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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"place studies"”.
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Marriage or a Multiplicity of Meanings? The Dextrarum Iunctio on Roman and Early Christian Funerary Monuments
… evidence. This discussion will be informed by Place Studies, which focuses on the physical context of the motif and the monument. I suggest that the change in the type and the physical location of the monument provided the impetus for changes in the function of the dextrarum iunctio, making it …
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Personal Intelligence and Learning about Personality in Everyday Life
… about someone else’s personality? In three studies, I show that most college students described an episode that taught them about positive and negative personality characteristics. The perceived costs and benefits associated with the target predicted whether the relationship strengthened or …
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… Ames’s recollections with an investigation into place, society and the past, as it relates to rural Iowa communities, by exploring the causality of the state’s more liberal legislation and the tension created when actual application comes into play. Research of the past reveals that in the …
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Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead"
… Ames’s recollections with an investigation into place, society and the past, as it relates to rural Iowa communities, by exploring the causality of the state’s more liberal legislation and the tension created when actual application comes into play. Research of the past reveals that in the …
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Multiscale, multiparadigm metabolic modeling of the keystone diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium erythraeum
Earth is a crowded place; studies estimate between 2 and 12 million species exist on earth, with new organisms being formally described every day. This biodiversity is a result of organisms being forced to cohabitate in innately competitive environments; proximity and nutrient limitation require …
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Crustacean phylogenetic systematics and opsin evolution
… and the chromophore. While a plethora of studies have looked at structure/function relationships in vertebrate opsins, fewer studies have investigated similar issues in invertebrates. Furthermore, those few studies undertaken in invertebrate systems suggest different mechanisms of spectral …
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ENDLESS SCROLLING: TECHNOLOGY, (DIS)CONNECTION, AND PLACE IN TIMES OF COVID-19
… work, home, and social life all began to take place in one physical, and many virtual, spaces. Though it allows for a smoother transition to life at a social distance, communication technology is not always viewed as a positive tool. Researchers have pointed out the damaging effects that social …
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Behavioural and Electrophysiological Correlates of Source Memory in Normal Ageing
… remembering the context in which an event took place. Studies have shown that a decline in source memory is evident in older adults who have not shown deficits in other areas of memory or cognition. Using the interfering effect of intervening stimuli it is possible to create a task that tests …