomasz thinks the Earth is flat” or “Susan wantsvice cream.” It is commonly assumed that the main reason people use them is to make sense of the reportee’s behavior: to explain their past actions, or predict future ones. To play this role effectively, …
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All Feathers and Attitude
… <p>While deeply personal, <em>All Feathers and Attitude</em> is not a memoir, but rather an assemblage of interpretations based on actual events. The individual pieces are gathered into sections that correlate somewhat to the themes mentioned above, but the sections are not labeled as such. The …
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Voltaire's Attitude Toward Geology
… that the sea had covered these lands. Voltaire's attitude toward geology is one of caution: he asked scientists merely to describe what they had seen, touched, and smelled without allowing any flight of imagination to influence their conclusions.
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Anatomy of an Attitude
This thesis investigates syntax and semantics of attitude and speech reports. It is concerned with three questions: (i) what kinds of meanings can tensed embedded clauses have? (ii) how are they integrated into the argument structure of verbs? (ii) why does their distribution sometimes depend not …
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Hercules attitude processor (HAP)
… and analysis of a microprocessor-based gyro attitude data processing system used to geolocate natural phenomena from space was performed. Operational software was written and a HERCULES Attitude Processor (HAP) unit was built and tested. Strict adherence to worst-case timing design criterion …
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Spacecraft Attitude Tracking Control
… the actual spacecraft. The open-loop reference attitude, angular velocity, and angular acceleration tracking commands are constructed so that the solar panel vector is perpendicular to the sun vector during the tracking maneuver. We develop a nonlinear feedback tracking control law, derived from …
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System Integration and Attitude Control of a Low-Cost Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics Simulator
The CalPoly Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics Simulator mimics the rotational dynamics of a spacecraft in orbit and acts as a testbed for spacecraft attitude control system development and demonstration. Prior to this thesis, the simulator platform and several subsystems had been designed and …
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Explicit and Implicit Attitude Tests Examining Attitude Towards Obese People Among Undergraduate Psychology Students
Studies examining attitudes towards obese people have mainly focused on conscious or explicit attitudes which may be biased by social desirability. Therefore, the present study examined both explicit and implicit, that are considered to be unconscious, attitudes towards obese individuals. A sample …
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Attitude Determination Using Imaging Lidar
<p>The purpose of this study is to determine the attitude of an out of control object using a new technology called lidar (Light Ranging and Detection). As the number of spacecraft continues to grow, it is paramount to introduce a new type of autonomous on-orbit satellite inspection and repair …
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Children's Reading and Attitude Change
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:46:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317578.pdf: 4458970 bytes, checksum: bc65a3b8a0164728ada0e1f185b17fb1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Pupils' attitude toward technology-Botswana
Pupils’ Attitude Toward Technology (PATT) research began in Botswana in 1993. The research was designed to study pupils attitudes toward technology through the use of an instrument that has shown to be effective in measuring affective/behavior and cognitive attitude dimensions. The instrument used …
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“What a wild thing to think!”: The effects of attitude expression on perceptions of attitude extremity
… of a prolific field of research concerned with attitudes and their various properties, there is a glaring lack of understanding of what it means for attitudes to be extreme conceptually. The typical definition simply refers to an attitude’s distance from a scale midpoint (also known as …
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The Aesthetic Attitude in the Everyday
… of everyday aesthetics by appeal to aesthetic attitude theory. I argue that we can legitimately understand our everyday lives as aesthetic by appeal to a mental activity that human beings are capable of engaging in. In Chapter Two, I give a historical account of the aesthetic attitude theory as …
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Denominational Differences in Attitude Toward Abortion
… of silence" on the subject of abortion, and attitude toward abortion has come to demand a great deal of public attention. The year 1967 marked the first changes in the abortion-prohibition laws of the United States in three-quarters of a century. And in early 1973, the United States Supreme …
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Academic leadership and work-related attitude
… measured by the construct titled work-related attitude (i.e. work-related attitude was considered to be a proxy for individual academic performance). Work-related attitude was quantified by three measures; namely job satisfaction, career satisfaction and organizational commitment. Both academic …
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Item Order Effects on Attitude Measures
… to examine the effects of altered item order on attitude measures for both computerized adaptive and conventional survey formats. Based on items modified from a dissertation/thesis completion survey (Green & Kluever, 1997) with three scales, three survey versions were generated with items ordered …
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