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Symbolism (1):
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We communicate and negotiation research directs considerable attention to the impact of different electronic communication modes on the negotiation process and outcomes. Complexity theories offer models and methods that allow the investigation of how pattern and temporal sequences unfold over time i...
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PMID: 21933516
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Ugeskrift for laeger (173)5 2011
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Bulletin for the history of chemistry / Division of the History ofChemistry of the American Chemical Society (36)1 2011
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The sailor suits widely worn by children in late-nineteenth-century Britain have been interpreted at the time, and since, as expressions of an Imperial ethos. Yet, a closer examination of the ways that these garments were produced by mass manufacturers, mediated by advertisers and fa...
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PMID: 21954488
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Journal of Social Psychology (151)4 2011
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Three experiments tested whether the subliminal presentation of national symbols automatically elicited societally prescribed normative values in the New Zealand (NZ) context using a lexical decision task. Consistent with research in the United States, the presentation of the NZ flag...
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PMID: 21755657
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Journal of Social Psychology (151)2 2011
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The authors examine the idea, derived from Terror Management Theory, that concerns about undocumented immigrants stem from the need to protect death-buffering cultural values against the symbolic threat posed by dissimilar others. It is hypothesized that reminders of death will intensify aversion to...
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PMID: 21476456
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Ugeskrift for laeger (173)1 2011
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A descriptive study which aimed to characterize the conditions of people with disabilities (PD) in the Basic Health Units-UBS. Data were collected in January 2009 in 20 UBSF. It was used digital camera and check list based on the 9050-NBR ABNT. The results showed: Access town - no traffic lights (100...
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PMID: 21308230
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Pflege Zeitschrift (63)11 2010
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Theory in Biosciences (129)2-3 2010
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We human beings may consider ourselves, there was nothing special about the way we came into existence. Modern human cognition is a very recent acquisition; and its emergence ushered in an entirely new pattern of technological (and other behavioral) innovation, in which constant change results from...
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PMID: 20509011
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The primary goal of this study was to test a culturally specific model of binge eating in African American female trauma survivors, investigating potential mechanisms through which trauma exposure and distress were related to binge eating symptomatology.
Participants were 179 African American female...
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PMID: 20658804
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The classical approach to the modeling of reality is founded upon its objectification. Although successful dealing with inanimate matter, objectification has proven to be much less successful elsewhere, sometimes to the point of paradox. This paper discusses an approach to the modeling of reality ba...
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PMID: 20587299
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We examine how the symbolic significance of circumcision influences how it is performed in a medical context.
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PMID: 20381835
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Social Science and Medicine (70)12 2010
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This paper examines the interaction of symbolic and material dimensions of social status for African American adolescents and its relationship with blood pressure. Mixed ethnographic methods were used to develop cultural models of social status for urban African American teens in a predominantly Afr...
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PMID: 20363543
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British Journal of Social Psychology (49)Pt 2 2010
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The purpose of this study is to examine qualitatively how respondents create national distinctiveness using rhetorical identity strategies in the context of four Finnish national symbols. The data consist of 127 essays written by Finnish secondary school students. Analysis revealed five different st...
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PMID: 19558753
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We highlight the potential contribution of naturally occurring data as an adjunct to researcher-elicited data. Thus, when exploring particular phenomena, a DGTM approach may address the potentially under-developed symbolic interaction tenet of language.
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PMID: 19962698
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Despite the existence of the slow-moving vehicle (SMV) emblem for almost 50 years, there continues to be a large number of preventable accidents between SMVs and other motorists. In this study, the current SMV emblem was tested against other common road signs as well as alternative slow-moving vehic...
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PMID: 20503812
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Perceptual and Motor Skills (110)2 2010
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The effects of different instructions on verbal random number generation were examined in 40 healthy students who attempted to generate random sequences of the digits 1 to 6. Two groups of 20 received different instructions with alternative numerical representations. The Symbolic group (Arabic digit...
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PMID: 20499555
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The author presents case material of a rigid, schizoid patient who at some point during his treatment began to come late for sessions. He once missed an entire session only to appear at the door after the scheduled hour had passed; this "timing" was evidently intentional. Discussion centers upon the...
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PMID: 20496838
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We tested whether children and young adults varied the size and color of their tree drawings based on hypotheses related to the emotional characterization of the drawn topic. We asked a sample of 80 5- to 11-year-old children and adults to draw a tree (baseline drawing) and then a happy versus sad t...
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PMID: 20155568
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Despite the sociological and geopolitical significance of EU enlargement and opinion toward it, extant literature is lacking a theory of enlargement opinion and an examination of opinion in the wake of the 2004 enlargement. This paper fills these gaps by developing a symbolic defence of group positi...
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PMID: 20377600
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Experimental Brain Research (201)3 2010
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The perception of written letters reflects the action sequences that produce them. Faster recognition is observed for letters presented as sequences of strokes in a temporal order consistent with letter writing, compared to an inconsistent order. During a speeded letter identification task, parietal...
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PMID: 20232509
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Scientific American (302)3 2010
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Science Signaling (3)127 2010
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We know. The cell needs operational freedom and, thus, many motif-domain interactions might not be "hard-wired" through evolution, but instead may be like the Linux operating system, where symbolic links can point to files without duplication....
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PMID: 20571125
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I argue that there are 'no objects only events', that is, dynamic continual process is the basic building block of all existence. My accompanying artworks illustrate these principles using the beauty of computer generated fractals combined with digitally manipulated, figurative images....
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PMID: 20021780
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Modernism/Modernity (17)2 2010
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In the early 1920s, the film industry seized on the furor over the modern girls' demands for sexual liberty and fulfillment inside and outside of marriage to introduce not only new subject matter, but new modes of addressing its diverse audience. Social upheaval in this period coincided with the med...
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PMID: 20653110
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Nursing Times (106)10 2010
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BACKGROUND: Uniforms are thought to hold personal significance for those who wear them and act as powerful symbols representing the profession's identity and image. AIM: To gain an insight into the influence of uniform on self image and professional identity among student nurses. METHOD: Fourteen qu...
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PMID: 20426297
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Gender & History (11)1 2010
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Cultural Anthropology (25)3 2010
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I seek to position the influence generated in prendas-ngangas-enquisos as a problem for Euro-American materialism, to be addressed not through symbolic or representational solutions but, rather, by refocusing the problem itself via alternate distributions of its epistemological, historical, and ethn...
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PMID: 20662145
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Between 1885-1900 "Punch" satirized the personality of the New Woman. However, virtually single-handedly it also gave a body and emancipated culture to this otherwise socially abstract personality. Using illustrations from "Punch," this essay argues that using sport specific clothing and equipment i...
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PMID: 21141449
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We undertook the first investigation with people with intellectual disabilities using a two-choice child version of the IGT, with measures of intellectual and executive functioning. Compared to a group of matched controls, people with intellectual disabilities performed advantageously and showed hig...
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PMID: 20036103
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Nursing Philosophy (11)1 2010
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Throughout their history, symbolic interactionism and critical perspective have been viewed as divergent theoretical perspectives with different philosophical underpinnings. A review of their historical and philosophical origins reveals both points of divergence and areas of converge...
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PMID: 20017881
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Nursing Philosophy (11)1 2010
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With questions raised as to whether or not nursing knowledge should be developed from extant conceptual/theoretical models or from practice-based environments, this paper utilizes Kuhn's disciplinary matrix and Laudan's model of consensus formation to explore the changing nature of t...
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PMID: 20017883
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Nursing Philosophy (11)1 2010
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Throughout their history, symbolic interactionism and critical perspective have been viewed as divergent theoretical perspectives with different philosophical underpinnings. A review of their historical and philosophical origins reveals both points of divergence and areas of converge...
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PMID: 20017881
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PDF is available here.
Nursing Philosophy (11)1 2010
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With questions raised as to whether or not nursing knowledge should be developed from extant conceptual/theoretical models or from practice-based environments, this paper utilizes Kuhn's disciplinary matrix and Laudan's model of consensus formation to explore the changing nature of t...
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PMID: 20017883
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Despite substantial progress in elucidating its neurobiological mechanisms, theoretical understanding of the placebo effect is poorly developed. Application of the semiotic theory developed by the American philosopher Charles Peirce offers a promising account of placebo effects as involving the appr...
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PMID: 21037405
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New Literary History (41)1 2010
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New Literary History (41)1 2010
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In the early twentieth century, botanists in South Africa's Western Cape sought urgently to popularise and protect the region's unique indigenous Fynbos flora. Plants imported from the 1840s, some of which proved invasive, became a physical and symbolic focus for their advocacy. The botanists' effor...
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PMID: 20879182
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A symbolic interactionist approach is presented and analyzed in reference to helping solve the problem of medical students not choosing primary care practice for a career. The concepts of "Role" and "Identity" are examined in the social interaction context of pre-med and med students and the larger e...
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PMID: 21576069
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The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society (162)1 2010
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We explain how the discourses of the journal were creating a symbolic support for the weak conjuncture in which they tried to be consolidated legally as an institution....
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PMID: 21186698
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I have suggested elsewhere that it is useful to distinguish among various clinical phenomena, usually subsumed under the broad term resistance, specifically, subcategories of rebellion and refusal. In this paper, I elaborate on a narrower, more precise sense of resistance, which I apply to the group...
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PMID: 20590432
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Hospitalisation upsets the patient's life course, with individual psychosocial consequences the intensity of which varies according to the background of each patient. Some factors, such as the migration experience, impact the adjustment of foreign patients to hospitalisation.
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PMID: 20799486
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Repetition of experience endured by the first generation has frequently been observed in descendants of Holocaust survivors. Such repetitions are associated with an erosion of the ability, in the area of the trauma, to distinguish more or less reliably between external and internal reality. This in...
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PMID: 20301975
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Psychoanalytic review (96)5 2009
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Psychological Review (116)4 2009
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Psychological Review (116)4 2009
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We show that their PDP model is too sensitive to these effects. A modified version of the model does better but still fails in important respects. The successes and failures can be attributed to a fundamental constraint associated with context-dependent representations. We question the viability of...
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PMID: 19839694
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (28)9 2009
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Three experiments identified factors that did and did not enhance the formation of two-node four-member equivalence classes when training and testing were conducted with trials presented in a trace stimulus pairing two-response (SP2R) format. All trials contained two separately presented stimuli. Ha...
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PMID: 20119522
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Child and mother play (n = 113 20-month-olds) among South American Latino immigrants, Japanese immigrants, and European Americans in the United States was investigated. Culturally universal patterns of play dominated the findings. For example, no cultural differences in the prevalence of exploratory...
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PMID: 19586198
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British Journal of Social Psychology (48)Pt 2 2009
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We conclude that visual methods are especially useful for exploring beliefs about technologies that are widespread, proximal to our everyday experience but nevertheless unfamiliar topics of everyday conversation....
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PMID: 18789183
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