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Income Support for Persons with Disabilities [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario all maintain separate income-support programs for the disabled. This paper examines the criteria applicants must meet for each program and traces variations in monthly payment levels in relation to political exigencies and inflationary pressures affecting the cost of living.
Ronald D. Kneebone, Oksana Grynishak
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Neural Basis of Extremely High Temporal Sensitivity: Insights From a Patient With Autism
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 The human brain is sensitive to incoming sensory information across multiple time scales. Temporal scales of information represented in the brain generally constrain behavior.
Masakazu Ide +12 more
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Development of Thin Shear Force Sensor Aimed at Improving QOL for Persons with Disabilities
Proceedings, 2018 We have been developing a sheet type shear force sensor. It has a unique structure consisting of two flexible electrode films, a rubber ring, and a liquid electrolyte.
Shigeru Toyama +4 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit abnormal processing of sensory inputs from multiple modalities and higher-order cognitive/behavioral response to those inputs.
Yumi Umesawa +7 more
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Autoethnographic Tourism Experience of Wheelchair User in Bali, Indonesia
Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, 2023 This research presents autoethnography study of a wheelchair-users named Zo during her journey in Bali, Indonesia. Her documentations and field notes are analyzed in four main themes: information accessibility, public facilities accessibility ...
Maudita Zobritania +1 more
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Socialinis Darbas: Patirtis ir Metodai, 2015 Relevance of the research is determined by the fact that there presentation of the interests of people with disabilities in Lithuania is governed by regulating laws, its legal base issufficiently developed, the process of representation of the people ...
Irmina , Beneševičiūtė
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Neural correlate of human reciprocity in social interactions
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2013 Reciprocity plays a key role maintaining cooperation in society. However, little is known about the neural process that underpins human reciprocity during social interactions.
Shiro eSakaiya +6 more
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People with higher autistic traits show stronger binding for color–shape associations
Scientific Reports, 2023 Non-synesthetes exhibit a tendency to associate specific shapes with particular colors (i.e., circle–red, triangle–yellow, and square–blue). Such color–shape associations (CSAs) could potentially affect the feature binding of colors and shapes, thus ...
Na Chen +3 more
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Sensors, 2022 With the growing demand from elderly persons for alternative mobility solutions, motorized mobility scooters (MMSs) have been gaining importance as an essential assistive technology to aid independent living in local communities.
Jun Suzurikawa +3 more
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Zbtb20 promotes astrocytogenesis during neocortical development
Nature Communications, 2016 Astrocytes in the brain are derived from neural precursor cells (NPCs). Here, Motoshi Nagao and colleagues show that the transcription repressor Zbtb20 regulates astrocyte specification in the mouse neocortex.
Motoshi Nagao +3 more
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