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Hostile attribution bias in children and adolescents
… studies have examined peer contagion effects on hostile attribution bias. The empirical paper describes a study investigating whether hostile attribution biases are contagious amongst adolescents in a community sample of boys and girls. Using a computerised ‘Chat-room’ experimental paradigm, …
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Sensitivity of Hostile Hemodynamics to Intracranial Aneurysm Geometry
An intracranial aneurysm (IA) is an abnormal outpouching of an artery in the brain and is thought to be present in about 1 in 30 adults. Rupture of an IA is a devastating event leading to death or disability in most cases. To supplement clinical treatment decisions, researchers have turned to …
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Beyond Photojournalism: Constraints and Contradictions in Hostile Environments
… on the controversies they have to handle in a hostile environment. In particular, by thoroughly studying the case of North Korea I concentrate on the impacts of<br/>censorship and self-censorship and the capability of a photographer to pursue and fulfil his/her goal. Moreover, my practice-led …
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Feminism and hostile sexism among the religiously affiliated.
… Additionally, it investigates the extent of hostile sexist attitudes among those who identify as religious feminists. Utilizing 2016 American National Election Survey data, I find that religious women are no more or less likely to identify as feminist than the religiously unaffiliated, while …
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An Analysis of Hostile Outbursts in Spectator Sports
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T01:12:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7114988.pdf: 6824101 bytes, checksum: 7d73a499dd2581ea6614f5a54c3f795b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Guidelines on advance defences to hostile take-overs
Take-overs A take-over involves a change of control of a company.1 This occurs when the , existing shareholders of a target (or offeree) company transfer sufficient shares to an offeror so as to give to the offeror control of the voting power attaching to the target company's share cap~tal.2 This …
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The provision of health care in remote hostile environments.
… those who work in remote places associated with hostile environments is reviewed, concentrating on the offshore oil industry and Antarctic populations. An understanding of associated environmental hazards is essential for adequate health care and particular attention is paid to the hyperbaric …
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Interrogative Design as a Means for Confronting Hostile Architecture
… issue of homelessness. The thesis interrogates hostile design by exploring the theoretical underpinnings of ‘affordance’ theory and its implications for understanding the phenomenon of so-called ‘hostile’ architecture; it examines possibilities to shed light on the complex interplay between …
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Investigating cost effective communication alternatives for geographically hostile regions
The lack of communication facilities in developing countries is a constraint to social, political and economic empowerment of the people. However, advances in technology promise to deliver voice, video and data communication services, that are urgently needed, under a common packet switched …
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Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks in Hostile Environments
… when WSNs have to operate unattended in a hostile environment, such as battlefields. In such an environment, an adversary poses a physical threat to all the sensor nodes. An adversary may capture any node, compromising critical security data including keys used for encryption and …
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Configuration Management of Distributed Systems over Unreliable and Hostile Networks
Economic incentives of large criminal profits and the threat of legal consequences have pushed criminals to continuously improve their malware, especially command and control channels. This thesis applied concepts from successful malware command and control to explore the survivability and …
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Data Compression Strategies for RDAT/DDS Media in Hostile Environments
This thesis investigates the prevention of error propagation in magnetically recorded compressed data when severe environmental conditions result in uncorrected channel errors.<br/><br/>The tape format DDS is examined and a computer simulation of its error correction procedures is described. This …
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Comparison of legal standards in sexual harassment hostile work environment
… with a new reasonable employee standard on hostile work environment sexual harassment. Participants included 115 college students from a mid-Atlantic university. Measures were taken across genuine legal cases based on explicit, ambiguous, and non-traditional occupation fact patterns. No …
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The dynamics of hostile and cooperative behavior in the international system
There has been much attention in the literature in International Relations to finding the underlying causes of conflict among nations. The existing research is divided between studying the impact of structural variables (e.g., the nature of alliances, power distribution, etc.) on conflict, and …
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Benevolent vs. Hostile Sexism Impact on Work Performance for Women in Turkey
… assessed the direct impact of benevolent vs. hostile sexism on performance outcomes have done so in the context of a Western society. Because of this void in the literature, it remained unknown how living in a low egalitarian and/or non-Western society may impact women's experiences of sexism. …
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Right Hemisphere Activation to Rotary Stress in High and Low Hostile Men
… on converge for the conclusion that high and low hostile men differ with respect to autonomic regulation of stress. The functional cerebral systems approach has provided a theoretical framework to account for this finding across the individual sensory, motor, and premotor modalities. The current …
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Caligula in Jerusalem : the hostile relationship between Emperor Gaius and his Jewish subjects.
This thesis examines the relationship between Gaius (Caligula) and his Jewish subjects via unrest in Alexandria and the emperor's decree that the Jerusalem Temple be converted into a pagan shrine. It is concluded that Gaius was a competent leader who intentionally asserted his power over the region …
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Violent video games and aggressive behavior: mortality salience and the hostile attribution bias
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Individual Difference Moderators of Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Reactions to Hostile-Controlling Coaching Behaviors
Hostile-controlling coaching behaviors, which can include screaming obscenities and placing blame on the athletes, can lead to counterproductive responses such as withdrawal from sport and decreased performance. Research has shown individuals who perceive coaches to be blaming increase their own …
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