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Showing 1 to 20 of 355 for “"judging"”.
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Judges’ Gender and Judging in China
… examines the effect of gender in the process of judging within the context of Chinese criminal justice system. Chapters two and three, which used quantitative research methods, examine whether female judges decide cases differently from their male colleagues, and whether the presence of a female …
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Judging essays : factors that influence markers
This thesis is an exploration of assessment with particular focus on the marking of essay assignments and the validity or soundness of that process.
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Judging Judges: The Impeachment of Federal Judiciary Members
There are many facets of impeachment that warrant examination. The impeachment inquiries of individual presidents and federal judges have all been studied in depth, but one aspect of impeachment still remains fundamentally unexplored: Under what circumstances will the House of Representatives vote …
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Age Differences in Judging the Frequency of Events.
It is generally recognized by layman and scientist alike that memory functioning decreases to some extent due to aging. Most of the available literature focuses on age changes in memory with respect to storage and retrieval deficits. However, a lack of evidence exists related to some of the more …
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Gender Differences in Judging the Severity of Traumatic Events
This study investigated whether there were differences between male and female college students' ratings of video topics regarding victims experiencing a dramatized traumatic event. The primary hypothesis was that female participants would rate the repercussions of the dramatized trauma as more …
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Judging the Bureaucrats: Understanding the Dynamics of Court-Agency Interaction
<p>The policy outputs resulting from the interaction between U.S. Courts of Appeals and federal administrative agencies impact the lives of thousands of individuals on a daily basis. Thus, understanding the factors that influence this process is important for both empirical and normative reasons. …
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The relation of observational to inferential accuracy in judging people
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Psychology, 1962
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Examining a comprehensive developmental sequence throughout the livestock judging experience
… the self-perceived influence of a livestock judging experience on skills learned and overall usefulness outside of competition at different ages and competitive levels. This study investigated two different areas of the participant's livestock judging experience; skills and stress. Also, this …
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
“Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology” argues Radcliffe’s first three novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), and The Romance of the Forest (1791), show a progression of feminist theology informed by the late eighteenth-century …
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Judging dread: A quantitative investigation of affect, psychometric dread and risk consequence
Risk is generally understood as a product of the likelihood and consequence of an event. However, the way in which estimations of consequences are formed is unclear due to the complexities of human perception. In particular, the influence of Affect, defined as positive or negative qualities …
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Are You Judging Me? Exploring Legitimacy Through the Lens of Black Travelers
In recent years, the focus on the Black travel market has increased exponentially. While some may consider this to be a new market segment, Black travelers have been in the travel industry for years, however their legitimacy as a viable market segment has been questionable. This dissertation uses a …
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The Act of Judging in Nigeria: A Matter of Interpretation and Judicial Discretion
… This doctrine has shaped the context of judging in Nigeria, especially as strict adherence to precedent somewhat impacts the use of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutes. Judging is not static and does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, judging should change over time and …
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The Influence of 4-H Judging Team Participation on Career Life Skills Development
… whether participation in WV 4-H agricultural judging teams impacted life skills development. This study measured the current life skill abilities of past 4-H state judging team winners from 1995 to 2006, determined their perception of the influence involvement on a judging team had on that …
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JUDGING CONTROL: WHEN CAN WE EXPECT EXPECTATIONS TO PREDICT JUDGMENTS? (CONTINGENCY, CONTRAST EFFECTS)
<p>Two experiments were conducted to test the predictive validity of a model put forth by Alloy and Tabachnik (1984) to account for judgments of contingency. The authors contend that such judgments can be accounted for by determining the interaction of information contributed by "one's …
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Judging by a Different Standard? Examining the Role of Rationality in Assessments of Mental Capacity
Decision-making capacity is an increasingly important medico-legal concept. The recent Mental Capacity Act employs a cognitive, process-based test of capacity, but in many psychiatric conditions pathological beliefs and values impair capacity even when the decision-making process is logically …
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Factors associated with the success of participants in the 1981 National FFA Livestock Judging Contest
… participated in the 1981 National FFA Livestock Judging Contest. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes of both the contestants and their advisors regarding the contest. The population consisted of 135 FFA members who competed in the contest in Kansas City, Missouri and …
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