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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"exaggerate"”.
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Essays in organizational economics
… private information, i.e. whether they herd or exaggerate their differences with the consensus. Applying the methodology to I/B/E/S analysts reveals that they do not herd as is often assumed, but rather they exaggerate their differences with the consensus by an average factor of about 2.4. …
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Political liberalism, social pluralism and group conflict
… the role of culture in a person's life, and exaggerate the propensity of group-specific claims to exacerbate conflict. Confusing religion with culture, they assign to religion the status of an all purpose good that liberals traditionally assign to income and wealth. While political liberals …
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Operative boundary : a series of exaggerated studies along the US-MEX border
… creating a series of case studies will exaggerate and insult the condition of border.
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Dance Music for Orchestra
… overture-like work. These movements are meant to exaggerate the energy and spirit of the Op. 46 and Op.72 Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvořák. This is achieved through intricate, polyrhythmic structures and harmonic quotation. The second dance of Dance Music for Orchestra transforms the harmonic …
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Reel women: gender stereotypes in film
… even though mainstream films tend to overly exaggerate female stereotypes in most genres of film.ree</p>
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Anxiety or advantage?: detecting malingered symptoms in college students seeking academic accommodations
… Concerns exist regarding the potential to exaggerate or fabricate anxiety symptoms. This study examined whether cognitive tasks can differentiate credible generalized anxiety from malingered anxiety among college students. Participants were classified into probable GAD, malingering anxiety, …
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CRAFTING THE FEVER
… I also explicate how I employ line breaks to exaggerate the multiplicity of lines, words and connotations. This collection works toward understanding and redefining the female experience and identity within a range of male dominated contexts and dangerous environments.</p>
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Serum Cholesterol of Young Cattle Grazing Bermudagrass and Fescue Pastures
… well as the vegetative stages of the forage, may exaggerate or mitigate any such effects. Blood samples were obtained from 453 F1 Angus (AA), Brahman (BB), and reciprocal-cross (AB and BA) progeny, as well as the original P1 Angus and Brahman dams. Blood samples from steers were collected as …
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The Eastern Shore of Virginia in the Civil War
… on the Eastern Shore [of Virginia]." Dix did not exaggerate when he implied that Accomac and Northampton County embodied secessionist sentiment on the Delmarva Peninsula in 1861. Dix knew that the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the most southern region of Delmarva, heavily influenced its neighbors to …
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National security panics : overestimating threats to national security
… 1950,1960, and 1980. Why did the U.S. markedly exaggerate the Soviet threat at these times? These periods of widespread public fear were "defining moments" when the US created confrontational and militarized containment policies. These panics ratcheted up the arms race tremendously between the …
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Data-driven Automatic Edge Sharpening
… viewers. We consider two parameters in order to exaggerate the differences between local intensities. The two parameters exploit local contrast and widths of edges. We start from the assumption that color, texture, or objects of focus such as faces affect the human perception of photographs. When …
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The Impact of Assertive Classroom Discipline on Social Skills
… 18% did not participate in gossip, 88% did not exaggerate accidental encounters and 75% of the students were helpful to their peers.
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Acute Cardiovascular Response to Low-Load Unilateral, Bilateral, and Alternating Resistance Exercise with Blood Flow Restriction in the Lower Body
… flow restriction (BFR) has been suggested to exaggerate the exercise pressor response over traditional non-BFR exercise. While applying BFR relative to an individual’s arterial occlusion pressure (AOP) and exercising at low-loads seems to produce a comparable cardiovascular response to …
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Essays on Asymmetric Information
… thereby reducing the need for doctors to exaggerate, and making each side better off by reducing miscommunication. We also resolve an open question in the partial delegation literature by showing that the equilibrium we examine is the most informative equilibrium.
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Integration and corporate investment
… and show that managers of integrated firms exaggerate the quality of their projects to get funding. Moreover, I show that the problem gets worse with increased integration and puts an endogenous limit on the amount of value-enhancing redistribution that can be achieved in an integrated firm. …
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A systems analysis of the Army's tactical evaluation process
… structure, and competition encourage units to exaggerate or inflate their tactical readiness reports. While this situation is widely recognized in the Army, the current evaluation system results in unreliable, and possibly inaccurate, outputs that are unusable for decision making. As a …
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Real estate investment in Taiwan : an examination of the recent opening of real estate markets to foreign entities
… in the real estate markets and further exaggerate value discrepancies between market sectors and geographical locations. As the formation of AMCs (Asset Management Corporations) will consolidate NPL's and thus further depress market value, the deeply discounted high quality properties in …
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Reading prostitution in American fiction, 1893-1917
… Wright Kauffman's The House of Bondage, (1910) exaggerate the threat of "white slavery," but others like David Graham Phillips's Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) more honestly depict the harsh conditions which caused many women to prostitute themselves for survival. Contemporary critical …
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Daydreams
… us to hide our faults, personify others and exaggerate truths.</p><p>I always find some kind of enjoyment reading through social networking and media sites because of the ability to assume a persona that is different than reality. One could, in fact, be, or make themselves into, anything. …
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Performance impact of ion sources in Inertial Electrostatic Confinement devices
… operation with an ion source serves to reliably exaggerate the anisotropy found in baseline campaigns.
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