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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"conflicting information"”.
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Dealing with Uncertainty and Conflicting Information in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
… a study is made regarding dealing with conflicting information, and how devices can cope with data that may overlap or even conflict with each other through a localized protocol. Specifically, this dissertation looks at the impact of transient and permanent failures on the accuracy of …
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Knowing Who to Trust and What to Believe in the Presence of Conflicting Information
"The Information Age has created an increasing abundance of data and has, thanks to the rise of the Internet, made that knowledge instantly available to humans and computers alike. This is not without caveats, however, as though we may read a document, ask an expert, or locate a fact nearly …
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EMBRACING THE DICHOTOMY: AMBIVALENCE, ATTITUDINAL STRENGTH, AND THEIR ROLE IN COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND PERSUASION AMID CONFLICTING INFORMATION
… news, and opinions, leading to widespread misinformation and public uncertainty. While extensive research addresses misinformation, it falls short of comprehensively understanding how people form judgments amidst conflicting information. Previous research on processing conflicting information …
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Decision making under conflictive uncertainty
… era, individuals are increasingly exposed to conflicting information. Such conflict can induce "conflictive uncertainty", a state of uncertainty about which information and source to trust. Conflictive uncertainty can impact emotions (e.g., frustration, distress), cognition (e.g., suspicion, …
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Decision making under conflictive uncertainty
… era, individuals are increasingly exposed to conflicting information. Such conflict can induce "conflictive uncertainty", a state of uncertainty about which information and source to trust. Conflictive uncertainty can impact emotions (e.g., frustration, distress), cognition (e.g., suspicion, …
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What do healthcare providers think of patients who use the Internet?: An exploratory study
… (i.e. cognitive and social). Adults who seek information on the Internet about their health conditions are becoming more common. Providers have been wary of patient information searches, fearing that, at worst, conflicting information may provoke confrontation and doubt and, at best, the …
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Cultural differences on placebo effects elicited by pharmaceutical ads
… propensity would influence their processing of conflicting information about drug effects contained in the ads. And I proposed that differential information processing would cause differences in people’s expectancies about the drugs’ effects. The hypotheses were not supported in the results. …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Communication and Coordination Effectiveness in Autonomous Reactive Multiagent Systems
… that direct communication with additional information content provides better completion results. Cost-benefit models show some conflicting information, indicating that the increased performance may not offset the additional cost of achieving that performance.
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EVERYONE IS DOING IT: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BODY-WORN CAMERAS BEYOND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
… community, there is a tremendous amount of conflicting information surrounding its efficacy. Neither the academic, nor civil liberty, nor law enforcement communities have examined the effectiveness of body-worn cameras in isolation or attempted to determine whether other police reforms …
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Uncertainty in Internet-Based Cancer News
… dimensions of uncertainty (i.e., too much information, too little information, ambiguous information, complex information, and conflicting information) was developed and reliably employed. A stratified random sample of cancer news articles was retrieved from CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Google News, …
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Communicating Risks: an Exploration of Uncertainty and Satisfaction in Dentist-Patient Interaction
… in three Midwestern dental offices to gather information on their perspective of a risk communication interaction involving the removal of the patient's teeth. In addition to open-ended questionnaires, observation of the interactions was used to record how the dentists and patients behaved …
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Transitioning from Open Bay to Private Room: The Impact on Neonatal Parent-Staff Communication
… widened the difference between the types of information parents desired versus what they actually received. Additional communication opportunities identified, in both the open bay and private room environment, include minimizing conflicting information, increasing parental engagement, and …
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The Effects of Serial Position, Evaluation Format, and Behavioral Isolate on Verbal and Nonverbal Clinical Cue Recognition and Performance Ratings
… well-documented serial position decrement for information occurring in the middle of a scenario. The results suggested that verbal and nonverbal cues appearing early or late in the scenario were generally more salient than those appearing mid-scenario, but observers were better able to …
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Development of a Theory-Informed Patient Decision Aid to Facilitate Consent to Genetic Testing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
… understanding of genetic testing, and receiving conflicting information from different healthcare providers. These challenges are exacerbated by the urgency guardians face in the NICU; guardians’ first exposure to genetic testing often occurs immediately before they are asked to decline or …
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Using a game template as a multimedia-based cognitive tool to facilitate novices' conceptual understanding of object-oriented programming
… with CSNüb. At the Tool Level, students received conflicting information, generally through multimedia-based feedback from the CSNüb, which placed students in states of disequilibrium. At the Interaction Level, students interacted with the CSNüb to resolve their disequilibrium through exploring …
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Interactions and epidemiology of nematode worm control in livestock
… and plants have a small body of research with conflicting information on how the treatments interact with one another. The current research shows the interaction between anthelmintic and plants to be positive for gastro-intestinal nematodes (chapter 2) and negative for ascarids (chapter 3), …
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The relationships of the laticaudine sea snakes (family elapidae genus laticuada)
… sea snakes, there is a considerable amount of conflicting information. It is suggested that this uncertain situation is best reflected in a classification which treats Laticaudinae, Hydrophiinae and Elapinae as equivalent subfamilies of the Elapidae.
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Authorizations, Prices, and Labeling Differences of Therapeutic Biologics Marketed in the United States and Saudi Arabia
… same medications in various countries will have conflicting information on drug labels.</p> <p>OBJECTIVES: This study compared the characteristics of therapeutic biologics authorization by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as of December 31, 2021. The …
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Communication between parents and nurses within neonatology: methodology development and preliminary results
… communication within neonatology has provided conflicting information depending on the methodology used. Two reasons for this may be that the majority of research has focused on one participant's perspective of communication and questions asked have tended to seek global responses to cover the …
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Predicting the Interaction Between Energy Saving Devices on Surface Ships
… or energy saving claim is made. Often there was conflicting information or unfounded claims of energy savings that had been made, so this literature review also involved comparing and analyzing sources. Two novel energy saving devices were explored: vortex generators and a morphing bow foil. A …
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