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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"Urge"”.
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Prevalence of stress, urge, and mixed urinary incontinence in women
… urinary incontinence is classified into Stress, Urge, and Mixed urinary incontinence. Knowledge of the specific type of incontinence helps in determining course of treatment. A retrospective, descriptive, observational study was designed to determine the percentage of new patients seeking …
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The light in the darkness: an assessment of the retributive urge
… the retributive emotions, or the retributive urge, which typically precede retributive punishment. The four main chapters are dedicated to individual issues regarding the retributive urge: its genealogy, its schematic structure, its rationality, and its moral status. These issues draw together …
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SOCIAL PROBLEM-SOLVING, NEGATIVE AFFECT, AND SMOKING URGE REACTIVITY DURING BASELINE CUE EXPOSURE
… problem-solving, negative affect, and smoking urges during a baseline smoking cue exposure trial. Methods: aA part of a larger cessation study. 51 male and 50 female physically inactive, sedentary smokers with the intention to quit smoking, and bioverified smoking abstinence (CO < 11ppm) …
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The Urge to Learn: A Natural History of Learning in the Elementary Classroom
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511682.pdf: 12664298 bytes, checksum: 97744f1275106d61c85c08353eb26c3d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Smoking to Cope with Pain: The Motivating Effects of Pain Induction on Smoking Urge and Behaviour
… pain is sufficient to increase smoking urge and immediate smoking behaviour (Ditre & Brandon, 2008). The purpose of the current investigation is to replicate and extend the findings of Ditre and Brandon (2008) by investigating the effects of (a) situational pain on smoking urge and …
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Acceptance Versus Distraction As Coping Strategies for Acute Pain and Pain-induced Alcohol Urge and Approach Inclinations
… showed significant indirect effects for alcohol urge through negative affect. Pain condition predicted increases in negative affect, but negative affect did not effect alcohol use proxies. Results suggest that there are no differences between acceptance and distraction coping in ameliorating the …
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Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Negative Affect and Urge to Drink Among College Student Drinkers
… and assessed across Time for level of NA and urge to drink alcohol via four outcome variables. It was hypothesized that those in the Mindfulness + NA condition would report lower levels of NA, increased willingness to experience NA, lower urges to drink, and less time to next alcoholic drink …
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Interaction Effects between the Cumulative Genetic Score and Psychosocial Stressor on Drinking Urge and Attentional Bias for Alcohol: A Human Laboratory Study
… manipulated psychosocial stressor on drinking urge and attentional bias for alcohol cues differ as a function of the cumulative genetic index of 5-HTTLPR, MAO-A, DRD4, DAT1, and DRD2 genotypes (candidate genes and environment interaction; cGxE). The current study also examined whether salivary …
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The architecture and acuity of critical systems thinking
This thesis looks at two critical urges in Critical Systems Thinking that both complement and critique each other. Firstly, there is an urge to construct in a critical manner. Secondly, there is an urge to be critical about such constructions. They complement and critique each other in the manner …
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Direct current distribution systems for residential areas powered by distributed generation
… found itself quite obsolete, against the ongoing urge to adapt in favor of higher efficiency. AC became the choice for power transfer in all areas of the power system namely generation, transmission, sub-transmission and distribution. However, just as history repeats itself, the fight between …
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Acupuncture for women with refractive Overactive Bladder Syndrome
… evaluate the effect on frequency, nocturia and urge urinary incontinence. The secondary aim was to evaluate the effect of the response on self-perceived quality-of-life.
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Impulse-control or impulse and control? Is impulse-control one, two, or more constructs? Development of domain specific impulse-control (DSIC) measure
… processes by failing to distinguish between the urge to act (impulse) and the ability to regulate that urge (control), and by neglecting the contextual specificity of different impulse domains. This dissertation introduces and validates a novel Domain-Specific Impulse-Control (DSIC) measure that …
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Turning.
… of twenty-two poems that reflects on the urge to migrate and explore, how that urge was expressed in my own family and life, and how it relates to a sense of place and belonging. Apart from the opening poem, the poems are arranged chronologically, and begin with two glimpses of nineteenth …
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Prediction of bulimic behaviors: social learning analysis
… levels of self-efficacy related to resisting the urge to binge and/or purge as well as levels of self-efficacy related to handling stressful events, (2) mood states, (3) enjoyment of daily activities, (4) number of stressful events, and (5) number of binging and purging episodes. Participants were …
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Virtual Reality RPG Spoken Dialog System
… near presence of the NPC gives the player the urge to want to communicate in a more natural way, verbally. In this paper we introduce a Spoken Dialog System for Virtual Reality RPG which can be used to assist in making spoken dialogues with NPCs.
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… of her enormous popularity in England to urge British 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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The reforming of the electricity supply industry
… elements, whereas political circumstances urge for a competition-oriented model. Hence, especially in small systems, a delicate trade-off emerges that significantly complicates the decisions to be made. This is obviously relevant for Namibia
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As the owl discreet: Essay towards a conversation and Carly's Dance a novel
… runs through them that might be described as an urge to connect; each work, although self-contained, is concerned with the co-existence of opposites, or more precisely, apparent opposites. The essay's title is ironic, borrowed from Hillaire Belloc's perverse verses collected as Cautionary Tales. …
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"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia
… upon an ideal past, to a self-destructive urge to return to innocence through death. Thomas incorporates a variety of historical influences within this nostalgia, but his primary influence is ultimately his own tormented past. This study not only focuses on the personal nostalgia of one …
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Investigation of neural correlates of bladder control using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with overactive bladder (OAB)
… Continence Society Terminology Committee as "urgency, with or without urge incontinence, usually with frequency and nocturia". There is some preliminary evidence using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that the brain response to bladder filling in OAB patients is abnormal. The …
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