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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"The causal link"”.
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Exploring the causal link between childhood sexual abuse, contextual factors, and borderline personality disorder: a path analytical model
The purpose of this research is to clarify the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and borderline personality disorder. A path-analytic model was developed and tested to explore a causal link between childhood sexual abuse and borderline personality disorder. This model was developed by …
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Two investigations into the causal link between child mortality and subsequent fertility using DHS data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
This research performs two investigations into the causal link between childhood mortality and fertility using Demographic and Health Survey data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, countries which are at different stages of the demographic transition. The first investigation …
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Occupational Stress and Coping Strategies as Perceived by Secondary School Principals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Future studies should examine the causal link between administrative stress and coping preferences to draw implications for administrative training. Research into the feasibility of introducing mentoring for new principals and peer-support programs for more experienced principals may help lower …
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Development of molecular tools for rapid detection and quantification of indoor airborne molds to assess their impact on public health
Currently, contamination of the indoor environment by fungi is suggested to be a public health problem, although scientific evidence on the causal link is still limited. The monitoring of indoor airborne fungal contamination is a common tool to help understanding the link between fungi in houses …
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Dyadic Research in Couple Therapy: The Link between Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction
<p>Couple therapy ranks among the most frequently and diligently researched topics in Marital and Family therapy (MFT). Additionally, intimate partner relationships are a key focal point for clinical intervention with increasingly more couples seeking therapy to address relational conflict, repair …
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Three Essays in Corporate Finance
Leniency laws constitute a powerful deterrent to the formation of new cartels and an effective tool facilitating the dismantling of existing cartels, thereby introducing a competition shock in the countries where they are enacted. While the connection between product market competition and firms’ …
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The Functional Role for Chromatin Loops in Gene Expression Control During Human Neuron Maturation
The causal link among higher-order chromatin loops, CTCF occupancy, and mRNA levels in post-mitotic human neurons remains an open question. Here, we summarize the field of epigenetics and chromatin in neuroscience, examine neural model systems, and build an auxin-inducible degron to deplete the …
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La loi sur l'assurance automobile, fait-elle échec à un recours en responsabilité médicale et/ou hospitalière?
The Quebec legislator established with the Automobile Insurance Act a social compromise in which an automobile accident victim is entitled to automatic and limited compensation for an injury caused by an accident. In return, the compensation awarded to the victim of an automobile accident stands in …
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The causal role of selective information processing biases towards threat in anxiety
The causal link between selective information processing biases and vulnerability to anxiety was investigated by examining change in emotional vulnerability as mediated by attentional training. Training was given on a modified dot-probe detection task, where participants were trained either to …
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China’s soft power investment in African nations
… that can undermine U.S. influence and affect the existing international hegemonic order, public opinion poll data shows that Africans tend to have more favorable views of China. Previous literature suggests that China’s soft power, such as scholarships, Confucius Institute, and iconic social …
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DELINEATING GUT-MEDIATED RESPONSE AMONG MELANOMA PATIENTS UNDERGOING ANTI-PD1 IMMUNOTHERAPY
The advent of immune checkpoint inhibition therapy markedly improved outcome for melanoma. However, response remains heterogeneous, with about half of the patients being refractory or developing relapse. Meanwhile, current knowledge on the causal link between the gut microbiota and immunotherapy …
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
… populations have been diversifying due to the decline of ethnic majority groups coupled with an increase in ethnic minority populations. Previous studies established that such demographic changes can result in negative attitudes toward immigrants via elevated status threat to the ethnic …
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Designing for Deep Engagement
Flow state represents the quality of meaningful experience-- an effortless, depth of attention that is often undermined in our interrupt-driven, modern society. In this thesis, I present four novel interventions to promote states of deep engagement. Evaluating whether one of these interventions has …
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Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
In this thesis, I use both structural- and reduced-form econometric models to analyze economic issues relating to the mortgage and labour markets. In chapter 2, I use a dynamic discrete choice model to quantify the impact of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) in the United States during …
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Meaning is Use: Civic Initiatives and Europeanisation from below in Bulgaria
The research poses the question of how civic initiatives are constituted by and constitutive for the process of Europeanization in Bulgaria. Europeanization as a process, overlapping with democratization, was initiated in Bulgaria with EU support to build democracy and pluralism after the demise of …
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Denial of Cultural Authenticity: Asian Americans' Negotiation of Bicultural Identities
"Cultural inauthenticity results from the belief that one is not a ""true"" or genuine representation of the culture to which one is presumed to belong. As Americans continue to heavily rely on the framework of race for understanding social reality, cultural inauthenticity may result when one's …
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Inhibitory mechanisms for visual learning in the human brain
… between targets that are highly similar. These tasks require our visual system to become an expert at detecting distinctive features that help us differentiate between indistinguishable targets. As the human brain is trained on this type of visual tasks, we observe changes in its function …
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The sectoral analysis of business cycles: the role of aggregate and disaggregate shocks
<p>This dissertation is a contribution to the analysis of disaggregate and aggregate business cycles. The motivation for the study comes from the need to assess whether shocks which initially affect specific sectors can induce aggregate output fluctuations. This can occur not only because aggregate …
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Participatory autocracy : private entrepreneurs, legislatures, and property protection in China
This dissertation addresses the puzzle of why individuals in authoritarian systems seek office in formal institutions, which are often dismissed as weak and ineffective. I argue that individuals seek office mainly to protect their property from government expropriation in China. In contrast to …
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Cytochrome c oxidase mediates the regulation of mitochondrial function in an in vitro model of Huntington's disease
… changes of respiratory chain enzyme complexes. The data shown here manifested the effect of 3-nitropropionic acid (NPA), a mitochondrial toxin and in vitro model of Huntington’s disease (HD), on mitochondrial regulation and function which adds another evidence for COX as a respiratory chain …
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