"Which is not to say there haven't been some perceived deviations here and there".
In-depth, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders explored perceived deviations between the Childsmile programme 'as delivered' and its Programme Theory (PT).
A key element within control theory accounts is the negative feedback loop, which functions to reduce perceived deviations from a reference value, which corresponds to an individual's goal or purpose.
The increasingly infectious intolerance of Sunni hardliners for any perceived deviation from their strict, often erroneous, interpretations of Islam and the Qur'an justifies, in their sick mentality, the killing of all "non-believers", be they Copts, Alawites, Yazidis, Jews, Turkomen – or Europeans of almost any religious persuasion.
The I.O.C.'s new rules say that those committees should "prior to the registration of its national athletes, actively investigate any perceived deviation in sex characteristics," to make sure those athletes are dealt with, if necessary, before the Olympics.
These are often described as "sins" due to their perceived deviation from broadly-endorsed standards.
Humans use a model of this bell-shaped velocity profile to predict the actions of others (Stadler et al., 2012), and are better at perceiving deviations from it than from other familiar velocity profiles, such as gravitational motion (Cook et al., 2009).
To make certain that the cause and effect weren't flipped — that beliefs in global warming weren't influencing perceptions of temperature — they switched around the order of the questions and compared the beliefs in global warming to actual, and not just perceived, temperature deviation.
Given the taboo surrounding display or discussion of female genitalia, these published images may be one of few sources of information regarding genital appearance that women encounter; consequently, any perceived physical deviation may be particularly disconcerting and compromise sexual satisfaction.
The means and standard deviations of perceived threatening factors and well-being related to each group are presented in Table 2.
Finally, the device with higher static time on task also produced significantly more lane deviations and perceived interference, though the predicted pattern of results did not emerge for collisions and hazard response time.
