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Abstractions of Awareness: Aware of What?

2009
This chapter presents FN-AAR, an abstract model of awareness systems. The purpose of the model is to capture in a concise and abstract form essential aspects of awareness systems, many of which have been discussed in design essays or in the context of evaluating specific design solutions.
Panos Markopoulos, Georgios Metaxas
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Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

Psychological bulletin, 1991
This article proposes that binge eating is motivated by a desire to escape from self-awareness. Binge eaters suffer from high standards and expectations, especially an acute sensitivity to the difficult (perceived) demands of others. When they fall short
T. Heatherton, R. Baumeister
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US trends in prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension, 1988-2008.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2010
CONTEXT Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and treatment and control of hypertension reduces risk. The Healthy People 2010 goal was to achieve blood pressure (BP) control in 50% of the US population.
B. Egan, Yumin Zhao, R. N. Axon
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Aware system, aware unit and aware logic

2015 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF), 2015
In recent years, various aware systems have been developed in the context of ubiquitous computing to improve the quality of services (QoS). The ultimate goal of awareness computing (AC) is to establish a win-win relation between producers and consumers.
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Motor awareness without perceptual awareness

Neuropsychologia, 2005
The control of action has traditionally been described as "automatic". In particular, movement control may occur without conscious awareness, in contrast to normal visual perception. Studies on rapid visuomotor adjustment of reaching movements following a target shift have played a large part in introducing such distinctions.
Helen Johnson, Patrick Haggard
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Asleep but aware?

Brain and Cognition, 2014
Despite sleep-induced drastic decrease of self-awareness, human sleep allows some cognitive processing of external stimuli. Here we report the fortuitous observation in a patient who, while being recorded with intra-cerebral electrodes, was able, during paradoxical sleep, to reproduce a motor behaviour previously performed at wake to consciously ...
Mazza, Stéphanie   +6 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder Reaction: The Environmental Awareness of Investors

, 2013
This study examines whether shareholders are sensitive to corporations' environmental footprint. Specifically, I conduct an event study around the announcement of corporate news related to environment for all US publicly traded companies from 1980 to ...
Caroline Flammer
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The Aware Community

2008 Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, 2008
The McKIZ Aware Community will enable us to move the paradigm of an aware and assistive home to the development of an aware and assistive community infrastructure by incorporating devices and methods into a small urban community of homes, recreation facilities, retail and service providers, on city streets with vehicular traffic and public ...
J. Bertoty   +3 more
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User Awareness of Security Countermeasures and Its Impact on Information Systems Misuse: A Deterrence Approach

Information systems research, 2009
Intentional insider misuse of information systems resources (i.e., IS misuse) represents a significant threat to organizations. For example, industry statistics suggest that between 50%--75% of security incidents originate from within an organization ...
J. D'Arcy, A. Hovav, D. Galletta
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Current Awareness

eLucidate, 2008
   
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