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Showing 1 to 20 of 372 for “"surprise"”.
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Surprise Encounters: Readings in Transatlantic Modernism
… of modern experience and modernist literature. SURPRISE ENCOUNTERS argues that a dominant framework of shock and rupture has obscured a nineteenth-century conception of surprise, which transformed models of mind and narrative on both sides of the Atlantic. I draw on Ralph Waldo Emerson's …
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Design for surprise and idea generation methods
This thesis explores the meaning of surprise in product design and how surprise can be created in the early phase of the design process, specifically during ideation. In product and service markets with multiple competitors and where product differentiation is difficult, surprise, if used …
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Evaluating Scenarios That Can Startle and Surprise Pilots
<p>Startle and surprise on the flight deck is a contributing factor in multiple aviation accidents that have been recognized by multiple aviation safety boards. This study identified the effects startle and surprise had on commercial pilots with single and multiengine ratings. Surprise is defined …
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Culture, surprise, and adaptation: Examining undergraduate students’ matriculation processes
… a match or a mismatch; a mismatch was termed a “surprise” for students. I discovered that students must make sense of the institutional environment when they matriculate to the university. Adaptation, how individuals construct reality and interpret situations, is a significant process for …
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Deep-seated bedrock landsliding in Grand Canyon's Surprise Valley area
… describes deep-seated bedrock landslides in the Surprise Valley area by combining detailed mapping, volume-balanced cross-sections, strath terrace heights, and cosmogenic burial dating of river deposits buried by landslides. Mapping shows failures involving ~1000 m Paleozoic section localized …
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Secrecy, deception and intelligence failure : explaining operational surprise in war
Operational surprise attacks are large-scale, theater-level intrawar attacks, which result from a country misestimating the capabilities and intentions of its enemies. This thesis analyzes how these massive surprise attacks occur during war when countries should be especially wary of their enemies …
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Implications of Sticky Cost Behavior for Earnings Surprise and Market Reaction
… of the correct cost behavior model, earnings surprises can be largely explained by a cost model that recognizes sticky stickiness. Similarly, investors' under-reaction to sticky cost information relates to post-earnings announcement drifts. As a result, positive abnormal returns can be earned …
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The Surprise of a Knight: Excavating Material Legacies through Early Queer Film
… film to explicitly depict “queer” sex is The Surprise of a Knight (1929). By synthesizing perspectives on archives, material culture, queer identity, film, the Internet and pornography, this paper treats Surprise as an entry point into a discussion of public history and sexuality—revealing …
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Creating suspense and surprise in short literary fiction: a stylistic and narratological approach
Suspense and surprise, as common and crucial elements of interest realised in literary fiction, are analysed closely in a sample of short stories, so as to develop a detailed explanation of how these forms of interest are created in literary texts, and to propose models for them. Creating suspense …
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SURPRISE-INDUCED DEAFNESS -- TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF A STIMULUS-DRIVEN LIMITATION IN AUDITORY SELECTIVE ATTENTION
… phenomenon and established a new paradigm named surprise-induced deafness (SiD). Series of experiments utilizing rapid auditory stream (RAP) revealed that presenting task-irrelevant, unexpected stimulus (surprise stimulus or SS) impaired conscious detection of designated target. Various factors …
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Spatiotemporal Slip Rate Variations Along Surprise Valley Fault in Relation to Pleistocene Pluvial Lakes
… of dated features over the last 25 ka along the Surprise Valley Fault (SVF). Fault offset measured in three lake sections within Surprise Valley ranged from 3.6 m in the southern section to 14.4 m in the central section. The offset paleoshorelines are dated to the late Pleistocene (<22 >ka) and …
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Adaptive learning from demonstration in heterogeneous agents: Concurrent minimization and maximization of surprise in sparse reward environments
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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SURVIVING SURPRISE: HOW FIRMS WERE AFFECTED BY - AND RESPONDED TO - UNEXPECTED, DISRUPTIVE, DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE IN THE MARKETING ENVIRONMENT
… examines the effects of - and responses to - surprise, which is defined as disruptive, discontinuous events that result in unexpected changes to the environment. Some authors have suggested that organizations have tended to overestimate their ability both to predict and to control calamitous …
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Between Being and Becoming: How Might Surprise Create New Meaning Co-ontologically in the Design Production and Reception of Immersive-Media?
Surprise is an inherent affect in immersive media design, production and reception. It enables what is implicit in experience to be made explicit through an immediacy in design practices, extending capability at the site of production. The development of new capability realised from a surprise …
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À la recherche du point tournant développemental dans le traitement perceptuel-attentionnel de la peur et de la surprise: une étude chez les adolescents
… perceptuel-attentionnel de la peur et de la surprise chez les adolescents. Dans le cadre de cette étude, un groupe d'adolescents ont été recruté pour faire un suivi à l'étude de Roy-Charland, Perron, Young, Boulard et Chamberland (2015). Ces chercheurs ont évalué des adultes et deux groupes …
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The Expatriate Adjustment Process: Implications of the Cross -Cultural Context on Learning the Environment Following a Work -Role Transition
… research was unable to provide evidence that surprise is a mediator of expatriate adjustment, it does suggest that surprise, especially in combination with reactions to surprise is a significant predictor of adjustment. Cultural distance, experience in the host culture and pre-departure …
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