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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"life stage"”.
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Gorilla Life-Stage Comparison of Head Orientation
Staring by primates, as well as other species of animals, can be perceived as a threat and averting that gaze can minimize potential conflict. Given that gorillas are highly sexually dimorphic, they may use this staring and gaze aversion strategy more than physical contact. Due to the shape of the …
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Spinal Cord Injury, Life Stage and Leisure Satisfaction
This study adopts a life-span developmental perspective in an examination of age at onset of disability (in this case, spinal cord injury) and time-span since onset of disability as potential predictors of post trauma leisure satisfaction. Specifically, through utilization of a multi-dimensional …
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Exploring anomie in a special life-stage: adolescent anomie and aggression
Adolescence is a critical biological and social transitional period, resulting in a variety of new emotions in teenagers. Feelings of normlessness, purposelessness and meaninglessness are among these emotions. These feelings of normlessness, purposelessness, and meaninglessness are often referred …
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Abundance and Distribution of Early Life Stage Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus) in Lake Pontchartrain
… variation in the abundance of early life stage blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Collections were made using a 1 m2 throw trap and data showed that C. sapidus numbers varied over time and among sites. Two recruitment events occurred during the study. During the first recruitment in …
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Tales of an 'invisible' life stage : survival and physiology among terrestrial juvenile Ambystomatid salamanders
… survival, growth, and reproduction) of distinct life stages within a species are known to influence the growth and persistence of populations. As such, studies describing stage-specific vital rates, and the factors that shape variation in these rates across species and populations, can help to …
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Influence of Early Life Stage Hatchery Enhancement Practices on Maternal Reproductive Investment in Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
… investment is predicted to be tied to early life-history conditions through developmental programming, creating the potential for mismatches between hatchery-origin reproductive phenotypes and the demands of natural environments. I quantified maternal reproductive traits in 171 mature female …
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Context is key: How interactive stressors affect honey bee (Apis mellifera) physiology across caste and life stage
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A mixed methods scoping review of gender and life stage as risk factors of injury-related mortality in the Western Cape, South Africa
… analysis to quantify risk by gender and life stage. To assess conceptualisations of these risk factors in research, each article was evaluated using a thematic content analysis. Men were associated with a higher mortality risk for homicide (inclusive of sharp force and firearm causes), …
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Black Male Emerging Adults: Investigating Inequalities in Adult Transitions, Social Learning, and Criminality
<p>Emerging adulthood is a life stage that developed as a result of numerous macro-structural changes in recent decades (Arnett 2015), and which has implications for life course criminality and identity formation (Massoglia & Uggen 2010). Much research has been done in the area of the new life …
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The Impact Of Social Capital On Women’s Career Repositioning In Business
… to make career changes around their larger life contexts have faced numerous challenges for decades. The influence of social capital on women’s careers has been a concern of researchers, particularly within the contexts of women’s underrepresentation in businesses’ higher organizational …
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Demographic Investigation of a Piscataway Creek Ossuary
… present, and their sex, stature, developmental life stage and age at death. Cultural debris indicated a date of about 1400-1500 A.D. for the burial. At least 281 individuals were recovered, based on a count of right femoral and temporal petrous portions. Although no sex determination was …
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Uncovering the Process by Which Grandparent Couples in Encore Adulthood Engage in Family Leisure
… (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014; Wu, 2018). The life stage of encore adulthood between 55 and 75 years old (Moen, 2016) often overlaps with grandparenthood. Time with grandchildren, and more broadly shared leisure time within couples during encore adulthood is minimally studied, this study …
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Work and family roles, gender, socioeconomic status and health : a study of employed Canadian men and women
… in terms of gender, socioeconomic status, and life stage. Results indicated that compared to triple role women, women occupying a single role or two roles in 1994/95 reported poorer health status in 1996/97. This relationship held true for women in varying life stage and economic circumstances. …
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Gender Differences and Similarities in the Work-family Interface: The Importance of Considering Family Life Stages
… the interaction between gender and family life stages to properly understand gender similarities and differences in the work and family interface. Data for this study come from the IBM 2004 Global Work and Life Issues Survey representing 79 countries (N=41,813). This study is a first step …
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Children with Mental Retardation / Intellectual Disability: The Function of Adaptive Behavior and Parental Stress Across Childhood
… parental stress across adaptive behavior and the lifespan span of a child with MR/ID. The present study investigated parental stress differences among children's adaptive behavior and childhood life stages, according to the family life cycle theory. Stress was examined in parents of a child with a …
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Characterisation of the Fasciola hepatica miRNome and an evaluation of its role in the host-parasite relationship
… F. hepatica miRNAs to 124 within intra-mammalian life stages; newly excysted juveniles (NEJs), immature and adult fluke, exposing a wider collection of isomiRs, life stage specific novel miRNAs and genomic clustering. By integrating the life stage miRnomes with their predicted targets within the …
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An Analysis of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Outmigration Speed and Survival in Response to Habitat Features: Sacramento River from Knights Landing to Sacramento, California
<p>Outmigration is an important life stage for Chinook salmon (<em>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</em>) survival in the Sacramento River, and yet our understanding of their behavior and needs during this time is limited. To gain a better understanding of their survival and movement rates during …
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Untersuchungen zur Genotoxizität in Fischen und Fischzellen mit der Einzelzell-Gelelektrophorese (Comet Assay) - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen im Umweltmonitoring -
… bei belasteten Fischen und Fischzellen, Early Life Stage Tests mit dem Zebrabärbling sowie vergleichende Freilandstudien mit unterschiedlichen Fischarten durchgeführt. Diese zeigten, daß die mit dem Comet Assay abgebildeten Effekte im Bereich vielfältiger, biologisch faßbarer Wirkungen liegen. …
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Recognising the constraints that affect professional women’s choices: how do Australian women develop and grow in their professional lives?
… The findings suggest that women of different life stages emphasise different choices and constraints that relate to the ways they are recognised in their work and each woman in this study was seen to offer a unique story about her experience of development and growth. Behind the dominant …
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