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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"social events"”.
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The Cognitive Representation of Mundane Social Events
… relevant questions. First, when people encounter events that exemplify a schema, do they copy instantiations of schema-defining concepts into the representation they form? Second, when people encounter schema-unrelated events, do they encode these events separately, or do they associate them with …
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Prediction of Social Events Using a Classifier System
… as a tool for time-series analyses in the social sciences. This technique is intriguing because of its similarity to some processes of evolution and the optimization of living organisms; there is increased interest in such models because of their robust self-organization and capacity to …
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Chinese children's evaluation of authority's responses to social events
… of moral, conventional and personal events and their judgments of authority were examined by assessing their evaluation of authority's responses to these acts. Seventy-two Macau children from second, fifth and eighth grades made judgments of permissibility of acts, personal …
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Taking Parties Seriously: Gendered Sexuality and Hook Up Culture at Greek Social Events
This thesis is a qualitative sociological analysis of gender and sexuality at Greek parties and in the broader Greek system in order to better understand hooking up and rape culture. While past work on rape culture has tended to look at fraternities as isolated organizations (Boswell and Spade …
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Participace obyvatel domova pro seniory
… secondary needs for instance by participating on social events. Such involvement of seniors is beneficial for themselves and also for the whole society too. Theoretical part of my dissertation is focused on definition of the term participation, afterwards this term is put in relation to lives of …
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Le Pays Bigouden: Creation Et Evolution De L'image D'une Region
… photographs, folkloric performances, and social events such as the fishermen strikes. It shows how the visual has taken over the representation of Le Pays bigouden, and how the inhabitants have also taken over the decision making of their own destiny, which until recently was mostly that …
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Constructing An Interpretive Master Plan for The Confederate Reunion Grounds State Historic Site
… stories of groups that once met there for social events, including the United Confederate Veterans. In recent years, the Confederate Reunion Grounds has seen a decline in visitation as well as a reduction in staff. This capstone project focuses on creating an interpretive master plan to …
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The Rebirth of A Nation: An Embassy Proposal for the Republic of South Africa in Washington, DC
… States, the occurrence of certain political and social events have affected the cultural structure of the African society. As the patterns of community have been lost over time, due to colonialism and conquest, the foundations of traditional culture and tribal ritual have also been lost. There …
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A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania
… perception of political, military, economic, and social events that the war wrought. Furthermore, this thesis contends that the ideologies along this Democratic continuum were too varied to promote unity among Pennsylvania's party leaders, contributing to the Democracy's ultimate failure to …
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THE SEASONALITY OF PATHOLOGY: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
… seasonal periodicity of a number of different social pathologies, including suicide, mortality resulting from disease, the onset of physical illness, and criminal behavior. Using time-series data from the United States, for 132 consecutive months between 1965-1975, it is found that virtually …
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Socially-Aware Machine Learning: Towards Leveraging the Relationship between Narrative Comprehension and Mentalizing
… people organize, understand, and explain the social world. Research suggests that exposure to narratives improves mentalizing, referring to the capacity to forecast and reason about others' mental states. Simultaneously, enhanced mentalizing abilities are closely linked to exhibiting improved …
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Understanding Attention and Intermodal Processing Difficulties in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Problems with social orienting, attention, and intermodal processing (IMP) involving social events are considered to be important deficits in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The present study aimed to better understand how difficulties in attention are associated with IMP difficulties …
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Fine-Grained Analyses of Multisensory Integration and Emerging Language in 24-Month-Olds
… al. (2022) found that performance on the MAAP in social conditions was predictive of vocabulary in 24-month-olds monolingual English learners. However, it was the collapsed looking-time data for each condition across six trials that yielded these results. Instead, this analysis used fine-grained …
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Vonnegut's criticisms of modern society
… of past history. Although the act of predicting social events is largely theoretical--since it is necessarily a tentative process--numerous historians, sociologists, theologians, scientists, and artists persist in discovering trends or seeing patterns in the movement of history. In developing …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… observation. I draw upon four Victory Day events which I attended as a non-participant observer to explore how the emphasis on Victory has shifted in the local parades and social events in south Brooklyn, where those who celebrate it publicly express an ethnicity and identity that is …
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Quantifying Changes in Social Polarization Over Time and Region
… years cite{boxell2022cross}, cite{hawdon2020social}. This research aims to describe and measure polarization trends across a historical archive of US-based, primarily regional, newspapers. The newspapers chosen are from various US markets to capture any regional differences in the discussion …
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Mentors And Social Relationships: The Impact On Adjunct Professors
… but there is little research into the social aspects of mentoring relationships. The traditional format of mentor programs is a structured program between a senior faculty and a new faculty member. This qualitative study of a medium sized public university focused on mentor programs …
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Revolving Scenarios
… to hold different cultural / theatrical and social events. The project is presented as a sequence of acts or events that directs the observer through its different spaces. Revolving scenarios becomes a performing piece which tries to recreate a monumental and dramatic architectural spectacle …
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Public Space for the Privatised individual
… gathered to show support and to also arrange to social events. The pandemic extended limits of the public space. The project looks at incorporating this evolution of public space and expanding the discourse of public space into the physical world. The project looks at developing a public sphere …
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Maintaining Community On Hardship Island: A Case Study Of Demographic Change And Community Agency
… agency and the homecoming (a biennial planned social events) were identified that facilitate keeping the sense of community alive and community attachment strong. Community actors use grassroots efforts to sustain the community identity despite population loss in hopes of supporting an annual …
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