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Individuals who anticipate poor performance on some imminent task often offer disclaimers – verbal statements which serve to protect them from negative social evaluation by dissociating the poor performance from their identity. In the present study, 7to 14-year-olds (N = 226) responded to hypothetical vignettes where the protagonists either used or did not use a disclaimer when telling a peer a...

The weakly coupled vacuum of E8 ⊗ E8 heterotic string theory remains an attractive scenario for phenomenolgy and cosmology. The particle spectrum is reviewed and the issues of gauge coupling unification, dilaton stabilization and modular cosmology are discussed. A specific model for condensation and supersymmetry breaking, that respects known constraints from string theory and is phenomenologic...

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University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering 11.01.2016 1 Disclaimer—This paper partially fulfills a writing requirement for first year (freshman) engineering students at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. This paper is a student, not a professional, paper. This paper is based on publicly available information and may not provide complete analyses of all rele...

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