Search results for "Adapta"

Prismatic adaptation modulates oscillatory EEG correlates of motor preparation but not visual attention in healthy participants

2018

Prismatic adaption (PA) has been proposed as a tool to induce neural plasticity and is used to help neglect rehabilitation. It leads to a recalibration of visuo-motor coordination during pointing as well as to after-effects on a number of sensorimotor and attention tasks, but whether these effects originate at a motor or attentional level remains a matter of debate. Our aim was to further characterise PA after-effects by using an approach that allows distinguishing between effects on attentional and motor processes. We recorded electroencephalography (EEG) in healthy human participants (9 females and 7 males) while performing a new double step, anticipatory attention/motor preparation parad…

The Posterior Parietal Cortex and the spatial representation of time

2010

Probabilistic Evaluation of the Adaptation Time for Structures under Seismic Loads

2016

Abstract In this paper, a probabilistic approach for the evaluation of the adaptation time for elastic perfectly plastic frames is proposed. The considered load history acting on the structure is defined as a suitable combination of quasi-statical loads and seismic actions. The proposed approach utilizes the Monte Carlo method in order to generate a suitable large number of seismic acceleration histories and for each one the related load combination is defined. Furthermore, for each load combination the related adaptation time is determined, if any, as the optimal one for which the structure is able to shakedown under the unamplified applied actions. A known generalized Ceradini's theorem i…

Intercultural Profiles and Adaptation Among Immigrant and Autochthonous Adolescents

2015

Few studies examine relationships between intercultural strategies and adaptation among adolescents using a person-oriented approach. Framed from an intercultural psychology perspective, this study used such an approach in order to examine the influence of intercultural profiles, patterns of relationships among variables related to intercultural strategies, on the adaptation of adolescents of both non-dominant and dominant groups. Two hundred and fifty-six adolescents living in Italy and aged from 14 to 18 participated to the study: 127 immigrants from Tunisia (males = 49.61%) and 129 autochthonous (males = 44.19%). Data were collected through self-report questionnaires. Using cluster analy…

Zarządzanie projektami logistycznymi jako fundament w procesie zwiększania zdolności adaptacyjnych przedsiębiorstw na przykładzie realizacji przewozu…

2015

Narastająca niepewność powoduje konieczność wypracowania nowych wzorców i metod zarządzania, aby sprostać odmiennym jakościowo, coraz szybciej zmieniającym się wyzwaniom rynkowym. Realizacja projektów, w tym projektów logistycznych, stała się istotnym elementem działań zarówno każdego przedsiębiorstwa, jak i łańcuchów dostaw. Ranga podejmowanych przedsięwzięć o innowacyjnym oraz niepowtarzalnym charakterze, generowanie nowych rozwiązań i pomysłów realizowanych w formie projektów, są doskonałym odzwierciedleniem adaptacyjności przedsiębiorstw w kierunku przeobrażeń zachodzących w otoczeniu. Ze względu na niepowtarzalność tych przedsięwzięć logistyk może mieć za każdym razem problem z radzeni…

Genome degeneration and adaptation in a nascent stage of symbiosis

2014

Symbiotic associations between animals and microbes are ubiquitous in nature, with an estimated 15% of all insect species harboring intracellular bacterial symbionts. Most bacterial symbionts share many genomic features including small genomes, nucleotide composition bias, high coding density, and a paucity of mobile DNA, consistent with long-term host association. In this study, we focus on the early stages of genome degeneration in a recently derived insect-bacterial mutualistic intracellular association. We present the complete genome sequence and annotation of Sitophilus oryzae primary endosymbiont (SOPE). We also present the finished genome sequence and annotation of strain HS, a close…

Psicothema

2020

Resumen tomado de la publicación Directrices de la Comisión Internacional de Test para la adaptación de test: un listado de verificación. Antecedentes: la Comisión Internacional de Test (ITC) propuso una serie de directrices para mejorar la calidad de la traducción y adaptación de los test y, consecuentemente, mejorar la comparabilidad de las puntuaciones a través de distintas culturas. Aunque estas directrices son bien conocidas, no se aplican tan frecuentemente como sería deseable. Este trabajo propone un listado de verificación de los criterios de cumplimiento asociados a las directrices de la ITC, que faciliten su implementación y sirvan de modelo para evaluar la calidad de las adaptaci…

Baltic Journal of Psychology; Volume 16, Number 1&2

2015

Career Adapt-Abilities Scale – Dual Career Form (CAAS-DC): psychometric properties and initial validation in high-school student-athletes

2016

Talented adolescent athletes attempting to sustain academic and vocational training alongside the increasing demands of their athletic career often encounter difficulties, including lower vocational readiness and the challenge of adapting to life after elite sport. Therefore, it is necessary to better understand the specific competencies that youth athletes can draw upon to successfully combine sport and education into a dual career pathway. Building on the existing Career Adapt-Abilities Scale [Savickas & Porfeli, (2012). Career adapt-abilities scale: Construction, reliability, and measurement equivalence across 13 countries. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 80(3), 661–673], we developed a …

Chronic pain affects the whole person--a phenomenological study.

2014

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore participants' perspectives on the effects of chronic pain on the psychophysical unity.Thirty-four chronic pain outpatients were interviewed, and the transcribed interviews were analysed with Giorgi's four-phase phenomenological method. The mean age of the participants was 48 years, and 19 of them were women. For 21 of the participants, the pain duration was more than 5 years, and most had degenerative spinal pain.The results of this whole research project indicated that the phenomenon chronic pain consisted of four essential themes: Pain affects the whole person, invisibility, negativity, and dominance of pain. This study concentrates only on…