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Comfort Habits
<p>The following is a collection of short fiction pieces written from August 2015 to January 2017, when the author was a student at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. The stories are unlinked in narrative, but are often approaching similar issues in depth: loneliness, …
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Food Agency and Health Habits
High ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is associated with weight gain, obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, all-cause mortality, and type 2 diabetes. "Food agency" refers to an individual's food preparation attitudes and capabilities within a given social and physical food …
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Preferential Food habits of Aplodontia Rufa
… beaver does exhibit preferences in his food habits. It selects for food just less than one-half of the available plant species. Three species are preferred over all others selected for food, those species being sword-fern, salal, and brake-fern.
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Polycommit: Building Better Habits Through Gamification
… that motivated students to form better study habits. While our results do not show statistically significant improvement to student grades, this tool gives insight into how modern technology and gamification can be leveraged to create an engaging app that encourages positive study habits, and …
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Exploring snacking habits of college students
… the importance of snacks in the eating habits of this population group. The purpose of this study was to investigate the snacking habits of undergraduate college students, and their correlations with the population’s general eating practices and response to nutrition education. Two …
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Beef Retailer Perception of Consumer Buying Habits
<p>Consumer purchasing habits may never be completely understood, however motivations that drive consumers to make purchases will remain similar as a result of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Factors that play a key role in purchasing decisions include levels of purchasing assistance, price, …
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Food Habits and Energy Utilization of Badgers
… study was initiated in 1966 to determine food habits and energy utilization of badgers. Digestive tracts were collected in eastern South Dakota from November 1966 to November 1967. A male and a female badger were used for two energy-balance and three digestion trials. Ground squirrels, mice and …
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Reading habits in Scotland circa 1750-1820
This thesis examines reading habits in Scotland between circa 1750 and 1820, a subject surprisingly little studied by historians before, given the backdrop of the Enlightenment, and traditional ideas about Scottish education and literacy. From a methodological viewpoint, reading as an activity at …
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The Reading Habits of Ante-Bellum Southerners
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The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex
The stories in The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex explore themes of identity, loss, gender, and the often-complex landscape of human interaction. These are relationship stories, coming-of-age stories. Stories about searching for answers to mysteries both large and small. Loneliness is de …
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The grazing habits of cattle on pasture
The growing importance of grassland and all its products is becoming more evident. A grassland economy is the backbone of the sheep, dairy cattle, and beef cattle industries. Grassland farming makes for a more permanent type of agriculture. An increased acreage in sod crops results in less erosion, …
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Food habits of the Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister )
… for proper management. I described seasonal food habits of the Allegheny woodrat in the Ridge and Valley and Allegheny Plateau physiographic provinces of West Virginia and Virginia using microhistological techniques. In the Allegheny Plateau, the top 5 food items were fungi, blueberries ( …
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Civic Habits: A Predictive Model of Volunteer Behavior
The findings of this research indicate that volunteering is influenced by a number of factors, one of which is gender. The data used in this study reveal a different profile of the volunteer than is presented in much of the research on volunteering, which tends to profile the "most likely" …
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Are Condo Owners Changing San Francisco's Voting Habits?
… condo owners affecting San Francisco’s voting habits? </p> <p>In political science, research points to the conclusion that property ownership tends to make a person vote more conservatively. In recent years, San Francisco has seen an increase in condo production. This increases the ability for …
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Examining factors that influence elementary teachers' dress habits
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that impact the attire that elementary teachers choose to wear to work. This study was conducted in an upper elementary school (grades three through five) in a large K-12 public school district in Camden County, New Jersey. The participants …
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Food Habits of Larval Ringed Salamanders, Ambystoma Annulatum
… County, Missouri during 1989-1990 for a food habits study. Larvae fed on a variety of organisms. The major food items consisted of microcrustaceans, nematodes, and dipteran larvae. The diet changed both with development and season. Temporal shifts in the diet were probably affected most by …
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Verbal Habits and the Reinforcement of Verbal Behavior
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The Development of Certain Habits of Reflective Thinking
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