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Familiars: representing Facebook users’ social behaviour through a reflective playful experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal companions that sit on your Facebook profile and change into different animal ...
Ferrari, Eva   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The role of voluntary disclosure in listed company: an alternative model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this paper is to propose a model of social reporting that allows improving the communication of sociability and quantify the sociability. The research approach follows a qualitative methodology, applying a single method approach.
Bianchi, Maria Teresa   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Maternal immune activation and strain specific interactions in the development of autism-like behaviors in mice. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are due to both genetic and environmental factors. Animal studies provide important translational models for elucidating specific genetic or environmental factors ...
Ashwood, P   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

The role of teaching music in the conditions of computerization [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Using analytical methods, the paper discusses the role of teaching the subject of Musical Culture in the conditions of computerization and digitalization.
Cicović-Sarajlić Dragana J.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross-Modal Iconism at Tully’s Coffee Japan

open access: yesSemiotic Review, 2017
Tully’s Coffee Japan seeks to differentiate itself from competitors in the chain-cafe service industry. It does this in part through the semiotic figuration of two modernist discourses of distinction: culinary-craft authenticity and egalitarian ...
Ezra Toback
doaj   +1 more source

The world is too large : philosophical mobility and urban space in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

The first business computer: a case study in user-driven innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In 1949, the world's first business computer application was rolled out. The host for the application was a British catering and food-manufacturing company, which had developed and built its own computer, designed for business data processing. The author
Land, Frank
core   +1 more source

Effects of Biological Sex and Stress Exposure on Ventromedial Prefrontal Regulation of Mood-Related Behaviors

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021
The ventral portion of the medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) regulates mood, sociability, and context-dependent behaviors. Consequently, altered vmPFC activity has been implicated in the biological basis of emotional disorders.
Tyler Wallace, Brent Myers
doaj   +1 more source

Remimazolam Ameliorates Autistic‐Like Behaviors via Suppression of Ferroptosis in VTA Dopaminergic Neurons in a Mouse Model of ASD

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The ultra‐short‐acting sedative remimazolam has a sustained therapeutic effect on the core symptoms of VPA‐exposed mice. Remimazolam, a GABA agonist, exerts its therapeutic effects by protecting dopamine neurons in the VTA of VPA‐exposed mice. Meanwhile, ferroptosis is the critical mechanism by which remimazolam protects VTA dopaminergic neurons and ...
Yuxin Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

« Morale laïque » à l’école : de la tentation conservatrice à l’éducation du citoyen numérique

open access: yesÉducation et Socialisation, 2013
The announcement that ‘secular morality’ will be taught in schools from the beginning of the 2013 school year places the country’s national education system at a crossroads between a return to the origins of the Third Republic and the opportunity to ...
François Durpaire
doaj   +1 more source

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