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Showing 1 to 20 of 756 for “"certainty"”.
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Emotional Certainty and Health Communications
… might perturb their sense of security. I propose certainty appraisal as an important emotional dimension that affects health message processing and persuasion. Specifically, I suggest that emotions high on certainty appraisal can provide confidence to cope with the insecurity instigated by …
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Communicating the Certainty of Data Cartographically
… degrees of reliability. This is unavoidable as uncertainty is inherent in information.</p> <p>While the literature acknowledges the importance of communicating uncertainty through visualization, there is little agreement regarding best practices. A review of the geographic literature was conducted …
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Attitude Certainty is a Subjective Feeling State: Misattributions of Emotion Decoding Affect Attitude Certainty and Response to Persuasion
This experiment provides evidence that certainty appraisals arising from the process of decoding the emotions of social targets may be misattributed to attitude certainty (AC) and that this AC has the same consequences as AC arising from established antecedents, particularly with response to …
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(In)visibility and missing persons: Desperately seeking certainty
This thesis is an exploration of (in)visibility and missing persons, specifically the impact of the police response to reports of missing persons and subsequent investigations into the disappearance of people. The literature review builds on a review of harm and missing persons in which …
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ASPIRING LITERACY SPECIALISTS' (UN)CERTAINTY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
… and people at an important life transition. (Un)certainty, with parentheses, represents individuals' simultaneous uncertainty and certainty. Participants seemed to be figuring out who they were and where they fit within these groups. Most participants were uncertain about how their affiliations …
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Men's friendships as social justice: negotiating masculinities and certainty
… increased the informants’ perceived levels of certainty in interactions that allowed them to negotiate masculinity expectations through a wider range of inclusive behaviors. Inclusive masculinity and relational uncertainty emerged as useful frames for exploring men’s friendships as sites of …
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Land use planning mandates: a quest for legal certainty
This thesis focuses on the lack of legal certainty with regard to the exercise of planning law mandates of the respective spheres of government in South Africa. An attempt is made to uncover the reasons for the lack of legal certainty by looking at the pre-1994 planning regime and the regulatory …
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Measuring self-worth and certainty of punishment in prison populations
… a link between the variables of self-worth and certainty of punishment. The focus of this work centers around the administration of a questionnaire to inmates of four penal institutions (n = 219). The sites visited were the Stewart-Mojave Detention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Southern …
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The Degree of Certainty System in Written Spanish in Mexico
<p>Practitioners in threat assessment have considered direct threats as being high-level threats of future violence (O'Toole 2000: 9), but empirical studies testing the predictive validity of direct threats have contradicted this intuition (Dietz, Matthews, Martell et al. 1991; Smith 2006). Studies …
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Investors’ valuation of tax certainty: Evidence from tax policy guidance
… Although Treasury Regulations increase tax certainty because they have the full force of law, it is unclear how investors will react to such guidance. On the one hand, tax regulations can reduce firms’ risk of future audits and penalties by clarifying interpretations and procedures of tax …
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Direct verification of nuclear weapons and the secrecy-certainty spectrum
… within DVNW. Narratives that frame secrecy and certainty as direct trade-offs appear to have developed in the United States with Field Test 34 and continue to generate an underlying skepticism towards any approaches that attempt to reconcile the aims of direct weapons verification..
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Affect and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Non-Representational in Ethnographic Depiction
The experimental 19-minute film is a type of realistic documentary and ethnographic depiction of Vancouver B.C. The film aims to explore how sound shapes affect in film and involves not employing two very effective and reliable cinematic techniques: the close-up of a face and the use of music. …
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Questioning certainty : cross-cultural experiences of the Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration has a reputation for enhancing management careers. This thesis examines contrasting perspectives on the way in which it is perceived. Such contrasting perspectives provided a way to examine and analyse the values evoked through the MBA experience. The thesis …
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Self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectation correlates of college students' intention certainty
… and Outcome Expectations and Intention Certainty. Intention Certainty is a new variable created for this study and comprised of existing conceptions of intention and decision certainty. The purpose of this study was fourfold. This study attempted to expand our understanding of the …
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Reasoning with imprecise trade-offs in decision making under certainty and uncertainty
… of making decisions. For decision making under certainty, we consider the framework of multiobjective constraint optimization and focus on extending the algorithms to solve these models to the case where there are additional trade-offs. We focus especially on branch-and-bound algorithms that use …
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Analysing the One Certainty that Rules Us All: Trade (and Economic) Policy Uncertainty
My PhD thesis consists of 4 papers that analyse uncertainty, specifically trade policy uncertainty, by examining its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade …
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The Anatomy of a Controlling Message and the Impact of Reactance on Attitude Certainty
… the relationship between reactance and attitude certainty. Three studies were conducted to a) test the interplay between varying levels of explicitness and dominance in persuasive messages and b) to examine how the experience of reactance impacts attitude certainty toward the topic of a message. …
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