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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"blind spots"”.
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Biases and Blind-Spots In Genome-Wide Crispr-Cas9 Knockout Screens
… these observations reveal significant biases and blind-spots in the analysis of CRISPR-based functional genomics approaches and offer new opportunities for the discovery of novel candidate drug targets.</p>
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The Menstrual Cycle in Psychotherapy: Interventions, Therapist Engagement, and Blind Spots
<p>There is a dearth of literature on psychotherapy and menstruation, except for the treatment and diagnosis of issues associated with premenstrual distress. This study aimed to bridge this gap by investigating the frequency and context of discussions about the menstrual cycle, the factors …
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Integrative therapists’ clinical experiences of personal blind spots: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… lived experience of recognising a personal blind spot in their therapeutic work. The five female participants aged between 42-60 years have between two and twenty years clinical experience. Each participant was interviewed on two separate occasions, with a period of one month between …
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Misjudging our Influence on Others: Blind Spots in Perceptions of Peer Use of Advice
… the impact of their advice? Or, do they possess blind spots that prevent them from doing so? I focus on whether advisors recognize the information they need in order to form judgments of the impact of their advice, which I call "impact judgments". Four studies demonstrate that advisors have blind …
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Unveiling a blind spot... a moment of truth. Psychotherapists’ lived experience of psychological blind spots and moments of self-awareness: findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry
… of moments of self-awareness and psychological blind spots by means of an exploratory qualitative study. The primary aim was to provide evocative descriptions of the phenomena together with an understanding of its implications, for psychotherapy research, training and clinical practice. …
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Motion tracking with computer vision
… but this technique carries the drawbacks of blind spots in the environment. Since the camera is placed directly above the robot, there are blind spots underneath the robot, which are a major problem. The idea is for the robot to work side-by-side to a human counterpart, which would allow for …
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Executive Effectiveness Profile Instrument Development and Validation
… loss of feedback can contribute to perceptual blind spots within the executives. Such blind spots and their ensuing negative consequences have been found to be a major cause of executive derailment. Despite the enormous value of feedback, there is a paucity of proven methodologies for providing …
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Effective Support Mechanisms for those in the Formative Stages of Middle Leadership: A Case Study in the Secondary Independent Education Sector
This study looks at two areas that have been 'blind spots' in the education discourse thus far: middle leadership and independent education. Using a case study method, 20 middle leaders and 5 senior leaders were interviewed over a 22 month period. The 750 items of data that emerged were then coded …
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A wireless method for monitoring medication compliance
… "electric eye" photosensor. Each mode exhibited blind spots or other failures to detect pill presence, but by combining modes with complementary characteristics, the accuracy of pill detection is greatly increased. Two methods of caregiver notification are demonstrated: text messages transmitted …
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Small Businesses Encounters with Information Technology
… reliance on these assumptions has resulted in blind spots, which have in turn led to deficiencies in our conceptualizations. I discuss these blind spots, some historical and methodological reasons behind them, and their theoretical implications (i.e., the perpetuation of the pro-innovation …
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Ethical selves and glass chains : a complex understanding of career experiences through the voices of British Pakistani women
… career experiences, revealed a number of blind spots. These blind spots were theoretical, methodological and empirical. I theorize for an approach that links structures that create intersecting identit(y)ies to organizations, and then further. I posit that as identities are under …
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… so, this study highlights possible flaws or blind spots in both moral panic theory and historiography, and brings new understanding to the media environment in which America's political traditions gestated. Brief connections are drawn between this historical information landscape and series …
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False presences: Fanon's reinforcement of the female subaltern
… texts, this thesis aims to locate where these blind spots exist and how they are facilitated by Fanon, while also acknowledging the potential for these exclusions to be accidental. The introduction provides a brief synopsis of Fanon's life and the colonial relations of his time, namely the …
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Unsupervised anomaly detection for the ATLAS Level-1 Trigger
… targets, reliance on models may create blind spots in the data. Searching these blind spots could potentially reveal new physics, a possibility that is especially compelling when considering the low-level data directly read out by the ATLAS detector. The detector collects far more data …
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A Novel Method for the Location of High Impedance Faults
… of a system, often leaving lateral branches as blind spots. To find the accurate distance to the fault in a lateral branches, a single ended fault location algorithm is proposed that uses synchronized voltage and current measurements from PMUs positioned along the trunk. Initially, a specific …
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The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider
… and, subsequently, are unaware of lurking blind spots. This process limits the kinds of knowledge these disciplinary ‘insiders' are exposed to, and I argue that it can lead to the occlusion of ethical considerations, hinder discovery and perpetuate negative aspects of the hegemonic Western …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… antiquity can reveal racial and historical blind spots within trans studies now: until recently, the field has largely overlooked the premodern invention of race. Lurid portraits of unsexed infants in Syria and pallid hermaphrodites in Turkey tell a far different story. Each chapter, then, …
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Articulated 3D Scene Graphs from Egocentric Vision
… fill in the gaps by remapping. We narrow these blind spots in current methods by leveraging egocentric data captured as a human naturally explores a scene wearing Project Aria glasses, giving a way to directly transfer knowledge about articulation from the human to any deployable robot. We …
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In Ordinary Trauma: Notes on Time
… domain of tangled time, flashbacks, repetitions, blind-spots and déjà vu. When creating a narrative, one can either choose to use the past or the present tense, so how might one narrate a life in which the past is still so alive in the present?</p> <p>I developed an methodology in response to …
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