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Implementation of Design for Safety (DfS) in Construction in Developing Countries: A Study of Designers in Malaysia

open access: yesConstruction Economics and Building, 2022
Design for Safety (DfS) is a concept that emphasises eliminating health and safety hazards to construction workers in the design phase. However, despite the importance of DfS implementation, there are limited studies on DfS in developing countries ...
Fazlynna Christermaller   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling size-dependent cannibalism in barramundi Lates calcarifer: cannibalistic polyphenism and its implication to aquaculture. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
This study quantified size-dependent cannibalism in barramundi Lates calcarifer through coupling a range of prey-predator pairs in a different range of fish sizes. Predictive models were developed using morphological traits with the alterative assumption
Flavio F Ribeiro, Jian G Qin
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of Muscle Dysmorphia and Associated Health Activities in Male Medical Students in Karachi, Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Muscle Dysmorphia (MD) is a subtype of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and is currently classified under anxiety disorders (subheading: Obsessive-compulsive disorder) in DSM 5. MD is hypothesized to affect the self-esteem and social outlook of
Arshad, N. (Noayna)   +9 more
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Neuroimaging and psychophysiological investigation of the link between anxiety, enhanced affective reactivity and interoception in people with joint hypermobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Objective: Anxiety is associated with increased physiological reactivity and also increased “interoceptive” sensitivity to such changes in internal bodily arousal.
Adolphs   +37 more
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Mirror, Mirror by the Stairs: The Impact of Mirror Exposure on Stair versus Elevator Use in College Students

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2016
Previous research has indicated that self-awareness-inducing mirrors can successfully incite behaviors that align with one’s personal values, such as helping others.
Katie L Hodgin, Dan J Graham
doaj   +1 more source

Influencing the body schema through the feeling of satiety

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The body schema is a much discussed aspect of body awareness. Although there is still no single definition, there is widespread consensus that the body schema is responsible for movement and interaction with the environment. It usually remains outside of
Patricia Baumann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bodily awareness and novel multisensory features [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
According to the decomposition thesis, perceptual experiences resolve without remainder into their different modality-specific components. Contrary to this view, I argue that certain cases of multisensory integration give rise to experiences representing
Briscoe, Robert Eamon
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The dynamics of violations interoception in patients with anorexia nervosa during treatment

open access: yesОбозрение психиатрии и медицинской психологии имени В.М. Бехтерева, 2020
Anorexia nervosa is a disorder, that mostly starts at teenage years. In addition, one of the most important feature of that period is transformation of size and shape of a teenager’s body, that leads to changes in his perception of his own body. Anorexia
A. A. Pichikov   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The von Economo neurons in frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortex in great apes and humans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The von Economo neurons (VENs) are large bipolar neurons located in frontoinsular (FI) and anterior cingulate cortex in great apes and humans, but not other primates.
Allman, John M.   +8 more
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Wistar Male Rats (Rattus norvegicus domestica) Are Aware of Their Dimensions

open access: yesAnimals
Body size awareness is the ability of animals to consider the size of their bodies when interacting with environmental objects. It is one of the manifestations of body self-awareness. We studied body size awareness in laboratory rats of Wistar strain. In
Ivan A. Khvatov   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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