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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fight or Flight"”.
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Fight or Flight
<p>Fight or Flight is a one-act, science-fiction opera. Outwardly the story of an astronaut who is marooned on the Moon, this dark comedy is an allegorical tale of forced isolation and loss; and of the anxiety and sadness that inevitably result. Musically, this piece began as an experiment in the …
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Fight Or Flight: Migration and Conflict Over A Common Pool Resource
<p>This paper adds to the theoretical literature regarding the early development of effective property rights by integrating an analytical model of migration into a conflict model of property appropriation from a common pool resource. Anthropological observations are used to motivate the …
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Fight or Flight? Democratic Consolidation and Capital Flight in Latin America
… US$16.3 trillion dollars as a result of capital flight (Kar 2016) representing a major threat to international development efforts. This dissertation investigates why some democracies in the developing world experience much more capital flight than others. Using the experiences of Latin America …
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EVALUATING THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF BASC-3 ANXIETY SCALE AND WORKING MEMORY INDEX SCORES FOR CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT TEST ANXIETY: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF NON-CLASSIFIABLE CASES
<p>This dissertation will explore how test anxiety (TA) affects working memory (WM) and whether certain factors can help predict higher levels of test anxiety. Anxiety has been defined as a common experience that can show up in various forms—like general worry, social fears, panic attacks, and …
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EVALUATING THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF BASC-3 ANXIETY SCALE AND WORKING MEMORY INDEX SCORES FOR CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT TEST ANXIETY: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF NON-CLASSIFIABLE CASES
<p>This dissertation will explore how test anxiety (TA) affects working memory (WM) and whether certain factors can help predict higher levels of test anxiety. Anxiety has been defined as a common experience that can show up in various forms—like general worry, social fears, panic attacks, and …
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An exploration of group dynamics in “stokvels” and its implications on the members’ mental health and psychological well-being.
Stokvels are social groups usually formed randomly by people who share a common bond such as relatives, neighbours, colleagues in the workplace or friends with a purpose of financially saving together on a monthly basis. This study aimed to explore the group dynamics in stokvels and its …
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Evaluating a Personal Stress Monitoring System
<p>Now-a-days, Life is generally much more stressful than in the past. "Stress" is the word that we use when we feel that we are overloaded mentally in our thoughts and wonder whether we can really cope with those placed upon us. Sometimes, stress gets us going and they are good for us but at other …
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Trends and Diversification in the Factory-Built Home Industry
The factory-built housing industry, while originating from mobile homes, has seen new industry-segments emerge such as, for example, modular, panelized, and pre-cut homes. These new segments have promoted the ability of existing producers to diversify. As producers of factory-built homes merge …
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A Phenomenological Case Study: The Law School Environment as Experienced by Academically Dismissed Black and Latina/o Law Students
… Latina/o students in law school stems from a history of excluding these groups from legal education, in addition to system obstacles, including socioeconomic status, lower LSAT scores, and barriers to education. A long academic debate has asked why minority students are not successful in law …
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Interoceptive Interventions: Interfacing with Inner States
This thesis explores the emerging frontier of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that moves beyond traditional interfaces to directly modulate internal bodily processes, emotions, and cognitive states. As HCI progresses towards further integration between human and machine, this thesis investigates …
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Acute Psychological Stress and Food Intake in Humans: A Scoping Review
… to enable the individual to engage in the fight-or-flight response resulting in catecholamine (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine) and cortisol release. Stress-induced cortisol secretion has been shown to elicit a decrease, increase, or no change in the homeostatic mechanisms of food …
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Conflict, Paradox, and the Role of Structure in True Intelligence
Novel forms of brain-inspired programming models related to novel computer architecture are required to both understand the mysteries of intelligence as well as break barriers in computational complexity, and computer parallelism. Artificial Intelligence is focused on developing complex programs …
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Investigating psychosis in Prader-Willi syndrome: developing cognitive, electrophysiological and neuroimaging approaches
… syndrome (PWS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder resulting from the absent expression of maternally imprinted, paternally expressed genes located in the chromosomal region 15q11-13. This absence of expression is usually either due to a paternal deletion or maternal uniparental disomy (mUPD). …
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Assessing the effect of psychological priming techniques on salivary hormones and physical performance markers
Testosterone and cortisol have contrasting anabolic and catabolic effects on the musculoskeletal system and altering effects on metabolism and psychological behavior. A literature review was undertaken as part of this thesis to synthesize current research on these hormones' production, regulation, …