Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In this article, I trace a comparison among different components of both anthropologists’ theoretical apparatus, trying not only to sketch the basic elements of their “general anthropology”, but also their interplay with their interpretation of causes, phenomenology and possible ways out of the contemporary crisis, of cognitive and ethical kind, in the capacity for imagining the future in today globalised world. …”
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The contribution of narrative drawing in early literacy by Eliza Pitri, Antonia Michaelidou

“…Existing research supports that reading and writing are active cognitive processes essential for understanding and producing messages, and that there is a direct connection between children’s drawing and speech. …”
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Identifying the Factors Affecting Science and Mathematics Achievement Using Data Mining Methods by S. Ahmet Kiray, Bilge Gok, A. Selman Bozkir

“…Furthermore, the study examines and reveals how the reading skills, problem solving skills, cognitive and affective variables influence the math and science achievement. …”
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Propagation of interspecies sexual behaviour between Japanese macaques and Sika deer: First evidence by Sueur Cédric, Oshima Atsuyuki, Pelé Marie

“…Furthermore, we hypothesise that the observed propagation may underlie social transmission and highlight the potential cognitive capacities of Japanese macaques involving social learning mechanisms and the willingness to adopt noninstinctual behaviours.…”
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Paired-Pulse Inhibition in the Auditory Cortex in Parkinson's Disease and Its Dependence on Clinical Characteristics of the Patients by Elena Lukhanina, Natalia Berezetskaya, Irina Karaban

“…The value of PPI correlated negatively with the age of the PD patients (P<.05), age of disease onset (P<.05), body bradykinesia score (P<.01), and positively with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) cognitive score (P<.01). Negative correlation between value of PPI and the age of the healthy subjects (P<.05) was also observed. …”
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Music Personalized Label Clustering and Recommendation Visualization by Yongkang Huo

“…Usually this method uses discrete tags, and the user tags and music tags are juxtaposed and leveled with each other, which does not reflect the importance and ranking order relationship of each tag and does not reflect the cognitive sequence of users when they listen to and annotate music. …”
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Rising Strong: Does Personal Resilience Drive Civic Engagement During Disasters? by Efrat Blitstein-Mishor

“…It provides a robust framework for comprehending the cognitive and emotional processes that drive individuals’ responses to threats and risks to improve knowledge about public behavior, psychological conditions, and mental health during man-made disasters. …”
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Impact of the Project P.A.T.H.S. in the Junior Secondary School Years: Objective Outcome Evaluation Based on Eight Waves of Longitudinal Data by Daniel T. L. Shek, Cecilia M. S. Ma

“…Analyses based on individual growth curve modeling showed that participants in the experimental schools displayed better positive youth development than did participants in the control schools in terms of different indicators derived from the Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale, including moral competence and behavioral competence and cognitive behavioral competencies. Significant results were also found when examining the trajectories of psychological development among control and experimental participants who perceived the program to be beneficial. …”
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Alzheimer’s Disease as a Result of Stimulus Reduction in a GABA-A-Deficient Brain: A Neurocomputational Model by Mariana Antonia Aguiar-Furucho, Francisco Javier Ropero Peláez

“…Several research studies point to the fact that sensory and cognitive reductions like cataracts, deafness, macular degeneration, or even lack of activity after job retirement, precede the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. …”
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Exploring the Anatomical Basis of Effective Connectivity Models with DTI-Based Fiber Tractography by Hubert M. J. Fonteijn, David G. Norris, Frans A. J. Verstraten

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Pedagogical Bioethics Initiatives by M. S. Gorbuleva, I. V. Melik-Gaykazyan, N. A. Pervushina

“…The authors present the directions of pedagogical bioethics, which enable: (1) to overcome the standardization of personality; (2) to become consulting for the formation of individual educational trajectories; (3) to perform the function of informed consent in the context of the implementation of innovative educational technologies based on the achievements of neurophysiology and cognitive sciences; (4) in the context of university integration, to play the role of a dominant of education in the humanities to overcome “moral color vision deficiency”. …”
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TPACK in context: An updated model by Dominik Petko, Punya Mishra, Matthew J Koehler

“…Drawing on research from cognitive psychology, teacher expertise, and situated learning, we argue that TPACK exists simultaneously as teacher knowledge that is shaped by external contexts (contextualized knowledge) and as knowledge about educational environments (Contextual Knowledge). …”
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Teaching Russian to Non-Native Speaking Students in the Multicultural Space of Russian and Moldova Universities by N. D. Afanasieva, M. A. Volkova, E. I. Tsymbalyuk

“…The authors revealed linguo-didactic and sociocultural factors defining students’ choice of language of communication at the university and promoting the building of cognitive interest to learning Russian and forming intercultural competence. …”
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Associated with Posterior Cranial Fossa Meningioma by Nobuyuki Takeuchi, Etushi Kato, Kousuke Kanemoto

“…She had comprehension in regard to her illness and no evidence of cognitive dysfunction and did not meet other DSM-5 criteria such as depression. …”
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Current Perspectives regarding Stem Cell-Based Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease by Kyeong-Ah Kwak, Seung-Pyo Lee, Jin-Young Yang, Young-Seok Park

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder featuring memory loss and cognitive impairment, is caused by synaptic failure and the excessive accumulation of misfolded proteins. …”
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Phospholipase D, a Novel Therapeutic Target Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Neurodegenerative and Neuroimmune Diseases by Weiwei Zhang, Feiqi Zhu, Jie Zhu, Kangding Liu

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Oral Iron Prophylaxis in Pregnancy: Not Too Little and Not Too Much! by Nils Milman

“…Iron is important for development of the fetal brain and cognitive abilities of the newborn. Children born to iron-deficient mothers will start their lives suffering from iron deficiency or even IDA. …”
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A Novel Decentralized Scheme for Cooperative Compressed Spectrum Sensing in Distributed Networks by Huang Jijun, Zha Song

“…However, the computation overhead incurred by compressed reconstruction is nontrivial, especially in a power-constrained cognitive radio (CR). Moreover, additional information, which is generally unavailable in practice, is needed in conventional CS-based wideband spectrum sensing schemes to improve the reconstruction quality as well as the detection performance. …”
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COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS by Gasangusein I. Ibragimov, Elena M. Ibragimova

“…This approach is efficient in regard to non-cognitive competence components (motivation, value, activity). …”
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Clinical and Biochemical Manifestations of Depression: Relation to the Neurobiology of Stress by Phillip W. Gold, Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, Maria G. Pavlatou

“…These mechanisms involve behavioral, cognitive, and systemic manifestations and are also associated with the mechanisms of action of effective antidepressants. …”
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