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Strategy and Motivation, Rather Than Fatigue, Drive Age-Related Differences in Sustained Attention Performance: Evidence for Decoupled Beta-Band Oscillations. [PDF]

Eur J Neurosci
Markers of vigilance during sustained attention in both young and older participants: stable performance strategies, increase in subjective fatigue, increase in task‐related beta oscillations and distinct brain‐behaviour links. ABSTRACT Reduced vigilance can be captured as attentional lapses in sustained attention tasks, but just how these lapses ...
Hanzal S, Learmonth G, Thut G, Harvey M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Change the world farm by farm: The moral care of audit and the paradox of animal welfare inspection in Europe Changer le monde, ferme par ferme : le soin moral de l'audit et le paradoxe des contrôles du bien‐être animal en Europe

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In European animal welfare inspection on farms and at slaughter, inspectors encounter moral challenges that reveal the paradox at the heart of animal welfare. Against the harsh realities of industrial agriculture, not only are their idealized notions of animal wellbeing unrealizable, but inspectors are instrumental in perpetuating standards of welfare ...
Eimear Mc Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Licence Loss: Revocations of Residential Care Licences in Four Nordic Countries

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With placement in residential care, society assumes overall responsibility for a child's daily care, well‐being and development. How public authorities respond to poor care quality is of crucial importance. To guarantee quality care and minimise risks, welfare states increasingly develop different mechanisms and systems to supervise out‐of ...
David Pålsson, Elisabeth Backe‐Hansen, Tonje Gundersen, Laura Kalliomaa‐Puha, Mette Lausten, Tarja Pösö   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Deficiencies in Children's Residential Care in Finland: Inspectors' Views on Working With Information

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Abusive and illegal practices in residential care are a recognised issue in child welfare internationally; thus, the question of how these institutions are supervised is important. However, children's residential care is complex by nature, making its supervision a challenging task.
Jenni Repo
wiley   +1 more source

The Roles of Vocabulary Size, Word Part Knowledge, and Semantic Transparency in Vocabulary Learning Through the Word Part Technique

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated the influence of learner‐ and word‐related variables on L2 vocabulary learning through the word part technique (WPT), a morphological mnemonic designed to strengthen form–meaning associations through knowledge of affixes and stems.
Gaia Oikawa, Masato Sugawara, Takumi Uchihara   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper assesses what type of comments are most useful to what type of stakeholder in gaining influence during public consultations. Theoretically, the paper approaches stakeholders' consultation comments as reputational threats from key audiences that the agency needs to respond to.
Rik Joosen
wiley   +1 more source

Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study examines diversity in corporate offending. Corporations can be diverse or rather specialized in their pattern of rule violating behavior. Offending diversity (or crime mix) constitutes an important dimension of the criminal career and different theories of offending lead to different predictions with regard to the extent of ...
Marieke H. A. Kluin, Arjan A. J. Blokland, Wim Huisman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co‐articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and
Anna Pearce
wiley   +1 more source

Getting ready for inspection of investigational site at short notice

Perspectives in Clinical Research, 2010
India is becoming an attractive destination for drug development and clinical research. This is evidenced by the three fold increment in clinical trial applications in last four years to the office of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). This upward
Rajendra Talele
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