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"Instant Aging"
… Bereits in den 70er Jahren wurde mit dem Instant Aging in den USA ein Unterrichtskonzept entwickelt. Es ermöglichte Medizinstudierenden, altersbedingte Behinderungen in einer Simulation zu erleben. In der vorliegenden Studie wurden die Effekte eines neuen Instant Aging -Konzepts bei deutschen …
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Creative Aging: Functional Neural Networks Associated with Creativity in Aging
… ability has been implicated in successful aging including psychological, social, spiritual and, cognitive functioning (Duhamel, 2016). Creative thinking is associated with connectivity between default and executive control regions in the young brain. In aging, this pattern of functional …
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Aging in community
Baby Boomers are on the brink of retirement. According to U.S. Census Bureau projections, the number of people aged 65 and over will more than double in the coming decades, growing from 35 million in 2000 to 72 million in 2030. The current housing stock in the United States is incapable of …
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Aging Ragefully: A Look at Aging Women in Four Contemporary American Dramas
… due to stereotypical representations of aging women in the media and in literature. This thesis examines the portrayals of aging women in four American dramas: Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, Edward Albee’s The American Dream and The Sandbox, and Tracey Letts’ August: Osage County. Each of …
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Aging among baby boomers
The purpose of this study was to explore aging as it is experienced and expressed by healthy, middle-aged Baby Boomers (N = 225). This exploration involved instrument development and model testing. Age was a delimiting factor. Only people born during the baby boom (i.e., June 1, 1946 to December …
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Successful Aging with Illness
… Illness and disease are frequent components of aging; however, ‘successful aging’ research normally excludes people with illness. Older people living with illness, even life threatening illness, often self-report a good quality of life and continue to experience psychological well-being and a …
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Energy metabolism and aging
… of the role(s) of energy metabolism in the aging process. Project 1 examines the effects of early-life T4 replacement therapy in Ames dwarf mice. Previous work established that life-long T4 replacement therapy shortens lifespan in Snell dwarf mice (these mice have endocrine deficits that are …
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Varieties of personal aging
… the attitudes and subjective perceptions of the aging process as experienced by male (6) and female (9) subjects in retirement, over the age sixty-five. Data drawn from interviews conducted in the subject's home and based on a questionnaire of twenty-three open-ended questions explores their …
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Emotion Recognition and Aging
… abilities that decreases as part of the healthy aging process. This paper summarizes the cognitive decline that accompanies aging, details evidence for the frontal lobe theory of cognitive decline, reviews the literature on emotion recognition in both younger and older adults, proposes a list a …
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Aging and Event Segmentation
… performance, especially for older adults. Leveraging these findings, I then evaluated a potential intervention to improve event memory in older adults which was intended to create more distinct event boundaries while reinforcing memory through a process similar to retrieval practice. The …
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Aging and inhibitory control
… experiment used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess a classical Sternberg paradigm with five increasing levels of cognitive demand ranging from a set size of two letters up to six letters. Comparisons of mean levels of recruitment and inhibition were done between younger and …
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Managing Many-Core Aging
… this work introduces Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Aging Management (DVSAM) — a new scheme for trading off processor aging for performance and power. DVSAM can be used to maximize performance, minimize power, or boost performance for a short life. In addition, this work introduces the BubbleWrap …
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Aging of polyurethane foams
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1986.
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Perceived Competence of Aging Pilots
<p>This study investigated the relationship between age and the perception of competence of pilots by the traveling public. Scenarios were utilized that depicted an airline captain successfully landing an airplane amidst adverse conditions. Scenarios varied only by the age of the Captain: Young, …
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Astrocyte volume regulation during aging
Astrocyty, ako jeden z druhov gliových buniek, hrajú dôležitú úlohu v zdravo fungujúcej centrálnej nervovej sústave, ale takisto aj v jej patológii. Keďže jedna z ich funkcií je udržiavanie iónovej, neurotransmiterovej a vodnej homeostázy, astrocyty majú schopnosť regulovať svoj objem. Hypo- a …
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Aging model for commercial polymers
Physical aging of polyvinyl chloride, high-density polyethylene, and polyester reinforced with polyester fibers specimens have been investigated. These materials are commercially available and are currently used in trenchless relining of sewer pipes. The analysis uses the effective-time theory and …
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Aging and Weight-Ratio Estimation
<p>Many researchers have explored the way younger people perceive weight ratios using a variety of methodologies; however, very few researchers have used a more direct ratio estimation procedure, in which participants estimate an actual ratio between two or more weights. Of the few researchers who …
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Aging and Stereoscopic Shape Perception
… findings. Some research on stereopsis and aging has found that younger and older adults are essentially the same in terms of their stereoscopic ability, while other research has found evidence of large differences. This past research has largely been limited to investigations of …
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