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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"social experience"”.
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Staging community: a non-philosophical presentation of immanent social experience
… a theoretical framework for articulating the experience of “community”, in a way that avoids appealing to hypostatizing identity concepts. It examines two seminal discourses of community, in the work of Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, which attempt to grasp such a social experience …
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small (nation) stories Raymond Williams, documentary and social experience in Wales.
… documentary photography to explore processes of social change within communities in Wales. It focuses on my fieldwork, undertaken with the fraternal organisation Loyal Order of Moose (LOOM), offering insight into a significant but under-researched historical relationship between the United States …
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Modified postnatal social experience alters intersensory development of bobwhite quail chicks
… have begun to explore the features of perinatal experience which facilitate infants’ abilities to integrate information from the various sensory modalities. The present study utilized a precocial avian infant, the bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus), to explore 1) what types of postnatal social …
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Language and Embodiment: sensory-motor and linguistic-social experience. Evidence on sentence comprehension
… the important role of developmental and social aspects of language use, and confirm theories assigning a crucial role to both sensorimotor and linguistic experience for abstract words.
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Maternal employment as a predictor of infant social experience and responsiveness to stranger
… mothers in terms of mother infant interaction social experience of their infants and infants' responsiveness to a stranger. The total number of subjects was 76 with 51 infants of nonworking mothers and 25 infants with working mothers. There were 38 males and 38 females and the infants ranged in …
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Investigation of the Effects of Social Experience on Snapping Intensity in Equus caballus Foals
… elicited when foals were confused by the complex social signals displayed by conspecifics. Finally, this project tested the aforementioned hypothesis by recording interactions between foals and conspecifics and analyzing the snapping intensity with each subject's previous level of social …
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The effects of social experience and inductive procedure on tonic immobility in domestic chicks
… within the context of groups of varying social composition: isolates, groups of three and groups of six, on the duration of tonic immobility. To that end 108 White Leghorn chicks were assigned to the nine experimental groups and tested once daily for the first fourteen days post-hatch. …
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The effects of social experience on imprinting in differentially housed domestic chicks: a multi-measure approach
… or in the presence of an unfamiliar 'socialate' conspecific. All chicks were then tested individually on Day 5 post-hatch with the stimulus-object present in the apparatus. They were again tested on Day 6 post-hatch with the stimulus-object absent from the apparatus. Approach latencies …
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The Relationship Between Ambiversion and Communication Adaptability
… a moderate correlation between ambiversion and social composure, a low correlation with social confirmation, and a high positive correlation to social experience. Introversion had a moderate positive correlation with social composure and social experience. Finally, there were moderate positive …
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A feminist action research inquiry into the hermeneutical injusticeof ‘being silenced’ in everyday conversational life
This thesis is an exploration of women’s experiences of being ‘silenced’ in everyday organisational life. Through feminist action research, drawing upon feminist theory and philosophy, and Foucault’s work on technologies and language of power (Foucault, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991) the complexities of …
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Use-Dependent Plasticity Regulates Sleep Need in Drosophila Melanogaster
… increased sleep following several days of social experience and require sleep to consolidate long-term memories: LTM) after Courtship Conditioning, an associative memory assay. We have found both that changes in sleep following social experience and that memory consolidation are reliant …
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You seem anxious
… of others, and the anxiety that manifests from social experience. Many of the longer pieces are rooted in the Lake of the Ozarks, a 92-mile reservoir in rural central Missouri, where a pronounced socioeconomic divide exists between permanent residents and summer tourists. Some of those stories …
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Effective Transition from Elementary School Into Middle School: Impact of Adult Intervention
<p>This study examines the middle school experience for students with attention paid to the feeling of connectedness and disconnectedness and its effect on students’ perception of the worth of their experience. Middle school teachers and counselors were interviewed and the researcher kept anecdotal …
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Invited but excluded: Examining the underrepresentation of African American women and girls in STEM-based fields of education, and how historically Black colleges and universities are bridging the equity gap
This dissertation explores the social, institutional, and structural conditions believed to be at the center of the racial disparities that influence access and participation within secondary and post-secondary environments of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. More …
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A comparative sociopsychological assessment of attitude toward physical activity in selected male members of running clubs
… included the following: physical activity as a social experience, physical activity for health and fitness, physical activity as the pursuit of vertigo, physical activity as an aesthetic experience, physical activity as a catharsis, and physical activity as an ascetic …
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Relational dialogue
… and is not focused on conversation as a shared social experience. Previous work has demonstrated that strengthening the user-agent relationship increases the agent's efficacy, and leads to a more enjoyable user experience. I present a relationship-driven dialogue system that aims to strengthen …
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Neurogenomic architecture of honey bee social behavior
Animals adaptively navigate complex social interactions, respond to social signals, and modify behavior to meet the demands of a changing environment. To do so, social experience must be embedded in the nervous system to modify behavior in anticipation of future events. How social information is …
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Nomad: a photographic voyage
… sensibilities and concepts relating to a nomadic experience of the world. Through the making and experiencing of these art works, Deleuzian and Buddhist conceptualisations of body, movement, time and place have been drawn on to inform a highly personal and developing expression of shifting …
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Evolving notions of childhood: an example of Kazakhstan
… the socio-historical condition of childhood as a social experience. It explores the role children played in traditional Kazakh families in the mid-19th- beginning of the 20th century. It also addresses state policy concerning children in Kazakhstan after independence. This research presents an …
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