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Landscape Visual Affordance Evaluation at a Regional Scale in National Parks: A Case Study of the Changhong Area in Qianjiangyuan National Park

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National parks play a vital role in safeguarding natural scenery, maintaining ecological integrity, and preserving cultural heritage, while simultaneously offering valuable opportunities for recreation and education.
Yuchen Dong, Yuan Kang, Chengzhao Wu
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Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex Mediate Performance of an Aerial Pursuit Task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020
The affordance competition hypothesis is an ethologically inspired theory from cognitive neuroscience that provides an integrative neural account of continuous, real-time behavior, and will likely become increasingly relevant to the growing field of ...
Robert J. Gougelet, Robert J. Gougelet, Cengiz Terzibas, Daniel E. Callan, Daniel E. Callan   +4 more
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Impact of Positive Lifestyle Behaviors on Direct Health Care Cost Savings for Low Back Pain

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aimed to investigate the relationship between a previously purpose‐developed lifestyle behavior scale and health care cost savings related to low back pain (LBP). Methods This longitudinal study used data from the Australian Twin Back (AUTBACK) study. LBP and lifestyle behavior measures were collected at baseline. Physical activity
Ye Tian, Katharine E. Roberts, Michelle Hall, Paula R. Beckenkamp, Angelo Sabag, Karoline Moe, Ana Paula Carvalho‐e‐Silva, Emily J. Callander, Paulo H. Ferreira   +8 more
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Testing a Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABCs) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine veterans aged 65 to 89 with CLBP from three Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC ...
Debra K. Weiner, Angela Gentili, Meika A. Fang, Edward Garay, Laura Lawson, Lenore Joseph, Cathy C. Lee, Michelle I. Rossi, Beverly Thorn, Subashan Perera   +9 more
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Body size as a metric for the affordable world

eLife
The physical body of an organism serves as a vital interface for interactions with its environment. Here, we investigated the impact of human body size on the perception of action possibilities (affordances) offered by the environment.
Xinran Feng, Shan Xu, Yuannan Li, Jia Liu   +3 more
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Social requests and social affordances: how they affect the kinematics of motor sequences during interactions between conspecifics.

PLoS ONE, 2011
The present study aimed at determining whether and what factors affect the control of motor sequences related to interactions between conspecifics. Experiment 1 demonstrated that during interactions between conspecifics guided by the social intention of ...
Francesca Ferri, Giovanna Cristina Campione, Riccardo Dalla Volta, Claudia Gianelli, Maurizio Gentilucci   +4 more
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How affordable is affordable housing? [PDF]

, 2016
At the end of 2015 Flagship Group commissioned the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University to assess the affordability of its housing products. The research was commissioned as it became clear that a number of external changes were likely to affect the context in which Flagship operated as well as the ...
Green, Stephen, Pattison, Ben, Reeve, Kesia, Wilson, Ian   +3 more
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A Qualitative Analysis of Patient Perspectives and Preferences in Lupus Management to Guide Lupus Guidelines Development

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective A patient‐centered approach for chronic disease management, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), aligns treatment with patients’ values and preferences, leading to improved outcomes. This paper summarizes how patient experiences, perspectives, and priorities informed the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2024 Lupus Nephritis (LN)
Shivani Garg, Izzy Hartel, Lisa R. Sammaritano, Anca Askanase, Bonnie L. Bermas, Maria Dall'Era, Alí Duarte‐García, Victoria P. Werth, Brad Rovin, Reem A. Mustafa, Amy S. Turner, Bené Williams, Brian L. Ung, Hiya Bhavsar, Monique C. Gore‐Massy, Nahirannette Pulido, Natacha Guerrero, Natalie M. Smith, Wambui Machua, Linda T. Hiraki, Mary Beth Son   +20 more
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Fracturing the affordance space: an account of digitalized alienation

Frontiers in Psychiatry
This paper investigates the lived experience of alienation as a form of mental strife or pathology as it is connected to the digitalization of modern life.
Michael Butler
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Early Visual Perception Potentiated by Object Affordances: Evidence From a Temporal Order Judgment Task

i-Perception, 2016
Perceived objects automatically potentiate afforded action. Object affordances also facilitate perception of such objects, and this occurrence is known as the affordance effect. This study examined whether object affordances facilitate the initial visual
Atsunori Ariga, Yuki Yamada, Yusuke Yamani   +2 more
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