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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"exaggeration"”.
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The effect of exaggeration of cartoons on the performance of field dependent learners
… in which field dependent learners could use the exaggeration of salient cues that are presented in cartoons to improve their learning. In general, the literature indicated that cartoons could affect the performance of students when they are used as supplemental education devices. Moreover, …
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Exaggerated male weaponry in New Zealand sheet-web spiders (Cambridgea)
… weapons as well as the implications of that exaggeration. Male New Zealand sheetweb spiders (Cambridgea spp.) possess chelicerae (jaws) which are significantly longer than those of conspecific females and these weapons are used by males in agonistic contests for access to potential mates. …
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Old age mortality in South Africa, 1985-2011
… often suffer from age misreporting - age exaggeration and digit preference. Also, censuses may under- or overestimate the population and registration of deaths is usually incomplete in developing countries (Dorrington, Moultrie and Timæus 2004). To avoid these problems, the research in …
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Essays on Asymmetric Information
… financial incentives for doctors lead to more exaggeration and hence more skepticism, thereby leading to even more exaggeration as the doctor tries to persuade the patient to accept treatment. Insurance makes patients worry less about paying for overtreatment, thereby reducing the need for …
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Enrico Dandolo: His Life, His Family, and His Venice Before the Fourth Crusade
It is no exaggeration to say that Enrico Dandolo was the most important doge in a millennium of Venetian history. Born in ca. 1107, Dandolo was the product of a proud but relatively new Venetian family that had devoted itself to commerce and service to the state. In his early years, Enrico lived …
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A Multi-Method Assessment Approach to the Detection of Malingered Pain: Association with the MMPI-2 Restructured Form
… the Response Bias Scale (RBS) to detect symptom exaggeration among litigants claiming chronic pain. Utilizing the Bianchini et al. (2005) multi-method criteria for Malingered Pain Related Disability (MPRD), patients were classified along a continuum ranging from incentive only to definite …
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Women's Higher Education, and Women's Employment in Saudi Arabia
… definition of modesty. The definition is an exaggeration of Islamic modesty and reduces women's public participation in general and women's employment in particular. This research attempts to answer the question: How could Saudi Arabia initiate a desirable model of women's employment which …
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Aspects of feminine mythology and related pictoral imagery as source for the development of a personal sculptural iconography
… fertility. This is mainly due to its formal exaggeration of, and emphasis on, the reproductive aspects of women's bodies. A second example is contained in the theories of Jungian psychologists who have recognised the feminine principle as embodied in the myths and pictorial imagery of what is …
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Adaptation of task-aware, communicative variance for motion control in social humanoid robotic applications
… humanoid robots was developed. Anticipation, exaggeration, and secondary motion were demonstrated as examples of communication. Spatiotemporal correspondence was presented as a metric for human-like motion, and the metric was used to both synthesize and evaluate motion. An algorithm for …
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Social Disruption in the Gothic Novels of Horace Walpole, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Jane Austen.
<p>The Gothic novel plays on the exaggeration of prescribed sex roles and uses various narrative techniques to produce a social commentary on gender politics and to illustrate the consequences of a destroyed social structure. Through the examination of the construct of the Gothic narrative and its …
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Old age mortality in South Africa
… the data are marred by errors in the form of age exaggeration, age digit preference, relative under/over count of the population and under-registration of deaths. These errors have been observed to have the net effect of underestimating mortality of the oldest old age groups. The current research …
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Biopsychosocial Factors in Chronic Spine-Related Pain: Contributions to Pain Intensity and Perceived Disability
… assessed in the context of a compensable injury, exaggeration of symptoms and disability was systematically controlled for using multiple validity indicators. A high prevalence of psychological complications was observed in the present sample. Analysis indicated that psychological factors were not …
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A study in the sociology of Islam
… phase of the human society, but it may not be an exaggeration to say that in the history of Islam it manifested itself in a very intensive form. In this thesis the attempt is made to discuss the reason for, and the development of, this peculiar aspect of Islam.
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Psychometric Properties of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) FBS-r, Fs, and RBS Scales in a Neuropsychological Setting
… FBS-r and Fs. Since the assessment of symptom exaggeration should be a multifactorial approach, incorporating these embedded measures of validity may provide additional information for neuropsychological assessments.</p>
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The secret smile: Mirth and humor in the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne
… his Mosses" and cultivated by the melodramatic exaggeration of Hawthorne himself, a thorough and unprejudiced reading of the tales and sketches reveals an abundance of humor and mirth; This study surveys the subtle humor evinced in many stories through the ironic voice of Hawthorne's narrator …
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Malingering of mild closed head injury sequelae with the neuropsychological symptom inventory : a study of the effect of prior knowledge
… Instead, both malingering groups reportedly used exaggeration and attempted to be consistent as frequent strategies.
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The Assessment of Malingering by Proxy in the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with the Conners 3
… Report Form’s ability to detect purposeful exaggeration of symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in an effort to obtain a diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This was accomplished by using a malingering simulation experimental design whereby a …
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Scotts of Greenock: shipbuilders and engineers, 1820-1920; a family enterprise
It would be an exaggeration to claim that the history of a great industry like shipbuilding in Britain, can be fully understood by concentrating on the history of only one of the many companies that contributed to the developers. However, Scotts of Greenock represent a case study that in many ways …
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A lakossági jelzáloghitel LGD meghatározásának módszertani lehetőségei Magyarországon = The methodological opportunities of quantifying the retail mortgage loan’s LGD in Hungary
… assessment of the banks on new bases. It is no exaggeration to state that it generated considerable changes on all risk-relevant areas of the activity of the credit institutions, concerning both the credit risk, the operational risk and the market risk. However, this thesis focus only on a …
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