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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"Disorientation"”.
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Combat-Activated Thymic Disorientation
… these distressing phenomena of combat-related disorientation based on thymos, an ancient Greek anthropological concept. The “moral injury” paradigm has previously examined the relevance of thymos in contemporary veteran care, but has limited its consideration to Homeric material, and has also …
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Reorienting Sonic Creativity Amid Ecological Disorientation
This dissertation offers ecological disorientation as an analytic for making sense of affective experiences of the climate crisis and the epistemological shifts that attend it. It focuses this analytic on a range of thinkers and makers whose reckonings with the climate crisis appeal to sonic …
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Transcriptional and Chromatin Disorientation Associated with BRCA2 Inactivation
Monoallelic germline mutations in the tumour suppressor gene BRCA2 predispose to breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer. Functionally, BRCA2 protein is involved in genome integrity maintenance via homologous recombination repair, DNA replication fork protection, and R-loop resolution. …
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Exploring the relationship between corporate identity disorientation and dynamic capabilities
… orientation exists, so could corporate identity disorientation. Further to this it suggests that corporate identity disorientation may in fact be useful for an organization. In order to explore this, the perspective of dynamic capabilities is used in order provide structure to how disorientation …
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Spatial Disorientation in Hypergravity: Implication of oculomotor, otolithic and somatosensory cues
… were defined in the literature as spatial disorientation, which is principally considered as otolithic origin. In fact, during a forward sustained linear acceleration, the resultant of the imposed acceleration and gravity is no longer aligned with the gravitational vertical. As other …
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
This dissertation analyzes the rich affective dynamics characterizing the music of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) and its ambivalent critical reception, with a particular focus on gender representation. It argues that NDW music expresses the conflicted structures of feeling (Williams) that …
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Investigating disorientation through the adoption of role-play in contemporary fine art practice
Through my programme of practice-led research I have used role-play as a vehicle for the exploration of identity and politics in a series of art works encompassing video, drawing and photography. This research discusses the highly spatialised ways of describing cultural identity, covering aspects …
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Heading Disorientation in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment is Correlated with Hypometabolism in the Posterior Cingulate Cortex
… that the part A of the CPT assesses egocentric disorientation whereas part B examines heading disorientation. However, the test has not yet been used in any larger population. In addition, neural substrates of the test have not yet been replicated in other studies. In our study, using …
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The Effects of Three Browsing Devices on Learner Structural Knowledge, Achievement, and Perceived Disorientation in a Hierarchically Organized Hypermedia Environment
… structural knowledge, achievement, and perceived disorientation in a hierarchically organized hypermedia system. For this investigation, a Completely Randomized Factorial-322 experimental design was employed. The two independent variables chosen for this study were browsing device (i.e., hotwords, …
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Laughing and Learning Through David Quammen's Natural Acts
… been to offer some small moments of constructive disorientation in the way nature is seen and thought about." This study illustrates the formula by which Quammen succeeds in Natural Acts at, 1), repeatedly intriguing and amusing the reader and, 2), constructively disorienting, or subverting, the …
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Quantifying the Cognitive, Symptomatic and Neuroendocrine Impact of the Coriolis Illusion; A Countermeasure for Motion Sickness
… bodies, they are spatially disoriented. Spatial disorientation is often induced by aviation illusions, and its consequences include dizziness, confusion, nausea and fatigue. The present research evaluated the severity of cognitive, neuroendocrine and subjective symptoms of the Coriolis illusion, …
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The Search for the Opto-Kinetic Cervical Reflex and Reduced Roll Reversals in Pilots Viewing a 3-D Perspective Display
… conventional instrumentation can suffer spatial disorientation (SD) when unexpectedly forced to transition from visual flight to instrument flight during roll maneuvers. This simulator study was conducted to see if a 3-D perspective display could prevent this form of spatial disorientation by …
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Hypertext navigation, goal (dis)orientation, and the role of mental models : an empirical investigation
… for the explication of hypertext navigation and disorientation in terms of relevant user characteristics. 75 2nd year psychology students from the University of Cape Town participated in a study in order to investigate the claim that the motivational theory of goal orientation has the greatest …
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Professional identity formation among non-clinical professionals in the field of continuing medical education
… Four main themes emerged: (a) professional disorientation (including fear and isolation), (b) imposter syndrome, (c) resilience (with risk-taking as a sub-theme), and (d) empowerment (with mentorship and community of support as sub-themes). Findings revealed that these non-clinical …
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PRAESENTIA EX MACHINA: The Millennial Technoculture, Liveness and Theatre
… are cumulative and have caused a technological disorientation with broad reaching implications. Liveness, initially defined as that which is unrecorded, has been perceived in many new technological formats. This phenomenon, combined with pervasive digitization of information and entertainment …
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PRAESENTIA EX MACHINA: The Millennial Technoculture, Liveness and Theatre
… are cumulative and have caused a technological disorientation with broad reaching implications. Liveness, initially defined as that which is unrecorded, has been perceived in many new technological formats. This phenomenon, combined with pervasive digitization of information and entertainment …
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Projecting the uncanny : the intersection of visuality and architecture
… presents itself with its own challenges of disorientation and visual confusion. This project will juxtapose the effects of zero gravity with the spaces imbued with artificial gravity generated by centripetal force. Human experience in outer space is tied to feelings of disorientation and …
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SalesCloud Hero
… cutting down on unnecessary work hours spent on disorientation.
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A comparison of methods for promoting geographic knowledge in simulated aircraft navigation
Geographic disorientation is a potentially dangerous problem for all types of pilots under all types of flight conditions. The problem is even more serious for helicopter pilots who often fly at low altitudes and who must be precisely aware of their location with respect to obstructions in their …
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