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Davis, Angela Kay. Beyond the numbers: An analysis of optimistic and pessimistic language in earnings press releases. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 2006.

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Hasselaar, Jan Jorrit. Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048558476.

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Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacks—and to a renewed way of doing theology as an account of the good life. What follows is an equal conversation between theology and economics as has hardly been undertaken in recent times. It emerges that hope is not contrary to economic insights, but remarkably compatible with them. Communication bet

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Wilkinson, Angela, and Betty Sue Flowers, eds. Realistic Hope. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987241.

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We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global catastrophes create fear of the future. One response is technocratic optimism — we’ll invent our way out of these impending crises. Or we’ll simply ignore them as politically too hot to handle, too uncomfortable for experts — denied until crisis hits. History is littered with late lessons from early wa

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Davis, Justin Christopher. A Pessimistic View of an Optimistic Love Story. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.

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Harlov, Alicia, Allyssa Stratton, and Alexandra Warden. Navigating Navicular Disease: An Optimistic Guide for a Pessimistic Diagnosis. Humble Hoof, The, 2024.

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Analysis of Optimistic and Pessimistic Language in Earnings Press Releases. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2013.

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Amit, Raut. Academic Aspiration Confidence and Optimistic Pessimistic Attitudes among Vocational and Non-Professional Students. Phoebus Publishing Company, 2022.

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Tesón, Fernando R. Appendix The Iraq War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190202903.003.0007.

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RECENT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH HAS CONFIRMED what most of us suspected: some humanitarian interventions succeed, others fail.1 Neither optimistic liberal interventionism nor pessimistic realist noninterventionism have carried the day. Taylor Seybolt lists as reasonably successful interventions the protection of Kurds in northern Iraq in 1992,...

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Rozenberg, Julie, and Stéphane Hallegatte. Poor People on the Front Line: The Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in 2030. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813248.003.0002.

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The impacts of climate change on poverty depend on the magnitude of climate change, but also on socio-economic trends. An analysis of hundreds of baseline scenarios for future economic development shows that the drivers of poverty eradication differ across countries. In this chapter, two representative scenarios are selected from these hundreds, one optimistic and one pessimistic regarding poverty. Results from sector analyses of climate change impacts—in agriculture, health, and natural disasters—are introduced in the two scenarios. By 2030, climate change is found to have a significant impac

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Rosenberg, Alex. Lessons for Cognitive Science from Neurogenomics. Edited by John Bickle. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.003.0007.

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This article discusses the lessons from neurogenomics that are applicable to cognitive science. It argues that the work of some leading cognitive scientists who employed the resources of neurogenomics has already provided strong grounds to be pessimistic about the representations to which a computational theory of mind is committed, and to be optimistic about the syntactic character of processes of thinking and reasoning in the brain. It also discusses research findings concerning how the brain recalls memories and the storage of explicit memories.

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Richardson, Seth. Messaging and the Gods in Mesopotamia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195386844.003.0010.

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This chapter addresses worshippers’ messages to Mesopotamian gods and explores the duality of this kind of communication. Richardson classifies “genres” of communication according to the roles assigned to worshippers and gods and according to the places of these genres in an elaborate communications infrastructure of formulae, personnel, and locales. Richardson also discusses the problem of failure of communication, and describes the protocols with which to account for failures. He identifies a characteristic Mesopotamian style for religious communications: it is at once elaborate and pessimis

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Desai, Anjali, and Andrew S. Epstein. Doctors’ Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0031.

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“Doctors’ Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients” reviews one of Christakis and Lamont’s landmark articles, which investigated the factors associated with prognostic accuracy (and prognostic error) in doctors’ prognoses for terminally ill patients. The article explored the extent and determinants of optimistic errors, pessimistic errors, and correct predictions among doctors who were estimating prognoses for their terminally ill patients. This chapter offers a concise breakdown of the study’s design and salient study results while also pointing out study limitations. The chapter summar

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Olson, James S., ed. Historical Dictionary of the 1960s. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400663970.

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Few eras in U.S. history have begun with more optimistic promise and ended in more pessimistic despair than the 1960s. When JFK became president in 1960, the U.S. was the hope of the world. Ten years later American power abroad seemed wasted in the jungles of Indochina, and critics at home cast doubt on whether the U.S. was really the land of the free and the home of the brave. This book takes an encyclopedic look at the decade—at the individuals who shaped the era, the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's movement, and the youth rebellion. It covers the political, military

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Back, Kerry E. Heterogeneous Beliefs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190241148.003.0021.

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There is a representative investor in a complete single‐period market if all investors have log utility or if all investors have CARA utility, even if investors have different beliefs. This extends to dynamic markets for log utility but not for CARA utility. With CARA and other LRT utility, the concept of a representative investor can be extended to include a random discounting factor that is either a supermartingale or a submartingale. If there are short sales constraints, then assets may be overpriced relative to average beliefs, because pessimistic investors are constrained from trading on

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Almeida, Joseph A. Solon’s Reception of Hesiod’s Works and Days. Edited by Alexander C. Loney and Stephen Scully. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190209032.013.41.

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This chapter presents observations about the relationship between the poetry of Hesiod and of Solon (Works and Days 213–326 and Solon frr. 4 and 13). In the first half of fr. 4 Solon, through a series of allusions, incorporates into his poem Hesiod’s authority on dikē to validate condemnation of injustice in his own city, and in the second half of the poem he turns the Hesiodic pessimism of this injustice into an optimistic hope for his city’s just future. In fr. 13 Solon expands Hesiod’s notion of Zeus as the punisher of injustice to create a pessimistic view of human life darker than Hesiod’

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Segev, Mor. The Value of the World and of Oneself. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197634073.001.0001.

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This book examines the long-standing debate between philosophical optimism and pessimism in the history of philosophy, focusing on Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Camus. Philosophical optimists maintain that the world is optimally arranged and is accordingly valuable, and that the existence of human beings is preferable over their nonexistence. Philosophical pessimists, by contrast, hold that the world is in a woeful condition and ultimately valueless, and that human nonexistence would have been preferable over human existence. Schopenhauer criticizes the optimism

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Annas, Julia. Citizen Virtue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755746.003.0006.

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In the Laws citizens’ virtue will prominently feature sōphrosunē, which is typically associated with self-control and discipline, but here linked more with moderation in a variety of contexts. Citizens’ virtues will be more focussed on cooperation and less on self-assertion than typical Greek virtues. It is now apparent that life in Magnesia, the city of the Laws, will be much less exciting and adventurous than life in Athens, and tamer than life in the military societies of Sparta and Crete—another way in which a life focussed on virtue as a whole differs from life centred only on military vi

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Kepes, Sven, and John E. Delery. HRM Systems and the Problem of Internal Fit. Edited by Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick M. Wright. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199547029.003.0019.

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Previous reviews of the fit perspectives in SHRM have had a pessimistic tone and concluded that there was little evidence of the assumption that ‘fit’ leads to organizational success, although most reviews did not specifically focus on internal fit. This article aims to revisit the theoretical foundation of internal fit and provide a review of the literature addressing this issue. Specifically, it sets out to explore the theory and research behind the internal fit perspective in an attempt to summarize and advance our knowledge behind HRM systems and internal fit. In doing so, it addresses the

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O’Connell, Henry, and Brian Lawlor. Alcohol and substance abuse in older people. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199644957.003.0049.

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This chapter highlights the importance of alcohol use disorders (AUDs), inappropriate medication use (IMU) and use of illicit drugs in older people. Such problems are associated with considerable morbidity and will become more important with the ageing ‘baby-boomer’ generation in coming years. AUDs are under-detected, misdiagnosed and often completely missed in older populations. However, despite ageist and pessimistic assumptions, AUDs in older people are as amenable to treatment as in younger people. IMU in older people includes abuse of prescribed medications such as benzodiazepines and opi

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Krenn, Michael L. Carl Rowan and the Dilemma of Civil Rights, Propaganda, and the Cold War. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038877.003.0004.

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This chapter considers the influence of Cold War politics and policies exerted on journalist and State Department spokesperson Carl Rowan during the 1950s and 1960s. It argues that Rowan's contention that “the civil rights issue was being dealt with in an effective and speedy manner” was not an indication of his naïve optimism about America's racial problem, but rather speaks to his understanding of the need for propaganda in America's struggle against communism. Once the Cold War was well over, as his book The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-Up Call attests, Rowan considered America's raci

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Doolin, Bill. Implementing E-Health. Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Kathleen Montgomery, and Anne Reff Pedersen. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198705109.013.19.

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The application of information and communication technology to support health care organization, management, and delivery is high on the health policy agenda in many countries, and its implementation has become a significant issue. Despite optimistic expectations and increasing investment in e-health, the anticipated benefits are often elusive. This chapter reviews the factors driving the development of e-health before introducing a conceptualization of e-health focused on the management and use of health care information at the point of care, between health care providers and, ultimately, by

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Sanchez, Carlos Alberto, and Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., eds. Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190601294.001.0001.

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Sánchez and Sanchez have selected, edited, translated, and written an introduction to some of the most influential texts in 20th century Mexican philosophy. Together, these texts reveal and give shape to a unique and robust tradition that will certainly challenge and complicate traditional conceptions of philosophy. The texts collected here are organized chronologically and represent a period of Mexican thought and culture that emerges out of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and cultimates in la filosofía de lo mexicano (the philosophy of Mexicanness), which reached its peak in the 1950s. Though

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Horta, Ana, and Anabela Carvalho. Climate Change Communication in Portugal. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.599.

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In Portugal, global politics tend to dominate climate change communication. Policy-oriented news stories prevail, being very much influenced by international events, dynamics, and actors, especially European ones, whereas national politicians and officials tend to be given less space. Climate change is thus mainly (re)presented as a global issue, distant from local realities, in spite of the vulnerabilities that the country faces. National policy makers tend to adopt a technocratic discourse that comes across as “rational” and fairly optimistic, with little contestation by environmental groups

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