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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Teenager"”.
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Factors contributing to termination of pregnancies among teenager in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province
… contributing to termination of pregnancies among teenagers in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, by studying the responses given by teenage girls aged 19 years and younger. The study also sought to determine the socio economic characteristics of teenagers who terminate pregnancies, the role of …
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The Amelioration of Self-Stimulation in an Autistic Teenager: A View Toward the Environment
… of self-stimulation emitted by an autistic teenager was studied. Emphasis was placed not only on the strength or weakness of treatment effects, but the influence various environmental stimuli had on the subject's behavior. The subject was studied in three natural environments: a vocational …
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The Examination of Cutoff and Self-Functioning in Three Generations of Families with a Substance-Abusing Teenager
… center for a substance abuse evaluation for a teenager were interviewed. The parent(s) and teenager were administered the Emotional Cutoff Scale, a paper-and-pencil measure. The functioning of each parent was assessed by the researcher through the Global Assessment of Functioning. The child was …
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The investigation of eating and lifestyle habits of overweight and obese teenager aged between 13-18 years in Thulamela Municipality
… (including South Africa) revealed that most teenagers are overweight and obese and that they eat little nutritious food. Obesity and overweight are public health problems and need to be addressed from a community perspective. The reason for exploring this problem in this study was that South …
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Parent-child communication: influences of maternal sexual experiences as a teenager on the occurrence of sexuality communication with their adolescent
… birth control, and participation in oral sex as teenagers.</p>
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My Kind of Music: Two New Orleans Stories
… and a non-fictional story of my experience as a teenager in New Orleans in 1959. Part I is Mickey's personal coming of age story influenced by the forbidden music of rhythm and blues. Since Mickey's story is set in the same year of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, it is also a coming of …
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Learning to Dance in the Rain: Stories of Young People taking Antipsychotic Medication
… people prescribed antipsychotic medication as a teenager. Participants collected images illustrative of their medication journey, discussing these images and their medication stories at interview. Analysis of data uncovered a metastory of a journey from darkness to brightness. In darkness, …
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Experiences of mothers of pregnant teenagers in Chikankata district, Zambia.
… in Zambia but world over. Pregnant or parenting teenagers at this point are at their critical developmental time in their lives and in most instances do not have the necessary skills and knowledge to handle their pregnancy or new-born, in this case, families, mostly mothers take up the …
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Individual Parental Coaching (IPC) - an optional way to improve communication between parents and adolescents in conventionally structured families in Israel
… individual parental coaching (IPC) has on the teenager-parent relationship. Essentially, the research had two main goals, firstly to examine the possible influence of a parental coaching process, with respect to the parents’ ability to form better connections and communication with their …
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… support for the Union. A young Philadelphia teenager named Anna Dickinson rose to prominence as an abolition orator, earning the title "Joan of Arc" of the Civil War.
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Parental Understanding of Miranda Rights
… and parents' likelihood of encouraging their teenagers to waive their Miranda rights. The previous research suggests that parents alone may not adequately protect juveniles' rights during interrogation and waiver. Prior research also suggests that parents' and juveniles' past experience with …
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Hot, Fiery, Fierce, Burning, Passionate: The Story of John Fry and Ardent Studios
… Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, as a teenager. Until Fry’s death in 2014 at the age of 69, over 70 gold and platinum albums and singles were recorded at Ardent Studios. But the impact that he made on the world can’t be measured by the gold records hanging on the walls of the studio. It …
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Wheelchair controlled by human brainwave using brain-computer interface system for paralyzed patient
… Male is easier to focus compared to the female. Teenagers have the highest attention value followed by the children while the adults have the lowest attention value among all age categories studied. The EEG of the human were analyzed by using Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) …
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Wise, well off and tired: a qualitative study of over-35 mothers raising their teens
… 35 or older and were in the process of raising a teenager. Data were collected with semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic coding. Initial findings suggest maternal age contributes to a positive parenting outcome due to life experience, emotional maturity and financial security. …
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Achievement Motivation in African American College Students
… measure, Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), and Teenager Experience of Racial Socialization Scale (TERS) (Sedlacek, 2004; Stevenson et al., 2002). Results indicated that performance was not dependent upon threat, <em>p</em> = .63. Appreciation of AA culture was negatively associated with …
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The Mindstorm
… of Marcus Hamilton, a gay, African-American, teenager who is born with incredible telekinetic powers. He has the ability to levitate considerably large objects with his mind, create telekinetic force fields, and fly. After preventing a convenience store hold-up, he decides to become a …
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
… wife and "Mutant: An Origin Story" is about a teenager trying to find his own unique identity.
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The Master of the Rebels: Teenage Encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012.
… of Shakespeare's role in the invention of the teenager and teenagers' roles in re-inventing Shakespeare. In post World War II England, Australia, and the United States, Shakespeare's plays became one arena where competing versions of teenage identity were defined, with Shakespearean characters …
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Case Study of a Middle School Reader Attending a Separate Reading Class
… description of a biracial Navajo and Piute teenager who attended a separate reading class. The case study looked at three specific areas of the student's reading in regards to this class: comprehension, motivation, and perception. The student did not transfer the skills he learned in this …
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