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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"physical needs"”.
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Multisensory XR: Alleviating the Emotional and Physical Needs of Skin Hunger for Lonely Older Adults
… attention to health and well-being, the need for physical touch among older adults—particularly those living alone or experiencing loneliness—emerges as an increasingly important area of research, often described as the phenomenon of 'skin hunger'. The absence of meaningful touch can lead to a …
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The Impact of Conservative Protestantism upon The Time Fathers Spend with Their Children
… on the amount of time fathers spent meeting the physical needs of their young children. This research hypothesized that conservative Protestant fathers would spend more time meeting their children's physical needs than other Protestant fathers. Also hypothesized was that the level of conservative …
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Addressing the influence of context and development in rural international engineering design
… of discounting alternately developed societies’ needs and conditions in favor of values and knowledge that most closely aligns with the engineers’ own experience. A sociological analysis of the relationship between technology interventions and place-based identities, particularly for rural …
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Building a federal ideal : juxtaposition of individual and the state
… design rationale from a mixture of projected physical needs and social and political ideals. These rationale then lead directly to a design philosophy that guides the subsequent building design. Without the use of any conscious formal historical reference, the design asserts itself as uniquely …
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Negotiating a curriculum balance: Perceptions of special education teachers and administrators regarding alternate assessments in Oklahoma
… required curriculum while continuing to meet the physical and emotional needs of students with severe and profound disabilities. Seven special education teachers and three administrators were interviewed individually in non-school settings, usually coffee shops. Teachers and administrators work …
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The physical management of children with cerebral palsy attending mainstream primary school
… cerebral palsy attend a mainstream school, their physical functioning may impact on day-to-day school activities and on their active participation. The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice (DfES 2001b) advocates a multi-agency approach to enable children with SEN to be included within the …
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The Spiritual Spa
… would synchronize the spiritual, mental, and physical elements of the SPA? The answers lie in the meaning of the term 'SPA'.SPA popularity has increased due to the population's craving for healthier lifestyles. Heightened awareness of the afflictions caused by poor health has led people to …
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Living with Alzheimer's disease: environmental design patterns for aging communities
… can promote people’s health by supporting physical activity, offering restorative experiences, and providing opportunities for social interaction. Such benefits may be particularly important for the elderly people with Alzheimer’s disease, who, in general, have reduced mobility and …
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Principles and recommendations to design aging-friendly homes
… in order to better understand the mobility and physical needs of older adults in home environments. However, most of these efforts have missed a holistic definition of home and how the human dwelling is influenced by aging. This thesis is composed of three studies: a national survey, a series of …
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Exploring prostituted women's experiences of a South African exit intervention: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… to prostituted women, it does not address their physical needs, most importantly that of employment. This study reveals that although emotional support plays a crucial role in assisting prostituted women to exit, it is secondary to the urgent physical support needed to satisfy the basic survival …
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An Architectural Response to Cultural Diversity; The Mosaic: International Student Housing
… dwellings that, perhaps, satisfy most of our physical needs, but which do not house our mind."-- Juhani Pallasmaa My architecture thesis began with the question of the relationship and threshold between the realms of public and private and familiar and unfamiliar, while looking particularly in …
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Principles of Child Training
… of the study of child life in all its aspects, physical, mental, moral, and cultural, has been neglected. The physical needs of this small being have inspired to endless research specialists in many fields. His intellectual guidance has become the concern of a great host of educational experts. …
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Evaluating the impacts of a state led relocation project on beneficiaries' housing satisfactions: Pelican Park as a case study
… (2) enabling choice; (3) meeting economic needs; (4) meeting physical needs (5) meeting social needs and enabling access to public services; (6); enabling security of tenure; and (7) environmental resilience. The study findings revealed that beneficiaries were highly dissatisfied with their …
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Nurses' perceptions of patients' needs post coronary artery bypass grafting
… need for an altered lifestyle. Identifying the needs of patients following an acute cardiac event is an essential step in the development of nursing interventions (Moser et al 1993) to facilitate patients' bio-psycho-social and spiritual adaptation. Thus, the needs of patients who experience …
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Relationship Between Adolescent Behavior And Civic Engagement
… experiences that take in to consideration the physical characteristics; physical needs; patterns of growth and maturation; physiological changes; intellectual development; intellectual characteristics; learning preferences and styles; emotional development; personality development; and social …
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Exploiting quaternions to support expressive interactive character motion
… synthetic characters, either virtual or physical, needs to allow expressivity and interactivity of motion in order to maintain the illusion of life. Canned animation examples from an animator or motion capture device are expressive, but not very interactive, often leading to repetition. …
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
… to address the condition suggest that the needs of the marginalized demographic of homeless are not static and the solution should not be a means to an end. Instead, by rethinking normative land use convention, activating the abundant plots of land that are currently pending for development …
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Chemical Signaling and Resource Use by African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana)
… mixed associations. Waterholes serve to meet the physical needs of elephants and as areas for information exchange, especially for males in search of females. When widely spaced, waterholes may be impacted heavily by elephants. I examined elephant use of a permanent waterhole to determine 1) the …
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Developing a Biblical Deacon Ministry at Grace Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas
… 9 weeks of deacon and apprentice training, and 2 physical needs ministry projects. Chapter 5 evaluates the project. The project purpose and all 4 goals are examined. Five strengths and 4 weakness are mentioned. Three reflections cover both elder and deacon identification and functions plus the …
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White Devils and So-Called Negroes: Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptists, and the Early Nation of Islam In Detroit
… of the state or who struggled to meet basic physical needs could, under certain circumstances, fight alongside the early members of the NOI as they sought dignity and independence in the face of crushing poverty and institutional discrimination.</p>
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