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Gouveia, Ana Elisabete de. "Os Microplanos de Montez Magno e os infra-minces de Duchamp: a hipersensível vastidão de um ínfimo intervalo." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2012. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/3888.
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Previous issue date: 2012-04-24<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>This study presents an analysis of the series Microplanos whose author is the Pernambuco born artist Montez Magno, discusses the central propositions created by the artist , that focuses in the notion of the Infra-mince , Term created but never revealed except through samples by Marcel Duchamp to designate certain fundamental operations in the body of his works.
The research enters by an investigacion of the notion of the infra-mince under the light of the metafenomenologia of the portuguese filosopher José Gil and raises some questions of its possible influence of this term in other segments of art and science.<br>Este estudo apresenta uma análise da série Microplanos, de autoria do artista pernambucano Montez Magno e discute as ideias centrais propostas pelo artista, que focalizam a noção de infra-mince; termo criado, mas nunca revelado senão através de exemplos, por Marcel Duchamp para designar certas operações fundamentais no conjunto da sua obra. A pesquisa se adentra por uma investigação da noção de infra-mince à luz da metafenomenologia do filósofo português José Gil e levanta algumas indagações sobre as possíveis reverberações deste termo em outros segmentos da arte e da ciência.
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Michael, L. A. "Consistency results concerning subtlety." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339050.
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Kadish, David C. "Subtle Emergences." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54874.
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We often understand the world around us by studying its parts. This approach, known as reductionism, has long dominated rational inquiry. The limitations of using this approach in isolation have started to become apparent as people have started to realize that complex systems, such as ecosystems, do not behave as a linear combination of parts. In many cases,
the emergent behaviours of complex systems cannot be deduced empirically.
I explore the role of experience and embodied inquiry as an alternative approach to studying complex systems. Through the proposal, production, installation, and exhibition of a complex, interactive art system, Subtle Emergences, I argue that experience of complexity is a valid and vital tool in our attempt to grapple with the uncertainty of complex systems. Ultimately, we need to use all available methods together, if we hope to be able to understand complexity.<br>Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)<br>Graduate
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Corradetti, Valerie. "Modern Landscapes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1865.
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I explore nature in order to understand something that is becoming increasingly unfamiliar. I wonder about accelerated human transactions with nature: the control of animals, land, and resources for pleasure, consumption or survival; and how these actions manifest themselves visually in the modern world. Through images, I create new ideas about my surroundings. My questions about nature are documented through my work employing subtlety to narrate stories of contemporary environments.
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Man, Ka Cheong. "Interpretation of Chinese modern poetry in light of a proposed theory of Shiyi." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10659.
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Modern Chinese poetry has since its inception been subjected to unfavourable comments as compared to classical Chinese poetry, which can be construed as the result of the alleged unintelligibility problem encountered in interpretation of poetry. This thesis attempts to find out if it is justified to attribute modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem. Accordingly, a purported criterion of poetry assessment, shiyi 詩意 (literally “poeticalness”), as well as a theoretical framework based on shiyi, is formulated primarily in light of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s relevance theory and Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Whereas relevance theory is a cognitive pragmatic approach focusing on recovery of meanings of an utterance by tracing the authorial intention through relevance, Ricoeur’s hermeneutics sees textual interpretation as relying on a hermeneutical circle through which a reader produces a world of the text, itself also a means by which the reader attains or enriches self-understanding. To incorporate the speaker-centred relevance theory, Ricoeur’s comparatively reader-oriented model, as well as other related text-focused approaches into the proposed framework, the central concept of shiyi is put forward with a view to bridging the distance between emphasis on author, reader and text. The framework formulated should be more applicable to literary texts and less vulnerable to the intriguing authorship problematic. In addition, a “subtlety-unintelligibility continuum” is posited and developed within the framework to identify and account for the differences in shiyi, as well as to provide a clear characterisation of shiyi. The framework thus represents an interface between the linguistic, the philosophical and the literary perspectives. The overall objectives of this thesis are: (1) to prove that the proposed theory of shiyi and its underlying framework are theoretically and practically valid by putting the framework to the test through thoroughly analysing a number of representative modern Chinese poems, and (2) to justify or refute the propriety of attributing modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem based on findings of the analysis of poetry mentioned in (1).
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Weiß, Christoph. "Subtle and Ineffable Tree Properties." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-114389.
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O'Hare, A. E. "Subtle neurological morbidity in childhood leukaemia." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376222.
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Li, X. (Xiaobai). "Reading subtle information from human faces." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2017. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526216386.
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Abstract The face plays an important role in our social interactions as it conveys rich sources of information. We can read a lot from one face image, but there is also information we cannot perceive without special devices. The thesis concerns using computer vision methodologies to analyse two kinds of subtle facial information that can hardly be perceived by naked eyes: the micro-expression (ME), and the heart rate (HR). MEs are rapid, involuntary facial expressions which reveal emotions people do not intend to show. It is difficult for people to perceive MEs as they are too fast and subtle, thus automatic ME analysis is valuable work which may lead to important applications. In the thesis, the progresses of ME studies are reviewed, and four parts of work are described. 1) We introduce the first spontaneous ME database, the SMIC. The lacking of data is hindering ME analysis research, as it is difficult to collect spontaneous MEs. The protocol for inducing and annotating SMIC is introduced to help future ME collections. 2) A framework including three features and a video magnification process is introduced for ME recognition, which outperforms other state-of-the-art methods on two ME databases. 3) An ME spotting method based on feature difference analysis is described, which can spot MEs from spontaneous long videos. 4) An automatic ME analysis system (MESR) was proposed for firstly spotting and then recognising MEs. The HR is an important indicator of our health and emotional status. Traditional HR measurements require skin-contact which cannot be applied remotely. We propose a method which can counter for illumination changes and head motions and measure HR remotely from color facial videos. We also apply the method for solving the face anti-spoofing problem. We show that the pulse-based feature is more robust than traditional texture-based features against unseen mask spoofs. We also show that the proposed pulse-based feature can be combined with other features to build a cascade system for detecting multiple types of attacks. At last, we summarize the contributions of the work, and propose future plans about ME and HR studies based on limitations of the current work. It is also planned to combine the ME and HR (maybe also other subtle signals from face) to build a multimodal system for affective status analysis<br>Tiivistelmä Kasvot ovat monipuolinen informaatiolähde ja keskeinen ihmisten välisessä vuorovaikutuksessa. Pystymme päättelemään paljon yhdestäkin kasvokuvasta, mutta kasvoissa on paljon tietoa, jota ei pysty irrottamaan ilman erityiskeinoja. Tässä työssä analysoidaan konenäöllä ihmiselle vaikeasti havaittavaa tietoa: mikroilmeitä ja sydämen sykettä. Tahdosta riippumattomat mikroilmeet paljastavat tunteita, joita ihmiset pyrkivät piilottamaan. Mikroilmeiden havaitseminen on vaikeaa niiden nopeuden ja pienuuden vuoksi, joten automaattinen analyysi voi johtaa uusiin merkittäviin sovelluksiin. Tämä työ tarkastelee mikroilmetutkimuksen edistysaskeleita ja sisältää neljä uutta tulosta. 1) Spontaanien mikroilmeiden tietokanta (Spontaneous MIcroexpression Corpus, SMIC). Spontaanien mikroilmeiden aiheuttaminen datan saamiseksi on oma haasteensa. SMIC:n keräämisessä ja mikroilmeiden annotoinnissa käytetty menettely on kuvattu myöhemmän datan keruun ohjeistukseksi. 2) Aiempia mikroilmeiden tunnistusmenetelmiä paremmaksi kahden testitietokannan avulla todennettu ratkaisu, joka käyttää kolmea eri piirrettä ja videon suurennusta. 3) Piirre-eroanalyysiin perustuva mikroilmeiden havaitsemismenetelmä, joka havaitsee ne pitkistä realistisista videoista. 4) Automaattinen analyysijärjestelmä (Micro-Expression Spotting and Recognition, MESR), jossa mikroilmeet havaitaan ja tunnistetaan. Sydämen syke on tärkeä terveyden ja tunteiden indikoija. Perinteiset sykkeenmittausmenetelmät vaativat ihokontaktia, eivätkä siten toimii etäältä. Tässä työssä esitetään sykkeen videolta pienistä värimuutoksista mittaava menetelmä, joka sietää valaistusmuutoksia ja sallii pään liikkeet. Menetelmä on monikäyttöinen ja sen sovelluksena kuvataan todellisten kasvojen varmentaminen sykemittauksella. Tulokset osoittavat sykepiirteiden toimivan perinteisiä tekstuuripiirteitä paremmin uudenlaisia naamarihuijauksia vastaan. Syketietoa voidaan myös käyttää osana sarjatyyppisissä ratkaisuissa havaitsemaan useanlaisia huijausyrityksiä. Työn yhteenveto keskittyy suunnitelmiin parantaa mikroilmeiden ja sydämen sykkeen analyysimenetelmiä nykyisen tutkimuksen rajoitteiden pohjalta. Tavoitteena on yhdistää mikroilmeiden ja sydämen sykkeen analyysit, sekä mahdollisesti muuta kasvoista saatavaa tietoa, multimodaaliseksi affektiivisen tilan määrittäväksi ratkaisuksi
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BREA, JOANA DE OLIVEIRA. "SUBTLE RESISTANCIES: FILM CREATION AND PRODUCTION INSTANCIES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12940@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>Se a tensão entre o fazer artístico e a lógica do mercado
assombrou a arte
em geral, desde o surgimento da cultura de massa no século
XIX, ela esteve
presente no cinema já no seu nascimento: para além de sua
dimensão de obra de
arte, a invenção do espetáculo da projeção fez do filme um
bem de consumo
coletivo, impondo-lhe métodos de produção industriais e
finalidades comerciais.
Na contemporaneidade, o declínio das grandes utopias e a
expansão do papel do
mercado como grande mediador cultural tem, cada vez mais,
colocado em xeque
o paradigma estético da modernidade, incluindo seu ideal de
autonomia.
Distanciada das posturas radicais que, outrora, advogavam o
confrontamento
com o massivo, a arte contemporânea desenvolve sutis formas
de resistência que
negociam a possibilidade de expressão com sua inevitável
condição de
mercadoria. Nosso objetivo, nesta dissertação, foi analisar
como a tensão entre
um ideal de liberdade artística e o filme como produto
comercializável se
manifesta no cinema contemporâneo. Para isso, buscamos
selecionar, como
objeto de estudo, filmes que nos permitissem destacar
estratégias de negociação
entre criação artística e instâncias da produção. A escolha
recaiu sobre Quero
Ser John Malkovich (1999), Adaptação (2002), A Natureza
Quase Humana
(2002) e Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem Lembranças (2004).
Os dois
primeiros foram dirigidos por Spike Jonze, os dois últimos
por Michel Gondry e
todos tiveram Charles Kaufman como roteirista.<br>If the tension between artistic work and the market`s logic
hunted art in
general, since the beginning of mass culture in mid nineteen
century, it became
present in films since its birth: beyond the dimension of
work of art, with the
invention of the spectacle of projection, films became a
largely consumed
product which imposed industry production methods and
commercial goals. In
contemporary days, the decay of utopia and the expansion of
the market`s hole
as a cultural mediator have put the modern esthetic paradigm
in question,
including its ideal of autonomy. Far from the radical
postures that used to
proclaim the confrontation with the massive, contemporary
art develops ways of
resistance that negotiate the possibility of expression with
its undeniable
condition of merchandise. Our goal, in this research, is to
analyze how the
tension between the ideal of artistic freedom and the film
as a product happens in
contemporary cinema. Therefore, we sought to select, as our
object of study,
films that allow us to perceive negotiation strategies
between artistic creation
and production methods. We chose Being John Malkovich
(1999), Adaptation
(2002), Human Nature (2001) and Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (2004).
The first two had been directed by Spike Jonze, the last two
had been directed by
Michel Gondry and all of them had been written by Charlie
Kaufman.
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Knüsel, Christopher J. "The Physical Evidence of Warfare - Subtle Stigmata?" Archeopress, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2706.
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Johnston, Jennene Louise Hooper. "Angels of desire subtle subjects, aesthetics and ethics /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050527.155421/index.html.
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Costanza, Enrico. "Subtle, intimate interfaces for mobile human computer interaction." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37387.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2006.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-122).<br>The mobile phone is always carried with the user and is always active: it is a very personal device. It fosters and satisfies a need to be constantly connected to one's significant other, friends or business partners. At the same time, mobile devices are often used in public, where one is surrounded by others not involved in the interaction. This private interaction in public is often a cause of unnecessary disruption and distraction, both for the bystanders and even for the user. Nevertheless, mobile devices do fulfill an important function, informing of important events and urgent communications, so turning them off is often not practical nor possible. This thesis introduces Intimate Interfaces: discreet interfaces that allow subtle private interaction with mobile devices in order to minimize disruption in public and gain social acceptance. Intimate Interfaces are inconspicuous to those around the users, while still allowing them to communicate. The concept is demonstrated through the design, implementation and evaluation of two novel devices: * Intimate Communication Armband - a wearable device, embedded in an armband, that detects motionless gestures through electromyographic (EMG) sensing for subtle input and provides tactile output;<br>(cont.) * Notifying Glasses - a wearable notification display embedded in eyeglasses; it delivers subtle cues to the peripheral field of view of the wearer, while being invisible to others. The cues can convey a few bits of information and can be designed to meet specific levels of visibility and disruption. Experimental results show that both interfaces can be reliably used for subtle input and output. Therefore, Intimate Interfaces can be profitably used to improve mobile human-computer interaction.<br>by Enrico Costanza.<br>S.M.
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Clark, Samantha Jane. "The subtle ether : writing into the 'space between'." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16028.
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The ether was proposed by Enlightenment natural philosophers as an undetectable substance filling the space between the stars, that held them in place and supported the propagation of their light across space. In The Subtle Ether: A Memoir of the Space Between, insights from the history of the ether are threaded through my experience of clearing the family home after the death of my parents, and inform a reflection on ‘spaces between' memories, family members, and between ourselves and the world. This thesis both proposes and practises writing creative nonfiction as a method of first person enquiry that bears a familial resemblance to contemplative traditions, and that can acknowledge and mourn the hiddenness of things by writing into the ‘space between' ourselves and the world. Seeking a new synthesis which meshes experience, emotion, observation, and reflection on the insights of science, I employ mixed modes of lyrical, aesthetic, philosophical and personal inquiry. The central claim of this thesis is that awareness and acceptance of hiddenness as the nature of all things counteracts human hubris. While drawing from the example of continuous, open-ended questioning the scientific search for the ‘ether' offers, this thesis both argues and demonstrates that scientific and analytical methods alone cannot address this hiddenness, and that creative practice can be an effective way to think about and communicate what cannot be directly known. I argue that the desire for complete knowledge is a form of acquisitiveness and control, and that recognising the limited scope of human senses and reason undercuts human centrality and sole agency. Crafting an artwork out of contemplation of that which cannot be directly observed opens a space of reflection in which a paradoxical truth can be held in awareness; that the external reality we observe is other than us but also inseparable from us.
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Louie, Lauren Jennifer. "Subtly Disfavored Consumption and Its Impact on Consumer Identity." Thesis, University of California, Irvine, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3688535.
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<p> This study examines fast food as an instance of everyday subtly disfavored consumption and its influence on consumer identity. Prior research has described how consumers construct identities by using consumption to categorize themselves and others. Prior work has also shown that consumption which evokes strong hedonic responses such as love or hate has significant use in identity and cultural capital processes while consumption which evokes low hedonic responses is less important to identity. This work suggests the importance of understanding consumption characterized by their consumers' subtle hedonic responses. This study applies an ethnoconsumerist framework and employs long interviews and grounded theory analysis to understand fast food culture's integration into lives of young adult American consumers. Findings suggest varied uses to consumer identity and the importance of understanding how such consumption is culturally embedded.</p>
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Carroll, Whitney E. "Perceptions of Subtle Sexism in the Higher Education Workplace." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/587038.
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Educational Leadership<br>Ed.D.<br>The purpose of this study was to determine how higher education administrators, faculty, and staff are able to identify subtle sexism, and indicate how they perceive it in the higher education workplace. Past research has also shown micro-aggressions lead to hostility and uncertainty in the workplace (Swim et al., 1995, 1997; Tougas et al., 1995). The design of this study does not allow for casual inference but data from the pilot study indicate that contemporary sexism in the workplace impacts men, women, and the LGBTQ community.This was a mixed methods study that included a survey and one-on-one interviews. There were a total of 232 participants and 12 one-on-one interviews. The majority of participants were heterosexual, white women. Three new measures of sexism were identified during data analysis: attitudes and behaviors of sexism (Historic Sexism Scale and Contemporary Sexism Scale) and identifying cases of subtle sexism (“man to woman” cases across the five scenarios on the Gender Neutral Sexism Scenarios). Quantitative results indicated that women identified more instances of sexism than men. Overall, participants did not strongly identify instances of subtle sexism. Additional research is needed to determine the results. Interview participants indicated that trainings and professional development regarding appropriate behavior and language in the workplace are needed in order for employees to understand and recognize subtle sexism.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Golder, Zachariah J. "Subtle Socialism? Capitalist Disaffection within the NSDAP, 1925-1934." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1501252797439154.
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Mitchell, Lorianne D., Payal Kumar, T. Harmon-Kizer, et al. "Exploring Subtle Forms of Racism at Higher Education Establishments." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8312.
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Roberts, Robert. "JPH2 Mutant Gene Causes Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy : A Possible Model to Unravel the Subtlety of Calcium-Regulated Contractility." Elsevier, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623244.
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Dayton, D. "Big Country, Subtle Voices: Three Ethnic Poets from China's Southwest." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1630.
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Master of Arts<br>In the southwest corner of China, the confluence of cultural diversity and national integration have produced a new kind of voice in the Chinese language: an ethnic voice. Speaking fluently in the Chinese nation’s language and culturally beyond its Han foundations, minority ethnic writers or shaoshu minzu in China are inciting a challenge to the traditional conceptions of Chineseness. In the PRC, the re-imagining of the boundaries between ethnicity, nation, and the globe is being produced in ethnic voices that resist the monopolizing narratives of the CCP and the Han cultural center. Furthermore, in the West where the antiquated conception of China as a monolithic Other is still often employed, the existence of these ethnic voices of difference demands a (re)cognition of its multifaceted and interwoven ethnic, political, and social composition. Three ethnic poets from the southwest are examined in this thesis: Woeser (Tibetan), He Xiaozhu (Miao), and Jimu Langge (Yi). They represent the trajectory of ethnic voice in China along the paradigms of local/ethnic vision, national culture, and global connections. By being both within and outside the Chinese nation and culture, they express a hybrid struggle that exists within the collision of ethnic minority cultures and the Han cultural center. Like the hybridity of postcolonial literature, this is a collision that cannot be reduced to it parts, yet also privileges the glocal impetus of ethnically centered vision. The poets’ voices speak the voice of difference within China, the Chinese language, and Chineseness throughout the world.
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Stergiadis, Dimitris. "Does providing a subtle reasoning hint remedy the conjunction fallacy?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-104823.
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Humans are in general poor at making judgments that adhere to the logical principles of probability theory. One demonstration of this is termed the “conjunction fallacy”: judging a conjunction (A&B) as being more probable than its constituent (A). Systematic commitment of the conjunction fallacy has been shown in numerous studies on probability judgments. Different actions to remedy the fallacy have been suggested. According to the nested-sets hypothesis, when the nested-set structure of a problem becomes clear (i.e. the relation between categories and subcategories), then the conjunction fallacy is remedied. However, previous demonstrations of this remediation have provided very explicit task-related information and it can be questioned whether it is trivial that such information leads to more correct judgments. The primary aim of this study was to test the nested- sets hypothesis in two different formats of a probability judgment task, by more subtly hinting about the nested-set structure. Twenty-nine participants were randomly divided into two groups, one Probability condition and one Informed probability condition, where participants in the latter condition were provided with the hint. The second aim was to investigate whether the Informed probability condition was performed more slowly, potentially due to the time-cost of more elaborated judgments. The results show that a subtle hint about the nested-set structure was able to remedy the conjunction fallacy in a forced-choice probability judgment task but not statistically reliably in a probability estimation task. No response-time differences were observed between the conditions. The results support the nested-sets hypothesis and imply that even a subtle reasoning hint clarifying the relation between categories and subcategories might remedy one of the most robust probability judgment fallacies.<br>Människor är i allmänhet dåliga på att göra bedömningar som följer principer för sannolikhetsteori. En indikation på det är ”konjunktionsfelet”: att bedöma en konjunktion (A&B) som mer sannolik än sin konstituent (A). Konjunktionsfelet har påvisats i flera studier på sannolikhetsbedömningar. Olika sätt att avhjälpa felet har föreslagits. Enligt nested-set hypotesen föreslås att när nested-set strukturen av ett problem blir tydlig (dvs. relationen mellan kategorier och subkategorier), minskas benägenheten att begå konjunktionsfelet. Däremot har tidigare demonstrationer av den här minskningen angett väldigt explicit uppgifts-relaterad information och det kan ifrågasättas om det är trivialt att sådan information leder till mer korrekta bedömningar. Studiens primära syfte var att testa nested-set hypotesen i två olika sannolikhetsbedömningsformat, genom att subtilt antyda om nested-set strukturen. Tjugonio deltagare delades slumpmässigt in i två grupper, en Sannolikhetsbetingelse och en Informerad sannolikhetsbetingelse, där den senare betingelsen fick den extra informationen. Det andra syftet var att undersöka om Informerad sannolikhetsbetingelsen skulle utföras långsammare, potentiellt på grund av tids-kostnaden av mer elaborerade bedömningar. Resultatet visar att en subtil antydan om nested-set strukturen minskade konjunktionsfelet i en fler-vals uppgift på sannolikhetsbedömningar men inte statistiskt pålitligt i en sannolikhetsestimeringsuppgift. Inga responstidsskillnader hittades mellan betingelserna. Resultat stödjer nested-set hypotesen och antyder att även en subtil antydan som klargör relationen mellan kategorier och underkategorier kan åtgärda ett av de mest robusta tankefel som observerats vid sannolikhetsbedömningar.
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Dayton, D. "Big country, subtle voices three ethnic poets from China's southwest /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1630.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 2007.<br>Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Dept. of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Gardner, Dillon Richard. "X-Ray scattering investigations of subtle ordering in correlated materials." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99312.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2015.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-127).<br>The interaction of many particles can lead to spectacular new phases of matter whose properties and collective excitations bear little resemblance to the individual particles and interactions. Understanding how the macroscopic state transforms from one phase to another provides key insights into the underlying physics. In this thesis, we study two poorly understood states: the Hidden Order (HO) phase of URu2Si2 and the pseudogap of high Tc cuprates. In the case of URu2 Si2 , the HO phase causes a significant restructuring of the Fermi surface. Thermal conductivity and ultrasound measurements suggest that the lattice degrees of freedom couple strongly to this change. Additionally, torque magnetometry and x-ray diffraction suggest a breaking of C4 rotational symmetry. We directly study the lattice through x-ray scattering. We see no change of the acoustic phonon dispersions or of the phonon lifetimes from the HO transition. Calculations of phonon branch contributions to thermal transport suggest that magnetic excitations are responsible for the increase in thermal conductivity in the HO phase. For high Tc cuprates, the pseudogap state is not well understood. It is not even clear if it is a true phase transition or if it is a crossover regime. Recent reports of circular dichroism at the copper K-edge in double-layer BSCCO suggest breaking of inversion symmetry in the pseudogap. We perform copper K-edge dichroism measurements on carefully aligned BSCCO. Azimuthal rotations reveal the circular dichroic signal the result of linear bleed through. Polar rotations suggest that the previous reports were likely caused by misalignment.<br>by Dillon Richard Gardner.<br>Ph. D.
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Quattrochi, Brian J. "Subtle Controllers: MicroRNAs Drive Pancreatic Tumorigenesis and Progression: A Dissertation." eScholarship@UMMS, 2015. https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/776.
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most lethal malignancies in the United States, with an average five-year survival rate of just 6.7%. One unifying aspect of PDAC is mutational activation of the KRAS oncogene, which occurs in over 90% of PDAC. Therefore, inhibiting KRAS function is likely an effective therapeutic strategy for this disease, and current research in our lab and others is focused on identifying downstream effectors of KRAS signaling that may be therapeutic targets. miRNAs are powerful regulators of gene expression that can behave as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Dysregulation of miRNA expression is commonly observed in human tumors, including PDAC. The mir-17~92 cluster of miRNAs is an established oncogene in a variety of tumor contexts, and members of the mir-17~92 cluster are upregulated in PDAC, but their role has not been explored in vivo. This dissertation encompasses two studies exploring the role of miRNAs in pancreatic tumorigenesis. In Chapter II, I demonstrate that deletion of the mir-17~92 cluster impairs PDAC precursor lesion formation and maintenance, and correlates with reduced ERK signaling in these lesions. mir-17~92 deficient tumors and cell lines are also less invasive, which I attribute to the loss of the miR-19 family of miRNAs. In Chapter III, I find that Dicer heterozygosity inhibits PDAC metastasis, and that this phenotype is attributable to an increased sensitivity to anoikis. Ongoing experiments will determine whether shifts in particular miRNA signatures between cell lines can be attributed to this phenotype. Together these findings illustrate the importance of miRNA biogenesis, and the mir-17~92 cluster in particular, in supporting PDAC development and progression.
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Larsson, Sofia, and Jimmy Åkesson. "Subtly Influencing Gaze Direction Using a Handheld Augmented Reality Device." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för teknik och samhälle (TS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-20760.
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Smarta och hjälpsamma teknologier kommer ut varje år och blir snabbt en del avvår vardag. Teknologierna blir mer och mer medvetna om när och var vi behöverdem och stödjer oss i att nå personliga mål såsom att ta cykeln istället för bilen tilljobbet. Dock har dessa teknologier begränsad funktionalitet när vi inte interagerarmed dem, vilket resulterar i att vi behöver interagera med dem och förlorar fokusfrån andra uppgifter.Vi tror att det ett decennium fram kommer att finnas enkla applikationsgränssnitti glasögon med förstärkt verklighet (AR-glasögon). Förstärkt verklighet kan vara ettkraftfullt verktyg för att skapa ett skikt över den riktiga världen så önskar vi ocksåatt gränssnitten inte stör upplevelsen av den riktiga världen.I denna studie har vi undersökt vilka möjligheter det finns i att skicka visuellastimuli till en användare på ett subtilt eller subliminalt sätt. Slutsatsen är att detinte uppenbarligen går att säga att det visuella stimuli i systemet somimplementerades i denna studie var subliminalt. Dock så kunde vi dra slutsatsenatt tiden det tar att upptäcka ett visuellt stimuli som gradvis ökar med tiden skiljersig mellan användare och att användare är mer benägna att fokusera på objekt somär placerade i ögonhöjd, vilket bör beaktas när man ska bestämma vart visuellastimuli ska placeras.<br>Smart and helpful technologies are released every year and are quick to become partof our everyday lives. Technologies are becoming more aware of when and where weneed them and help us to achieve personal goals, such as taking the bike instead ofthe car to work. Still, many of these smart technologies have only limitedfunctionality without us interacting with them, resulting in us having to interactwith them and losing focus on other tasks.We believe that a decade from now, some future application interfaces will reside inaugmented reality smart glasses. While augmented reality can be a powerful toolwhen overlaying the real world, we also wish that the augmented reality interfacesdo not break the immersion of everyday life.In this study, we have explored the possibilities of sending visual cues to a user in asubtle or even a subliminal way in an augmented reality setting. In conclusion, thereis no obvious answer to whether a cue in the system that was implemented in thisstudy was subliminal. However, we found that the time it took to perceive a cue thatgradually intensifies with time differed between people and that people are moreinclined to focus on objects placed at an eye-level height which should be taken inconsideration when deciding on where to place visual cues.
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Warrenburg, Lindsay Alison. "Subtle Semblances of Sorrow: Exploring Music, Emotional Theory, and Methodology." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1566765247386444.
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Quattrochi, Brian J. "Subtle Controllers: MicroRNAs Drive Pancreatic Tumorigenesis and Progression: A Dissertation." eScholarship@UMMS, 2004. http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/776.
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is among the most lethal malignancies in the United States, with an average five-year survival rate of just 6.7%. One unifying aspect of PDAC is mutational activation of the KRAS oncogene, which occurs in over 90% of PDAC. Therefore, inhibiting KRAS function is likely an effective therapeutic strategy for this disease, and current research in our lab and others is focused on identifying downstream effectors of KRAS signaling that may be therapeutic targets. miRNAs are powerful regulators of gene expression that can behave as oncogenes or tumor suppressors. Dysregulation of miRNA expression is commonly observed in human tumors, including PDAC. The mir-17~92 cluster of miRNAs is an established oncogene in a variety of tumor contexts, and members of the mir-17~92 cluster are upregulated in PDAC, but their role has not been explored in vivo. This dissertation encompasses two studies exploring the role of miRNAs in pancreatic tumorigenesis. In Chapter II, I demonstrate that deletion of the mir-17~92 cluster impairs PDAC precursor lesion formation and maintenance, and correlates with reduced ERK signaling in these lesions. mir-17~92 deficient tumors and cell lines are also less invasive, which I attribute to the loss of the miR-19 family of miRNAs. In Chapter III, I find that Dicer heterozygosity inhibits PDAC metastasis, and that this phenotype is attributable to an increased sensitivity to anoikis. Ongoing experiments will determine whether shifts in particular miRNA signatures between cell lines can be attributed to this phenotype. Together these findings illustrate the importance of miRNA biogenesis, and the mir-17~92 cluster in particular, in supporting PDAC development and progression.
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Giersberg, Tullia. "Subtle engines : the poetics and politics of early modern machines." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/subtle-engines-the-poetics-and-politics-of-early-modern-machines(3476330d-68d7-471a-a736-bd3e894edfb7).html.
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Early modern machine culture bridges a gap between mechanical and rhetorical forms of wit – between technē and poiēsis or the sciences and the arts – and as such constitutes an important repository for our understanding of the period’s polysemous forms of literary production. This thesis uncovers and investigates some of the as-yet little examined textual lives of an eclectic array of instruments, engines, machines, and mechanisms in the works of Spenser, Jonson, Milton and their contemporaries, exploring the literary, political, and religious implications of mathematical instrument-making, the rise of the new science, and the advent of the mechanist philosophy. Both as metaphors and as rhetorical strategies, machines – and the narratives of cultural authority attaching to them – offer writers and inventors a means not only of intervening in public controversy, but also and especially of creating new and various forms of political agency. Mathematical instruments exert a particularly powerful influence on the political imagination of Tudor England, I argue in my first chapter. Throughout the period, the elaborate iconographies of globe and astrolabe in particular speak to us of the making – and expose the limits – of contemporary political fictions, surviving as extravagant records of personal and national ambition. For Edmund Spenser, contemporary machines and engines hold important potential as metapoetic devices. In The Faerie Queene, a number of ‘subtile engins’ closely allied with interrelated notions of linguistic and spiritual artifice serve to distance the poem’s moral allegory from the mechanisms of its own production, enabling Spenser to reflect upon and mediate the vexed politics of literary invention in post-Reformation England. Ben Jonson, meanwhile, conceives of machines as rhetorical strategies for 3 socio-political commentary. His unique and lasting interest in – and hostility towards – Cornelis Drebbel and the magico-mechanical marvels he introduced at the Jacobean court represents primarily a response to changing attitudes towards cultural authority during the early Stuart reign, precipitated by new technologies and ideas about the nature of invention on the one hand, and by the advent of Galilean astronomy and a number of spectacular visual technologies on the other. Early modern prosthetics and emergent visions of the Cartesian body-machine inaugurate surrogate kinds of textual agency in the political and religious polemics of the Civil War. In Royalist invective, historical, medical and proverbial attitudes towards prosthetic hands in particular serve to restore broken Royalist identities, sustain textual critiques of Parliamentarian rebellion, and ultimately enable the post-Restoration rewriting of the Interregnum as an artificial graft upon the nation’s body politic. At the same time, various existing and emergent notions of the early modern automaton give rise to a polemical counter-narrative in the political and religious prose of John Milton, who seeks to exert authorial control over the monarchy’s self-validating rhetorical mechanisms by implicating the Caroline state in the machine’s ontological determinacy. For him, as for the other writers I study, to uncover the rhetorical potential of machines is to (re)discover the animating power of the written word.
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Van, der Westhuizen Amanda. "Subtle racism amongst undergraduate learners after a decade of democracy." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1018820.
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The concept of “race” has been the organising feature of South African society for more than three centuries. More recent social changes in the United States of America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa have lead to more subtle expressions of racism. The present study aimed to explore and describe subtle racism amongst undergraduate psychology learners at a tertiary institution in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality in 2004. The Subtle Racism Scale was used to measure anti-Black sentiment among a sample of 286 undergraduate psychology learners, obtained through non–probability, convenience sampling. Multiple regression analysis revealed the independent variables of race, age, and the race-age interaction were significantly associated with subtle racism of the participants. Research results demonstrated that participants’ level of estimated subtle racism varied according to the age and race of the participants, supporting the notion that racism in South Africa did not influence different age and race groups in a uniform manner.
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Wictorsson, Fredrik. "Subtleties in Film Music : a cautious approach from a composer’s perspective." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1974.
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This report focuses on subtleties in different musical elements composed for the two films Francis and The Pink Cloud Syndrome, produced at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts between 2014 and 2015. Examples of how subtleties in the film scores were intentionally implemented in relation to the films are provided to give the reader an insight to this specific topic. Through analysis and reflections it was shown that subtleties could be found in every musical element addressed in this report at some point in the films.<br><p>Bilaga: 1 DVD</p>
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Cameron, Rose Ann. "Unseen dance : subtle interactions and their implications for the therapeutic relationship." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11811.
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This thesis examines an aspect of embodied relationship that is recognised in colloquial figures of speech but is not theorised, nor even much acknowledged in the psychotherapeutic literature. It argues that when we experience subtle sensations of extending towards another person, as we might when our "heart goes out" to them, and of pulling away, as we might when we "draw back", this seemingly internal experience is snesed by the other. Using a phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology underpinning by Merleau-Ponty, van Manen and Todres, exercised were used to bring such experiences to the awareness of several cohorts of experienced and inexperienced therapists attending a training course. Verbal and written accounts of what was felt during the exercised, and of similar experiences from more naturalistic settings, were collected along with the researchers' own accounts. These accounts are discussed within the framework of a Gadamerian Conversation with a view to making explicit the implication for Person-centred therapy with regard to practice, supervision and training. The conversation speaks of the the impact of these experiences upon whether or not clients perceive therapists as authentic, unconditionally accepting and empathic. Assumptions are uncovered and challenged and an alternative narrative emerges from a consideration of multiple contexts. The conversation also speaks of an unseen dance of closeness and distance that arises as each moves towards and away from the other. Conversation (and silence) is inevitably accompanied and impacted by this dance, which happens in the background of every interaction. The unseen dance impacts not only the relationship, but also each person's organismic state.
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Murck, Alfreda. "Poetry and painting in Song China : The subtle art of dissent /." Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University Press, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37735148n.
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Morey, Jennifer P. "Subtle Subversion: Gaskell's use of Scripture in Her Social Purpose Novels." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625598.
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Ward, Nicholas I. P. "Subtle traps in sedimentary basins and their importance to hydrocarbon exploration." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/113131/.
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This thesis uses high-quality 3D seismic data from the Broad Fourteens Basin (Southern North Sea), Espírito Santo Basin (SE Brazil), and Taranaki Basin (New Zealand) to characterise the evolution of geological structures related to differential compaction and subsidence; also known as subtle hydrocarbon traps. Each chapter tackles deformation over a different geological feature, spanning from salt-withdrawal basins, to submarine channel complexes and associated mass-transport deposits. These chapters subsequently discuss the impact the results have on the hydrocarbon industry. Included in these discussions are the importance of subtle traps on carbon capture and storage, local sealing potential, and reservoir distribution. The Broad Fourteens Basin dataset was used to investigate concentric faults associated with salt withdrawal from below Triassic units. Throw-depth and throw-distance plots helped to understand the growth histories of the concentric faults. It was shown that these faults formed as a result of the bending of strata due to differential subsidence during salt withdrawal. Slip tendency analyses assessed the likelihood for faults to reactivate and transmit fluids whenever pore fluid pressure is increased. This approach simulated a typical profile during carbon capture and storage. It was shown that concentric faults will reactivate if pore fluid pressures are increased above 30 MPa at the relevant sub-surface depths, leaking fluids (including stored CO2) past regional seal intervals in the basin. Data from the Espírito Santo Basin were first used to assess the timing and magnitude of differential compaction over a submarine channel complex. Thickness-relief models helped quantify both the variations in thickness in overburden strata. Smaller channels associated with downslope knickpoints were located within the channel complex. Differential compaction over channels produced four-way dip closures, as coarse-grained sediments were deposited at the knickpoint base. These provide adequate structural traps after early burial. The Espírito Santo Basin 3D survey was used in a third chapter to assess how differential compaction affected sediment distribution over a mass-transport deposit. As large remnant and rafted blocks entrained within the MTD were buried, differential compaction produced anticlines over them. This created a rugged seafloor and the topographic highs confined sediment moving downslope, allowing it to pond in discrete depocentres. Results from the data analysis chapters were compared with compaction-related structures documented in the published literature. A novel classification for subtle structural traps associated with differential compaction was produced, separating each feature into one of four types; Type A: folds over tectonic structures >2 km wide; Type B: folds over sedimentary packages, typically elongate, ~500 m to 5 km wide; Type C: folds over topographic features that are 20 m to 2 km wide; Type D: folds over sub-seismic/outcrop features no larger than 20 m. The results of the classification can be used as a first assessment when recognising a compaction-related fold and to rapidly assess its evolution and effectiveness as a subtle hydrocarbon trap.
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See, Pirita E. "Subtle Perceptual Dehumanization of Victimized Groups: The Visual Victim Dehumanization Hypothesis." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406288607.
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Nistor, Paul Andrei. "TWIST1 : a subtle modulator of neural differentiation and neural tube formation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11823.
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The central nervous system is formed from epiblast precursor cells through Neurulation. Neural induction can be studied in its main aspects in vitro. However, the process is poorly understood, especially in regard to when and how a cell becomes specified, and then committed, to be a neural cell. It is, on the other hand, well established that neural formation requires absence or, inhibition of the BMP signalling both in vivo and in vitro. ID1 is a direct target of BMP signalling with major influence on in vitro neural differentiation. A cDNA library screen, looking for transcription factors negatively regulated by ID1, reported TWIST1, along with only two other proteins. Twist1 expression is upregulated during in vitro neural differentiation. Furthermore, targeted deletion of Twist1 has dramatic consequences on anterior neural development. Twist1 knock-out mice fail to form the closed neural tube in the prospective brain, followed by exencephaly and, early embryonic death. In this thesis I investigate the influence on in vitro neural differentiation of a TWIST1 constitutively active form, insensitive to ID1 inhibition. I report that this transcriptionally active TWIST1 accelerates neural differentiation, in vitro and, biases it, towards dorsal phenotypes. I provide, for the first time, evidence for Twist1 expression in the neural tissue, observed weakly in a restricted domain, temporally and spatially, in the dorsal part of the neural tube. I propose a new model for TWIST1 influence at this level. I also investigate how TWIST1 actions depend on levels of expression and dimer choice. I found that, TWIST1 can exert its neural modulating actions only at low levels, as high levels divert a cell fate towards non-neural lineages.
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Klikunas, Wojciech. "Construct validity of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) as a screening instrument for alcoholism." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/546154.
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The purpose of the study was to evaluate the construct validity of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI) as a screening test for alcoholism. The study sample consisted of 238 participants. These included 50 alcoholics, 50 normals, 50 psychiatric outpatients, 50 co-dependent family members and 38 drug addicts, so classified by clinician diagnosis.All participants were administered the SASSI and also the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) and the MacAndrew Alcoholism-Screening Scale (AMAC). Correct classification rates for all three tests were determined using both a five-group criterion of classifying as an alcoholic, normal, psychiatric outpatient, co-dependent or drug addict, and a simpler two-group criterion of classifying as a substance abuser or non-abuser. Five null hypotheses were tested using Chi-square (alpha = .01) tests for equal proportions of classification accuracy. A sixth null hypothesis was tested using linear discriminant function analyses.Results Five-group criterion:1. The three tests differed in correctly classifying alcoholics, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.2. The three tests differed in correctly classifying normals, with the MAST and the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the SASSI.3. The three tests differed in correctly classifying psychiatric outpatients, with the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the SASSI.4. The three tests differed in correctly classifying drug addicts, with the AMAC and the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the MAST.5. The three tests did not differ to a statistically significant degree in classifying codependents.Two-group criterion (abuser/non-abuser):1. The three tests differed in correctly classifying alcoholics, with the MAST statitically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.2. The three tests differed in correctly classifying normals, with the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the MAST.3. The three tests differed in correctly classifying psychiatric outpatients, with the SASSI and the AMAC statistically significantly superior to the MAST.4. The three tests differed in correctly classifying drug addicts, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the SASSI.5. The three tests differed in correctly classifying co-dependents, with the SASSI statistically significantly superior to the AMAC and the MAST.Employing the two-group criterion, all tests vastly improved their performance with the SASSI significantly superior to the MAST and the AMAC at author-recommended cutting scores. Increasing the cutting score for the MAST improved classification accuracy even further. Employing the linear discriminant function, the three tests differed significantly, with the MAST statistically significantly superior to all other scales.ConclusionsNone of the three scales performed adequately with the five-group criterion. The simpler two-group criterion produced an 87% classification accuracy rate for the SASSI with the study sample at author-recommended cutting scores, which was statistically significantly superior to the MAST and the AMAC. The highest classification accuracy rates of 90.3% and 91.2% respectively were produced by the MAST at elevated cutting scores of 10 and 12 in the two-group criterion. These parallelled linear discriminant function results for the MAST.<br>Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Milne, Ian R. "Development of a BIPCON apparatus to probe subtle phenomena associated with carbocations." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phm6593.pdf.
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Addendum pasted onto back end-paper and previous leaves. Bibliography: leaves 170-173. This thesis details a study, including the development of the BIPCON Suite at the University of Adelaide, utilised in the conductometric analysis of the solvolyses of a series of 3-substituted adamantyl 1-tosylates in a range of solvents. The observed decrease in the degree of effect of the solvent ionising strength on the solvolysis of these substrates as the electron withdrawing nature of the remote substituent increased is shown, and potential explanations for this unexpected decrease in SN1 character given. The synthesis of some kinetically 1,3-disubstituted bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes, through the trapping of the intermediate bridgehead cation is also discussed.
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Guy, Isabelle. ""This subtle knot". The Metaphysical Conseit in John Donne's Prose and Poetry." Thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2007/25039/25039.pdf.
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Lessner, Grace I. "Subtle Sentry: State Public Records Laws and the Availability of Government Information." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626175.
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Asani, Furaha Florence. "Detection of subtle immune defects in individuals at risk of pneumococcal disease." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19508/.
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Immunocompromised individuals are at increased risk of developing invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We have previously shown that IPD sufferers have defective in vitro B-cell responses to a T-independent antigen mimic (αδdex), relative to healthy controls. We hypothesized that similar defects will be found in HIV-infected individuals, who continue to be at greater risk of IPD despite antiretroviral therapy, and in Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS) patients. Lymphocytes enriched from whole blood were cultured with addex alone and combined with anti-CD3, to assess both direct T- and B-cell effects, and T-cell help to B-cells. T- and B-cell activation and proliferation were assessed using standardised flow cytometry. B-cell subsets were stratified by CD19, CD10, CD20, CD21 and CD27 into plasmablasts, activated memory cells, resting memory cells, naive, and tissue-like memory cells. Results from 16 HIV-infected individuals [mean CD4 count 677.63/mm3, undetectable viral loads] showed no change in overall CD19+ B-cell activation but increased proliferation upon T-cell-helped pneumococcal-stimulation, compared to age-, sex- and ethnicity-matched controls. However, addex elicited significantly higher (p = 0.05) activation in plasmablasts in HIV-infected individuals compared to healthy controls. Furthermore, MGUS patients expressed significantly lower CD25 on CD8+ T-cells compared to healthy controls, following stimulation with anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 (p = 0.01). Age, sex and ethnicity were also found to influence T- and B-cell responses to polyclonal-stimulation in healthy individuals. Although activation of CD19+ B-cells was similar between HIV-infected adults and healthy controls, polyclonal B-cell stimulation reveals a persisting hyperactivation defect in the plasmablast B-cell compartment in HIV infection despite virological suppression. The findings in this study may indicate impaired immune control of pathogens such as S. pneumoniae in immunocompromised individuals.
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Green, Michael A. "Improving Identification of Subtle Changes in Wide-Area Sensing through Dynamic Zoom." Thesis, Delaware State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10794023.
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<p> The past decade has seen an abundance of applications that utilize sensors to collect data. One such example is a gigapixel image, which combines a multitude of high-quality images into a panorama capable of viewing hundreds of acres. The resulting datasets can be quite large, making analysis time consuming and resource intensive. Moreover, coverage of such broad environments can mean numerous sensor feeds to which one must attend. A suitable approach for analysis and sense-making of such data is to focus on “interesting” samples of data, namely regions of interest, or ROI. ROIs are especially useful in wide-area sensing situations that return datasets that are largely similar from one instance to the next, but also possess small differences. Identifying subtle changes is relevant to certain scenarios in surveillance, such as the evidence of human activity. Several ROI detection techniques exist in the research literature. My work focuses on ROI detection tuned to subtle differences for images at varying zoom levels. My thesis consists of developing a method that identifies regions of interest for subtle changes in images. In this pursuit, my contributions will address key questions including the characterization of image information dynamics through introduction of dynamic zoom, the definition and measurement of subtlety, and an approach for scoring and selecting ROIs. This work will provide an automated attention mechanism for zoomed images, but is also applicable to domains include satellite imagery and cyber security. </p><p>
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Ashcraft, Audrey Marie. "Experiences of Subtle Sexism Among Women Employees in the National Park Service." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7588.
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Although blatant sexism persists in the workplace, there is a subtler type of sexism that is not often discussed. Some of the harmful outcomes that concern organization employees and leaders include decreased job satisfaction and morale, increased stress and turnover, damaged workplace relationships, barriers to career development for women, and decreased feelings of safety in law enforcement employees. Subtle sexism is often disguised as friendliness or chivalry, and therefore is difficult to detect, so it is often ignored or trivialized. The harms are cumulative and compound over time. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to gather data about how women experience subtle forms of sexism in the National Park Service (NPS) workplace.
Semistructured telephone interviews assisted with the gathering of data from 12 women employed by the NPS. Feminist theory and critical theory guided the research process. Moustakas’s phenomenological method was used as an approach to data analysis. The findings that emerged included: (a) impacts on workplace culture, (b) harmful effects on individuals, (c) coping with subtle sexism, (d) organizational impacts, and (e) organizational change. The study promotes positive social change by providing a more nuanced understanding of how women experience and perceive subtle sexism. The results could help organizations to find more effective ways of dealing with this type of sexist behavior and decrease the negative outcomes.
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Guy, Isabelle. ""This subtle knot" : the metaphysical conceit in John Donne's prose and poetry." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/29502.
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Kender, William Theodore. "Controlling Excited State Electron Delocalization via Subtle Changes to Inorganic Molecular Structures." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534271989190317.
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Potticary, Ahva L., Jenélle L. Dowling, Douglas G. Barron, Daniel T. Baldassarre, and Michael S. Webster. "Subtle benefits of cooperation to breeding males of the Red-backed Fairywren." AMER ORNITHOLOGISTS UNION, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614984.
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Cooperative breeding is a phenomenon whereby breeding and nonbreeding individuals collectively provision young. Nonbreeding group members ("helpers'') may gain indirect and/or direct fitness benefits by breeding in a group, but there has been conflicting evidence regarding the benefits to breeders. In fact, the presence of helpers may sometimes be detrimental to aspects of breeder fitness. For example, in some species of the chiefly Australian genus Malurus, breeding males with helpers have lower within-pair paternity than do males without helpers. Additionally, indirect benefits to breeding males are often limited by low relatedness to their helpers due to high extrapair paternity rates, and helpers often appear to have minimal impact on breeder reproductive success. However, the presence of helpers may allow breeding males to shift their behaviors from guarding and provisioning young to alternative behaviors that affect other components of fitness, such as extraterritory forays (which might increase extrapair mating success) and self-maintenance (which might increase survival). We investigated these possibilities in the facultatively cooperative Red-backed Fairywren (Malurus melanocephalus). Males with helpers spent significantly less time engaging in guarding behaviors and provisioning of young than did those without helpers, but there was no difference in the frequency of extrapair forays nor the number of young sired by males with vs. without helpers. Additionally, the decreased investment in nesting behaviors did not result in consistently higher survival, but may have increased survival in some years. Overall, the results of this study did not suggest any strong direct fitness benefits to breeding males, which may indicate that the costs of retaining helpers are negligible relative to the indirect benefits of helping a potentially related male.
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Balaam, Madeline. "Exploring the emotional experiences of High School Students with a subtle stone technology." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504381.
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Fürst, Helen. "Growing up in a business family : an analytic autoethnography of 'subtle coerced succession'." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2017. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5095/.
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Family businesses are the backbone of the German economy (Otten-Pappas, 2015). The word ‘family’ makes these companies distinct and indicates their influence on other parts of life. My interest stems from the fact that I was the only child of a business family. For 15 years, I was in charge of the business, contributing to its strong performance. Nevertheless, having achieved all this, I am not proud of myself and feel somehow detached in not having lived my own life. The purpose of this analytic autoethnographic study is to explore, portray and deepen understanding of the situation of growing up in a business family and what influences this has on the business, the family and the individual. The research was carried out within an analytic autoethnographic framework, reflecting the desire to make sense of my experience and to give this phenomenon a name in an ‘academic way’. The abductive nature of this study is due to the fact that I draw on theories which have not previously been brought together under the umbrella of describing and portraying the situation in a family business. This research argues that the phenomenon of ‘subtle coerced succession', which is exercised by parents to groom the natural successor for taking over the family business, exists and has a strong influence on the generational interaction. Being aware of the fact of being born in a business family may imply while being the natural successor brings a lot of stress to the individuals involved. Realising this influence on succession might reduce the number of family businesses not making it to the third generation or beyond. My contribution to knowledge is that ‘subtle coerced succession’ has various impacts on the identity development of children born into family businesses and being the natural successor by birth. This study advances the development of theory by demonstrating how theoretical frames borrowed from other research fields – the total institution, the double-bind, gender and symbolic interactionism – fit together to explain the phenomenon of the ‘subtle coerced succession’ in family businesses.
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Parks, Tyler Munroe. "Subtle way out : cinematic thought, belief in the world, and four contemporary filmmakers." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/15978.
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In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, Gilles Deleuze distinguishes two regimes of audiovisual thought. In the regime of the movement-image, such thought is constituted by two processes. The first, differentiation/integration, expresses a whole that changes through the intermediary of the shifting relationships between the objects and people on screen. The second, specification, gives images a determinate function in a sensory-motor schema, through which perceptions are linked to actions in rational intervals of movement. With the regime of the time-image, as I understand it, thought instead comes to mean, as Deleuze puts it in Foucault, to experiment and problematize, and “knowledge, power, and the self are the triple root of a problematization of thought” (95). It is my argument in this thesis that Deleuze’s work on cinema is of great utility in carrying out filmic analyses that seek to detect and draw out the consequences of strategies of filmmaking that make knowledge, power, and self problematic. Furthermore, such a mode of analysis is particularly valuable in attending to new films that confront us with novel means of organising problematic audiovisual thought. My arguments are made through consideration of two films each from four directors: Wong Kar-wai, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. While there are many important differences between the works of these filmmakers, their films nevertheless lend themselves to an approach that seeks to determine how thought becomes problematic in specific cases. Similarities and resonances are brought out between these films and those that Deleuze uses himself in making his arguments and shaping his concepts, but I also identify new problems that we encounter in the works of these filmmakers, which extend the range of meaning of some of those concepts. One such concept that is of particular importance in this thesis is “belief in the world”. There is always something in those films that pass into the regime of the time-image that is asystematic, which breaks up and multiplies thought, multiplies the thinkers we are made to inhabit. Our relation to the world of the film is therefore unstable and uncertain, and calls for belief, since films themselves in this regime produce new links between humans and the world, rather than firmly establishing a realistic state of things, a temporal and spatial matrix that accords with that which we experience in everyday existence. Such films thus make us receptive to a thought different from that interiorised thought through which, as Nietzsche writes, the apparatus of knowledge abstracts, simplifies, and takes possession of the world and others (Will, no. 503, 274).
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Mosquera, Moya Marlene Pilar. "Analysis of the use of self-organization and subtle control in software projects." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177374.
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På senare tid har användandet av Scrum som verktyg för att organisera och hantera programutvecklingsprojekt växt avsevärt. Scrum anses av många som den bästa metodiken för programvaruutveckling, p.g.a. dess flexibilitet och tekniker för att hantera snabbt förändrade krav och lagarbete. De flesta av framgångarna för Scrum vilar på priniciperna för självorganisering och “subtil kontroll”. Med Scrum arbetar utvecklingsteamet självständig, utan direkt kontroll, och övervakning och påverkan utifrån är minimal. Trots fördelar och de möjligheter till att lyckas som Scrum erbjuder så har dess införande inte alltid varit en helt positiv upplevelse för användarna. Självorganisering och subtil kontroll må vara utomordentliga principer för att främja samarbete och självförbättring, men de kan även orsaka riskabla situationer när de missförstås eller inte appliceras alls. Avsaknad av auktoritet och ledarskap är typiska risker med alltför självorganiserande team, medan obehag och frustration kan bli följden av för mycket kontroll och påverkan utifrån på teamet och dess aktiveter. I båda fallen blir resultatet ett hinder som äventyrar den stabilitet och ordning som måste finnas på arbetsplatsen. Studien har för avsikt att åskådliggöra orsakerna till sådana extrema situationer. Genom analys av information inhämtad från scrumanvändare, visar undersökningen på möjliga orsaker till varför självorganisation och subtil kontroll ibland inte fungerar som väntat, samt de negativa konsekvenser som detta kan få på ett projekt. Slutsatserna återspeglar även hur människor uppfattar och applicerar självorganisation och subtil kontroll, samt hur de tolkar och antar sina roller under processens gång. Andra relevanta frågor som har noterats i undersökningen är hur scrummästaren och teammedlemmarna hanterar problems såsom avsaknad av auktoritet eller överdriven påverkan utifrån. Utfallet från studien visar att en gedigen introduktion och utbildning i scrumteori och dess principer är viktigt för att undvika risker. Resultaten har också påvisat betydelsen av en aktiv, genomgående kommunikation och engagemang bland alla roller som är delaktiga i projektet, för att slippa onödiga konflikter och påfrestningar. Sammanfattningen och slutsatserna inkluderar även en kort beskrivning av vad som kan förbättras för att undvika att extrem självorganisation eller överdriven kontroll inträffar, eller åtminstone minimera deras negativa inverkan på projektet.<br>In recent years, the use of the Scrum methodology as a tool to organize and manage software development projects, has grown considerably among organizations. Due to its flexibility and approach to handle fast changing requirements and enabling team work and improvement, Scrum is considered by many software professionals to be the best alternative to implement their solutions. Most of the success of Scrum rests upon the concepts of self-organization and subtle control. With Scrum, teams work independently whereas control is applied indirectly and supervision and intervention are minimal. However, in spite of all the benefits and possibilities for success that Scrum offers, for many of its users not everything has been quite a happy experience. Indeed, self-organization and subtle control may be excellent principles to encourage cooperation and self-improvement, but they can also trigger dangerous situations when not applied or understood properly. Loss of authority and direction are typical risks with excessively self-organized teams, whereas discomfort and frustration are the results of too much control and intervention over the teams and their activities. Eventually, either case becomes an obstacle that jeopardizes the stability and order that shall exist within the working environment. The study helps visualize the reasons that originate such extreme situations. Through the analysis of the information obtained from Scrum users, the research shows the possible reasons why selforganization and subtle control may not function as successfully as expected, and the negative consequences that this may have over the project. The findings also reflect how people understand and apply self-organization and subtle control and how they interpret and assume their roles along the process. Other relevant issues that have been remarked during the research are the Scrum Master's and team members' approaches to handle problems such as loss of authority and excessive intervention. Additionally, the outcome of the study shows that a solid introduction and lecturing of the Scrum theory and principles are equally important to avoid further risks. The results have revealed as well, the importance of an active, constant communication and commitment among all the roles involved in the project in order to keep away unnecessary conflicts and tensions. The summary and conclusions include a brief recount of what can be improved in order to prevent that extreme self-organization and excessive control happen or at least minimize their negative impact on the success of the project.
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Grasamkee, Lynn M. "Experiencing and perpetrating subtle-overt and domineering psychological abuse a study of community women /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273113071&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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