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Backwards is the way forward: feedback in the cortical hierarchy predicts the expected future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Clark offers a powerful description of the brain as a prediction machine, which offers progress on two distinct levels. First, on an abstract conceptual level, it provides a unifying framework for perception, action, and cognition (including subdivisions
Muckli, L., Petro, L.S., Smith, F.W.
core   +1 more source

Participation for mental health service development in China: Conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study analyzes a participatory project to develop peer support services for people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) in China. Drawing on interviews with psychiatrists, social workers, service users, and a family caregiver, it examines the conditions, challenges, facilitators, and outcomes of participation in a paternalistic context ...
Zhiying Ma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ensuring patients privacy in a cryptographic-based-electronic health records using bio-cryptography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Several recent works have proposed and implemented cryptography as a means to preserve privacy and security of patients health data. Nevertheless, the weakest point of electronic health record (EHR) systems that relied on these cryptographic schemes is ...
Emuoyibofarhe, Justice   +2 more
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Fractal Anatomy of Human Organs: A Narrative Review of Structure, Function, and Clinical Perspectives

open access: yesClinical Anatomy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fractal geometry describes complex, self‐similar patterns that repeat across spatial scales and is increasingly recognized as relevant in anatomical research. Indeed, the fractal organization is consistently observed in respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, nervous, renal, hepatic, and dermatological systems.
Immacolata Belviso   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching complex social skills to children with autism; advances of video modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Although there has been a corresponding explosion of literature regarding the treatment of the social deficits in autism, the establishment of more complex social behaviors still remains a challenge.
Nikopoulos, C K, Nikopoulou-Smyrni, P G
core   +1 more source

Executive functions and self‐limited epilepsy with centro‐temporal spikes: A scoping review

open access: yesEpileptic Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Executive functions are a set of high‐level cognitive processes necessary for planning, organization, decision‐making, self‐control, and attention, and are carried out in the anterior frontal lobes. An impairment in executive functioning might present as difficulties in planning and organizing activities, in attention and concentration, in ...
Edoardo Fino   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflective Composition: the declarative composition of roles to unify objects, roles, and aspects [poster session] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
As bases for object-orientation, both class-based and prototype-based organization have limitations. We argue that roles have significant benefits as a foundation for organizing objects.
Holland, Simon
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Managers' Decisions About Informal Accommodation Requests by Employees With and Without Disabilities

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although formal accommodations are required by law across many jurisdictions, many employees seek informal adjustments to their work conditions. These individualized work arrangements are not rooted in legal compliance but are instead provided at managers' discretion.
Silvia Bonaccio   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple Shape Registration using Constrained Optimal Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Lagrangian particle formulations of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping algorithm (LDDMM) only allow for the study of a single shape. In this paper, we introduce and discuss both a theoretical and practical setting for the simultaneous ...
Arguillère, Sylvain   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Positive developmental cascades: Strength development reduces support needs in children

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Strength development in children across a range of psychiatric diagnoses may reduce needs for mental health, social, and functioning support over time. A strength‐based adjunct to child and adolescent mental health may foster the developmental context most helpful for achieving desired outcomes with positive developmental cascading ...
Melody R. Altschuler   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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