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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Mental activity"”.
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Relationship between Mental Activity and Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Elderly
… of this study was to describe the status of mental activity participation in community-dwelling elderly and to evaluate the association between mental activity and cognitive function after adjustment for depression and anxiety. This study was based on the Suwon Project, which was a cohort …
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Primordial Mental Activity: Archetypal Constellations in Mystical Experiences and in the Creative Processes of Psychotic Patients
… relationship between the concept of Primordial Mental Activity (PMA) coined by Michael Robbins, and the constellation of archetypes, as described by Analytical Psychology. PMA, expressed as a mental function qualitatively different from thought for its a-rationality, is generated by the …
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PDA based ambulatory pulse oximeter
… a preferred choice over the other during each activity. Comparative study among the sensors was also done to observe which sensor worked better with HR and SpO_2 monitoring along with motion. Various tests such as supine-stand test and mental activity were performed to observe the changes in …
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The City of Aetheria
… via poetic imagination, the sublime product of mental activity; as a study intent is to discover the fundamental principles of the city, making explicit the nature and significance of fundamental concepts of urban design theories and utopian ideals while demonstrating the elements of urban form …
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An electrophysiological examination of intentional and inadvertent sleep onset : the effect of intention on the sleep onset process
… demand characteristics, subjective effort and mental activity during the nap tests. The nap opportunities were scored using a new 9 stage scoring system developed by Hori et al. (1994). Power spectral analyses (FFT) were also performed on the sleep onset data provided by the two nap conditions. …
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O aprender através dos jogos nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental I
… as a tool that provides a context to stimulate mental activity and can expland capacity to cooperate and release of students. The use of games is present at different times of people’s lives and can contribute as a way to balace with the real world and the world of imagination. According to the …
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EM-ONE : an architecture for reflective commonsense thinking
… about situations involving physical, social, and mental dimensions. EM-ONE uses as its knowledge base a library of commonsense narratives, each describing the physical, social, and mental activity that occurs during an interaction between several actors. EM-ONE reasons with these narratives by …
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Ghost Kingdoms and Phantom Worlds: Narrative strategies in adoptee autofiction
… worlds they create within themselves through mental activity. Adoptees exist in both of these worlds simultaneously. Using primarily narrative theory, I argue that Lifton’s Ghost Kingdoms are a narrative framework adoptees use to compose narratives that blur the distinction between reality and …
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Using Wireless Dry EEG System to Detect Mental Workload during Mental Arithmetic
Mental workload, the amount of cognitive resources invested during a task, is a crucial metric for performance. Determining the performance of an individual aids in the screening of candidates for, or detection of alertness during, a high-risk task. Three measures for assessing mental workload …
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Forecasting Markers of Habitual Driving Behaviors Associated with Crash Risk
… as distracted based on the presence of mental activity or physical interactions antagonistic to the driving task; their driving style is determined by steering and acceleration and is classified as aggressive or normal. Reliable short-term predictions of such behaviors, especially of …
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For Narrativity: How Creating Narratives Structures Experience and Self
… to be. I make my claim “For Narrativity” as a mental process of form finding and coherence seeking over time that is an inherent mental activity and essential for experience of one’s Self. I make my case through examinations of our experience of time, our use of language, how we plan, and our …
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Issues in objectivity and mind-dependence
… social kinds, judgment-dependent properties, and mental phenomena themselves, stand in various dependence relations to the mental, then this first-pass characterization needs to be significantly revised. In this set of papers, I consider the special questions that metaphysically mind-dependent …
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The Aesthetic Attitude in the Everyday
… our everyday lives as aesthetic by appeal to a mental activity that human beings are capable of engaging in. In Chapter Two, I give a historical account of the aesthetic attitude theory as it has been traditionally conceived. I turn my attention to everyday aesthetics in Chapter Three. There is …
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Psychological Contracts in Coaching
… work is based on ways of understanding how the mental forces operating intrapersonally and interpersonally in and between individuals and groups affect their thinking and behaviour. It involves eight participants, all of whom are professionally trained and accredited coaches, working in the …
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The interdependence of nature and nurture in the establishment and maintenance of mind: an eco-dynamic paradigm
… to describe the dynamics of brain, body, environmental relationships. Methodologically, this dissertation is both interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. I refer to Indo-Tibetan Buddhism as an excellent example of a culture whose goal is to transform the mind to clarity by utilising a symbiotic …
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Something old, something new: The demanding process of serial updating in working memory
… of task-relevant information so that ongoing mental activity can proceed smoothly. The thesis established the first fine-grained temporal analysis of the cognitive demands associated with WM updating, while also presenting recall behaviour and self-reported strategy data. Chapter 1 provided a …
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The efficacy of holistic learning strategies in the development of church leaders in Mozambique : an action research approach
… strategies is related to certain modes of mental activity like whole-making, categorising, and others. This PAR project was conducted within an original research framework, Arboric Research, which takes into account the dynamic, fluid and organic nature of human systems, recognising that …
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Literature's Blind Spot: Event and Remainder in Tom McCarthy's Fiction
… capture or report on historical events and mental activity” (McCarthy, Typewriters 59). This thesis explores the question of the blind spot in his work, the way in which his fiction, in contrast to this mode of realism, focuses not on content or narrative but on what cannot be represented. …
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Hallucinating Facts: Psychedelic Science and the Epistemic Power of Data
… thought, psychedelic research suggests that this mental function is essential to the successful deposition of psychedelic substances as adjuncts to psychotherapy. For the reasons listed above, psychedelic science provides a uniquely salient lens on the normative operations of the data episteme. In …
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The Middle Voice in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament
… discusses the passive, spontaneous process, and mental process middle types. Chapter 4 discusses the body motion, collective motion, and reciprocal middle types. Chapter 5 discusses the direct reflexive, perception, and mental activity middle types. Chapter 6 discusses the speech act and indirect …
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