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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Displeasure"”.
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Corporate Governance, Ceo Compensation and total shareholder returns in South Africa
The on-going displeasure displayed by the media and business commentators, relating to apparent excessive and unwarranted executive directors’ salaries, has increased since the financial turmoil experienced in 2008. The commentaries and reports suggest that corporate governance interventions are …
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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Julia Margaret Cameron, and the Arthurian Legends: Re-writing and Re-envisioning Women’s Roles in 19th Century England
… out about patriarchal society and their own displeasure at how they had been treated. At the same time that Tennyson was writing about how women should behave and remain in their expected social roles, he chose a woman to photograph and illustrate his work. Although there is a certain irony …
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Exploring the cultural understanding of mental illness: A study in the Ovaherero community, Opuwo urban area, Namibia
… to causes such as witchcraft, ancestral displeasure, and moral transgressions. Aggression, disorientation, and neglect of personal hygiene emerged as common indicators of mental illness. Perceptions also varied by age and gender, with males aged 25 to 40 seen as particularly vulnerable. …
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The Women of Waterford, Virginia: Gender, Unionism, Quakerism and Identity in the American Civil War
… community became exceptionally vocal with their displeasure with the Confederacy. In the last year of the Civil War they made the deliberate choice to publicly assert their Unionist convictions with their newspaper The Waterford News. The experience of this community, particularly that of its …
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Individual differences in affect and vagal tone in response to moderate- and high-intensity interval exercise: A preliminary model
… predisposed to experience more pleasure or less displeasure during high-intensity exercise leading to a desire for continued future engagement. Purpose. To examine affective and vagal tone reactivity to and recovery from an acute bout of moderate-intensity (MIIE) and high-intensity interval …
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The Devil in Virginia: Fear in Colonial Jamestown, 1607-1622
… – served as concrete evidence of Godʼs displeasure to English observers. A religiously infused discourse of fear shaped the first two decades of the Jamestown settlement.
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Natural teleology and Kant’s duties to oneself as an animal being
… from the outset. The feeling of pleasure and displeasure, according to Kant, just is an awareness of some condition as agreeing or disagreeing with one’s life. Because natural appetite satisfaction is teleological from the beginning, Kant’s appeal to natural teleology in the account of the …
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The Many Functions of Taste: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century England
… pleasure of biting into a perfect peach, or the displeasure of biting into a mealy one. It can shape how both self and community are imagined.</p> <p>After providing an overview of eighteenth-century debates on the "standard of taste," I track how the Victorian cultural critics John Ruskin, …
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'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate
… appetite for pleasure might provoke divine displeasure. An array of concepts from 'i–ek identify the theodictic implications of the fictions – the author as the omniscient 'subject supposed to know�; the 'Master-Signifier' that is meant to define the narrator's role but fails because of a …
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UNDERSTANDING THE SEXUAL EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE
… cell community at large. Furthermore, to their displeasure, PLWSCD lamented that sexual partners often questioned their ability to decide if they were fit enough to engage in sexual activities. Finally, due to complications from SCD, many participants have undergone surgeries for joint …
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Trade Secrets and International Investment Law
… the Czech Republic and Kenya have acted on that displeasure by bringing claims against those states under investment promotion and protection treaties. While the protection of trade secrets has been noted by commentators, there is yet to be a detailed analysis of the protection of trade secrets …
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Semantic and pragmatic analysis of selected Namwanga personal names.
… expressing religious beliefs, unity, hatred, displeasure, gossiping, clan, surnames, special names and many others. Namwanga names have semantic and pragmatic meaning that can only be known by the name-giver or the context in which they are given and through naming one is able to perform …
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An Evaluation of Reserve Component Leaders' Attitudes and Motivation as They Relate to Situational Leadership Theory in a Peacekeeping Operational Environment
… over extrinsic factors. They also reported displeasure when these intrinsic factors were absent.</p> <p>Conclusions. (1) There was no quantitative support for the research questions studying relationships between volunteerism/hypothetical volunteerism and Thomas's intrinsic motivation …
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Cost analysis and profitability of the cable train : a mobile platform for manufacturing underground cable systems
… in getting these projects approved due to public displeasure as well as higher security risks. The alternative solution, laying underground lines, can be four to fourteen times more costly than overhead lines. However, over long distances, there is a break-even distance where underground HVDC …
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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature
… or obscures conventional language, and aesthetic displeasure that violates the ideal of consensus in artistic taste. Thus, "psychological uncommon sense" refers to mental disturbances such as furor, melancholy, and hallucination; "rhetorical uncommon sense" refers to paradoxical or contentious …
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Socio-ecological risk factors, explanatory models and treatment-seeking behaviours associated with Mseleni joint disease: a biocultural mixed methods study
… MJD were supernatural (witchcraft or ancestral displeasure); natural (nutritional deficiencies, 'genetics' and/or environmental); and/or social (gender-based practices and lifestyle). MJD patients described supernatural and natural aetiologies, and conceptualised disability as an inevitable …
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The Semantics of צרר Lexemes in the Hebrew Psalter
… strongly associated with divine discipline and displeasure; whereas before the exile it was more associated with declarations of innocence. Chapter 8 conducts an exegetical and cognitive semantic analysis of Psalm 107, which contains more 1צרר lexemes than any other psalm. This psalm is …
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Negotiating Gossip in the Spanish Realist Novel
… to provoke feelings of distaste, disgust and displeasure, sensations and perceptions far more difficult than pleasure to disavow or ignore. All four texts expose the power relations between narrator and reader. The triangle of desire that exists between narrator, reader, and characters mirrors …
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Young children's collaborative interactions in an educational computer environment
… defending competence; showing pleasure; showing displeasure; sharing control; defending control; and suggesting ideas. Frequency of occurrence of identified interactions was analysed in the form of descriptive statistics. Factors facilitating the collaborative interaction of children whilst …
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The impact of the counseling environment on clients' desire to affiliate and level of state anxiety
… independent and bipolar dimensions: pleasure-displeasure, arousal-non-arousal, and dominance-submissiveness.This project was accomplished in two parts. The primary emotional reactions elicited by a variety of six mental health clinics were assessed. Then, an attempt was made to determine …
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