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Showing 1 to 20 of 477 for “"sensation"”.
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Sensation seeking and field of study
… correlation between the personality trait of sensation seeking and a student's field of study. The literature review shows the strong connection between both how personality can influence our career choice and how sensation seeking can affect multiple aspects of our lives. There were 117 Rowan …
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Interrelationships Between Sensation Seeking and Psychopathy
<p>Psychopathic and sensation seeking traits are often correlated; however, sensation seeking alone is not inherently pathological. This study seeks to investigate possible moderating variables between individuals who are high on sensation seeking but low on measures of psychopathic or antisocial …
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The Sensation Fiction of Wilkie Collins
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820923.pdf: 12187670 bytes, checksum: 72f6b357ce5a95265c87fde3a284f5bb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Beyond Scandal: Seeking Morality in Sensation Fiction
Contemporary critics condemned sensation novels on the grounds of excessive immorality. However, three of the most popular sensation novels display a pattern of increased social status as a reward for good behavior is common, clearly suggesting that notions about the genre as immoral are misguided. …
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Neural and Psychological Mechanisms of Oral Sensation
… taste information to the brain also carry chemosensations, thermal sensations and somatosensations. While a great deal is understood about oral chemo and thermal perception, this thesis focuses on the not fully recognised oral somatosensory processes. A substantial amount of movement occurs …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
Genital sensation sets out to review the practice of “cunt art” as a diverse range of feminist performative works that represent the female genitalia and questions whether vulvar works can disrupt the phallocentric models of exclusion, absence and lack. Working from a poststructuralist perspective …
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The import of the sensation of the abyss
This research argues the significance of the concept of the abyss as a means to understanding key contemporary ideas such as the self, identity, reflexivity, indeterminacy, ideology, radical doubt, lack, and xenophobia. Proposing the analysis of interpretations of the abyss as informative in …
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Peter Fuller, Modern Painters and the Sensation exhibition
… its editors and writers, and the exhibition Sensation: Young British Artist from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, and the trajectory of the magazine over the following years, reveals the changing relationships between agents within the art world, and their role in the …
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Measuring Physiological Responses to Sensation in Typical Adults
… the claim that those with over-responsivity to sensations are experiencing their environment differently than the typical population. Understanding more about sensory processing in adults may lead to increased recognition of the problem and more opportunities for intervention to increase …
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Motion sensation dependence on visual and vestibular cues
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Tactile sensation imaging system and algorithms for tumor detection
… In this research, we present a tactile sensation imaging system (TSIS) and algorithms which can be used for practical medical diagnostic experiments for measuring stiffness and geometry of tissue inclusion. The TSIS incorporates an optical waveguide sensing probe unit, a light source …
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Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
… forbid them from admitting the central role that sensation plays in the constitution of experience. This neglect is symptomatic of their tradition's suspicion toward sensation as an explanatory concept, a suspicion stemming from Kant's critique of empiricist metaphysics and Husserl's critique of …
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Information rate via vibro-tactile, two-dimensional "phantom" sensation.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1971.
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Development and evaluation of an electrocutaneous dynamic phantom sensation
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1981
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Sensation in psychotherapy through the lens of sensory integration theory
Sensory integration is the organisation of sensory input helping children and adults make sense of the environment (Ayres, 2005). Dysregulation in sensory processing can have developmental consequences affecting play, behaviour and learning (Ayres, 2005; Kranowitz, 2006; Walbam, 2014). As a …
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Sensation Seeking and a Real World Stressor: Endocrine and Physiological Effects
… mechanisms that mediate the process by which the sensation seeking trait culminates in behavior. We used the Sensation Seeking Scales to assess the SS trait in individuals who expressed a desire to skydive. We obtained measures of autonomic (heart rate) and endocrine (salivary cortisol) activity …
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
… Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction” explores the interactions between the shock of reading sensation fiction and the affective potential of the genre using Sara Ahmed’s definition of the killjoy and the affect alien. The sensation genre, as explained in its name, is …
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