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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"abstention"”.
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Essays on abstention in the United States Senate
… vote and the roll-call outcome are not aligned, abstention emerges as a nontrivial choice. For example, on a specific Republican-sponsored bill, a Republican senator representing a moderate constituency may want the legislation to pass, but not to be pinned down by a vote for it. As a result, the …
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Personality and family relationship correlates of drug abstention in adolescents
… while the extreme behaviors of abuse and abstention are signs of underlying emotional problems. Abstention has not been directly researched. Information on abstention has been a byproduct of the use/abuse literature. Personality and family relationship correlates of drug abstention were …
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Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarianism, 1817-1917
<p>The history of vegetarianism in the United States has long been shrouded in myth, assumption and obfuscation. Vegetarianism as a vital ideological and political movement has often been presented--even by its proponents--as a product of twentieth century modernism, reflecting a rise in ethical …
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Macroeconomic Indicators of Working Class Voter Abstention in US Presidential Elections, 1948-2004
In this paper I explore the causal relationship between the strategic economic interdependence advanced by Western democracies after WWII and the "puzzle of participation" in US presidential elections. More specifically, I seek to illustrate first how economic convergence within the West and then …
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Beyond the Meat Paradox: Psychological Factors Underpinning Animal Product Consumption and Abstention Among Different Dietary Groups
The social psychological and moral factors underpinning meat consumption have been documented extensively. However, few studies have investigated how these factors are associated with the consumption of other animal products such as fish, dairy, and egg products. This is important in order to …
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Young Conservatives, Young Socialists and the great youth abstention : youth participation and non-participation in political parties
This thesis is an investigation into participation and non-participation by young people in British political parties. Falling turnout in British elections has lead to concern about the level of popular participation in the political system, especially amongst the young. Those between 18 and 25 are …
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ETERNAL SUNSHINE TO THE FAPLESS MASCULINITY:A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE R/NOFAP COMMUNITY ON REDDIT PROMOTING ABSTENTION FROM PORNOGRAPHY CONSUMPTION AND MASTURBATION.
This study examines the NoFap phenomenon, a homosocial digital movement promoting abstinence from pornography and masturbation to overcome self-diagnosed porn addiction and “compulsive sexual behaviors”. Critical literature on the topic has identified heterosexist, patriarchal, and misogynistic …
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Controlling for Acute Caffeine Intake in Cardiovascular Reactivity Research
… was conducted in order to identify a minimal abstention duration in habitual coffee consumers whereby CVR is unconfounded by caffeine; Six hours was hypothesized (average half-life). Thirty nine subjects (mean age: 20.9; 20 Women) completed a repeated measures study involving hand cold pressor …
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In Their Own Words: College Students Who Abstain From Drinking
… defined motivations as the reasons for students' abstention. In this study, I defined behaviors as: (a) techniques used to abstain, (b) social experiences, and (c) recreational experiences. Outcomes were defined as the positive and negative effects of the choice not to drink. I defined abstainers …
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College Women and The Occurrence of Unwanted Sexual Advances in Public Drinking Settings: A Feminist Routine Activities Approach
… advances. The analysis also reveals that alcohol abstention at parties has a significant effect on unwanted sexual advances. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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‘We vote for good things’: The moral economy of voting in South Africa, 2009-2019
… During this time there was an increase in both abstention and opposition party support, making it a fruitful time to interrogate how voters make the decisions which ultimately determine the trajectory of democracy - supporting the ruling party, abstaining, or voting for the opposition. In …
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Assessing The Influence Of Religious Involvement On Health Behaviors Among Gender And Racial/ethnic Groups
… including preventive health behaviors, abstention from alcohol and smoking, and physical activity. In addition to taking a multi-dimensional approach to assessing the religion-health relationship this study described the effects of religiosity on health behaviors for racial/ethnic and …
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Fair Selective Regression
Selective regression allows for abstention from prediction when uncertainty is high, creating a tradeoff between coverage rate and prediction error. In this thesis, we consider how selective regression interacts with data that is partitioned into subgroups by a sensitive attribute. Specifically, we …
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Towards answering unanswerable questions: data augmentation for enhanced medical domain question answering
… we ensure model reliability by applying answer abstention when the text-to-SQL model cannot reliably answer a question, while also ensuring that the model does not deteriorate the answerability of the original answerable questions. As a result of these experiments, we find that out-of-schema …
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Design of a Youth Electoral Audit
… of democratic systems. Further, voting and abstention behaviours are habit forming, which means citizens who begin adulthood as non-voters are likely to stay that way. While a number of best and promising practices to improve youth voter turnout have been identified, no central means for …
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Gendering virginity and violence in Ælfric’s lives of female saints
… their admirable attributes, namely sexual abstention and virginity, whilst also being used to determine how, and through what means, the saint should be treated within the text to enable her sanctification. It becomes quite clear, having examined a number of Ælfric’s female saints, that …
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Food, Flesh, and Fervor: Perfecting the Ascetic Body in Tertullian's De Ieiunio
… former life and take on a new life based on abstention and self-constraint. This new life rejects many of the necessities of the former life, thus it is plausible to consider asceticism as a "life of martyrdom," which served as the ideal in Tertullian's community.
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… rights; (b) that freedom is not a demand for abstention solely from third parties and the state but a resource available to individuals in a society with egalitarian foundations; (c) the suppression of expressions of fictional characters, such as those in South Park, through attempts to …
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“My people seem to be falling to bits”: impotence, memory, and the co-possibility of body and mind in Samuel Beckett’s works
… Beckett’s “literature of the unword” is not an abstention from meaning and its materialization, but one that paradoxically foregrounds that “something” which remains an essential part of it, that is, an embodied subjectivity.
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Principles Matter: Humanitarian Assistance to Civilians under IHL
… meaning non-interference in hostilities and even abstention from involvement in politics.
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