Academic Articles & Research Papers

Social and biological pathways linking relationships with companion animals to human well-being

IntroductionCompanion animals are widely recognized for their potential to support human mental health and well-being. These benefits may arise through changes in social relationships and physiological processes. This study examined whether...

Serviço Social e Ministério Público: aproximações mediadas pela defesa e garantia de direitos humanos

Este artigo aborda a emergência do Ministério Público na esfera pública, balizado pela missão, ainda em disputa na instituição, de defesa do regime democrático e dos direitos humanos. A inserção do Serviço Social na Instituição é atravessad...

Social and Cultural Predicaments of Female-Headed Households Related to Charitable Institutions in Behbahan

Introduction The number of female-headed households has significantly increased worldwide. In Iran as well, these households now account for more than 14% of all families. Female heads of households are women who, due to reasons such as div...

The “black box” of treatment: Patients’ perspective on what works in opioid maintenance treatment for opioid dependence

Abstract Background A lack of conceptual modeling of how the components of opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) for opioid dependence (OD) work causes it to occasionally be labeled the “black-box” of treatment. This study had a two-fold objec...

Synthetic Tactile Sensor for Macroscopic Roughness Estimation Based on Spatial-Coding Contact Processing

Traditional tactile sensors primarily measure macroscopic surface features but do not directly estimate how humans perceive such surface roughness. Sensors that mimic human tactile processing could bridge this gap. This study proposes a met...

Sadness and tears in instructive literature of Christian East

The goal of the research. The article aims to comprehensively reconstruct the vision of sadness and tears presented in the instructive literature of Egyptian-Palestinian monasticism. Methodology. The research uses methods of analysis, synth...

Conference announcement: International Philosophical Seminar Human Body in Comparative Approach: Philosophy, Literature & Art

Echoes of Haunted Memories and Nightmares: Understanding Trauma in Gurnah's Afterlives

This research paper investigates the exploration of trauma within Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel "Afterlives" (2020), examining the profound impact of historical and personal traumas on the characters, particularly the protagonist Hamza. The res...

The Theme of Gender-Violence in Zinaida Tulub’s Novel “Man-hunters”

The article suggest to identify the principal types of descriptions of gender violence and their role in shaping the female characters of the historical novel «Man eaters» by the Ukrainian writer Zinaida Tulub, as well as to trace the influ...

Dove/non dove. "Il parco virtuale": una nota esplicativa

In this article we present the database Dove/nondove, which aims aims to collect and list the texts of female authors who’ve wrote about places and spaces. The goal is to create a global hypertext, monitoring the evolution of specific theme...

Early life climate and adulthood mental health: how birth seasonality influences depressive symptoms in adults

Abstract Background Early life in-utero can have long-term influence on the mental health status of individuals in adulthood, such as depression. Age, gender, socio-economic status, education, and geography are demographic factors shown to ...

Construction and confirmatory factor analysis of the core cognitive ability index system of ship C2 system operators.

BackgroundCognitive ability refers to the ability to receive, process, store, and extract information. It is the most important psychological condition for people to successfully complete activities. Previous studies have shown that the des...

Vertex-wise multivariate genome-wide association study identifies 780 unique genetic loci associated with cortical morphology

Brain morphology has been shown to be highly heritable, yet only a small portion of the heritability is explained by the genetic variants discovered so far. Here we extended the Multivariate Omnibus Statistical Test (MOSTest) and applied it...

Brain plasticity in response to artistic and non-artistic training aimed at promoting creativity: How can we enhance creativity and capture the process in neuroscience?

Creativity has been consensually defined as an ability to produce novel and original ideas/works, a definition shared both by the general public and among scholars. Since creativity is one of the most important and unique cognitive construc...

UltraFast Layer-Resolved Encoding (uFLARE) functional MRI deciphers bidirectional signaling from spontaneous activity

Abstract Deciphering the directionality of information flow in cortical circuits is essential for understanding brain dynamics, learning, and neuroplasticity after injury. However, current noninvasive methods cannot distinguish bottom-up fr...

人性的探討及其啟示：J. Bruner與賈馥茗之觀點的交融 The Discussion of Human Nature and Its Implications: The Integration of the Viewpoints of J. Bruner and Jia Fuming

有關人性的探討，歷來多所討論，但未盡周全。本文以美國心理學家J. S. Bruner與我國學者賈馥茗的觀點為據，採取詮釋學方法，進行分析和詮釋，綜整歸納，期能更明確掌握人性。本研究指出，前者認為人類因其較長的未成熟狀態，而提升其受教性，同時受人類所創造的社會文化之薰陶，啟迪心智，因而發展出複雜的思考能力，增進其適應力；後者則主張人性具有自然之性、基本情感、欲求以及官能。綜括而言，兩者的論點各具特色，統觀之，有助於增進人性輪廓的完整性，而善用人類的未成熟狀態則能降低風險和欲求，...

Problem-Based Learning Approach to Review the Principles of Green Chemistry Applied to a Polycondensation Reaction

Science Education International ¦ Volume 32 ¦ Issue 2 107 ORIGINAL ARTICLE INTRODUCTION The problem-based learning (PBL) methodology is a student-centered approach that is related to the learning process that occurs when students deal w...

Cognitive biases in nursing students' clinical decision-making: insights from high-fidelity simulation using think-aloud and observational methods

BackgroundCognitive biases are systematic errors in human reasoning that can compromise clinical decision-making (CDM) in healthcare. While extensively studied in medicine, nursing research on cognitive biases in CDM remains limited.AimThis...

Experience in a Climate Microworld: Influence of Surface and Structure Learning, Problem Difficulty, and Decision Aids in Reducing Stock-Flow Misconceptions

Research shows that people’s wait-and-see preferences for actions against climate change are a result of several factors, including cognitive misconceptions. The use of simulation tools could help reduce these misconceptions concerning Eart...

Editorial: Task-Related Brain Systems Revealed by Human Imaging Experiments