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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"dark side"”.
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The dark side of architecture
… - and pushingbeyond them, to explore realms outside of the common and the comforting todeepen and explore experiences, thedark side of architecturesearches for theedges, the margins of the accepted spaces of society and tries to transcend themin an attempt to find new experience and space …
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Fairy Tales: The Dark Side
… aspects, including historical and feminist considerations. The work of theorists such as Jack Zipes, Marina Warner, Andrea Dworkin, and Clarissa Pinkola Este̒s provided evidence of the relevance of fairy tales to the lives of contemporary women. Jones also researched two aspects of abuse faced …
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Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side
… the support from Eggers’ novel and various outside sources, I will work to prove that this weapon that we call technology harms more than it hurts, and though it has valuable resources to offer, we must be conscious of its impeding dark side.</p> <p><a title="">[1]</a> Atwood, Margaret. “When …
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Social Capital's Dark Side and Patriarchy in India
… placed on women's autonomy, revealing a darker side. Households which are well tied into their communities avail themselves to greater scrutiny and thus anticipate and react to the prescriptions of dominant, patriarchal norms. This study employs multivariate logistic and ordinal logistic …
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The Dark Side of Charismatic Leadership: A Social Exchange Perspective
<p>This dissertation focuses on a possible dark side of charismatic leadership and its behavioral consequences from a social exchange perspective. By revealing the positive correlations between charismatic leadership and the Dark Triad personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and …
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The Dark Side of Computer-Age Communications: Misguiding Our Way to Knowledge
<p>Computer-age modes of communication have evolved exponentially over the past fifty years since the installation of the first mainframe computer. Tools in the form of slide presentation software, Internet technology, online social networking sites and personal media have been conceived to expand …
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The Dark side of sport: athlete narratives on maltreatment in high performance environments.
… adult sport, which to date has had limited consideration within the sporting literature. The evidence suggests that elite adult athletes can experience maltreatment in high performance environments and such treatment has the potential to have long-term negative effects on athlete wellbeing and …
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The Rise of the Dark Side: Dark Pool Trading and the Two-Tiered Implication
… and public trading venues, creating a framework dark and light trading liquidity. Private or non-publicly visible liquidity is housed in dark venues while liquidity visible to the public sits in light locations. Light markets follow strict real-time public reporting requirements for trade volume …
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The Dark Side of the Eye: Towards Robust Deep Learning Models for Uveal Melanoma Screening
UM (Uveal Melanoma) is a rare but highly aggressive cancer, characterized by high metastatic risk and a poor prognosis if not treated in time. Early detection is challenging, as this lesion presents overlapping features with benign ones, which can lead to misdiagnosis. A late diagnosis often …
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The Dark Side of the American Dream: Individual Agency, Hard Work, and Public Mass Shootings
This project traces the origins and continuing existence of the American Dream. The American Dream refers to the belief that hard work will result in success and upward mobility for future generations. In other words, American culture views each individual as the master of their own destiny, …
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The Relationship between OCB, CWB, Job Crafting, Values, and Personality: The Dark Side of Job Crafting.
North Carolina State University Theses Psychology.
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Towards the Dark Side of Political Skill: Development and Validation of the Dark Political Skill Scale
… the present research, I develop and validate the Dark Political Skill Scale. Intended to supplement the existing Political Skill Inventory (PSI; Ferris et al., 2005), the Dark Political Skill Scale captures the more covert and deceptive side of political effectiveness in the workplace. Across …
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'Dark' side of the MOOC: Shedding light on the construction, culture and consequences of an emerging social movement
… of this thesis is its illumination of the ‘dark’, previously unexamined aspects of the MOOC movement: its construction, culture and consequences. In adopting a social constructionist perspective and a mixed methods approach, the thesis demonstrates how the MOOC movement is constructed …
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'Dark' side of the MOOC: Shedding light on the construction, culture and consequences of an emerging social movement
… of this thesis is its illumination of the ‘dark’, previously unexamined aspects of the MOOC movement: its construction, culture and consequences. In adopting a social constructionist perspective and a mixed methods approach, the thesis demonstrates how the MOOC movement is constructed …
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Exploring their dark side or death before DNF: Ultra-athletes motivation to compete in and complete ultra-distance races
Athletes undertaking ultra-distance races, especially in ultra-running, are a growing phenomenon. These events are frequently held over demanding terrain, such as mountains or deserts, and can involve many metres of vertical ascent as well as hundreds of kilometres. There is an expanding body of …
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Experienced high performance work system in the public healthcare sector: Conceptualisation, scale validation and examination of its “dark side"
Recently there has been considerable evidence that high performance work system (HPWS) has garnered scholarly interest in the public healthcare context. Despite this growing interest, there remain a number of gaps that need to be addressed. First, human resource (HR) scholars have criticised the …
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Missiles & misconceptions : why we know more about the dark side of the Moon than the depths of the ocean
Tens of billions of dollars are spent on manned and unmanned missions probing deeper into space, while 95% of Earth's oceans remain unexplored. The more intensive focus on space exploration is a historically recent phenomenon. For millennia until the mid-20th century, space and ocean exploration …
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