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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"death and loss"”.
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The Effect of Social Networking on Grief
<p>Death and loss are complicated issues. They are further complicated by the Internet and the increased usage of social media; however, there is little research on the effects of social media on grief. This project's goal was to gather information about grieving via online social networking sites. …
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The distracted globe: a project in the practice of writing poetry
… of research conducted through creative practice and comprises a collection of original poetry, The Silent Book, and an accompanying reflective commentary. Thematically, the poems deal with adolescence, education, the English Language, mental health, death and loss, gender representation, …
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Beyond the Edges - A study on how the intangible dimensions of death and dying can be made accessible through the language of film
… was inspired from a need to make sense of death and potentially dying from my own personal history and the lack of cinematic/filmic contributions that would have helped to understand the internal turmoil and questions that arose at the time, as well as the connected emotions. The question …
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Connecting to the Feminine and to the Inner Self in Sarah Orne Jewett's <em>The Country of the Pointed Firs</em>.
<p>In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The …
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Widows' Breath: Grief Fractures
… is based on a thread of someone’s true story of death and loss. A combination of autobiographic fiction and speculative non-fiction, these fractures create a thematic braiding of grief as they explore the human survival of significant loss. Dichotomies include the narrative voice as both inside …
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Pennies from Heaven: Death and the Afterlife in World War II Fantasy Films
… the supernatural (i.e., ghosts, angels, and the afterlife) into wartime settings with relevant protagonists and themes to address the psychological trauma of wartime death and loss. Three case studies – <em>The Human Comedy (</em>Clarence Brown, 1943), <em>A Guy Named Joe</em> (Victor …
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On Healing HeARTs: A Saudi Woman Perspective on the Experience of Baby Loss, Art, and Compassion
… Woman’s Perspective on the Experience of Baby Loss,” investigates how Shia Saudi bereaved mothers create meaning and make sense of their experience of baby loss. It explores the importance of art and compassion in the healing process. Using a multi-method design that includes art-based methods …
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Lived Experiences of Widows in Botswana: An Ethnographic Examination of Cultural Rituals of Death, Loss, Grief, and Bereavement: Implications for Counseling
… of cultural rituals, as they mourned their husband's deaths. The study sought to find out aspects of the rituals that enhanced or hindered healing; and how insights and knowledge gained from the results of the investigation can inform culturally relevant and sensitive psychosocial interventions. …
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Joint Models for Longitudinal Analysis and Competing Risks in Survival Analysis
… the correlations between the development and transition of the disease status and any informative potential censoring event(s) may lead to bias in the estimation of covariate effects. To address the problems created by these dependencies, we propose and apply several models: 1. Linking the …
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Working with bereaved people: a psychotherapy training action research study: working towards an epistemology of grief as the therapeutic approach with a bereaved population.
… the phenomenological experience of bereavement, loss and grief has created a gap in the knowledge of professionals working with bereaved people. Adherence to and rigid use of traditional models neither meets the emotional nor psychological needs of those bereaved, whilst the experience of …
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Engineering Three Dimensional In Vitro Approaches to Study Cardiac Injury and Repair
… the affected region undergoes massive cell death and a pathological fibrotic response. As cardiomyocytes (CMs) do not regenerate, the CM content is predominately replaced by activated cardiac fibroblasts (CFs). This modifies the regional mechanical and electrical properties, which increases …
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Preliminary evaluation of the rice blast fungus (Magnaporthe grisea) as a potential bioherbicide control agent for crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis) infestations of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb. cv. Fawn) turf
… in crabgrass; (ii) competition between crabgrass and tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb. 'Fawn') and the additive effect of rice blast bioherbicide on the competitiveness of crabgrass; (iii) survival of rice blast spores under non-conducive infection conditions on crabgrass; and (iv) effect …
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Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide
… devise ethically appropriate sociopolitical and juridical responses to ecocide (i.e., grave environmental harm). More specifically, the work seeks to philosophically engage the ethical question of what is owed to human societies that are displaced due to intentional environmental …
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The Immunology of Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 2
… developed as a gene therapy vector. Antibody and cell-mediated immune responses to AAV-2 or AAV-2 transfected cells may confound the therapeutic use of such vectors in the clinic. In this study, cell-mediated and humoral immune responses to AAV-2 were characterised from a panel of healthy …
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Heat wave mitigation strategies for wine grape production and measures of the impact of heat on berry ripening and wine composition
Loss of berry mass, commonly referred to as berry shrivel, can occur in some cultivars late in ripening. This phenomena is particularly common in Shiraz where it has been linked to a decrease in berry cell vitality (cell death) at high sugar concentrations. Moreover, both cell death and loss of …