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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"aged persons"”.
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Assessing theory of mind in school-aged persons with autism and typical peers
This study examined the use of the Roberts-2 as a potential measure of Theory of Mind in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Children both with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder were administered the Roberts-2 and the NEPSY-2 Theory of Mind subtest. The performance of children diagnosed with …
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Evaluation of a professional development curriculum in movement education and adapted physical activity for invisible disabilities : a critical cross-case analysis
… organizations providing services for school-aged persons with disabilities in Ontario. Findings, discussed from a critical postmodern perspective, illustrate the paradoxical nature of Western values and prevailing mind/body dichotomy that guide professional practice in these fields.
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Justice for Grasshoppers
… that expand access to free time for middle-aged persons are necessary to address an unfairness in access to free time at different life-stages. Taken together, these considerations make a strong case for policies that aim at expanding access to free time.
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Association of Alcohol Consumption with Verbal Memory and Visuospatial Memory in Older Adults: Multi-Center Study of Memory Impairment Clinics
… measures in cognition disorders among the aged. The purpose of this study was to provide the basic research material in the prevention of cognition disorders, by identifying the status of alcohol consumption in the aged and the relationship between verbal memory and visuospatial memory …
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Life begins at forty : a sociological study of unemployment of persons aged 40 years and over in Malta
… explores the perceptions of the unemployed aged 40 years and over in Malta participating in an employment scheme - the Training and Employment Exposure Scheme (T.E.E.S.). This scheme was funded by the European Union (E.U.) and the Government of Malta. It was specifically designed for this …
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Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers
… In particular, it examines how members of the aged interpretive community made sense of the computer as an interruption event, a technology not yet routinised as part of their everyday taken-for-granted reality, and needing to be consciously considered and evaluated to make it understandable. …
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Road Traffic Noise - Factors modifying its relation to annoyance and cardiovascular disease
… stratified random sampling of men and women aged 18-80 years old in the county of Skåne and its major city Malmö in southern Sweden. Exposures of road traffic and railway noise as well as air pollution were modelled using geographic information system (GIS) for the survey participants’ …
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Beans, roots and leaves
… – has always affected a significant minority of aged persons, but suggestive evidence to this effect in the older literature is reviewed. The major discussion commences, however, with the administration of various plant alkaloids to parkinsonian patients in the second half of the 19th century. …
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Emotional Intelligence at Mid Life: A Cross Sectional Investigation of Structural Variance, Social Correlates, and Relationship to Established Personality and Ability Taxonomies
Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been relatively unstudied after young adulthood. Yet there are a variety of reasons to expect that EI may be different at mid life than in young adulthood. Normative life experiences may lead to increases in EI, and as the array of different environments and …