Empathy and helping: the role of affect in response to others’ suffering by Yoona Kang, Steven Mesquiti, Elizabeth S. Baik, Emily B. Falk

“…The listeners then reported how positive and negative they felt while listening to the story. We found that individuals with greater tendencies to experience Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking felt more positive (e.g., connected, compassionate), whereas those with higher Personal Distress felt more negative (e.g., nervous, anxious) in response to another’s suffering. …”
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Relations entre l’estime de soi et l’état de santé « objectif » des aînés by Enguerran Macia, Gilles Boëtsch, Nicole Chapuis-Lucciani

“…In spite of several studies on self-esteem covering the human life-span, the relation between self-esteem, aging and health remains incompletely explored, particularly in the French population.The objective of this study is twofold: (1) to assess the relation between self-esteem and socio-demographic factors, notably age, among older French adults, and (2) if, as is presumed, advancing age is associated with lower self-esteem, to test the mediating effect of chronic diseases and physical incapacities on the relation between age and negative self-esteem.For this, 400 older adults living in Marseille, aged from 60 to 92, were individually interviewed (average duration: 1 h 30).In this sample, age, place of residence and educational level were associated with self-esteem. …”
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Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes by Shandeepa Wickramasinghe, Onyekachukwu Onyerikwu, Jie Sun, Daniel ben-Avraham

“…We develop a Spatial Social Complex Network (SSCN) model that captures not only essential connectivity features of real-life social networks, including a heavy-tailed degree distribution and high clustering, but also the spatial location of individuals, reproducing Zipf’s law for the distribution of city populations as well as other observed hallmarks. …”
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Construction of Gender Identity in Political Discourse by E. D. Butsyk

“…The founders of this theory advance the thesis that an individual's gender identity is shaped in the process of constructing gender relations in communicative interaction. …”
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Politics of Counter-Memory in Turkey: Docudramatizing the Past as a Panacea for Official Discourses? by Nuran E. Işik

“…The production of the docudrama Mustafa based on the idea of an alternative reading of the history of the Republic and Atatürk leads to the individualization of history. The documentary covers Atatürk’s life of so as to reveal some details or unknown anectodes about his private life which were never covered in such a genre. …”
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El efecto de la percepción económica sobre la participación política no convencional en Chile, 2015 by Gonzalo Espinoza Bianchini, Patricio Navia

“…Se usaron análisis de factores como mecanismo metodológico para agrupar la participación política no convencional en tres tipos: individual, colectiva y online. Con base en regresiones lineales (MCO) y logísticas, se obtuvo que a mejor percepción egotrópica retrospectiva, mayor participación no convencional; a mejor percepción sociotrópica retrospectiva, menor es la probabilidad de participar; y que las evaluaciones prospectivas ego y sociotrópica no afectan la probabilidad de participar. …”
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Maintaining autonomy: How older persons with chronic conditions and their significant others interpret, navigate, and overcome everyday difficulties by Thomas Ballmer, Brigitte Gantschnig

“…Their main goal was maintaining autonomy, agency, and a positive identity. They employed individual, creative strategies to achieve these goals.Conclusions Older persons with chronic conditions prioritise autonomy and agency in order to maintain a positive identity.Significance Interventions to support older persons with chronic conditions should centre their priorities and build on their creativity.…”
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Dexmedetomidine Attenuates Inflammation in Elderly Patients Following Major Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial [Corrigendum] by Chen X, Chen Q, Qin Z, Alam A, Zhao H, West R, Liu X, Li J, Li X, Yi B, Ma D, Gu J

“…Notes: The distribution of (A) Crea, (B) BUN, (C) NGAL showing renal function, and (D) Horowitz Index and (E) cLac reflecting pulmonary complications, as well as other biomarkers of (F) CA, (G) Cor, and (H) Ach in the placebo group (blue points) and the Dex group (yellow points) of all individuals are shown with violin plots (n=43 patients per group). …”
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Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Health: A Review of the Literature and Clinical Application by Kyle Kiesel, Kyle Matsel, Garrett Bullock, Todd Arnold, Phil Plisky

“… # Conclusion The most common MSKD risk factors are discussed and a clinical framework to individualize intervention is proposed. Addressing key risk factors within rehabilitation may be an important step to reduce the enormous and growing burden these disorders are having on society…”
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The concept of vulnerability and its relation to equality in the context of human rights: cases from climate change, anti-discrimination and asylum by Monika Mayrhofer, Margit Ammer, Katrin Wladasch

“…The concept does not have equality-promoting connotations, emphasizes individual and group-specific deficit accounts, and often fails to grasp structural factors of discrimination and inequality.…”
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Intensional profiles and different kinds of human minds. “Case studies” about Hungarian imperative-like sentence types by Gábor Alberti, Judit Kleiber, Zsuzsanna Schnell, Veronika Szabó

“…The paper concludes with an insight into our attempts to model the mind of individuals living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This latter subproject is relevant since our framework provides solutions to pragmaticosemantic phenomena “at the cost” of undertaking the complex task of actually representing the structure of the human mind itself – which is not impossible but requires an adequate decision of the level of abstraction and the components to be used. …”
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Manajemen Fisioterapi pada Asma : Laporan Kasus by Irianto Irianto, Dian Sukma Putri, Kamrawati Kamrawati, Alfi Syahar

“…Program fisioterapi harus bersifat individual dengan mempertimbangkan tingkat keparahan serta presentasi klinis dari pasien.…”
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Graines d'histoire by Claire Newton, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Sarah Ivorra, Muriel Gros-Balthazard, Claire Tito de Morais, Sandrine Picq, Margareta Tengberg, Jean-Christophe Pintaud

“…For that purpose, the morphological diversity of the date palm was studied through seed shape analysis, using the Elliptic Fourier Transforms (EFT) method.The biological material used comprises seeds of uncultivated Phoenix individuals from isolated Oman populations, cultivated date palm varieties, and other related Phoenix species. …”
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The “Sanitary” Role of the Necrophagous Birds in the Ecosystems by Karimov Tahir, Ahmadli Leyla, Rajabova Sevinj, Mammadov Ayaz

“…Among wild animals, mortality was predominantly observed in young individuals, attributed to their inexperience and underdeveloped adaptive responses, which led them to venture into populated areas for food, making them vulnerable to hunting, traps, and transportation hazards.…”
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Clinical Aspects of Trace Elements: Zinc in Human Nutrition - Assessment of Zinc Status by Michelle M Pluhator, Alan Br Thomson, Richard N Fedorak

“…As a consequence, defining and assessing zinc status in the individual patient is a somewhat uncertain process. …”
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Planktonic Rotifers in a Subtropical Shallow Lake: Succession, Relationship to Environmental Factors, and Use as Bioindicators by Gaohua Ji, Xianyun Wang, Liqing Wang

“…GAMs indicated that the selected factors were responsible for 64.8% of the total rotifer abundance variance and 16.5~64.3% of the variances of individual species abundance. Most of the environmental parameters had effects on rotifer abundance that could only be described by complicated curves, characterised by unimodality and bimodality instead of linearity. …”
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Factors Improvement of Sustainable livelihoods from the Perspective of Local People, Case Study: Ardabil County by vakil heidari sarban, Alireza Abdpour

“…To achieve this goal, 35 residents of studied region were interviewed individually with college education and at least a bachelor's degree. …”
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Master Education and Academic Career Track in Russia by A. V. Garmonova, E. A. Opfer, D. V. Shcheglova

“…The study results reveal that master’s students do not have an opportunity to build an individual academic track within “hybrid” master’s programs. …”
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O Estudo de Aula no estágio curricular supervisionado: percepções de futuros professores de Matemática by Roselene Alves Amâncio, Samira Zaidan

“…Os dados foram coletados por meio de uma entrevista individual realizada ao final do estágio. Os relatos mostram que os futuros professores consideram que o Estudo de Aula enriqueceu a experiência do estágio em vários aspectos. …”
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Greenwashing – The Dark Side of Eco-Friendly Marketing. A Case Study from Slovakia by Andrea Seberíni, Katarína Izáková, Miroslava Tokovská

“…Four descriptive themes were created: (1) Individual and interpersonal determinants of consumers; (2) Marketing and organisational determinants of brands; (3) Public policy of the environment and health of the Slovak Republic; and (4) Environmental sustainability and ecological protection. …”
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