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Husted, Kathryn Anne. "Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder : age group comparisons /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9953867.
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Boutwood, Yvonne. "Aspects of stone tool procurement and usage : a study of group XVIII implements." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320070.
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Tomlin, Vicky. "Age group and gender differences in fears of aging /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Ponomareva, Yuliya. "Group Diversity and Demographic Faultlines : The Influence of Ethnicity, Age and Education Diversity on Group Processes and Group Performance." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-5307.
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Taylor, Suzan R. "The analysis of anaerobic performance in competitive age group swimmers." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275789.
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Rhea, Nathan Alexander. "Goal Orientations and Beliefs About Success in Age Group Swimmers." Scholarly Commons, 2019. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3561.
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The purpose of this study was to expand on goal orientation theory and its relationship with beliefs about the causes of sport success by differentiating by age group in youth USA Swimming registered swimmers, ages 11-18. 80 swimmers from six different USA Swimming clubs completed the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) and the Beliefs About the Causes of Sport Success Questionnaire (BACSSQ) after providing parent consent and child assent to take part in the study. Similar to previous research, the ego orientation was found to have a significant positive relationship with ability and deception as beliefs about the causes of sport success and the task orientation was found to have a significant positive relationship with higher effort as well as a significant negative relationship with deception as a belief about the cause of sport success. New findings included the 13-14 year old and 15-18 year old age groups having a significantly higher ego orientation than the 11-12 age group, the 15-18 age group having a significantly lower task orientation than both the 11-12 and 13-14 age groups, and the 13-14 age group believed deception caused success in swimming significantly more than the 11-12 age group. It is concluded that older swimmers could develop a higher ego orientation and lower task orientation as they age due to more visible differences in ability and an increased focus on performance.
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Witten, Heidi Kim. "Subjective well-being amongst children in the Western Cape : multi-group analysis across three age groups." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5626.
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Magister Artium (Psychology) - MA(Psych)Globally the Subjective Well-Being (SWB) of children is recognized as having a significant effect on the child's psychological and social functioning. Furthermore, not only does children's SWB have effects on childhood well-being research, it has also increased the knowledge of how children view their life that has been determined through the measurement of specific domains that relates to children's lives. The overall aim of this study was to ascertain the SWB of children across three age groups in the Western Cape. Within this process, the study further aimed to fit the structural model depicting the nature of the relationship between global, domain specific and overall life satisfaction across three age groups. The Theory of Model Fit: Goodness of Fit and Fit Indexes was used as the theoretical position conceptualising the study. The sample included 3236 children aged 8, 10, and 12 years selected using stratified random sampling from 29 schools in the Western Cape. The study used Structural Equation Modelling and Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis to address the stated aims and objectives. Ethics principles of informed consent, anonymity, the right to withdraw and privacy were adhered to within the study. Findings of this study indicate that the descriptive statistics depicted high levels of SWB for both measures with mean composite scores ranging between 81.20 to 86.15 for the SLSS; and 83.29 to 84.07 for the PWI-SC. Confirmatory factor analysis showed excellent fit for both the SLSS and the PWI-SC across age groups (multi-group model). The application of Multi-group Confirmatory Factor Analysis in the current study found the measures to be comparable across the three age groups (8, 10 & 12) for the SLSS and two age groups for the PWI-SC (10 & 12). A combined model with two latent constructs, representing different levels of abstraction was also tested. An excellent fit was obtained for this combined model. Appropriate fit statistics was obtained for the overall pooled sample. The standardised regression weights of 0.57 for the PWI-SC and 0.47 for the SLSS point to adequate loadings of the latent constructs onto the OLS. Markedly, it was found that a significant overall mean difference was found between the 10 and 12-year olds and not between the 8 and 10-year olds; while for the domain-specific PWI-SC a similar tendency was noted across the 10 and 12-year olds participants (8 year old group was not applicable in this analysis).
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Korhonen, Katey. "Comparison of diabetes education across age group, gender, and diabetes type /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131428182.pdf.
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Bass, Di. "The coach-parent-athlete triangle : an investigation in age group swimming." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/15134.
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This thesis analyses the relationships that exist between the coach, the parent and the athlete within the context of age-group swimming. The interest in this area grew from the researcher's own experiences as a swimmer, a parent of swimmers and a swimming coach together with the underlying belief that the three members or what Byrne (1993) terms the 'sporting triangle' approach swimming experiences with different needs and wants. If other members of this sporting triangle fail to recognise or understand these needs then conflict may arise which could detract from the positive sporting experiences of the young swimmer. Because of the dearth of literature concerning relationships between all three members of this triad the literature review provides an overview of literature concerning the coach's, parent's and swimmers' roles and their relationships with one or more members of the sporting triangle. The importance of the context in which swimming takes place is also recognised and the age-group swimming structure within the United Kingdom is discussed. The research was carried out within two swimming clubs which were at participation level of competition. Within each club the field work involved observations followed by in-depth interviews with three swimmers and their parents together with the Chief Coach. The selection of the families was based around Hellstedt's (1987) model of the coach-parent-athlete triangle. Data were analysed using a grounded theory approach and Goffman's (1984) dramaturgical approach, alongside role theory and the notion of 'positioning' (Giddens, 1984; David and Harre, 1990) provided the basis for the reflexive pluralist methodology employed. The findings confirmed the complexity of the relationships within the triad together with the importance of the context in which social interaction takes place. The continual tension that exists between structure and agency was highlighted and seen as something that must be both understood (theoretically) and addressed (empirically) in any attempt to understand social interaction. The resulting data also confirmed that members of the 'sporting triangle' do not come to a swimming situation value free but bring with them a variety of expectations, needs and wants. As a result the need for strong lines of communication between all three members of the triad is recognised. Finally recommendations are made for policy and practice which it is hoped will ensure that young athletes' sporting experiences are positive.
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Evans, Kristine Udell. "Late-Life Mate Selection: Dating Patterns in an Older Age Group." DigitalCommons@USU, 1991. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2357.
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This exploratory study is a description of the older dater and his/her attitudes and perceptions about dating, a comparison within the same cohort of youthful and late-life dating and mate selection, and a description of the patterns of dating in the elder years. It is a non-random collection of interviews with 38 single men and women over the age of 59 in two counties in Utah.
Older daters were found to have been married for much of their lives previous to dating. They perceived themselves to be in good health and financial condition and were fairly well-educated. They lived independently and had available and supportive family and friend relationships. They had good concepts of themselves and their ability to attract dating partners. Little resistance was perceived from significant others or the general public to their dating.
Older people were not found to be more conservative in choosing mates than they were when they were young except in valuing romantic love, sexual attraction and interest in sex less now than during their youth. They also accepted divorce in potential partners and height differences more now than when they were young. They were less accepting now of poor financial conditions.
The primary motive for dating and for remarriage in late life was to find companionship. Monogamous dating relationships were the norm. The primary functions of dating were friendship and sharing confidences. Dating partners were met most often through mutual acquaintances or during previous marriages. Dating format and activities for the elderly were similar to those of youthful daters, except at a slower pace.
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Haley, Lize-Mari. "Burnout and work engagement for different age groups : examining group-level differences and predictors / Lize-Mari Haley." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8065.
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Age is often a factor which can have an effect on the well–being levels of employees as well
as the profitability of organisations, but it is unfortunately at times overlooked by
organisations. Many researchers have found that employees can differ in their experiences of
well–being (burnout and work engagement) as a result of age and that there may be
differences in the job demands, job resources and personal resources, which predict wellbeing.
The objectives of this study were to determine 1) whether there are significant differences
between young, middle–aged and older employees with regards to their experiences of
burnout and work engagement, and 2) whether the predictors (job demands and job resources,
sense of coherence) of burnout and work engagement differ for young, middle age and older
employees. The South African Employee Health and Wellness survey (SAEHWS), a selfreport
measure, was used to collect data from the junior managers (n = 582) in the banking
sector across South Africa. The participants were subsequently divided into three age groups,
namely young (18–30 years of age), middle–aged (31–50 years of age) and older employees
(51–65 years of age). MANOVA was used to determine if there were any significant
differences between well–being and age after which an ANOVA was performed. The results
of the ANOVA analysis firstly showed that young and middle–aged employees experienced
higher levels of exhaustion than their older colleagues did. Cynicism however, did not differ
across the three groups. Even though there did not seem to be overall significant differences
between age and work engagement, the post hoc analysis revealed that older employees
seemed to experience significantly higher levels of dedication compared to younger
employees. There were no differences between the age groups found for vigour. Hierarchical
multiple regression analysis indicated that different job demands and resources predict wellbeing
for the different age group with the exception of emotional load, which predicted
exhaustion for all three age groups. However, SOC was consistently significant across all three age groups with regards to predicting their well–being. SOC seemed to increase with
age as experience is obtained.
These findings contribute to the literature by highlighting the importance of age when
considering interventions to keep their employees from burnout and disengagement,
especially for South African organisations. Age definitely seems to play a role in the
experiences of well–being according to the findings and also aid in the explanation of what
different job characteristics employees seemed to value across their ages. Older employees
also seemed to use their personal resources more efficiently as they get older in order to build
positive well–being.
The results of this study can assist organisations in the financial sector to create sufficient
interventions for ensuring high levels of well–being, as the findings highlight specific job
demands and resources that can assist in that goal. Moreover, there is limited research on the
topic within a South African context, therefore the results of this research also serves to
encourage South African organisations to act proactively in the promotion of positive wellbeing.
Recommendations were made for practice as well as for future research.Thesis (MCom (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Ng, Yuk-fai Margaret. "The effectiveness of peer-tutoring on same-age & cross-age tutors in an English paired-reading project in a Hong Kong secondary technical school." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17595708.
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Popa, Cătălin Nicolae. "Uncovering group identity in the Late Iron Age of South-East Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648861.
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Short, Jennifer. "Between-Group Differences Among Victim Age-based Typologies of Juvenile Sexual Offenders." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5264.
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Juveniles adjudicated for sexual offenses are often described as homogenous, collectively viewed as inherently dangerous, and subject to specialized legal and clinical interventions. However, empirical studies have identified several typologies suggesting that juveniles adjudicated for sexual offenses are a heterogeneous group with varying degrees of risk and treatment needs. The purpose of this non-experimental between-groups study was to compare family composition, abuse histories, mental health diagnosis, and offense type among a victim age-based typology of juvenile sexual offenders. The theoretical framework that guided this study was developmental-contextual theory. Archival data (N = 105) were collected from Alberta Health Services in Alberta, Canada. Results of chi-square analysis indicated a statistically significant difference among these 2 groups with respect to family composition and offense type. The groups did not differ with respect to abuse histories or mental health diagnosis. Findings may be used to expand the current knowledge base regarding risk factors for youths who offend sexually, to develop preventative programs and treatment programs, to increase community safety, and to reduce the stigma associated with juvenile sexual offending.
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Serebrennikov, L., and L. Baiborodova. "Teaching Technology In Multi-Age Groups In Russia." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科 技術・職業教育学研究室, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20877.
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Chan, Wai-him. "The anthropometrical and physiological characteristics of the elite age group swimmer in HK." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36996683.
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Chan, Wai-him, and 陳維謙. "The anthropometrical and physiological characteristics of the elite age group swimmer in HK." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/b40203773.
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Zelmanow, Ari. "The Learning Pathways of Ironman Triathletes| Case Studies of Age-Group Ironman Triathletes." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3666916.
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The Ironman Triathlon is an epic endurance event consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run. There is paucity in the literature relating to how athletes learn how to negotiate this event. This qualitative study was conducted over a 9 month period, to align with the 2013 Ironman training and racing season. Seven athletes were selected for participation in the study. Utilizing a case study approach, the Ironman athletes' learning pathways were examined through in-depth interviews and audio and video content personally captured by the participants.
The learning pathways revealed the athletes initially learned through cognitive means, i.e. social interaction, reading, Internet sources, and the observation of others. As athletes traversed the learning pathway, they subsequently operationalized the knowledge they learned and constructively made it meaningful to their respective personal training and racing situations. At the terminal end of the learning pathway, the athletes operationalized the learned content in an experiential learning cycle. During the entire learning pathway, the athletes practiced the learned content, which is best characterized as behavioral learning. The audio and video content provided by the athletes empirically validated the interviews.
The interviews with the athletes were coded. Some unifying themes emerged from the data independent of cognitive, constructivist, behavioral, or experiential learning theories; e.g. the importance of mental toughness, the understanding of pain during the training and racing process, how success is measured, the importance of training with a power meter, and motivating factors.
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Koehn, Cassandra Leigh. "State Policy Approaches to Obesity Prevention: Are There Differential Effects by Age Group?" Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1415104098.
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Watt, Laura Helen. "An investigation of attitudes towards relationships in the 18 to 30 age group." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-investigation-of-attitudes-towards-relationships-in-the-18-to-30-age-group(3fa814b4-689b-49f5-97fc-9ddbaeb1907a).html.
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This thesis investigates the relevance of individualisation theory in the attitudes of 18 to 30 year olds living in Britain. It tests four theories of couple relationships that can be located in this debate; two prominent theories of individualisation (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 1995; Giddens, 1992), a theory of social exchange (Rusbult, 1980) and a socio-cultural theory of romantic love (Giddens, 1992; Jackson 1993; Burkitt 1997). In considering how these four theories might be relevant to the attitudes of 18 to 30 year olds two different ways are explored. The first is concerned with how the theories might be relevant to the attitudes of 18 to 30 year olds as a social group in terms of which theory seems most reflective of the attitudes of this population as a whole. The second is concerned with how the theories might be relevant as psychological types, to explore whether different types of attitude could be identified in the 18 to 30 age group and whether the models in any way map onto these types. The study also explores how attitudes towards relationships might differ between different demographic and socio-economic groups in the 18 to 30 population. The research design has four elements; the first involves exploratory interviews with six relationship counsellors, the second involves the analysis of data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (1990, 2000), the third involves the creation and validation of a self-completion attitude instrument, the fourth involves the analysis of the primary data collected via this instrument from a representative sample of 18 to 30 year olds living in Britain. One of the main statistical techniques used in analysing the survey data (both Natsal 1990, 2000 and the primary data) is cluster analysis. This is used to identify groups who have similar attitudes to one another and therefore investigate whether one can distinguish between different attitude types. The key findings of this research indicate that, in the attitudes of this age group at least, traditional values and desires pervade. While there have been some shifts that indicate a loosening of traditional values and desires, on the whole young adults seem to desire traditional relationship forms, namely monogamous live-in partnerships, and value qualities consistent with them, namely fidelity and longevity. Further, this research shows evidence for both a theory of romantic love and individualisation theory as attitude types. Finally, it shows that measures of age, sex, religiosity, ethnicity, country of origin, class and education are all associated with attitudes towards relationships.
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Maur, Christoph auf der Hodel Markus. "Age dependency of ABO histo-blood group antibodies: reexamination of an old dogma /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1993. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Wu, Sam Shi Xuan. "Understanding and improving pacing strategies during standard distance triathlons in age group athletes." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1409.
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Pacing is an integral aspect of performance during all exercise, including multi-sport events such as triathlon. However, to date, the optimal pacing strategies to adopt over an entire triathlon, as well as during each specific discipline (i.e. swim, cycle and run), is not well understood. Therefore, the primary purpose of this thesis was to identify and understand current pacing strategies adopted by highly performing triathletes across different triathlon distances. This research aids in identifying pacing strategies that may improve overall performance during triathlon.
In the first study, the influence of sex and race distance on the age-related declines in the sprint, Olympic, half-Ironman (HIM) and Ironman distance triathlons were examined. An earlier, larger and faster rate of decline (p=0.01) in performance with ageing was observed in females (≥30 years, 9.3%, 3.0% per decade respectively) and males (≥40 years, 5.9%, 2.2% per decade, respectively) for the longer events (half-Ironman and Ironman) compared with the shorter distances (sprint and Olympic, ≥50 years for both sexes). A larger magnitude of decline was observed in the swim discipline, as compared with the cycle and run disciplines (12.8%, 5.6%, 9.3% for females, 9.4%, 3.7%, 7.3% for males, in the swim, cycle and run disciplines, respectively). These results indicate that sex and race distance influence the agerelated decline in triathlon performance and should be considered when manipulating training programs to attenuate the age-related declines in performance across different disciplines and distances. Furthermore, a greater emphasis should be placed on maintaining swim performance due to the rapid age-related decline observed in this discipline.
The second study within this thesis examined the influence of age and sex on cycle and run pacing during the sprint, Olympic, half-Ironman and Ironman distance triathlons in top performing triathletes. Interestingly, females employed a more aggressive pacing strategy during the initial stages of the cycle discipline across all distances (sprint - 2.1%; Olympic - 1.6%; half-Ironman- 1.5%; Ironman - 1.7% higher relative to mean, as compared with males). Likewise, younger athletes (20-29 y) tend to start the run more aggressively during
the sprint, Olympic and half-Ironman events (2.0 to 3.0% faster on average than other agegroups, p
Eight well-trained male triathletes performed a sprint, Olympic and half-Ironman triathlon race, each separated by three weeks. Prior to the races, participants performed a cycle to exhaustion test to determine maximal aerobic power, V ˙ O2peak and the power outputs corresponding to the first and second ventilatory thresholds,. A power meter (SRM) was fitted onto their bikes to determine power output and speed during the cycle discipline, while a global positioning system (GPS) was worn throughout the race to determine speed and heart rate throughout. The variability in power output during the cycle discipline was analysed using exposure variation analysis. Results showed that swim pacing was comparable across distances. Cycle pacing was similar during the sprint and Olympic cycle discipline (more even when compared with the half-Ironman). During the run, comparable pacing was observed during the Olympic and half Ironman (more positive when compared with the sprint). Power output during the cycle discipline of the half-Ironman was more variable (standard deviation of exposure variation analysis: EVASD=3.21 ± 0.61) than the sprint cycle discipline (EVASD=3.84 ± 0.44). The results of this study indicate that well-trained triathletes pace differently during triathlons of various distances. Athletes may need to trial different pacing strategies based on race distance, fitness, discipline-specific strengths and race conditions in order to determine their individual optimal pacing strategies.
The aim of the final study within this thesis was to determine the influence of pacing during the swim on subsequent sprint triathlon performance. Nine well-trained triathletes performed three sprint triathlons with different swim pacing strategies. The swim of the sprint triathlons were work matched but pacing was manipulated to be either positive (i.e. speed gradually decreasing from 92 to 73% of an initial swim time-trial), negative (i.e. speed gradually increasing from 73 to 92% of the swim time-trial) or even (constant speed of 82.5% of the swim time-trial). Subsequent cycling and running were completed at a self-selected pace. When compared with the even (31.4 ± 1.0 and 67.7 ± 3.9 min respectively) and negatively paced swim (31.8 ± 1.6 and 67.3 ± 3.7 min respectively), faster cycle and overall triathlon times were achieved with a positively paced swim (30.5 ± 1.8 and 65.9 ± 4.0 min respectively). A lower RPE was observed following the positively paced swim time-trial (9 ± 2) when compared with the negatively pacing swim (11 ± 2). No performance differences occurred during the run discipline between trials. This indicates that a more conservative swim start strategy may improve sprint triathlon performance in age-group athletes.
The aim of this series of studies was to examine the pacing of top non-drafting age-group triathletes across various standard triathlon distances, in order to understand and improve pacing strategies. The series of four studies in this thesis research project has demonstrated the influence of biological sex, age and distance on performance and pacing during various standard triathlons. The results of this study are of significance to athletes, coaches and sport scientists, as the different pacing strategies adopted in males and females across various age-groups and triathlon distances can have implications for training and racing. Further, a more conservative positive swim pacing strategy could benefit sprint triathlon performance.
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Furrer, Carrie Jeanne. "The Friendship Group Motivational Systems: Naturally-Occurring Resources and Liabilities During the Transition to High School." PDXScholar, 2005. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/719.
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Peer groups are a powerful part of young people's lives. As the first step in investigating the potential of peers as developmental resources or liabilities during the normatively stressful transition to high school, the purpose of this study was to identify and measure the features of peer relationships that shape healthy development, and the contextual conditions that promote them. The Friendship Group Motivational System (FGMS) is a new conceptualization that includes two individual level concepts (friendship group interactions and self-system processes), and an emergent motivational group-level concept (friendship group engagement and disaffection). Items were developed to measure the 13 constructs making up the three core FGMS concepts. A sample of 443 freshman students completed a battery of questionnaires, including the FGMS construct items. Participants were also asked to nominate their ninth grade school friends; the reciprocated nominations were used to calculate composite group profile scores for friendship group engagement and disaffection. In a series of confirmatory factor analyses, nine of the 13 FGMS constructs were successfully derived and replicated. Dimensionality analyses revealed that many of the FGMS measures were not sufficiently distinct. The extent to which individuals and their reciprocally nominated friends agreed on their friendship group engagement and disaffection varied a great deal. Nevertheless, all of the new measures functioned well. All 13 FGMS constructs were related to similar measures, which is evidence of construct validity. Although the measures were differentially reliable for subgroups of adolescents, all of the within- and between-construct relationships occurred as hypothesized. The unique relationships found between the three FGMS concepts suggest that individual and group processes should be conceptualized and measured separately. The FGMS constructs were also related to indicators of high school transition stress, academic engagement, and personal and social adjustment. This research makes a significant contribution to the peer relations field by positing specific ways in which friendship groups support or undermine adolescents' healthy functioning, and by providing new tools for testing these relationships. The FGMS model can be used to explain the relationship between peer groups and long term development, to examine how peers influence individual coping, and to develop new school-based interventions.
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Cheung, Ching-yee Cecilia, and 張靜儀. "One to one cross-age peer tutoring and same-age peer tutoring in English dictation: a comparative study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31956361.
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Pereira, Josianne Katherine. "The Social Aging Representation and Third Age: The Study about a Case during the Group of the Third Age in Caratinga/MG." Centro Universitário de Caratinga, 2006. http://bibliotecadigital.unec.edu.br/bdtdunec/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=21.
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lt;p align="justify"gt; In debates during the Forum of Agenda 21 on the region of the Basin Caratinga River, it was suggested that the public service and civil society stimulated the formation of groups of the third age. One knows that in many groups of the third age exist there is valuation of the youth and denying of the aging, and in the group of Caratinga? The purpose of this study is to analyze how the elderly ones of a Group of Third Age of Caratinga are representing themselves. Well try to understand how their experiences the individuals influence in this representation of aging, how men and women role and to these representation and the reasons that had taken them to participate of the group. The data had been collected through the participant observing, focal group and individual interviews. They participate of Forro, men and women who were 45 years old or over, widowers and co-inhabiting with other familiar ones. Women show their bodies through customs for dancing trying to attract men through their dance and flirting, they try to get a not serious relationships or even forever. In relation to the social representative of elderly, we observe the denyal connotation of it, valuation of youth. To be older to them is the one who does not dance, does not go out, does not meet other persons. Other social representations of them were observed the aging as a category, social exclusion and limitation. The ones who is older and understand the aging as a category, are the oldest women. Some interviewed people feel discriminated for family and society, the social ways looked for the elderly people forms to join specific generation groups. This justifies the sensation of being part of Forro, but also the familiar solitude. Some of them normal aspect of life so, taking aging and death with responsibility, we cannot avoid thinking about limitation. About gender differences, they answered that to stop dancing, to meeting people, are not attributions that can be characterized as men or women. Others tell that aging is worse for men, since freedom of retirement and being elderly brought them a kind of illusion. They were always more free than women, therefore they do not tend to see this phase of their life with as much enthusiasm. Therefore, in Forro there are many old difference kinds of social changes in life occur because of age, however say that life of young people is better, since they have their problems. Also we cannot understand that the aging should be better for one of the gender, since they get older different, historical, social criteria, genetic and enviroment ways. We conclude that the programs for the Third Age are good alternatives, some points are reorganized and they do not try to generalize the process that is personal, social and historical.lt;/pgt;lt;p align="justify"gt; Em debates e reflexões durante o Fórum da Agenda 21 da região da Bacia do Rio Caratinga, foi sugerido que o poder público e sociedade civil estimulassem a formação de grupos de terceira idade. Sabe-se que em muitos grupos de terceira idade existe a valorização da juventude e negação da velhice, e no grupo de Caratinga? O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar como os idosos de um Grupo de Terceira Idade de Caratinga se auto-representam. Buscaremos compreender como as experiências vividas pelos indivíduos influenciam nas suas representações de velhice, como os papéis de gênero se relacionam com essas representações e os motivos que os levaram a participar do grupo. Os dados foram colhidos através da observação participante, grupo focal e entrevistas individuais. Participam do Forró, homens e mulheres com idade igual ou maior que 45 anos, aposentados, viúvos e co-residindo com outros familiares. As mulheres exibem seus corpos através da vestimenta e da dança, na tentativa de atrair os homens, e eles através da dança e dos cortejos tentam obter relacionamentos furtivos ou mesmo duradouros. Em relação às representações sociais de velhice, observamos a conotação negativa da velhice, valorização da juventude. Ser velho para eles é quem não dança, não passeia, não conhece outras pessoas. Outras representações sociais de velhice foram observadas: a velhice como categoria de idade, como exclusão social e como finitude. Os que se sentem velhos e entendem a velhice como uma categoria de idade, são as mulheres mais velhas. Alguns entrevistados se sentem discriminados pela família e pela sociedade. As formas de sociabilidade buscadas pelos idosos são formas que unem grupos geracionais específicos. Isso justifica, a sensação de estar acompanhado dentro do Forró, mas também a de abandono no ambiente familiar. Apenas alguns associaram a velhice à morte, entretanto, não podemos querer que a própria morte seja encarada tranquilamente pelos entrevistados. Mas para assumir sua vida, seu envelhecimento e sua morte com responsabilidade, não se pode evitar pensar na própria finitude. Quanto às diferenças de gênero, vários responderam que parar de dançar, de conhecer pessoas novas não são atribuições que podem ser caracterizadas como de homens ou mulheres. Outros relatam que a velhice para o homem é pior, já que a liberdade que a aposentadoria e que a velhice lhe trouxe são ilusórias. Eles sempre foram mais livres que as mulheres, portanto não tendem a ver essa fase da vida com tanto entusiasmo. Portanto, no Forró existem várias velhices socialmente construídas. Ocorrem mudanças na vida com o envelhecimento, no entanto não podemos afirmar que a vida do jovem é melhor, já que também na vida dele ocorrerão crises. Também não podemos compreender que a velhice possa ser melhor para um dos sexos, já que eles envelhecem de formas diferentes e de acordo com critérios históricos e sociais, genéticos e ambientais. Conclui-se que os Programas para a Terceira Idade são boas alternativas, desde que algumas questões sejam reformuladas e que não tentem generalizar um processo que é pessoal, social e histórico.lt;/pgt;
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Bayer, Cherie Lei. "Adults' Strategic Assistance During Toddler Disputes Occurring in a Mixed-Age Group Care Setting /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487861396027713.
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Bellumori, Maria. "The peak force-rate of force development relationship a muscle and age group comparison /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 84 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1889084531&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Torney, Rosemary. "Application of psycholinguistic features to authorship profiling for first language, gender and age group." Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2014. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/100043.
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Much of the fraud committed in cyberspace involves the misrepresentation of the demographic data of the perpetrator via the medium of seemly anonymous text messages. One way to address this issue is to apply techniques from the field of authorship characterisation or profiling which is the analysis of text to determine the demographic profile of the author. Most of the previous research into authorship characterisation has used counts and ratios of lexicographically based features that include words, parts of words and Parts Of Speech (POS) contained within the text. This study examines the effectiveness of classifying the first language, gender and age group of an author using a set of features developed in the psycholinguistic field (the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count - LIWC), both as a single type feature set and in combination with the lexicographically based features used in previous studies (function words, character bigrams and POS unigrams and bigrams). This study also searched for the smallest, most effective subset of each feature set that was practical, by ranking the features using three feature selection algorithms and systematically reducing the number used. In addition, the study explored the effective lower word limit for accurate classification by reducing the text size by regular increments. LIWC was found to be more effective than a similar number of any of the lexicographic feature types, and to add insight rather than noise when combined with these feature types. This held to be true for both the full and reduced text sizes for all three demographic classes examined. In addition it was found that the size of feature sets could be greatly reduced while still maintaining effective levels of classification accuracy.Doctor of Philosophy
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Luvaas, Brent Adam. "Generation DIY youth, class, and the culture of indie production in digital-age Indonesia /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1835632681&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Stauter, William E. "The development and implementation of a support group for retirement home couples facing separation by infirmity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Koffman, Steven D. "Structured reminiscence and gestalt life review : group treatment of older adults for late life adjustment." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1115724.
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The present analogue study compared the effects of 2 theoretically divergent Life Review group psychotherapies on aspects of late life adjustment and development. Thirty-six adult non-patients, ages 65 years and older, from the Muncie - Delaware County vicinity, were randomly selected from an available subject pool of screened volunteer respondents and randomly assigned to one of three analogue treatment conditions with two groups for each treatment condition. These three treatment conditions were the structured reminiscence life review group (SRLR), the Gestalt life review group (GLR) and a Wait List control group (WLC). Demographic, mental status, and Activities of Daily Living Scale (ADL) data were obtained from initial respondents by telephone interview and followed by written completion of the Symptom Checklist (SCL 90-R). The differential effects of treatment were measured by pre and post testing on four dependent variables: (1) depression, (2) congruence, (3) helplessness, and (4) ego integrity.Results indicated that neither of the two life review group psychotherapy treatments had any statistically significant effect upon the dependent variables. In a post hoc exploratory analysis, evidence emerged which suggested that the participants in the GLR treatment condition may have shown significant improvement on several state mental health variables. The dimensions of improvement for participants in the GLR were Interpersonal Sensitivity, Hostility, Depression, and Positive Symptom report as measured by the SCL 90-R. This contrasted with those in both the SRLR or WLC condition for whom no improvement was shown.Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services
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Ng, Yuk-fai Margaret, and 吳玉輝. "The effectiveness of peer-tutoring on same-age & cross-age tutors in an English paired-reading project in a Hong Kong secondary technicalschool." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31958990.
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Michael, Ruth Rosina-Glass. "A description of learning in a group of well elderly over the age of 75." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/774769.
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There is an acknowledged need for continual intellectual growth in older adults. This study describes the characteristics of learning practiced by a particular. group of well-elderly adults over the age of 75. Data were gathered self-reported learning experiences.A semi-structured interview was developed by the researcher to elicit responses in three areas that characterize learning: (1) decision to start to learn, (2) awareness of individual learning process, and (3) evaluation of their own learning processes. Fifteen members (n=10 women and n=5 men) of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Huntington, IN were interviewed.The data showed depth and comprehension in the learning experiences. The learning experiences ranged from skill acquisition to the writing of scholarly papers. The data indicated the group was homogeneous allowing it to be used for future research comparisons. Data for the three learning characteristics revealed that building on experience as a basis, the group was continually ready to learn. They had established wide resource networks, used a variety of printed, visual, and audio material, and readily sought expert advice. From the bases the participants to organized the material, evaluated the information, related the information to their situations, and then used the information to make decisions. All of the participants this process.Department of Educational Leadership
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Maurer, Cornélius. "The Emergence of Economic Cooperation : the Moderating Effects of Autistic Traits, Age and Group Size." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH182.
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Cette thèse s’ouvre sur une introduction au concept de comportement coopératif et aux questions de recherche ouvertes liées aux effets des traits autistiques, de l'âge et de la taille du groupe sur la coopération humaine (Chapitre 1). La première étude empirique de cette thèse (Chapitre 2), publiée dans Cognition (Maurer, Chambon, Bourgeois-Gironde, Leboyer, & Zalla, 2018) a examiné les effets de l'information sociale antérieure (reputational prior) et de la réciprocité directe sur la dynamique de la construction de la confiance et de la coopération chez les adultes avec et sans trouble du spectre autistique (ASD) dans le multi-round Trust Game (MTG). Conformément aux hypothèses voulant que les personnes atteintes de ASD soient davantage influencées par les informations sociales antérieures et moins flexibles dans l’intégration des retours d’informations en ligne, les résultats ont révélé que le reputational prior influençaient fortement la propension des participants atteints de ASD à faire confiance à leurs homologues lors des premières et des dernières sessions d’interaction, tandis que l’échantillon de participants normalement développés (TD) révisait leur jugement sur la fiabilité des interlocuteurs après quelques interactions et adoptait rapidement la stratégie optimale Tit-for-Tat. Le Chapitre 3 décrit une étude pilote utilisant l'approche méthodologique de MTG pour explorer la manière dont les informations de reputational prior sur les partenaires et l'expérience de réciprocité directe influencent la construction de confiance et la dynamique de l'apprentissage social chez les adolescents de 14 à 16 ans par rapport aux adultes. En accord avec les difficultés précédemment rapportées dans l'intégration flexible d'informations sociales innovantes et un « Theory of Mind » immature chez les adolescents, les résultats ont montré que les adolescents rencontraient plus de difficultés que les adultes pour intégrer les preuves sociales entrantes provenant du comportement des partenaires et les utiliser pour adapter leurs croyances sociales antérieures, et leur évaluation de la fiabilité des partenaires de coopération. Le Chapitre 4 présente une étude de développement qui examine la manière dont les enfants et les adolescents coopèrent dans le contexte de la négociation unique du jeu de l’Ultimatum lorsqu’ils négocient individuellement et en groupe sur des gains en argent réel. Des recherches antérieures sur la prise de décision collective ont montré que les groupes d'adultes se comportent systématiquement d'une manière économiquement plus rationnelle que les individus. Les résultats ont révélé que les demandes des responders diminuaient de manière significative avec l’âge et que les groupes de responders en demandaient beaucoup moins que les responders individuels. Cependant, aucun effet d'âge ou de groupe n'a été trouvé dans l'échantillon de proposers. Il est important de noter que nous avons constaté que les prédictions des offres individuelles précédentes dans l'UG, ainsi que l'utilisation d'arguments de stratégie au cours de discussions de groupe, permettaient de mieux prédire les décisions du groupe de proposers. En revanche, les types d'arguments utilisés au cours des discussions en groupe, à savoir la stratégie et le raisonnement fondé sur l'équité, permettaient de mieux prédire les décisions du groupe de responders. Enfin, le Chapitre 5 résume les principaux résultats empiriques de cette thèse et donne un aperçu des futures recherches sur les effets des traits autistiques, de l’âge et de la taille du groupe sur la coopérationThis dissertation opens with an introduction to the concept of cooperative behavior and the open research questions related to the effects of autistic traits, age, and group size on human cooperation (Chapter 1). The first empirical study in this dissertation (Chapter 2), which has been published in Cognition (Maurer, Chambon, Bourgeois-Gironde, Leboyer, & Zalla, 2018) investigated the effects of prior social information (reputation) and direct reciprocity on the dynamics of trust-building and cooperation in adults with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the multi-round Trust Game (MTG). In line with the hypotheses that people with ASD are more influenced by prior social information and less flexible in integrating feedback from online evidence, the results revealed that reputational priors strongly influenced the decisions of participants with ASD to trust their counterparts during the first and later rounds of interaction, while the sample of typically developed (TD) participants updated their judgments of counterparts’ trustworthiness after a couple of interactions and rapidly adopted the optimal Tit-for-Tat strategy. Chapter 3 describes a pilot study that employed the methodological approach of the MTG to explore how prior reputational information about partners and direct reciprocity experience influence trust behavior and the dynamics of social learning in adolescents between 14 and 16 years of age compared to adults. In line with previously reported difficulties in the flexible integration of novel social information and an immature Theory of Mind in adolescents, the results showed that adolescents encountered more difficulties than adults in integrating incoming social evidence from partners’ behavior and using it to flexibly review their prior social beliefs about cooperation partners’ trustworthiness. Chapter 4 introduces a developmental study that investigated how children and adolescents cooperate in the one-shot bargaining context of the Ultimatum Game when bargaining individually and as a group about real money payoffs. Previous research on collective decision-making found that adult groups systematically behave in a more economically rational manner than individuals. The results revealed that responder demands decreased significantly with age, and responder groups demanded significantly less than individual responders. However, no age or group effect was found in the proposer sample. Importantly, we found that proposer group decisions were best predicted by previous individual offers in the UG, as well as by the usage of strategy arguments during group discussions. In contrast, responder group demands were best predicted by the types of arguments employed during group discussions, that is, strategy and fairness reasoning. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the main empirical findings of this dissertation and gives an outlook for future research on the effects of autistic traits, age, and group size on cooperation
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Wang, Tianyi. "Fan Participation in the Age of Social Media – the Case of Kris Wu’s Fan Group." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385704.
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This thesis aims to explore how fans use social media to participate in activities relatedto the idol, and what is the level of participation of different fans in the fan group. Thisthesis used qualitative research methods – online observations and semi-structured indepth interviews to collect the empirical data, through focusing on the fan group of KrisWu. The theories of Jenkins and Carpentier are also applied to explore and describe theparticipatory practices of fans. By employing the theory of Jenkin’s participatoryculture to the first part of the analysis, the research results show that for the fans, socialmedia plays an important role in their participation, providing fans with a newenvironment to communicate and organize activities. Fan activities can be categorizedinto three major types: online consumption behaviors, fan text productions, and onlinesupporting activities. By applying the political and critical approach of participation, aswell as Carpentier’s four-level analytical model to the second part of the analysis, thisstudy finds that there are three sub-processes related to online fan communities – themanagement subprocess, the activity organization subprocess, and the subprocess oftext production and distribution. In each fan group, there are four different roles of fans– leaders, creators, supporters, and less active fans. Besides, through analyzing theidentities and decision-making moments, it can be said that although each fan isrelatively equal in the whole participatory process, there are still certain power relationsbetween each role of fans, especially in the process of fan group management.
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Wilcox, Jacqueline M. "How Fathers Affect Body Image Perception In their Sons: A Comparison of Four Age Groups." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1180.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jacqueline Marie Wilcox, for the Master of Science degree in COMMUNITY NUTRITION, presented on October 19,2012, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: HOW FATHERS AFFECT BODY IMAGE PERCEPTION IN THEIR SONS:A COMPARISON OF FOUR AGE GROUPS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Sara Long Roth This study examines the role a father or male role model plays in affecting his son's body image perception via comments and feedback. A cross-sectional study design was conducted to examine 396 men who ranged in age from 18-92 years old. Men who participated in this study were evaluated as a whole as well as four different age groups (18-31, 32-47, 48-66, 67+). Results indicate most men did not receive feedback from their fathers in regard to altering their muscularity or to gain or lose weight. Participants who received feedback reported positive paternal comments about body shape, weight and muscularity. Men aged 18-31 received more positive paternal feedback than any other age group. Positive body image perception was significantly associated with body mass index and high self-esteem. Results of this study suggest other social factors may be connected with negative body image perception.
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Alonso, Jennifer Tehani. "Cohesion's Relationship to Outcome in Group Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analytic Review of Empirical Research." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2658.
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Research has consistently shown group psychotherapy to be an effective form of treatment. Group cohesiveness, the quantity and magnitude of the strength of the bonds within the group, has received considerable attention. This study describes the integration of the cohesion literature using a random effects meta-analysis to ascertain the magnitude of the relationship between cohesion and outcome as well as explore the effect specific group variables have on this association. Studies were included which measured the relationship between groups comprised of at least three members, included both an outcome and cohesion measure convertible to an effect size, and were published in English. 40 published studies, comprised of 3,323 participants, were analyzed and yielded an omnibus effect size of r = .25, suggesting a positive, moderate relationship exists between cohesion and outcome. Four group variables (group size, treatment duration, treatment setting, and group focus) and a client variable (age) demonstrated markedly stronger relationships with cohesion. The study also examined the most frequently used cohesion measures and definitions as they relate to their relationship to outcome and frequency of use. Clinical implications for group therapists are identified and future research suggested.
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Solberg, Shirley M. "Age and gender in a local labour market, re-employment among a group of older workers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0013/NQ34837.pdf.
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Lertphongwathana, Kulthida. "Population dynamics, education and manpower planning in Thailand : the case of the 15-19 age group." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133206.
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The objective of this study is to examine
of demographic process in relation to school
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the dynamics
enrolment and
employment with particular reference to the Thai population
aged 15-19 years. Secondary sources of information ar e
widely used and the future enrolment and labour force
participation of the study population is assessed.
The study observes that fertility started to decline
around 1960-1970. The fertility decline will have wider
implications not only for the future size of the population
but also for schooling and manpower planning. Universal
primary school enrolment has virtually been achieved in
Thailand. In the age group 6-11 years, the numbers to be
enrolled in primary schooling will start to decline by 1991
and by 1997 for the secondary level aged 12-17 years.
Taking the medium variant of fertility and mortality
assumptions used in official planning in Thailand, the stud y
applies three sets of enrolment and labour force assumptions
to examine the future size of the population aged 15- 19
years in schooling and labour force. According to the medium
variant of the school enrolment projection, school enrolment
in the age group 15-19 will increase from 27 per cent in
1980 to 39 per cent in the year 2005. The labour force
participation rate is estimated to decline from 64 per cent
in 1980 to 42 per cent in the year 2005 for the same age
group of population.
The study concludes that Thailand is undergoin g a
socio-economic and a demographic transition. Therefore,
every effort should be made to reduce the gap bet we en
educated labour supply and demand -so that a favourable
situation can be created for the rapidly modernizing Thai economy and society in order to usher in a quick transition.
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Martin, Christina Marie. "Meeting the mental health needs of older adults through the reminiscence group." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/481.
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Udaka, Itsuko Jaime. "Cross-age peer tutoring in dialogic reading effects on the language development of young children /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/127/.
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House, Lawrence Duane. "The influence of a group mentoring program on adolescents' parent and peer relationships." restricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04212005-113021/.
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Chambers, Kristine L. "The effect of bandwidth feedback and questioning on the performance, motivation and autonomy of age-group swimmers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ65092.pdf.
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Shao, Xinyue. "Age-ing Future Curious toolbox : Meta-design toolkit for activating elderly group and a sustainable ageing future." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-76552.
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In the beginning of the 20th century, there were 87 million elderly people aged 65 and older. However, by the years 2030 and 2050, elderly people in China will rapidly growth to 243–252 million and 352–398 million, respectively. (Zeng, Y., 2010) The population aging transition will take place in China with this staggering rapidity, compared to European societies. Predictably, as for this aging pressure, Chinese society still needs more time to react to it. Ageing is not only a challenge for the society but also a big challenge for design. Along with the increasing numbers of the elderly, they cannot be ignored by design any more. The discussion here aspires to move the design mindset beyond accessibility or in other words ‘Design for disability’, and introduce ‘Design for capability’ as a process of social innovation. In the paper, the design research will focus on meta-design, as well as participatory design and social innovation as auxiliary research, for designing a ‘seed’ as a change agent. The ‘seed’, as a meta-design solution, can be described as ‘a shared design endeavor aimed at sustaining emergence, evolution and adaptation’ (Giaccardi, E., 2005). It offers a framework for both designers and users to change original mindsets in the practice. (Giaccardi, E., 2005) Furthermore, the following question will be carried through the whole research: how to reposition ourselves as designers on the intersection of meta-design, design for social innovation and participatory design? What is the design approach to generate tools that can encourage inactive elderly citizens as ‘passive receivers’ to transform as ‘active participants’? How can the tools studied here contribute in a synergic relationship within stakeholders as a mean to make elderly citizens’ urban living more sustainable in terms of participating, learning and expressing actively?
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Garber, Kacey Lynn. "A multi-proxy provenance approach and depositional age constraints for the Upper Cretaceous Beaverhead Group, Southwest Montana." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6737.
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The Beaverhead Group records coarse-grained, conglomeratic deposition in the northwestern foredeep of the Cordilleran foreland basin. In the northeastern portion of the study area, it unconformably overlies and is deformed by the Laramide-style Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift. To the west, it is deformed by and structurally juxtaposed against Paleozoic and Mesozoic passive margin strata in the Sevier-style fold-thrust belt. Previous work on limited palynomorph samples suggests Coniacian-Campanian (~89-72 Ma) depositional ages while structural and stratigraphic relationships additionally suggest Maastrichtian-Lower Cenozoic depositional ages. Previous work based on clast compositions implies that units involved in deformation related to both the Sevier thrust belt and Laramide-style Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift were the primary sediment sources to the Beaverhead Group.
This study aims to better define the depositional age and provenance of the Beaverhead Group by utilizing U-Pb dating of detrital zircons in combination with conglomerate clast compositions and sandstone petrography. Maximum depositional ages based on the ages of youngest single grains range from ~83-66 Ma (Campanian-Maastrichtian). Provenance analysis for various units of the Beaverhead Group suggest local and/or distal sediment sources, with the former encompassing the Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift and local portions of the Sevier thrust belt and the latter including distal portions of the Sevier thrust belt. Maximum depositional ages in conjunction with provenance interpretations require that the Blacktail-Snowcrest uplift was actively exhuming at ~81 Ma and that the Sevier thrust belt was locally active from ~83-66 Ma. Distally sourced sediments from the Belt Supergroup of Idaho suggest that a paleoriver system connected regional sources to Beaverhead Group depocenters from at least ~83-66 Ma.
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Della, Mea Carolyn L. "A comparison of two procedures for peer group assignment of institutions of higher education." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54511.
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The exchange of institutional information for the purpose of comparative analysis is an established practice in the decision-making and planning processes of institutions of higher education. For comparative analysis to be meaningful, the institutions must be sufficiently alike to be comparable. Hence, colleges and universities are placed into peer groups, comprised of institutions categorized on the basis of relevant criteria. Comparative analyses and the decisions resulting from the analyses are only as good as the peer groupings that provide the sources for comparison. Thus, the way in which peer groups are formed is a cornerstone of the comparative analysis process.
The purpose of this study was to compare two grouping procedures, focal proximity, and cluster analysis, in forming institutional peer groups in higher education. The two procedures were examined in terms of their relative reliability, determined by the stability of group membership over a five-year period of time, and in terms of their comparability at a single point in time, measured by the degree of agreement between peer groups formed in 1983 by each of the two procedures. Discriminant analysis was used to examine the relative importance of the variables used as criteria in the grouping procedures.
Both procedures were found to form peer groups with greater than chance stability over the five year period of time. For one sample of institutions, focal proximity was found to be more reliable than cluster analysis in assigning institutions to peer groups. There was no difference between the two methods for a second sample of institutions. For both samples of institutions, agreement between groups formed by focal proximity analysis in 1983 and those formed by cluster analysis at the same point in time was greater than could be expected by chance. The variables that loaded most highly on the first discriminant function of the total canonical structure were PHD (proportion of degrees at the doctoral level) and LRES (research expenditures). The variables that were most important when holding all other variables constant were BA (proportion of degrees at the bachelor level) and MA (proportion of degrees at the master's level).Ph. D.
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Canada, Brice. "Indentification des facteurs sous-tendant la relation entre personnalité et la santé physique lors de l'avancée en âge : le rôle des facteurs démographiques, médicaux, et environnementaux." Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENS021/document.
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Au regard des problématiques sanitaires, économiques et environnementales liées à l'augmentation de la population âgée au cours des prochaines décennies, l'identification des déterminants du maintien ou de la dégradation de l'état de santé physique lors de l'avancée en âge représente un enjeu de santé publique majeur. Un consensus existe sur la relation entre les traits de personnalité définis par le Modèle en Cinq Facteurs (MCF, Digman, 1990), et la santé physique des seniors. Toutefois, peu de travaux ont identifié les processus sous-tendant cette relation. Sur la base d'un programme de recherche composé de cinq études, ce travail doctoral avait pour objectif de contribuer aux connaissances existantes, par l'identification d'un certain nombre de facteurs susceptibles de moduler et d'expliquer la contribution des traits de personnalité sur des indicateurs de santé physique lors de l'avancée en âge. Ce travail a permis la mise en évidence du rôle modérateur de l'âge chronologique dans la contribution de certains traits de personnalité, et principalement l'ouverture aux expériences, sur la santé perçue (étude 1), qui s'avère dépendant de l'état de santé objectif des individus (étude 2). De plus, la contribution de la personnalité sur des indicateurs de santé physique chez les seniors n'est pas activée par l'exposition aux stéréotypes liés à l'âge (étude 3). Par ailleurs, ce travail confirme la relation entre l'ouverture aux expériences et la tendance au rajeunissement, qui est reconnue comme étant un facteur de protection de l'état de santé lors de l'avancée en âge, et met en évidence le rôle médiateur d'une faible identification au groupe d'âge dans cette association (étude 4). Cette dissociation du groupe d'âge et le biais de rajeunissement associés à l'ouverture aux expériences semblent se manifester indépendamment du contexte et de l'environnement dans lequel la personne âgée évolue (étude 5). Ce travail doctoral permet donc un approfondissement des mécanismes qui sous-tendent la contribution des traits de personnalité sur la santé physique lors de l'avancée en âge, et contribue à une littérature relativement récente et en expansion insistant sur les implications de l'ouverture aux expériences pour la santé et le fonctionnement global des seniorsGiven the economic, environmental, and health issues related to the increasing number of people over 65 years in the coming decades, the identification of the factors associated with the maintenance or the degradation of physical health with advancing age is a major public health concern. Personality, as defined by the Five-Factors Model (FFM, Digman, 1990), is consistently associated with physical health in old age. However, few studies have focused on the underlying mechanisms of this relation. Based upon a five studies research program, the present doctoral dissertation aimed to contribute to current knowledge by identifying a number of factors which may modulate and explain the contribution of personality traits on markers of physical health with advancing age. This research revealed a moderating role of chronological age in the relation between personality, and openness to experiences in particular, and perceived health (study 1), which appeared to be dependent upon disease burden (study 2). Moreover, the contribution of personality on markers of physical health does not seem to be activated by the exposure to age-related stereotype (study 3). Finally, the present doctoral project confirmed the relation between openness to experience and a youthful subjective age, which is a recognized protective factor for physical health in old age, and identified the mediating role of age-group dissociation in this relationship (study 4). The tendencies to dissociate oneself from one's age group and to feel younger among open older people seem to be independent of the context and the environment (study 5). This doctoral dissertation contributes to an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms underlying the contribution of personality traits on physical health with advancing age, and adds to a growing body of research emphasizing the implications of openness to experience for global health and functioning of older people
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Yaprakkaya, Gokhan. "Face Identification, Gender And Age Groups Classifications For Semantic Annotation Of Videos." Thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612848/index.pdf.
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This thesis presents a robust face recognition method and a combination of methods for gender identification and age group classification for semantic annotation of videos. Local binary pattern histogram which has 256 bins and pixel intensity differences are used as extracted facial features for gender classification. DCT Mod2 features and edge detection results around facial landmarks are used as extracted facial features for age group classification. In gender classification module, a Random Trees classifier is trained with LBP features and an adaboost classifier is trained with pixel intensity differences. DCT Mod2 features are used for training of a Random Trees classifier and LBP features around facial landmark points are used for training another Random Trees classifier in age group classification module. DCT Mod2 features of the detected faces morped by two dimensional face morphing method based on Active Appearance Model and Barycentric Coordinates are used as the inputs of the nearest neighbor classifier with weights obtained from the trained Random Forest classifier in face identification module. Different feature extraction methods are tried and compared and the best achievements in the face recognition module to be used in the method chosen. We compared our classification results with some successful earlier works results in our experiments performed with same datasets and got satisfactory results.
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Johnston, Cheryl Anne. "Culturally Modified Human Remains from the Hopewell Mound Group." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1039181572.
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Geyer, Lourens Stephanus. "Evaluering van 'n maatskaplike groepwerk-bemagtigingsprogram met alkoholafhanklike bejaardes : 'n sterkteperspektief / Lourens Stephanus Geyer." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1351.
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