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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Birthdays"”.
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Air Pollution, Temperature and Cognitive Performance in the Short Run: Evidence from Women’s Ability to Recall Dates
… in women’s probability to recall dates such as birthdays, marriage date or children’s birthdays by 0.44 percentage point. Furthermore, there is a nonlinear effect of air pollution with a suggesting AQI threshold 150. We also find each degree day above 30°C increase the probability of women fail …
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Determining whether the age children enter kindergarten affects academic and social development
… study examined age eligible children with summer birthdays who delayed kindergarten entry by one year and age eligible children with summer birthdays who started kindergarten on-time. It was hypothesized that the older kindergarten students or age eligible children who delayed kindergarten entry …
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Towards improving the usability of system-assigned PINs: can implicit learning techniques help?
… PINs that are related to important dates (e.g., birthdays or anniversaries), or keypad patterns. Unfortunately, such easy-to-recall PINs can be vulnerable to guessing attacks. System-assigned PINs can improve PIN security; however, they are difficult to remember. This thesis designs and evaluates …
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VIP: Finding Important People in Images
People preserve memories of events such as birthdays, weddings, or vacations by capturing photos, often depicting groups of people. Invariably, some individuals in the image are more important than others given the context of the event. This work analyzes the concept of the importance of …
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Essays on health care consumption and household finance
… health insurance coverage on their nineteenth birthdays. Due to the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, however, they do not lose access to free emergency room care. I develop a straightforward theoretical framework to understand the implications of insurance transitions …
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Opening The "Preschoolers' Door To Learning": An Ethnographic Study Of The Use Of Public Libraries By Preschool Girls
… Thirty girls within three months of their fourth birthdays were tape-recorded and observed during one of their usual visits to their local public libraries with their mothers. During the week following the visits, mothers maintained diaries where they reported incidents involving their daughters' …
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Saute ça : the acquisition of the faire faire causative by first and second language learners of French
… children, sometime between the second and fourth birthdays. In the second part of the study, cross-sectional data from 24 Bengali-L1 children aged 5 and 6 were analyzed. A standardized measure of receptive vocabulary in French was taken from each L2 child, as well as a 30-minute naturalistic …
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Out of the Néant into the Everyday: A Rediscovery of Mallarmé's Poetics
… that were offered as gifts on such occasions as birthdays, anniversaries or seasonal holidays. The omnipresence of objects and dates that can be referred back to real events displays Mallarmé's on-going questioning on the relation of art to reality. As I show, some of these interrogations rejoin …
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The Neural Representation of Polysemy: The Case of Dot-objects
… cakes are made of pastry and are related to both birthdays and diabetes). We present three experiments investigating the neural representation of three dot-object categories with clear concrete and abstract senses: print matter such as "book" (OBJECT • INFORMATION), meal concepts such as "lunch" …
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Factors that infuence age of identification of children with autism and pervasive developmental disorder nos
… date of birth and age of diagnosis, with later birthdays being associated with lower age of diagnosis. Regression results were statistically significant, F(25, 620)=7.549, p<.001, R2=.233. Having autistic older sibling/s, being referred to ECI, and having a pediatrician who performed an in-depth …
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Gift-giving of toys from adults to children.
The focus of this study is the consumer behaviour habits of adults giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discussing the issues of …
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Brain morphometry of HIV-infected children on early antiretroviral therapy (ART) from age 5 to 9 years
… at time points around their 5th, 7th and 9th birthdays, in accordance with protocols approved by the human research ethics committees of the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town and voluntary informed consent was received from either participants or their guardians. Both automated and …
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Quantification of replication present in HIV reports and effect of patient movement between wards on MRSA infection
… test dataset. The data is collected as a set of birthdays and it is possible that there is repeated sampling of the same person. The aim is to quantify the amount of replication in the HIV data using a maximum likelihood technique and then give the confidence intervals for the estimated amount of …