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Flipping the Narrative: Highlighting the Positive Aspects of Healthy Aging
<p>Psychological research on aging typically characterizes it as a period of decline. Numerous studies have reported age-related deficits in episodic memory, sensory perception, and fluid intelligence. These reports only add to society’s negative views of aging, which inevitably have a detrimental …
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Changing the Landscape: Toward Equitable Programming Highlighting Choral Works by Women Composers
Changing the Landscape advocates for increased programming of choral compositions by women composers. Progress toward equitable programming is being realized especially for twenty-first century women composers; however, when surveying which pieces are selected within major genres of the choral …
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The Enhancing Reading Comprehension Performance using the Strategy of Highlighting Electronic Text
… adulthood. Many successful readers use active highlighting to assist in their reading comprehension. Active Highlighting is one of the most commonly used approaches to increase reading comprehension. Technology is ever growing and slowly replacing its paper-format counterparts. Educational …
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Bringing Identity To The Forefront: The Benefits Of Highlighting Identity And Diversity
… suggesting that they intuit the benefits of highlighting identity that I establish in Chapter 1. In Chapter 3, I build on these insights in an audit experiment exploring how feedback about either discriminatory or pro-diversity behaviors in one’s professional ingroup influences subsequent …
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When Violence Thrives in Silence: Highlighting Narratives of Women Survivors of Obstetric Violence in Alabama
This study explores the social phenomenon of maltreatment and abuse of women by medical systems and personnel at hospital-based facilities during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum periods. Recently, this underreported and hidden form of abuse has been coined "obstetric violence" (Sadler et al., …
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Making Information Count: Highlighting Discrepancies Between Risk Perception and Risk Communication in Combined Description/Experience Settings
A problem currently facing risk communicators is how to modify risk perception and risky behavior among people who have previously engaged in a targeted risky behavior, given that research suggests that they are more strongly influenced by their personal experience of the probabilities associated …
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An exploratory study highlighting the complexities in the targeting of beneficiaries in Malawi's social cash transfer programme
“The rise of social protection in form of social safety nets is attributed to the forceful return of poverty onto the international development agenda credited to World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)” (Chisinga, 2007:3). The basis of the discussion of social protection as …
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"My soul is scattered" : a psychotherapeutic treatment narrative highlighting symptoms and dynamics associated with Dissociative Identity Disorder
This dissertation reviews issues in the literature relating to the psychotherapeutic treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder.) Over the last three decades, significant developments have been made in the areas of dissociative disorders research and …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
A hospital based prospective study on Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) in Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and …
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Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Zambian children: Highlighting the changing pattern in the Aetiology of Bacterial Meningitis in Zambia
A hospital based prospective study on Acute Bacterial Meningitis (ABM) in Zambian Children was done in the department of Paediatrics, University Teaching Hospital Lusaka over a period of six months in the hot dry season (1st August to the end of November) of the years 1992 and 1993. The aim and …
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Assessing urban dynamics in Johannesburg’s public space : highlighting urban segregation and connectivity patterns of public space from an urban psychology perspective
… others inadvertently isolate communities, highlighting the complex interplay between space design and social dynamics. This study contributes novel insights into the field of urban psychology offering practical implications for policymakers and urban planners. By understanding these …
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The Public Sector HIV/AIDS Treatment Roll-out Campaign in the Western Cape: A case study highlighting success factors and challenges
Until recently, the national implementation of a public sector Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) programme in South Africa seemed financially impossible. Drastically reduced prices for Antiretrovirals (ARVs) combined with substantial donor funding and the long-awaited adoption of a national treatment …
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Compensating Franchisees for Non-Renewal or Termination of Their Agreements: A Comparative Study Highlighting the Approaches in Kuwait and the United States
<p>The question of the protection and compensation available to the franchisee when the franchisor terminates or does not renew a franchise agreement and the restrictions imposed on the franchisor to terminate the agreement, and whether franchisees should be protected by law against termination …
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A B-cell or a key player?: The role of the humoral immune response in melanoma, highlighting the importance of method development
Investigations of the humoral immune response to melanoma have revealed that B-cells and antibodies can play both pro and anti-tumourigenic functions. B-cells can infiltrate melanomas and become organised into a tertiary lymphoid structure; their presence have been associated with better …
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CARBONIC SPRINGS AS DISTAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE JEMEZ GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM, SAN YSIDRO, NEW MEXICO, HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF FAULT PATHWAYS AND HYDROCHEMICAL MIXING.
Input of deeply sourced (endogenic) waters can contribute significant quantities of salinity to groundwater, degrading water quality, with faults acting as conduits for subsurface fluid flow. Understanding the source, movement, and chemistry of groundwater is becoming ever more significant with …
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The Challenges and Opportunities in Monitoring and Modeling Waterborne Pathogens in Water- and Resource-Restricted Africa: Highlighting the critical need for multidisciplinary research and tool advancement
Water is a primary shared resource that connects all species across the landscape and can facilitate shared exposure to a community of waterborne pathogens. Despite remarkable global progress in sanitation and hygiene development in the past two decades, infectious diarrhea remains a prominent …
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Military Resilience and Transformation: A Narrative Inquiry Highlighting the Challenges Faced by Military Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan During Their Transition from Combat to Civil Society
<p>This research examines major transitions in military life experienced by veterans of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These transitions include reintegration challenges that deployed military members encounter as they blend back into family, community, church and a peacetime setting, …
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Learned Attention in Younger and Older Adults
… new phenomenon in learning research called highlighting occurs when participants show a seemingly irrational preference to attribute a stronger cue-outcome association to a later presented perfect predictor when it is paired with an imperfect predictor than that of an earlier presented …
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