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Próffræðilegir eiginleikar íslenskrar þýðingar Creatures of Habit Scale og Habit Index of Negative Thinking
… próffræðilega eiginleika sjálfsmatskvarðanna Habit Index of Negative Thinking og Creatures of Habit Scale í íslenskri þýðingu. Báðir kvarðanir mæla vanabundna eiginleika, sá fyrri metur vanabundnar neikvæðar sjálfshugsanir og hinn síðari vanabundna eiginleika daglegra athafna sem einkennast af …
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Habit Modification in Consumption: Theory and Evidence
Since Brown (1952), habit formation models of consumption have assumed that utility is additively separable in durables and non-durables, and memory loss is a unidimensional process. This thesis dispenses with these assumptions to extend the theory of habit formation and introduce habit …
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Fish feeding-habit studies from Tomales Bay, California
The Bat Ray, Myliobatis californica Gill, occurs from Oregon to the Gulf of California and is common in California bays during the spring and summer. MacGinitie (1935) observed that during its feeding activities, the Bat Ray can dig channels up to 1 meter wide, 50 cm deep and 4.5 meters long in …
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Reanimalizing religion: Hegel, habit, and the nature of spirit
… This “place” can be found in Hegel’s concept of habit or Gewohnheit, since habit unsettles the distinction between nature and spirit, leaving open a way to rethink “religion” as being rooted in the animal or quasi-natural. Chapter 1 considers Alexandre Kojève’s worry that, at the proverbial “end …
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Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation
… change is important, yet hard to sustain. Habits are automatic responses to specific contextual cues, and can help sustain behavior change. Fine-grained specific contexts are commonly used in habit formation, but interventions in automatically-detected fine-grained contexts have rarely been …
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Exercise and eating habit change in the treatment of obesity
<p>A pretest-posttest control group design was used to compare the effectiveness of a behavioral caloric reduction/exercise increase treatment package with a caloric reduction approach. The participants consisted of 32 people selected from those responding to a community newspaper advertisement …
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… So dominant was the conjunction of politics and habit that, writing in 1890s, the American psychologist William James would call the automatic operations of body and mind the very engine of political life: "Habit," he declared, "is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative …
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Habit Formation and Political Persuasion: A Behavioral and Statistical Approach
… The initial study investigates the influence of habits on the in-store shopping experience. By leveraging store closures as a disruptive event, we examine how these closures prompt individuals to alter their purchasing patterns. We propose that such disruptions encourage people to engage in more …
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Investigating Maladaptive Habit Formation and Threat Influences in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Maladaptive habit formation is hypothesised to contribute to numerous clinical disorders, including Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The way in which habits become maladaptive and persist is not fully understood, but the acquisition of both goal-directed and habit-like behaviour can be captured …
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Genetic and Related Studies of the Branching-Root Habit in Alfalfa
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:37:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7915393.pdf: 2299108 bytes, checksum: d3c7208771a1c4ab3996eae6aed9719e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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The Effect of Transcendental Meditation Upon Modifying The Cigarette Smoking Habit
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Dating the emergence of the divaricate habit in the New Zealand flora
… not been specifically tested yet: the divaricate habit did not become advantageous as an anti-browsing defence until Plio-Pleistocene climatic constraints prevented young trees and shrubs from growing quickly out of reach of ground-dwelling herbivores. These hypotheses imply different expected …
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The use of habit reversal in reducing tics with two institutionalized individuals
The possible application of habit reversal to mentally ill institutional residents has not been investigated. While habit reversal holds considerable promise as a treatment mode, due to its rapid success and patient involvement in controlling his-her own behavior, further research is in order. To …
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Using Product, Processes and Gamification to Motivate users for Positive Habit Formation
… it has not been easy for millennials to form a habit of carrying out this preventative measure. To test the hypothesis, we first explored drive and expectancy theories, concluding with the understanding that users take actions to solve their needs. User behavior is driven by internal and …
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Mechanism by which surfactants modify adipic acid crystal growth rate and habit
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1961.
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