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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Discernment."”.
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Remote Operator Blended Intelligence System for Environmental Navigation and Discernment (RobiSEND)
Mini Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MRUAVs) flown at low altitude as a part of a human-robot team are potential sources of tactical information for local search missions. Traditionally, their effectiveness in this role has been limited by an inability to intelligently perceive unknown …
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Pediatric Psychiatry Inpatients' Perspectives of Aggression Management: Discernment in the Doorway
… the interpretation of the importance of nursing discernment in decision making upon the entrance to each room that holds a patient, physically and metaphorically, to ensure the most therapeutic, ethical, and beneficial care is provided to the patient. The text of the research interviews was …
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The Collecting Habits on an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers, FRS, FRA (1711-1784)
… Habits of an Eighteenth-Century Englishman of Discernment: Charles Rogers FRS, FSA (1711-1784) <br/>Nicola Frances Wakeham<br/><br/>This project aims to establish the largely forgotten collector, Charles Rogers FRS FSA (1711-1784), and his collection of prints and drawings, within the vibrant …
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The notion of spiritual discernment found in the writings of Origen, Antony of Egypt and Ignatius of Loyola : a comparative study
This study compares the notion of spiritual discernment found in Origen's Peri Archôn , in Antony of Egypt's Seven Letters and in Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises . The goal of the study is to examine some of the foundations and important contributions that each of these writers has made …
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A study on the discernment by occupational therapists on whether mental health service users' occupations of a spiritual nature are health seeking behaviours or manifestations of illness
Spirituality has been a topic of debate in occupational therapy. However, incorporating spirituality into occupational therapy practice has remained a challenge due to its subjective nature. Limited exploration has been done on how clinical reasoning may assist occupational therapists in this …
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Investigating Driver Perceptions of Semi-Autonomous Vehicle Sensing and Response Characteristics
… drivers’ perceptions of SAV detection and discernment abilities across 28 driving conditions and how those perceptions related to expected vehicle behaviors in 17 corresponding scenarios. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified three perceptual dimensions: Traffic …
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Breaking the Sound Barrier, Breaking Faith: How Some Evangelical Christians Perceive Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Film
… that revolves around the practices of spiritual discernment. Whether discerning what type of filmic content is appropriate to view or whether a character in a film is a ""true"" Christian, the participants' viewing practices are interwoven with their religious practices of spiritual discernment. …
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Collaboration of a Religious Order and a Public School Chartering Authority
… 2005, after a six-year period of discussion and discernment, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools collaborated with the Chicago Public Schools to establish two charter schools known as the Catalyst Schools. Collaboration of religious organizations and local charter granting …
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Gender Stereotypes and Interventions Targeting Gender Stereotypes
… of novel interventions designed to increase discernment of gender stereotypes in STEM and (2) aims to improve understanding and measurement of current gender stereotypes. Using a multi-dimensional approach to gender-STEM stereotyping, I explore my research questions through online studies …
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Medical Virtue in Contemporary Practice: Has COVID-19 Reawakened Virtue in the Modern Medical Encounter?
… leads the physician to engage in clinical discernment—a being with the patient that is a necessary element of the physician’s clinical logic. Thus, supported by principles in the philosophy of medicine, and affirmed by physicians’ personal narratives of illness and by reflections from …
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The Caller and the Called: How Young Adults Understand Vocation in Their Lives
… discern their callings and how the vocational discernment process affects career choice. Accordingly, this study generated baseline understandings in both of these areas that proved theoretically and practically fruitful and which have the potential to serve as a launching pad for future …
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Interpreting Material Cooperation as a Function of Moral Development to Guide Ministry Formation
… associates not only for decision-making and discernment, but for their own moral development. The foundation of this thesis is not only that organizations are moral agents, but also that organizations are reflective of the moral development of their associates when they exercise their agency. …
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DONT' BE FOOLED BY FAKE NEWS? MAPPING THE SOCIAL, COGNITIVE, AND POLITICAL MECHANISMS OF MISINFORMATION BELIEF.
… stimuli to test participants’ truth discernment, it collected and validated a new dataset of 80 existing social media posts. Second, it also tested its hypotheses in Italy, outside the widely explored context of English-speaking countries. The results of these studies indicate that …
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Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Kenosis: The Pathway to Human Agency
… spiritual model; rather, it is enacted through discernment. This discernment is based on the norm of the gospel as "hard sayings" and as "good news." Each individual human being is invited to take on a unique mission, which forms them into a theological person, those providing a deep and real …
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Navigating Heroines Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austen's Narrators
… they acquiesce to marriage through reason and discernment. She endows her heroines with qualities that make them worthy of her interference in the marriage plot: intelligent although inexperienced, possessed of realistic expectations and sensibility and reason, and, importantly, financial …
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Then They Understood: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Matthew 16:12 and 17:13
… to one of Matthew’s major themes, the discernment of revelation. In order to discover the function of the formula in view, this thesis considers its context—both broadly (all of Matthew prior, but especially 11:25–30 and 13:10–17) and narrowly (16:5–17:13). Special emphasis is given to …
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Enhancing Leadership Capacity Through Systems Thinking: A Personal Journey of Transformation Through an Appreciative Inquiry Lens
… and embodied experimentation, emotions informed discernment and action, and relationships functioned as ongoing practice sites for systemic leadership. Over time, these iterative cycles of reflection and creation enabled a more embodied orientation to complexity. This study demonstrated how …
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Active imagination and Christian religious experience: A study in relationship
… of James and Kelsey. The experience of discernment is highlighted and distinctions between "spiritual" and "religious" are considered. Jung's theories of religious experience are identified using the work of Chapman, and the differences and similarities between active imagination and …
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