Cognitive and social

This thesis addresses important issues about how to make game characters and virtual agents more realistic or believable by using cognitive-social personality theories. We begin motivation by discussing two examples. The first is from a television series and the second is a more concrete example that will be used throughout the thesis to explain concepts and the model. These examples represent the ideal goal of our work.

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Ebook A handbook for the art and science of teaching: Part 1 presents the following content: Module 13: using games and inconsequential competition to promote student engagement; module 14: rules of engagement: questioning, physical movement, and pacing; module 15: additional cognitive, affective, and social interaction strategies for promoting student engagement; module 16: effective classroom organization; module 17: establishing and maintaining classroom rules and procedures; module 18: acknowledging students’ adherence to classroom rules and procedures; module 19: acknowledging students...

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Ebook Advertising and promotion: Part 2 includes the following chapters: Chapter 5 promotional media; chapter 6 sponshorship, brand placement and evolving aspects of integrated marketing communication; chapter 7 advertising brands internationally; chapter 8 advertising and ethics; chapter 9 advertising research; chapter 10 cognitive, social and cultural theories of advertising and promotion.

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In the first years of their lives, children develop the cognitive, social and emotional skills that will provide the foundations for their lifelong health and achievements. To increase their life prospects and reduce the long-term effects of early aversive conditions, it is therefore crucial to understand the risk factors that negatively affect child development and the factors that are instead beneficial.

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Social determinants have a significant impact on children’s development and their abilities and capacities, especially in early childhood. They can bring about inequity in living conditions of children and, as a result, lead to differences in various dimensions of development including the social, psychological, cognitive and emotional aspects.

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We aimed to examine and compare the associations between three HRB clusters: “multi-HRB cluster”, “inactive cluster” and “(ex-)smoking cluster” (identified in previous work based on HRBs including smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity and social activity) and episodic memory trajectories among men and women, separately, in the United States of America (USA) and England.

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(BQ) Ebook Brain, behavior and epigenetics: Part 2 presents the following content: Chapter 8: The Strategies of the Genes: Genomic Conflicts, Attachment Theory, and Development of the Social Brain; Chapter 9: Genomic Imprinting Effects on Brain and Behavior: Future Directions; Chapter 10: Epigenetic Influence of the Social Environment; Chapter 11: Toward an Understanding of the Dynamic Interdependence of Genes and Environment in the Regulation of Phenotype; Chapter 12: Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors: A Novel Therapeutic Approach for Cognitive Disorders; Chapter 13: Epigenetic Mechanisms of ...

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The primary purpose of this study is to explain how and when customer experience benefits the company. Built upon Customer-Dominant Logic, Social Identity theory and Need for cognition, the study propose that customer experience leads to customer engagement behavior via two routes: customer-firm and customer-employee identification.

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This study examines associations among social isolation, loneliness, and cognitive health risks in older Korean Americans, focusing on the mediating role of loneliness in the relationship between social isolation and objective and subjective measures of cognitive impairment.

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Falls incidence rate and comprehensive data on factors that predict occasional and repeated falls from large population-based studies are scarce. In this study, we aimed to determine the incidence of falls and identify predictors of occasional and recurrent falls. This was done in the social, medical, physical, nutritional, biochemical, cognitive dimensions among community-dwelling older Malaysians.

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This study aimed to gain an understanding of negative L1 transfer on the use of English prepositions from a CL perspective. Since there is a vast difference between English and Vietnamese prepositions both in their cognition and the structure of the two languages, Vietnamese learners might transfer some of their cognition from their language, culture, and lived experience to their English usage.

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The aim of the study was to examine the explanatory role of sociodemographic, clinical, behavioral, and social factors on racial/ethnic differences in cognitive decline among adults with diabetes.

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Social networks are associated with better cognitive health in older people, but the role of specifc aspects of the social network remains unclear. This is especially the case in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Home care clients are typically older and have some degree of medical, physical, cognitive or social conditions that require formal or informal support to promote healthy aging in the community. Home care clients contribute a significant proportion of health service use, including emergency department visits.

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Food Insecurity (FI) is a crucial social determinant of health, independent of other socioeconomic factors, as inadequate food resources create a threat to physical and mental health especially among older person. The present study explores the associations between FI and cognitive ability among the aged population in India.

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Individual and environmental factors have been found to be related to cognitive function. However, few studies have examined the longitudinal effects of both individual and environmental factors over time. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of individual and environmental factors over time on older people’s cognitive function.

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Patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) usually experience worsening of both motor and non-motor symptoms. Dancing has been postulated to help patients with Parkinson’s via several mechanisms that lead to improved physical, cognitive and social functions.

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The thesis aims at examining the metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese songs in the light of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). Subsequently, a comparison is made to find out the similarities and differences between the conceptual metaphors of season in English and Vietnamese song lyrics when SEASON is treated as a target domain as well as a source domain. Simultaneously, several explanations are given as causes for these similarities and differences.

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The role of economic transactions between firms and economically motivated members of indigenous communities with the support of elite actors. This article provides new insights into the conflicting dynamics of wind energy investments in the Global South.

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The findings demonstrated that there was a sharp transformation of teachers’ cognitive engagement, social interactions, and emotional experiences in terms of school management, teaching beliefs and practices, teacher professionalism and teacher training programmes, revealing the complexities of identity development through which teachers had to adjust themselves to meet the new demands of the reform.

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