The obscurity of negative and stereotypical representations
Il Bel Paese as seen from Malaysia: Language learners’ stereotypical representations of Italy
... traditional stereotypical representations of Italy that have prevailed over several centuries in various discourses in European and North American ...a negative mean valence value (MV= ...
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Black feminism: A critique of the stereotypical representations of Black women in African-American Comedy Films: A case study of selected Tyler Perry films.
... ‘Mammy’). She is neither a man nor a woman, but a super-human possessing super-powers. This is where patriarchy comes into play. Madea’s character has negative connotations of African- American men. When ...
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The edge of obscurity : affect, precarity, and culture in rural Japan
... and negative ones do not remain in suspension like oil and water, separate and identifiable, touching but failing to ...the negative becomes invisible, inextricable from the positive, pernicious and ...
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OBSCURITY OF MEANING IN POLITICAL UTTERANCES ON HATE SPEECH IN KENYA
... Politics, as a social activity, has become an indispensable enterprise in the social fabric all over the world. As conceptualized by Habwe (1999), politics has had an overwhelming importance in people‟s lives and it ...
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T. S. Eliot’s ‘Obscurity’ in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
... Verbs: linger, disturb, measure, presume, sprawl, pin, wriggle, digress, scuttle, malinger, weep, fast, flicker, snicker, bite off, squeeze, drown The modern poets like Eliot “asset their freedom from constraints of ...
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Effects of stereotypical media representations of American Indians on implicit and explicit bias: the power of Pocahontas
... the negative attitudes, beliefs, and behavior held by an individual towards a social group or category (often a minority group), resulting from the conscious, effortful processing of information relevant to that ...
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Enhancing Privacy through Negative Representations of Data
... O(ln) negative records to represent a positive database consisting of n, l-bit records, and then giving an algorithm for finding such a representation efficiently from any finite ...the negative scheme for ...
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Consumer Responses to Stereotypical vs. Non-Stereotypical Depictions of Women in Travel Advertising
... 57 advertising and how masculine and feminine characteristics may play a role in these responses. Several studies have examined the influence of feminist consciousness or masculine and feminine characteristics as an ...
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Stereotypical behaviour – genetic and environmental factors
... Abstract Stereotypic behaviour is common among zoo-animals and laboratory animals but also among farm animals and pets. It can be shown in forms like crib-biting and back-flipping. There have been many studies on how the ...
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Are Hindu Goddesses Feminist Icons or Stereotypical Tropes?
... and much of South Asian history for thousands of years. In Hinduism, religion and society are closely bound - some even argue they are inseparable. Thus, the religious view of women has a direct correlation to the social ...
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Matrix Factorization using Window Sampling and Negative Sampling for Improved Word Representations
... treating negative co-occurrences, unlike ...and negative sampling, but explicitly factorizing the PPMI matrix rather than implicitly factorizing the shifted PMI ...
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Learning Sparse Representations by Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Sequential Cone Programming
... parts-based representations (Lee and Seung, 1999; Donoho and Stodden, 2004) which in the context of recognition can be more robust than non-sparse, global ...localized representations (Li et ...
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How Palestinian students invoke the category "human" to challenge negative treatment and media representations
... challenge negative treatment and media representations Abstract Dehumanization of opponents in conflict has been shown to be a common and damaging feature in the ...
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Shared neural representations of cognitive conflict and negative affect in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex
... the Stroop or flanker task; Fig. 2A, left panels; which regions respond to conflict within tasks?), 85.. as well as cross-task (train and test on different tasks; which regions respond [r] ...
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Institutional, Stereotypical and Mythological Media Markers of Modern Society
... steady representations – ...preconceived representations and opinions. According to him, the main stereotypical estimation reasons are the intellectual efforts economy principle, and functions of ...
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How the Workplace Adopts Stereotypical Male Leadership Roles
... Traditionally, the workplace has appointed mostly men into top leadership positions. This is a result of gender stereotypes causing negative perceptions of how women lead. These perceptions not only cause a gender ...
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Prejudicial and Stereotypical Attitudes about the Issue of Obesity: An Action Project
... of negative attitudes toward fat people as a result of the modification of children’s beliefs about the controllabil- ity of obesity expressed by children from 9 to 11 years old; children of the expe- rimental ...
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Survival of the Stereotypical: A Study of Personal Characteristics on Reality Television Show
... Media representations, the authors explain, do not merely mimic—or seek to mimic—reality but in fact may suggest new ways of acting, feeling and thinking, and while audiences may dismiss media ...
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Learning Phenotypes and Dynamic Patient Representations via RNN Regularized Collective Non-Negative Tensor Factorization
... patient representations possibly being ...patient representations are constrained to be non-negative, resulting the “parts of the object” being cap- tured by the phenotypes (Lee and Seung ...
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The activation of stereotypical knowledge
... In the sections prior to presenting the experiments, I will demonstrate how stereotype activation and formation are related to basic cognitive processes, explain how explicit and impli[r] ...
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