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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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A computational model of evolution: haploidy versus diploidy [PDF]
, 1999 In this paper, the study of diploidy is introduced like and important mechanism for memory reinforcement in artificial environments where adaptation is very important.
Berlanga de Jesús, Antonio +3 more
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Growing evidence suggests that difficulties reasoning about others' thoughts, feelings and desires (called ‘mentalizing’ or ‘theory of mind’) cut across many mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions but studies have yet to test this claim directly.
Rory T. Devine +2 more
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Research on Social Engagement with a Rabbitic User Interface [PDF]
, 2009 Companions as interfaces to smart rooms need not only to be easy to interact with, but also to maintain long-term relationships with their users. The FP7-funded project SERA (Social Engagement with Robots and Agents) contributes to knowledge about and ...
Cunningham, Stuart +3 more
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The world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris [PDF]
, 2006 Too often associated with the tropes of exile, wandering, or nomadism in postmodern thought, philosophical mobility has been little studied in itself, except in connection with the singular travel practices of a Voltaire, a Denis Diderot, or a Jean ...
Van Damme, Stéphane
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Pregnancy complications have been associated with offspring autism spectrum disorders (ASD). There has also been increasing evidence for multigenerational risk factors of ASD. Methods In a multigenerational California birth cohort of 1,740,379 mother–child pairs, we investigated pregnancy complications when the grandmother was ...
Ting Chow +5 more
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Papers, 2011 Las reuniones sociales elitistas y jerárquicas, en las que se difundían conductas protocolarias y se promovía un característico control afectivo, han sido centrales en el análisis del proceso de civilización en autores como Norbert Elias. No obstante, la
Alejandro Néstor García Martínez
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ON COMMON GOOD, MONEY AND CREDIT [PDF]
, 2014 As Kosick maintained, homo oeconomicus is not only a theoretical aberration, it is an aberration of reality. The idea of human beings that Neo-classical Economics portrays is, without a doubt, a degeneration, and does little as the explicative axis of ...
Pérez, Pedro Páez
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Mechanistic trials, therapy and developmental science—An exemplar from early autism care
JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Mechanistic design and analysis in clinical trials remains relatively rare in child mental health and autism, despite the considerable value that it could have in developing therapy practice and in illuminating basic science. Clinical trials themselves continue to have insufficient influence on actual clinical practice in child ...
Jonathan Green
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Acute Restraint Stress Enhances Prosocial Behavior in Rats via Oxytocin and Fear-Related Circuits
Journal of Integrative NeuroscienceBackground: Stress is a critical determinant of social behavior, with oxytocin playing a key role in buffering stress effects and facilitating social bonding.
Sheng-Chiang Wang +3 more
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