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Through The Camera Lens Of Development: An Exploration Of Ngos' Representations Of Africa, Sebastian Lindstrom Jan 2014

Through The Camera Lens Of Development: An Exploration Of Ngos' Representations Of Africa, Sebastian Lindstrom

Master's Capstone Projects

The purpose if this qualitative research is to acquire new knowledge in the African visual representational landscape, a digital space carefully filmed and edited by some of the most celebrated and acknowledged, mostly Western, NGOs in the world. The most watched Africa-related video from 50 NGOs were selected, downloaded and analyzed. After continuous re-watching of a 3.5 hour long set of visual data tree themes emerged. One segment relates around the NGOs intervention, another about the term or statement ‘help’, and the last theme is HIV/AIDS. The findings include the realization that the beneficiary was never explaining the intervention of …


Working Memory Performance Across Development And Following Acute Exercise, Patrice L. Stering Jan 2013

Working Memory Performance Across Development And Following Acute Exercise, Patrice L. Stering

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

This thesis investigates the developmental trajectory of visuo-spatial working memory as well as the potential influence of acute exercise on working memory performance. Individuals between the ages of 6 and 25 years were randomly assigned to a 30-minute bout of exercise on an elliptical trainer or to a no-exercise control condition. Participants then performed a computerized N-back task to assess working memory. Developmental results suggest that working memory ability continues to develop into early adulthood with the exact trajectory depending on the cognitive demand of the task being assessed. No difference in working memory performance was found between the exercise …


Food Level And Life History Characteristics In A Pholcid Spider (Holocnemus Pluchei), Elizabeth Jakob, Hugh Dingle Jan 1990

Food Level And Life History Characteristics In A Pholcid Spider (Holocnemus Pluchei), Elizabeth Jakob, Hugh Dingle

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

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