Purpose –This study conducted a comparative analysis between hotels located in Brazil and England on human resource practices and employee motivation, using the cultural dimensions developed by Hofstede (1980) and the conservation of resources theory.
Jessica Vieira de Souza Meira +3 more
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Induced oscillatory signaling in the beta frequency of top-down pain modulation [PDF]
Background: Induced synchronized brain activity, particularly in the beta-frequency range, has rarely been investigated in human electrophysiological studies of attentional modulation of the perception of nociceptive stimuli.
Baillet +47 more
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Modelling human factors in perceptual multimedia quality: On the role of personality and culture [PDF]
Perception of multimedia quality is shaped by a rich interplay between system, context, and human factors. While system and context factors are widely researched, few studies in this area consider human factors as sources of systematic variance.
Acar A. +8 more
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"Rate My Therapist": Automated Detection of Empathy in Drug and Alcohol Counseling via Speech and Language Processing. [PDF]
The technology for evaluating patient-provider interactions in psychotherapy-observational coding-has not changed in 70 years. It is labor-intensive, error prone, and expensive, limiting its use in evaluating psychotherapy in the real world.
Bo Xiao +4 more
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Moxifloxacin Increases Heart Rate in Humans [PDF]
(1) Background: We assessed the effect of moxifloxacin on heart rate, and reviewed the heart rate effects of other antibiotics; (2) Methods: A total of 335 normal volunteers had 12-lead electrocardiograms recorded at multiple time points before and during treatment with moxifloxacin and with placebo in seven consecutive, thorough QT studies of ...
Jay Mason, Thomas Moon
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Aesthetic preference for art emerges from a weighted integration over hierarchically structured visual features in the brain [PDF]
It is an open question whether preferences for visual art can be lawfully predicted from the basic constituent elements of a visual image. Moreover, little is known about how such preferences are actually constructed in the brain.
Iigaya, Kiyohito +4 more
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Landscape preferences, ecological quality and biodiversity protection [PDF]
The loss of biological diversity is a major environmental problem occurring on a global scale. Human-environment researchers have an important role in shaping policy and programs at a local, national and international level.
Cary, John, Williams, Kathryn
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Decoding spatiotemporal features of emotional body language in social interactions
How are emotions perceived through human body language in social interactions? This study used point-light displays of human interactions portraying emotional scenes (1) to examine quantitative intrapersonal kinematic and postural body configurations, (2)
Johannes Keck +4 more
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A deep learning analysis of stroke onset time prediction and comparison to DWI-FLAIR mismatch
Introduction: When time since stroke onset is unknown, DWI-FLAIR mismatch rating is an established technique for patient stratification. A visible DWI lesion without corresponding parenchymal hyperintensity on FLAIR suggests time since onset of under 4.5
Ela Marie Z. Akay +11 more
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Dietary Fiber and WHO Food Categories Extension for the Food-Pics_Extended Database
Well characterized databases used for experimental purposes with extensive meta-data are essential for conducting meaningful and comparable studies. The Food-pics_extended database (Blechert et al., 2019) is one example for a widely used food stimulus ...
Evelyn Medawar +2 more
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