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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"voluntary action"”.
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Voluntary Action and Conscious Intention
… a spiking neural network model of self-initiated action that explains movement-related signals at multiple spatiotemporal scales. In the second study, I investigated what kind of process underlies spontaneous action initiation and how that process relates to awareness of motor preparation through …
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From Intention to Action: Neural Dynamics of Voluntary Action
<p>We experience our actions as under our control. Yet when neuroscience starts to show that this control can be reduced to brain activity that precedes our own awareness of it, our intuitions unravel. The field of volition neuroscience has long uncovered brain signals that precede our awareness of …
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Mobilizing charity: non‐uniformed voluntary action during the First World War
This study proposes that the voluntary sector in the UK underwent major managerial and state‐directional change during the period of the Great War, as a concerted response to but also enabling it to make important contributions to the war effort. It provides an important challenge to that …
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Accounting for hypnotic phenomena via motivation and experimenter demands.
… is driven by the same mechanisms utilized in voluntary action such that one can achieve with voluntary action whatever is achieved under suggestion but that under suggestion the individual is affected by a reduced awareness of intention. To investigate this tenet of CCT, two experiments were …
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Corporate adoption and implementation of innovative environmental policy measures in China
… Several innovative measures, including voluntary action, collaborations between stakeholders, and dissemination of information regarding industry behavior, have emerged in recent years in many countries. This study explores how these three innovative measures have been implemented in …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
… covenants that rely on gratitude; it secures voluntary action; and is rooted in natural equality. Hobbes's natural law of gratitude was influenced by Aristotle's virtue of magnanimity and friendships that accompany virtue in the Nicomachean Ethics. However, Hobbes would problematize …
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Disabled volunteers : an analysis of the experiences of wheelchair-users who volunteer
… non-disabled people as the instigators of voluntary action (the helpers) and disabled people as the recipients of volunteerism (the helped). It also begins to fill a notable gap in academic knowledge about the volunteering experiences of disabled people. The literature review showed that …
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The neurophysiology of internally-driven actions
… growing up. We often change the course of our actions because of external influences or because we simply “change our mind”. As John H. Patterson said, “Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won’t. Dead men can’t”. An important distinction must first be made between the impact …
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Inward to outward
… body senses itself internally and localizes its actions, it provides the basis for a material sense of self existence. At the same time, the mind registers the sense of an agency with free will, the sense of being, the cause of voluntary action. The present self continuously becomes the past, and …
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
… it is a source of hope, turning instead to voluntary action, which made the dilemmas of how to mobilise engaged publics all the more crucial. Village liberals’ attempts to foster such publics frequently ended up reproducing their own marginality, however. Against conventional representations …
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Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Decoding Physiological and Neural Signals
… the most effective methods for feature extraction and classification of these signals. This is particularly challenging due to the highly non-linear, non-stationery, and artifact- and noise-prone nature of these signals.</p> <p>Among basic human-control tasks, reaching and grasping are …
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Women's Refuges in Britain and Northern Ireland, 1971-2010
… refuge movements, the ‘professionalization’ of voluntary action, and the second and third ‘waves’ of feminism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It offers, in their place, a history of endurance, adaptation, and renewal. Alongside this analysis, the thesis also examines how …
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From Conflict to Collaboration: Nongovernmental Organizations and their Negotiations for Local Control of Slum and Squatter Housing in Mumbai, India
… that previously characterized NGO-GO interactions. In other words, NGOs engaged in housing issues appear to be evolving from ''housing rights advocates'' to ''housing developers''. However, very little research has examined the struggles and pressures facing organizations as they travel …
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Leadership in the community sector: promoting collaboration and social change in Belfast
… 28% of the total number of community and voluntary sector (CVS) organisations in Northern Ireland (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, 2012). Through a series of qualitative, in-depth interviews with people playing leadership roles in local communities, the study critically …
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Evaluation of guarantees of origin as a regulatory tool for sustainable energy
… connected to any support scheme, but establish a voluntary market for RES energy products. The policy aims of GO and disclosure are: (1) informing final consumers, and (2) promoting RES development. Main findings of the dissertation are the following: • GO and disclosure is a soft measure as …
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Can You Believe It? A Case for Meaningful Control of Belief
… that alternate possibilities are required for voluntary control. Doxastic control is most frequently denied because we lack the ability to believe at-will. Particularly prominent within the debate is a form of at-will control brought to the fore by Bernard Williams. On this conception, one acts …
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Unconscious modulation of the conscious experience of voluntary control
… our experience of being in control over our actions and their effects? Here I argue that the perception of events as self-caused emerges from a comparison between anticipated and actual action-effects: if the representation of an event that follows an action is activated before the action, …