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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"longitudinal change"”.
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Longitudinal Change In Regional Cortices And Fluid Intelligence
… They have distinct age-related trajectories of change. Jung and Haier proposed Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT, 2007) to account for the inter-person variance in reasoning intelligence. Some brain regions such as prefrontal, parietal, temporal and anterior cingulate cortices were …
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Vascular Reactivity by Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Functional MRI in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: Comparison with Alzheimer's Disease and Assessment of Longitudinal Change
… no studies investigating how the BOLD amplitude changes in other Aβ diseases that present with CAA (Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI)), or how it changes over time in CAA. BOLD amplitudes were lowest in CAA compared to controls but were not lower in MCI or AD. BOLD …
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An investigation into stuttering development: a longitudinal approach
… between daily emotions and stuttering. A longitudinal design was used to evaluate changes in the relation between emotions and stuttering over the fall and spring semesters of the 2015-2016 school year. The study participant consisted of child who was three years old when enrolled in the …
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Intergroup conflict in organisations:predictors and relationships with team working effectiveness
… relationship between intergroup competition and longitudinal change in group and intergroup effectiveness is examined.
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Acculturative stress and obesity : the moderating role of emotional eating in a community sample of Latino/a adolescents.
… between baseline acculturative stress and longitudinal change in body mass index. Participants completed self-report measures of emotional eating, eating habits, perceived stress, and acculturative stress at time one. Height and weight measurements were taken at time one and repeated at a …
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Personality trait development and social investment in work
A three-year longitudinal study of actively employed individuals (N = 391) was used to test the relationship between social investment at work, which is the act of cognitively and emotionally committing to one‘s job or career, and both cross-sectional and longitudinal patterns of personality trait …
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Image registration and bias evaluation for a COVID-19 pulmonary X-ray severity (PXS) score prediction algorithm
… can be used to standardize the CXRs to improve longitudinal comparison. In this study, we show that affine image registration using Voxelmorph [3] has the potential to improve the prediction of longitudinal change in COVID-19 severity. Additionally, external generalization is a challenging …
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Longitudinal Changes in Resting-State Connectivity after Traumatic Axonal Injury
… traumatic axonal injury (TAI). This is the first longitudinal study in TAI to examine functional connectivity in the Default Mode Network (DMN) and Central Executive Network (CEN) within 48 hours after traumatic brain injury with repeat imaging 7 months later. Aims: (a) characterize connectivity …
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Predictors of Institutionalization in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
… included the factors that measured long-term change. Moreover, studies with Asian population are scarce. In this study, we first evaluated baseline factors that may predict institutionalization of the patient with Alzheimer’s disease, and then we evaluated predictors that measured longitudinal …
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Supporting Self-Beliefs and Intentions in STEM: A Longitudinal Investigation for Math and Science Ability Self-Concepts and STEM Major Intention among High School Students
… consists of multiple manuscripts, using longitudinal analyses on a three-year data set from high school students (Grades 10 to 12). The primary goal is to investigate the leading factors predicting ability self-concepts and STEM major intentions as well as their developmental …
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Changing People, Consistent Experiences: 20 Years of Change and Stability at Grand Canyon National Park 1984-2004
… of this dissertation is to examine long term changes in the overnight backcountry hiker population at Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) between 1984 and 2004. Longitudinal studies of visitor behavior in wildland recreation settings have been relatively rare but offer great potential for the …
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Changes in Simulated 2,000 Meter Rowing Performance During 4 Years of Intercollegiate Women’s Rowing
… and Year 2 to Year 3 2K PR scores. The greatest change in 2K scores occurred between Year 1 and Year 2. No significant differences were seen between Year 3 and Year 4 2K scores. From the data collected, a range for expected annual improvement in collegiate female 2K testing was created. Observed …
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Characterizing Medial Temporal Lobe Neurodegeneration Due To Tau Pathology In Alzheimer's Disease Using Postmortem Imaging
… neurodegeneration, and is the early pathological change associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Using in vivo structural magnetic resonance image (MRI) analysis, volumetric change in the MTL caused by neurodegeneration can be measured. While these measurements have been shown to be sensitive to …
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Care Needs, Social Wellbeing, and Health and Social Services Use in Older Age
… challenge, a first step is to understand the change in health and social care needs in older age to inform policy and practice. The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C) study (1985-2015), one of the largest and longest-running population-based studies of the oldest old (75+ years at …
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Predictors of occupational sensitisation to grain dust allergens and changes in lung function among grain mill workers in Cape Town
… sensitisation to grain dust allergens and changes in lung function among grain mill workers in Cape Town. There were two major objectives of the study. Firstly, to determine which of the following factors determine the distribution of serum ECP (eosinophilic cationic protein): age, gender, …
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Modelling of risk factors, case-fatalities, survival and functional health status for stroke in Kelantan, Malaysia
… haemorrhagic stroke, and lastly to assess the longitudinal change in functional health status using the Barthel Index post-stroke. This thesis includes four draft papers, in which several modelling data collection and data analysis strategies were applied to four datasets: one was provided by …