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Profiles of Social Status Among at‐Risk Adolescents in a Residential Setting: A Person‐Centered Approach

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescents often care about their social status which may be influenced by various personality and behavioral characteristics. This study used a person‐centered approach to examine intrapersonal (i.e., psychopathy, narcissism, self‐esteem) and interpersonal (i.e., aggression, prosocial behavior) factors associated with how ...
Hyunah Kim, Mackenzie B. Murphy, Christopher T. Barry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of a Structured Training Program on the Depth Perception of Ab Initio Drone Pilots

Drones
Flying remotely requires accurate perception of the environment to ensure safe operation. While remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) bring unique opportunities, they also present new challenges for the pilot, including exercising accurate depth perception ...
John Murray, Steven Richardson, Keith Joiner, Graham Wild   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Egocentric/allocentric and coordinate/categorical haptic encoding in blind people

, 2012
In this research, the impact of visual experience on the capacity to use egocentric (body-centred) and allocentric (object-centred) representations in combination with categorical (invariant non-metric) and coordinate (variable metric) spatial relations ...
Tina Iachini, Francesco Ruotolo, Gennaro Ruggiero   +2 more
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The prognosis of allocentric and egocentric neglect : evidence from clinical scans [PDF]

, 2012
We contrasted the neuroanatomical substrates of sub-acute and chronic visuospatial deficits associated with different aspects of unilateral neglect using computed tomography scans acquired as part of routine clinical diagnosis.
Chechlacz, Magdalena, Lau Johnny K. L., Pia Rotshtein (122796), Chechlacz, Magdalena; id_orcid, Humphreys, Glyn W., Bickerton, Wai-Ling, Roberts, Katherine L, Chechlacz, M, Rotshtein, P, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Humphreys, Glyn W, Humphreys Glyn W., Baron, Jean-Claude, Pia Rotshtein, Johnny K L Lau, Humphreys, GW, Bickerton Wai-Ling, Roberts, KL, Magdalena Chechlacz (122794), Katherine L. Roberts (122798), Glyn W Humphreys, Lau, Johnny K L, Roberts Katherine L., Rotshtein, Pia, Glyn W. Humphreys (122804), Johnny K. L. Lau (122802), Roberts, Katherine L., Magdalena Chechlacz, Chechlacz Magdalena, Lau, Johnny K. L., Katherine L Roberts, Rotshtein Pia, Wai-Ling Bickerton (122800), Lau, JKL, Bickerton, W-L   +34 more
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Official Development Assistance in Water and Sanitation: Do Conflict Violence and Militarization in Developing Countries Matter?

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the levels of official development assistance (ODA) in water and sanitation received by developing countries through the lens of conflict violence and militarization in those countries. Previous work on water and sanitation ODA has not considered how conflict or the capacity for organized violence can impact receipt of ...
Christopher Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experts in rural development and agrarian change wield considerable influence over programme design and delivery, directing resources and shaping trajectories towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the pathways through which such expertise develops remain under‐examined. This study examines the journey to expertise among experts
Kirt Hainzer, Caitlin Finlayson, Nicholas Harrigan, Andrew McGregor, Katharine McKinnon, Van Touch, Ariane Utomo, Brian R. Cook   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to make cardinal direction judgments based on integrating environmental and egocentric frames

, 2004
Three experiments were conducted to examine cardinal direction judgments (CDJ) in coordinating the environmental frame of a map with egocentric frame of the forward field of view (FFOV).
R. G. Zhou, K. Zhang
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Cultivating Sustainability: How Modern Food Practices Shape Pro‐Environmental Motivation Through Food–Nature Associations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food practices have evolved alongside industrialization and urbanization. Compared to earlier generations, modern individuals grow and cook food less often and consume more processed products, weakening awareness of food's natural origins. Three studies examined explanatory pathways linking food practices to pro‐environmentalism through the ...
Shu Tian Ng, Angela K.‐y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

Concerning some cultural peculiarities of representatives of Arab east countries, China and Vietnam in the context of teacher`s intercultural competence forming

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2014
The article is devoted to the research of problems connected with intercultural communication between foreign students learning at preparatory faculties of Russian higher educational establishments and teachers of Russian as a foreign language.
T G Kolosova
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