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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"crying"”.
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THE VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS
<p>I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, …
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Effects of Delayed Auditory Feedback on Young Infants’ Crying
Neural control of newborn crying has typically been considered to originate primarily in the lower brain centers, although support for this assumption is limited. To address this, the present study manipulated newborn infants’ perceptual experience during a cry bout through use of delayed auditory …
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THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL (UNTIL CORONAVIRUS COMES AROUND)
<p>This study sought to investigate fan reactions to the NCAA communication around the elimination of NC State from the 2021 Baseball College World Series. NC State was eliminated due to Covid-19 protocols. A content analysis was conducted by looking at posts from various NCAA related accounts on …
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The Relationship Between Infant Crying and Father Well-Being
<p>Infant excessive crying and fussing has been linked to adverse maternal outcomes such as increased depression and stress, and decreased feelings of parenting self-efficacy. Infant crying has also been identified as the number one trigger caregivers report prior to an abusive action, placing …
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The clearest mirror : the science of laughing and crying
… familiar to us as the experience of laughing and crying. Studying the two emotional expressions side to side is a way to see our species anew. A way of linking what we share with other mammals to that which sets us apart from all other species. Pulling laughing and crying onto center stage in all …
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Effects of musculoskeletal dysfunction in excessive crying syndromes of infancy.
Background: Excessive crying (or infant colic) is a common pain syndrome of infancy without any specific known aetiology or effective management and it is costly in both social and economic terms. Many cases result in long-term poor sleep, behavioural problems and parental stress. The biomechanical …
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Effects of Embodiment on Perceptual and Affective Responses to Infant Crying
… mimicking a smile, while listening to infant crying. Although there were no embodied effects for perceptual ratings, results indicated that this manipulation decreased participants’ self-reported, negative affect. In Study 2, participants were played both infant crying and birdsong while …
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Troublesome crying in infants: the effect of advice to reduce stimulation
The observation that babies with troublesome crying improve quickly during hospital admission suggested that, if true, a common, quickly reversible, factor may operate. Histories from the parents of such babies suggest that much work goes into trying to console them. It is hypothesised that this …
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Crying in the wilderness : the outlaw and poet in Ben Hecht's militant Zionism
… ally, Britain, in the fight for a Jewish state. Crying in the Wilderness is an effort to explain, through biography, Hecht's increasingly militant propaganda campaign. This study argues that two friends, one the Jewish gangster Mickey Cohen and the other the Jewish poet Max Bodenheim, provide …
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Predicting Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood: The Impact of Maternal Well-Being, Infant Crying, and Dyadic Mutuality
… the impact of maternal well-being and infant crying on the development of emotion regulation, parenting stress, maternal self-efficacy, maternal depression, and infant crying were examined with dyadic mutuality in the parent-child interaction to predict emotion regulation capacity.</p><p>A …
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Not a Cinematic Hair Out of Place: Examinations in Identity (Transformation) as Evidenced through Haircuts in The Crying Game
… the discussion in a thorough examination of The Crying Game by Neil Jordan. The 1992 film contains four haircuts or hair transformations and through analysis of the central characters before and after their haircuts, I utilize the concepts above. This thesis illustrates that in cinema, not a …
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"I Came to America, Crying": Rebuilding a Life, Redefining the Self—Ethiopian Women Refugees in Denver (Colorado) (2012–2013)
<p>The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges faced by Ethiopian women in the Denver community to reach harmony within their new social and cultural space and to examine what they feel they have lost and gained in their self-identity as a result of their immigration. Refugees face a …
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What Are You Crying For?: Renegotiating White Masculine Hegemony through Melodramatic Excess in the 1990s Films of Tom Hanks
… for what and/or whom he is actually crying for. That is to say, this thesis demonstrates how patriarchal dominance is packaged in melodramatic tears. From this perspective, this thesis acts as a case study in how the reactionary movement within masculinity in the 1990s sought to …
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Exploration of parent perspectives and adaptation to shaken baby syndrome: An occupational therapy approach
… However, it is a preventable tragedy. Infant crying is the major precipitating factor that causes an adult to shake an infant or small child. The purpose of this research was to examine from an occupational therapy perspective current prevention strategies of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) and to …
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Exploration of parent perspectives and adaptation to shaken baby syndrome: An occupational therapy approach
… However, it is a preventable tragedy. Infant crying is the major precipitating factor that causes an adult to shake an infant or small child. The purpose of this research was to examine from an occupational therapy perspective current prevention strategies of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) and to …
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Do South African mothers shake their babies? incidence and risk factors for infant abuse in Cape Town
… of shaking, and (4) the methods used to console crying infants. Results showed that 13.2% (n = 51) of all participants self-reported violent shaking, and 20% (n = 77) had thoughts of shaking their infants. Following a content analysis, three primary triggers for shaking were identified, these …
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The influence of attributions and acoustic characteristics of infant cries on perceptual responses of maltreating and comparison parents
… the effects of cry pitch and attributions that crying infants had or had not been abused on the perceptual ratings of maltreating and comparison parents. Twenty maltreating parents and 20 comparison parents rated 12 cries which varied in the pattern of their fundamental frequency on (a) the …
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