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Showing 1 to 20 of 620 for “"Salience"”.
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Salience Perspectives
… that content is organised, along dimensions of salience, has received relatively little attention. I argue that salience matters. Mere change of salience patterns, without change of content, can have dramatic implications, both epistemic and moral. Imagine two newspaper articles that offer the …
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Salience-affected neural networks
In this research, the salience of an entity refers to its state or quality of standing out, or receiving increased attention, relative to neighboring entities. By neighbouring entities we refer to both spatial (i.e. similar visual objects) and temporal (i.e. related concepts). In this research we …
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Spatial aspects of auditory salience
Models of auditory salience aim to predict which sounds attract people’s attention, and their proposed applications range from soundscape design to machine listening systems and object-based broadcasting. A few different types of models have been proposed, but one of the areas where most of them …
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Neuropharmacological Mechanisms Underlying Incentive Salience and Stress
… associated with the attribution of incentive salience to salient stimuli. Using in vivo microdialysis, we assessed the role of nucleus accumbens (NAc) DA transmission in mediating conditioned approach behavior for food reward, and established that stress exposure blunts NAc DA response to …
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
This thesis explores the salience of medical culture in the Upper Amazon region of Ecuador. In particular, it will focus on the Quichua community of Venecia Derecha. The framework for this thesis is based on Murray Last's (1981,1992) concept of "medical culture," which he uses for all things …
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TSPOONS: Tracking Salience Profiles of Online News Stories
… quantitatively measuring the importance, or salience, of news stories as well as quantifying the impact of these stories over time.</p>
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Salience and congregational growth : revisiting the strictness thesis.
… Instead, growth is contingent upon an issue's salience.
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Somatic salience and sensory precision in persistent depression
… estimate the group-level sensory precision and salience parameters of a predictive processing model of precision optimization. The results suggest that sensory precision is attenuated in persistent depression across sensory modalities, and that this attenuation results from disturbances of …
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Anticipated Life Role Salience and Career Decision-Making Difficulties
… The present study sought to investigate how the salience of different life roles may factor into the level of career decision-making difficulty (CDMD) experienced by undergraduate students. A sample of undergraduate students (N=300) participated in an online survey reporting information about …
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Group membership salience, social dominance orientation and task performance
… on the relationship between group membership salience and task performance.
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Stakeholder salience influence on bureaucratic program enterprise value creation
… new framework seeks to incorporate stakeholder salience and its dynamic influence on value creation as an endogenous factor in the context of the bureaucratic program enterprise of DOD acquisition. This work not only proposes an intermediate level theory but also provides insights for policy …
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The salience of gender in the assessment of job candidates
Status Characteristics theory predicts that gender will become salient and activate different performance expectations for men and women in situations where either (1) performers are in a mixed-sex group or (2) gender is explicitly linked to the task at hand, or (3) both. This prediction has been …
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Essays on Salience in Coordination Games: Gender, Punishment and Communication
The issue of coordination is one that has received significant attention in the experimental literature. In this thesis I delve deeper into this by combining and exploring a number of issues from the literature in economics and the social sciences in the context of coordination games. More …
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Cultural Identity Salience, Individuation, and Life Satisfaction in Emerging Adulthood
… among the cultural identity domains salience with the features of individuation and life satisfaction. Emerging adults who attend college were revealed to have higher life satisfaction than those who have never attended college. No differences were found between early emerging …
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Assessing stakeholder salience through the view of lean enterprise transformation
… The thesis adds to insights on stakeholder salience, in a Lean enterprise context, that may be generalized to the aerospace and defense industry. The findings are significant to the aerospace industry's ability to optimize value creation.
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Attachment Anxiety and Condom Use: the Moderating Influence of Rejection-Salience
… to examine how attachment anxiety and rejection-salience interacted to influence condom use intentions and beliefs. I manipulated rejection-salience specific to a sexual encounter (Study 1) and rejection-salience in general (Studies 2 and 3). I hypothesized that among women who were high in …
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults
… has also been extended to inducing mortality salience, such that specific behaviors emerge in response to thinking about one’s own death. Two theories, socioemotional selectivity theory and terror management theory, hypothesize how individuals cope with thoughts about the end of life. The …
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Configural Displays: The effects of salience on multi-level data extraction
… divided attention task However, due to the salience of emergent features, a potential performance costs to focused attention tasks arises with configural displays. To address this cost, semantic mapping has been used to map salience techniques to information needed by focus attention tasks …
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