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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Individual perception"”.
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The relationships between psychological factors and weight loss
… physical and mental health status, and individual perception of outcome.Part three is comprised of the appendices.
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Information/knowledge design in contextual hypermedia systems
… structures which construct our individual perception of reality, we see a shift from the dyadic Cartesian method of reading our environment, to a triadic, or Systems View, which accounts for individual perceptual readings and individual realities. This shift in thinking relates …
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"At the Still Point of the Turning World": A Reference to Time and Movement
… to time and movement as it relates to our individual perception. We each experience our environments differently and architecture should be prescribed to the fit the needs of the individual. It is the study of design evolution along a time-line. The science of effect. As we move along a …
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Subjectivity, Ecology, and Meditation. Dynamics of Heart-Meditations and potential Implications for the Ecological Self
… Christian, Buddhist and Sufi traditions on the individual perception of nature, nature connectedness and the resulting sense of ecological self. Along the various spiritual traditions, I also discuss data from cardiological and neurological research, as past research has shown that meditative …
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The Linguistic And The Social Intertwined: Linguistic Convergence Toward Southern Speech
… that accounts of convergence relying on tight perception-production links where production is derived directly and automatically from the input cannot straightforwardly explain all instances of convergence. Experiment 2 investigates the perceptual underpinnings of input- and expectation-driven …
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MAKING GOOD DECISIONS: AN ATTRIBUTION MODEL OF DECISION QUALITY IN DECISION TASKS
… decision quality, the processes by which individuals form their beliefs must be understood. In addition, many decision makers rely on decision support technologies to help find patterns in data and make sense of the input, so these technologies must be considered in parallel with the …
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Local and expert knowledge in experienced mining communities : the case of a proposed uranium mine in Crownpoint
… the role of expert and local knowledge in the individual's perception of the risks and benefits associated with the mine. Interviews, supplemented with numerous Nuclear Regulatory Commission documents and other articles of the public record, were used to understand how people developed their …
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Horizontal Violence in the Nursing Work Environment: Beyond Oppressed Group Behavior
… patient outcomes while maintaining group or individual perception of security through a sense of environmental control.</p>
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The Influence of Personality Traits and Officer Variables on Perception of Excessive Force
… have been applied to the study of people’s perceptions of excessive force. The purpose of this study is to replicate a study conducted by Perkins and Bourgeois (2006). This study will attempt to determine how situational factors and differing personalities can cause differences in society’s …
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Experience and perceptions of climate change-related hazards, and the dynamics of technology-based adaptations in water use in Bangladesh: the case of Satkhira communities
… as the most effective and viable approach. Individual perception significantly influences the willingness to adopt adaptation measures, where technology-based adaptation measures can mitigate the climate change-induced effects and help to build community resilience. The current study …
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How does the zoo soundscape affect the zoo experience for animals and visitors?
… and enclosures planning. The zoo soundscape perception by the public was investigated by the application of questionnaires with the soundwalk methodology around Chester Zoo. The objective of this part of the study is to understand how the zoo visitors perceive the environmental sound around …
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Odour pollution problems within the district of the Wrekin council
… options for odour control. Measurements of odour perception and human behaviour seldom have the precision and accuracy of the physical sciences. However methods of social research enabled individual perception of odour pollution to be quantified and an insight gained into reaction of a community …
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Perception of genetic risk in sexual and reproductive decision-making (PGRID) by college students
… and childbearing) might be influenced by an individual?s perception of his/her genetic risk and other psychosocial variables. There is a paucity of empirical studies within the literature exploring this specific relationship. This partially mixed, sequential mixed methods study addresses how …
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Analytic approach to risk assessment in Thailand's real estate development industry
… industry as well as to investigate the risk perception of Thai practitioners. A theoretical framework that was developed from a review of the extant literature was used in the subsequent stages of research design, data collection and analysis. The extensive literature review revealed that the …
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Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
… aversion and the interdisciplinary literature of perceptions of risk, specifically with regard to race and gender effects. While a review of the contingent valuation literature shows no systematic gender or race differences in willingness to pay to reduce risks associated with nonmarket goods and …
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An exploration of cloud-based technology for enhancing emergency management: Cases from New Zealand
… by exploring emergency management professionals’ perceptions of cloud usage in key emergency management lifecycle stages of preparedness and response. The Diffusion of Innovation theory is used as a theoretical lens to understand the factors that might influence emergency management professionals …
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A risk-based maintenance methodology of industrial systems
… in subjective expert judgement, due mainly to individual perception, the environmental model has been further enhanced using fuzzy set modelling. The use of delay-time analysis to develop a model involves establishing several important parameters, one such parameter being that of failure rate …
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Motherhood first: An interpretive description of the experience of mature age female students with dependent children at one regional university campus in Australia
… involved in this study, with 21 participating in individual interviews and 11 participating in one of three mini-focus groups. Each of these 32 participants also completed the same 20-question demographic questionnaire. These methods supported the analysis of the participants’ experience, …
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The Sensible Reason
… this dissertation argues that emotions influence individual perception and are also an integral part of argumentative processes, as argumentation is a cultural, collective, and sensible construct. By addressing emotions from an aesthetic logic, their capacity to structure and provide coherence to …
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Risk Perception in Cardiovascular Disease
… as effective primary prevention strategies. Risk perception is a complex phenomenon that plays an important role in how persons view disease and ultimately how they make health behavior choices. This study is supported by the knowledge that few studies have examined how persons perceive …
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