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    A Cross Sectional Study Between Battered Women Who Endure and Relinquish Violence Josiah Marie B. Carreon AB Psychology ABSTRACT For the past 30 years, violence had increase against women within abusive relationships, why women stay and endure the pain and why they relinquish violence. Women who are being battered share certain observable characteristics. Speaking with a battered woman should reveal these characteristics and help to identify her as a sufferer of Battered Women Syndrome

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    Slavery, Freedom and Sectional Conflict in America prior to the Civil War In the United States of America after the Revolutionary War, freedom was a very relative term. According to the constitution all men were created equal and therefore all men are free. However, in this time prior to the American Civil War this was not the case. There existed, what would eventually be called an immoral evil by some abolitionists in, slavery. Slaves were African-Americans brought to the United States, specifically

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    Study population: This cross sectional study was performed, in 2009-2010 as the third survey of school-based surveillance system entitled Childhood and Adolescence Surveillance and Prevention of Adult Non-communicable disease Study (ASPIAN-III). This school-based nationwide health survey was designed and applied in27 provinces in Iran. The detailed methodology was previously described and presented here in brief. The present survey included 5744 students, ages of 10-18 years, recruited by multistage

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    Materials and methods: 2.1 Study design: The study was a descriptive cross sectional survey. 2.2 Study area: Khartoum North locality, Sudan was divided into six major area each one of them served a considerable number of population through primary health centers. Primary health centers represent the first level of contact between the community and the health services. It provides basic primary health care services such as treatment of common illnesses, wound care and some preventive services such

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    Psychology as its commonly recognised is the science of the mind where its apparent focus is investigation and treatment for mental illness. Positive psychology on the other hand could be quickly specified as the brief opposite. To attempt to define positive psychology, one would ask themselves the metaphysical question of, what is positive in relation to being human and what makes it positive (Alex Linley, Joseph, Harrington & Wood, 2006). Examples could be emotions, virtues and traits such as hope

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    Abstract The word superiority effect (WSE), recognition of letters better in words than non-words, has been observed in normal adults, but is not observed in studies done with normal children. The supported theory is that this is caused by the development of top down processing sometime during the children’s growth. A Reicher-Wheeler task will be conducted on normal children in 5 different age groups as well as adults. The expected results are to see an increasing WSE as the age of the children increases

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    Patients and methods This is a longitudinal cross sectional study of all children and adolescents patients with LN following inPediatric Allergy and Immunology clinic, Children 's Hospital, Ain Shams University in the period between October 2013 and February 2014. Lupus nephritis in patients with pediatric onset SLE was diagnosed and graded on pathological basis according to 2003 ISN/RPS classification of LN into Class I: Minimal mesangial LN. Class II : Mesangial proliferative LN. Class III: Focal

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    The Effects of Media on the Body-Image of Preadolescent Girls Media is infamous for having a tremendous effect on teenage girls. The mass media have long been criticized for presenting unrealistic appearance ideals that contribute to the development of negative body image for many women and girls (Harrison & Hefner, 2006). Whether it’s the influence on their choice of friends, school, or their self image, media has played an important role in affecting those decisions. A growing number of experimental

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    Regarding longitudinal and cross-sectional data: (a) what is the difference between them, (b) when should one type of data be used over the other, (c) which data set is more reliable and generalizable, (d) what types of question lend themselves better to each type of data collection method, and (e) what are the strengths and weaknesses of each? Cross-sectional design studies are defined by Hagan as a study of one group at a time and usually refer to a representative sample of that group (Hagan, 2010)

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    Lecture 37: Sectional Tensions Escalate 1. Did the North and South have good reasons to fear each other’s influence on the course of national affairs? Yes, I believe the North and the South had good reasons to fear each other’s influence on the course of national affairs. If a president was elected, and he supported slavery, then the South’s power, or influence, would affect federal decisions such as new states becoming slave states. The North did support slavery, but did not want slavery to expand

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