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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"disengaging"”.
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Disengagement, Shifting and Engagement of Attention in Children And Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
The present study examined the disengaging, shifting, and engaging abilities of children and adolescents with ASD compared to age- and cognitive ability-matched typically developing (TD) peers. Previous research has found that individuals with ASD have difficulty disengaging and shifting their …
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community
… these twelve dimensions model the process of disengaging from an intrinsically transient social world.
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Parasitic mobility for sensate media
… intelligence by selectively engaging and disengaging from mobile hosts in their environment. This body of work evaluates parasitically actuated sensor networks as a solution to these problems through extensive software simulation and by designing, implementing, and demonstrating a …
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Identifying Attention Commonalities and Differences Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
… significantly greater fixation durations when disengaging their endogenous attention as compared to the ASD group. In conclusion, patterns of unique orienting deficiencies appear to be present in the ASD population.
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Design and analysis of a modified power-split continuously variable transmission
… model. From this analysis, the value of disengaging the branch control circuit at the ring gear can be determined.
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Reactive psychosis in a first-episode psychosis population
Contemporary western psychiatry is disengaging too readily with the notion that severe mental disorder characterised by psychotic experiences such as hallucinations and delusions can be a primary reaction to overwhelming stress or distress (Ungvari & Mullen, 2000). Reactive psychosis, a term coined …
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Suburban revisions : redesigning suburban strip malls
… of many suburban environments have repellent and disengaging characteristics. These characteristics have evolved alongside a basic structural transformation of American cities in the last century. In the end, the physical environment of the suburbs makes people feel like outsiders in their own …
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Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists
… I ultimately propose that Sapphist portraits, in disengaging with conventional notions of past, present, and future, (re)make their full meaning neither Then nor Now, but eternally.
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Learned Attention in Younger and Older Adults
… has suggested that older adults have difficulty disengaging attention from irrelevant information, which could be problematic in the highlighting procedure (Cohn, Dustman, & Bradford, 1984; Tipper, 1991; Mutter, Naylor, & Patterson, 2005). However, the results of the current experiment suggest …
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Attention bias for negative semantic stimuli in late life depression and clinical research portfolio
… that depressed individuals may have difficulties disengaging visual-spatial attention from negative information. Preliminary studies in depressed older adults provide evidence for the existence of biased attention to negative stimuli. However, the specific components of attention driving the …
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ATTENTION TRAINING AND MINDFULNESS AS INTERVENTIONS FOR RUMINATION: ASSOCIATIONS WITH COGNITIVE CONTROL
… cognitive control are associated with problems disengaging from ruminative thought, a significant risk factor for depression. Cognitive control refers to higher order cognitive processes used for goal-directed behavior, including emotion regulation. The current study examined associations …
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(In)authentic Participation: Contemporary Participatory Performance Practice, Social Media & Neoliberalism
… to external influence and manipulates them into disengaging with their fundamental agency while promoting an ideology of choice and self-creation.<br/><br/>Contemporary participatory performance practice problematises this inauthentic orientation by appropriating, reflecting and critically …
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Looking and Listening Patterns in 4- and 8- Month-Old Infants: Correspondence between Measures of Attention
… infants who are long-looking have difficulty disengaging and shifting their attention to another location. There has not been any work exploring how these differences manifest themselves in other modalities. Thus, this project has three purposes: (1) to explore whether group differences emerge …
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Coping strategies and resources of volunteer telephone counsellors at a South African organisation: An exploratory study
… with counselling experiences, actively disengaging from counselling experiences, coping through connection, and hopes for coping in the future. The findings indicate that although participants felt professionally and personally challenged by the nature of telephone counselling work, they …
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Switchable stiffness scanning microscope probe
… accomplished in a mechanical way by engaging or disengaging auxiliary beams to the compliant beam structure by means of electrostatically actuated clutches.
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Reconceptualising engagement : a study of Australian academics
… points to heavy workloads and a steadily disengaging workforce. Despite this, many of the sectoral changes rely on an engaged and cooperative workforce to bring about greater productivity and quality of education to attract a larger share of international and domestic students. ... The two …
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How do mental health practitioners experience and understand resilience: The risk of death in mental healthcare
… following van Manen (1990). Themes: 1: Not-disengaging in an emotional process. To not disengage, but to stay with feelings and concerns in the face of death. Being with, in the moment, under the pressure of time, often with conflicting expectations around risks and responsibilities. 2: …
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Autoregulatory and structural control of CaMKII substrate specificity
… activation and broad substrate selectivity by disengaging ARD filtering. The unique multimeric architecture of CaMKII is an ideal sensor which encodes calcium-spike frequency into graded levels of subunit activation/autophosphorylation within the holoenzyme. We find that differential activation …
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Transforming 'selves': a narrative analysis of South African shelter residents' stories of leaving abusive heterosexual relationships
… shelters. This study looks at the process of disengaging from abusive relationships. It has examined women's experiences of leaving within the context of these shelters. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 women shelter residents. The data was analysed using a feminist narrative …
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A Cognitive-Motivational Approach to Understanding Gendered Sexual Response: the Role of Attentional Mechanisms
… attentional orienting and capture, difficulty disengaging, and attentional adhesion). Implications of this research include greater understanding of the cognitive-motivational processes involved in sexual arousal contributing to normative sexual functioning and how this may differ for men and …
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