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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Objective knowledge"”.
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Consumers' subjective and objective knowledge of genetically modified food in a South African context
… previous studies have demonstrated that consumer knowledge of GM crops is relatively low and raises the question of whether South Africans have sufficient knowledge and the ability to make informed decisions with regard to GM food products. Furthermore, it is unknown whether mandatory GM labelling …
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Environmental concern, knowledge, and the enactment of environmental citizenship in a retail food environment: an investigation into the perceptions and behaviours of Cape Town consumers
… of environmental concern and environmental knowledge in the manifestation in pro-environmental behaviour. The relatively recent concept of environmental citizenship, premised on the existence of concern and knowledge, and rooted in issues of environmental and social justice, has gained …
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An outline theory of art on cybernetic principles
… may be classified as art. There is discussion of objective knowledge and its value and of the characteristics of experience as a form of objective knowledge. It is suggested that art is concerned with experience and that this dictates its method, which is to produce simulation procedures based on …
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A critical examination of Habermas' and Marcuse's attacks on positivism, with special reference to the implications of the attacks for sociology
… on the other, about the possibility of an objective value-free social science seems to have reached an impasse: Positivists continue to assert that the facts and laws of social life are objective givens which can be apprehended by a social science modelling itself on the natural science …
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Enacting Cognition: Actor Education and the Performance of Everyday Life
… Enacting cognition is the dynamic synthesis of objective knowledge and personal understanding. It is the experience of be-ing.
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
… how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to what extent the …
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ΑΝΤΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΣ, ΑΓΟΡΑ, ΚΑΙ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ. ΜΙΑ ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΝΕΟΑΥΣΤΡΙΑΚΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΗΣ ΘΕΩΡΙΑΣ
… ON QUESTIONS LIKE THE THEORY OF COMPETITION AND KNOWLEDGE, THE CONCEPT OF "ENTERPRENEURSHIP", THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CAPITAL, THE THEORY OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE ETC., IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE CENTRAL IDEA OF NEOAUSTRIAN THEORY IS THAT OF THE "FUNDAMENTAL INDETERMINACY" OF ECONOMIC PHENOMENA. …
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Reconsidering The Theoretical/Practical Divide: The Philosophy Of Nishida Kitarō
… analytic philosophy seeks to establish the most objective methods and answers possible to advance philosophical progress in an unambiguous way. By doing so, we are able to more precisely analyze concepts, but the increased emphasis on precision has also been accompanied by some negative …
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Cone-Beam Computed Tomography and Orthodontics: Awareness Assessment
… to evaluate a specific orthodontic community's knowledge and understanding of Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) technology as well as awareness of the implications of CBCT use, including risk assessment, radiation dose estimation, diagnostic utility, and issues of informed consent. It is …
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What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes the use that poetic language has for communicating the subjective knowledge from experience of being as it unfolds for us. The major movements of the thesis focus on …
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Fuzzy technology application for mobile positioning in cellular communication
… systems there is generally two classes of knowledge: objective knowledge, which can be quantified using the laws of traditional mathematics, and subjective or intelligent knowledge, that cannot be modeled mathematically but can be expressed in linguistical terms. Fuzzy Logic (FL) is a …
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Education Model for Pediatric Tracheostomy Management: Improving Nursing Knowledge and Confidence
… this quality improvement project was to increase knowledge and confidence for nurses and nurse practitioners performing pediatric tracheostomy management in the pediatric intensive care unit, utilizing targeted tracheostomy education.Background: Pediatric tracheostomy prevalence continues to …
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Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute
… learned and were to employ an engineering knowledge derived from fundamental physical and mathematical principles, as opposed to a craft knowledge learned on the job. To carry out such work and to even develop the capacity to subordinate their own interests, the cadets were disciplined into …
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Evaluation of an End-to-End Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Pipeline for Prostate Cancer
… control for better outcomes.</p> <p>The first objective of this work, to automate the treatment planning process, was the automatic segmentation of critical structures. Delineation of both target and normal tissue structures was necessary to establish the foundation for identifying where …
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Uncovering the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care
… practice, indicating an emergent field of knowledge. Protection is needed in The Harbour to maintain the calm. The nurses protect their authentic-self to maintain end-of-life care, but this creates emotional dissonance and vulnerability, with potential physical and psychological …
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Jane Jacobs The Ethicist: Systems of Survival and Jacobs' Moral Philosophy
… Jacobs’ moral philosophy makes a strong case for objective moral knowledge. She posits that there are two moral syndromes that are intended to guide working life morality. Roughly speaking, the commercial syndrome guides commerce and the guardian syndrome governs politics and other occupations …
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The Objective Function: Science and Society in the Age of Machine Intelligence
… This naïve empiricism eschews other forms of knowledge and theory formation in order for applied machine learning researchers to enact <em>data performances</em> that bring objects of analysis into existence as entities capable of being subjected to machine intelligence. By “data …
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Dynamics of cerebral fluids in patients suffering from hydrocephalus and pseudotumour cerebri
… patients and research into altered CSF dynamics. Objective testing of intracranial circulation in patients with clinical symptoms constitutes a unique situation, where the discovery of new patterns and reasons for disturbed intracranial circulation can be quantified. Such macroscopic yet practical …