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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Female adults"”.
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A sociolinguistic study of the 'Broken Plural' in the speech of Iraqi Arabic-English bilingual children
… living in the UK and ‘control groups’: 9 female adults living in the UK, 11 monolingual female adults and 17 monolingual children living in Baghdad. Data collection combined quantitative and qualitative techniques. The research as a whole addresses the issues of how reduced Iraqi Arabic …
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Orientation of polyphagous lepidoptera to hostplant kairomones
… responses in antennae of male and female moths and can also serve as larval attractants. Similarly, ovipositing female adults and feeding larvae use contact cues for hostplant evaluation. In this study, I reviewed the literature to determine if any patterns of relationship between …
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The Impact of Trauma and Attachment on Eating Disorder Symptomology
… between trauma and eating disorder severity, female adults with Anorexia Nervosa (n = 36) and Bulimia Nervosa = 47) were compared on measures of attachment, trauma, body image disturbance, and eating disorder psychopathology. Eighty-six percent of participants reported at least one traumatic …
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Understanding the effects of obesity and age on likelihood of tripping and subsequent balance recovery
… impact on quality of life. Obese and older adults are reported to fall more frequently than their normal-weight and young counterparts. To help identify potential mechanisms of these falls the purpose of the research within this dissertation was to investigate the effects of obesity and age …
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The impact of monetary compensation as a land restitution redress mechanism in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… claimants of compensated restitution grant were female adults who never went to school. Most of the respondents were the original dispossessed, dissatisfied with their grant because it was insufficient. The majority of claimants utilised the grant for building or renovating their houses and great …
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Ancestral Analysis of the French Colonial Moran Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi
… consists of two infants, 21 males and three female adults aged 18 to 45. Results support that most individuals are of European ancestry with strong consensus among those markers employed. Cranial morphology and osteometrics did suggest the presence of two Africans and one possible African. …
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Academic Success of African American Males in the Blount County, Tennessee: Perceptions of the Community
… County, Tennessee. Participants were male and female adults of varied ages and ethnic classifications but were all familiar with the focus area.</p><p>Research supported the suggestion that both cognitive and noncognitive variables contribute to the academic success of African American males in …
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Psychological Implications of a Small Changes Approach to Weight Loss
… changes studies (ASPIRE II and III). Overweight female adults participating in a 12-week treatment phase with 6-month follow-up completed the Beck Depression Inventory, Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire, and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. A repeated measures analysis of …
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Population dynamics of Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle) under optimal and sub-optimal conditions
… 1˚C /week to 38˚C). Three male and three female adults were introduced into each grain patch (bulk) at the start of experiments. Numbers of adults in the grain patch (bulk) were counted every 28 days up to 30 weeks. The population dynamics of the Tribolium castaneum (insect numbers) were …
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Parenting styles and spiritual maturity.
… of mothers and fathers. Conclusions about female and male students raised in homes characterized by fathers and mothers with an authoritative (facilitative) parenting style were varied. Female adults raised in homes characterized by fathers and mothers with an authoritative (facilitative) …
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Consequences Of Normative Body Image Dissatisfaction: The Development Of Two Scales
… via an online survey of non-clinical male and female adults. This study looked at both the factor structure and reliability of the BIDS and CoBIDS. It was hypothesized that the BIDS and CoBIDS would provide clinicians and researchers measures that could be used with non clinical adult …
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Pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance at bus terminal and shopping mall
… walked averagely 5% to 16% faster than female pedestrians. Meanwhile, male adults walked around 7% to 16% faster than male senior adults while female adults walked around 11% to 22% faster than female senior adults at both bus terminal and shopping malls. Other than that, pedestrians …
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Ecological niche responses of small mammals to gypsy moth disturbance
… This was marked by higher proportions of females, smaller density fluctuations, more fall recruitment of young, higher residency, and lower proportions of males. Strong evidence for density-dependent population regulation was observed for <i>P. leucopus</i> populations at the high …
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Taxonomic, biological, population dynamics and behavioural studies on sod webworms (Lepidoptera : pyralidae: crambinae and scopariinae) of some Waikato (New Zealand) hill country pastures
… flight. Taxonomy is detailed for male and female adults (with accompanying genitalia figures) and for eggs, larvae and pupae where available. Nine species are involved: Orocrambus flexuosellus (Doubleday), and O. vitellus (Doubleday) (Crambinae); Eudonia psammitis (Meyrick), E. sabulosella …
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The Falkland fritillary: biological and ecological factors in the conservation of Yramea cytheris cytheris (Drury 1773).
… warmer leaves; the larvae were not gregarious. Female adults were on the wing for an average of four days, the males five, over a flying season from December to February. It showed little mobility, even between adjacent patches. Populations were small, generally <10 on a given day, though catch …
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Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and cardiometabolic disease risk among adults living with obstructive sleep apnoea: Is there a case for exercise as an adjunct therapy?
… behaviour, sleep and CMD risk characteristics of adults with OSA (OSA group) to age- and gender-matched adults without OSA (CON group). This will be achieved through three objectives: 1. To systematically review the nature and efficacy of exercise interventions. 2. To characterise the CMD risk …
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Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development
… Moreover, I hypothesized that adolescents and females would be especially susceptible to the effects of amphetamine (AMPH) exposure on PFC function, given sex differences in the development of the PFC. Using a rodent model, this hypothesis was tested with two specific aims: (1) by determining …
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Effects of hormones, genetics, and sex on typical and atypical brain organization
… of structural covariance networks in male and female adults with and without autism. We found that biological sex is a modulator of neurobiological heterogeneity in autism. Chapter 5 reports pilot data aiming to identify an electrophysiological signature of these network properties using …
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A comparative analysis of musical ability and performance on mathematical exams determined by brain activity and scoring
… the prefrontal cortex. METHODS: Eight male and female adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine in the Boston area were recruited in this IRB- approved study. Their experience in musical training and mathematical knowledge was assessed, as well as their highest education level. Four …
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Functional study of miRNA-mRNA interactions in malaria mosquito An. gambiae
Female adults of many mosquito species possess distinct physiological features adapting to blood feeding for successful reproduction. The disease pathogens that are transmitted by mosquitoes have evolved to take advantages of the indispensable blood feedings to complete their transmission cycles …
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