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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Life Values"”.
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Life Values in Youth Sport: A Qualitative Analysis
<p>A qualitative analysis was used to examine the life values gained and enhanced through participation in youth soccer from the player, coach, and parent perspectives. Nine players, nine coaches, and nine parents were interviewed for this study. Participants were placed in groups according to …
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Family Relational Dialectics: A Systemic Model for Explaining Relational Factors Contributing to Adolescents' Faith Maturity, Life Values, and Commitment to Christ
… and adolescents’ development of faith and life values. The effects of dialectical interplay within family systems are often missed, misinterpreted, or minimized. This study presumed that because familial relationships have far-reaching psycho-socio-cultural effects on individuals’ …
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The Role of the Farmacy Garden as a Site for Transformative Learning for Sustainability
… and a conception of sustainability rooted in life values, counter-hegemony, and social justice, this case study explores how a collective community garden is a critical pedagogy space for stakeholders to change their own reality within their food system. Using narrative inquiry as a …
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The Effects of Varying Fresh Water Discharge on Dispersion in an Estuarine Hydraulic Model of the Lafayette River, Norfolk, Virginia
… moment method displayed irregular results. The values were not in good agreement for the different methods.</p> <p>Half-life values were calculated from the total dye mass and the maximum dye concentration. No difference was found in the half-life values for the low and medium discharge runs, …
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Multiaxial fatigue damage model for random amplitude loading histories
In spite of many multiaxial fatigue life prediction methods proposed over decades of research, no universally accepted approach yet exists. A multiaxial fatigue damage model developed for approximately proportional random amplitude loading is proposed in this study. A normal strain based analysis …
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A reversal theory approach to predicting and explaining university students' attitudes and use of marijuana.
… Mallows, & Williams, 1992), grade point average, life values, liberalism, religiosity, delinquency, creativity, attitudes toward legalization of drugs, attitudes toward marijuana, and personal drug use. The findings indicated 63.9% of those sampled had used marijuana either currently or in the …
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Law, Love and Freedom
How does one lead a life of law, love and freedom? This inquiry has very deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This dissertation returns to those roots to trace the routes that these ideas have taken …
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The Effect of Transient Mood on Performance Outcomes and Levels of Motivation Variables
… mood state would be associated with specific life values (as measured by the Life Success Measures Scale). Individuals with high levels of n Ach and n Pow would place more importance upon values related to occupational success dimensions. Procedure. Measures of n Ach, n App, n Pow, Life …
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Socio-cultural conditions of Japan reflected by factors inducing recent Japanese immigration to Canada
… that is motivated by spiritual well-being and life values. In order to encapsulate the complexity of contemporary migration flow, the push/pull factors that induced interviewees' emigration are thematically categorized and analyzed within a frame that emphasizes both these factors' …
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Being San' in Platfontein: Poverty, landscape, development and cultural heritage
… altered landscapes of modernity, so their way of life, values, beliefs and understandings are transformed. For the !Kun and Khwe people living on Platfontein this has been an ongoing process. Platfontein, a dry, flat piece of land near Kimberly in the Northern Cape, was purchased for the Kun and …
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A Pretargeted Spect Imaging Strategy Employing Technetium-99M Based on Bioorthogonal Diels-Alder Click Chemistry
… <sup>99m</sup>Tc-SK(PEG<sub>5</sub>-Tz)C. Log P values were obtained to determine hydrophilicity of each complex. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was modified with TCO, reacted with each complex, and the “click” reaction was confirmed using Radio-TLC. Biodistributions and blood half-life studies were …
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USING NARRATIVE AND RE-MEMBERING CONVERSATIONS IN A BEREAVEMENT GROUP WITH STUDENTS IMPACTED BY SUICIDE
… conversations reconnect the bereaved to the life of their deceased loved one, using a narrative which allows the life, values, thoughts, and wishes of the deceased to be brought forward and reincorporated into the life and future of the bereaved. The present research project consisted of a …
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Silence Is Golden: Older Women's Voices and The Analysis Of Meaning Among Survivor's Of Domestic Violence
… who came of age in an era of traditional gender values when men had authority and dominion over women, and there was no public acknowledgement of domestic violence. Little is known about the meaning older women make of their experiences with and beyond domestic violence, or the lifetime effect …
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Differential Perceptions of English Teachers About the Teaching of Literature in Seventh-day Adventist Secondary Schools in Selected Regions of the Caribbean
… as an effective vehicle for communicating values as well as a catalyst for fostering critical and analytical thinking and writing.</p> <p><em>Conclusions. </em> The study has given English teachers an opportunity to examine their own philosophical and ideological positions as to why they do …
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Caldolase: an alkaline serine protease from Thermus strain TOK₃
… No significant differences were observed in Kₘ values at various temperatures between 45° and 85°C. Caldolase hydrolysed several protein substrates, including casein, albumin, ovalbumin, haemoglobin, collagen, fibrin and elastin, and a number of synthetic chromogenic peptides. It also possessed …
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The Technique of Oral Choirs in Secondary Schools as a Classroom Medium for Teaching an Appreciation of Poetry
… engaging and the enriching of emotional life values of this—the greatest of the fine arts.|Now the most valuable asset in life is the power of appreciation. To develop this power is one of the primary ends of educahm. It is the essence of wisdom to sense comparative values. Thus one is …
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Health technology assessment for levetiracetam in the treatment of newly diagnosed epilepsy in the South African Public Health Sector
… and effects were expressed as Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). Results were expressed as Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios (ICERs) and sensitivity analyses were performed to cater for uncertainty. The use of levetiracetam along with the use of phenytoin, valproate and carbamazepine in …
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Speciation and dynamics of phosphorus in relation to lake restoration methods
… sediment to the water column. An apparent half-life‟ value was used to quantify the time scales on which these compounds are degraded within the sediment and likely being recycled to the overlying water column. Relatively long half-life values, ranging from 8 to 23 years, indicate that this …
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The impact of institutional core values on traditional students at a Southern Baptist college
… students were impacted by the institutional core values at a Southern Baptist college. The subjects of mission statements, core values, and college impact were defined. Special attention was given to the eight institutional core values being examined in this study. The current study was conducted …
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Generating and Maintaining Confianza: Living a "Good" Life Amidst Violence, Insecurity, and Mistrust in Rural El Salvador
… as a regulatory value within the wider system of values that ensures that rural Salvadorans obtain their highest value, “moving forward,” in a categorically ethical and collective way. Through a consideration of the geneses and maintenance of confianza across rural Salvadoran society, this …