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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Social Contact"”.
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… that this bias is a function of perceptual and social contact. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of contact in the OGRB, particularly in its social dimension, and to understand more broadly how a set of social and cognitive components can act on face recognition. This work was …
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… that this bias is a function of perceptual and social contact. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the role of contact in the OGRB, particularly in its social dimension, and to understand more broadly how a set of social and cognitive components can act on face recognition. This work was …
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Modeling, Analysis and Comparison of Large Scale Social Contact Networks on Epidemic Studies
Social contact networks represent proximity relationships between individual agents. Such networks are useful in diverse applications, including epidemiology, wireless networking and urban resilience. The vertices of a social contact network represent individual agents (e.g. people). Time varying …
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Remote Social Contact and Loneliness Among the Young-Old, Middle-Old, and Oldest-Old Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… examined: (1) whether the frequency of remote social contact usage during the COVID-19 pandemic differs among age groups of older adults, and (2) if the association between the use of remote social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic and loneliness differs among age groups of older adults. …
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A sociable place
People are sociable creatures. we need social interaction of various sorts, including casual contact with strangers as well as planned meetings with friends and acquaintances. It is the task of the designer to understand these needs and help provide appropriate settings for social contact. This …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Social Distances Expressed by Des Moines Area XI Community College Students Toward Selected Minority Groups
… study was undertaken to determine the degrees of social distances expressed by a sample of Area XI Community College students toward eleven selected minority groups. In an exploratory manner, various socioeconomic variables were tested in order to determine the relationship to the expressed social …
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Age and IQ as Potential Moderators in the Relation Among Endopheonotypes and Expressed Behaviors in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
… expressed behaviors (i.e., acting out behaviors, social insight deficits, social contact problems, anxious/rigid behaviors, and stereotypical behaviors) that are commonly found in children with ASD. In addition, this study examined whether these associations are modified by age or IQ. Participants …
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Characterizing and leveraging people movement for content distribution in mobile Peer-to-Peer networks
… people visit regular locations and make regular social contacts for their daily routines such as university campuses and work places. For the first part of the thesis, we start by analyzing the original segregation model proposed by Thomas Schelling, a Nobel prize winner in economics. We find …
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Behavior and communication in the short bare-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)
… marsupial in the family Didelphidae. The social biology was examined to evaluate the importance of visual, olfactory, auditory, and tactile communication. Social contexts were compared in 124 encounters of 30 min each. An ethogram was developed containing 74 behaviors which sorted into 9 …
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Social facilitation of polydipsia as an animal model of compulsive behavior
… The purpose of this study is to test social facilitation as a potential mechanism through which compulsive behaviors are acquired, via an animal model. Schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP) was employed as the behavior of interest because there is empirical support indicating it as an …
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Development of Person-Person Network and Interacting PTTS in EpiSimdemics
Communications over social media, telephone, email, text etc have emerged as an integral part of modern society and they are popularly used for the expression of anger, anxiety, fear, agitation and opinion by the people. People's social interaction tend to increase dramatically during periods of …
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Determination of oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviour among nursing staff in Lesotho
… workers. Nurses, by virtue of their extended social contact in hospitals. clinics and the community form the most suitable group of personnel to take this role.
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Outcome in the first year following severe traumatic brain injury: a New Zealand study of the impact on patients and their primary caregivers
… abilities and significant disruption to social functioning. Despite an improvement in cognitive functioning between 6 months and 1 year, deficits in many aspects of cognitive functioning were still evident at 1 year postinjury. However, the prevalence of emotional and behavioural …
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First Among Equals: A Study of Faculty Trust Levels and Influencing Factors Related to New Deans In Transition Periods
… what factors relating to gender and familiarity/ contact most affect the trust relationship between the deans and their faculty. The factors explored were: dean gender, faculty gender, the interaction between faculty and dean gender, whether the discipline had an historically male or female …
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Participant motivation and satisfaction with off-campus agricultural credit programs
… EPS has been factor analyzed. The factors were: social contact, social stimulation, professional advancement, community service, external expectations, and cognitive interest. The study revealed the cognitive interest factor mean score to be rated highest. All factor mean scores, with the …
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The influence of collaboration networks on programming language acquisition
Many behaviors spread through social contact. However, different behaviors seem to require different degrees of social reinforcement to spread within a network. Some behaviors spread via simple contagion, where a single contact with an "activated node" is sufficient for transmission, while others …
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Examining Orders of Protection: An Analysis of the Court System in a Rural Tennessee County.
… the issuance of the order of protection without social contact increased the probability of violations.</p>
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Functional analysis and elimination of SIB in an olive baboon (Papio hamadryas anubis).
… have investigated the possible influence of social consequences, delivered by handlers and keepers, in the maintenance of SIB. There is only one research report showing that self-injury can be shaped in primates by the manipulation of food as a reinforcing consequence for the animal's …
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A qualitative exploration of the factors affecting the capabilities and integration of Algerian immigrants into French society
… selected to participate. The capabilities and social exclusion approaches were used to understand the experience of Algerian immigrants as a result of their being foreigners in a new country. The findings revealed that Algerian migrants experienced several deprivations related to money and …
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Simulating the Spread of Malaria: A Cellular Automaton Based Mathematical Model & A Prototype Software Implementation
… the spread of infectious diseases; it uses social contact network from TRANSIMS (A Transport Analysis and Simulation System). Simulation results from the prototype implementation showed qualitatively correct results for vector densities, diffusion and epidemiological curves.
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