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The present danger
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Police perception of danger
… has highlighted the relationship between danger, stress, and the well-being of police officers. Still, gaps remain in understanding officers' perceptions of danger. This study addresses these gaps by exploring the concept of subjective danger perception, a cognitive and emotional response …
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An economic and moral danger
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Danger Lies Everywhere and Waits for Us.” Cape Town Metro EMS Ambulance Personnel's Experiences of Risk, Danger and Fear
… EMS ambulance personnel's experiences of risk, danger and fear associated with crime while performing service calls, and how these experiences shape the delivery of prehospital services. Methods: This study utilised a qualitative research approach to explore Cape Town Metro EMS ambulance …
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Experiences and perceptions of danger among urban adolescents
… adolescents' perceptions and experiences of danger in their neighborhoods within the stress-coping paradigm of Lazarus and Folkman (1984). The study focused around two primary goals, the first of which was to describe inner-city adolescents' experiences of violence, perceptions of danger and …
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Dealing with danger : threat perception and policy preferences
… a unified approach to studying the space of danger-mitigating political behaviors. It is designed to demonstrate that a single psychological model can apply to both citizens and elites and in both domestic and foreign policy issue areas. The first paper develops Threat-Heuristic Theory, a new …
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Wild American crows use funerals to learn about danger
… Wild American crows use funerals to learn about danger Kaeli Swift Chair of Supervisory Committee: Dr. John Marzluff School of Environmental and Forest Sciences While a growing number of animals demonstrate seemingly ritualistic behaviors around the death or body of a conspecific, the …
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Danger-zone tourism: Emotional performances in Jordan and Palestine
This thesis discusses danger-zone tourism in Jordan and Palestine. It explores emotional performances in tourist places of ongoing socio-political conflict. I bring together dark tourism, emotional, affectual and sensuous geographies as well as psychoanalytic theories on the death drive to examine …
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Danger appraisals as prospective predictors of disgust and avoidance
… regressions demonstrated that prospective danger appraisals significantly predicted both disgust and avoidance on the BAT, even when controlling for neuroticism, disgust sensitivity, and OCD symptoms. In contrast, looming germ spread appraisals and responsibility appraisals were not …
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Sphingomyelin as a danger signal in cell-autonomous immunity
… exposed to the cytosol where they act as a danger signal and are detected by the cytosolic danger receptor, Galectin 8. My research reveals that sphingomyelin, a host lipid predominantly located on the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane, is exposed to the cytosol on damaged BCVs. I …
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The Dendritic Cell Response to Exogenous and Endogenous Danger Signals
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is complex autoimmune disease in which autoantibodies form against double stranded DNA (dsDNA) and nuclear antigens. Autoantigen immune complexes form, deposit in the vasculature, and cause multisystem organ damage. Both genetic and environmental factors …
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Laughing in the Wrong Places: Daniel Clowes and the Danger of Nostalgia
<p>This essay explores the relationship between art objects and our past, narrowing in on nostalgia as a malevolent force in American culture that will lead to its eventual downfall. Focusing on Daniel Clowes’ latest graphic novel <em>Monica </em>as a case study, I demonstrate how graphic stories …
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Constructing Narcoterrorism as Danger: Afghanistan and the Politics of Security and Representation
Afghanistan has become a country synonymous with danger. Discourses of narcotics, terrorism, and narcoterrorism have come to define the country and the current conflict. However, despite the prevalence of these dangers globally, they are seldom treated as political representations. This project …
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Subversive Threat: the Danger of Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation to Western Security
Propaganda has long been used as a supplement to military and diplomatic influence as an instrument to support policy. Propaganda, disinformation, and deception were particularly important tools of the Soviet Union in international relations. This thesis examines how propaganda is often used and …
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The Danger Of ‘no’: Rejection Violence, Toxic Masculinity And Violence Against Women
<p>This study illuminates the relationship between toxic masculinity and rejection violence, here defined as instances where men react violently toward women who reject their expressions of romantic or sexual interest. It begins with an analysis of the definition and construction of toxic …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… of Susanna functioned as warnings against the dangerous ef fects of seeing seductive imagery.</p> <p>As evidence for this assertion, I survey a selection of admonitory sixteenth-century texts which describe and denounce the alleged dangers of sight, and reveal the analogous function of prints …
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Risk management unveiling and taming danger : exploratory search embedded in legitimating routines
This paper explores how contemporary organizations manage inherent tensions between productivity and legitimacy in the context of the "risk society." Interviews with executives in large organizations across a range of industries reveal that many risk managers echo this tension within their own work …
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Knowledge and Perception of Women towards danger signs in pregnancy in Choma District
… may experience signs and symptoms which signal danger. Danger signs in pregnancy are those signs that a pregnant woman will see, or those symptoms that she will feel which indicate that something is going wrong with her or with the pregnancy. Recognition of danger signs in pregnancy by pregnant …
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Knowledge and Perception of Women towards danger signs in pregnancy in Choma District
… may experience signs and symptoms which signal danger. Danger signs in pregnancy are those signs that a pregnant woman will see, or those symptoms that she will feel which indicate that something is going wrong with her or with the pregnancy. Recognition of danger signs in pregnancy by pregnant …
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