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Backlash for gender atypicality
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Virtual measurement of backlash in industrial manipulators
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Adaptive Commanding of Control Moment Gyroscopes with Backlash
<p>The existence of backlash in mechanical systems provides significant challenges when attempting to control these systems to a high degree of precision. The imperfect meshing of gear or belt teeth deteriorates the performance of position controllers and tracking of small commands, producing …
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The development of a simple control system to correct backlash
The control of systems that exhibit backlash has historically been a challenge. In these systems, there are essentially two steady state characteristic response curves separated by a deadband zone. This thesis work is motivated by the desire to accurately control the position of an actuator stem …
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GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY
… confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social media phenomenon and …
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Pour Her a Double (Standard): Moral Backlash as a Response to Drinking Double Standards
… examine double standards and the resulting moral backlash: desire for social distance, moral exclusion, and unwillingness to behave prosocially. We hypothesized that the heavy-drinking female actor would receive more moral backlash than the other experimental groups. College students (N=225) were …
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Backboards and Backlash: The Experiences of Women's Intercollegiate Basketball Players Under Title IX, 1975-1992
Enacted as a provision of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, Title IX dramatically reshaped intercollegiate athletics opportunities for young women at American institutions of higher education. Yet, discrimination in intercollegiate athletics continued in the decades after the law went into …
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Beyond Backlash: Reducing Resistance and Generating Support in Response to Diversity Initiatives Through Opening Identity Tactics
… towards diversity initiatives can result in backlash, researchers have paid limited attention to how dominant social identity threat can be in service of support for diversity. This dissertation considers how identity exploration after dominant social identity threat can facilitate responses …
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Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives
… diversity initiatives can generate significant backlash, particularly among organizational members. The primary aim of this study is to investigate how narrative forms of diversity initiative messaging may attenuate backlash among organizational members compared to more traditional expository …
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Employee Perceptions of Managers Who Express Anger: Could a High Quality Relationship Buffer Women from Backlash?
… have the same buffering effect, as there is no backlash to buffer against. While results showed that female leaders who express anger received more negative ratings than male leaders who express anger, contrary to expectations, quality of relationship behaved as a `buffer' for both male and …
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A velocity regulated DC motor driven by an armature rectifier: effects of shaft twist and backlash
… the effects of twist in the load shaft and backlash in the gears on the stability of the velocity regulator. Velocity damping and friction were neglected in the analysis. It was discovered that the armature rectifier operating in discontinuous current presented stability problems which are …
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A CULTURAL BACKLASH ALL OVER EUROPE? INVESTIGATING THE LINK FROM VALUES TO VOTES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
… Ronald Inglehart in their theory of a "cultural backlash". But upon closer inspection, the argument is not persuasive. Norris and Inglehart's pathway to the renewed popularity of the far right in Western countries relies on a congruence of socially conservative and authoritarian attitudes that is …
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Electoral backlash against climate policy : a natural experiment on retrospective voting and local resistance to public policy
Retrospective voting studies typically examine policies where the public has common interests. By contrast, climate policy has broad public support but concentrated opposition in communities where costs are imposed. This spatial distribution of weak supporters and strong, local opponents mirrors …
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Vibration-Based Health Monitoring of Multiple-Stage Gear Train and Differential Planetary Transmission Involving Teeth Damage and Backlash Nonlinearity
… and non-linear contact mechanics simulation. Backlash between gear teeth which is essential to provide better lubrication on tooth surfaces and to eliminate interference is included as a defect and a necessary part of transmission design. The second section is dedicated to fixed axis power …
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The rise of populism within the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa: a theoretical case study of anti-establishment, economic inequalities and cultural backlash
… the EFF and economic inequalities and a cultural backlash makes our society fertile ground for a populist party. In this theoretical case study, international populism theory from especially Inglehart and Norris is applied to the local context to show why the aforementioned factors can explain the …
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Slip clutch design for position sensitive systems in marine environments
… induced positioning errors resulting from backlash inherent to its design. The backlash encountered is unavoidable when using the type of slip clutch selected, as it is with many of the slip clutches available to the machine designer. Slip clutches are available that have limited backlash, …
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A Comparison and Analysis of Immigration Waves in the United Kingdom
… to the UK. The aim is to see if a pattern of backlash toward immigration in the UK transcends time or circumstances. These circumstances are examined to see if there are any common threads; such as biased media reactions, economic circumstances or political manoeuvring that may have …
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Protest without repression : protest policing and nonviolent resistance in the US
… often identify violent repression, and ensuing backlash, as a key mechanism through which peaceful protests can successfully achieve political change. This view has been affirmed by a body of research showing that the violent repression of protest can raise awareness of and build support for the …
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Bystander stress: The effect of organizational tolerance of sexual harassment on victims' coworkers
… experienced negative job-related outcomes due to backlash stress, defined as stress resulting from an uncertainty regarding changing norms for interacting with women in the workplace and measured by the Backlash Stress scale, also developed in this study. Scale analyses were performed to determine …
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