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Item Associations between sleep and memory in a clinical sample of obese children and adolescents.(2014-09-05) Passanante, Natalie M.; Limbers, Christine A.; Psychology and Neuroscience.; Baylor University. Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience.Today more than one third of U. S. children and adolescents are classified as overweight or obese. While interventions have produced short term improvements in weight status, treatment effects are infrequently maintained. Standard interventions may not be well-suited for the cognitive profile associated with obesity, which is characterized by impaired executive functioning. The literature on memory consolidation during sleep suggests that sleep problems associated with obesity may contribute to this cognitive profile in ways that have yet to be elucidated. The present study examined the associations between sleep and multiple indices of memory in a clinical sample of 45 obese children and adolescents. Sleep was assessed from both child and parent perspectives. Memory was evaluated using the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning, Second Edition (WRAML2). Multiple linear regression analyses revealed that sleep duration and sleep quality explained the most variation in visual memory abilities. The results underscore the importance of early intervention in childhood obesity and illuminate the importance of targeting sleep as a component of weight loss interventions.Item Memoria como rebeldía femenina en la narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea.(2010-06-23T12:27:17Z) Álvarez, Christian Y.; García-Corales, Guillermo.; Spanish.; Baylor University. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages.En base a una conexión entre el concepto de dialogismo de Mikhail Bahktin y la teoría feminista propuesta en especial, por Elaine Showalter, la presente tesis analiza el tema de la memoria de una mujer como estrategia que desenmascara la marginalización y la alienación del sujeto femenino. Para este efecto, se utilizan como caso de estudio dos novelas de escritoras latinoamericanas contemporáneas activas al principio del siglo XXI: Café nostalgia (1997) de la cubana Zoé Valdés (1959) y Lo que está en mi corazón (2001) de la chilena Marcela Serrano (1952). Se propone que la desigualdad y exclusión de las mujeres de las fuentes de poder motiva su verbalización con respecto a las circunstancias culturales, sociales y políticas que las rodean. Como consecuencia, en los mundos narrados de Valdés y Serrano, las principales voces femeninas aparecen como instrumento desestabilizador del discurso patriarcal.Item Navigating the multi-layered identities of the Aufseherinnen : female camp guards during and after the Holocaust.(2013-09-24) Wheeler, Lauren Elizabeth.; Hendon, David W. (David Warren); History.; Baylor University. Dept. of History.The profiles, training, and roles of Aufseherinnen portray women acting out a femininity which both contradicted and fulfilled Nazi ideals of womanhood. Additionally, they account for the two layers of reality—both ought and is—so common to the Nazi system. The individual narratives of former victims develop the picture of an Aufseherin more fully by depicting the overall "object-identity" of the female camp staff—that is, their identity as experienced by the inmates—and the overall role of femaleness in the Lager. Interestingly, narratives usually portray their guards as humans (is) instead of monsters (ought). This human status was, however, contradicted by the understanding of the female defendants throughout the war crimes trials. Trial transcripts and media coverage of the Belsen Trial reveal a lack of understanding of the role of women in the camp system, as well as a general influence of gender stereotyping on the incongruent verdicts and sentencing of female defendants. The identities of the Aufseherinnen were therefore experienced as strikingly different from those of male perpetrators.