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Mere Mortals
<p><em>Mere Mortals </em>is a one-hour pilot script for a television drama series centered on the daily operations of Trinity Recovery and Rehabilitation Center and the lives of the mental health professionals who specialize in the treatment of high profile individuals.</p>
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Women of the Mere: stories
Women of the Mere is a literary-horror short story collection imagining contemporary, Southern women who have a draw toward the unpredictability and danger of the macabre. Based on personal experiences but fictionalized through the poetic lens of negative capability, each story takes place in …
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Examining the mere exposure effect in a marketing context
The mere exposure effect (MEE) was first identified by Zajonc (1968:1) who observed that, “the mere repeated exposure of the individual to a stimulus is a sufficient condition for the enhancement of his attitude towards it. By ‘mere exposure’ is meant a condition which just makes the given stimulus …
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Codependency traits and the mere presence of a cell phone
… one's attention could be manipulated by the mere presence of a cell phone, especially when the individual scores high in codependency traits. Previous research suggests that the mere presence of a cell phone is sufficient to inhibit an individual’s ability to perform a task. Codependency has …
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
This dissertation argues that Kantian morality is more compatible with cultural pluralism than has thus far been acknowledged. Cultural pluralism denotes a normative commitment to the idea that we ought to uphold diversity and protect the rights of individuals within a given society to hold a …
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"In the blank of mere possibility": liminal transformations in the poetry of Christina Rossetti
This thesis offers a new reading of Christina Rossetti’s poetic texts which situates them within the context of liminality. I define liminality here as a site of ambiguity, change and unfulfilment between two states, whilst emphasising its potential for transformation and transgression. I examine …
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Biostratigraphy and palaeolimnology of late-glacial and holocene lake marls at Quidenham Mere, Norfolk.
… of the Late-glacial. The exceptions are the Meres of central East Anglia that are infilled with organic sediments, providing detailed vegetational records. Of these, Quidenham Mere is unique because its sedimentary infill is composed largely of lake marls. These contain abundant molluscs and …
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Microbial diversity of a nature reserve: eukaryotic microorganisms of Mere Sands Wood in N.W. England
… Trust’s knowledge of biodiversity at its Mere Sands Wood Nature Reserve by describing and quantifying microbial diversity and distribution using traditional protist taxonomy based on morphology. The methods employed were similar to that adopted in the studies of macroscopic organisms, …
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The materiality of the kitchen house: building, food and history on Mere Lava, northern Vanuatu
… the land and social relationships. Nowadays on Mere Lava, a striking emphasis is put on the building or re-building of kitchen houses, n-ean̄ kuk, as architectural elements central to households. Drawing upon recent theories of material efficacy that consider objects as potent media through …
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An examination of how attention influences exposure effects: target selection, distractor devaluation and mere exposure
… that are not targets (distractors), the positive mere exposure effect may be eliminated. The study examined the relationship between attention and exposure effects under three situations, mere exposure, target selection and distractor devaluation. Attitude towards the brand was measured as the …
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The Law and Human Rights: Is the Law a Mere Parchment Barrier to Human Rights Abuse?
This study is the first systematic global analysis of the impact of law on human rights, analyzing the impact of twenty-three constitution provisions and an international covenant on three measures of human rights behavior, over the period of 1976-1996. Three sets of constitutional provisions are …
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Beyond the mere word. Exploring the language of Drama through text- and performance-based approaches for developing L2 oral skills
This study explores the effectiveness of drama by using contemporary plays both as self-standing extracts and as a full-scale performance for developing learners’ oral skills in terms of complexity, accuracy and fluency and their positive attitudes towards foreign language learning within a high …
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Seft-Monitoring and Attitude Polarization: Individual Differences in the Role of Belief Consistency and Belief Confidence in the Mere-Thought Effect
The mere thought effect is the tendency for favorable attitudes to become more favorable and unfavorable attitudes to become more unfavorable following thought (Tesser, 1978). Changes in belief-consistency and belief-confidence mediate this effect (Tesser, Martin, & Mendolia, 1995). However, there …
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Like Laws and Sausages: The Tale of a Mere Portion of the Process to Develop the South Broad Street Corridor Plan
<p>The processes to develop community plans share certain standard activities and stages while remaining distinctive and without pre-scripted procedures. This study documents the process that yielded the South Broad Street Corridor Plan June 2012 draft. The objective is to present the …
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Progenitor or Mere Predecessor: A Study of Ukiyo-e's Place in the Development of Modern Manga Through the Works of Rumiko Takahashi
In their efforts to understand the history of manga, or Japanese comics, scholars have struggled determining the timeline of this art form. While some historians begin their narrative as far back as the twelfth century with examples of art that might be classified as "pre-manga," some academics …
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