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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"distort"”.
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Smartphone Screen Time: Self-reported estimates are inaccurate because mobile devices distort time perception
… research suggests they might facilitate time distortion. To test whether time spent using a smartphone will feel shorter while time without it will feel longer, we assigned participants (N = 55; 18–25 years) to either a Smartphone Present or a Smartphone Absent condition and then had them wait …
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The Predictive Accuracy of Conscientiousness when Responses are Dissimulated: Does Self-Consistency Matter?
… from situational causes of motivation to distort item responses. In particular, I investigated whether differences in the motivation to distort item responses interacted with self-consistency in the prediction of performance on a clerical task. Findings suggested that despite range …
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Price distortions in the commodity futures markets
… as to which types of speculation can distort commodity futures prices and the mechanisms for how a price distortion may occur. This thesis advances three distinct categories of speculative activities alleged to distort commodity prices and reviews evidence for each. Those three …
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The effect of response distortion on the accuracy of predictive inferences of personality inventories
… indicate that subjects could successfully distort their responses on all scales. Depending on the scale characteristics, faking could both reduce as well as increase scale variability and reliability. People who are highly intelligent did not distort their responses any better than people …
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Three essays on the impacts of income taxes
… taxes and occupational choices. Just as taxes distort the labor-leisure decision, they also distort the wage-amenity decision. Few papers have isolated this effect. This chapter introduces a two-step estimation strategy to isolate the elasticity of occupation choice with respect to tax rates, …
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Defamiliarising the Familiar: The Distorted Body in Photography
… this practice-based research investigates visual distortions of the human body through the application of techniques available to photography within a studio environment. Despite an understanding of the motivations and contextual reasoning for why surrealist and contemporary photographers distort …
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Assimilation and contrast, and order of presentation effects on attitudes toward advertising
… predicted two directions how people will distort their judgments: One is that they assimilate their judgement and believe that the two ads are more similar to each other when they saw two ads in a row than when they rate them individually (e.g., Girgus & Coren, 1982; Hovland & Sherif, …
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Contingency fees and incentives in commercial lines insurance
… and profitability targets with an insurer, distort the broker's sales behavior. The analysis uses data on policies written through a privately-held insurance broker in Arizona from 1994 to 2000. I am able to identify the effect of contingency fees because individual agents working at the …
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Tracking algorithms under boundary layer effects for free-space optical communications
… airflow at the boundary layer can greatly distort the optical beam. A model of the communication link is created to compare the performance of several tracking algorithms. We investigate the best algorithm under various atmospheric conditions and signal-to-noise ratios.
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Market and bargaining approaches to nonpoint source pollution abatement problems
… the presence of imperfect information will not distort the level of discharges from the socially desirable quantity provided contracts between landowners are correctly specified.
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Long Agricultural Futures Price Series: ARCH, Long Memory, or Chaos Processes
… study since it has been found that they can distort potential chaotic structures in the data. The typical chaos analysis must start with constructing the phase space, and the parameters of phase should be specified carefully.
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Characterization of acoustic head-related transfer functions for nearby sources
… to decrease ILD, cause comb-filtering, and to distort and add frequency-to-frequency variations to acoustic cues. These affects were most pronounced in room positions with the most reverberant energy.
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Effects of shear deformations on the vibrational frequencies of wide-flanged structures
… thus, cross-sections of the beam are allowed to distort instead of remaining plane sections. The effect of relative flange bending (bending of the flanges relative to the web) is also included and the integro-differential equations appropriate to the problem are derived. The frequency equation is …
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Gravitational Lensing and Telescope Aberrations
… Telescope astigmatism, coma, and trefoil distort stellar images in much the same way that gravitational shear and flexion distort galaxy images. In this chapter, I derive simple models for lensed galaxies and for aberrated PSFs, and convolve the two models to determine the analytic form …
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Modeling the chemical and photophysical properties of gold complexes.
… planar geometry. Doublet AuIIL3 complexes distort to T-shape, and are thus ground state models of the corresponding triplet AuIL3. The disproportionation of AuIIL3 to AuIL3 and AuIIIL3 is endothermic for all ligands investigated, however, σ-donors are better experimental targets for AuII …
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Alignment and actuation of compliant nanostructures and diffractive optics by inter-nanomagnet forces
… the ability of different types of nanomagnets to distort several types of structures in two different cases. In the first, this method is applied for precise self-alignment of nanomembranes with applications in three-dimensional nanostructures manufacturing as well as distortion and patterning …
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An aesthetic analysis of The Confidence-Man
… Manichaean conflicts. However, this view can distort The Confidence Man, for though the novel builds on the clash of art and reality, it nonetheless establishes regularities in their relationship: Art makes life comprehensible by removing practicalities and focusing instead on elements that …
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Representacion realista o vision personal? Analisis de la objetividad de 'Los de abajo' de Mariano Azuela
… ideologies in his writings, he didn't distort reality or denigrate the revolution and its participants. The weakness and impractical nature of the intellectuals in the novel are common problems among intellectual revolutionaries of that time. The behavior of the peasants in Los de abajo …
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In Flux
… or reemerge, reflecting how memories surface, distort, or disappear.</p> <p>Through this layered process, the work intertwines personal narrative with broader questions of how time is felt rather than measured. The paintings act as both material records and emotional markers, using abstraction …
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The Euthanasia Debate: International Experience and Canadian Policy Proposals
… attention to how words, when used loosely, can distort reality in this matter. Historical experience from other jurisdictions is presented to provide a context for this discussion. A "slippery slope" argument emerges via the claim that, in practice and in principle, euthanasia can neither be …
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