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  2. National Incident Management System - Wikipedia

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    The National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a standardized approach to incident management developed by the United States Department of Homeland Security. The program was established in March 2004, [ 1 ] in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive -5, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] issued by President George W. Bush .

  3. Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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    A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]

  4. NIMS - Wikipedia

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    NIMS University in Jaipur, India; Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, a medical university in Telangana, India; NUST Business School (formerly NUST Institute of Management Sciences), Pakistan; Nims may refer to: Nims (river), in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, left tributary of the Prüm; Arthur Nims (1923–2019), United States Tax Court judge

  5. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Solving such problems is the focus of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). This area of decision-making, although long established, has attracted the interest of many researchers and practitioners and is still highly debated as there are many MCDA methods which may yield very different results when they are applied to exactly the same ...

  6. Subfields of psychology - Wikipedia

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    Abnormal psychology is the study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. Abnormal psychology studies the nature of psychopathology and its causes, and this knowledge is applied in clinical psychology to treat patients with psychological disorders.

  7. Richard Lazarus - Wikipedia

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    [4] Lazarus and Folkman co-authored a book called "Stress, Appraisal and Coping" in 1984, which worked through the theory of psychological stress, using concepts of Cognitive appraisal and coping. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In this book, they were the first to make the distinction between "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping" which could ...

  8. Subjective units of distress scale - Wikipedia

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    [2] The SUD-level was developed by Joseph Wolpe in 1969. [3] It has been used in cognitive-behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders (e.g. exposure practices and hierarchy) and for research purposes. There is no hard and fast rule by which a patient can self assign a SUDS rating to his or her disturbance or distress, hence the name subjective.

  9. Electroencephalography - Wikipedia

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    The advantages of such electrodes are: (1) no electrolyte used, (2) no skin preparation, (3) significantly reduced sensor size, and (4) compatibility with EEG monitoring systems. The active electrode array is an integrated system made of an array of capacitive sensors with local integrated circuitry housed in a package with batteries to power ...