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Time to get some ZZs? Navigating Generation Z values in extension programming through a systems lens

open access: yesAdvancements in Agricultural Development
The purpose of this study was to identify programming values of Generation Z college students to offer insight into future programming and adaptation of current systems within Extension to prepare for the next generation of stakeholders.
Megan Cantrell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Madness: The ethics of identifying and treating mental illness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This essay analyzes different contemporary models for defining mental illness and offers a new framework that promotes the use of normative values during the clinical diagnostic process.
Seely, Mason
core   +1 more source

Traditional Healers and Mental Health in Nepal: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Despite extensive ethnographic and qualitative research on traditional healers in Nepal, the role of traditional healers in relation to mental health has not been synthesized.
Franz, Lauren   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of APOE ε4 Genotype Load on Cognitive Function and Lipid Metabolism in Patients With Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Apolipoprotein ε4 (APOE ε4) is a potent genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its role in cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) remains unclear. Given the clinical and pathological similarities between CSVD and AD, this study aimed to investigate the associations of APOE ε4 gene dosage with cognitive function and
Tingru Jin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Now he walks and walks, as if he didn't have a home where he could eat": food, healing, and hunger in Quechua narratives of madness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the Quechua-speaking peasant communities of southern Peru, mental disorder is understood less as individualized pathology and more as a disturbance in family and social relationships. For many Andeans, food and feeding are ontologically fundamental to
A Topor   +40 more
core   +1 more source

Using mental models to understand soil management

open access: yes, 2016
Soil degradation continues to be a serious issue. This is partially due to the specific characteristics of soil and degradation, many of which are linked to how humans perceive their environment. How a person perceives soil degradation will influence how
K. Prager, M. Curfs
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Higher Amyloid and Tau Burden Is Associated With Faster Decline on a Digital Cognitive Test

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective A 2‐min digital clock‐drawing test (DCTclock) captures more granular features of the clock‐drawing process than the pencil‐and‐paper clock‐drawing test, revealing more subtle deficits at the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A previous cross‐sectional study demonstrated that worse DCTclock performance was associated with
Jessie Fanglu Fu   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does training improve users' mental models about adaptive cruise control?

open access: yesTraffic Safety Research
While Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) promise safety benefits to drivers, there is evidence to suggest that drivers are unaware or uninformed about their vehicles’ systems and thus have poor mental models about the systems.
Apoorva Hungund   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waypoints on a Journey of Discovery: Mental Models in Human-Environment Interactions

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2012
Although the broad concept of mental models is gaining currency as a way to explore the link between how people think and interact with their world, this concept is limited by a theoretical and practical understanding of how it can be applied in the ...
Timothy Lynam   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The (Mis)appropriation of HIV/AIDS advocacy strategies in Global Mental Health: towards a more nuanced approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Mental health is increasingly finding a place on global health and international development agendas. Advocates for Global Mental Health (GMH), and international organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank ...
Howell, A., Mills, C., Rushton, S.
core   +2 more sources

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