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Behavioural and Cognitive-Behavioural Treatments of Parasomnias [PDF]
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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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
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Impact of Changes in Time Left Alone on Separation-Related Behaviour in UK Pet Dogs
Separation-related behaviours (SRBs), including but not limited to vocalisation, pacing, destruction and toileting, occur in the absence of human company.
Naomi D. Harvey+7 more
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Denotation and connotation in the human-computer interface: The ‘Save as...’ command [PDF]
This paper presents a semiotic technique as a means of exploring meaning and understanding in interface design and use. This is examined through a study of the interaction between the ‘file’ metaphor and ‘save as’ command metaphor.
Chris Condon+4 more
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Demographic Behaviour and Behaviour Genetics
The use of behaviour genetic heritability analysis to study demographic behaviour is fraught with problems. We explain the concepts and methods used by behaviour geneticists, which are based on Fisher (1918) and Jinks and Fulker (1970), point out their deficiencies, and show that the basic assumptions of the behaviour genetic model do not hold.
Vetta, Atam, Courgeau, Daniel
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Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection for Stereotypical Behaviours in Autism [PDF]
Monitoring and analyzing stereotypical behaviours is important for early intervention and care taking in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This paper focuses on automatically detecting stereotypical behaviours with computer vision techniques. Off-the-shelf methods tackle this task by supervised classification and activity recognition techniques. However,
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Mechanical behaviour and phase transition mechanisms of a shape memory alloy by means of a novel analytical model [PDF]
The aim of the present paper is to examine both the fatigue behaviour and the phase transition mechanisms of an equiatomic pseudo-elastic NiTi Shape Memory Alloy through cyclic tests (up to 100 loading cycles).
Carpinteri, Andrea+8 more
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Behavioural medicine: changing our behaviour [PDF]
Human behaviour is a major determinant of health, and a growing body of evidence shows how to make behavioural interventions effective.
Marteau, T+4 more
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Behaviour change. Change behaviour [PDF]
Whichever way you write it, it is the popular way to solve the nation's ills or the last hope to save us from a non-communicable disease-ridden future. Whether it be putting your recycling in the right boxes, washing at 30 degrees, turning out the lights or putting less salt on those chips, wherever you look, there is a plan in place to make you and I ...
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Background Provision of written information may improve awareness of cancer symptoms and encourage timely presentation in primary care. This study assessed changes in symptom knowledge, perceived barriers to help-seeking, anxiety and intention to seek ...
Melanie Morris+5 more
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