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A lack of security or a lack of capital? : acculturative conservatism in immigrant naming
… interpretation is that immigrants lack the necessary cultural capital to know which cultural practices are fashionable. In this paper, we first show that acculturative conservatism is a significant social force by examining how it lowered the rate of change in the fashion of given …
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Love, Loss, and the Lack of (Communication)
… four pieces included in Love, Loss, and the Lack of (Communication) are my favorite short stories that I have written while at Creighton University. They have each been workshopped and heavily edited for inclusion in my thesis. Exploring relationships and the family dynamic have always …
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Measuring a Lack of Engagement in Raging Skies
A lack of engagement is bad for measurement via assessment (Kane, 2006). Traditional qualitative measures of a lack of engagement are error prone and expensive (V. Shute & Ventura, 2013). Thus, a quantitative approach is used in this study to attempt to address such issues. This study attempts to …
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Lack of Forgiveness of Parents and Intimate Partner Violence
… whether there was an association between lack of forgiveness for adverse events/circumstances perpetrated by parents and intimate partner violence (IPV) in emerging adulthood. Participants were 208 (85.6% female) 18- and 19-year-old undergraduate students. Participants were asked to …
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"Lack of concentration" : a clinical investigation among school children
… children were from time to time referred for "Lack of Concentration". It soon became evident that "lack of concentration" was an extremely vague, descriptive term used to cover a variety of conditions. The parent and teacher were able to state that the child could not concentrate, but they had …
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Lack of Preparation for Mainstream Teachers of English Language Learners
This capstone aims to resolve the issue of lack of preparation in mainstream teachers in regard to English Language Learners (ELLs). Through research, three main themes were identified as contributing factors to the issue; current legislation that affects ELL education, deficits in mainstream …
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Trait Boredom as a Lack of Agency
… suffers from conceptual ambiguity, including a lack of agreed upon definition and theoretical understanding. Existing measures of trait boredom have been shown to lack validity and possess psychometric limitations. The present dissertation sought to address these concerns by proposing and …
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The Lack of Help Seeking Among At-Risk Undergraduate Students
Large classes are becoming inevitable at large research Universities. The sociology department at Virginia Tech University routinely offers a course with approximately 600 students. Each year approximately a sixth of those students fail the first exam. To increase the performance of at-risk …
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Lack of Inflammatory Response in Mouse Embryonic Cells to Listeria Infection
<p>Approximately 1 in 5 pregnancies in the United States results in miscarriage, with a significant percentage of these losses attributed to failed implantation due to immunological challenges encountered by the early embryo. Recent research has shown that key cell types within mouse blastocysts, …
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The Lack Of Diversity On The Bench In Florida's State Courts
Diversity in the judiciary is essential to ensure impartiality, public confidence, and the perception that all members of society are represented on the bench. Minorities and women are significantly underrepresented as judges in Florida in proportion to their numbers in the general population. …
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Ecological and Trophic Distribution of Pesticides in Lack Poinsett, South Dakota
Ecological and trophic distributions of chlorinated hydrocarbon residues in Lake Poinsett, South Dakota were studies. Components of the ecosystem analyzed were water, bottom sediment, zooplankton, benthic algae, crayfish, aquatic insects and fish. Concentrations of aldrin, DDD, DDE, DDT, dieldrin, …
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Orban's Hungary: Lack of Freedoms Becoming The Motivation for Hungarian Emigration
<p>In the past 10 years Hungary has gone through some major systematic changes since the Orban administration took office. The implementations of the Orban government serve the benefits and power of his party and aim to limit the freedom of Hungarian citizens. Orban, throughout these changes, …
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Lack of Affirmative Consent: Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”
<p>Most scholars who have published analyses of the title story of Jhumpa Lahiri’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, <em>Interpreter of Maladies</em>, read Mina Das’s character as a woman who chose to be unfaithful to her husband with a friend who once stayed in their home, …
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Lack of commitment and strategic behavior : four essays in financial economics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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Psychopathy and Lack of Affective Empathy: Cardiac Correlates in College Students
Empathy deficiency is considered a cardinal trait associated with psychopathy. This study examined empathy as cognitive and affective constructs during a mood task meant to evoke happiness and sadness. Fifty-two undergraduate students organized in same-gender pairs (17 female pairs and 9 male …
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Impact of the lack of sleep on academic performance in college students
<p>The purpose of this study was to research the effects that sleep has on a college student's academic performance, measured by the student's self-reported grade point average (GPA), and to examine whether there is a difference between graduate students' and undergraduate students' results. 136 …
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Lack of Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity in Striped Bass (<i>Morone saxatilis</i>)
<p>Mycobacteriosis is a fatal disease in fishes caused by acid-fast bacteria in the genus <em>Mycobacterium</em>. This disease impacts aquaculture, aquariums, and wild fishes. Unfortunately, there are currently no non-lethal diagnostic tests for mycobacterial infection in fishes. Type IV delayed …
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Maternal Filicide and Lack of Inclusion of Cultural Factors in Treatment Plans
… Second, this review seeks to address the lack of adequate and consistent treatment interventions and protocols for maternal filicide. The third objective is to examine cultural differences in the process of maternal filicide as well as therapeutic needs.</p>
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