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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"Indifference"”.
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Utility Indifference Pricing of Credit Instruments
… by pricing credit instruments using utility indifference pricing, a method that takes into account the investor's personal risk aversion and which is not affected by the lack of liquidity. Through stochastic optimal control methods, we use indifference pricing with exponential utility to …
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The Bomb on the Bayou: Nuclear Fear and Public Indifference in New Orleans, 1945 - 1966
At the height of nuclear tension, governments at all levels took steps to both educate and protect their citizens. Plans that included mass evacuations and shelters were put forth to protect the public and prepare for the seemingly inevitable war with the Soviet Union. These efforts faced …
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Do Parties' Ideological Positions Matter? The Effects of Alienation and Indifference on Individuals' Turnout Decisions
… an individual's ideological position---nor indifference---that multiple parties adequately represent an individual's ideological position---have much of an effect on the rate at which individuals turn out to vote. Considering the contradiction between our expectations and existing research, …
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Using metaheuristics with the ranking and selection indifference-zone procedure MMY in problems with many objectives
… developed MORS procedure that extends the indifference-zone (IZ) approach to multi-objective settings, providing exact P(CS) guarantees under simulation noise. An initial literature review compares IZ and optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) methods within the broader context of …
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Revealing Preferences: a neuroeconometric approach to understanding decision-making behaviour
… component rewards are represented by graphic ‘indifference curves’, a mathematical illustration of preferences for various bundle offers. Bundles that were equally preferred by the participants lined up on the same two-dimensional indifference curve despite varying bundle composition, thus …
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Love, hatred and indifference in chimpanzees: Personality, Subjective Well-Being, and dyadic-level behavior in captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Does something more than rank, age and sex drive the nature of interpersonal relationships in chimpanzees?
This dissertation consists of two studies: the first focuses on reliability of chimpanzee personality and subjective well-being (SWB) scores, the second on validating those scores by comparing them to subjective assessments of behavior in dyads. The first measured reliability of scores of …
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Dragging Out (In)Difference: Explorations of the Cultural and Affective Politics of Drag Queens' Performances in Toronto, Canada
… or reificatory. Drawing on the concept of “indifference to difference” popularized by queer of colour scholars Madhavi Menon (2015) and Naisargi Dave (2022; 2023), I maintain that despite drag’s characteristic emergence within a context of gendered differentiation, its most basic …
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The role of shame in psychopathology and implications for therapeutic practice
… adversity factors, only childhood maternal indifference demonstrated a positive association with adult shameproneness. Empirical findings are discussed including limitations of the measure used in this study to assess shame- and guilt-proneness. A content analysis of the CECA interview data …
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Ethical and Clinical Concerns for Incarcerated Pregnant Women and their Children
… with application of a test of deliberate indifference. Since this ruling, many more cases have emerged which present the complexity in application of the deliberate indifference test involving incarcerated pregnant women specifically. The practice of mass incarceration within this country …
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Temporal Discounting: A comparison of adjusting-amount and adjusting-delay procedures
… used, and that all would converge on similar indifference points. For each of the experiments, participants were initially tested on one of the adjusting tasks: Adjusting Immediate Amount, Adjusting Delayed Amount, or Adjusting Delay) and returned a week later to complete each of the remaining …
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The seed: Planting renewal by recentering and reconstructing downtown Midland,TX
… and interaction cause increased separation, indifference and anonymity, the needs of individuals, families, and cities also change. Private and public spaces must integrate these new cultural norms to update the existing post-war typologies that no longer sufficiently meet society's needs.
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Categories of Mystical Experience in The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
… quality, ineffability, passivity, transiency, indifference to sensory stimuli, and belief. These categories were compared and contrasted with James' four marks of religious experience. This analysis led to the discovery of two new categories, indifference to sensory stimuli and belief, which …
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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
… to show that the transitivity of preference and indifference is a requirement of instrumental reason. Instead, I argue that Humeans should treat the constraints of decision theory as constitutive of the nature of preferences. Additionally, I argue that transitivity of preference is a stricter …
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Avaliação do sinergismo entre os componentes da pasta ctz e o citronelol frente ao enterococcus faecalis
… tetracycline and chloramphenicol (IFIC: 0.625), indifference between tetracycline and eugenol (IFIC: 1.125), additivity between tetracycline and citronellol (IFIC: 0.75), indifference between chloramphenicol and eugenol (IFIC: 1.5), additivity between chloramphenicol and citronellol (IFIC: 0.625) …
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Model-based Analysis of Myocardial Microstructure for Left Ventricular Mechanics using MRI
… fields have on LV mechanics, a region of indifference was constructed around the helix angle field parameters that best represent a high resolution DWI dataset of a canine heart. This indifference region defines the field parameters to which the goodness-of-fit is insensitive to. A set of …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence all posited that indifference, isolation, ignorance and inaction spread across Europe due to the advent of steam and motor-powered transportation technologies. As they revolutionized migration, tourism and the commute, the railway, the steam-ship, the motor-car, the …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… marked by hubris, paranoia, and reckless indifference to the human consequences of decisions. Malignant-narcissistic leaders tend to commit major blunders in international relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. Seventeen hypotheses are presented on …
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