Do lemurs know when they could be wrong? An investigation of information seeking in three species of lemur (Lemur catta, Eulemur rubriventer, and Varecia variegata) [PDF]
, 2020 Sixteen lemurs, including representatives from three species (Lemur catta, Eulemur rubriventer, Varecia variegata), were presented with a food seeking task where information about the rewards location, in one of two plastic tubes, was either known or not
Cunningham, Clare L. +2 more
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Rewarding recovery: the time is now for contingency management for opioid use disorder
Annals of Medicine, 2022 Contingency management (i.e. rewarding people, often with money, for achieving their recovery goals) is backed by decades of empirical support yet remains highly underutilized.
Steven L. Proctor
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Receding Horizon Temporal Logic Control for Finite Deterministic Systems [PDF]
, 2012 This paper considers receding horizon control of finite deterministic systems, which must satisfy a high level, rich specification expressed as a linear temporal logic formula.
Belta, Calin, Ding, Xuchu, Lazar, Mircea
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Ecology and Evolution, 2018 The symbiosis between plants and root‐colonizing arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is one of the most ecologically important examples of interspecific cooperation in the world.
Gijsbert D. A. Werner +3 more
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Reinforcement Learning with Perturbed Rewards
, 2020 Recent studies have shown that reinforcement learning (RL) models are vulnerable in various noisy scenarios. For instance, the observed reward channel is often subject to noise in practice (e.g., when rewards are collected through sensors), and is ...
Li, Bo, Liu, Yang, Wang, Jingkang
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The Effort-Reward Model and Its Effect on Burnout Among Nurses in Ecuador
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Burnout has harmful consequences for individuals and organizations. The study of its antecedents can help us to manage and prevent it. This research aims to explore the role of the effort-reward imbalance (ERI) model as well as the mediation of the ...
Luis E. Alvarado +5 more
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Job satisfaction among hospital staff working in a Government teaching hospital of India
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil University, 2015 Background: In a resource-limited and high burden disease setting, satisfied human resource is an asset in terms of high productivity, efficiency and quality care. Aim: To assess job satisfaction among permanent employees working in a government hospital.
Poonam Jaiswal +6 more
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, 2012 Impulsivity is characterized in part by heightened sensitivity to immediate relative to future rewards. Although previous research has suggested that "high discounters" in intertemporal choice tasks tend to prefer immediate over future rewards because ...
Cherniawsky, Avital S., Holroyd, Clay
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On the neural computation of utility [PDF]
, 1996 The rewarding effect produced by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus can compete and summate with gustatory rewards. However, physiological manipulations, such as sodium depletion and the accumulation of an energy-rich solution in the gut,
Conover, Kent, Shizgal, Peter
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Pathways to increasing adolescent physical activity and wellbeing: A mediation analysis of intervention components designed using a participatory approach [PDF]
, 2020 We assessed which intervention components were associated with change in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and wellbeing through proposed psychosocial mediators.
Brown, Helen Elizabeth +7 more
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