Backwards is the way forward: feedback in the cortical hierarchy predicts the expected future [PDF]
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.
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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
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Ensuring patients privacy in a cryptographic-based-electronic health records using bio-cryptography [PDF]
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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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
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Teaching complex social skills to children with autism; advances of video modeling [PDF]
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
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Executive functions and self‐limited epilepsy with centro‐temporal spikes: A scoping review
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
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Reflective Composition: the declarative composition of roles to unify objects, roles, and aspects [poster session] [PDF]
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
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
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Multiple Shape Registration using Constrained Optimal Control [PDF]
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
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Positive developmental cascades: Strength development reduces support needs in children
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
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