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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"laypeople"”.
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Examining the role of race in plea decision-making for defense attorneys and laypeople
… advice. The racial biases of legal actors and laypeople may influence the advice they give to their clients or friends who are facing plea decisions. The current thesis examined the effects that racial biases have on plea decision making and recommendations. Study 1 explored the extent to which …
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Lay Theories and Attitudes About Psychopathy
… have the psychopathic label. And yet, jurors, or laypeople more broadly, do not have a thorough conception of psychopathy. Thus the goals of this research were to examine laypeople's understanding and attitudes about psychopathy, and to test if an educational experimental manipulation can improve …
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The Influence of Facial Parameters on Orthognathic Patient, Layperson and Clinician Perceived Attractiveness
… images shown in random order to 89 observers (74 laypeople; 15 clinicians), who ranked the images from most to least attractive.<br/>Part 2 (chapters 4-8): Assessing the influence of lower facial parameters on perceived attractiveness.<br/>Idealized facial images were created. Specific parameters …
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The Effect of Videogame Play on Robotic Surgery Skill Acquisition
… medical students, expert robotic surgeons, and "laypeople." The purpose of this study is to examine the hypothesis that video gamers acquire perceptual and psychomotor skills through video game play, similar to those used by robotic surgeons. Subjects completed a demographic questionnaire and …
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Influence of Bracket System on Smile Esthetics
… per system) were shown to 160 participants (100 laypeople and 60 orthodontists), who rated each smile from 1 (least esthetic) to 10 (most esthetic). RESULTS: Statistical analysis showed participants rated the Pitts™ system higher than MBT™ and Damon™ (P < .001). Female cases received higher …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
… problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. Examining 207 news articles flagged for fact-checking by Facebook algorithms, we compare accuracy ratings of three professional fact-checkers who researched each article to those of 1128 Americans from …
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Use of the Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniors with Limited Ability to Communicate-II (Pacslac-II) by People Who Are Not Health Professionals
… the two groups were compared. As expected, both laypeople and nurses were able to effectively differentiate painful from non-painful situations. Both groups were also able to discriminate between gradations of pain (i.e., baseline, mild, moderate, severe). Moreover, tool internal consistency was …
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Imagining a right to health: HIV/AIDS, subjectivities and notions of entitlement
… framework of reference by which Kenyan PLWHAs or laypeople more generally imagine and articulate their grievances and entitlements. Further, how the PLWHAs at the heart of this research incorporate human rights norms and how they attempt to reconcile the tensions and contradictions in these …
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O*NET or NOT? Adequacy of the O*NET system's rater and format choices
… teaching assistants and Secretaries) and 87 laypeople raters who have never worked in these occupations, rated 21 item-pairs (Importance and Level type questions) picked randomly from the 52 items on the original O*NET Ability questionnaire. Participants rated each of the 21 item-pairs three …
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Assessing and improving knowledge of medical decision-making capacity
… is recommended, it is not clear whether laypeople have sufficient knowledge to advocate for maximizing the autonomy of the person they assist. This study developed and evaluated a brief, computer-based intervention to increase knowledge about decision-making capacity, using a Solomon …
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De villkorligt frigivna : relationen mellan munkar och lekfolk i ett nutida Thailand
… northern and north-eastern Thailand, focuses on laypeople's demands on contemporary Thai Theravada sangha. In the aftermath of the economic breakdown in 1997, an intense discussion concerning the moral status of the sangha took place. The religious interests and demands clearly differ between …
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Learners' and Patients' Experiences of Disgust in Academic Medicine
… gaze towards these bodies as they develop from laypeople into professionals. I argue that while medical humanities curricula implemented into gross anatomy help students manage challenging personal feelings elicited by the corpse, taboos and silences during the clinical years prevent students …
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Zkušenosti běžné veřejnosti s poskytováním laické první pomoci
… and teachers. The findings indicate that laypeople most frequently encounter minor injuries, while truly life-threatening conditions are rare. For this reason, first aid training intentionally focuses on less frequent but time-critical situations such as unconsciousness, CPR, and severe …
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Praying the Passion: Laypeople's Participation in Medieval Liturgy and Devotion
It is often assumed that medieval laypeople did not understand or follow the Latin church services they routinely attended. This thesis re-examines the role of the laity in medieval devotions and argues that careful attention to manuscripts reveals multi-layered levels of understanding and …
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The Dividual Self: Ethno-Psychology, Idioms of Distress and Explanatory Models of Mental Illness in Karachi, Pakistan
… of mental health practitioners, patients and laypeople (N=30) in Karachi, Pakistan. We used a phenomenological approach to conduct 30 in-depth interviews followed by thematic analysis. The ethno-psychology revealed a sense of self that is ‘dividual’; composed of many parts (physical, mental, …
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"I Believe": The Credo in Music, 1300 to 1500
… liturgists, clergy, canon lawyers, and laypeople. The overarching goal is to contextualize the musical Credo by examining the Credo’s place in late medieval religious and devotional culture. The argument and conclusion of this dissertation is that the odd musical phenomena surrounding …
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When 1 in 200 is higher than 5 in 1000: the "1 in X effect" on the perceived probability of having a Down syndrome-affected child
… ratio format. Indeed, findings indicated, that laypeople’ subjective estimation of the same probability presented through a “1 in X” format (e.g., 1 in 200) and an “N in X*N” format (e.g., 5 in 1000) varied significantly and in a consistent way. In particular, a given probability was …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… the start of the U.S. Civil War, historians and laypeople alike have debated the causes and conduct of the war. Through the acceptance of the Confederate veterans memorial school the Lost Cause that led to reunification in the late nineteenth century, the memory of the Civil War and the actual …
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
… afterlife in order to understand the path which laypeople chose to attain salvation, so chapters on the Day of Judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory should be seen as the context for understanding the chapters on God, Mary and Jesus. The first chapters discusses the Day of Judgement, an event …
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