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The anxiolytic effects of resistance exercise

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Numerous studies have revealed the beneficial effects of regular exercise across a variety of mental health measures. Although a great deal of attention has been paid to the role of aerobic exercise, less is known about the role of resistance exercise ...
Justin Charles Strickland   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Black & Davidson on Metaphor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Most theories of metaphor look at what occurs inside a metaphorical phrase and posit a shift in meaning in the metaphorical words. This includes the classic “Models and Metaphor,” by Max Black, who distinguishes between the literal words of the phrase ...
Ayoob, Emily
core   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Donald Davidson

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 1997
Cambridge: Polity Press & Basil Blackwell, 1991. 198 pp. ISBN 0-7456-0611-3.
Evnine, Simon, Duica, William
openaire   +2 more sources

Davidson and Chinese Conceptual Scheme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In one of his influential works ‘One the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme’, Donald Davidson argues against conceptual relativism. According to Davidson, ‘we could not be in a position to judge that others had concepts or beliefs radically different from ...
Tanaka, Koji
core  

Beliefs as inner causes: the (lack of) evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Many psychologists studying lay belief attribution and behavior explanation cite Donald Davidson in support of their assumption that people construe beliefs as inner causes.
Curry, Devin Sanchez
core   +1 more source

Co‐Opting MBNL‐Dependent Alternative Splicing Cassette Exons to Control Gene Therapy in Myotonic Dystrophy

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a highly variable, multisystemic genetic disorder caused by a CTG repeat expansion in the 3′ untranslated region of DMPK. Toxicity is exerted by repeat‐containing DMPK transcripts that sequester muscleblind‐like (MBNL) proteins and lead to deleterious yet predictable changes in alternative splicing.
Samuel T. Carrell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An elastic segment of the whisker shaft enables coding of the whisking phase via whisker torsion in rats and mice

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
An elastic segment was found in the basal part of the whisker shaft in rats and mice. Application of force to the whisker bulb of isolated follicles caused bending and twisting of this segment. Active whisker movements deform this segment, causing whisker shaft deflection and selective activation of mechanoreceptors at different phases of whisking ...
Sebastian Haidarliu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of environmental factors on pond activity of aquatic red-spotted newts Notophthalmus viridescens

open access: yesJournal of Freshwater Ecology, 2017
Many important components of animal behavior, growth, and reproduction are tightly linked to environmental conditions, particularly for ectothermic freshwater organisms.
Emma R. Johnson   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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