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Showing 1 to 20 of 263 for “"Believing"”.
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Feeling is believing : viewing movies through emotional arcs
This thesis uses machine learning methods to construct emotional arcs in movies, calculate families of arcs, and demonstrate the ability for certain arcs to predict audience engagement. The system is applied to Hollywood films and high quality shorts found on the web. We begin by harnessing deep …
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Praying, believing and being church : a ritual-liturgical exploration
This thesis is the result of a concern over ‘being church’ in a multicultural setting, in accordance with the aphorism ‘Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex (con)vivendi’ (cf. Smit 2004). The urban setting of the City of Centurion, in Gauteng Province, The Republic of South Africa, displays a diversity of …
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Factors That Influence The Believing Of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure
… was to investigate factors that influence the believing of child sexual abuse (CSA) disclosures. CSA is a major public health issue (WHO, 2002). Approximately one third of females and one sixth of boys will be sexually abused before the age of 18 (Kendall-Tackett, Williams, & Finkelhor, 1993), …
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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
This dissertation addresses the entanglements of Christianity and financializing capitalism in Colombia, South America. At its most empirical, this dissertation details ethnographically the debt upon which the Gospel of Prosperity rests. The ethnographic research, collected over two and a half …
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Teleological Reasoning in Adults: Believing in the Purpose of Events
<p>Teleological reasoning reflects the general tendency to view objects, behaviors and events in terms of their “purpose.” Although healthy educated adults tend to refrain from committing errors in teleological reasoning about objects, our knowledge regarding how adults reason about events is …
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Seeing and Believing: Philosophical Issues in Theory of Mind Development
… PAR hypothesis and children’s understanding of believing. Chapter 3 extends the PAR theory to children’s understanding of perception, and demonstrates that the data (mostly tasks testing Flavell’s classic 4 levels model of perception understanding and his appearance/reality distinction) support …
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Touching is believing : sensing and analyzing touch information with GelSight
For robots to perform advanced manipulation in a world of unknowns, touch is a critical source of information, and a high-quality tactile sensor is essential. However, existing tactile sensors generally are low-resolution and/or non-compliant, making it difficult to capture detailed contact …
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Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot
<p>In 1909 the Rider Company published the Smith-Waite Tarot deck which featured 78 illustrated cards by Pamela Colman Smith. With heavy use of appropriated and ambiguous symbology, the Smith-Waite deck became a meditation tool for realizing alternative realities. By observing the history of the …
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Believing at Work : modeling the interplay of religious faith and business
Believing at Work asks what difference religious faith makes in business. It suggests that professionals who infuse their work with transcendent, religious purposes may experience a shift in their mental models, which can become a marketplace advantage. This shift moves individuals from being …
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Believing you have it worse than others: maximization- a coping strategy
The present research examined the use of a heretofore unstudied coping strategy in which people maximize negative life events they have experienced. Maximization is defined as the process of comparing oneself to others on the number or intensity of negative life events one is experiencing, with the …
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Believing Anew: Gianni Vattimo and A Form of Faith in Contemporary Culture
Today’s religious landscape is one that invites reflection on the place of faith, its cultural connections,and its future.This is, in part, due tothe variousreligious sensibilities at playin the present time. On the one hand, there is an attraction to astructured, doctrinal-based form …
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Seeing is Believing: The Strategy Behind Campaign Imagery and its Impact on Voters
As television ads have become the primary tool of communication in American campaigns, research on campaign effects has focused more and more attention on how these ads influence the electorate. Little attention has been paid, however, to the visual content of these ads. Despite a format that …
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Seeing is Believing: Using Visualisations of Medical Disease and Treatment to Improve Patient Adherence
The effective understanding of health information is essential to inform adaptive patient health behaviours, such as adherence to treatment. Despite developments in our understanding of pathological processes and innovative treatments, patient comprehension and health literacy remains problematic. …
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"In the business of believing women's stories": Feminism through detective fiction (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton)
This thesis undertakes to show the way in which texts of the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction can encourage a feminist attitude in their readers. While some critics insist that the hard-boiled genre is incompatible with feminism due to what they believe is its inherent misogyny, there are a …
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Training Grace Bible Church in Moore, South Carolina, to Present Historical Arguments for Believing in Jesus’s Resurrection
… Carolina, to share historical arguments for believing in Jesus. Chapter 1 presents the ministry context of GBC as well as the rationale and various goals of this project. Chapter 2 unpacks 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 and demonstrates that Jesus’s resurrection from the dead can be historically …
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Job crafting and organizational citizenship behavior: believing in your creative ability to better your job and organization
Working as a front line employee in the hospitality industry is not always easy. There can be long working hours, high work demand and many other disadvantages that can lead to increased stress on an employee of the industry. These disadvantages have led to one of the highest turnover rates …
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Becoming ‘Jewish’ believing in Jesus? Conversion, gender and ethnicity in the production of the Judaising Evangelical subject
… codes and purity laws of Orthodox Jews while believing in Jesus as the Messiah. My analysis concluded that the emergence of these communities should be understood as a revival aiming to restore some Charismatic Evangelical practices. Pointing to the moral permissiveness, materialism, …
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Is Hearing Believing? Perception of Online Information Credibility by Screen Reader Users who are Blind or Visually Impaired
While credibility perception on the Web is a well-researched topic across multiple disciplines, extant studies have not considered nonvisual modalities of Web access. This research explores how Web users who are blind or visually impaired perceive the credibility of online information and how the …
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Being believed and believing in : the impact of delegitimation on person centred care for people with chronic back pain
… is made up of three conditions;being believed, believing in and non-maleficence which represent the expectedconditions of health care and by health care.
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