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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Stigmas"”.
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A study of the stigmas of selected horticultural plants.
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 117862 on 2021-06-29T13:45:01Z with date by madinag@illinois.edu.
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Tolerance: Challenge, Perception, and Social Stigmas Defined through Visual Communications.
… communicating challenge, perception, and social stigmas through informed stories of individual lives is to provoke questions and spark moments of awareness in viewers. With this supporting manuscript, I hope to inform about my motivations through time including my personal, artistic, and …
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Sticks, stones, & stigmas: A social-cognitive account of stereotype threat mechanisms
1 PDF file (viii, 108 pages)
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Understanding Mediators of the Relationship Between HIV-Related Stigma and Medication Adherence Among People Living with HIV (HIV)
… (i.e., internalized, anticipated, and enacted stigmas) and multiple domains of adherence (i.e., global and intentional nonadherence). It was further hypothesized that two mediational pathways, depressive symptoms and disclosure concerns, may mediate the association between HIV-related stigmas …
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Alcoholism on the American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions of the Alcoholic through Performance
… stage. It examines plays that perpetuate stigmas as well as plays that seek to subvert stigmas and stereotypical depictions as a means of creating avenues for discourse. This study asks how we, as practitioners of the theatre, can use the theatre and the act of storytelling to initiate …
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African-American Women and Welfare: A Qualitative Study of African-American Women Receiving Public Assistance
… receiving public assistance and the labels and stigmas (i.e., welfare checks, food stamps, and medical cards) associated with receiving public assistance were examined. Research findings indicate that there is stress associated with receiving public assistance, and the stigmas associated with …
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How can autobiographical theatre aid in the de-stigmatisation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
… disorder, resulting in harmful ill-informed stigmas and embarrassment surrounding OCD. This means that thousands more people could be living with OCD, and are too anxious to talk about it due to the stigma, therefore not reaching out to seek professional help. This practice-as-research …
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… compound the pre-established constructions and stigmas by re-enforcing classist systems, notions of deservingness, ethnic and social stigmas, and the attribution of blame. While urban poverty and the urban poor are not inherent in policy and State, the individual urban poor occupy an …
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The Floral Biology of Nymphaea Odorata Aiton
… flowers are protogynous and the pollen-receptive stigmas secrete a fluid which fills the perigynous cup. Pollen covered insects, especially Hymenoptera (Lasioglossum versatum Robertson), are attracted to first day flowers by odor. As insects enter first day flowers, foraging for pollen, they land …
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PERCEPTIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND LEARNING DISORDERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A REVIEW OF SERVICES, PERCEPTON, AND POPULAR CULTURE
… in developing these policies and stereotypes and stigmas of disabled students. This paper
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The Stigmatization of Hunger: The Impact of Social Stigma on Arkansas Youths’ Food Security
… frames food insecurity and how perceived social stigmas affect a student’s willingness to seek out help when struggling with food security. </p>
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Applications of RAPD Markers in Soybean: Genetic Diversity and Linkage Analysis
… the bar and gus genes were applied to cut stigmas. Approximately 5000 seeds were produced from treated flowers. No plants derived from seeds produced by flowers treated with the plasmid carrying the bar gene were found to be as herbicide resistant as the positive control. Approximately 2% …
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Lightning Flowers
… necessitate self-delusion? How do social stigmas inform our experience of mental illness?
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Making Museums Fashion Forward and Forward Thinking: A Proposal for a Rotating Exhibit Program at the Levi Strauss & Co. Museum
… with the intent to help eradicate some of the stigmas associated with museum fashion exhibitions. This capstone explores the complicated history of the museum field’s relationship with fashion and analyzes some of the social justice issues that the fashion and textile industries face today. The …
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Reclaiming the Projects: Reinterpreting Social Housing Through the Revitalization of the Robert F. Wagner Houses
… The objective of this thesis is to remove the stigmas associated and define the term ‘Social’, and its related idioms, in respect to the dwelling and its social and political conditioning by investigating alternative strategies to this model. The thesis aims to develop speculative and …
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Asian Adolescent Experiences of Health-Related Stigma During the Covid-19 Pandemic
… into drivers and facilitators, intersecting stigmas, manifestations, and outcomes. Drivers and facilitators included attitudes about people with COVID-19, Anti-Asian racism, the media and social media and time of infection. The intersecting stigmas were ageism and racism. Manifestations …
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Unleashed From the Shackles: Modern Media's Portrayal of Mental Illness: United States of Tara
… inspirational stories to escape the lingering stigmas of mental illness. Instead of judging people with mental illness, TED's All Kinds of Minds provided an avenue for people to learn about those who struggle with mental illness along with their success stories too.</p> <p>Even though TED …
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Everyday Lived-Experiences and the Domain of the Sexual As Explored By Four Physically Disabled Women
… explores how these disabled women deal with the stigmas they encounter in their everyday lives. Special attention is focused on how disabled people are often viewed as asexual or without sexual desires. By contrast, this thesis highlights the sexual agency of the disabled and includes policy …
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Transgender population: Barriers and adaptions to employment
… transitioning, employer and type of employment, stigmas faced such as being "outed," and attitude. These themes served as the foundation in developing social work intervention for this population, with regard to employment. All desire to be accepted and meld into mainstream, without having past …
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