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Henri Bergson and the Superiority Theory of Humor
… This thesis looks briefly at the history of the superiority theory of humor in particular with emphasis on the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Hobbes. Next, I discuss Francis Hutcheson and Camille Atkinson?s, a contemporary writer, criticisms of Hobbes and the superiority theory of humor …
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The Superiority Effect of Virtual Reality on Prospective Memory
Although failures of prospective memory have been linked to aviation accidents, prospective memory has not been integrated into pilot training or assessment. Virtual Reality (VR) offers ecologically robust flight environments for training and assessment of prospective memory, but the effects of VR, …
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Encoding in word perception : an explanation of the word superiority effect
Thesis (Ph.D)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Psychology, 1978.
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The scene superiority effect: object recognition in the context of natural scenes
… from linguistic processing known as the Word Superiority Effect. Humans can better discriminate letters (e.g., D vs. K) in the context of a word (WORD vs. WORK) than in a non-word context (e.g., WROD vs. WROK) even when the context is non-predictive of the target identity. We apply this …
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Rhetorics of Judge-Penitence : How Moral Superiority is Publicly Constructed through Admissions of past Wrongdoing.
Given the increasing number of public admissions of wrongdoing by official representatives of states, other institutions and individuals, as well as the subsequent scholarly attention directed to this phenomenon, this thesis investigates one potential misuse of such practices. Here, I take Albert …
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Japanese-Korean Relations: Historical Ideas of Superiority and their effect on Current Relations with the Koreas
… they changed for the worse as ideas of Japan’s superiority began to permeate society. Attention will be drawn to the various elements that contributed to this belief throughout history as well as the events that were partly caused by this belief, culminating in the annexation of Korea in 1910 …
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The Struggle to Re-establish Anglo Superiority in American Modernism and its Collapse into American Tragedy
<p>A study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot shaping the discourse on American cultural identity. Arthur Miller and his "Tragedy and the Common Man" put an end to Modernism's Anglo stronghold and brought about the …
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A critical analysis of the Royal Air Force air superiority campaign in India, Burma and Malaya, 1941-1945
… campaign, in particular the attainment of air superiority in order to facilitate supply and close support operations. The foundation of these operations was dependent on the Allies achieving and maintaining air superiority and latterly air supremacy over the Japanese. This thesis will analyse …
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A Critical Analysis of the Reliability and Relative Superiority of the Various Methods Recommended for Use in Determining the Number of Cycles to Record During A Time Study
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T19:15:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100198.pdf: 3916283 bytes, checksum: 51c9328a885f8bf8cdee54476bd867ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Laughing Matters
This thesis defends a weak version of the superiority theory of humor: the superiority theory explains some instances of humor better than the incongruity theory. This thesis features an overview of the philosophy of humor in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy; this section contains …
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Experimental Study of Advanced Cryopreservation Strategies for the Cardiovascular System: Superiority of Vitrification over Standard slow Freezing in Murine Vessels and Efficacy of Ultrafast Rewarming by High-Intensity focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in Cardiac Recovery from Deep Hypothermia (-6ºC)
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Despite major therapeutic advances, many patients progress to stages where heart or vascular tissues transplantation becomes the only viable treatment option. However, donor availability is critically limited, and …
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Considerations in the development of a survivability/lethality tradeoff submodel for advanced tactical aircraft conceptual design
… models developed here help in determining the superiority or inferiority of the Advanced Tactical Aircraft (ATA) over the baseline aircraft. The advanced tactical aircraft is a proposed replacement aircraft that can undertake any of the three missions—air superiority, fleet defense and …
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Composing questions
… strict correlation between intervention and superiority in English (Pesetsky, 2000) is incorrect. Instead, intervention occurs whenever the relation between a wh-word and its associated Q-particle is disrupted at LF. This happens in superiority-violating questions, inside overt and covert …
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Influence of Pictures on Word Recognition
The picture superiority effect is a well-documented phenomenon that is defined as the superior memory of pictorial stimuli compared to word stimuli. The predominant explanation for this effect is that pictures are encoded more effectively than words, and are therefore able to be better remembered. …
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Mineral content of vegetables grown with organic and mineral fertilizers
… in order to determine the nutritional superiority or non-superiority of organically raised foods. Duplicate samples of split peas, pinto beans, kidney beans, blackeye peas and tomatoes of each treatment were wet washed with concentrated nitric and perchloric acid. Concentrations of Cu, …
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Hemispheric specialization in hearing impaired children who use cued speech
… two subjects demonstrated right hemispheric superiority for language processing, and two subjects did not demonstrate superiority for language processing in either hemisphere. A larger sample size would be required to determine if the cued speech subjects develop hemispheric specialization …
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A neuroscientific and cognitive examination of individual differences in face recognition ability
… contributions to their face processing superiority. Chapter 4 examined whether SRs rely on holistic and parts-based processing to the same extent as controls, and whether their face recognition superiority can be observed at the face perception stage as well. SRs outperformed controls at …
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Just joking: jest as a defence to defamation
… to an action for defamation. It argues that superiority humour, which is funny because it belittles the plaintiff, is being unduly curtailed by the courts' erroneous application of a flawed test for defamatoriness based on the plaintiff's mere exposure to ridicule. The undesirable result is …
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The Influence of Network Factors on Network Centric Operations
… The Information Age is about information superiority. It evolves the command and control concept, proactively, to optimize the size of the units and their connections within a combat force for effective mission accomplishment. The biggest issue is how big a unit will be and how they will …
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