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A Structural Equation Model of Self-Regulation and Healthy Habits as an Individual Protective Tool in the Context of Epidemics–Evidence From COVID-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Objective: The present study aims to explore the mediation role of self-regulation on health-related behaviors adoption or maintenance, mental health, and well-being during the COVID-19 confinement in a sample of adults in Portugal.Design: One-hundred ...
Sónia S. Sousa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses’ perceptions of advance directives

open access: yesAtención Primaria, 2014
To identify nurses perceptions of Advance Directives (AD) and to analyse the influence of experience with AD on their perception.Quantitative, descriptive, correlational study conducted in a hospital in central Portugal with a sample of 139 nurses, aged 20-60 and in which 78.4% are women and 74% are under 40 years of age. A questionnaire was applied on
Silva, Ernestina   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Contact of a Finger on Rigid Surfaces and Textiles: Friction Coefficient and Induced Vibrations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The tactile information about object surfaces is obtained through perceived contact stresses and frictioninduced vibrations generated by the relative motion between the fingertip and the touched object.
FAGIANI, Ramona   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Perception as a closed-loop convergence process

open access: yeseLife, 2016
Perception of external objects involves sensory acquisition via the relevant sensory organs. A widely-accepted assumption is that the sensory organ is the first station in a serial chain of processing circuits leading to an internal circuit in which a ...
Ehud Ahissar, Eldad Assa
doaj   +1 more source

Fairness Perception, Trust Perception, and Relationship Quality in Agricultural Supply Chains

open access: yesJournal of Food Quality, 2021
Suppliers are important members of the agricultural supply chain. Moreover, their behavior decisions may affect the sustainable development of the agricultural supply chain.
Yuling Sun, Zeyu Zhu, Hui Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying touch-feel perception : tribological aspects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We report a new investigation into how surface topography and friction affect human touch–feel perception. In contrast with previous work based on micro-scale mapping of surface mechanical and tribological properties, this investigation focuses on the ...
Cai, Z.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Camouflaged Physical Objects: The Intentionality of Perception

open access: yesTheoria, 2010
The notion of “camouflage” offers a new way to articulate some central ideas of direct realism. Through a certain natural history, physical objects would be able to adopt as a “second skin” the qualitative appearances they have when they are perceived ...
Manuel LIZ
doaj   +1 more source

A Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Examining Factors Influencing Outcomes with Cochlear Implant in Mandarin-Speaking Children. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
To examine the direct and indirect effects of demographical factors on speech perception and vocabulary outcomes of Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs).115 participants implanted before the age of 5 and who had used CI before 1 to 3 ...
Yuan Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Direct Social Perception of Emotions in Close Relations

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2017
Drawing on a pluralist approach to mindreading, I explore Direct Social Perception with respect to perceiving the emotional states of people that we are close to, such as spouses, friends, and family.
Andrea Blomqvist
doaj   +1 more source

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