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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Social Condition"”.
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The effect of social condition and diet on the frequency of male-male agonistic displays in the field cricket, gryllus bimaculatus /
… of males was presented with three experimental conditions, over three days, involving the presence or absence of live females and female scent. The presence of females elicited an increase in all displays except antennation; female scent increased the frequency of antennations, mandible flares …
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Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Fear Acquisition and Reversal in comorbid Autism with Social Anxiety and Social Anxiety Disorder uncomplicated by Autism
Social Anxiety (SAD) increases in prevalence as children enter adolescence. Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are diagnosed with comorbid SAD at higher rates than these individuals are diagnosed with other clinical disorders, including depression and other anxiety disorders. However, …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
… specific activities that varied with respect to social purpose (communal or agentic) and social context (with others or individual) and to rate their Flow states during those activities. Older adults showed disproportionately enhanced Flow for communal activities, suggesting that with age, social …
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Effects of Social and Non-Social Interpretations of Complex Images on Human Eye Movement and Brain Activation
… to identify, extract, and process salient social cues from the environment. The subsequent application of such knowledge is important for inferring and predicting the behavior of other people. The eyes and brain must work together to fixate and process only the most critical social signals …
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Comparing the Effects of Cognitive and Social Stress among Individuals with Headache
… In the stress literature more broadly, the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) consistently has been shown to be a valid and reliable method of eliciting laboratory stress. However, this popular stress manipulation has not been previously used or promoted within the headache literature. The present …
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The Banality of the Social: A Philosophy of Communication of Social Media Influencer Marketing
… approach in order to understand the role of social media influencer marketing within a historical moment defined via Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the social. Social media influencer marketing emerges as a new form of celebrity endorsement in which those finding fame on the Internet engage …
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Latitudinaria latitude in thought or conduct
… progress and the consequently depersonalised social structures and systems. I am using the development from mechanical Automata to mass production juxtaposed to Charlie Chaplin’s film and Jean Tinguelys kinetic art, as examples for the change of the social condition from the industrialisation …
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Constructing discourses: A postmodern interpretation of a rural public library system
… and play out differently within the contemporary social condition. The research is grounded in a qualitative, constructivist research tradition. Mailed questionnaires, individual interviews, and group interviews, using open-ended questions, are used to elicit opinions from board members, qualified …
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"Anarchism and the press in Lima: The case of ""Los Parias"""
… medium, thanks to its timely message and firm social commitment, was able to forge an alliance with the workers of Peru in order to work towards a more socially egalitarian society in an era often recognized as the ""Aristocratic Republic;"" a historical period were old aristocracies and new …
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From negotiation to auction : Land-Conveyance Reform in China and its institutional and social impacts
… planning decision-making process and its social impacts on the deindustrialization process, specifically, the economic and social condition of working staff of SOEs. I conducted an empirical study in Beijing to investigate both institutional and social impacts. The LCR has caused an …
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Devaluation of Sucrose Caused by Social Instability Stress in Adolescent Male Long-Evans Rats in the Presence of an Unfamiliar Peer
Rats that undergo the Social Instability Stress procedure during adolescence (SS: daily 1-hour isolation + re-pairing with an unfamiliar cage partner for 16 days) display changes in reward-related behaviour. Specifically, SS rats spend less time in social interaction but more time in social …
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Transportation choices : can social marketing make a difference?
… walking, biking, or using transit. The field of Social Marketing provides valuable insight into how marketing and promotional strategies can be used more generally to encourage the adoption of behavior changes that benefit health, the environment, and the social condition; a model of the Social …
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Effects of mecamylamine on nicotine-induced conditioned hyperactivity and sensitization in differentially reared rats
Rats reared in an enriched condition (EC) with novel stimuli and social contact with cohorts display less sensitization to nicotine than rats reared under impoverished conditions (IC). However, it is currently unknown what effect differential rearing has on nicotine-induced conditioned …
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The Griquas of Griqualand East until about 1878
… of the character of the Griquas and of their social condition while Dower lived with them. For the facts of their history in Griqualand East I had to go to blue books, and to unpublished material in the Archives in Cape Town. I have not had the time to go through all the material on the …
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Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and the Historical Progression of Discourse: The Shifting of Social and Institutional Identity in Post-World War II America
… way of analyzing the behavior of our leading social and governmental institutions through the employment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan's theory of discourse. Lacan used the term discourse to show that a society's primary social link is founded on language, reflected …
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Pinpointing the cerebellum's contribution to social reward processing
… in particular has been shown to play a role in social cognitive processes, and recent work has proposed that this region helps fine tune mental models of social cognition to, for example, to ensure accurate selection of actions in a social scenario. Social interactions with strangers are …
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Proximate And Evolutionary Insights Into The Epigenetics Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… disorder (PTSD) is an important medical and social condition. Although the vast majority of individuals are exposed to traumatic events within their lifetime, a minority subsequently develop diagnosable PTSD. What underlies differential risk and resiliency in the face of trauma is an ongoing …
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Economic and social change in Wensleydale and Swaledale in the nineteenth century
… provides a detailed analysis of economic and social change in the nineteenth century in a specific rural upland area in the north Yorkshire Pennines. It is intended both to add to r the limited body of detailed knowledge which already exists in respect of rural, and specifically upland rural, …
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Health equities: social determinants of migrant health
… as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”, and further states “the highest standards of health should be within reach of all, without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition” (WHO, …
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