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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"DREAD"”.
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Judging dread: A quantitative investigation of affect, psychometric dread and risk consequence
… has become almost synonymous with the concept of Dread, despite Dread being measured in a way which excludes emotional elements. One of the most consistent findings of the Psychometric Paradigm is that the level of Dread associated with a hazard is the best predictor of perceived risk. However, …
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The feeling's mutual : excitement, dread and trust in adult learning and teaching
This thesis has developed out of a longer term action research project relating to a work based programme of study for adult learners in the field of Estates and Facilities Management. Through an investigation of barriers to learning experienced by these students, evidence was emerging of an …
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A Study of the Impact of the Affect Heuristic on the Risk Perception of Security Experts
… assessment process. The psychometric factors of dread risk and familiarity to risk were utilised as the objective measures of risk perception toward security risk scenarios constructed with negative and neutral affective words. The results were then evaluated in light of the variations in …
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PREDICTING ACTIVATION OF EXPERIMENTS INSIDE THE ANNULAR CORE RESEARCH REACTOR
… decay information for every isotope generated. DREAD creates all of the files required for CINDER2008 through user selected inputs in a graphical user interface and executes the program for the user and displays the resulting estimation for dose rate at various distances. The DREAD program was …
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What is the impact of livelihood strategies on farmers' climate risk perceptions in the Bolivian highlands?
… climate risk perceptions and the factors of dread and unknown, along with livelihood risk management strategies. In this study, it is found that lower dread feelings are significantly related to lower climate risk perceptions, supporting the findings in the risk perception literature. In …
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Temporal Discounting of Losses
… an explanation for the sign effect: that dread looms larger than pleasurable anticipation, and Paper 5 offers an integrative approach to intertemporal choice, with recommendations for environmental policy. Taken together, these investigations suggest that discounting of losses is both …
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The Other Side of the Fence
… urban surroundings. There is always a sense of dread fused with optimism that prevails. Is it beautiful? Fragments of low-riders and tricked-out cars become symbols of desire and the glowing red lens of a stop light becomes a Cyclops poised to defend his garden. Candy-coated, blooming, dripping …
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The Heidegger Collection
… (2) Idle-Talk, (3) Moment-of-Vision, (4) Dread, and (5) Being-towards-the-End. The essay discusses the meanings of the five concepts, and explains how I express my reaction to Heidegger's thinking through music composition. The essay also discusses the essential musical language of The …
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The Effect of Man on the Landscape and the Effect of Land on the Manscape: Or Contingent Plans for Knowing a Mountain
… that tellingly exhibits macrocosmic global dread, I seek to capture and distill our overwhelming eco-socio-political anxiety into a portrait of a society at a point in its history when the specter of nameless impending disaster weighs pressingly on the collective psyche. This thesis is …
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Escape Beneath: An Original Game Score Inspired by an Analysis of Garry Schyman's Music
… video game called <em>Escape Beneath</em> from Dread Vector Studios. <em></em></p>
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ACACIA, a Book of Wonders, or the Meditations of Fontaine Caldwell, Containing the True Account of Her Captivity as Written in Her Little Books
… tremendum et fascinans”—the presence of dread tempered with Heavenly allure when confronted with numinous spiritual events—to populate the spiritual wonders of Fontaine’s diaries—her “little books.” As a captivity account, <em>ACACIA</em> calls on rhetorical dynamics essential to that …
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Exploration of Fatigue in Fourth-Year Nursing Students
… shifts to recover their energy and that they dread waking up to another day of work. Fatigue in nursing students needs further study including interventions that address chronic and acute fatigue and promote intershift recovery.
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Public street surveillance: A psychometric study on the perceived social risk
… perception in a two factor representation, being dread risk and familiarity to risk. Four additional control activities and technologies were tested, being radioactive waste, drinking water chlorination, coal mining disease and home swimming pools. Analysis included spatial representation, and …
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Black Existential Philosophy: Truth in Virtue of Self-Discovery
… concepts--freedom/autonomy, anxiety, despair, dread, and the absurd--to see if they can be applied to black existence, and to examine if the concepts themselves change when applied to black existence. What is more, in examining black existence, this work seeks to examine whether or not …
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Vanished in Silver
… parts of her power that fill her with fear and dread, especially because they connect to older, hidden memories that she'd rather leave buried. More broadly, the magic system in this world combines both rational and eclectic elements that help reconcile the fantastic with the familiar, teasing …
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Estética e empoderamento entre jovens negros do ensino médio: uma análise sobre a mostra de cultura negra do Colégio Estadual Liceu Nilo Peçanha
… a partir de uma análise das oficinas de Dread e Turbantes e do Desfile de Moda Afro, realizadas na III Mostra de Cultura Negra durante semana da Consciência Negra no Colégio Estadual Liceu Nilo Peçanha. Parte-se do suposto que os currículos mínimos não trazem questões das diversidades, …
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Zombified and Traumatized: Healing in Black Women's Zombie Literature
… I situate “Cue: Change” (2011) by Chesya Burke, Dread Nation (2018) by Justina Ireland, and “The Love of a Zombie is Everlasting” (2020) by Tish Jackson as sankoffarrationist projects that reimagine the struggles and trauma African Americans experience within the systems of racism and other …
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Identifying And Examining Access And Barriers To Healthcare For The Transgender And Nonbinary Individual
… themes that I identified included (a) learned dread of negotiating healthcare access, (b) unique challenges of the TNB individual, and (c) identifying affirming healthcare experiences. The findings included TNB avoidance of healthcare, concealment of gender identity and the subsequent negative …
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The Surviving Parties
… world around them. There is a sense of suburban dread that inhabits a lot of the peace, and I several of these characters want nothing more than to break out of their current setting. What ultimately unites these characters though, none of whom will ever meet one another, is their struggle to …
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Practical Perspectives on Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Risks
… based on a public perception of extreme fear or dread associated with radiological material. The goal of this work is to provide some insight into the practical understanding and relative significance of the risk values presented in a transportation risk assessment. This will be achieved by …
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