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Time-referenced effects of an internal vs. external focus of attention on muscular activity and compensatory variability

Frontiers in Psychology, 2010
The paralysis-by-analysis phenomenon, i.e., attending to the execution of one’s movement impairs performance, has gathered a lot of attention over recent years (see Wulf, 2007, for a review).
Ernst-Joachim eHossner, Felix eEhrlenspiel   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

"A manager in the minds of doctors" : a comparison of new modes of control in European hospitals [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Hospital governance increasingly combines management and professional self-governance. This article maps the new emergent modes of control in a comparative perspective and aims to better understand the relationship between medicine and ...
Burau, Viola, Correia, Tiago, Kuhlmann, Ellen, Lewandowski, Roman, Lionis, Christos, Noordegraaf, Mirko, Repullo, Jose   +6 more
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Older smokers could be the strongest supporters for U.S. government regulation of tobacco: a focus group study

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2013
Background Targeting of marginalized groups with aggressive tobacco marketing has been identified as exacerbating health disparities. However, interpretation of such targeting by groups varies, from surprise and outrage to regarding such marketing as ...
Valerie B Yerger, Janine K Cataldo, Ruth E. Malone   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age and Attentional Focus Related Differences in Postural Control [PDF]

رشد و یادگیری حرکتی ورزشی, 2013
Postural control has an important role in daily activities and motor independence. In recent years, conscious aspects of postural control such as attention and cognitive processes have received attention for balance optimization performance.
Javad Parhizkar Kohneh Oghaz, Mehdi Zarghami, Ahmad Ghotbi Varzaneh, Amirhosein Ghorbani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Designing a tobacco counter-marketing campaign for African American youth

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2008
The objectives of this qualitative study were to: a) identify common marketing themes and tactics used by the tobacco industry to entice African Americans (AA's) and youth to initiate and maintain smoking behavior, especially smoking mentholated brands ...
Doris M Johnson, Lauren A Wine, Sharon Zack, Eric Zimmer, Judy H Wang, Patricia A Weitzel-O'Neill, Vickie Claflin, Kenneth P Tercyak   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dominance of Attention Focus and Its Electroencephalogram Activity in Standing Postural Control in Healthy Young Adults

Brain Sciences, 2022
Attention focus changes performance, and external focus (EF) improves performance compared to internal focus (IF). However, recently, the dominance of attention focus, rather than the effectiveness of unilateral EF, has been examined.
Shun Sawai, Shoya Fujikawa, Shin Murata, Teppei Abiko, Hideki Nakano   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Whole-slide image focus quality: Automatic assessment and impact on ai cancer detection

Journal of Pathology Informatics, 2019
Background: Digital pathology enables remote access or consults and powerful image analysis algorithms. However, the slide digitization process can create artifacts such as out-of-focus (OOF).
Timo Kohlberger, Yun Liu, Melissa Moran, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Trissia Brown, Jason D Hipp, Craig H Mermel, Martin C Stumpe   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic focus control for facsimile cameras [PDF]

, 1974
An electronic circuit for controlling the focus of facsimile cameras is described. The circuit consists of balanced a.c. amplifiers, two square law function generators, and a differential amplifier and power drive.
Burcher, E. E., Katzberg, S. J., Sinclair, A. R.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Control for Open Quantum Systems: Qubits and Quantum Gates

, 2009
This article provides a review of recent developments in the formulation and execution of optimal control strategies for the dynamics of quantum systems. A brief introduction to the concept of optimal control, the dynamics of of open quantum systems, and
Pötz, Walter, Roloff, Robert, Wenin, Markus   +2 more
core   +1 more source