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Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Show Alteration in their Visuospatial Abilities and in their Egocentric and Allocentric Spatial Orientation Measured by Card Placing Tests

Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2020
Background: Visuospatial skills are impaired in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Other related skills exist, such as spatial orientation have been poorly studied.
Cristina Fernandez-Baizan, M. Paula Fernandez Garcia, Elena Diaz-Caceres, Manuel Menendez-Gonzalez, Jorge L. Arias, Marta Mendez   +5 more
doaj   +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

Enhancing Recognition of Human–Object Interaction from Visual Data Using Egocentric Wearable Camera

Future Internet
Object detection and human action recognition have great significance in many real-world applications. Understanding how a human being interacts with different objects, i.e., human–object interaction, is also crucial in this regard since it enables ...
Danish Hamid, Muhammad Ehatisham Ul Haq, Amanullah Yasin, Fiza Murtaza, Muhammad Awais Azam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

I Better “Not to”: Voluntary Sustainability Constraints in Mindful Organic Food Consumption

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to understand constraints from limitations and skepticism to a form of agency in consumer ethics. Framed in Granular Interaction Thinking theory, our study addresses the research question of how the voluntary sustainability constraints leverage mindful consumption.
Neha Sharma, Agnieszka Kabalska, Swati Singh, Ralf Wagner   +3 more
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

Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Who Will Be My Friend? The Role of the Liking Gap in Preschooler Friend Selection

Behavioral Sciences
Friend selection is a crucial aspect of social development, particularly during preschool years. This study investigated the role of the liking gap in shaping preschoolers’ friend selection mechanisms through two experiments. In Experiment 1 (N = 120), a
Jialu Liu, Kainian Mo, Zhiqiang Yan, Xiao Zeng   +3 more
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Leftward Deviation and Asymmetric Speed of Egocentric Judgment between Left and Right Visual Fields

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2017
The egocentric reference frame is essential for body orientation and spatial localization of external objects. Recent neuroimaging and lesion studies have revealed that the right hemisphere of humans may play a more dominant role in processing egocentric
Ying Zhou, Bing Li, Bing Li, Gang Wang, Mingsha Zhang, Yujun Pan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fast-Forward Video Based on Semantic Extraction

, 2017
Thanks to the low operational cost and large storage capacity of smartphones and wearable devices, people are recording many hours of daily activities, sport actions and home videos.
Campos, Mario Fernando Montenegro, Nascimento, Erickson Rangel, Ramos, Washington Luis Souza, Silva, Michel Melo   +3 more
core   +1 more source

“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
wiley   +1 more source