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Showing 1 to 20 of 183 for “"Turk"”.
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The Western image of Turks from the Middle Ages to the 21st century: the myth of 'terrible Turk' and 'lustful Turk'
The Western image of Turks is identified with two distinctive stereotypes: 'Terrible Turk' and 'Lustful Turk'. These stereotypical images are deeply rooted in the history of the Ottoman Empire and its encounters with Christian Europe. Because of their fear of being dominated by Islam, European …
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NARRATED TRAVEL AND RHETORICAL TROPES: PRODUCING "THE TURK" IN THE TRAVEL WRITING OF CYPRUS, 1955-2005
… I attend mostly to the representation of "the Turk" in this textual genre. An introductory chapter examines the rhetorical situation of the travel text of Cyprus, exploring rhetorical and critical concepts such as ethos, rhetoric as popular culture, and tropology; it also surveys the landscape …
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Sinch : searching intelligently on a mobile device
… are answered by human beings using Mechanical Turk, an online labor market for simple human computation tasks. Workers on Mechanical Turk can search for answers using their desktop browsers, free from the numerous shortcomings of browsing the internet on a small mobile device while in a …
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The criminalization of tattooing in Oklahoma : an application of Clegg's circuits of power
… the systems of power integrates Clegg (1997) and Turk (1969) to interpret the chronology of the criminalization and subsequent decriminalization of tattooing in the state Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma was of particular interest not only because it was the last state to decriminalize tattooing …
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A is for Other: Arabs, Race and Enslavement on the Early Modern English Stage
… used to describe Mohammedan-¬‐Ottoman-¬‐Turk-¬‐Moor-¬‐type identities, this paper moves away from readings of suchfiguresas Islamic-¬‐Othersand argues instead for an Arab identity: a racial otherness that categorises this figure,rather than a purely religious one. Considering …
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Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama
Portrayals of Turks in early modern cultural discourses resisted historical accuracy: Turks are represented as violent, lustful, barbaric, and despotic despite the existence of numerous seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman correspondence documents, in which Turks are often associated with wealth, …
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Comparative Study of the Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention and Coping Style on Angiogram Patients' Levels of Stress and Self-Efficacy
… after stress-innoculation (Meichenbaum & Turk, 1976; Turk, 1975), and control groups on observed and self-reported levels of anxiety with both male and female patients who experienced an invasive medical procedure for the first time. The experimental control and examination of the effect …
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Persuasiveness of text messages generated by machine learning language model
… and we designed an experiment in Mechanical Turk to compare these two versions of the algorithm. In this study, we first introduce an algorithm that is consisted mainly of two steps. First, the algorithm will convert an input text message to be more general at the level of sentence structure, …
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Trust in science is not the answer to conspiracies: It’s throwing water on a grease-fire
… In Experiment 1, we gave 148 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers articles varying on presence of scientific content and conspiratorial nature and measured their beliefs in the article. Participants high in trust in science were more likely to believe in the articles containing science and less likely …
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When Focusing on Differences Leads to Similar Perspectives: A Replication Study of Todd, Hanko, Galinsky, and Mussweiler (2011)
… German samples collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The project utilized the ‘Replication Recipe’ (Brandt et. al, 2014) to facilitate the replication process and set the conditions necessary for replication access. The replication was deemed inconclusive; possible explanations are discussed. …
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Effects of Online Brand Community on Value Creation Practices and Brand Loyalty: Mediating Effects of Community Loyalty
… Data were collected, using Amazon Mechanical Turk, from members of online brand communities. Data were analyzed through structural equations modeling using AMOS 20.
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"The alien within": Residual Catholicism and the emerging national identity of post-Reformation England
… figures of "otherness"---the Irishman, the Turk, and the Jew---in light of their common characteristic: their shared significance as coded figures of Catholicism. Ultimately, my dissertation unifies disparate conversations about race, religion, and politics in Early Modern Studies. Central …
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Medical data mining : improving information accessibility using online patient drug reviews
… comments collected with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Our findings show that patient-reported drug experiences have great potential to empower consumers to make more informed decisions about medical drugs, and our methods will be used to increase information accessibility for consumers.
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Political Cynicism: A Critical Re-Examination
… A study was conducted using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service and students at Wake Forest University to evaluate the scale. While the results made it difficult to disentangle political cynicism from related constructs like political trust and political alienation, they did confirm the reliability …
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Multimodal speech interfaces for map-based applications
… system is evaluated using Amazon Mechanical Turk and the vehicle- based system is analyzed through in-lab usability studies. Our experiments show encouraging results for multimodal speech adoption.
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"Hey, are you busy right now?" stressor appraisals of interruptions to workflow
… energy. Participants (N = 290 Amazon Mechanical Turk workers) read and responded to a series of interruption vignettes, appraising each scenario as a threat to personal resources, and evaluating an anticipated impact on their personal energy. Results from a repeated measures ANOVA indicated main …
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Online and Offline Identity Gaps: Cross-Contextual Predictors and Psychological Outcome
… were collected from 214 participants on Amazon M-Turk. A sequence of hypotheses was tested. A questionnaire used for measuring individuals’ online personal-enacted identity gap was generated.</p> <p>The result suggested individuals experience larger personal-enacted identity gap offline, which …
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Testing a Multi-Level Mediation Model of Workgroup Incivility: The Role of Civility Climate and Group Norms for Civility
… an online survey through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Results indicated that variables at all three levels (i.e., civility climate, group norms for civility, and individual characteristics) were related to one another and predictive of negative individual outcomes. Results also indicated …
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The Impact of Islamic Religiosity on Perceived Discrimination, Coping, and Psychological Outcomes
… on well-being. Through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, 875 participants met screening requirements and completed the online survey. Participants completed measures of discrimination (i.e., racial-ethnic, religious prejudice, and environmental prejudice), religious coping (i.e., positive religious …
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