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Showing 1 to 20 of 3059 for “"younger"”.
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Tragedy and the Younger Romantics
This thesis explores how tragedy was conceptualised in the Romantic period by focusing on the work of Byron, Keats, Mary Shelley, and P. B. Shelley, and their contemporaries. It argues for the centrality of tragedy to the work of these writers, and to British Romantic literary culture. I contend …
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Learned Attention in Younger and Older Adults
A relatively new phenomenon in learning research called highlighting occurs when participants show a seemingly irrational preference to attribute a stronger cue-outcome association to a later presented perfect predictor when it is paired with an imperfect predictor than that of an earlier presented …
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The Younger Generation in Brecht's Dramatic Work
While it is well-known that Bertolt Brecht made substantial contributions to "Children's Literature" and that young characters appear frequently in his literary oeuvre, it has not been sufficiently noticed that major conflicts in Brecht's dramatic work, commonly identified as class conflict, …
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Expenditure patterns of older and younger consumers
… of consumption expenditures between elderly and younger consumers in the United States. Cluster analysis was used to identify consumption patterns, and then multiple logit analysis was used to test the relationship between consumption patterns and socio-economic factors. The data were taken from …
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Religiosity and spirituality in younger and older adults.
… Expressions of Spirituality instrument with a younger and older adult sample. Specifically, MacDonald's proposed five factor model was assessed for fit with a sample of college age participants as well as a sample of adults over the age of 65. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to …
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Perceived Product Hazard Norms in Younger and Older Adults
… differ across diverse populations (such as age). Younger and older adults were tested for perceived product hazards over a diverse group of products using a Battig and Montague (1969) style procedure. Participants were presented with a total of 78 products, and asked to list the first hazards that …
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The Effects of Child Sponsorship on younger Sibling Confidence
… the possible spillover effects to non-sponsored, younger siblings of sponsored children with regards to the child’s confidence. Using the summary index method to create indices from the elements quantified in the child’s drawings and an instrumental variable OLS with clustered standard errors, …
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Studies in the Ancient Reception of Seneca the Younger
… thesis re-examines the reception of Seneca the Younger within the first hundred years after his death (60s–c. 160s AD), focusing particularly on the late first and early second centuries AD. It is the first concerted study on Seneca’s ancient reception in over fifty years, the first such study …
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By the Same Spirit: Edwardsean Pneumatology in the Younger Edwards
… documents this thesis demonstrates how the younger Edwards’s place is relevant to Edwardsean study.
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Associative and Error-Driven Learning in Younger and Older Adults
<p>Previous research has consistently shown associative deficits in older adults learning and memory (Chalfonte & Johnson 1996; Naveh-Benjamin, 2000; Naveh-Benjamin, Hussain, & Bar-On 2003) that are related to decreases in hippocampal function (Driscoll et al., 2003; Mitchell, Johnson, Raye, & …
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Multidrug sedation for dental procedures in children younger than eight
… determined that multidrug sedation in children younger than eight years are possible.Conscious sedation [or sedation where verbal contact with the patient is possible] can be used successfully to decrease anxiety and fear for unpleasant experiences, like dental procedures. Behaviour therapy in …
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Categorical and coordinate visuospatial processing in younger and older adults
… than coordinate visuospatial judgements. Younger adults were also found to process visuospatial information more quickly than older adults; however, accuracy rates and discrimination ability were similar. Furthermore, in contrast to expectation, coordinate visuospatial processes were not …
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Accessing Intimacy: The Experience of Younger Long-Term Care Residents
… from the viewpoint of residents, particularly younger residents of long-term care. This qualitative research study uses a phenomenological approach to explore the experiences of persons with disabilities, under the age of 70, living in a long-term care facility, accessing a sexual and intimate …
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A comparative analysis of younger and older pastors' perceptions of leadership
… of the leadership perceptions of older and younger pastors. The research concern is introduced in chapter one with a question raised by critics of the evangelical church within the Emerging Church movement concerning the substitution of a CEO model of pastoral ministry. This question caused …
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Impulsivity and Suicidal Ideation or Attempt in Younger and Older Adults
… of depressive symptoms, would be stronger in younger adults than in older adults. However, a three-way interaction between impulsivity, depressive symptoms, and age group to predict suicidal behaviors was not statistically significant. Contrary to expectations, impulsivity was not related to …
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The Unconscious Influence of Mortality Salience on Younger and Older Adults
… to extend past research by comparing older and younger adults’ responses to unconscious mortality salience.</p> <p>Fifty-nine younger adults and 52 older adults were randomly assigned to one of two prime conditions: death prime or negative prime. The unconscious primes were administered through …
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Gamification to encourage increase on healthier physical activity in younger users
… would use gamification elements and to focus on younger group of population. Because of the targeted group, the design of the application was based around an approach, usually used to make profit in popular video games through microtransactions, which provides the user with virtual avatar that …
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Context Effects on Sublexical Processing in Older and Younger Neurologically Typical Adults
… perception at the single word level, while younger adults are not, but sentence level context effects as a function of age have yet to be examined. This study examined processing differences between older and younger adults in sentence contexts via sentence frames that were semantically …
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