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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"Reappraisal"”.
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Adolf Eichmann: a Reappraisal
The purpose of this reappraisal of Adolf Eichmann's character and career is to challenge Hannah Arendt's personification of Adolf Eichmann as a banal bureaucrat, which was presented in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Since the publication of her book in 1963 there …
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Johanna Ey: a critical reappraisal
This study draws on and interprets an extensive corpus of archived materials, in particular from the Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, to offer the first wide-ranging critical analysis of the written and visual images of the life and legend of Weimar Germany’s most important ‘modern’ art dealers - Johanna Ey …
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Marxism and Population: A Reappraisal
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:13:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511644.pdf: 4498765 bytes, checksum: 61b78b42b008a9b117863e0f8a05e489 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Cognitive Reappraisal in Middle Childhood
Cognitive reappraisal (CR) involves changing one’s mental states in response to an emotionally eliciting event in order to down regulate the potential emotional impact. In this study, 50 children who were 9-10 years old were instructed to engage in CR during a sad film. Children were then exposed …
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The Neural Correlates of Future Positive Reappraisal
… and psychotherapies. Engaging in future positive reappraisal (thinking about a negative current situation in terms of producing a better future outcome of the situation) serves as a beneficial form of stress management. A paradigm featuring changes in the current difficulty and future difficulty …
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John Dowland: A Reappraisal of His Ayres
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:21:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405703.pdf: 20780131 bytes, checksum: c8305c61448aa0b2fa07567c7a2d5c4a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Constitutional conventions in South Africa : a reappraisal
This work deals with aspects of constitutional development in South Africa from Union in 1910 until 1983. More specifically, it examines the important role played by constitutional conventions in this country, drawing extensively upon local, British and other Commonwealth materials for this …
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THE EFFECTS OF POSITIVE EMOTION ON COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL
… incidental positive emotion and using reappraisal strategies can help people regulate their emotions when coping with stress. Studies exploring individual differences have found strong associations between positive emotion and cognitive reappraisal success. However, the causal direction …
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A Linguistic Reappraisal of the Biblical Hebrew Accusative
This study applies generative linguistics to the Biblical Hebrew (BH) accusative. The standard BH grammars have treated accusative noun phrases under two broad categories, roughly object/complement and adverbial/adjunct. Not only do they disagree about which are objects and which are adverbial, but …
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The Disposition Effect, Trading Biases, and Cognitive Reappraisal
… It also investigates the use of cognitive reappraisal as a de-biasing technique (i.e. a method to reduce the level of bias displayed in trading decisions), which works by reducing emotions during trading. The main bias which this thesis examines is the disposition effect. This occurs when …
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: a Post-Soviet Reappraisal
The collapse of the Soviet Union and accompanying changes in security affairs have not ameliorated the fundamental problems of international affairs, one of which is international interest in the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Both Russia and China, among others, maintain and continue to modernize …
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A Reappraisal of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Conversation Poems.'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6503633.pdf: 15123854 bytes, checksum: 5ffefa7d433dcb444c8beca2ac7c9a95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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New perspectives : a reappraisal of the lap steel guitar
As a critical study accompanying a creative project which involves composition, rearrangement and recording featuring my work as a performer on lap steel guitar, New Perspectives is invested in both a historical consideration of the role of the instrument and an examination of how it can move away …
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
Soon after Shakespeare's retirement from the theatre a period of retrogression fell upon the English drama. While it has been assumed by many that the closing of the theatres by the Puritans in 1642 marked the end of drama as it had been gloriously created and shaped by the Elizabethans, the death …
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The political ideology of Subhas Chandra Bose: A reappraisal
The work contained herein is an analysis of the political ideology of the Indian nationalist politician Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945). The work critiques the present historiography in defining accurately the ideology of Subhas Chandra Bose, since at present Bose is variously described as either a …
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De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses
This thesis offers a reappraisal of the Sabine glosses through the analysis of thirty-nine words, all glossed explicitly as Sabine in ancient sources ranging from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. The study of the Sabine glosses found in ancient grammarians and antiquarians goes back …
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Flutes, megaflutes and erosional bedforms: a reappraisal of their dynamics
Erosional bedforms in deep-sea environments record the passage of highly erosive turbidity currents that are often voluminous and fully bypassing. This investigation focuses upon a subset of erosional bedforms that are elliptical in shape, and utilises a multidisciplinary approach to reappraise the …
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A Bayesian Reappraisal of Australian Crustal Heat Flow and Temperature
Geothermal data offers a unique perspective from which to image the Earth. However, geothermal data is difficult to collect and this has necessitated a reliance on industrial data collection during the exploration for mineral and petroleum resources. Resulting data quality issues have limited …
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A Bayesian Reappraisal of Australian Crustal Heat Flow and Temperature
Geothermal data offers a unique perspective from which to image the Earth. However, geothermal data is difficult to collect and this has necessitated a reliance on industrial data collection during the exploration for mineral and petroleum resources. Resulting data quality issues have limited …
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Charles Ives and the European Symphonic Tradition: A Historical Reappraisal
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:21:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219823.pdf: 9699304 bytes, checksum: 26c0afefd1417c232dab7559a611756c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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