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Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left middle frontal gyrus modulates the information people communicate in different social contexts

Scientific Reports, 2023
Neocortical structures of the left frontal lobe, middle frontal gyrus (MFG) in particular, have been suggested to be linked to the processing of punishing and unpleasant outcomes in decision tasks.
Beatriz Martín-Luengo, Alicia Nunez Vorobiova, Matteo Feurra, Andriy Myachykov, Yury Shtyrov   +4 more
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Social Choice and Popular Control [PDF]

, 2015
In democracies citizens are supposed to have some control over the general direction of policy. According to a pretheoretical interpretation of this idea, the people have control if elections and other democratic institutions compel officials to do what ...
Ingham, Sean
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Attention control comparisons with SLT for people with aphasia following stroke: methodological concerns raised following a systematic review [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: Attention control comparisons in trials of stroke rehabilitation require care to minimize the risk of comparison choice bias. We compared the similarities and differences in SLT and social support control interventions for people with aphasia.
Brady, Marian C., Campbell, Pauline, Elders, Andrew, Enderby, Pam, Godwin, Jon, Kelly, Helen   +5 more
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Known in the nursing home: development and evaluation of a digital person-centered artistic photo-activity intervention to promote social interaction between residents with dementia, and their formal and informal carers

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background To address the lack of social interaction and meaningful activities for persons with dementia (PWD) in nursing homes an artistic Photo-Activity was designed.
Josephine Rose Orejana Tan, Petra Boersma, Teake P. Ettema, Laurence Aëgerter, Robbert Gobbens, Max L. Stek, Rose-Marie Dröes   +6 more
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Detecting formal and informal interests in forest governance

MethodsX, 2022
To reveal the interests of actors in forest governance, this paper proposes a power-based interest identification (PII) approach. Based on the assumption of intentional action, the benefits that actors derive from policy impacts are the result of ...
Jiacheng Zhao, Max Krott, Jinlong Liu, Lukas Giessen, Jiayun Dong   +4 more
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Managing Cartels: how Cartel Participants Create Stability in the Absence of law [PDF]

, 2016
Firms enter cartels (e.g. price-fixing; bid-rigging) in order to control market uncertainties and gain collusive profits, but face challenges in controlling the cartel itself.
Jaspers, J.D.
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Must Realists Be Pessimists About Democracy? Responding to Epistemic and Oligarchic Challenges [PDF]

, 2021
In this paper we show how a realistic normative democratic theory can work within the constraints set by the most pessimistic empirical results about voting behaviour and elite capture of the policy process.
Arlen, Gordon, Rossi, Enzo
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Social Support and Personal Agency in At-Risk Mothers [PDF]

Psychosocial Intervention, 2011
This study investigated: a) mothers´ use and satisfaction with informal and formal supports in at-risk psychosocial contexts, and b) the relationships between satisfaction with help and the mothers´ perception of their role (personal agency). Self-report
María José Rodrigo, Sonia Byrne
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Choice in the context of informal care-giving [PDF]

, 2007
Extending choice and control for social care service users is a central feature of current English policies. However, these have comparatively little to say about choice in relation to the informal carers of relatives, friends or older people who are ...
Allen I., Appleby J., Arksey H., Audit Commission, Bell J., Cabinet Office, Carers National Association, Caring Costs Alliance, Clarke J., Commission for Social Care Inspection, Department for Work and Pensions, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Dowding K., Ellis K., Giddens A., Hadley R., Hasler F., Hirsch C.H., Howard M., Joshi H., Kagan C., Klein R., Larkin J.P., Lent A., Levin E., Macgregor G., Mayo E., McLaughlin E., Minichiello V., Mooney A., Morris J., Morris J., Myers F., Needham C., Nolan M., Parker G., Parker G., Parry J., Penrod J., Pickard L., Pickard L., Princess Royal Trust for Carers, Qureshi H., Royal Commission on Long Term Care, Schwartz B., Scottish Executive, Scourfield P., Seddon D., Seddon D., Shakespeare T., Tilse C., Twigg J., Twigg J., Twigg J., Vernon A., Welsh Assembly Government   +57 more
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Nominal or Real? The Impact of Regional Price Levels on Satisfaction with Life [PDF]

, 2013
According to economic theory, real income, i.e., nominal income adjusted for purchasing power, should be the relevant source of life satisfaction. Previous work, however, has only studied the impact of inflation adjusted nominal income and not taken into
A E Clark, A E Clark, A Ferrer-I Carbonell, A Ferrer-I-Carbonell, A Finkelstein, A Oswald, A Oswald, A Stutzer, A Stutzer, Armin Falk, B S Frey, B Weber, C Senik, D Kahneman, Di Tella, E Fehr, E Shafir, Efp Luttmer, G Akerlof, G G Wagner, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch, I Fisher, J Schupp, J Stiglitz, K Fliessbach, M M Grabka, P Dolan, R Chetty, R Kawka, R Layard, S Boes, T Blumkin, Thomas Deckers   +32 more
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