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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"Wandering"”.
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Mindfulness Meditation and Mind Wandering
Aasha I. Hoogland
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Mind wandering during everyday driving
Mind wandering is a common experience but its prevalence and consequences during routine activities such as driving are unclear. This thesis comprises five studies investigating how often drivers’ minds wander, and the relationship between mind wandering and crash risk. The first study was a …
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Differentiating states in mind wandering
DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11979 on 2018-03-13 at 10:38:27
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Requiem for wandering souls for orchestra
… transcended national boundaries. Requiem for Wandering Souls explores intercultural synthesis by merging traditional Korean ritual music with contemporary orchestral idioms. Inspired by Jongmyo Jeryeak and secular ritual textures, the work integrates Korea’s rhythmic and timbral heritage into …
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Identify Mind Wandering Behind the Wheel
… the influence of cognitive distraction, or mind wandering (Smallwood & Schooler, 2006), on driver performance has not been as closely studied. The current study used a self-report method to capture the moment-to-moment off-task thoughts, and investigated the influence of mind wandering on …
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Wheel Path Wandering Based On Field Data
… placement investigation of heavy vehicles' wandering in the field. Generally, the factors influencing vehicle lateral placement can be divided into seven categories, but only four factors are considered to be the most important in this research: weather, visibility, horizontal curve, and …
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The Relationship between Bilingualism, Cognitive Control, and Mind Wandering
… tasks, this would be associated with less mind wandering for bilinguals. Participants completed all measures of cognitive control and were probed periodically throughout the tasks for mind wandering. Accuracy and reaction times where appropriate were recorded for each task, and data from 52 …
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Learning by Wandering: Using Technology to Nourish the Spirit
… for transcendence effected through learning by wandering, and an insight into technology’s noble role in nourishing this hunger of the human spirit. I find that this vision is given historical expression in the wanderings across medieval Europe of the Irish scholar-saints and <em>vagantes</em>, …
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Individual variation in reproductive success in the wandering Albatross
To conserve threatened species it is important to protect the productive individuals, and so I aimed to identify factors accounting for individual-level variation in long-term reproductive success. I examined current breeding characteristics that might explain past reproductive performance amongst …
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How Mind Wandering Relates to Reading in a Second Language
Both language and mind wandering have been strongly linked to reading, however there remains very scarce literature on their intersection. For instance, there are very few existing studies evaluating mind wandering in the context of reading in a second language in children, and none to our …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… that what is masculine is necessarily indirect, wandering, and hierarchical, and what is feminine is idle, domestic, static, and community-oriented (a point I underscore in juxtaposing the adjectival "wandering" with the nominative "idleness," as opposed to the more parallel "idling"). Feeding on …
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“Never nearer to the goal”: Wordsworth, Sympathy, and the Wandering Jew
… as the first volume. Wordsworth’s “Song for the Wandering Jew” was one of these newly added poems. There are a number of influences at work in the poem, chief among these is the narrative of the Wandering Jew alluded to in the poem’s title. In regards to work written on Jews in Romantic-era …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… of the fin de siecle. I call this character the Wandering Woman. This new archetypal character adheres to the following list of characteristics: she is a literal or figurative orphan, is genteelly poor or of the working class, is pursued by a rogue who offers financial security in return for …
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Survival and reproduction in a biennially-breeding seabird : the Wandering Albatross
I studied a long-term data set for Wandering Albatrosses Diomedea exulans collected at sub-Antarctic Marion Island to investigate adult survival, breeding biology and factors affecting reproductive success of this long-lived pelagic seabird. Until recently, the complex adult life cycle has caused …
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A preliminary study on the relation between polar wandering and seismicity
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1963.
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Wandering minds, restless brains and mindful thinking : a network-based perspective
… its relevance to mindfulness tendencies, mind-wandering (MW) episodes engage distributed regions within the DMN. I also investigate mind-wandering frequency using experience sampling with fMRI. MW transiently engages cortical regions associated with executive control and state-level mind …
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Extreme Stellar Populations in the Universe: Backsplash Dwarf Galaxies and Wandering Stars
… still remain energetically bound to the system (wandering stars). Larger satellites (10-100% the mass of the parent), and satellites on more radial orbits are responsible for the majority of this ejected population. Wandering stars could be observable on Mpc scales via classical novae, and on 100 …
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Improved dating of Canadian Precambrian dikes and a revised polar wandering curve.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1971.
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