Search results for "MECHANISMS"
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Voluntary Imitation in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
2016
International audience; Although Alzheimer's disease (AD) primarily manifests as cognitive deficits, the implicit sensorimotor processes that underlie social interactions, such as automatic imitation, seem to be preserved in mild and moderate stages of the disease, as is the ability to communicate with other persons. Nevertheless, when AD patients face more challenging tasks, which do not rely on automatic processes but on explicit voluntary mechanisms and require the patient to pay attention to external events, the cognitive deficits resulting from the disease might negatively affect patients' behavior. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether voluntary motor imitation, i.e.…
Effects of electrical stimulation pattern on quadriceps isometric force and fatigue in individuals with spinal cord injury
2015
Introduction Variable frequency trains (VFT) or train combinations have been suggested as useful strategies to offset the rapid fatigue induced by constant frequency trains (CFT) during electrical stimulation. However, most studies have been of short duration with limited functional application in those with spinal cord injury (SCI). We therefore tested force and fatigue in response to VFT, CFT, and combined patterns in strength training-like conditions (6-s contractions). Methods Ten SCI individuals underwent either CFT or VFT patterns until target torque was no longer produced and then switched immediately to the other pattern. Results Target torque was reached more times when VFT was use…
Misunderstanding Situations in Culture and Cultural Care
2017
This article focuses on cultural misunderstanding in care relations, starting from the analysis of the effects misunderstanding causes in the relation between doctor and migrant patient. The Western medical model tends to be based on objective data, which can be diagnosed through more and more precise and detailed techniques, but it excludes human and cultural aspects of subjectivity and relation from care. This exclusion creates distance, which increases when doctor and patient do not share a cultural homogeneity but differ for their language and the way they conceive their body, health, and disease. By showing some clinical examples, this contribution points out how specialized competence…
Adversarial Attack’s Impact on Machine Learning Model in Cyber-Physical Systems
2020
Deficiency of correctly implemented and robust defence leaves Internet of Things devices vulnerable to cyber threats, such as adversarial attacks. A perpetrator can utilize adversarial examples when attacking Machine Learning models used in a cloud data platform service. Adversarial examples are malicious inputs to ML-models that provide erroneous model outputs while appearing to be unmodified. This kind of attack can fool the classifier and can prevent ML-models from generalizing well and from learning high-level representation; instead, the ML-model learns superficial dataset regularity. This study focuses on investigating, detecting, and preventing adversarial attacks towards a cloud dat…
Il defense mechanisms inventory
2015
Il Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI) (Gleser e Ihilevich, 1969; Gleser e Ihilevich, 1986) è un questionario semiproiettivo per la valutazione degli stili difensivi. Creato alla fine degli anni sessanta da Gleser e Ihilevich, si è diffuso nella pratica clinica e nella ricerca, godendo di buona considerazione nella letteratura scientifica (Davidson e McGregor, 1998). Soltanto la forma per adulti è stata validata in Italia, ma esistono sia la forma per adolescenti sia quella per anziani. La forma per adolescenti prevede una versione breve risultata piuttosto affidabile sia nella clinica sia nelal ricerca (Recklitis et al. 1995).
Orthorexic tendencies and healthy eating in university students: which association with eating disorders, psychopathology, and defense mechanisms?
2021
Orthorexic tendencies and healthy eating in university students: which association with eating disorders, psychopathology, and defense mechanisms? higher in some immature defenses (passive aggression and somatization) than healthy-eating individuals, while no differences were found in mature and neurotic defense styles. Conclusions. These results support the existence of significant differences between ON and other (non-problematic) healthy eating behaviors.
Pensiero e difese nei disturbi bipolari. Studio clinico e psicopatologico su bipolari I e bipolari II. Thinking organization and defense mechanisms i…
2013
Obiettivi. Scopo del presente studio è esplorare il funzionamento psichico dei soggetti con disturbo bipolare I e II attraverso l’analisi e il confronto degli stili di pensiero e dei pattern difensivi. Metodi. Nel corso di un intero anno solare (2009-2010), presso la clinica Psichiatrica del Policlinico Universitario di Palermo sono stati reclutati 29 pazienti con disturbo bipolare I e II. È stato somministrato il seguente protocollo: Wechsler Adult Intelligent Scale-R (WAIS-R) per valutare il funzionamento cognitivo generale; Defense Mechanisms Inventory (DMI) per misurare i pattern difensivi. Sono stati quindi ana- lizzati e confrontati i risultati ai due reattivi. Risultati. I soggetti c…
Children’s Voices on Bullying in Kindergarten
2016
Research suggests that bullying does occur in kindergarten. The extent of bullying in Norway and other Scandinavian countries is estimated to be about 12 %. The purpose of this study is to investigate children’s understanding and experiences of bullying. We use a qualitative approach and have conducted individual interviews and focus group interviews with a total of 31 children, 5 year-olds, in 4 different kindergartens. Additionally, observations were made of 4–5 year-olds in the same kindergartens, 142 children in total. The results show that the children describe bullying as doing or saying “something mean”. Exclusion from play is what all the children fear the most. This study shows tha…
MOESM3 of The transfer of knowledge on integrated care among five European regions: a qualitative multi-method study
2020
Additional file 3. Type of Intervention, including responsible actors and Use of knowledge as indicated by the receiving regions.
S4. Learning experiment video from Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry
2021
Video of a single trial from learning experiment procedure when defended prey was evasive.