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Assessing the quality of research examining change in children’s mental health in the context of COVID-19

open access: yesUniversity of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2021
In their policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on children and youth, the United Nations identified the need for “a rapid accumulation of data on the scale and nature of impacts among children.”1(p14) Although an important goal, this call to action ...
Tracy Vaillancourt   +10 more
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The Behaviour of Skylarks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
A population of individually marked skylarks was studied by Juan D. Delius over four breeding seasons in Ravenglass, Cumbria, England. The original publication of his findings on their behaviour was published in German (Delius, 1963). Here, the article is presented in English for the first time, with updates of the relevant literature.
Juan D. Delius, Julia A. M. Delius
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Challenging behaviour around challenging behaviour [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
AbstractIntroductionThe United Kingdom's Department for Education's advice on behaviour focuses on the power of staff and the strength of the policy in challenging behaviour, via rules, sanctions and rewards. We designed a video‐feedback intervention for staff teams in a special educational setting who were working with children with intellectual ...
Deborah Michelle James   +2 more
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High functional allelic diversity and copy number in both MHC classes in the common buzzard

open access: yesBMC Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Background The major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which encodes molecules that recognize various pathogens and parasites and initiates the adaptive immune response in vertebrates, is renowned for its exceptional polymorphism and is a model of ...
Jamie Winternitz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why and how to engage expert stakeholders in ontology development: insights from social and behavioural sciences

open access: yesJournal of Biomedical Semantics, 2021
Background Incorporating the feedback of expert stakeholders in ontology development is important to ensure content is appropriate, comprehensive, meets community needs and is interoperable with other ontologies and classification systems.
Emma Norris   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hyperrealistic neural decoding for reconstructing faces from fMRI activations via the GAN latent space

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Neural decoding can be conceptualized as the problem of mapping brain responses back to sensory stimuli via a feature space. We introduce (i) a novel experimental paradigm that uses well-controlled yet highly naturalistic stimuli with a priori known ...
Thirza Dado   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of bottle size on in-home consumption of wine: feasibility and acceptability randomised cross-over study

open access: yesPilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background Reducing alcohol consumption across populations would prevent many non-communicable diseases. Large packages increase food and non-alcoholic drink consumption and large glasses increase wine consumption.
Eleni Mantzari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Improved processing speed and decreased functional connectivity in individuals with chronic stroke after paired exercise and motor training

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
After stroke, impaired motor performance is linked to an increased demand for cognitive resources. Aerobic exercise improves cognitive function in neurologically intact populations and may be effective in altering cognitive function post-stroke.
Justin W. Andrushko   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioural and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatments of Parasomnias [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioural Neurology, 2015
Parasomnias are unpleasant or undesirable behaviours or experiences that occur predominantly during or within close proximity to sleep. Pharmacological treatments of parasomnias are available, but their efficacy is established only for few disorders. Furthermore, most of these disorders tend spontaneously to remit with development.
Galbiati A   +4 more
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Impact on sales of adding a smaller serving size of beer and cider in licensed premises: an A-B-A reversal design

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Smaller serving sizes of alcoholic drinks could reduce alcohol consumption across populations thereby lowering the risk of many diseases. The effect of modifying the available range of serving sizes of beer and cider in a real-world setting ...
Eleni Mantzari   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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