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Showing 1 to 20 of 4542 for “"subjective"”.
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Subjective-Objective-Subjective: The Science Of Propaganda
… final output is ultimately nonscientific, i.e. subjective creative ideation. (In this way, advertising is not dissimilar to the classic ‘art' of propaganda.) 2. That, for reasons of business necessity, creative ego and a latent form of ‘inferiority complex' the advertising industry describes its …
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Subjective modality
This dissertation focuses on subjective or epistemic readings of the modals 'might' and 'should' and considers how they fit into broader theories of modal vocabulary. Chapter 1, 'What the Future "Might" Brings', develops a puzzle about epistemic modals and tense, showing that future tensed …
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A poetics of subjective resistance
This doctoral thesis is a work of poetics, which speculatively casts into the future of possible writing, to ask how contemporary innovative poetry can enact or contribute towards political resistance. More specifically, it asks how poetry that finds its conditions materially and ideologically …
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The influence of objective and subjective social class on subjective well-being: a meta-analytic review
… the varying link between social class and subjective well-being (SWB) have pointed to limitations of the objective measures of social class in elucidating the precise influence of material resources on SWB. This has resulted in a shift toward examining one's perception of economic standing …
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Subjective and objective vehicle handling behaviour
… from a research project seeking to correlate subjective and objective measures of automobile handling. An underlying goal of the work was to demonstrate how a relatively simple lumped parameter model, suitable for effective use at the early stages of vehicle design, could be used to predict …
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Subjective Well-Being Among Malaysian Students
The aim of the study was to examine the determinants of well-being in Malaysian students at home and overseas. Prior to the main study, interviews were conducted with seven PhD students of Malaysia studying in Plymouth, to explore their needs and values, and their adaptation experiences in terms of …
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Subjective well-being in older adults
The current paper reviews measures of subjective psychological well-being in older adults and draws conclusions about how the concept of well-being is defined and measured. A systematic search of four databases identified eight measures developed to capture the notion of psychological well-being; …
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Towards a theory of subjective meaning
This dissertation develops a form of relativism in which propositions are treated as sets of world-time-individual triples, in contrast to standard views that treat them as sets of worlds or world-time pairs. This builds on existing proposals for predicates of personal taste such as fun and tasty, …
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Pedestrian Accessibility and Individual’s Subjective Happiness
… to daily destinations is related to individuals’ subjective happiness, controlling for socio-demographic variables. In the U.S. data, we found that people living in areas with higher pedestrian accessibility to destinations were not necessarily more likely to report being happier, on average. In …
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Subjective well-being among the elderly
… of this study is to explain and predict subjective well-being among the elderly as a function of their social location in society and the nature of their social networks. More specifically, the study seeks to answer the following questions: First, how do the elderly perceive their …
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The influence of evolution on subjective well-being: Is evolution biasing the evaluation of our subjective well-being?
… is to explore the impact of evolution on human subjective well-being. Its original contribution lies in exploring whether the kind of worries philosophers and psychologists might have when reflecting on human morality and reasoning in the light of evolutionary influences might also apply in the …
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The Currency Carry Trade and Subjective Expectations
… survey-based forecasts, we construct measures of subjective return expectations for the currency carry trade and uncover systematic forecast errors in both the exchange rate and interest rate components. The evidence on forecast error dynamics points towards extrapolative beliefs. In addition, we …
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Subjective Quality of Life in Dialysis Patients
With the ever increasing ability of medical technology to prolong life, quality of life is an increasingly legitimate medical outcome. This is an ethnographic study on the perceived quality of life of hemodialysis dependent end stage renal disease patients. The study used participant observations …
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Subjective Quality of Life in Dialysis Patients
With the ever increasing ability of medical technology to prolong life, quality of life is an increasingly legitimate medical outcome. This is an ethnographic study on the perceived quality of life of hemodialysis dependent end stage renal disease patients. The study used participant observations …
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Subjective wellbeing in people with intellectual disabilities
… literature review into the influences on the subjective wellbeing of people with intellectual disabilities. It presents an understanding of people with intellectual disabilities, how wellbeing as a concept is currently understood and how their subjective wellbeing can be influenced.Part two is …
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Predictors of objective and subjective career success
… predictors of both objective (salary). and subjective (perceived) career success. Three sets of predictors were examined: (1) individual attributes, (2) organisational opportunity structures and (3) career strategies. It was expected that a different pattern of variables would predict …
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Subjective Definitions of Leisure by Older Women
… to have a potentially confounding influence upon subjective descriptions of enjoyment and were therefore controlled. Eighty, non-minority women from the ages of sixty through seventy-four from four socioeconomic groups (upper, upper-middle, middle, and lower-middle) were recruited using the …
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Culture, Identity Consistency, and Subjective Well -Being
… self-view was examined, in relation to their subjective well-being. Data were collected through self- and informant-reports (1 friend and 1 family member). The three key findings of the present study are that compared to North Americans, the Koreans view themselves less consistently across …
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