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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"maternal Influence"”.
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Maternal Misogyny: Absent Mothers in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
… of his characters. In spite of the absence of a maternal influence, Austen's characters do not experience true hardship in the way that Haywood's and Defoe's do. However, their lives are adversely affected by this absence. Chopin's protagonist has never experienced a maternal influence, and this …
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Body Image and Beliefs About Appearance: Maternal Influences and Resulting Constraints on Leisure of College-Age Women
… how the body image concerns of young women are influenced by their mothers'. Thompson and Gray's Body-Image Assessment Scale (BIAS) was used to assess body image while Spangler's Beliefs About Appearance Scale (BAAS) was used to assess the participants' beliefs about appearance. Raymore's …
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Maternal attitudes and their influence on the creativity level of preschool children
The purpose of the study was to determine if maternal attitudes influenced the creativity of preschool children. The Torrance Test of Thinking Creatively in Action and Movement (TCAM) was used to measure the creativity level of the children. The Parent As A Teacher (PAAT) was used to assess …
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Factors influencing disordered eating in young women with and without Type 1 diabetes
… dissatisfaction, depressive symptoms, perceived maternal influence, attachment to peers, and perfectionism. The second aim was to investigate the influence of disordered eating and other risk factors including body dissatisfaction, depressive symptoms, and diabetes onset age on diabetes …
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Prediction of age from DNA
… length. If there is a strong paternal or maternal influence, this could be incorporated into the age prediction formula. Parents’ telomere lengths were compared with children’s telomere lengths.
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Effects of Maternal Depression on Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Findings from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study.
… concern. The longitudinal relationships between maternal depression and childhood overweight and obesity were examined using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD). A national cohort of 1,384 children …
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Epidemiology of and resistance to kernel infection of sweet corn by Fusarium moniliforme
… of resistant x susceptible inbreds, a strong maternal influence on resistance to kernel infection by F. moniliforme was observed. The observed response was attributed to factors operative in the maternal tissues, e.g., the silk, pericarp, or placento-chalazal region. The genotype of the …
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A Longitudinal Study on the Essence of Success Development As Seen by Caribbean Canadian Women in the Storied Landscape of Their Lived Experience
… of their religious experience, education and maternal influence as they seek to find the answers to the question, "What is behind your story of success?" Arts-based forms of representation--poetry, a playlet and graphic syntheses--are used to expand the method of interpreting the knowledge …
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Herstory: intergenerational transformational learning in upwardly mobile African American women
… upbringing, (b) productive self perception, (c) influences of others, and (d) significant mobility experiences. Findings revealed only a partial experience of transformational learning from these women. A strong maternal influence led to the indoctrination of lifelong values and beliefs …
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Impact of cross-fostering on the intestinal microbiome and mucosal immune gene expression in neonatal pigs
… were enrolled in the study to determine the influence of maternal microbial communities and to establish a baseline for mucosal immune gene expression in young pigs reared in cross-fostering model given high quality colostrum from birth dam or foster dam upon birth. Piglets were randomly …
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Einfluss atopischer Prädisposition auf allergenspezifische Proliferation und Zytokinprofile maternaler und fetaler mononukleärer Blutzellen
… nach Allergenstimulation und Untersuchung maternaler Einflüsse. FRAGESTELLUNG: Unterscheiden sich Neugeborene (N) von Müttern (M) ohne eine allergische Sensiblisierung (NM-) von Neugeborenen von Müttern mit einer allergischen Sensibilisierung (NM+) in ihrer Proliferation und …
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Type 2 diabetes in Sri Lanka : Genetic epidemiology and periodontal association.
… Type 2 diabetes is familiarly aggregated and maternal influence for disease transmission has been observed in European countries but not in South India. The severity of periodontitis is reported to be high when diabetes control decreases but data relating to periodontitis as a complication of …