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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Backfire"”.
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Study of an internal combustion engine to burn hydrogen fuel and backfire elimination using a carburetor fuel delivery method
… cycle. It demonstrates that the problems of backfire can be eliminated using several less expensive methods, such as employing cold spark plugs with reduced spark gap and low temperature cooled valves along with the introduction of water vapor to the mixture. In the experiments, the internal …
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State repression, nonviolence, and protest mobilization
… action, along with Hess and Martin's repression backfire, in order to deepen our understanding of how state repression impacts protest mobilization and historical processes of social change. After initially problematizing Gene Sharp’s notions of power and consent with aid of political discourse …
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Question-order effects in market research: An information processing approach
… respondents, who showed both carryover and backfire effects. The results of Experiment 1 suggest that moderate and high knowledge subjects discount accessible information with positive implications for the brand, resulting in a backfire effect, but use accessible information with negative …
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The downsides of price promotions and price negotiations on brand relationships
… identifies conditions under which they can backfire for firms. The first essay investigates how price promotions can backfire for firms, while the second essay, examines how price negotiations between customers and salespeople can backfire. The first essay contributes to both theory and …
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Growing Pains in financial development : institutional weakness and investment efficiency
… by introducing multiple lenders may severely backfire. Capital allocation is distorted away from the most productive uses. Entrepreneurs choose inefficient and limited-growth endeavors. These problems are exacerbated when borrowers have access to more lenders, explaining why increased access …
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The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Nutrient Content of Selected Understory Species in an East Texas Loblolly-Shortleaf Pine Stand
… in response between leaves and twigs. Backfire and headfire treatments were used to determine differences between burning techniques. Samples were collected in October, 1974. The burn was in March, 1975 and post-burn sampling was in June, 1975, September, 1975, and June, 1976. Leaf and …
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A Review of Setup Practices and Procedures for Creating IEEE 802.11 Wireless Community Networks
… parabolic dishes, Yagi and Vagi styles, and echo backfire), wireless bridges, and other factors which influence overall signal strength and throughput. Two separate configurations are recommended. The first configuration is based on high reliability, longer distances, and low error rates. The …
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Do Investors React Differently to Interim Target Disclosures for Emissions Reduction Goals Depending on the Difficulty of the Target?
… target appears difficult. However, this effect backfires and goal commitment perceptions decrease if the interim target does not appear difficult. I also predict and find that this effect on perceptions of goal commitment ultimately affects investment decisions. The finding that interim target …
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Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks
… that exposure to opposing opinions causes a backfire effect, where people become more steadfast in their original beliefs. We demonstrate a technique known as pacing and leading which can mitigate this backfire effect over time. In the fourth chapter, we consider the challenge of inferring …
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Behavioral Design for Emotional Intelligence: Leveraging Affective Computing in Medical Education for Improved Care for Substance Use Disorders
… changing human behavior without triggering the backfire effect on busy physicians. This will be accomplished by combining theories of behavioral design and using affective computing as a backbone for creating the app. The Medship project is a joint effort between the Affective Computing group at …
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The Alchemy of Acceptance: How Accepting Emotions Enhances the Ability to Flexibly Work with Them
… or suppression of negative emotion, often backfire and harm well-being. As the field of emotion regulation matures and explores complex and blended strategies that individuals use to regulate their emotions, it should focus on the role that acceptance may play as an adaptive initial …
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"Trigger warnings" are trivially effective at reducing distress
… there is reason to suspect these warnings may backfire and exacerbate the very symptoms they are intended to alleviate. We conducted the first investigation into the effects of trigger warnings: We gave some subjects a trigger warning, but not others, then exposed all of them to negative …
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Promises and pitfalls of architectural strategy in the printer industry
… sense but each of these strategies can easily backfire. In this paper we will examine these strategies and see how they relate to central themes in product architecture, such as, architectural modularity. Then we shall see how these strategies can, if not applied carefully, cause more problems …
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Undestanding dishonest behavior: what motivates it, how to prevent it, and how people respond to it
… negative or positive feedback. Feedback may backfire and should be used with caution: honest-type individuals who are condemned as liars are surprised and react with moral indignation. Much of the research on lying focuses on the lie-teller, whereas the lie-receiver remains understudied. We …
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From math activities to math homework: How interaction context shapes parents’ involvement and children’s math learning
… not function uniformly across contexts and can backfire when implemented without attending to other attributes—such as time constraints and performance cues. Taken together, the findings from my dissertation research offer insight into why parents’ involvement differs across homework and other …
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User-Generated Content and Revolutions: Towards a Theorization of Web 2.0
… provide an avenue for users to contribute can backfire and produce unintended consequences.
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Algorithmic Fairness in Sequential Decision Making
… and common fairness constraints could lead to "backfire effects" where the impact on groups could be disparate.
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The grand strategies of rising powers: reassurance, coercion, and balancing responses
… power. I also develop a theory of coercion backfire that shows how a rising power that implements a grand strategy of coercion is more likely to make others feel especially threatened, and therefore more likely to provoke an early and especially firm response, exacerbating the severity of …
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Testing and Verification Strategies for Enhancing Trust in Third Party IPs
… in certain specific situations. In case such a backfire happens, the consequences can be disastrous especially for mission critical systems such as space-explorations, defense equipments such as missiles, life saving equipments such as medical gadgets where a single failure can translate to a …
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Consumer attitudes towards genetically modified foods in Europe : structure and changeability
… arguments can trigger boomerang effects and backfire on the credibility of the communicator when the arguments contrast with preexisting attitudes held by the consumer. Only direct sensory experience with high-quality products can partially bypass the system and lead to the formation of …
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