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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Developmental age"”.
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The conditional independence assumption in dental developmental age estimation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Looking Patterns of Mothers With Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Babies in Play and Instructional Interactions (Parent/infant Interaction, Maternal Gaze)
… in two different situations at two different developmental ages. Maternal gaze patterns were also compared in relationship to gender differences of the babies. Four groups of dyads which were part of a larger longitudinal study formed the sample, a group with handicapped and a group with …
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Factors affecting the excitability of skinned fibres of the rat
… between rat skinned fibre excitability and (i) developmental age, (ii) MHC composition, muscle of origin and (iii) glycogen content.
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A Developmental Study on the Kinetic Family Drawing for a Nonclinic, Black-Child Population in the Midwestern Region of the United States
… and their families, and to obtain normative and developmental data for this population.</p> <p>Method. A correlational research design was used to ascertain the validity of the KFD by comparing results on 40 variables (Burns, 1982; Cho, 1987) with the criterion measure, Semantic Differential …
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The effects of acute alcohol on motor impairments in adolescent, adult, and aged rats.
… alcohol exposure among adolescent, adult, and aged rats have yet to be systematically investigated within the same project using a dose-dependent analysis. We sought to determine the age- and dose-dependent effects of acute alcohol exposure on gross and coordinated motor performance across the …
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Relationship between child centered play therapy and developmental levels of young children: A single case analysis.
… child-centered play therapy on children with developmental delays by examining its effectiveness in: 1) increasing measured developmental age; 2) reducing problematic behaviors related to developmental delays; and 3) increasing developmentally appropriate behaviors. Three participants were …
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Gender differences in agency and communion: A meta-analysis
The existence of gender gaps in agency and communion is commonly known, yet it remains unknown what the average magnitudes, stability (over time and developmental age), and variability (across cultures, sampling strategies, and measures) of these gender differences are. Leveraging social role …
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PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DISABILITIES AND LANGUAGE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF MEANINGFUL, INTELLIGIBLE SUB-VOCAL UTTERANCES BY CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DISABILITIES.
… PMLD are believed to be incapable of using language beyond a few words or symbols and to operate developmentally between 0-24 months, prior to the acquisition of language. Nevertheless, digital recordings captured linguistic sub vocal utterances, apparently meaningful and intelligible by 20 …
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Visual-motor development and the emergence of emotional indicators : a reexamination of the Bender gestalt test with young children
… Gestalt Test, which was subsequently scored for developmental errors and emotional indicators according to the Koppitz system. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were computed for all emotional indicators and all developmental errors. This was referred to as the omnibus correlation …
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Female objectification, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviour in a non-clinical sample
… and negative self-talk, fewer women actually engage in disordered eating practices. This study aimed to explore women‟s views about their bodies and to identify predictors of body objectification, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating behaviour in a non-clinical population. It was …
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Investigation of pexophagy and autophagy occurrence in Arabidopsis
… processes depending on the organism, tissue, and developmental age, such as phytohormone production in plants. Peroxins, or PEX proteins orchestrate the biogenesis and maintenance of these organelles. Despite the evidence for tunability and dynamic changes in peroxisome numbers and function during …
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Expressive Arts Therapy with Bereaved Families
… to the onset of the study. Children ranged in age from 3 to15, and parents ranged in age from 26 to 66, for a total of 27 participants. The Child Life Department at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, a division of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas recruited …
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"A different kind of girl" : young women's experiences of growing up and "coming out" in Northern Ireland
… range of ways in which these identities are managed and negotiated in everyday life. It demonstrates that age and gender are crucial in the construction of sexual identities. Based on developmental age-related assumptions about sexuality, young women’s same-sex attractions are often discredited …
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The Ghost Town: An Autoethnographic Study on the Effects of Loss and Trauma on a Saudi Arabian International Student’s Well-Being
… battleground; some of us started at early ages, while others during their developmental age, teen’s years, or later in their adulthood. All of them are valuable resources and sites of knowledge that need to be explored. Yet, recent studies reduced grief into clinical psychological …
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A Comparison of Kinetic Family Drawings of Firstborn and Second-Born Siblings
… assessment tool for clinicians, research on developmental issues and how siblings draw their families is lacking. The purpose of this study was to (a) describe the way siblings perceive themselves and their family interpersonal relationships as expressed in the KFD; and (b) to describe …
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Caregiving in later life: an attachment explanatory model
… disparate topics. An interdisciplinary linkage is begun by placing caregiving within the perspective of the lifespan development of prosocial behavior. The sample (N=3,848) consisted of respondents aged 50 to 95 years, from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), a national …
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Characterization of sugar-insensitive mutants and analysis of sugar-regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
… affecting gene expression and a number of developmental processes, but their precise role and the pathways through which they act are not well characterized. In addition, sugar-signaling pathways interact with the vast network of phytohormone-signaling pathways. In order to facilitate an …
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Development of the Concept of Salvation in the Argentinean and Paraguayan Seventh-day Adventist Children and Adolescents From Ages 6 to 17 Years
… perspective.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> Using a developmental, cross-sectional design, semiclinical interviews were conducted with 120 Argentinean and Paraguayan children, ages 6 to 17, to assess the development of the concept and assurance of salvation. Subjects also completed (1) a semantic …
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Reactions to Childhood Sibling Death: A Qualitative Investigation
… participated in this research and composed three developmental groups. Erik Erikson's psychosocial developmental stages were utilized in this investigation. The subjects were grouped according to their age at the time of the study. These groups were ages 8-12 years, ages 13-21 years, and ages …
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Automatic vocal recognition of a child's perceived emotional state within the Speechome corpus
… growing up in the home setting from birth to the age of three, the Human Speechome Project has pioneered a comprehensive, ecologically valid observational dataset that introduces far-reaching new possibilities for the study of child development. By offering In vivo observation of a child's daily …
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