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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Early life experiences"”.
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Chimpanzee Early Life Experiences and Responses to Caregiver Use of Species-Specific Behavior
… in adult primate behavior can be influenced by early life experiences, such as rearing history and prevalence of human and conspecific interaction partners. The current study aimed to expand on previous research comparing chimpanzee responses between a CB and HB condition and to determine the …
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Unveiling the Inner Self
… with them, I reveal myself onto myself. My early life experiences of not settling down in one place and moving from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan and later to America have left me with this sense of homelessness. In order to find connections between my roots, and myself, I started building my own …
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Influence of Pre-service Teachers' Beliefs about Diversity on Science Teaching and Learning
The influences of the background experiences of five pre-service Science teachers on their beliefs about diversity were the focus for this study. These individuals were followed throughout their teacher preparation program. The data for this study consisted of interviews, conducted before and after …
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Incubation temperature impacts growth, physiology and survival in nestlings of an open-cup nesting passerine
Early-life conditions can have important implications for somatic and physiological development, and later life survival. For oviparous species, embryonic development occurs wholly within the egg. During this stage, there is good evidence that egg resources such as lipid and protein content and …
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Adenosine Production Is Essential for Closing the Critical Period of Cortical Plasticity
… The establishment of cortical maps begins with early life experiences during the critical period, a brief period during development of heightened sensitivity to sensory stimuli. During this time, organization of cortical maps is plastic and highly subject to change through passive sensory …
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The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Protective and Compensatory Experiences, and Parenting Attitudes Among Fathers
<p>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are defined as potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood particularly between the ages of 0 and 17 years that negatively influence long-term health, relational functioning, and parenting practices (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2026; …
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Heroin Addiction and Longing to Belong
… position to examine how individuals' early life experiences may shape and influence them through later life. In this study, a clinical sample of six individuals stabilised on a low-dose methadone maintenance programme underwent three separate interviews, and analysis was conducted …
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The relationship between childhood exposure to domestic violence and perpetration in adulthood : a scoping review
… studies between 2014 and 2023 to examine the experiences of individuals who were exposed to DV in their formative years and are now known perpetrators. This study scoped the existing research of the past decade to investigate the extent to which individuals exposed to DV in childhood are more …
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Investigating How Nontraditional Elementary Preservice Teachers Negotiate the Teaching of Science
… included beliefs about science teaching, life experiences, and the impact of the teacher preparation program. The study sample consisted of two nontraditional pre-service teachers who were student teaching in an elementary classroom. Data, collected over a five-month period, included …
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Observing the Spirit of Resilience: The Relationship between Life Experiences and Success in Higher Education for African-American Students
Some African American students with challenging early life experiences appear vulnerable to failure in higher education. This vulnerability may be exacerbated when educators fail to recognize the relationship between the life experiences of African American students and their academic performance …
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The things they carried: The biological residue of childhood misfortune
… misfortune and adult health, but how these early-life experiences “get under the skin” to later manifest as poor health is less clear. To elucidate this process, this dissertation investigates (1) how childhood conditions influence immune functioning and (2) whether these physiological …
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Understanding Individuals who Access Sexualised Images of Children
… CSAI. In particular, research regarding the early life development and characteristics of this group of offenders is underdeveloped and only recently have researchers begun to develop typologies of those who access CSAI (e.g., Houtepen, Sijtsema & Bogaerts, 2014). Similarly, the development …
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Social isolation enhances calcium signaling and synaptic plasticity in dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area
Environmental experiences play a critical role in an individualʼs risk of becoming addicted. Positive experiences may mitigate addiction vulnerability, whereas adverse experiences, particularly during adolescence, have been shown to increase addiction risk. Social isolation in rodents is a model …
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A phenomenological exploration of transformational leadership practices of selected programme managers at a TVET college in the Western Cape province
… integrating it with Edmund Husserl’s ‘lifeworld’ theory and Martin Heidegger’s notion of Dasein. The study followed a qualitative research approach, specifically applying a phenomenological research design to investigate the transformational leadership practices of selected Programme …
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Producers of indecent images of children : a qualitative analysis of the aetiology and development of their offending patterns
… group in terms of social demographics. Their early life experiences were marked by prevalent issues such as neglect, abuse and exposure to violence. A large proportion of them had never had a long-term adult relationship and many others were either separated or divorced. Their grooming …
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Identifying Neural, Genetic, and Behavioral Correlates of the p Factor
… influences as well as their interactions with early life experiences on brain structure and general risk for psychopathology.</p>
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… as a pioneering jazz music theorist, but his life in music integrated rich activity alongside theory, including performing on drums and piano, composing, leading a sextet and jazz orchestra, and teaching. Russell’s compositions have not received significant attention by researchers, who have …
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Sexual conflict and division of labour during incubation
… which suggests that individuals may use early life experiences to shape their later responses. Males and females responded to each other’s contributions over ecological time, and control and treatment pairs negotiated different patterns of effort. Contrary to predictions of most game …
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Post-natal environmental effects on behaviour in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
Due to mounting evidence that the early environment experienced by a juvenile can affect the morphology and physiology of the adult, there is currently great interest in how environmental variability may shape the behavioural phenotype, and whether such shaping has adaptive benefits. It is clear …
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Fasting alters histone methylation in paraventricular nucleus of chick through regulating of polycomb repressive complex 2
… period [1,2,3] and severe diseases in later life [4,5]. These early life experiences occurring during heightened periods of brain plasticity help determine the lifelong structural and functional aspects of brain and behavior. In humans, for example, weight gain during the first week of life …