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Design of a Counsellor Chat Bot Service

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Chat-bots are computer programs that interact with users using natural languages. They use natural language processes for interaction.  Chat-bot is a computer program which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods....

Development of Chatbots and Natural Language Processing

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Chatbot, chatter bot system, conversational agent, entity or simulator. The idea that may first come to mind is one of a program or technology with the capability of having some sort of conversation with a human....

Relative Age Effect in Football

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The aim of the study was to investigate the performance level at which birth date may affect selection for performance pathways in English football. The current study's findings present divergent results in comparison to preceding research that highlighted as the performance level of a player increased, so did the relative age effect....

An Econometric Evaluation of Racial Biases in the Premier League

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Racism and discrimination have unfortunately played a major role in football, essentially since the creation of the sport due to social, political, and economic reasons....

Impact of UEFA Prize Money on Football Clubs: Celtic Case Study

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The main research question raised in this study is how the Celtic team be promoted in the Champions league by which its popularity will rise and pump in money. As this research is a desk research, for investigating about the Celtic position, secondary data and information have been collected in the earlier section in the literature review part....

Non-aeronautical Revenue Generation at Dublin Airport

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The objective of this study is to find the solutions to address the research question completely by exploring the customer’s experience about Dublin Airport and their spending behaviour on airport during transit time....

Role and Impact of Innovation in Hospitality Industry

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The purpose of this research aim to evaluate how lean and six sigma techniques can improve the quality management in term of; problem solving, quality control and quality improvement in order to develop the quality performance of the particular areas in electronic industries of Thailand....

Racism in Football

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An analysis of racial bias within high-profile team sports with a focus on racial discrimination in British football and the Premier League....

Barriers of Academic Success and Retention for African American Males

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This qualitative study examines the experiences of 3 male students of color attending HBCUs in southern states of the United States....

Strategies to Increase International Student Enrolment at University of Wales

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University of Wales is already enormously diverse on any number of dimensions, including ethnicity and nationality....

Games Console Marketing Strategies: Sony vs Microsoft

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The objective of this research project is to find out the strategies used by Sony and Microsoft to place their gaming consoles in the market....

Comparison of Internet Marketing in Developed and Developing Countries

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The main purpose of our project is to provide a simple and focused information on online marketing differences in developed countries and developing countries....

Globalization Strategies: Ford vs Toyota

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A comparison of the globalization strategies of Ford and Toyota including joint ventures, manufacturing and marketing....

Competitive Analysis of Coca-Cola and Strategic Recommendations

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The rationale behind this project is to analyse Coca-Cola’s current business model, internal and external strengths and weaknesses, and provide strategic recommendations....

Understanding Consumer Behaviour to Develop Brand Loyalty

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The following research tries to generate knowledge on consumer behaviour by combining the tools that are being used by organizations to gather important and useful information on their consumers....

Market Entry Strategy for BD’s GSD Product Range in the Korean Healthcare Market

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The purpose of this research is to analyse a market entry for BD’s GSD product range in the Korean market....

Crowdfunding Backers: Innovators or Marketing Targets?

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This study will investigate how people interact with the concept of innovations through crowdfunding platforms (Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe etc )....

E-marketing Plan for National Sport Campus Ireland

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The aim of this project is improving the marketing strategy – especially the e-marketing strategy – of the centre in order to reach more people who are interested into sports....

Online Marketing of Higher Educational programs

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This paper would explore how higher education institutions are using, have adopted and are employing social media....

The Impact of Source Credibility and Risk Attitude on Individuals’ Risk Perception

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This research investigates the effects of source credibility and risk attitude on young millennials’ risk and benefit perceptions and purchase intentions toward GM foods....

How Are Consumers Reacting to the Brand Fuzzification by Luxury Brands?

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This dissertation has confirmed, through the literature and primary research findings, that consumers are reacting favourably to luxury fashion brands that have embraced product fuzzification....

Marketing Japan as a Travel Destination

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The main objective of this report is to to discover a new and attractive aspect of Japan for the Asian market, namely Singapore, South Korea and Philippines....

Creating Viable Markets through Use of Geographical Indications

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The broad objective of this paper is to examine the experience of Thailand in using and promoting GI and see whether such strategies could be replicated in India....

How Psychological Interventions and Skills can Improve Performance in Athletes

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This paper examines and analyses psychological interventions and skills that are being utilised by competitive athletes in today’s world....

Popular Feminism and Women’s Physical Empowerment in the UFC

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This chapter examines the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) incorporation of women into their brand....

A Study of 18-24 Year Old Males’ Engagement and Interactions with Sports Betting Advertising

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This research project captures the essence of Gary Lineker’s statement and seeks to uncover how young adult males interpret and engage with betting adverts and sponsorship in the Premier League....

Athletic Identity Impact on Sport Retirement and Career Transition Struggles for Collegiate Student-Athletes

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This review will first briefly give some historical and factual perspectives on the popularity of college sports and what it means to be a student-athlete....

Empirical Analysis of Efficiency of English Premier League (EPL) Football Clubs (2005-2015)

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The aims of this study are in two folds; first to examine if any EPL club could maintain efficiency over the period (2005 – 2015) and second, to identify the most efficient club(s) within the same period using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)....

Effect of Sleep Behaviours on Team Sports

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The purpose of this literature review is to provide a summary of the current literature on sleep behaviours in team sport, and more specifically in Rugby League....

Effect of Power Relations in Elite Sport

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This study is based on Foucauldian discourse analysis. It looks at how power through surveillance from power figures within elite sport contributes to athletes engaging in a seemingly excessive exercise regime in their bid for success....

How Successful Were Playwrights of the 1970s in Accurately Highlighting Social and Political Issues in Scotland?

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There was a lot of political unrest in Scotland from the 1960s and through to the 1970s and many playwrights used this as a focal point of their plays....

Covert Operations, Espionage and Intelligence in Agatha Christie’s Second World War Novels

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It seems that Christie so dominates the genre of Golden Age detective fiction that study of her as a ‘political’ writer with noteworthy views on current domestic affairs has been neglected....

A whole new world: Social media as an Election Monitoring Tool

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Social’s media’s rapid proliferation in almost every country in the world has revealed a new potential for its use a political tool....

Examining Social Media Usage in the Workplace and the Effects on Business

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The issue of social media usage in the workplace has become critical, and corporations have increasingly sought to minimize the losses in productivity which represent billions of dollars in lost revenue....

Methods for Anomaly Detection of Online Social Networks

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This paper reviews the basic concepts of anomalies, different types of anomalies in social networks and various possible anomaly detection techniques with their advantages and disadvantages....

Pandemic Disease Monitoring Tool Using Twitter Data

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A tool is developed to retrieve the tweets from Twitter using generic terms used in discussion for a disease selected....

Prediction for Big Data & IoT in 2017: Live Project-sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data

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Big data and therefore the alleged net of Things (IoT) are intimately connected: billions of Internet-connected 'things' can, by definition, generate huge amounts of knowledge....

Social Media Conspicuous Consumptive Behaviour and Consumer Purchase Intentions of Mobile Devices

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The primary objective of this study is to examine conspicuous consumptive behaviour facilitated by Instagram and Facebook on intention to purchase mobile devices....

Regulation and Investigation of Crime on Social Media

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The potential and limits of linking users' registrations to their national identity numbers for the regulation and investigation of crime on social media....

Does Social Media Marketing Affect Choice of Tourism Destination?

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Social media is becoming more advanced and is offering more options for a tourist to visualise the destination before they decide to go. The following work will consider the destination marketing and how it markets on social media....

Internet Evolution and Effects of Cybercrime

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This paper will talk about the internet evolution and how its use has changed the world and the way people live and function and the cause and effect of cybercrime....

Management of Criminal Activities from Prisons in the US

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This research study focuses on prison crimes in the USA. In order to evaluate these crimes, newspaper reports and press release of court cases will be utilized to understand the nature of these crimes....

Can the Doctrine of Joint Enterprise be Reconciled with Racial Justice?

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This paper raises important questions about collective action, individual agency, gang myth-making, street violence and implicit racism: how are street collectives termed ‘gangs’ tied to notions of race and ethnicity?...

Cannabis and Adolescent Perceptions

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The age of initiation of cannabis use is changing with younger children and adolescents reporting daily cannabis use....

How Technology Has Facilitated Cyber-bullying

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This paper outlines the findings of the research undertaking to establish how technology facilitates Cyber-bullying within a particular secondary school....

Behind Bars: The Truth about Drugs in Prisons

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The consumption and dealing of drugs has long been a criminal offence, so how are drugs finding their way into prisons that are meant to be secure places of law enforcement?...

Legal Aspects of Stalking and Cyberstalking in the Maltese Criminal Code

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This research starts with a thorough assessment of parliamentary debates in Malta which took place prior to the introduction of the relevant provisions in the Criminal Code criminalising the conduct of harassment and stalking respectively....

Indicators Which Influence Juvenile Offenders

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This paper will reflect on children ages 10-17 who are influenced to become juvenile offenders. So many causes or reasons caused this horrible epidemic which also includes the many forms of trauma that could have occurred....

Representation of Hope: Content Media Analysis of the Hope Solo Domestic Violence Case

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The purpose of this article is to explore how media content represents Hope Solo throughout her domestic violence case....

Protection of Victims of Sexual Violence During International Criminal Trials: A Comparative Perspective

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Originally stowaways of the international procedure and courtroom, victims have finally been recognized as an indispensable player in international criminal trials....

Typology of Money Laundering Schemes

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Money laundering is a process, as a result of which money obtained in an illegal way is transformed into legal income....

The Link Between PTSD and Interpersonal Violence

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This review concentrated on providing evidence to prove that there was a significant link between PTSD and interpersonal violence....

Literature Review on Sexual Objectification Instruments

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Evaluating sexual objectification instruments and the cumulative evidence of their psychometric properties: A Systematic Review....

Comparative Study Exploring Cognitive Patterns in Dementia and Functional Cognitive Impairment

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This study explores cognitive patterns in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Lewy body dementia (LBD) and FCI....

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Group Proposal

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The following is a proposal for an Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) group using a combination of the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association’s (EAGALA) therapy model....

Anxiety, Depression and Self-Esteem in Students: Comparison Against Dyslexic Students

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Dyslexic students experience secondary characteristics such as anxiety, depression and low self-esteem when studying. Are these though common to all students in higher education? Introdu...

Emotional Intelligence and Self-efficacy of Preschool Teachers

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The study examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy of preschool teachers in Johor area....

The Effect of Increasing Working Memory Load on Static Postural Control in Young and Old Adults

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In the current study, the specific cortical and postural changes influenced by a working memory task with varying cognitive load during a no vision static balancing task will be explored in healthy young and old adults....

Effect of Positive Morning Commutes on the Rest of the Day

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It has been well established that your mood in the morning influences the rest of your day, and for many students, a large part of their morning is spent on the bus to university....

Emotion Regulation in Adults

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Emotion regulation has been studied extensively in the psychological literature, and results suggest that difficulty regulating emotion is associated with mental disorders, impaired functioning, and negative health outcomes...

The Impact of Spousal Abuse Against Women and Men from the Perspective of the Abused and the Abuser

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This project was written as for publication in journal of family issues: Spousal abuse is a kind of domestic abuse and violence which is vast becoming rampant not just a personal issue but also a public health and psychological problems....

Factors Associated with the Non-progressive Moves of Offenders Within the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway

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Investigation into factors associated with the non-progressive moves of offenders within the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway....

Relationship Between Neural Functioning During Stroop Task and Risky Sexual Behavior

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To investigate the relationship between neural functioning during the Stroop task and risky sexual behavior, as well as the effect of individual differences in urgent impulsivity on this relationship....

Framing Intimate Partner Violence in Late Life: Public Reactions to Newspaper Reports

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The purpose of this study was to investigate public responses to newspaper articles about Intimate Partner Violence incidents among older women....

Sleep Stages Classification from EEG Signal based on Stockwell Transform

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In this study, we proposed new features for sleep stages classification from EEG signal based on Stockwell transform....

Psychology Undergraduate Attitudes Towards Male Sex Offenders: The Impact of the Victim’s Gender

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Research that investigates the relevance of attitudes for the successful treatment outcome of the sexual assault victims is scarce. This study attempts at investigating this gap in literature....

Do Psychopaths Have Abnormal Brains?

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The aim of this article is to review the research on the neurodevelopment of psychopaths in order understand the biology behind psychopathy a bit clearer....

Pathways to Resilience in the Context of Somali Culture and Forced Displacement

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This study employed a participatory, sequential, mixed-method (qualitative-quantitative) research design to explore resilience in the context of Somali culture and forced displacement....

A Phenomenological Study of Adoption, Attachment, and Identity Formation

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how eight adoptees viewed the impact of adoption on attachment and identity formation, which in turn would emphasize the need for competency standards for mental health professionals....

Face Perception: Development, Maturation and Decline?

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The aim of this study was to investigate if face perception is an ability that develops, matures and subsequently declines with age....

Effect of Intentional Activity on Happiness Levels

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This experiment will test the effect of intentional activity on happiness levels, using strategies that have been empirically demonstrated to be effective in increasing happiness....

The Effects of Religiosity and Spirituality on Depressed Adults

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The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of religiosity and spirituality on depressed adults....

Mental Health Impact of Sports Injuries

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This study will look at the mental health impacts on long term injuries of sportsmen aged between 18 and 25 who compete in amateur team sports....

The Internalization of the Strong Black Woman Schema and the Decision to Seek Psychological Help

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The problem being addressed in this proposed dissertation study is to determine if and to what extent a relationship exists between the Strong Black Woman Schema and help seeking attitudes....

Gambling Disorder: Comorbidity, Stigma, Family Impact, and Treatment

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This review describes what addiction is and the debate of it being a brain disease or a choice....

Effect of Premature Birth on Psycho-biological Processes of Adults

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This study uses a standardized, widely used and well-researched laboratory test for inducing moderate psychobiological stress responses called the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST)....

Association Between Prenatal Stress and the Development of ADHD in Children

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This review primarily investigates prenatal stress as a modifiable environmental factor to prevent the development of ADHD symptoms among children....

Evolving fashionable body shape ideals through social representation in the fashion industry

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Body shape ideals have and will forever be evolving through the centuries. The following exhibition catalogue will explore some of these body shape ‘ideals’ and explore the social representation that they hold/held....

Injury Experiences and Psychological Responses of Athletes as a result of Sports Injuries

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The aim of this study was to further explore the phenomenon of sports injuries, five university students were interviewed regarding their injury experiences, in particular the psychological responses they had when their injury had occurred....

Effectiveness of Integrative Complexity Interventions: A Dehumanization Scale

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This dissertation proposes the introduction of a new tool to supplement current assessments of the effectiveness of IC interventions: a ‘Dehumanization scale’....

Task Difficulty, Mortality and Player Retention in Video Games

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This project will investigate the effectiveness of these difficulty systems with regards to gameplay, user progress, mortality and perceived frustration to the player....

Exploring Undergraduate Attitudes towards Alcohol

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In view of the well documented adverse effects of alcohol on health, a study was conducted to examine the attitudes of undergraduate students at a university in the South West of England towards alcohol and its consumption....

An Investigative Study into the Factors That Influence Food Choice and Weight Loss

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This research project was written to investigate the key factors that influence food choice and weight loss. The study focused on adults over the age of 18....

Impact of Chronic Illness on the Social Functioning and Emotional Wellbeing of Children

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This dissertation aims to identify how chronic illness impacts on the child and their healthy siblings’ social and emotional wellbeing....

The Lived Experience of Loneliness Among Single Men Who Use Dating Apps

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This study aims to understand how gay and heterosexually identified men, between the ages of 20 and 30, who are single but dating experience the many dimensions of loneliness....

The Effect of a Mindset Intervention on Middle School Student Academic Achievement

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The literature review has presented a number of topic areas, namely incremental theory of intelligence, or mindset theory, and its historical background through current research and interventions....

Role of Socio-psychological Factors of Satisfaction with Education in Quality Assessment of University

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The aim of the research was to evaluate role of socio-psychological factors of satisfaction with university education. Study was conducted in 2 stages....

Social Connectedness as a Predictor of Sexual Behaviour

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This chapter describes the systematic literature review that was conducted to examine the existing quantitative evidence of social connectedness as a predictor of sexual behaviour among Asian adolescents globally....

A Model of Personalized Context Aware E-learning Based on Psychological Experience

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The model of the context aware e-learning based on psychological experiences has been presented in this study. In general, this model is developed based on the conceptual and contextual model....

Virtual Reality in Treatment of Non-suicidal Self-Injury

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VR has several unique affordances that make it useful in mental health contexts. This paper will explore each of these affordances within the context of non-suicidal self-injury....

The Interplay between Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development

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All major developmental psychology theories have tried to explain how people grow and change over the course of a lifetime. These theories have different implications for how their findings may be applied to our everyday lives....

The Effects of Bullying in Society

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In an attempt to decrease suicide and violence rates amongst teens, it is crucially important for students, and their families to understand the anti-bullying resources and programs available to them....

Do Young Adults Suffering from Mental Health Problems Receive the Care /Support They Need?

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This research is to find out if young individuals with mental health issues get the best support that they need and importantly whether families who care for these individuals get professional advice and support....

Non-attendance at School and School Refusal Behaviour (SRB)

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School refusal behaviour from the perspective of mainstream secondary school Special Educational Need Coordinator (SENCOs)....

Is There a Correlation Between Music and Cognitive Development in Children?

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Cognitive development during early childhood (from birth to 5 years of age) is key to acquiring skills, including reading, language, vocabulary building, and numeracy....

Do Drinking Motives and Emotional Dysregulation Predict Binge Drinking in University Students?

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The aim of this review is to assess if drinking motives and emotional dysregulation can be used to predict alcohol consumption/binge drinking in university students....

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents that Resonates into Adulthood

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I chose the topic of Post-traumatic stress disorder because it is important to help acknowledge that children and adolescents need help too....

Adding Pleasurable Activities as an Effective Behavioral Intervention to Increase Positive Mood

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The present study examines the effectiveness of behavioral interventions on increasing positive mood in a doctoral level graduate student....

Flight Anxiety Modality Questionnaire (FAM): How Do I Express My Fear?

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Within the DSM-V diagnostic criteria, Specific Phobia (SP) is a ‘marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation’, with fear of flying (FF) and acrophobia specified under the ‘situational’ subcategory and fear of death (FD) within ‘other’....

Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (G-CBT-I) in Depression

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The present study aims to examine the effects of combined CBT and CBT-I treatments in patients with MDD when also insomnia is present....