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Playing a video game is more than mere procrastination

open access: yesBMC Psychology, 2019
Background Procrastination is seen as a severe problem among young people, and many factors have been claimed to be associated with it, playing video games being one of them. One of the reasons why video games might be related to procrastination is their
Kent Nordby   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Read This Paper Even Later: Procrastination with Time-Inconsistent Preferences [PDF]

open access: yes
Salience costs, along with imperfect foresight, have been used in previous studies to explain procrastination of a one-time task. A companion to this paper, "Read This Paper Later: Procrastination with Time-Consistent Preferences" analyzes the extent to ...
Fischer, Carolyn
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Procrastination Does Pay Sometimes: How the Delay in Implementing Basel II Reduced the Effect of the Subprime Financial Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Basel II, a major international regulatory capital revision, was supposed to have been implemented in the U.S. by 2004, but delays pushed it back more than five years. Basel II could have lowered minimum capital standards and made the largest banks even
Simmons, Raymond Bart
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Energetic microdomains and the vascular control of neuronal and muscle excitability: Toward a unified model

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend The capillary–mitochondria–ion channel (CMIC) axis scales structural resources to match functional workload. (Left) In settings of restricted energetic capacity (e.g. cortical neurons), sparse capillary networks and modest mitochondrial pools set a lower energetic ceiling, sufficient to support phasic, low‐workload excitability. (
L. Fernando Santana, Scott Earley
wiley   +1 more source

Maladaptive perfectionism can explain the inverse relationship between dispositional mindfulness and procrastination.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
Given the widespread occurrence of procrastination and its adverse association with well-being, investigating the individual variables that influence procrastination is a crucial matter.
Gozde Ibili   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hubungan Antara Dukungan Keluarga Inti Dengan Prokrastinasi Akademik Mahasiswa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Many university students complaining on not being able to manage their time well, when to begin and to do something, so, time which should be useful is wasted useless.
ISMUNANDAR, Thaufik Radhityawan
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Physiological mechanisms underlying enhanced performance with blood flow restriction training: neuromuscular, vascular and metabolic adaptations

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend We investigated how 6 weeks of dynamic knee‐extensor interval training with blood flow restriction (BFR‐leg) and without (CTRL‐leg) impacts performance and its mechanisms using non‐invasive methods. Specifically, we used gold‐standard methods to assess neuromuscular function, vascular function using Doppler ultrasound, and near ...
Colin Lavigne   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of \"Social Cognition Theory\" in predicting the factors affecting academic procrastination among students of Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2017

open access: yesJournal of Medical Education and Development, 2018
  Introduction: Academic procrastination is one of the most common problems among students and is one of the main barriers for learning. This study aimed to investigate academic procrastination and its relation with the components of 'social ...
leili Salehi
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Are work-integrated learning (WIL) students better equipped psychologically for work post-graduation than their non-work-integrated learning peers? Some initial findings from a UK university [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Work-integrated learning (WIL) provides an opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, competence, and experience, which increase employability and lead to more satisfying careers.
Drysdale, Maureen   +4 more
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Procrastination in Teams, Contract Design and Discrimination [PDF]

open access: yes
We study a dynamic model of team production with moral hazard. We show that the players begin to invest effort only shortly before the time limit when the reward for solving the task is shared equally.
Philipp Weinschenk
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