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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Personal Appearance"”.
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Culture War Commonalities: Personal Appearance in Commonwealth England
… reformation, commentators increasingly perceived personal appearance as a source of moral failing throughout England. While the campaign of moral reformation at the time can most strongly be attributed to Puritan influences, on the interconnected questions of hair, dress, and cosmetics, political …
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Clothing interests of young adult, middle aged, and elderly men
… four of the five aspects of clothing interest (personal appearance, conformity, psychological awareness, and modesty). Concern with modesty in clothing increased significantly with age for all three groups with the younger men exhibiting the least degree of concern. Concern with personal …
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The relationship between clothing interest and certain demographic variables of a selected group of women of middle years
… two factors of clothing interest--concern with personal appearance and enhancement of security. Multiple correlation coefficients were computed to determine the possibility of and relationship between each of the five factors of clothing interest and the selected demographic variables. No …
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Body image perceptions, stress and associated psychopathologies in a non-clinical sample.
… measured satisfaction/dissatisfaction with personal appearance, queried which external sources influenced those opinions, and correlated these with demographic information. In particular, we sought to examine how a subject¿s opinion about their personal appearance varied with age, gender, …
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International Commercial Online Dispute Resolution: Just Procedure Through the Internet
… resolution, without the costs associated with a personal appearance. Despite its promise, ICODR has not been as popular as expected, perhaps because ineffective regulation has produced both uncertainty and a lack of confidence as found in the empirical research of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute …
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Cultural perceptions related to the health and body size of Antiguan women
… women under 30 defined health more in terms of personal appearance, and dietary inadequacy from lack of resources, with priority for mental and social health barriers, while those in their 30's were mainly concerned about barriers related to their mental and social well-being, and those ~ 40 …
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Age group and gender differences in fears of aging
… participants to write in their five greatest personal fears of aging. The older age group had significantly higher Anxiety about Aging Psychological Concerns subscale scores. Males scored significantly higher than females in AAS total scores, and males also scored significantly higher than …
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The clothing interest of three groups of young adult men differentiated by stage in life
… Factor I, interest in clothing as concern with appearance. The working men scored significantly higher than the students on Factor I, and on overall clothing interest. There was additionally, a tendency for the working men to score higher on the remaining factors, and for freshmen to score …
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Places, Please!
… of paint as a parallel to women’s altering of personal appearance and self-surveillance. I harness the beauty and tactility in both my paintings’ imagery and the medium of oil paint to direct the viewer inward, intimating complicity. In my large-scale paintings, I employ the visual interruption …
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Investigating campus cycling environment of a large southeastern university from an ecological perspective
… uneven walkways and roadways were a threat to personal safety. The purpose of this study was to examine college student perceptions of safety and factors contributing to campus cycling from an ecological perspective. Intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional factors associated with safety …
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An analysis of the laws affecting North Carolina public school teachers
… freedom, freedom of religion; private life; personal appearance; loyalty; 2. terms and conditions of employment which included certification, tenure, teacher's duties, due process for tenured teachers, procedural rights for nontenured teachers, dismissal for cause; and the 3. teacher's …
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Body Objectification and Elective Cosmetic Procedures in African American Women
… subjected to objectification in media and interpersonal interactions. First, this study investigated the differences between African American women and Caucasian women on three dimensions of body objectification. Body objectification was assessed through three subscales of the Objectified …
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
… Shakespeare's Othello, uses rhetorical skills, personal appearance to the senses, and action to embody the function the fictional world prescribes for them. It will appear that the three corresponding media, that is, language, perception, and action, do not only give characters an opportunity to …
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Constructing a collective memory : monuments commemorating warrior kings and name changes in Limpopo Province South Africa
… collective responsibilities, and the ideals of personal appearance prescribed by the society that honoured him, including its vision of ethnicity. The king was particularly emblematic of ideas about masculinity in the wake of a war and amid the social upheavals that followed it. Limpopo‘s …
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Human pose and action recognition using negative space analysis
… in these traces caused by time V differences, personal appearance and mannerisms, what emerged is a clear recognisable pattern that can be married to an action or different parts of an action. 7 Actors might lift their left leg. some slightlthigher than others,,SOJtle slower than others and …
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Designing American Taste: Frank Alvah Parsons, Queer Pedagogy and the Development of Applied Art and Design Education in the 20th Century
… the decoration of their homes and their personal appearance. While Parsons met with society ladies of New York City, he also lectured to homemakers in Iowa, firmly believing that he could teach taste to all classes of Americans. Likely as a result of his own education in the second half …