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The dynamics of wild and alternative meat consumption across Gabon, Central Africa

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Long‐term overharvesting of wild animals for their meat threatens wildlife and the people dependent on wild animal meat for their diets and incomes. Interventions to reduce wild meat consumption must be built upon a complete understanding of the roles of wild meat and its alternatives within food systems.
Joshua Bauld   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immersive Composition for Sensory Rehabilitation: 3D Visualisation, Surround Sound, and Synthesised Music to Provoke Catharsis and Healing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
There is a wide range of sensory therapies using sound, music and visual stimuli. Some focus on soothing or distracting stimuli such as natural sounds or classical music as analgesic, while other approaches emphasize the active performance of producing ...
A. Cohen   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Sociodemographic and regional differences in human–coyote interactions and human attitudes towards coyotes

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Attitudes and emotions shape how humans perceive and behave towards wildlife, making them a key component affecting human–wildlife coexistence. In addition to direct experience with wildlife, research shows that sociodemographic characteristics and locality can influence a person's relationship with wildlife through cultural norms, economic ...
Emily Zepeda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The resistance to extinction as a function of the changeability in direction of a psychological force

open access: yesThe Japanese journal of psychology, 1954
Problem. The extinction of lever-pressing responses (L) of a rat in a Skinner-box (A) which lead him so longer to food (G) may be viewed as due to the changed direction of a force fA, G, i.e., from dA, G, = dA, L to dA, G ≠ dA, L. If, then, we provide some region X as a subgoal to reach food, the force fA, G will change its direction from dA, L to dA ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Neuroimaging of Habit-based vs. Goal-directed behavior in Instrumental Learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Addiction has been proposed to result from an overreliance on the habit-based and goal-directed controllers of behavior; however, few data exist to simultaneously support both behavioral and neuoranatomical aspects of this theory in humans.
Lawler, Michael Jacob
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesSymbolic 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

RECEPTION OF CHEKHOV'S TRADITION BY RUSSIAN DRAMA IN THE END XX - BEGINING XXI CENTURIES

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
Ther article substantiates the need for the identification of modern drama relative to the previous literary tradition as a special aesthetic phenomenon that is a catalyst for a fundamental renewal in the arts.
I. V. Kupreeva
doaj  

Attentional load and sensory competition in human vision: Modulation of fMRI responses by load fixation during task-irrelevant stimulation in the peripheral visual field. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Perceptual suppression of distractors may depend on both endogenous and exogenous factors, such as attentional load of the current task and sensory competition among simultaneous stimuli, respectively. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Dolan, R.J.   +5 more
core  

A growing disconnection from nature is evident in cultural products [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Human connection with nature is widely believed to be in decline, even though empirical evidence on the magnitude and temporal pattern of the change is scarce.
Bourdo E. A.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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