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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"refrain"”.
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Refrain
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points of view, including that of 11-year-old Emily, who must reckon with her own …
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Persuading college students to refrain from abusing energy drinks : a test of message framing, argument type, and cognitive load.
Within the past few years energy drink consumption has increased (Boyle & Castilleo, 2006) as well as mixing alcohol with energy drinks (Kapner, 2008). The current study examines the impact of persuasion (i.e., message framing and argument type) and cognitive load on susceptibility, perceived …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… the form that allows the melody of the refrain to connect the moral of the song, expressed lyrically during the refrain, to the miracle narrative presented in the verses. Selections from the Toledo Codex illustrate that the cantigas’ melodies, which are deployed using two specific …
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Women teachers career advancement: an exploration of choice in context
… schools. It explores their decisions to apply or refrain from applying for senior leadership positions through an examination of the interplay between their leadership disposition, habitus and the field of schooling.
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Refrains
A refrain is the line or lines repeated in music or verse. The poems that compose my thesis repeat themselves formally (the'’re all sonnets) and thematically. The central figure of the poems is Lester Lovely. Lester is a composite persona of my anxieties and poetic influences. He is made of parts …
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Delocalization: The Highway Apparatus
… of development as an emergence through the refrain of the local, or its network of interests the localities (understood as not just static but also mobile). These localities are a constellation of forms and desires negotiating among many shades of Subaltern, Ritual, Global-Western City …
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NICOTINE WITHDRAWAL AND DEFICITS IN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY: POSSIBLE TIES TO ABERRATIONS IN FRONTOSTRIATAL BDNF SIGNALING
… behaviors that affect individuals’ ability to refrain from taking drugs. Here we characterized the effects of spontaneous nicotine withdrawal on cognitive flexibility in mice using an operant strategy set-shifting task. Because frontostriatal circuits are critical for cognitive flexibility and …
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Fantasy on the Korean folk song “Arirang”
… procedures. Although the entire folk song refrain appears early in the first section, most of the fantasy transforms and develops fragments extracted from the original folk melody.</p>
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Knowledge sharing for the advancement of ecological restoration
… knowledge organization widely and might even refrain from disseminating documents and other resources they develop. In this study, a conceptual framework is developed to understand the relationship between risk and knowledge sharing in ecological restoration. I applied a mixed method approach …
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Human immunodeficiency viruses prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis : a doctoral evidence-based practice project
… literature indicates that providers often refrain from prescribing the treatment due to a lack of confidence and insufficient resources to guide their practice. To address this gap, we implemented a quality improvement initiative by providing a concise, one-page educational tool to …
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The Impact of the Emotional Tone of Confrontation on Perceptions of Confronters of Sexism
… associated with confronting sexism, many women refrain from doing so due to social consequences and negative perceptions. Utilizing an online scenario study, the present research further examines these perceptions, exploring whether a woman confronting with an angry, sad, or disgusted tone may …
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Tax-Deductible Donations and Tax Evasion: Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Self-Justification On Dishonest Behavior
… theory (Bandura (1990, 1999, 2002)), individuals refrain from unethical behaviors which violate their moral standards to avoid self-condemnation. However, unethical behaviors could still occur if individuals could reconstruct their conduct to avoid the psychological costs. In this study, I …
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Perceived Discrimination Within The Patient-Provider Relationship And Its Impact On Help-Seeking Behaviors
… behaviors decrease. Many patients choose to refrain from seeking treatment until their psychological or physical health issues are unmanageable, often resulting in acute visits to the emergency department. Patients that have experienced previous discriminatory encounters with health care …
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The Classes of Old English Inaction Verbs: Linking, Alternations and Constructions
… English end, try, fail, forbid, hinder and refrain) and aims at determining the class membership of these verbs. This is done on the basis of the meaning components and the grammatical behaviour of the verbs in question, including the syntactic constructions and the argument realization …
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The Effects of Optimism on Anti-Natalism
… (<em>pro-natalism</em>) or that everyone should refrain from having children (<em>anti-natalism</em>) or they can hold no position on the reproduction of others. The main justification for anti-natalism is that life contains more suffering than pleasure and that it would be better if new people …
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Liability for Defective Software in South Africa
… mantra of a software development guru, nor the refrain of the chairman of a multinational software company, but the consensus of those at the coalface of software development the world over. [...] This paradigm raises interesting questions for the lawyer. There is no other discipline that …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… the methodical arrangement, which epistrophe and refrain adhere to throughout "The Raven," is important for a thorough understanding of the poem because it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the narrator's unstable state …
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Role Models' Influence On Smoking Reduction
… at motivating young adults to reduce or refrain from negative health behaviors associated with detrimental outcomes.</p>
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Sentencing reforms in a postcolonial society: a call for the rationalisation of sentencing discretion in Nigeria, drawing on South Africa and England
… introduce proportionality to sentencing and refrain from imposing penalties that infringe constitutional rights. The investigation involves two stages of analysis. First, the thesis examines the socio-historical context in which the practice of punishment evolved in England, South Africa and …
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