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Dangerous predictions: evaluation methods for and consequences of predicting dangerous behavior
… examined. A detailed history of predicting dangerous and violent behavior is also given. As a final conclusion, great caution should be exercised when predicting outcomes with serious social justice consequences.
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Dangerous women, dangerous times: Women at the Nevada State Prison, 1890-1930
This work examines the treatment Nevada's female prisoners received from Nevada's press, courts, and the Nevada State Prison from 1890 to 1930. It argues that gender perspectives held by Nevada's criminal justice officials caused them to treat female criminals both benevolently and harshly. This …
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Systems analysis: a powerful but dangerous weapon
The National Security Act of 1947, providing for the unification of the armed forces of the United States under a Secretary of Defense, initiated a series of reforms culminating with the installation of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting Concept in 1961 by Robert S. McNamara. ith budgetary control, …
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Dangerous diasporas : émigré nationalism and ethnic violence
The number of exceptionally brutal ethnic confrontations that followed the end of the Cold War brought with them question of diaspora contributions to violence. The unwritten assumption was that diaspora compatriots were natural allies, sharing a strong sense of nationalism and standing at the …
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Drawing driver's attention to potentially dangerous objects
… often have difficulties noticing potentially dangerous objects due to weather or lighting conditions or when their field of view is restricted. This thesis presents a display method for potentially dangerous objects to assist drivers in noticing dangerous situations. The object segment is …
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A dangerous message: the material effects of Enough
Domestic violence is a cultural epidemic in U.S. society. How we define, perceive, and treat domestic violence is a product of the material rhetorics about it. Since film is a prominent mode of rhetorical discourse, I examine how the issue of domestic violence is represented in the 2002 film …
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GENETIC REQUIREMENTS OF DANGEROUS MIX AUTOIMMUNITY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA
… necrosis, it has been successful in identifying DANGEROUS MIX (DM) genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, consisting of two incompatible immune components originating from each parent. In my thesis, I utilize the autoimmunity-causing DM pairs to study the mechanism of immune signaling activation and …
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Dangerous neighborhoods: Threats and opportunities from nearby civil wars
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2019-11-26 without embargo terms
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Protection from Dangerous Emotions: Interruption of Emotional Experience in Psychotherapy
… was crowned by a core category Protection from Dangerous Emotions. Results: Models of performance and subjective experience of SIE were conceptualized, compared, and integrated. A final integrative process model of SIE was proposed. In this model, it was explained that SIE occurred when the …
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Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy
<p><em>Emerging Genres, Dangerous Classifications: The Kairos of Digital Composing Policy</em> argues that writing policy infrastructure plays a significant (if often invisible) role in affording emerging digital genres in rhetoric and composition. Within the last few decades, the accelerating …
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Bystander Behavior: Understanding Undergraduate Male Involvement in Dangerous Drinking Situations
… male college student bystanders involved in dangerous drinking situations intervene and to what extent information and training in specific bystander skills improves their likelihood to be effective, engaged bystanders. Many germane themes emerge in this study, including: a priority for …
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"With ""homage and outrage"": Man Ray and the dangerous woman"
One of the most striking aspects of Man Ray's oeuvre is the artist's fascination with the unmediated female presence and his need to manipulate and control its image. To him, male and female interaction meant conflict and confrontation, and he often used game metaphors and Sadian imagery to express …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… and effeminate male – paints a picture of dangerous men encircling the heroine. Yet, the intellectual lover, Glenmurray, is most harmful in his ambiguous, misleading self-representation and his inability to protect the heroine. I situate Opie’s novel as part of a larger conversation in the …
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Ornament is dangerous : a wildfire hazard center for Los Angeles
There is no such thing as an unadorned building. While the the role and relevance of ornament in architecture has been criticized for centuries, its position has been, for the most part, supported as essential to architecture. In his seminal work On the Art of Building in Ten Books, Alberti wrote, …
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Between Fiction and Documentary: Dangerous Liaisons and the Self-Reflexive Film
<p>As the two primary modes of filmic representation, fiction and documentary have long been separated by their distinct associations with subjectivity and objectivity respectively. Documentary film, with its ties to lived reality, has been especially hampered by a too direct connection with …
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Remembering Rose Macaulay: Exploring Dangerous Ages and the World My Wilderness
… women writing between WWI and WWII. Her novels Dangerous Ages and The World My Wilderness reveal important information about women's struggle to obtain an identity outside of the home, in the work force, and in society in general, as well as key information regarding women's relationships with …
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Validity and Reliability Assessment of a Dangerous Driving Self-Report Measure
The Dula Dangerous Driving Index (DDDI) was created to measure drivers' self-reported propensity to drive dangerously (Dula & Ballard, in press). In the early stages of development, the DDDI and each of its subscales (Dangerous Driving Total, Aggressive Driving, Negative Emotional Driving, and …
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Nothing changes : dangerous childhoods and the 'unprotecting' of children in Western Australia
The problem under investigation in this project is the apparent continuity in the social, cultural and historical acceptance of dominant claims to truth which position children as variously vulnerable, dependent and passive social actors-in-waiting: constructions which produce limitations in the …
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