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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"harmfulness"”.
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Assessing the effect of source code characteristics on changeability
… Source Code Issues, the extent of their harmfulness for maintenance remains unknown. One of the most studied Source Code Issue is cloning. Clones are duplicated code, usually created as programmers copy, paste, and customize existing source code. However, there is no agreement on the …
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Measuring Self-Reported Exercise, Motivation to Exercise, and Sexism in Women
The harmfulness and pervasiveness of benevolent sexism is not a well disseminated issue, despite the belief that women are treated with equality in today’s society. The current study was designed to investigate whether exercise type and motivation to exercise would predict participants’ …
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A content analysis of guilt appeals in animal welfare campaigns
… addition, most campaign posters tend to include harmfulness in their content. The statements of fact and victims are the most frequently expressed verbal and visual message, respectively. This study also found that components of guilt appeals are associated with different types of guilt. However, …
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(Not so) Silent Survivors: A Qualitative Intersectionality Study on Asian American Women Survivors of Sexual Violence
… well-being. Despite the well-documented harmfulness of sexual violence, there is a dearth of research examining sexual violence against Asian American women. This study sought to amplify the voices of Asian American women survivors and expose the impact of interlocking systems of …
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In situ investigation of electrochemical surface stress development in rechargeable batteries
… several challenges such as limited reserves and harmfulness to the environment due to the toxic materials released from current inorganic complexes. In contrast to the harmful current cathodes, organic cathode materials enable access to metal-free, environmentally benign rechargeable energy …
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Gambling participation among adult Basketball players in Iceland
… to educate basketball players about possible harmfulness of a regular gambling activity. Keywords: gambling in sports, problematic gambling, basketball, match fixing, risk factors
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SOCIAL SUPPORT IN RELATION TO PARTNER CONFLICT AND PARTNER VIOLENCE: VIEWPOINTS OF SUPPORT RECIPIENTS AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS
… limited the ability to determine the helpfulness/harmfulness of social support reactions. Future research is necessary to continue to investigate the types of social support that are considered helpful when disclosing conflict with a partner.
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Observational learning and pain-related fear
… unpleasantness, pain intensity, and perceived harmfulness regarding the CS+ compared to the CS- stimulus. These beliefs did, however, not always result in changes in behaviour or in changes in psychophysiological responses. Further research is needed to identify the conditions under which these …
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‘Violent Emotion’ and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, 1847–1895
… novels boldly reject existing discourses on the harmfulness of intense emotional experience. The second chapter brings attention to Eliot’s developing fascination with affective forms of relationship violence, thinking about the ways in which the semantics of trembling allow Eliot to systematise …
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Trapping Sets of Iterative Decoders for Quantum and Classical Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
… clearly reveals the dependence of the harmfulness of TSs (classical or quantum) on the iterative decoder, and thus on the error floor estimates. We present a computationally efficient method for estimating error floors of LDPC codes over the binary symmetric channel without any prior …
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The Development of Self-Perceptions of Aging: The Interplay Between Society and the Self Across the Lifespan
… embodiment theory has postulated that the harmfulness of negative aging stereotypes is more salient when one identifies as an older adult, Study 2 was the first to provide longitudinal evidence for the damaging association between older adult identification and self-perceptions of aging. …
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INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS FOR THE MITIGATION OF RISKS: CATALYSTS AND SMART MATERIALS FOR DETECTION AND DECONTAMINATION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES
… above all, the environment due to their strong harmfulness, persistence and recalcitrance. Consequently, there is a critical need for the development of innovative systems to mitigate the risks associated with these hazardous agents. This research spans several areas related to the mitigation of …