Iannaccone's efforts have been perceived with apprehension in some quarters as something akin to the exploits of a marauding Visigoth bent on stealing audiences from Ventura County-based performing arts organizations.
Nanotechnology, now at the leading edge of rapid development with many potential human health benefits, is perceived with apprehension for potential human health risks.
The key findings that emerged were: the sample reported a higher level of exposure to fixed cameras (even though there are more operational mobile cameras), younger males were most likely to speed and be observant of speed cameras and that perceived certainty of apprehension was the largest reported deterrent force.
The zero tolerance policy to aggression in the NHS has been highly publicised in order to act as a deterrent to offenders by increasing the perceived risk of apprehension.
A strategic approach e.g. to specifically publicise the success of an intervention is more likely to reassure the public while at the same time increase the perceived risk of apprehension to offenders (Bowers and Johnson 2005).
That unlicensed drivers perceive that the risk of apprehension is low is evidenced by the high rates of illicit driving (McCartt et al. 2002; Ross and Gonzales 1987).
A soldier tense with apprehension may in his fear perceive inanimate objects as an attacking enemy or one of his own comrades as the foe.
The Way of Ideas teaches, wrongly, that acts of perception temporally begin with an act of simple apprehension "and that after we have got simple apprehensions, by comparing them together, we perceive agreements or disagreements between them," but, Reid continues, "this appears to me to be all fiction, without any foundation in nature" (IHM 2.4, 29).
In order to believe, or remember or perceive, I must perform an act of simple apprehension in order to get something in mind.
But there is also apprehension, talk of displacement, and what some perceive as a threat from outsiders moving in, a small but growing number of whom happen to be white.
Early on in Helen Jukes's A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings she ponders the increasing popularity of urban beekeeping, referring to the idea that "one possible psychological response to the apprehension of a threat is to begin producing idealised versions of the thing we perceive of as being at risk".
