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Showing 1 to 20 of 5598 for “"Seeking"”.
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Seeking Tiresias
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Help-seeking helps: : help-seeking as a strategy for managing group image
… the proposition that group members use help-seeking as a strategic tool for managing and enhancing the ingroup’s image in the eyes of outgroups. The theoretical introduction outlines and assesses the history of helping-transaction research, beginning with the rich and multi-faceted work …
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Extensible information-seeking environments.
… allows searchers to customise their information-seeking environment and thereby lower the determinacy of the interface. On the other hand, to support general application development of user interfaces for information retrieval, including SketchTrieve, a user-interface architecture is implemented. …
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Determinants of Feedback-Seeking Behaviors
… to obtain feedback on the frequency of feedback-seeking behaviors (FSB). The design was a 2 (task difficulty) x 2 (goal value) x 2 (effort) x 3 (day) mixed model analysis of variance. Eighty undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of eight experimental conditions. Each participant played a …
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Gender Differences in Seeking Help
… at several factors that may prevent males from seeking help. First, males may be unaware of their problems as whole, specifically emotional and relational problems. Next, males often are afraid or unable to open up because they do not think in "emotions." Lastly, males are afraid to appear weak …
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Examining Social Support Seeking Online
… and mental well-being. However, the process of seeking social support is less well-understood than its outcomes. Specifically, research examining how people seek social support in natural settings is scarce. One natural setting increasingly used by people to seek support is the internet. In this …
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Distributed Newton-Seeking for Resource Allocation
… issue, model-free techniques such as Extremum-seeking control (ESC) have been developed that can accomplish the RTO task in the absence of any knowledge of the process dynamics and of the objective function. Using this optimization methodology, this thesis develops an approach to solve resource …
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KidsQuestions: Assisting Children’s Digital Information Seeking
… at supporting children’s digital information seeking. Children are known to have difficulties effectively using the information technologies that are available to them. We hypothesize that an interaction model specifically designed to align with the inquiry-based pedagogies common in education …
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Sensation seeking and field of study
… between the personality trait of sensation seeking and a student's field of study. The literature review shows the strong connection between both how personality can influence our career choice and how sensation seeking can affect multiple aspects of our lives. There were 117 Rowan …
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Multimodal Strategies of Host-Seeking Mosquitoes
… approaching and biting a person. Mosquito host-seeking behavior is thus a particularly fruitful model for studying multimodal integration because of its robustness, intricacy, and public health importance. Using tethered and free flight assays, we have teased apart responses to attractive visual …
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Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy
<p>Psychopathic and sensation seeking traits are often correlated; however, sensation seeking alone is not inherently pathological. This study seeks to investigate possible moderating variables between individuals who are high on sensation seeking but low on measures of psychopathic or antisocial …
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Seeking Christian enculturation among Vietnamese Evangelicals
… disciplines (versus theological ones) in seeking answers to the conundrum of Evangelicalism and ancestral worship. A key ancestral worship ritual is examined through ethnographic description as embodied ritual among a representative sampling of Southern Vietnamese in the Mekong Delta …
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Help-seeking for obsessions and compulsions
… help. Clinical observation suggests that help-seeking delay in OCD is substantial, averaging eleven years. A proliferation of research studies of non-OCD patient participants has arisen from the observation that some people in community settings have clinically significant obsessions and …
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Seeking sanctum, a space for healing
Bearing witness to domestic violence and the crippling nature of trauma drives the interest in designing healing spaces for women and children. A person of inspiration and countless similar stories have resulted in the dissertation topic of a sanctuary, for women and children, as a space of healing …
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Doctorate unemployment as rent-seeking behavior
… vary across disciplines). The theory of rent-seeking unemployment is then presented. When the academic wage exceeds the nonacademic wage, those gaining faculty positions receive rents; so some individual will refuse nonacademic jobs (accept unemployment) and search for rent-yielding academic …
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HIGH TRAIT MOTOR IMPULSIVITY IS AN ANTECEDENT TO COCAINE-SEEKING BUT NOT OXYCODONE-SEEKING BEHAVIOR IN RODENTS
… effects on trait motor impulsivity and drug-seeking behavior. We demonstrate that oxycodone- but not cocaine-abstinence altered trait motor impulsivity phenotypes. Additionally, motor impulsivity phenotypes predicted cocaine but not oxycodone drug-seeking. The findings presented here offer a …
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …
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