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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Single female"”.
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The Single Female Home Buyer: A Qualitative Analysis of Social, Psycological, and Behavioral Themes
… 2005) more than one in five homebuyers is a single woman and twice as many unmarried women as unmarried men are buying homes. Notably unmarried women make up more than one-third of the growth in real estate ownership since 1994. The purpose of this study was to examine this cultural …
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Selected economic behaviors of specified female-heads of households
… was to determine selected economic behaviors of female heads of households. The objectives were to determine (1) selected economic behaviors of single female heads of households, (2) selected economic behaviors of divorced female heads of households, (3) selected economic behaviors of separated …
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An elicitation study of the condom use behaviour and intentions of migrants youth in South Africa
… The 20 samples consisted of; 13 males and seven females; 10 singles and 10 married; nine single males and one single female; six married females and 4 married males.
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Neurochemical Levels Correlate with Population Level Differences in Social Structure and Individual Behavior in the Polyphenic Spider, <em>Anelosimus studiosus</em>.
… levels of these neurochemicals among adult females from social (multi-female) and solitary (single-female) webs in east Tennessee. A subset of spiders was scored for individual social tendency. We found that higher octopamine levels are associated with a greater degree of aggression and …
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How to Keep the Girls Inside
… stories, connected by the voice of a single female narrator and expressed in vignette-style. The novella is divided into three parts, each consecutive section loosely following the narrator’s growth in age and maturity over a time-span of approximately fifteen years. Set in a …
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Reproductive Behaviors of Male and Female Blackspotted Topminnows, <i>Fundulus olivaceus</i>
… the reproductive behaviors of male and female blackspotted topminnows in the Pascagoula Drainage. I focused on phenotypic traits, size and number of dorsolateral spots, in males that possibly could cue a female to choose one male more frequently than other males present in the spawning …
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Cultural Factors That Predict Civic Engagement in African American Young Adults
… Mississippi. A majority of the participants were single, female, freshmen, and heterosexual. Each participant completed survey packets that included a demographic questionnaire and measures that assessed racial identity, acculturation, self-efficacy, and experiences with racism. Regression …
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A intervenção pedagógica em domicílio: contribuições para a autonomia de pessoas com paralisia cerebral
… of study - identified herein as " Camila " -, single, female, 36, was totally dependent on parents, especially ADL, and second, that their parents encouraged their condition of dependency and did not identify their potential. After our pedagogical interventions in "Camila", and also with their …
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Multiple paternity and the breeding biology of the red-eyed treefrog, Agalychnis callidryas
… to simultaneously fertilize the clutch of a Single female. DNA fingerprinting revealed the presence of multiple paternity in two egg clutches examined from two matings involving a female with two males. The breeding biology of females and the potential costs and benefits of mating with …
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Understanding Food Stamp Program Participation Among Female-Headed Households: Has It Been Affected By Participation In The AFDC/TANF Program?
… experienced sharp drops among non-metropolitan single female-headed families with children (SFHFwC) after welfare reform in 1996. There is concern that leaving welfare program has led to nonparticipation in food stamp program due to multiple reasons. This study conducts an empirical analysis of …
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Factors affecting female teachers in career progression in public secondary schools in Chingola district of Zambia.
This study investigated the factors affecting female teachers in career progression in public secondary schools in Chingola District of Zambia. The study used a descriptive phenomenological research design. The sample consisted of twenty five (25) participants. These were: 10 female teachers, 5 …
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EVOLUTION OF FRESHWATER CRABS IN LAKE MALAWI AND THE LAKE MALAWI BASIN IN THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT VALLEY
… in the East African Rift Valley and is home to a single species of freshwater crab, the Malawi Blue Crab. Little is known about species diversity and the phylogenetic relationships of the freshwater crabs of Lake Malawi, in contrast to the lake’s highly-diverse cichlid fish species flocks. The …
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Homeless women: A social, economic and historical analysis
This study of single homeless women looks at the way our society defines and generates "needs", at the way housing is provided and allocated to exclude specific forms of households, and at the experiences of a particular group - single women - for whom the impact of these processes is dire. The …
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A SURVEY OF THE COMMON LOON (Gavia immer) GENOME REVEALS PATTERNS OF NATURAL SELECTION
… used Illumina short read sequencing data from a single female common loon to produce a fragmented assembly of the common loon (<em>Gavia immer</em>) genome. The resulting assembly had a contig N50 of 814 bp, a total length of 767,326,331 bp, and 45.7 % GC content. I identified fragments of 13,821 …
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It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)
“It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958)” argues for a feminist reconsideration of strategic humor in popular women’s novels. Spanning the decades between the first successful suffrage laws in Britain and the United States and second-wave …
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I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea
… the central work of evangelism done by not only single female missionaries, but married ones as well.
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
… or to Christ. Their stories, centered in a single female consciousness, turn on mundane "rituals"--gathering eggs, falling in love, death, birth, naming, getting married, or the handing down of an object or of family history. By the development of the will as a spiritual energy to cut …
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The role of individual variation in auditory and visual processing: implications for mate choice
… in male sexual signals and variation in female sensory perception and behavioral responses to these signals. I addressed several specific research questions using the brown headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) as a model species: (i) how does male signaling behavior differ with the sex of the …
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Speciation and the evolution of male breeding coloration in darters
… interactions between male E. spectabile, female E. spectabile, and male E. caeruleum under different lighting conditions that permitted or impaired the fish’s perception of red coloration. Species recognition was controlled by males, who preferentially pursued conspecific females and …
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The Social System of the Round-Eared Sengi(Macroscelides proboscideus)
… sengis lived in perennial territorial male-female-pairs. However, males maintained much larger areas than females that were sensitive to population density and the presence of neighbouring males. At higher density males used smaller areas than at lower population density, but the number of …
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