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Showing 1 to 20 of 3162 for “"persons"”.
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Persons Unknown
<p>In this memoir, I attempted to understand and rectify my own religious upbringing, my teenage addiction to pornography, and the love of literature I discovered in college with my conversion to Orthodox Christianity in my early twenties.</p>
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Understanding minor attracted persons
Minor attracted persons (MAPs) are a group of understudied individuals who acknowledge a sexual interest in children but who may never have offended against a child. They are often regarded the same as individuals who have sexually offended against children, regardless of their history of personal …
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Persons, imposters, and monsters
This dissertation is about person features, their representation and interpretation in natural language. I will argue that there are several ways in which person features can be represented and interpreted. Most importantly, I will provide evidence for a kind of person features that are parts of …
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Vocational outcomes of university-educated persons: A comparison of persons with and without disabilities
Historically, persons with disabilities have suffered from employment discrimination, yielding significant differences between persons with and without disabilities in acquisition of important benefits including: full-time and/or part-time employment, equal income, health and retirement benefits, …
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A study of the nature and determinants of non-disabled persons attitudes towards persons with physical disabilities and disabled persons attitudes towards their disabilities and self-acceptance as measured by the attitudes toward disabled persons scale
… variables, that is, attitudes towards disabled persons and attitude intensity, and certain independent variables, that is, contact, disability, religiosity and demographic variables. While the dependent variables functioned as criterions, it was assumed that the independent variables functioned …
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On the Needs of Human Persons
… fundamental satisfaction of the needs of human persons. I claim that human persons need flourishing relationships based on the freely-offered gift of the virtue of merciful love. I define merciful love as the actual affective engagement or the potential affective engagement with another based …
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In the galleria of missing persons
… title of my thesis is In The Galleria Of Missing Persons. It is a collection of prose narrative, and lyrical poems based on themes of identity and memory. Using memory as the primary lens for exploration, my intent was to focus on how 'identity' is multiplied or made other by major shifts in …
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Physical access for persons with disabilities
For persons with disabilities, the activities that able-bodied people take for granted can be major, often insurmountable challenges. Attempting to enter a restaurant for lunch with friends can result in lengthy and adversarial litigation if the facility is not accessible to a person with a …
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The persistence and importance of persons
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1992.
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Persons and partiality: limitations on consequentialist justifications
… claim, arguing that a reductionist account of persons offers support for moral theories tha tfail to acknowledge the fact that each person is a separate unit of moral concern. I reject Parfit's assumption that the natural separateness of persons is morally insignificant: if we imagine a species …
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Gait variability in persons with multiple sclerosis
This thesis contains three investigations examining gait variability in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), which is a neurological disease that can result in significant walking impairment. Gait variability, i.e. fluctuations in the mechanics and kinematics of steps during walking, has been …
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"""Judgable"" persons: Personality characteristics and construct validation"
"The social interactions that people have with one another often yield a belief that some people are open and knowable and that others are closed and enigmatic. The current study investigated this individual difference characteristic, termed ""judgability,"" and its personality and behavioral …
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The travel of persons to downtown Boston
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1954.
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Loneliness among widowed persons in later life
… months) and long-term (25-60 months) widowed persons. Participants were healthy, educated, unmarried community residents aged 69 to 91 years. In general, the sample was well adjusted with high levels of social support, morale and mastery, and low levels of loneliness. Data analyses included …
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Need experienced by persons with late stage aids
… description of the special needs expressed by persons with late stage AIDS in the Richards Bay area. A phenomenological research design and methods were employed to impose rigour on this event. Once the needs of persons with late stage AIDS had been made explicit, these were collated with …
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Quality of life of adult persons with epilepsy /
Due to the lack of complex research on people with epilepsy and emphasis on physical (body) functioning, the QOL in people with epilepsy is perceived unambiguously and poor knowledge of their QOL factors is noticed. Based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach, the dissertation carry out a complex …
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