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Deer on the lookout: how hunting, hiking and coyotes affect white‐tailed deer vigilance

open access: yes, 2017
Predators affect prey directly by removing animals from the population and indirectly by modifying prey behavior. Humans have extirpated apex predators from many ecosystems, and the extent to which smaller predators, or humans themselves, can ...
S. Schuttler   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What can vigilance tell us about fear

open access: yes, 2017
Animal vigilance is concerned with the monitoring of potential threats caused by predators and conspecifics. Researchers have argued that threats are part of a landscape of fear tracking the level of risk posed by predators and conspecifics.
G. Beauchamp
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anticipation of Monetary Reward Can Attenuate the Vigilance Decrement

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Motivation and reward can have differential effects on separate aspects of sustained attention. We previously demonstrated that continuous reward/punishment throughout a sustained attention task improves overall performance, but not vigilance decrements.
M. Esterman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Default Network Activity Is Associated with Better Performance in a Vigilance Task

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017
When attention has to be maintained over prolonged periods performance slowly fluctuates and errors can occur. It has been shown that lapses of attention are correlated with BOLD signals in frontal and parietal cortex.
Carsten Bogler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trademark Vigilance in the Twenty-First Century: An Update [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The trademark laws impose a duty upon brand owners to be vigilant in policing their marks, lest they be subject to the defense of laches, a reduced scope of protection, or even death by genericide.
Sloane, Peter S.
core   +1 more source

The effects of theta-burst stimulation on vigilance in humans

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation has become a popular tool to modulate neuronal networks and associated brain functions in both clinical and basic research.
Armand eMensen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative Vigilance: a Simple Guide [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we discuss a new tort liability rule, which we call super-symmetric comparative negligence and vigilance. When both injurer and victim in an accident are negligent, it provides for liability shares that depend on the degrees of negligence ...
Allan M Feldman, Ram Singh
core  

The subject of continuous vigilance [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1974
Asbestos disease in the occupational setting has been documented since the beginning of this century. Modern usage of asbestos fiber has brought with it concomitant and widespread contamination of the environment. The need to control asbestos is required in the forms of legislation and surveillance, to prevent the spread of asbestos disease into the ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Increased skin conductance responses and neural activity during fear conditioning are associated with a repressive coping style

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015
The investigation of individual differences in coping styles in response to fear conditioning is an important issue for a better understanding of the etiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
Tim eKlucken   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vigilance: a process contributing to the resilience of organizations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Available on: http://www.resilience-engineering.org/REPapers/Brizon_Wybo.pdfInternational audienceFrom the analysis of emergency management activities, four main processes can be identified that contribute to the resilience of an organization facing a ...
Brizon, Ambre, Wybo, Jean-Luc
core   +2 more sources

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