Dissertations / Theses: 'Trait development'

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Carlson, Marianne. "Trait inferences from descriptions of behavior when some trait-specific information is withheld." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28872.

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Barnhart, Gwendolyn S. "Psychometric Development of the Autism Trait Survey." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1621285830016343.

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Davies, Kyra L. "Factors influencing the development of perfectionism." [Chico, Calif. : California State University, Chico], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10211.4/81.

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Melicher, Dacotah. "The Evolution and Development of a Novel Trait in Sepsidae." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25545.

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Evolutionary novelty, the appearance of new traits with no existing homology, is central to the adaptive radiation of new species. Novel traits inform our understanding of development and how developmental mechanisms can generate novelties. Sepsid flies (Diptera: Sepsidae) have a sexually dimorphic, jointed appendage used for courtship and mating. The appendage develops from the fourth abdominal histoblast nest rather than an imaginal disc. Histoblast nests in other species produce the adult epidermis and lack three-dimensional organization. The sepsid system is an opportunity to investigate the evolutionary history of a novel trait and the developmental mechanisms that pattern epidermal tissue into a complex structure. The appendage has a complex history of gain, loss, and recovery over evolutionary time. Appendage morphology is highly variable between species and does not correlate to body size. I collected larval epidermal tissue from 16 species across Sepsidae and one outgroup to trace the evolutionary history of gain, secondary loss, and recovery. I characterized histoblast nests in all segments and sexes, determining the nest size, number, and size of cells. The appendage-producing nest is sexually dimorphic in species after primary gain. Loss of the appendage shows a return to ancestral state while regain shows an increase in nest size in both sexes. The loss of sex dimorphism may indicate that mechanisms involved in specification may be active in females while genes involved in patterning are not activated during pupation. I assembled and annotated a reference transcriptome for the sepsid Themira biloba at using a custom bioinformatic pipeline that uses a merged assembly approach to maximize quality. This pipeline demonstrated an improvement over other methodologies using multiple published metrics for determining quality and completion. This pipeline also demonstrates how cloud computing architecture can complete bioinformatic tasks quickly and at low cost. I used the T. biloba transcriptome to identify differentially expressed genes involved in appendage patterning during pupation. I sequenced the appendage producing fourth male larval segment and the third male and fourth female segments. Many of the differentially expressed transcripts are involved in cell signaling, epidermal growth, and transcripts involved morphological development in other species.

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Harvey, Michelle B. "Development and Psychometric Validation of the State-Trait Spirituality Inventory." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4609/.

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The present study contributes to the widening body of spirituality research by conceptualizing it as a state-trait construct. A new measure of spirituality, the State-Trait Spirituality Inventory (STSI), was created and validated according to psychometric methods of test construction. In its current form, the STSI contains seven state spirituality items and six trait spirituality items. A thorough review of the literature identified common themes in spirituality definitions and assisted in developing definitions of trait and state spirituality. Internal consistency for the trait scale was .88 and for the state scale, .68. Good test-retest reliability was found with coefficients of .84 for trait spirituality and .81 for state spirituality. Results from a preliminary undergraduate sample as well as from the validation sample yielded a two-factor solution. In general, items determined by expert panels as trait items loaded on one factor and items deemed to be state items loaded on the second factor. Multitrait multimethod analysis yielded mixed findings for convergent, divergent, and concurrent validity for the spirituality and religiosity traits. Methods consisted of paper-and-pencil cognitive and behavioral measures. Cognitive measures were more likely to support convergent/divergent validity than were behavioral measures. A major emphasis in the study was to determine whether state and/or trait spirituality were able to predict current health status and provide evidence for predictive validity. Positive relationships were identified between trait spirituality and the mental health measures of the Short Form-36® (SF-36). In contrast, it was negatively related to the Role-Physical scale. State spirituality was inversely related to the Physical Component scale. These findings are discussed within the context of minimal research using the SF-36 and spirituality measures. The MTMM analysis was limited by available spirituality and religiosity measures that contain only cognitive or behavioral items. Suggestions for future research are offered.

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Johnson, Jennifer M. "The development of resilence (sic) in contemporary youth a literature review /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006johnsonj.pdf.

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Boddhireddy, Prashanth. "Development of highly recombinant inbred populations for quantitative-trait locus mapping." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1671.

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Arnett, Heather Ann. "Sources of ecologically important trait variation in Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis and Gambusia holbroola)." Thesis, The University of Maine, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10294309.

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The study of contemporary evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics is classically defined in terms of genetic evolution, but the actual suite of processes driving contemporary trait change is likely much more complex than often credited. This dissertation considers additional mechanisms of trait change that might be important to an emerging model system for study of contemporary evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics. Specifically, the research focuses on phenotypically plastic and demographic trait variation in Eastern and Western Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis and G. holbrooki) facing the major ecological gradient of predation risk. Plasticity experiments employed a common-garden rearing design to manipulate fish predator cues experienced by individuals, their parents, or their grandparents and in turn quantify reaction norms in mosquitofish size, shape, and behavior. The two species of mosquitofish showed divergent plastic responses in behavior, with the relatively bolder G. holbrooki becoming even bolder in response to predator cues. In contrast, males and females within species showed parallel behavioral responses. Despite strong sexual dimorphism, both sexes and both species showed parallel patterns of plasticity toward streamlining of body shape when exposed to predators. Interestingly, mosquitofish also showed evidence of transmitting predator cues across generations, where female G. affinis become shyer and more streamlined when their parents or grandparents experienced predators. In contrast, male G. affinis showed little evidence of transgenerational plasticity and appear to rely more heavily on their own experience. Another set of field surveys and experiments with G. hoibrooki considered the potential role of sexual dimorphism and demographic variation in sex ratios as another form of trait variation with possible community and ecosystem consequences. Natural population surveys revealed female-biased sex ratios and higher primary production in the absence of predators. Mesocosm experiments suggested males and females differed in dietary preferences and that both sex ratio and density influence community responses. Although these findings support a need to expand the current eco-evolutionary synthesis to mechanisms beyond just genetic evolution, they also support some general patterns in these mechanisms and ways in which they might work with evolution to produce an even more dynamic interaction of ecology and trait change in nature.

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Behler, Anna Maria C. "When Empathy Only Goes So Far: Development of a Trait Parochial Empathy Scale." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/6005.

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Empathy, the ability to feel and/or understand another’s emotional state, plays a significant role in interpersonal interactions, mitigating hostility and enhancing affiliation and helping. However, empathy also biases interpersonal reactions. For example, at the group level empathy can become amplified towards members of their ingroup and blunted towards individuals in outgroups, a term called parochial empathy. Currently, no validated measures of parochial empathy at the dispositional level exist, and development of such a scale would be important to understanding the role of group-based emotions in prejudice and discrimination against outgroups. I conducted five studies to develop and validate a self-report Trait Parochial Empathy Scale (TPES) that could measure tendencies to respond with parochial empathy across any set of group membership categories. Study 1 assessed the factor structure of the TPES through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses while Study 2 attempted to replicate the Study 1 factor structure and assess concurrent and divergent validity of the TPES using attitudinal measures. Study 3 assessed the temporal consistency of the TPES. Study 4 examined whether the TPES could be flexibly used across a variety of groups by assessing its relation to various outcomes across different ingroup and outgroup combinations. Finally, Study 5 assessed the ability of the TPES to predict in vivo behavior.

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Rogers, William A. "Understanding trait evolution at the levels of a cis-regulatory element and a gene regulatory network." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1416592692.

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Nightingale, Zoe C. "Cognitive rehearsal, cognitive bias and the development of fear in high trait-anxious children." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6944/.

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Previous research has shown that high trait-anxious children, relative to low trait-anxious children, are at an increased risk of developing fear due to threatening information (Field, 2006b; Field and Price-Evans, 2009). However, the mechanism that underlies this relationship remains unknown. Cognitive models of vulnerability to anxiety propose that biases in the processing of threat-relevant material play a part in the aetiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders (Beck and Clark, 1997; Eysenck, 1992) and as such could potentially explain the relationship between trait-anxiety and fear development in the face of ambiguous information in children. For example, high-anxious children tend to interpret ambiguous information in a more negative manner (interpretation bias) and remember ambiguous information as being more threatening than it was originally (memory bias) (see Hadwin and Field, 2010, for a review). Additionally, high-anxious children have been found to engage in negative cognitive rehearsal (Comer, Kendall, Franklin, Hudson, and Pimental, 2004). The experiments in this thesis investigated whether these cognitive biases underlie the relationship between trait anxiety and fear development in non-clinical children. In a series of three experiments, children (aged 8-11 years) were presented with some ambiguous information regarding two novel animals (the quoll and the cuscus) and before completing a cognitive rehearsal task were told that they would soon be asked to approach the animals. There were several findings: 1) High trait-anxious children were not significantly more likely than low trait-anxious children to display any of the cognitive biases tested (i.e., interpretation bias, memory bias or cognitive rehearsal). However, tentative evidence suggested that interpretation bias exacerbated the relationship between trait anxiety and fear; 2) Whether children cognitively rehearsed the ambiguous information or not had no significant impact on their fear for the animals, nor did the valence of their thoughts; 3) Children who interpreted the ambiguous information more negatively were more likely to become fearful of the animals and were also more likely to remember more negatively-biased and less positively-biased pieces of ambiguous information; 4) It was the lack of positively-biased memories not the increased number of negatively-biased memories that led children who interpreted the information more negatively to become more fearful of the animals as a result. The findings are discussed with reference to their implications for the theory and prevention of childhood fear: that positive interpretation and memory bias training may act to decrease or even help to prevent fear development in children.

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Boer, Patricia Mulcahy. "The development of resilience : reported by survivors of breast cancer." Virtual Press, 1995. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/955853.

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This study offers a brief review of the literature on resilience. The review served as a basis for designing a qualitative study to observe how resilience develops in survivors of breast cancer. Survivors are those who lead productive, satisfying and/or inspirational lives, after their treatment has ended. By using qualitative data collection methods and post hoc data analysis, a purposive sampling of 11 women, in the Midwest, resilient survivors of breast cancer were studied. These women were asked to write brief autobiographies, detailing the important factors and contexts that were evidence of the development of resilience in themselves. Tape recorded interviews allowed participants to add to or delete from their autobiographies.The findings showed the eleven participants shared six common characteristics: (1) making a spiritual connection; (2) having meaningful work; (3) engaging in social activism; (4) being a self-directed learner; (5) living a healthy lifestyle; and (6) expressing a wide range of feelings. In addition, the taped interviews revealed the importance of creativity and authentic relationships. A resilience wheel illustrates the definition of resilience, i.e., as a positive attitude about one's body, mind, spirit and emotions, manifested by living a healthy lifestyle; engaging in meaningful work; forming and maintaining authentic relationships; and-expressing a wide range of feelings appropriately. The study demonstrated resilience is more than effective coping. It is observed and characterized by others as a zest for life.Among these participants, resilience/zest for life was found to have developed in their youth, when they identified with a positive role model/s, who modeled resilient attitudes/values. As children they internalized these values, acting on them in small ways, until adulthood when a life event triggered a shift. As adults they, then, claimed these internalized values as "my own philosophy."Although there was not sufficient evidence to discuss resilience as a developmental process in adulthood, the ages of the participants (40-77) imply the process of learning and growing continues throughout the life span.Suggestions for teaching resilience are offered along with recommendations for future research.
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Feld, Jason Kane. "Validating cognitive skill sequences in the early social development domain using path-referenced technology and latent trait models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184476.

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The present study was a systematic investigation of hierarchical skill sequences in the early social development domain. Recent research has suggested that social development may be conceptualized as a phenomena involving a hierarchical sequencing of competencies. In particular, social development may involve sequential changes in capability, reflecting successively higher levels of functioning within these competencies. The conceptual problem of this study focused on the construction and validation of a meaningful representation of ability in early social development. Ability was conceptualized as a composite of cognitive procedures governing the performance of specific tasks. The process for constructing skill sequences to reflect ability involved identifying task characteristics or demands which imposed various requirements on cognitive functioning. Hierarchical skill sequences were constructed to tap a variety of capabilities within the early social development domain. These skill sequences included understanding emotions, identifying and mediating needs, understanding friendships, and understanding fairness in decision making. Assessment items were developed to reflect each of these skill sequences based on the cognitive processes that are necessary for correct performance. This involved varying the task demands imposing various requirements on cognitive processing. The data were from 18,305 Head Start children ranging from 30 to 83 months of age. Latent trait models were constructed to reflect the hypothesized skill sequences by allowing the discrimination and difficulty parameters to be free to vary or by constraining them to be equal to other parameters. To arrive at a preferred model, each latent trait model was statistically compared against alternative latent trait models. In general, the results from the present investigation supported the hypothesis that the acquisition of social skills is a developmental phenomena involving a hierarchical sequencing of competencies. Moreover, the study supports the assumption that changes in capability can be defined by progress toward abstraction, complexity, stability, and the handling of increasing quantities of information. While the results provide a deeper understanding of early social development, future research is needed to extend the developmental structure to higher levels of ability. Moreover, research is needed to determine how the information gleaned from developmental assessment can be utilized in planning learning experiences to enhance development.

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Paetzhold, Geoffrey L. "Developmental childhood experiences as antecedents to State-trait anger in an expatriate population." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Ross, Robbie. "Development and Initial Validation of a Scale Measuring Young Children’s Awareness of Trait Cognitive Control." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23115.

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Success in early childhood requires fluent cognitive control functioning and the ability to select and execute effective regulatory strategies across many new contexts including academics and social interactions. Cognitive control functioning has been positively linked to a host of important short- and long-term outcomes across many diverse domains. A wealth of research on self-efficacy, self-concept, and implicit theories of cognitive processes demonstrates that individuals’ self-perceptions of ability and cognition substantially influence important behavioral outcomes, namely academic performance. Investigations into the mechanisms underlying these links suggest that self-perceptions of abilities impact academic outcomes by differentially influencing the self-regulated learning behaviors that individuals choose to engage. Despite this knowledge, and evidence suggesting that capturing such self-perceptions from young children is highly plausible, the extent to which young children can reflect and report on their own cognitive control abilities has not been investigated. In this dissertation, I develop and validate an interview scale that aims to probe children’s self-perceptions of their cognitive control abilities using the Berkeley Puppet Interview administration format. Scale analyses of interviews from 125 children aged 4- through 7-years suggest the scale elicits responses that cluster around two correlated, but separable components: Self- and Emotion-Regulation and Attention Modulation. Responses on these two subscales were reliable, showing moderate to strong internal consistency. Subscale scores were strongly correlated with parent reports of similar skills, and self-reports of related constructs, but showed no such relations with behavioral tasks measuring executive functioning abilities. The findings suggest that young children are capable of reflecting and reporting on their own cognitive control skills, and that these skills correspond to parent reports of similar abilities. Further scale refinement and targeted validation efforts are called for; however, these encouraging early results suggest the new scale holds potential to play a key role in uncovering ways in which children’s self-perceptions influence their learning success.

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Johnson, Cheri Carter. "A retrospective study the development of resilience among Black American women aged 85 years and older residing in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 0.42Mb, 151 p, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3181884.

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Tong, Ying. "The cost of being mommy's boys or girls the role of internalization in the development of perfectionism and depression /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39557698.

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Kasigwa, Morris Agaba. "Development of bovine type I genetic markers and their application in investigation of the trypanotolerance trait." Thesis, Brunel University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.320534.

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Gan, Siou Ting. "The development and application of molecular markers for linkage mapping and quantitative trait loci analysis of important agronomic traits in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14197/.

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Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) produces over five times more oil/year/hectare than oil seed rape and accounted for 33% of world vegetable oil production in 2011. Being a cross-pollinated perennial tree crop with long breeding cycles (typically 12 years) and a large planting area requirement (usually 143 palms/hectare), utilization of molecular technology could greatly improve the efficiency of oil palm breeding. In the present study, various approaches were used to develop molecular markers for genetic linkage mapping and QTL analysis, with the ultimate goal of marker-assisted selection in oil palm. Firstly, Representational Difference Analysis (RDA) and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) were coupled with Bulked Segregant Analysis (BSA) to try to identify marker(s) closely linked to the important shell-thickness gene. A novel combination of RDA with Roche 454 pyrosequencing enabled a more comprehensive study of the enrichment profiles compared to Sanger sequencing. Identification of >35% redundant sequences, repetitive sequences and organelle DNA suggested that subtractive hybridization and target enrichment of RDA were inefficient here, with the lack of elimination of common sequences masking the real difference products. The use of the AFLP method identified 29 primer pairs that yielded 49 putative shell-thickness related-polymorphic bands. A detailed analysis will need to be carried out to fully evaluate and validate these markers. The use of the relatively new Diversity Array Technology “Genotyping-By-Sequencing” (DArTSeq) platform through genotyping of two closely-related tenera self-pollinated F2 populations, 768 (n=44) and 769 (n=57), generated a total of 11,675 DArTSeq polymorphic markers of good quality. These markers were used in the construction of the first reported DArTSeq based high-density linkage maps for oil palm. Both genetic maps consist of 16 major independent linkage groups (total map length of 1874.8 and 1720.6 cM, with an average marker density of one marker every 1.33 and 1.62 cM, respectively), corresponding well with the 16 homologous chromosome pairs of oil palm (2n = 2x = 32; 14/16 chromosomes were confirmed by known location SSR markers). Preliminary quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping of the yield and vegetative growth traits detected four significant and 34 putative as well as two significant and 30 putative QTLs for these small 768 and 769 populations, respectively. No common significant QTL were detected between the two closely-related controlled crosses which could have allowed combination of QTL across the two populations. Saturation of the shell-thickness (Sh) region with all available DArTSeq markers, as well as map integration around the Sh regions for both populations, identified 32 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) and DArT markers mapped within a 5 cM flanking region of the Sh gene. Homology search of the DArTSeq marker sequence tag (64 bp) against the recently published oil palm genome assembly confirmed that 23 out of the 32 (72%) DArTSeq markers were located on the p5_sc00060 scaffold in which the SHELL gene was identified. The identified shell-thickness markers could be useful as molecular screening tools. This study demonstrated the potential and feasibility of using genomic resources available for genetic improvement of oil palm breeding programmes.

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Wiggs, Kristin Alyse. "Effects of Trait Anxiety and Trait Depression on the Temporal Dynamics of Attentional Bias to Negative Stimuli Relative to Positive Stimuli: Development of New Temporal Attentional Bias Pattern Endophenotypes." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1266.

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Attentional biases to threat-related stimuli is an established characteristic of anxiety and depressive traits and disorders using several experimental paradigms; however, the conditions during which these biases are exhibited are not well characterized. In the current study, the temporal course of participants' (N = 96) attentional bias toward and away from simultaneously presented emotionally positive and negative images for 3000 ms was collected with an eye-tracking system that provided a continuous assessment of eye-gaze. Eye-gaze bias was analyzed by time segments derived from both theory and principal component analyses for levels of trait anxiety, depression, and endophenotypes. I hypothesized that high-trait anxiety would initially orient attention to the negative image and subsequently avoid the negative image (vigilance-avoidance pattern) while high-trait depression would sustain attention on the negative image. All participants demonstrated a vigilance-avoidance eye-gaze pattern regardless of trait level. However, those high in anxiety or depression exhibited greater threat avoidance.

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Snedeker, John. "A Genetic Approach to the Role of Primary Cilia in Forebrain Development." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1535458396250938.

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Colborn, Robert Mark. "Adult Development of Positive Personality Traits Through Character Formation Mentoring." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2442.

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Positive psychologists have published hundreds of empirical studies correlating positive personality traits with improved outcomes in mental health, physical health, academic and career success, resilience, relationships, and personal happiness. But there remains a dearth of research on the emergence and development of positive personality traits. This grounded theory, qualitative research sought to discover whether positive personality traits can be developed in adult mentoring relationships. Sixteen participants responded in structured interviews about the benefits of their mentoring experiences, and in addition to performing coding analysis as described by Strauss and Corbin (1990), the researcher also compared the answers to Peterson and Seligman's taxonomy of positive traits (2004). Unprompted participant responses overwhelmingly asserted increase of positive traits, as well as five other benefit categories. Improved traits appeared across a wide range of mentee characteristics, and situations, including negative ones, as long as mentors communicated unconditional positive regard and possessed desirable competencies. Social considerations of this research include the possibility that, in combination with therapies to address negative aspects of a client situation, therapists using intentional positive trait development could support recovery, resilience, hope, wisdom, thriving, and all of the benefits positive psychology has correlated to the presence of positive personality traits. Future studies building on this research may include a longitudinal study to understand what situations and character types are most conducive for positive trait development, as well as questions regarding which traits appear in which mentoring situations.

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Gilbey, John A. "Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci influencing growth, development and morphology in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar, L.)." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400723.

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The molecular basis for heritable variation in quantitative traits is poorly understood in most species of fish. This is the case even for salmonids such as the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), one the most intensively studied and economically important aquaculture species. Quantitative genetic studies tell us that traits such as growth, development and morphology are likely to be controlled by a large number of genes, but to date there have only been two loci, the allozyme loci MEP-2* and TRP-2*, which have been shown to consistently influence the salmon phenotype. This thesis sets out to increase understanding of the molecular basis of phenotypic variation in growth performance, development and morphology in the Atlantic salmon. Experiments were performed to look for associations of phenotypic variation with genotypic variation at the molecular level and, thereby, to identify molecular markers linked to regions of the salmon genome containing genes influencing these quantitative traits. This was achieved by analysing phenotypic performance in two F2 backcross families derived from crosses of two outbred wild salmon populations, one from Scotland and one from Canada, which are divergent with respect to growth, development and morphology. The study began with an examination of the relationship between growth prior to first-feeding, utilising endogenous energy supplies, and growth post first-feeding, utilising exogenous energy supplies. The study then focused on growth, development and morphology in individually fish post first-feeding.

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Curran, Sarah Rosario. "Development of quantitative trait loce (QTL) approaches to the genetic study of attention deficit syndrome disorder (ADHD)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397255.

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Holtzkamp, Joanita. "The development and assessment of a family resilience-enhancement programme." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5272.

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Thesis (DPhil (Psychology))--University of Stelenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A probe into resilience research has revealed that psychologists have taken on the role of “keepers of the crypt”, where our attained knowledge has been “entombed” by virtue of our reluctance to allow it to bear practical fruition. Consequently, the impetus of the research is a response to the aforementioned gap and is explicated in four phases: Phase 1: A detailed literature review consisting of the review and integration of appropriate preceding resilience research, thereby serving as a possible reference guide for future studies; Phase 2: Provision of a succinct, comprehensive framework for programme development within the field of psychology; Phase 3: Family hardiness was selected as the resilience quality to be attended to via the development of a universal, multidimensional resilience-enhancement programme; Phase 4: An assessment of whether the resilience-enhancement programme is successful in developing the selected resilience quality in families. Following the salutogenic approach, the main theoretical foundation of the investigation resides in the Resiliency Model of Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation (McCubbin & Thompson, 1991). The significant contribution of the research is its provision of a framework for programme development within the field of psychology. Self-report questionnaires and open-ended questions were completed by mothers as representatives of their families. Therefore, the research amalgamated both qualitative and quantitative measures in its quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest natural control-group research design. A total of fifty families living in the Western Cape, South Africa participated in the research. The statistical trends observed in the study hinted at the enhancement potential of family hardiness. It became evident that gender, level of education, income and occupation, emotional intelligence and the time frame of interventions affected the enhancement potential of family hardiness. Age may also play a role, but the conflicting research results render conclusions about the correlation between age and hardiness questionable. Comparative studies would clarify this aspect. Future studies attempting to develop these findings further, need to consider the influence of factors such as gender, level of education, income and occupation, emotional intelligence and the time frame of interventions. Family hardiness is but one of the identified resilience qualities. An exploration of the enhancement potential of other identified resilience qualities will provide a plethora of interventions for service providers to choose from, enabling them to meet families and communities at their point of need.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Nadere ondersoek van veerkragtigheidsnavorsing het aangedui dat sielkundiges die rol van “bewaarders” aangeneem het, waar ons versamelde kennis verberg word as gevolg van ons onwilligheid om dit prakties toe te pas. Gevolglik is hierdie navorsing gedoen in respons op bogenoemde gaping in die navorsing, en word dit in vier fases gelewer: Fase 1: ’n literatuuroorsig wat die voorafgaande veerkragtigheidsnavorsing integreer en hersien ten einde as verwysingsgids te dien vir toekomstige studies; Fase 2: Die voorsiening van ‘n omvattende raamwerk vir programontwikkeling binne die veld van die sielkunde; Fase 3: Gesinsgehardheid is gekies as die veerkragtigheidsfaktor om deur middel van ’n universele, multidimensionele program verryk te word; Fase 4: ‘n Bepaling om te ontdek of die veerkragtigheidsverrykingsprogram suksesvol is om die geselekteerde veerkragtigheidsfaktor in families te verryk. Die studie is gedoen vanuit die salutogeniese benadering. McCubbin en Thompson (1991) se “Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation” is as teoretiese basis benut. Die navorsing se betekenisvolle bydrae lê in die voorsiening van ‘n raamwerk vir programontwikkeling binne die veld van sielkunde. Selfbeskrywingsvraelyste en oop vrae is deur moeders as verteenwoordigers van hulle gesinne voltooi. Die navorsing het dus van beide kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe metings gebruik gemaak in die kwasi-eksperimentele voortoets-natoets, natuurlike kontrolegroep navorsingsontwerp. ’n Totaal van vyftig families wat in die Wes-Kaap van Suid Afrika woonagtig is, het aan die navorsing deelgeneem. Die statistiese neigings wat in die navorsing waargeneem is, sinspeel op die verrykingspotensiaal van gesinsgehardheid. Dit het aan die lig gekom dat geslag, opvoedkundige vlak, inkomste en beroep, emosionele intelligensie en die tydsduur van intervensies die verrykingspotensiaal van gesinsgehardheid beïnvloed. Ouderdom kan ook ‘n invloed hê, maar die teenstrydige navorsingsresultate in dié verband maak gevolgtrekkings oor die korrelasie tussen ouderdom en gesinsgehardheid twyfelagtig. Vergelykende studies sal die bogenoemde kan uitklaar. Toekomstige studies wat poog om die bevindinge van hierdie navorsing verder te ontwikkel, moet die invloed van faktore soos geslag, opvoedkundige vlak, inkomste en beroep, emosionele intelligensie en die tydsduur van intervensies in ag neem. Gesinsgehardheid is maar een geïdentifiseerde veerkragtigheidsfaktor. Verdere ondersoeke na die verrykingspotensiaal van ander veerkragtigheidsfaktore sal ‘n oorvloed van intervensies aan diensleweraars beskikbaar stel, ten einde in die behoeftes van families en gemeenskappe te voorsien.

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Liabeuf, Debora. "Development of Processing Tomato Lines Resistant to Xanthomonas gardneri: from Screening to Breeding." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480522067298667.

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Warka, Jette Lyng. "Family environment and the development of hardiness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1138.

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Powers, Jennifer L. "Understanding the Development of Self-determination in Youth with Disabilities in Foster Care." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/87.

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Youth in foster care who experience disabilities face many challenges as they transition out of foster care and into adulthood. In order to assist these youth, it is crucial to understand factors that may impact their self-determination, which research links to positive transition outcomes for youth with disabilities (Wehmeyer, Palmer, Agran, Mithaug, & Martin, 2000). While much of the existing research on the correlates and outcomes of self-determination focuses on young people with disabilities overall, and little is known about whether factors such as abuse, family stressors and extended length of time in care, and frequent placement changes influence self-determination. Exploring predictors of self-determination in youth with disabilities in foster care can be beneficial to researchers and child welfare practitioners who seek to identify effective approaches for helping youth accomplish successful transitions into adulthood. This dissertation examined the extent to which physical and sexual abuse and family stressors, such as unemployment, domestic violence, and homelessness prior to entering care; as well as foster care placement instability and total length of time in care, impact a youth's self-determination. In addition, the influence of demographic features such as race and gender on these associations was examined. Increased understanding of factors that contribute to self-determination can facilitate targeted interventions and services that enhance the lives of youth as they exit out of the foster care system and into adulthood. Overall, the findings did not reveal significant associations between self-determination and physical and sexual abuse, family stressors, length of time in foster care or number of placement moves. Post hoc exploratory analysis, however, detected other significant relationships. For example, above and beyond the main effect association of length of time in care, youth who experienced physical abuse and stayed in care for long periods of time demonstrated higher levels of autonomy. Likewise, youth with a greater number of family stressors in their family of origin, and who experienced longer stays in foster care, also demonstrated significantly higher levels of autonomy above and beyond the main effects of family stressors. These relationships speak to the resiliency and the varying nature of self-determination.

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Laere, Anne-Sophie van. "From QTL to QTN : identification of a quantitative trait nucleotide influencing muscle development and fat deposition in pig /." Uppsala : Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://epsilon.slu.se/200509.pdf.

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Peters, Anna-Lena [Verfasser]. "Goals to change oneself: A state and trait perspective on self-regulated personality development in adulthood / Anna-Lena Peters." Bielefeld : Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, 2015. http://d-nb.info/108012988X/34.

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Davidsson, Julia. "The Role of Major Life Events and Brain Development on Personality Trait Change in Adulthood : Insights from Personality Neuroscience." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17324.

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The relationship between personality trait change and major life events is currently undergoing extensive investigations within the field of personality psychology. A debate has risen regarding whether or not major life events can bring about trait change, and how typical trait change patterns over the adult lifespan can be explained. It is valuable to understand how traits change because they predict important future outcomes. The Five-Factor Theory described by McCrae and Costa (2008a) states that traits are purely biological entities, and trait change is explained to result from processes of intrinsic biological maturation, unaffected by life events. This thesis reviewed the literature regarding the relationship of trait change and life events, and the research of potential biological bases of traits in the brain together with a brain developmental perspective of intrinsic maturation. Gaining an insight in the relationship between personality traits and the brain is a goal within a young field of research called personality neuroscience, and an agenda of the Five-Factor Theory. Major life events do cause trait change, but the relationship is complex. A brain developmental perspective of intrinsic maturation did not entirely correspond with patterns of typical trait change in young adulthood. The Five-Factor Theory is challenged and modifications are suggested. Neurobiological correlates of five-factor traits reveal issues and potentials for future research.

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Tong, Ying, and 唐瑩. "The cost of being mommy's boys or girls: the role of internalization in the development of perfectionism anddepression." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39557698.

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Reddy, Linda Ann. "Validating the development of male and female preschoolers' help-seeking, goal-setting and planning, and self-evaluation using latent trait models." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186919.

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The present study investigated the early development of three self-regulated learning strategies--help seeking, goal setting and planning, and self evaluation for male and female preschoolers. Skill sequences were developed by identifying demand attributes that imposed requirements on cognitive functioning. The demand attributes of adult assistance and task complexity were identified for all three learning strategies. Variations in adult assistance and task complexity were examined to determine the relative difficulty for male and female preschoolers to perform skills within each learning strategy. This study included data from 10,291 preschoolers, age 2 to 6 years, from Head Start and public preschool programs across the country. The sample included approximately 5,000 males and 5,000 females from culturally diverse backgrounds. Children were assessed by their preschool teachers over two months with a standardized observational assessment instrument. A variety of latent trait models were used to test the developmental skill sequences of these learning strategies in relation to gender. Results revealed that variations in adult assistance and task complexity were related to the relative difficulty in performing these learning strategies. These findings support the notion that adult assistance can enhance the development of preschooler's self-regulated learning strategies. In particular, adult assistance promotes preschoolers' skills to perform simple functions independently and complex functions (e.g., advance planning or checking in parts) with adult help. Gender differences were found in preschoolers' difficulties in self-evaluating and seeking help. For example, females had more difficulty than males checking completed work with adult help and checking an activity in parts with adult help. Males had less difficulty checking a completed activity independently than females. Results also suggested that males are more sensitive to the presence of adult assistance when performing complex checking (i.e., checking in parts) than females. In addition, females were found to be more skilled than males in seeking assistance from adults in the classroom. No gender differences were found in goal setting and planning. The results from this study support the importance of social influences on preschoolers' development of self-regulated learning strategies. Future research directions and implications were also addressed.

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Edwards, Scott A. "Threats to development, protective resources, and competence : testing structural models of resilience." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1203655.

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The interdisciplinary field of developmental psychopathology has brought considerable organization and clarity to the study of resilience, and it was from this theoretical perspective that the present study was conducted. One-hundred and forty-three preschool children, ages four to six, were recruited to answer two primary questions. First, do resilient (high threats, high competence) children differ from their maladapted (high threats, low competence) and competent (low threats, high competence) peers on measures of potential protective resources (i.e., intellectual ability and parent-child relationship)? Second, what are the mechanisms that underlie the effects of threats to development and protective resources on children's emotional and behavioral competence? To test the first question, differences across groups were examined using categorical, person-based analytic procedures (i.e., ANOVA, MANOVA). It was found that the quality of the parent-child relationship among resilient children was indeed more favorable than among maladaptive children, but resilient and competent children did not differ on this dimension. Resilient children produced significantly higher results on nonverbal intellectual reasoning tasks, but were no better than their maladapted counterparts on verbal intellectual abilities. To explore the second question, variable-based analyses (structural equation modeling) were used to test for hypothesized processes underlying the impact that threats and resources have on competence. The results supported the notion of an adversity process in which threats to development directly and unfavorably impacted children's functioning. Mixed support was found for the compensatory process in which resources directly influenced competence in a manner that compensated for the effects of threats. An indirect, compensatory-enhancing processwas supported whereby intellectual resources contributed to improved parent-child relationship which in turn had a positive influence on competence. The most important finding was the adversity-mediating process. This mechanism indicated that threats to development not only directly diminish competence, but also deleteriously impact resource variables. Likewise, this finding suggested that protective resources are essential in buffering children from the consequences of exposure to threats. Specifically, while the quality of the parent-child relationship did not have strong direct influences on competence, it mediated the effects of threats. Implications from these findings for future research and clinical practice are outlined.
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Kölling, Nils. "Quantitative genetics of gene expression during fruit fly development." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/256090.

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Over the last ten years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been used to identify genetic variants associated with many diseases as well as quantitative phenotypes, by exploiting naturally occurring genetic variation in large cohorts of individuals. More recently, the GWAS approach has also been applied to highthroughput RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data in order to find loci associated with different levels of gene expression, called expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL). Because of the large amount of data that is required for such high-resolution eQTL studies, most of them have so far been carried out in humans, where the cost of data collection could be justified by a possible future impact in human health. However, due to the rapidly falling price of high-throughput sequencing it is now also becoming feasible to perform high-resolution eQTL studies in higher model organisms. This enables the study of gene regulation in biological contexts that have so far been beyond our reach for practical or ethical reasons, such as early embryonic development. Taking advantage of these new possibilities, we performed a high-resolution eQTL study on 80 inbred fruit fly lines from the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, which represent naturally occurring genetic variation in a wild population of Drosophila melanogaster. Using a 3′ Tag RNA-sequencing protocol we were able to estimate the level of expression both of genes as well as of different 3′ isoforms of the same gene. We estimated these expression levels for each line at three different stages of embryonic development, allowing us to not only improve our understanding of D. melanogaster gene regulation in general, but also investigate how gene regulation changes during development. In this thesis, I describe the processing of 3′ Tag-Seq data into both 3′ isoform expression levels and overall gene expression levels. Using these expression levels I call proximal eQTLs both common and specific to a single developmental stage with a multivariate linear mixed model approach while accounting for various confounding factors. I then investigate the properties of these eQTLs, such as their location or the gene categories enriched or depleted in eQTLs. Finally, I extend the proximal eQTL calling approach to distal variants to find gene regulatory mechanisms acting in trans. Taken together, this thesis describes the design, challenges and results of performing a multivariate eQTL study in a higher model organism and provides new insights into gene regulation in D. melanogaster during embryonic development.

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Jurand, Erin K. "Visualization in the writing process : a case study of struggling K-4 learners in a summer writing camp." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/615.

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Ingle, Sarah J. "An exploration of parental sensitivity and child cognitive and behavioral development." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5794/.

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The current study attempted to show the relationship of paternal sensitivity and maternal sensitivity and their possible influences on child cognitive and behavioral development. This study used data collected as part of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care, which is a longitudinal, multi-site study. Correlation and regression analyses were computed to examine relationships between the variables at child age 6 and 36 months. Results indicated paternal sensitivity was a significant positive predictor of child cognitive abilities and a negative predictor of both fathers' reports of children's externalizing and internalizing behaviors. Maternal sensitivity was a significant negative predictor of mothers' reports of children's externalizing behaviors. Interpretations of these results and directions for future research are discussed.

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Torres, Danielle Marie. "An outcome study of a career and educational development intervention for Mexican American high school students : an investigation of academic resiliency /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3120628.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 177-187). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Harlacher, Jason E. "Social and emotional learning as a universal level of support : evaluating the follow-up effect of Strong Kids on social and emotional outcomes /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10225.

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Kleinas, Nicole L. "Variation in female mate preference for a male trait that provides information about growth rate in the swordtail Xiphophorus multilineatus." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1439637034.

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Javed, Nasir. "Development of Genetic Linkage Maps and Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci Influencing Seed Oil Content, Fatty Acid Profile and Flowering Time in Brassica napus L." Hereditary Genetics, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30633.

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Identification of allelic variation through quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping offers possibilities for the improvement of quantitatively inherited traits. This requires a genetic map along with the phenotypic characterization of a mapping population. A doubled haploid (DH) Polo X Topas population consisting of 194 lines and a recombinant inbred line population of 92 lines was developed. Individual genetic maps derived from each population were integrated into a consensus map. The DH-based genetic map was used for QTL mapping. The DH-based map was comprised of 620 loci that were assembled into 19 linkage groups that were anchored to the B. napus chromosomes. The DH-based map covered 2244.1 cM genomic distance with an average marker interval of 3.7 cM. The DH population was phenotyped in four environments with each line replicated twice in a randomized complete block design. Days to flowering was recorded and oil content and fatty acid composition were determined using Near Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and Gas Chromatography, respectively. Fourteen QTL were identified for oil content, 33 QTL for palmitic acid content, 18 QTL for stearic acid content, 21 QTL for oleic acid content, 20 QTL for linoleic acid content, 23 QTL for linolenic acid content, 16 QTL for arachidic acid content and 14 QTL for flowering time. Oil content QTL were identified on five linkage groups, A3, A10, C1, C5, and C6. An oil content QTL, qOIL-A10c appeared in all four environments, whereas qOIL-A10a appeared in only one environment but explained 26.99% variation. The oil content in the population ranged from 35% to 55.5% with the parents having values of 42% to 46%. Two genomic regions on C3, with map positions at 147.83 cM and 154.55 cM harbored QTL (rQTL) for all the fatty acids studied. The additive effects of the rQTL reveal a correlation pattern which is supported by the phenotypic correlation observed between the fatty acids. This suggests rQTL have role in the fatty acid composition and possibly determine total seed oil content. The rQTL and flanking markers of the identified QTL offer utility in further development of B. napus.
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Forman, Nancy Walker. "The nature of trait empathy in clients with chronic pain and their counselors and its impact on the development of the working alliance and outcome." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250012907.

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Negrin, Deus Cervantes Domingo. "Development of congenic lines and application of physical mapping strategies for the dissection of blood pressure quantitative trait loci in the stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rat." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327568.

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Irwin, Pamela Margaret. "The development of resilience in two cohorts of older, single women, living on their own, in a small rural town in Australia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e6820ead-3b23-4b87-8f68-ef4404a8c40c.

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Australian rural women are stereotypically perceived as stoic, self-reliant, and used to handling adversity. Since this iconic portrayal of resilience is traditionally (and contemporaneously) located in the harsh countryside, it is surprising that there are few articles examining this environment, person, and resilience nexus. This thesis addresses this omission by exploring the development of resilience in two cohorts of single, older women, living on their own in rural Australia. Accordingly, an ethnographic study was conducted in a small Australian town in 2012. Documentary evidence, participant observation, and interviews captured the separate and intersecting environment and person related contributors to resilience, mediated and moderated through situational relations over time. The results revealed the persistence and reinforcement of rural historical cultural stereotypes about older women, and the systematic exclusion of younger women retirees who chose to move to the town but did not fit these embedded cultural norms. When confronted with a societal attitude that socially constrains their social identity and role, and boxes them in, the older old women pragmatically accepted their situation, and successfully adapted to their new circumstances. For them, resilience is a reactive response to regain and maintain equilibrium in their lives. Conversely, the late middle-aged retirees were boxed out from actively participating and contributing to the community; for these women, resilience is equated to resignation and endurance. And as there is a symbiotic relationship between a town and its residents, this community represents a constraining force, both in terms of its stalled response to sociodemographic and structural change, and its passive indifference to the older women as exemplars of resilience. In effect, the community exerts an oppressive, dampening effect on the women's agentic resiliency; thus contradicting the prevailing literature where resilience is widely portrayed as a positive and active agentic concept.

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Brown, Derek Z. "The Effects of Personal Characteristics and Religious Orientations on Identification with All of Humanity and Humanitarian Behaviors." TopSCHOLAR®, 2008. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/11/.

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Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar Jesus. "A phylogenetic perspective on fine root ecology: assessing the role of root evolution on fine root functional traits and ecological interactions in woody angiosperms." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1384641579.

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Lainé, Annick. "Management coopératif et gouvernance coopérative : un trait d'union pour un développement soutenable des SCOP : analyse des pratiques de SCOP TPE-PME en Rhône Alpes." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON10047.

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Ce travail de recherche doctoral a pour objet l'étude des relations entre la Gouvernance, le Management des Ressources Humaines et la Stratégie des SCOP. Ces entreprises coopératives, au projet politique originel et original, s'organisent à partir de valeurs issues du XIX ème siècle que sont la solidarité, la propriété collective inter-générationnelle et l'équité, eu égard à leur triple filiation économique, politique et sociale.L'identification de risques de tensions et d'éclatements inhérents à ce type de gouvernance hybride fait appel à un management adapté pour animer une organisation de salarié-e-s -associé-e-s majoritaires en co-responsabilité d'une organisation coopérative.Cette problématique à la croisée du terrain et de la littérature, s'inscrit dans une démarche innovante d'approche triptyque pour une méthodologie qualitative.L'analyse des pratiques et des discours recueillis auprès de gérant-e-s de 16 SCOP TPE PME de Rhône Alpes et d'animateurs du secteur coopératif a révélé d'une part des freins et des leviers et d'autre part des éléments de contingence au Développement Coopératif Soutenable des SCOP. Ces résultats ont permis l'élaboration d'un idéal type de Management Coopératif et de Développement Coopératif Soutenable complétés par le SCCORRET et la pyramide de l'équilibre coopératif, outils de gestion coopératifs proposés pour prévenir les risques de tensions individuels et collectifs et l'établissement du lien existant entre Gouvernance Coopérative-Management Coopératif et Développement Coopératif
This doctoral research aims to study the relationship between Governance, Human Resource Management and Strategy of SCOP. These co-operative enterprises have an original and innovative political project and are beneficiaries of a triple linage of economic, political & social nature. Their values which derived from the nineteenth century are of solidarity, collective inter-generational ownership and equity.The identification of risks of tension and disintegration inherent to such an hybrid form of governance calls for a adequate management to run a co-operative organisation where worker members have a majority vote in co-responsibility.This issue emerging from both the field and the literature is studied in an innovative triptych approach based on a qualitative methodology. The analysis of practices and speeches - gathered from managers of 16 micro co-operatives and small & medium co-operatives of Rhône Alpes and from leaders of the co-operative sector – has revealed, on one hand, brakes and levers and on the other hand, contingency elements to a sustainable co-operative development of SCOP.These results have allowed the development of an ideal type of co-operative management and sustainable co-operative development based on co-operative management tools designed to prevent the risk of individual and collective tensions and to strenghthen the link between co-operative governance, co-operative management and co-operative development

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Zain, Fajran. "The development of authoritarianism : the influence of social threat, group identification, and anger rumination in a post-conflict society." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1379438.

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This research examined a model of authoritarian personality development within people from Aceh, the province in Indonesia that has been in political conflict since 1976. A number of measures were administered online using InQsit BSU software. These measures assessed bad wartime experiences (BE), social identification with Aceh, social conformity, a worldview of social threat, social uncertainty, chronic anger rumination, individualist-collectivist cultural orientation, and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). 215 Achenese citizens between 18 to 57 years of age served as participants. The results showed that participants were clearly collectivists. As predicted, regression analyses demonstrated that BE correlated positively with social threat, when threat was measured at a societal level [i.e., Belief in a Dangerous World (BDW)]. The relationship of BEBDW was completely mediated by social identification. Also as predicted, a strong and positive correlation was found between BDW-RWA. A hypothesis concerning anger rumination was not supported. Anger rumination did not mediate the relationship between BDW-RWA or between Uncertainty-RWA. Interestingly, the relationship between rumination and RWA was in a negative direction. The present study replicated work by Duckitt (2002), and extended that work by examining the mediational role of both Social Identification and BDW in the Conformity-RWA relationship. Another new finding is that cultural orientation (especially vertical collectivism) contributed to RWA in much the same way as social conformity. The limitations of this study are discussed and suggestions for future research are presented.
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Wilson, Amanda Louise, and Mary Anne Stoever. "The influence of extra-curricular activities on resiliency in foster children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1859.

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Pattison, Stuart. "The development and implementation of a mental toughness training programme for young cricketers." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002546.

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Modern research being conducted on Mental Toughness is now shifting away from efforts aimed at developing definitions for the construct and instead moving toward efforts at understanding its development. This particular research study focuses on the development and implementation of a Mental Toughness programme designed specifically for, and tailored exclusively to, the needs of schoolboy cricket at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. The programme development was an intricate process and the research procedure was guided by the Organisational Development Process model. Data from a focus group as well as various individual interviews were integrated with currently existing Mental Toughness literature and theory to devise this particular Mental Toughness programme. The programme entails educating the athletes on six specific mental skills and incorporates elements of practical application as well as awareness of the importance and influence of Mental Toughness and mental training in a sporting sphere. The programme took the form of mental skills workshops held over a three week period. An analysis was conducted post-programme to document the experience of the athletes as a result of exposure to the programme. Results drawn from the array of analysis procedures were used to help identify the level of success of the Mental Toughness intervention as well as help validify current Mental Toughness models. In addition to highlighting the benefits as a result of the programme experience, various recommendations were drawn in order to shed light on the programme limitations and assist future researchers with understanding the intricacies behind better and more efficient programme implementation.

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