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Tracking and unpacking the impact of Covid-19 on informal food traders in South Africa
In developing economies like South Africa, the informal traders account for more than half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and over 70% of the employment.
Siyabonga Lloyd Duma, Reward Utete
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Spillover effects of competition outcome on future risky cooperation
There is growing evidence that risky cooperation is regulated by the experience of previous interactions with others. However, it is unclear how the evaluation of outcomes from competitive interactions can affect individuals’ subsequent cooperative ...
Yansong Li +5 more
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Rewards that are near increase impulsive action
Summary: In modern society, the natural drive to behave impulsively in order to obtain rewards must often be curbed. A continued failure to do so is associated with a range of outcomes including drug abuse, pathological gambling, and obesity.
David A. O'Connor +8 more
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The ability to regulate appetite is essential to avoid food over-consumption. The desire for a particular food can be triggered by its odor before it is even seen.
R. Janet +6 more
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Labour Regulations in Check: Small and Medium Enterprises’ Workforce Wellbeing Conundrums in South Africa [PDF]
While some labour policies bring dignity to a particular group of employees, other labour policies are purported to be major driving force behind accelerated well-being vulnerability of some employees.
Reward Utete, PhD
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The Role of ND10 Nuclear Bodies in Herpesvirus Infection: A Frenemy for the Virus?
Nuclear domains 10 (ND10), a.k.a. promyelocytic leukemia nuclear bodies (PML-NBs), are membraneless subnuclear domains that are highly dynamic in their protein composition in response to cellular cues.
Behdokht Jan Fada +2 more
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Altered reward processing in patients with lifelong premature ejaculation
Given that sexual behavior is usually pleasurable and highly rewarding, it is surprising that there is as yet no known research to empirically assess how premature ejaculation (PE) patients respond to the rewarding aspect of sexual behavior.
Yansong Li +7 more
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The Role of Predictions, Their Confirmation, and Reward in Maintaining the Self-Concept
The predictive processing framework posits that people continuously use predictive principles when interacting with, learning from, and interpreting their surroundings.
Aviv Mokady, Niv Reggev, Niv Reggev
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Understanding the benefits of extrinsic emotion regulation in depression
Depression is a serious psychiatric illness that negatively affects people’s feelings, thoughts, and actions. Providing emotion regulation support to others, also termed Extrinsic Emotion Regulation (EER), reduces depressive symptoms such as ...
Atheer Massarwe, Noga Cohen, Noga Cohen
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The orphan receptor GPR88 blunts the signaling of opioid receptors and multiple striatal GPCRs
GPR88 is an orphan G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) considered as a promising therapeutic target for neuropsychiatric disorders; its pharmacology, however, remains scarcely understood.
Thibaut Laboute +12 more
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