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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Awe"”.
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AWE: Attention Word Embedding
… by introducing the Attention Word Embedding (AWE) model, which integrates the attention mechanism into the CBOW model. We also propose AWE-S, which incorporates subword information. We demonstrate that AWE and AWE-S outperform the state-of-the-art word embedding models both on a variety of …
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From Shock to Awe: The Awe of Organisation: How do Community-Based Festivals do Institutional Work?
This thesis is based on an action research project with festival organisations and festival organising and is interested in key insights and practice models for changing meaning-making, routines, roles and resource flows and effectively doing what scholars of institutional theory call institutional …
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Awe: A precursor to something more
Awe is an emotion that signals the vast and extraordinary. It allows us to recognize the expanse of the world around us. It challenges the mind’s normal perception of reality and begs us to stretch beyond what we think we know. Contrary to many other positive emotions, awe turns our attention …
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Wildlife-inspired awe in leisure-based learning
… of this dissertation is to illuminate that awe is a part of wildlife experiences and that people learn from those experiences. Previously noted in literature, these notions were evidenced in this study through quantitative and qualitative measures spanning three stages of data collection. …
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Design of an airborne wind energy (AWE) research platform
Airborne wind energy (AWE) technologies have the potential to become a dominant source of clean electricity generation and help humanity reach many of the key sustainable development goals (SDGs) established by the United Nations as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. AWE systems …
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What's 'Awe' The Hype? Motivations to Share Video Game Information
… and mechanics) and emotional appeals (control, awe and hedonic). There were no findings suggesting the manipulations had a significant effect on participants' intent to share; however, those who reported first-person shooters as their favorite genre reported significantly more intent to share. …
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The lived experiences of awe and connectedness: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… project explores the lived experiences of awe amongst people in middle adulthood (age 35-65). The research project intends to examine how awe is experienced and made sense of in the immediate term and beyond, and to understand what facilitates the experiences of awe. Seven participants were …
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Nature-Based Awe and The Role it Plays in Water Professionals’ Commitment to Their Work
This research explores the role of awe-inspiring experiences in nature, particularly focusing on water professionals who work closely with natural environments. The study aims to deepen our understanding of how nature-based awe influences professionals' commitment to their work within the water …
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The role of awe in cognitive restructuring, cognitive reflection, and set shifting: a psychotherapy analogue study
Awe has the properties of prompting individuals to reevaluate their worldview, rely less on heuristics, and enhance mental flexibility. This is the first known study assessing the utility of awe in a psychotherapy analog. Participants were randomized into either an awe induction or neutral group. …
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The Effect of Awe on Depression: A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies. DartmAwe: Nature and Cognitive Change
… mechanisms of action, is the emotion of awe. There is evidence that experiencing awe in nature is beneficial for wellbeing, and that this benefit is greater for more awe-inspiring settings. The present pilot study aimed to investigate the feasibility of designing and delivering an …
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The Effect of Awe on Depression: A Systematic Review of Experimental Studies. DartmAwe: Nature and Cognitive Change
… mechanisms of action, is the emotion of awe. There is evidence that experiencing awe in nature is beneficial for wellbeing, and that this benefit is greater for more awe-inspiring settings. The present pilot study aimed to investigate the feasibility of designing and delivering an …
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Insights into the Form and Function of Awe and Related States, and their Impact on Consumer Decisions and Well-Being
… in marketing is the influence of the emotion of awe. Awe is a positive emotion elicited by extensive or vast stimuli, either perceptually or conceptually, which leads to the revision of mental schemas. Further, as a self-transcendent, other-focused emotion, awe has properties that suggest its …
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An exploratory study investigating the experiences of adults living with Epilepsy in the Khomas region, Namibia
… the experiences of 10 adults with epilepsy (AWE) in the Khomas region of Namibia. The study focuses on the everyday of problems, needs and coping strategies of this population as described during semi-structured interviews. An exploratory qualitative research design was used to investigate …
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The effects of autonomous work environment and positive psychological capital on self-directed employee behavior: evidence from Korea
… perception of autonomous work environment (AWE), positive psychological capital (PsyCap), and self-directed behavior (SDB) in large Korean automotive parts manufacturing companies. 331 surveys from 43 teams in six organizations were gathered and analyzed by using simple OLS regression, Sobel …
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Degrees of Access: Factors Preventing Wide-Scope Coverage of the Iraq War by Embedded Reporters--From "Shock and Awe" to "Mission Accomplished" (March 21 - May 1, 2003)
Reporters "embedded" with U.S. military units during the first two months of the Iraq War (2003-) dealt with a number of impediments the combination of which was previously unseen in the history of war reporting. These included physical proximity, bonding, and shared peril with American soldiers, …
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Implementation and Analysis of 3-D Tomographic Reconstructions from Space-Based Imaging Platforms
… reflections. The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) is a prime example for use of tomographic reconstruction techniques from an imaging space platform. AWE is designed for studying the OH-airglow layer and atmospheric waves (also called gravity waves) which cause emission changes in the …
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The overview effect and counselling psychology: astronaut experiences of earth gazing
… seeing Earth from orbit or the moon as an awe-inducing experience that is deeply impactful. To date existent research has provided convincing evidence that nature is therapeutic but there is limited research exploring the impact of extraordinary awe inducing natural environments. In order …
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Forgetting the self: nondual awareness as a key component of self-transcendent experiences
… greater feelings of connectedness, as seen in awe, flow and mystical experiences. Recent scholarship has suggested that these diverse approaches have hampered the development of ST theory (Yaden et al., 2017), and identified a need to conceptually link these independently studied domains. There …
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Such an Effortful Green
… born of dichotomies: the land and the ocean, awe and uncertainty, full and empty. While much of the book is unable to settle, there are recurring images throughout, such as the shrimp, cougar, and the speaker's childhood. The speaker is preoccupied with such uncertainty in herself, but she …
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