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THE BETA FOCUS: IT'S NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, 1972
What is the beta focus? What are the conditions of its appearance? What are its functional characteristics? What is its pathologic significance? This study attempts to deal with these questions on the basis of evidence obtained in a series of clinical cases. 49 patients showing focally enhanced beta activity were studied.
R, Jaffe, L, Jacobs
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The Nature of Deep-Focus Earthquakes

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1989
Wadati (1928) first proved convincingly that some earthquakes occur at depths well beneath the Earth's crust. He essentially proposed the nomenclature used today by the International Seismological Centre (ISC), i.e. earthquakes with focal depths exceeding 300 km are deep earthquakes, and those with depths between 70 and 300 km are intermediate earth ...
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Focus Introduction: Aquatic Nature Religion

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2007
Outdoor adventure and other recreational practices can express, evoke, and reinforce religious perceptions and orientations to natural and social worlds. Some participants in them understand nature itself to be sacred in some way and believe that facilitating human connections to nature is the most important aspect of their chosen practice.
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Management focus: A natural winner

Nursery World, 2011
Children at a campus early years centre enjoy an innovative education, says Thais Bishop, manager of the Children's Garden.
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Natural cholesterol-lowering products: focus on probiotics

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2014
It is important to maintain healthy blood lipid profiles in order to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease. This article explores some of the evidence for natural cholesterol lowering products as a possible alternative to cholesterol lowering medication.
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A natural fit: exposure to nature influences regulatory focus

European Journal of Marketing
Purpose Natural environments and imagery are known to have a myriad of effects on people’s physical and psychological states. However, little is known about how exposure to nature-related imagery can influence consumers’ motivational states. This research investigates the effect of exposure to nature on consumers’ regulatory focus.
Hajar Fatemi, Jing Wan
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Natural biomaterials in brain repair: A focus on collagen

Neurochemistry International, 2021
Biomaterials derived from natural resources have increasingly been used for versatile applications in the central nervous system (CNS). Thanks to their biocompatibility and biodegradability, natural biomaterials offer vast possibilities for future clinical repair strategies for the CNS.
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Immunopathogenesis of psoriasis: focus on natural killer T cells

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 2009
AbstractPsoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease triggered by dysregulated immune response and characterized by hyperproliferation and altered differentiation of keratinocytes. Formation of psoriatic lesions is thought to be elicited by the complex cellular and cytokine network arising from the pathogenic interactions between keratinocytes and ...
S, Peternel, M, Kastelan
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Using focus groups in naturally occurring settings

Qualitative Research Journal, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the experiences of conducting focus groups amongst acquaintances in naturally occurring settings, where participants were known to each other and participation was less about being recruited, and more about being there when the focus group took place.
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The syntactic nature of focus

Abstract The grammar of focus displays a wide range of multimodular effects (in semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology). The classical analysis of focus stemming from the Principles & Parameters framework considered it as an essentially syntactic phenomenon (with interface consequences), and this is still the core idea under ...
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