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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Deprecation"”.
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“Fixed Mindsets” and the Deprecation of Youth Voice
… a faculty member, the findings showed that the deprecation of youth’s voice by adults affects youth’s sense of self-efficacy and perceived abilities to create meaningful change. It was further found that youth embrace, affirm, and desire change, but find that adults, in their words, have “fixed …
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Exploring the role of the postmodern feminist voice in the development of the school language text
… it has aided and abetted in the definition, deprecation and exclusion of women and our realities in a male supremacist society. In surveying the sexual/textual pedagogic terrain, the study proceeds from the premise that texts as cultural artifacts are crucial in the transmission of cultural …
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"Our skins sing in complementary keys": Literary Crip Kinship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Geraldine, Fanny Burney, and Audre Lorde
… her unanesthetized mastectomy. A similar deprecation appears in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Christabel,” when the speaker refers to Geraldine’s breast as “a sight to dream of, not to tell!” (line 253). Even Lorde endures the remnants of breast-centered fears in 1978, as other women …
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Studying Dependency Maintenance Practices Through the Mining of Data from npm Packages
… of dependencies, same-day releases, and releases deprecation. In this thesis, we discuss in detail the motivation and approach to study these three phenomena. We then perform an empirical analysis of the npm data to evaluate the driving forces behind these phenomena, as well as their prevalence …
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The Predictive Relationship of Inhibitory Control, Emotion Regulation, Moral Emotions, and Life Stressors on Behavior Problems in School-Aged Children of Incarcerated Mothers
… while higher levels of shame (an unhealthy self-deprecation) predicted internalizing behaviors. A lower level of guilt also predicted the presence of callous/unemotional traits. Almost half the children experienced four or more life stressors within the past year; stressors predicted feelings of …
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MMPI patterns in codependency: Before and after treatment.
… codependency tend to have low self-esteem, self-deprecation, stress, rebellion and anger, physical complaints, depression, high dependency needs, mistrust in others, and limited ego strength. They shared many diagnostic characteristics with the Self-defeating, Borderline and Dependent Personality …
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Being Pregnant and Using Drugs: A Retrospective Phenomenological Inquiry
… of others, risk-taking, deception, and self-deprecation. Use of drugs incurs feelings of guilt and self-hatred while paradoxically assuaging loneliness, and distancing and dissipating negative feelings. A pervasive lack of connectedness to and positive meaning of one's pregnancy manifests in …
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Biomass and Coal Fly Ash in Concrete: Strength, Durability, Microstructure, Quantitative Kinetics of Pozzolanic Reaction and Alkali Silica Reaction Investigations.
… ash demonstrates no consistent improvement or deprecation of concrete properties relative to coal fly ash. Quantitative pozzolanic reaction mechanism and kinetic analyses indicate biomass and coal fly ashes exhibit comparable reaction rates and react by similar mechanisms. The general …
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The Latin Controversial Dialogues of Late Antiquity
… understood to be a heterodox position. Self-deprecation, humor, anger, and even sympathy towards its opponents are all tactics used by this dialogue, which concludes with the absurd situation where both sides agree but refuse to acknowledge it. A commentary on contemporary politics, this …
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The evolving critical reputation of Richard Steele's role in the Tatler
… from unbridled praise of Steele to conscious deprecation of his abilities. Some writers credit Steele with very little responsibility for the success of the Tatler, yet some cite him as the major architect of the paper. Some critics view the Tatler, as merely a more undeveloped precursor of …
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Depreciation, incentives and capital expenditure: A study of New Zealand public companies with special reference to the efficacy of special depreciation and investment allowances
… more responsive to the timing effect of special deprecation than were other firms. There were no other statistically significant relationships between firms' responsiveness to the abolition, suspension or timing effect of special depreciation or investment allowance and the large number of …