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Showing 1 to 20 of 673 for “"Judgement"”.
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The possibility of judgement
… possibility that one can use Kant's Critique of Judgement to establish a political discourse that is consistent with the existing normative function designed for aesthetics and teleology would also allow us to create a schema missing from judgement, since aesthetics and teleology are subject, …
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Clinician judgement of intellectual function
… been little research on the efficacy of clinical judgement versus actuarial methods in this area, and only one study has examined the methods used by clinicians to estimate IQ. In this thesis experienced and novice neuropsychologists' estimation of intellectual function were compared to objective …
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Ethics, intentions and judgement-dependence
… is equally unattractive. Crispin Wright’s judgement-dependence allows for the rejection of generic realism without implausibly rejecting the truth of the distinctive assertions of a discourse. I show how Wright speedily dismisses the judgement-dependence of truth in ethics, but suggest that …
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Geographically Distributed Auditors' Judgement Quality
… distributed auditors to improve their judgement quality. This thesis examines whether offshore and component auditors tend to underperform in specific audit tasks under certain conditions and examines specific interventions that could enhance judgement quality. My thesis contains two …
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Geographically Distributed Auditors' Judgement Quality
… distributed auditors to improve their judgement quality. This thesis examines whether offshore and component auditors tend to underperform in specific audit tasks under certain conditions and examines specific interventions that could enhance judgement quality. My thesis contains two …
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How affect influences judgement processes
That mood affects judgment has been well documented, but exactly how mood affects judgment is still unclear. Two experiments help to clarify the influence of mood on judgment processes. In the first, subjects' likelihood judgments are shown to be influenced by mood, such that there is an …
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The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Criminal Judgement
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of phenotypic variation on criminal judgment. This study had two phases. In the first phase, participants rated multiple headshot photographs on the degree to which African American men possess pronounced Afrocentric features (fuller …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
As a prelude to a consideration of poetry shaping the soul – a purpose of which Coleridge was consistently mindful – it is necessary to consider Socrates’ figure of ‘the soul of the lyric poet’ as a bee in Plato’s Ion. The visible tip of Plato’s paradox and its implications for necessity and …
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Judgement as play: revealing analogies between aesthetics and ethics
… process between aesthetic experience and ethical judgement. I claim that in both cases the activity is best described as a type of play in which elements interact in mutual adjustment and transformation. This conception of play has its roots in Kant's aesthetic theory. Describing aesthetic …
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Enduring Coleridge: 'The functions of comparison, judgement, and interpretation'
As a prelude to a consideration of poetry shaping the soul – a purpose of which Coleridge was consistently mindful – it is necessary to consider Socrates’ figure of ‘the soul of the lyric poet’ as a bee in Plato’s Ion. The visible tip of Plato’s paradox and its implications for necessity and …
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Inside International Development Organisations: Socially Constructing Judgement in-the-Moment
… international development organisations defined judgement and how they made sense of it in the context of their leadership roles and work environments. A secondary aim was to explore methodologies and methods, specifically unstructured interviews and observations, to be used in the PhD phase to …
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Character on Trial: Reading and Judgement in Henry Fielding's Works
… supposed. While critics have noted the role of judgement in Fielding’s novels, it has not yet been explored in depth in his plays. With some notable exceptions, few studies have explored the interrelation between his novels and plays in a sustained way. I argue that Fielding examines questions …
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Competency for Execution: Factors Affecting the Judgement of Forensic Psychologists
<p>The determination of a death-row inmate's competency to be executed is a compelling ethical issue for mental health professionals. It has been suggested that forensic psychologists who offer such services to the courts may tend to approach the problem of determining competency by diverse and …
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Passing judgement : the interaction between local and federal design review
How do local design review processes affect the design of federal buildings? By law, the federal government is only required to consider local ordinances, but, nevertheless, it sometimes chooses to engage in the local design review process. This study looks at why the federal government makes the …
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The application of social judgement analysis to urban fisheries management
Social judgment analysis was used to define design criteria for urban fisheries in small ponds and natural waterfronts. The analysis involved (1) compiling a team of expert judges, (2) creating a series of hypothetical cases for ponds and waterfronts, (3) having the experts judge the quality of the …
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Judgement Analysis of Patient Management: General Practitioners' Policies and Self-Insight.
In this thesis judgement analysis (multiple linear regression techniques) was used to look at both GPs' decisions to prescribe certain types of drug for patients and their judgements of patients' risk of coronary heart disease. All of these were idiographic analyses in that decision making by each …
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The Trial of Reason: Political theology as the investigation of judgement
… reason. To succeed, Kant must give an account of judgement as the reconciliation the universal and the individual. However, the trial of reason suffers two fates: Either legal procedure is flouted the new order is established through a violent act, or the verdict is deferred, and reason’s laws are …
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Byron's Use of Rhetorical Devices for Satire in the Vision of Judgement
… as a whole is a burlesque of Southey’s Vision of Judgement; 2) irony; the poem is a sustained niece of irony; 3) rhetorical devices; the poem uses a large number of then effectively for satiric ends.</p>
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