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De-/Constructing situations
… constructive and the destructive development of situations. During the last year, I experimented with the observation of circumstances and their subsequent de-/construction by entangling the planned with the contingent, the staged with the genuine, the immediate with the remote. Through …
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Situations and individuals
I argue that definite descriptions, pronouns and proper names share one common syntax and semantics, basically that of definite descriptions. E-type pronouns are argued to be definite articles that take NP complements elided in the phonology; referential and bound variable pronouns are analyzed as …
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Traits, States and Situations: Automatic Prediction of Personality and Situations from Actual Behavior
… on this property, we define the notion of social situations and propose a fully data-driven approach based on the Topic Modeling theory. The active situational characteristics that emerge from the model are interpreted according to their interrelation to the personality states fluctuations. We …
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Learned Helplessness in Social Situations
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820944.pdf: 4642116 bytes, checksum: ea3c57fc50027d75dabfe3f823f171d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Personal cinema in family crisis situations
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1979.
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Detection of critical driving situations in motorcycles
Motorcycles are statically unstable and only become stabilised in motion, as a result of an induced complex system of dynamic forces. The rapid advancements in computer information and electronic technologies have led to increased interest to address stability issues, hence improving motorcycle …
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Violent Imagery in Affiliation and Achievement Situations
… demonstrated that men tend to perceive danger in situations of affiliation while women tend to perceive danger in situations of achievement. Their study utilized responses to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures. Violent imagery in the responses was interpreted as indicating fear. The authors …
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Information quality and diverse information systems situations
… development, have been replaced by more diverse situations. These diverse situations include web interfaces, traditional client server and a mobile devices revolution. The aim of our research is to improve information quality assessment by catering for diverse information systems situations by …
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Predictors Of Perceiving Racism In Ambiguous Situations
The present study used a mixed-experimental analog design to examine 858 undergraduate students' reactions to a scenario depicting a store clerk being mildly rude to a customer. The ethnicity of the clerk and customer were manipulated. Results indicated that participants' beliefs regarding the …
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Stress in firefighters: situations, reactions and interactions
… in firefighters affected their reactions to situations they encountered at work. The first three studies used quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify those situations which firefighters found to be significant to them in terms of varying stressfulness. One of these studies sampled …
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A Decision Making Construct for Complex Situations
… for a construct for decision making in complex situations. A review of the literature on systems, complexity, and paradigms indicates that such a construct must be internally consistent with well-defined philosophical foundations and further that systems and complexity (as used in complex …
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UN Peacebuilding Efforts in Post-Conflict Situations
… and developing countries during post-conflict situations. This work defines and examines peacebuilding and development using data from the PBC, PBF, Polity IV, the Human Development Index Report, and other sources, including UN documents. Three case studies where chosen to evaluate the …
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Learning to Handle High -Risk Environmental Situations
… individuals who handle high-risk environmental situations. The three sub-dilemmas are: control versus autonomy; doing procedures versus innovating; handling environmental situations seen as relatively risky versus safe work. To resolve the complex dilemma it was found desirable to consider …
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Mass influx refugee situations: law and practice
… search of safety. How states respond to refugee situations is very important for the protection of refugee's rights. The international community has been able to draft some international conventions and treaties that provide for the protection of refugees. However, most are drafted in a manner …
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Investigating Organizational Counterproductivity: The Structurally Oppressive Situations Scale
… directed toward understanding the events and situations that precede perceptions of injustice. The primary goal of the present dissertation is to investigate the proposed construct of counterproductive working conditions as a potential antecedent to justice perceptions, and to evaluate how …
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The Coping Process in Response to Stressful Situations
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726688.pdf: 5596072 bytes, checksum: 2fea93dfac35b5bbfc6828e9fbc2e78a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The ethics of humanitarian aid in conflict situations
The plight of people suffering from the violence and deprivation of conflict attracts a great deal of aid. Such aid is often inspired by the thought that we have some responsibility to protect or assist innocent victims of war. However, this humanitarian response is vulnerable to abuse. Combatants …
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Plans for meeting disaster situations in the Philippines
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1953.
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Distributed dynamic resource allocation in multi-model situations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.
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