Dissertations / Theses: 'Awareness'

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Sharp, L. Kathryn. "Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonological Awareness—Oh My!" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4256.

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Collins, Christina. "Increasing Cultural Awareness Through a Cultural Awareness Program." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1058.

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Racial tension still motivates strife and violence in the metropolitan Detroit area. This study sought to determine the effectiveness of a collaborative partnership on the attitudes of a group of diverse learners regarding multicultural relations. The purpose of this research study was to investigate whether participation in the Cultural Awareness Consortium (CAC) improved the multicultural relations of diverse high school students. The 2 theoretical frameworks guiding this study were Allport's intergroup contact theory and intercultural competence theory originating from International Education and International Studies. The research questions addressed whether attending the CAC for 4 months, the treatment, changed students' attitudes on multicultural relations, and whether a student's gender or ethnicity was a predictor of changes in these attitudes. This study used a single group, pre-experimental design with data collection from 2 administrations of the Student Multicultural Relations Survey. Fifty-four students completed the survey, which yielded 4 multicultural relations scales (dependent variables), 8 single-item attitudinal variables on multicultural issues, and 2 demographic variables (independent variables). Inferential analysis included t tests and multiple regression. Key results indicated that students' attitudes on multicultural relations had changed significantly; in addition, students talked to and mixed with students from different cultural backgrounds with greater frequency after the treatment. Educational institutions providing experiences like the CAC can make a positive impact on students' attitudes on multicultural relations. This impact can lead to positive social change as students increase their acceptance of others and take those attitudes and values with them into the workforce after they graduate, serving as role models of acceptance for their peers.

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Baker, H. "Glaucoma awareness." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16272/.

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This thesis investigates three different aspects of glaucoma awareness using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Patient Awareness: This qualitative study looked at patients perceptions of glaucoma. Participants (N=28) reported low levels of awareness of glaucoma prior to their diagnosis and assumed that symptoms were the ‘normal’ deterioration of eyesight. As symptoms have a gradual onset, participants had learnt to cope with diminishing sight ability. Findings suggested health promotion a priority to increase public awareness of the existence and symptoms of glaucoma among those at high risk. Current public awareness: This study looked to document public awareness and knowledge of glaucoma. The study used health knowledge questionnaires in three different populations: 1. nationally representative sample of 1009 people 2. telephone Interviews – 500 Isle of Wight, 226 Ealing 3. face-to-face interviews – 300 Ealing Between 71-93% of those interviewed by telephone had heard of glaucoma. However, only 23% of those interviewed face-to-face in Ealing reported having heard of glaucoma. We found a relatively high level of awareness and knowledge of glaucoma in the general UK population but identified at least one pocket of poor knowledge in a specific subpopulation. Can we change awareness? This study investigated whether a public health campaign could increase awareness and change help-seeking behaviour with respect to ocular health with residents in Southall, Ealing aged 60+. The health knowledge questionnaire from the previous study was used to assess the campaign. The health campaign comprised of four components. 1. Television 2. Local Press 3. Local Radio 4. Places of worship The results showed a significant increase in the number of people who had heard of Glaucoma rising from 22% to 53%. Before the intervention most people had heard about glaucoma from their GP, friend or relative. After intervention the majority (69%) had heard of glaucoma from the radio. This study showed a significant increase in awareness from using different kinds of media and showed radio to be the most effective in the target community. Although the campaign raised awareness it did not show a change in help seeking behaviour.

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Ireson, Brian. "Mediated awareness." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1328811997.

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Wang, Chia-Hao. "Context Awareness." Thesis, Konstfack, Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5870.

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From anti-modernism to the movement of regaining identity, in one way or another, we are all somehow looking for ways to find the harmony in this world. Respecting nature, be aware of the environment and co-exist with it, is worth further investigation. That is why I chose to examine the relationship of context and interior, with the help of natural light.

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Cain, Daniel T. "Twituational awareness: gaining situational awareness via crowdsourced #disaster epidemiology." Thesis, Monterey California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37594.

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Public health and other agencies need situational awareness to respond effectively to disasters or other incidents. Traditional means of obtaining this information require significant time and personnel. Social media is becoming increasingly popular among American citizens, and research is demonstrating that it may be a useful tool for bolstering information about unfolding events. This research analyzed the potential of the microblogging service Twitter in providing situational awareness. Tweets from a major snowstorm affecting the state of Massachusetts were collected, coded for content, and compared to traditional public health methods. The results indicate that Twitter can provide a rich source of data for responding agencies. Still, the immense volume of conversations makes extracting useful information in a timely manner a significant challenge. Practical approaches uncovered during this research can help agencies with nascent social media surveillance programs begin to unearth the valuable information that Twitter contains. Collaboration with information technology experts could allow public health and other responding agencies to create even greater value from social media platforms.

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Marks, Lori J. "2002 Deaf Awareness Week and Disability Awareness Month Celebration." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3696.

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Devalle, D. A. "Discrimination without awareness." Thesis, Bangor University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382758.

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Bahrami, Bahador. "Attention without awareness." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/17248/.

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Judging by introspection and intuition, most of us would agree that the we become conscious of events in the external physical world when we pay attention to them and things we notice (i.e., become conscious of) are the ones that attract our attention. A long tradition of investigations in psychology and neuroscience also confirm that attention and awareness go hand in hand. Recently, however, the validity of this intuition has been questioned. This thesis addresses the hypothesis that attention and awareness might be disentangled at behavioural and neurobiological levels. Two main questions were: (1) does allocation / withdrawal of attention to / from unconscious stimuli affect the contents of subconscious processing and if so, could one demonstrate such modulations at the perceptual levels of processing? (2) What are the neural substrates of attentional selection of unconscious perception? In order to address these questions I adopted the framework of Load Theory combined with a recently developed technique called Continuous Flash Suppression (which combines binocular rivalry with dichoptic masking allowing for prolonged periods of unconscious exposure to visual stimuli). In 7 behavioural experiments I demonstrated (1) orientation-specific adaptation to unconscious gratings (rendered invisible by CFS); (2) such subconscious orientation processing was modulated by attentional load in a concurrent orthogonal foveal task as well as by sustained spatial attention. Finally, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) I showed that human primary visual cortex (Vl) response to invisible stimuli was also modulated by attentional load. My findings join a-number of recent works in challenging the traditional view that attention and awareness are one and the same as well as the idea that attention acts as the gate-keeper to awareness. They also support the suggestion that neither the availability of attentional capacity for stimulus processing nor allocation of spatial attention can be a sufficient condition for awareness.

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Orchard, Gerald. "Priming and awareness." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21583.

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Three sets of experiments were designed to test Marcel's (1983ab) claim that backward pattern masked word primes are processed automatically and without awareness to a level of representation where the meaning of the word is identified. In the first set of experiments, Marcel's critical SOA procedure for determining an awareness threshold was found to be unsatisfactory. There was no evidence for semantic priming effects when more trials were used to determine the critical SOA. In the second and third sets of experiments, awareness of backward pattern masked primes was determined by subject's report of the prime. Conconscious priming effects from prior presentation of the target word in a lexical decision task, and the solution in an anagram solving task, were substantial and robust. Nonconscious semantic priming effects were small but were significant in both tasks when presentation was dichoptic. Nonconscious semantic priming effects in the anagram solving task were obtained under some conditions of binocular presentation. Priming effects are discussed with reference to word perception, reading, and theories of consciousness. One conclusion is that nonconscious automatic priming effects are "selective" and are far from being ubiquitous. This view of heterogeneous nonconscious selective priming does not support Marcel's (1983b) claim that nonconscious processing produces homogeneous activation to the highest level in all representations connected with the stimulus event.

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Ehrenberg, Isaac M. "Enlightened shelf awareness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46649.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-55).
The use of RFID technology in libraries has increased to the point where it is now the centerpiece of emerging automated self-checkout, return, and theft detection systems. With the external borders of the library secure, focus has shifted to improve the internal state of a library's collection, which is subjected daily to use and abuse by library patrons. In this thesis I present BookBot, a robot equipped with RFID readers, that automates the otherwise manual shelf-reading process and helps librarians keep their database in sync with the library's physical inventory. Experiments on single shelves and entire bookcases confirm that this robot-assisted approach to inventory management can not only detect misplaced books reliably, but accurately determine the order of the books on the shelves and even localize the coordinates of each book to within a few centimeters, enabling both the librarian and the user to reach a state of Enlightened Shelf Awareness.
by Isaac M. Ehrenberg.
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Richardson, Cassandra. "Awareness in ageing." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/66450/.

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Deficits in awareness are found in diseases of ageing, and with acute and traumatic brain injury. Despite investigations of awareness in ageing patient populations, little is known about any potential effects of normal ageing on awareness. The Hierarchies of Processing model (Stuss, Picton & Alexander, 2001) provided a theoretical framework for an investigation of different types of awareness in healthy ageing. Four empirical studies are reported in this thesis. An investigation of sensory processing using ERP components found that older adults had reduced attentional capture of auditory stimuli and allocated less attention to processing target stimuli. However, behavioural performance was equivalent across groups, indicating that the underlying differences found in sensory processing did not significantly impact on functioning. Age-related differences were also found in ERP components associated with performance monitoring: error detection; error processing; and, in reaction times. However, again, behavioural performance was similar, and indicated that older adults were able to compensate for underlying brain changes. In the third study, there were no age differences in any of the measures of awareness specifically focusing on current functioning and abilities, which suggested that awareness of abilities, did not alter as a function of healthy ageing. The final exploratory study found that the different levels of awareness were related, and, that the pattern of relationships was similar for younger and older adults. Normal healthy ageing was associated with subtle differences in some processes underlying different types of awareness, but without any functional impairment. It was concluded that older adults may adapt to underlying brain and cognitive changes occurring during later life.

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Whitbourne, Arthur Wayne. "Hindu awareness seminar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Neighbor, Rebecca, Matthew Holt, Emily Hamby, Timothy Brass, and Karen Schetzina. "GoJoCo Trail Awareness." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/asrf/2018/schedule/69.

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Obesity is one of the largest health problems our nation currently faces. There are many contributing factors to the development of obesity, including genetics, lifestyle, diet, social and economic status, and lack of education or resources. In the rural East Tennessee community of Johnson County, lack of exercise has been identified as a major contributor to obesity. In addition, community members have expressed concern of a lack of knowledge of public places to exercise, such as walking paths and hiking trails. Previous research has shown that access to educational materials, such as informational brochures and maps, can increase knowledge of exercise locations. Our hypothesis, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, is that creating and placing brochures in various locations throughout the community will normalize and encourage the use of these locations to increase exercise and ultimately improve the health of the community. An initial survey was sent to community members via email to determine what content should be included in the brochure. In conjunction with the Johnson County Health Council, a list of all walking paths and trails in the county was compiled. Each location was then visited to take note of the amenities available, the difficulty and the length of each path, and the hours available to the public. This information was then formatted into easy-to-read bullet points and grouped by geographic region in the county and a cartoon map developed. The completed brochure was then evaluated for effectiveness at increasing awareness of local paths and trails. Participants at a local doctor’s office were asked to complete a four question pre-survey assessing their current knowledge of walking paths and trails. The brochure was then given to the participants and sufficient time allowed to look through it. Participants completed an eight question post-survey which assessed any change in knowledge which occurred as a result of the brochure. The study was reviewed and approved by the ETSU Institutional Review Board. Preliminary results (n=6) show that the brochure is effective at increasing awareness and participants are more likely to visit one of the listed trails in the next month as a result. Further data collection is currently underway. By using a community based participatory approach, the specific needs of the community could be addressed. One drawback of this study is that it does not assess actual changes in trail usage or physical activity. However, it is hoped that the creation of this brochure and its use in the Johnson County community will lead to a more active community and will inspire future health initiatives.

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Szczerbak, Michal Krzysztof. "Colloborative Situation Awareness." Télécom Bretagne, 2013. http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/publications/publication.php?idpublication=13949.

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La sensibilité à la situation et l'intelligence collective, sont deux technologies utilisées dans les systèmes intelligents. La première rend ces systèmes capables de raisonnement sur leur connaissance abstraite sur ce qui se passe. La seconde permet d'apprendre et de dériver de nouvelles informations à partir de la composition d'expériences de leurs utilisateurs. Dans ce mémoire de thèse nous présentons une recherche doctorale qui s'efforce combiner les deux afin d'obtenir, de façon collaborative, un ensemble des règles de situations, dont le partage soit profitable pour une communauté d'entités. Nous introduisons le système de recommandation KRAMER, que nous avons conçu et mis en oeuvre comme une solution au problème d'inexistence des outils de support à la fois sensibles à la situation et collaboratifs. Le système étant générique, nous appliquons l'implémentation de son prototype à un scénario de communication sociale enrichie de contexte
Situation awareness and collective intelligence are two technologies used in smart systems. The former renders those systems able to reason upon their abstract knowledge of what is going on. The latter enables them learning and deriving new information from a composition of experiences of their users. In this dissertation we present a doctoral research on an attempt to combine the two in order to obtain, in a collaborative fashion, situation-based rules that the whole community of entities would benefit of sharing. We introduce the KRAMER recommendation system, which we designed and implemented as a solution to the problem of not having decision support tools both situation-aware and collaborative. The system is independent from any domain of application in particular, in other words generic, and we apply its prototype implementation to context-enriched social communication scenario

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Leather, Cathy V. "The role of memory, phonological awareness and syntactic awareness in reading." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259512.

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Alrayes, Fatma. "Location privacy awareness on geo-social networks enhancing awareness with feedback solutions." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/110806/.

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Users of GeoSocial Networks (GeoSNs) share their personal location information with other users online. GeoSNs use spatiotemporal histories of users and other semantic information from their tags and comments to build location-based profiles and to offer personalised services and interaction experiences. However, such location-based profiles can potentially be used to extract private information about users, that they may not wish to disclose, and can thus pose a threat to their privacy. Users are generally unaware of the extent of data they are sharing and its potential implicit content. Studies have also shown that users are concerned about their location privacy and that current solutions offered by GeoSNs, namely privacy policies and privacy settings, do not effectively address their concerns. The focus of this thesis is on addressing the problem of location privacy on GeoSNs through enhancing users’ location privacy awareness of potential risks to allow them to make informed consent about their location disclosure. Therefore, this work firstly studies the link between location information disclosure and the risks to personal privacy and evaluates the level of user awareness and their attitude to privacy implications of sharing location information in GeoSNs. Factors contributing to the location privacy problem are identified, including those stemming from the nature of the data collection procedures and the modes of using the application by the users. Systematic user studies were carried out that showed the limitation in users’ awareness of the extent of the data and information they are disclosing. Thus, to enable location privacy awareness, a data-driven approach is undertaken to assessing the threat associated with the exposure of location-related personal information. Based on that, a privacy threat model is proposed that takes into account the types of shared data, its visibility by possible adversaries and the user’s awareness of the disclosed information. In addition, privacy feedback solutions are proposed to address the gaps in user awareness by revealing the level of risk to their privacy associated with exposing different types of location-related personal information. These solutions allow users to view their geo-profiles collected and inferred based on their location-sharing actions on GeoSNs and notify them about who of the other users can see their information. User-based experiments were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions using surveys, interviews, and prototypes along with realistic users’ data. Results demonstrate clearly the significance of the proposed solutions on enhancing user awareness. Employing the methods proposed in this thesis will thus enable users to effectively manage their privacy and make informed decisions about their location disclosure on GeoSNs.

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Sharp, L. Kathryn. "Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics; Vocabulary and Comprehension; Content Area Reading." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/4288.

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Rittenbruch, Markus. "Active awareness : supporting the intentional disclosure of awareness information in collaborative systems." Thesis, University of Queensland, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/70075/1/s4067813_phd_finalthesis.pdf.

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This thesis opens up the design space for awareness research in CSCW and HCI. By challenging the prevalent understanding of roles in awareness processes and exploring different mechanisms for actively engaging users in the awareness process, this thesis provides a better understanding of the complexity of these processes and suggests practical solutions for designing and implementing systems that support active awareness. Mutual awareness, a prominent research topic in the fields of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) refers to a fundamental aspect of a person’s work: their ability to gain a better understanding of a situation by perceiving and interpreting their co-workers actions. Technologically-mediated awareness, used to support co-workers across distributed settings, distinguishes between the roles of the actor, whose actions are often limited to being the target of an automated data gathering processes, and the receiver, who wants to be made aware of the actors’ actions. This receiver-centric view of awareness, focusing on helping receivers to deal with complex sets of awareness information, stands in stark contrast to our understanding of awareness as social process involving complex interactions between both actors and receivers. It fails to take into account an actors’ intimate understanding of their own activities and the contribution that this subjective understanding could make in providing richer awareness information. In this thesis I challenge the prevalent receiver-centric notion of awareness, and explore the conceptual foundations, design, implementation and evaluation of an alternative active awareness approach by making the following five contributions. Firstly, I identify the limitations of existing awareness research and solicit further evidence to support the notion of active awareness. I analyse ethnographic workplace studies that demonstrate how actors engage in an intricate interplay involving the monitoring of their co-workers progress and displaying aspects of their activities that may be of relevance to others. The examination of a large body of awareness research reveals that while disclosing information is a common practice in face-to-face collaborative settings it has been neglected in implementations of technically mediated awareness. Based on these considerations, I introduce the notion of intentional disclosure to describe the action of users actively and deliberately contributing awareness information. I consider challenges and potential solutions for the design of active awareness. I compare a range of systems, each allowing users to share information about their activities at various levels of detail. I discuss one of the main challenges to active awareness: that disclosing information about activities requires some degree of effort. I discuss various representations of effort in collaborative work. These considerations reveal that there is a trade-off between the richness of awareness information and the effort required to provide this information. I propose a framework for active awareness, aimed to help designers to understand the scope and limitations of different types of intentional disclosure. I draw on the identified richness/effort trade-off to develop two types of intentional disclosure, both of which aim to facilitate the disclosure of information while reducing the effort required to do so. For both of these approaches, direct and indirect disclosure, I delineate how they differ from related approaches and define a set of design criteria that is intended to guide their implementation. I demonstrate how the framework of active awareness can be practically applied by building two proof-of-concept prototypes that implement direct and indirect disclosure respectively. AnyBiff, implementing direct disclosure, allows users to create, share and use shared representations of activities in order to express their current actions and intentions. SphereX, implementing indirect disclosure, represents shared areas of interests or working context, and links sets of activities to these representations. Lastly, I present the results of the qualitative evaluation of the two prototypes and analyse the results with regard to the extent to which they implemented their respective disclosure mechanisms and supported active awareness. Both systems were deployed and tested in real world environments. The results for AnyBiff showed that users developed a wide range of activity representations, some unanticipated, and actively used the system to disclose information. The results further highlighted a number of design considerations relating to the relationship between awareness and communication, and the role of ambiguity. The evaluation of SphereX validated the feasibility of the indirect disclosure approach. However, the study highlighted the challenges of implementing cross-application awareness support and translating the concept to users. The study resulted in design recommendations aimed to improve the implementation of future systems.

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Watts, Robert B. "Implementing maritime domain awareness." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Mar%5FWatts.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2006.
Thesis Advisor(s): Jeffrey Kline. "March 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-66). Also available online.

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Verdaguer, Sergi Laencina. "Model driven context awareness." Thesis, KTH, Kommunikationssystem, CoS, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-92029.

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The very nature of mobile phones makes them ideal vehicles to study both individuals and organizations: people habitually carry a mobile phone with them and use it as a medium for much of their communication. The information available from today's phones includes the user's location, people nearby, and communication (call and SMS logs), as well as application usage and phone status (idle, charging, and so on). The main goal of this project is to combine some of the new technologies of voice over IP (VoIP) with context awareness services for mobile users and create a demonstrator for a typical routine of a student in Kista. We used context awareness together with the SIP Express Router to make a system more intelligent for the user. In this thesis the definition of CPL scripts and how they could exploit context information to provide SIP service that would be useful to a student were examined. A simple test was conducted to measure the overhead of using context awareness by the SIP proxy when processing CPL scripts.
Mobila telefoner gör dem ideala medel för att studera både individer och organisationar: personer bär ofta en mobil telefon med dem och använder den som ett medel för mycket av deras kommunikation. Informationen som är tillgänglig från dagens telefoner inkluderar användares läge, personer som är närliggande och kommunikation, såväl som applikationanvändning och telefon status. Målet av detta projekt är att kombinera som några av de nya teknologierna av röst över IP (VoIP) med kontextuppmärksamma servar för mobila användare och skapar en demonstrant för en typisk rutin av en studerande i Kista. Vi använde kontextuppmärksamma med SIP Express Router för att göra ett system mer intelligent för användare. I detta examensarbetet undersöker vi CPL skrifter och hur de skulle kunna exploatera kontext information för att ge den SIP tjänsten som är användbar till en studerande. Ett enkelt test förades för att mäta det över huvudet av att använda kontextuppmärksamma av den SIP proxyen när det arbetar med CPL skrifter.

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Aarabi, Parham. "Multi-sense artificial awareness." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0004/MQ45980.pdf.

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Goldmann, L. E. "Awareness under general anaesthesia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373669.

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Hourizi, Rachid. "Awareness beyond mode error." Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516906.

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Rusbridge, Sarnia J. "Peoples Awareness of Fire." University of Canterbury. Civil Engineering, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8292.

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A sample group of the Christchurch population was interviewed to discover if there were any trends in fire awareness and fire knowledge that were related to background characteristics. A variety of methods were used to reach the 141 respondents who completed the survey. These respondents came from a variety of income, age and ethnic groupings. However most respondents were mid-income Europeans. Results were gathered and presented to show what this sample group believes about fire and its behaviour. It also shows peoples actions in fire situations and what fire safety equipment is installed in their homes. A Chi-square analysis was then performed on four background characteristics. This was done to find if there was any evidence that these background characteristics have an affect on peoples' awareness of fire. From the analysis the author recommends that information on the care of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers becomes more widely available and easily accessible. Also of great importance is the need for every household to have and to practice an escape plan. These general recommendations need to be available for the general population along with specific information to target the lack of knowledge in the different background categories.

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Toussaint, Gregory W. "Executive security awareness primer." Thesis, Utica College, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1586318.

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The purpose of this paper was to create a primer for a security awareness program to educate senior level executives on the key aspects of cyber security. This is due to the gap area that was discovered in the lack of both executive security awareness programs, and the lack of executives that fully abide by their company's security policies. This, coupled with research showing that executives are highly targeted by attackers, was the impetus behind this project. It was determined that the content of an executive security awareness program should be similar to that of a security awareness program for all other employees, with the differences being in the delivery and time frame of each segment. Due to this, literature was reviewed on the various topics of security awareness. Research revealed the importance of capturing an executive's attention, in order to keep their interest in the program. It was recommended that individuals charged with creating an executive security awareness program begin by having one on one meetings with the executives in their company. These meetings will help assess the time constraints of their company executives as well as their current knowledge of the various security awareness topics. This will help with tailoring the program specifically to their company executives. This primer may be used by any company or organization in the beginning stages of creating their own security awareness program for executives. Keywords: Cybersecurity, Professor Albert Orbinati, Executive Security Awareness, Internet Safety.

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Hon, Yuk Ching Metis. "Genre awareness in children." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366091.

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McKinley, Ryan 1976. "Open government information awareness." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62042.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-100).
In the United States, there is a widening gap between a citizen's ability to monitor his or her government and the government's ability to monitor a citizen. Average citizens have limited access to important government records, while available information is often illegible. Meanwhile, the government's eagerness and means to oversee a citizen's personal activity is rapidly increasing. As the government broadens internal surveillance, and collaborates with private institutions to access data on the public, it is crucial that we maintain a symmetry of accountability. If we believe the United States should be a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people" it is of central importance to provide citizens with the power to oversee their government. At least as much effort should be spent building tools to facilitate citizens supervising their government as tools to help the government monitor individuals. In this thesis, I discuss the motivations, design, and implementation of Government Information Awareness, a citizen run database on our government. Fundamentally, this system relies on an organizational structure that accepts information from an anonymous population, stores it, and represents it with enough context to maintain legibility. My work in this thesis is offering a framework for a system that could help citizens pool their collective knowledge, and through this process, create a more informed public capable of self-rule.
Ryan McKinley.
S.M.

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Scheidemantel, Austin, Ibrahim Alnasser, Benjamin Carpenter, Paul Frost, Shivhan Nettles, and Chelsie Morales. "Situational Wireless Awareness Network." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604295.

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ITC/USA 2010 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Sixth Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 25-28, 2010 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California
The purpose of this paper is to explain the process to implementing a wireless sensor network in order to improve situational awareness in a dense urban environment. Utilizing a system of wireless nodes with Global Positioning System (GPS) and heart rate sensors, a system was created that was able to give both position and general health conditions. By linking the nodes in a mesh network line of sight barriers were overcome to allow for operation even in an environment full of obstruction.

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Jenkins, Sarah Jane. "Public Awareness of Aphasia." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1345144222.

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Oddsson, Gudmundur Aevar Galliher John F. "Class awareness in Iceland." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6561.

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The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. John Galliher. Includes bibliographical references.

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Underwood, William L. "Cultural awareness sensitivity training." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2002. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=187.

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Flood, Robert Alan 1951. "Agricultural awareness in Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291776.

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The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge base and opinions about agriculture that were held by an urban community college population in the state of Arizona. Faculty members, teaching freshmen composition courses, in the two largest urban community college districts in Arizona were randomly selected and asked to distribute the survey instruments in one of their classes. The knowledge and opinion portions of the survey each contained 40 statements designed to assess a broad scope of agricultural information. The study found that a majority of respondents were not sure about the answers they gave on the knowledge assessment portion of the study. There was a significant difference in the way that minorities responded to questions when compared with non-minorities in both portions of the study. No significant differences were found when comparing responses between those who had previously had agricultural education experiences with those who had not.

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Becker, Darci Lynn Sturtz. "Patient awareness of dysphagia." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/925.

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The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of reduced patient awareness of oropharyngeal dysphagia. While patient awareness of dysphagia has been explored in individuals before participating in formal swallowing assessments, no studies have been identified in the literature that have explored awareness after patients have participated in an examination and received information about their dysphagia. In addition, the relationship between patient compliance and reduced awareness, as well as the application of stages of change in this population were explored. Twenty-one inpatients and outpatients, newly diagnosed with oropharyngeal dysphagia, participated in this study. A retrospective analysis found that 40% of participants demonstrated reduced awareness of their dysphagia before participating in a videofluoroscopic swallowing examination. Reduced pre-examination awareness of dysphagia occurred most frequently in those with general medical diagnoses versus neurological or structural diagnoses. Reduced pre-examination awareness was not significantly associated with a reduced cough response following aspiration. Exploration of post-examination patient awareness of dysphagia, the primary intent of this study, revealed that 19% of patients demonstrated reduced awareness of their dysphagia, even after receiving specific verbal and visual information regarding their diagnosis. Reduced post-examination awareness of dysphagia occurred equally in those with structural and neurological diagnoses and was not noted in those with general medical diagnoses. Reduced post-examination awareness was not significantly associated with a reduced cough response following aspiration. Consistent with the literature on reduced patient awareness of deficit, patient awareness of dysphagia was modality specific. That is, some patients with reduced awareness of dysphagia demonstrated awareness of other deficits and vice versa. Overall, participants demonstrated more awareness of concomitant speech impairments than dysphagia and less awareness of concomitant cognitive impairments than dysphagia. No significant relationship between general cognitive impairment and reduced patient awareness of dysphagia was found. Exploration of diet compliance in inpatient participants revealed no instances of noncompliance, while hospitalized, from the day of the swallowing examination until the day of participation in the study. However, only 67% of these patients requested permissible foods or drinks when compliance was sampled during the study protocol, suggesting that inpatients with newly diagnosed dysphagia may be less compliant if restricted items become accessible. No significant relationship between patient awareness of dysphagia and diet compliance, as sampled during the study protocol, was found in both inpatients and outpatients. The relationships between patient awareness of dysphagia and patient compliance for both swallowing strategies and exercise regimens were also not significant, though these analyses were limited by the small number of participants who had been prescribed strategies and independent exercise programs at the time of their study participation. Lastly, analysis of the relationship between patient compliance and action or post-action stages of change, revealed no significant association between these variables.

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Arvidsson, Viktor. "Coordination from an Awareness perspective : Mechanisms and techniques for Awareness based Coordination support." Thesis, Umeå University, Department of Informatics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-25364.

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When a task becomes shared the need for coordination arises. One fundamental factor for coordination is awareness. This study aimed to answer the question of how awareness-based coordination support systems could increase the efficiency in the processing of tasks generated by the Customer Support Unit in Skellefteå municipality, ultimately creating a better work situation for the officers responsible for the handling of tasks and increasing the service level for the customers of their services. This question was answered by conducting interviews, observing system usage and through analysis of pre-existing interviews from earlier studies of the municipality’s CSU project. This study shows that there are aspects in the task management that are in need of coordination support and presents a task classification system based on the logistic nature of the task. Furthermore this paper identifies the main problems related to the current task management and from an awareness perspective discusses and outlines various mechanisms and techniques to address these problems. Alongside these problems the general lack of coordination support in the current Document and Workflow System (FlexiteBPMS) is approached. Furthermore all outlined proposals share the common aspiration of lessening the burden for the officers without simply shifting the workload onto other units in the workflow chain.

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Arsenault, Kevin J. "Ethics and awareness : a social psychological study of impediments to dynamic moral awareness." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28666.

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This study examines impediments to dynamic moral awareness. Following the understanding of knowledge developed by Michael Polanyi and Bernard Lonergan, ethics is presented not as a science of abstract norms and principles, but as a transformative science of reflection on moral activity. Drawing from the social sciences, negative structural patterns which corrupt transformative awareness are examined under the rubrics of self-deception, social ignorance, ideology, dependency and social conformity. These investigations identify and analyze sociological and psychological features of dynamic relationships preventing or corrupting processes of personal transformation and the building up of moral human community. At each stage of the study, the central role of economic and political structures and conditions influencing modern consciousness, and defining society, are taken into account. This research provides insights and analytical tools to increase our capacity to become aware of the subtle social psychological dynamics which stifle human creativity and block moral and social development within contemporary society.

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Wager, Erica Elizabeth. "Spatial Awareness and Memory Reconsolidation: The Role of Spatial Awareness in Memory Updating." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244842.

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Hubach, Gomez, Hardt and Nadel (2007) provided the first demonstration of reconsolidation of episodic memory in humans. Memory for a set of20 objects was modified by the presentation of a new set of 20 objects if and only if participants were reminded of the first learning episode before learning the new set. Hupbach, Hardt, Gomez and Nadel (200S) then explored the importance of spatial context in the reminder condition. A bimodal split between participants in memory updating occurred when they were brought to a different context for Session 3. The present study investigates this bimodal split by distributing a spatial awareness assessment during Session 3 using the same methods as Hupbach et al. (200S). Forty-two adults aged lS-25 were tested in two paradigms. A significant difference was found between average intrusion rate of Low SAA scorers and High SAA scorers (p = .01S). A correlation was found between intrusion rate and spatial awareness assessment score in Set 1 recall (R² = .49) while no correlation (R² = .05) was found for intrusions into Set 2 recall. These implications are important for learning how memory updating occurs in different types of people, highly spatially aware and average or low spatially aware.

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Lund, Per. "Information Security Awareness amongst students : A study about information security awareness at universities." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-70873.

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In the era of information, it has become vital for companies to make sure that their information is properly protected. They are therefore, willing to spend large amounts of resources on protecting their information. This can usually be done in a large variety of ways. The root of information security is first and foremost, having policies that regulate how information security is upheld. And secondly, by teaching employees proper practice of information security. These are however procedures that are not all that common in a university environment, and even more so in relation to students. In order to explore this phenomenon further, an exploratory study have been carried out to find more information on the subject. This has been done in several ways in order to grasp as much information as possible. Firstly, by doing a literary study to find out what is already known within the field of information security in regard to students. Secondly, by doing a quantitative study that evaluates the student’s information security awareness. And lastly, by conducting an interview with a member of staff at a university to find out their attitude towards the phenomenon. The thesis concludes by suggesting how universities might want to handle information security in relationship to students.

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Irani, Feruzan Syrus Oswald Sharon L. "The relationships among personality, stress, and situation awareness the effect of situation awareness training /." Auburn, Ala., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1481.

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Haseloff, Sandra. "Context awareness in information logistics." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=974827967.

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Bernardo, Rui. "SoFIA: Shop Floor Intelligence Awareness." Master's thesis, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/31346.

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Trabalho de Projeto submetido como requisito parcial para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Software
Nos dias que correm, os dados são um dos ativos mais importantes de uma empresa. O conceito de Business Intelligence surge precisamente como um conjunto de técnicas que permite extrair valor desses dados, transformando-os em informação. É neste contexto que se insere a execução deste projeto. Fazendo uso de um conjunto de dados, que já eram recolhidos pela empresa, e trabalhando-os, de forma a gerar informação que permita gerar impacto positivo quer nos operadores da fábrica (motivando uma competição saudável entre os mesmos, para que tenham o mínimo de paragens possíveis nas linhas de produção pelas quais são responsáveis), quer na equipa de gestão e coordenação (permitindo aferir informação disponibilizada através de indicadores de desempenho). A informação extraída a partir do processamento destes dados é disponibilizada através de dashboards para várias áreas da empresa, refletindo ocorrências verificadas nas linhas de produção, que de acordo com um conjunto de regras definidas pela equipa de gestão, devem ser evidenciadas.
Nowadays, data is one of the most important assets of a company. The Business Intelligence concept emerges precisely as a set of techniques that aim to extract value from this data, transforming it in information. It is in this context that this project execution belongs to. By making use of a set of data, that is already gathered by the company, and working it, in a way to create information that allows to generate a positive impact either on factory operators (by promoting a healthy competition among them, in order to prevent break downs as much as possible, in production lines they are responsible for) and management or coordination teams (by providing information available through performance indicators). The information extracted from this data processing is made available through dashboards, to several company areas, reflecting incidents verified in production lines, that according to a set of rules, created by the management team, should be highlighted.

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Roper, Catherine Elizabeth. "Metaphonological awareness and spelling ability." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30293.

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between metaphonological awareness and spelling ability. Twenty-five children in Kindergarten and Grades One and Two were asked to participate in two tasks of metaphonological awareness, one involving phoneme segmentation (Yopp,1988) and the other phoneme deletion (Rosner,1975). Children were also asked to provide self-generated spelling samples. Spelling samples were then analyzed according to a spelling assessment scheme developed for this study and based on the developmental spelling stages outlined by Beers and Beers (1981) and Gentry (1982). The major finding from this study is that some aspects of metaphonological ability are reliably and moderately related to spelling development. Other findings regard the characteristics of children's spelling errors observed in the course of developing the spelling assessment scheme.
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Kohler, Axel. "Motion, attention, and visual awareness." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Universiteit Maastricht [host], 2006. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6485.

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Velikonja, Katherine. "Awareness of self-initiated movement." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33855.

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Awareness of movement onset was studied in a series of three experiments. It was defined as the ability to detect computer-generated delays between the movement onset of the subject's hand and a visually displayed hand. This was accomplished by employing a Cyber Glove that rendered a computer-generated image of a hand on a computer screen.
In the pilot study, an estimate of the average detection threshold of movement onset delays was obtained in 17 normal control subjects (9 females, 8 males). Peripheral view of the hands was blocked. No significant differences in detection thresholds between men and women, between left and right hands, and across types of movement (all-fingers, index-finger, index-middle-finger extension) were found.
In the second study, data on detection thresholds in the absence of proprioceptive input was gathered from a patient diagnosed with sensory neuropathy of the left hand. No significant differences in detection thresholds between the affected and unaffected hand were recorded. Proprioception does not appear to be critical for awareness of movement onset delays.
In the third study, 33 normal control subjects (31 females and 2 males) performed four experimental movement conditions, two passive and two active. During the passive conditions, a lever device moved the subject's finger while their hand was either visible (PF) or hidden (PH) from view. In the active condition the subject moved their own finger while their hand was either visible (AF) or hidden (AH) from view. Detection thresholds were significantly lower during the active than the passive conditions (p < 0.01). No significant main effect of view was present. It appears that internal feedback loops, as opposed to visual feedback loops, may play a critical role in awareness of movement onset.
Taken together, data from all three studies suggest that the efferent copy plays an important role compared to visual or proprioceptive cues in the detection of movement onset delays.

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Banos, Smith Helen. "Phonological awareness, literacy and bilingualism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343434.

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Hon, N. H. H. "Visual awareness and the brain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604201.

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This thesis details an investigation into the neural correlates of visual awareness. Extant data acquired with whole brain imaging techniques suggest that being visually aware is associated with a widespread pattern of neural activity that includes the activation of frontal and parietal areas in addition to more specialised local processors (i.e. brain areas that process for specific sorts of information). However, this idea could not be unequivocally accepted because the relevant studies failed to control for or minimise the influence of attentional shifts and/or cognitive demands, two variables that have been known to engage frontal and parietal areas similar to those observed in studies of awareness. As such, it was initially impossible to determine whether the observed frontal and parietal activity was associated with awareness per se or instead with related but distinct processes. Here, in a series of functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, the natural correlates of visual awareness were probed by manipulating the focus of attention. Behavioural studies have demonstrated that information not given the benefit of attentional processing is not available to conscious awareness. In the main experiments here, subjects viewed two streams of continuous (and equivalent) visual events, paying attention to only one stream and ignoring the other. Behavioural tests conducted confirmed that attended visual information was seen and remembered better than unattended information. Correspondingly, contrasting the neural activity associated with attended visual events with that associated with unattended visual events revealed a large-scale distributed pattern of neural activity (that included frontal and parietal foci), even when the influence of cognitive demands and spatial shifts of attention were controlled for or minimised. This pattern of activity was observed under different experimental conditions and with different stimulus sets, hinting at its generality. Further experiments ruled out the possibility that these results were due to novelty detection or inhibitory processes that operate when having to deal with multi-object visual displays. Additionally, it was found that these frontal and parietal areas where likewise sensitive to increases in cognitive demand, suggesting a strong link between awareness and problem solving. These findings are discussed and evaluated with reference to the notion of a global workspace that is proposed to support conscious, adaptive control of thought and behaviour.

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Allison, Robert W. "Transcultural awareness in nursing practice." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 1998. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/18.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Birch-Kennedy, Katie. "Awareness of ageism in learning." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316111.

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Wathome, Abigail. "Public awareness in agricultural research :." Thesis, University of Reading, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424094.

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Jack, Anthony Ian. "Perceptual awareness in visual masking." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313804.

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