Search results for "NATURALISTIC"
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A comparison of physical activity levels in childcare contexts among Finnish and Dutch three-year-olds
2016
The aim of the current study was to determine Finnish and Dutch three-year-old preschool children's physical activity (PA) levels and how levels vary across gender, location, time of day and social contexts in both countries. A modified version of the Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children-Preschool (OSRAC-P) was used to measure children's PA levels and contextual variables (e.g. group composition, prompts) of children attending childcare centres in Finland and the Netherlands. In total, 90 Finnish children (46 boys and 44 girls) and 97 Dutch children (46 boys and 51 girls) were observed. Three-level linear regression analyses with cross level interactions were use…
Generation of stimulus features for analysis of FMRI during natural auditory experiences
2014
In contrast to block and event-related designs for fMRI experiments, it becomes much more difficult to extract events of interest in the complex continuous stimulus for finding corresponding blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) responses. Recently, in a free music listening fMRI experiment, acoustic features of the naturalistic music stimulus were first extracted, and then principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to select the features of interest acting as the stimulus sequences. For feature generation, kernel PCA has shown its superiority over PCA in various applications, since it can implicitly exploit nonlinear relationship among features and such relationship seems to exist genera…
The Mothering of Conduct Problem and Normal Children in Spain and the USA: Authoritarian and Permissive Asynchrony
2005
Ninety-two clinic-referred and nonclinical mother-child dyads in Spain and the USA were observed in their home settings under naturalistic conditions for a total of 477 hours. Children in the clinic-referred dyads were considered troubled because of conduct problems. The observations were aimed at assessing two forms of mother-child asynchrony, either of which was expected to differentiate clinic referred from nonclinical dyads. Authoritarian asynchrony was defined as a mother’s indiscriminate use of aversive reactions to her child, whereas the permissive form entailed indiscriminate positive reactions. Results showed the American mothers to generate more permissive asynchrony, whereas the …
Life on islands. 1. Biodiversity in Sicily and surrounding islands. Studies dedicated to Bruno Massa
2020
L'esperienza degli studenti che hanno partecipato alla fase finale del programma
2014
ASPETTI GEOLOGICI, GEOMORFOLOGICI E ANTROPOLOGICI DE LA MONTAGNOLA (SAN GIOVANNI GEMINI, AGRIGENTO): PROPOSTA DI UN GEOSITO
2014
IL PROGRAMMA MESSAGGERI DELLA CONOSCENZA
2014
L'opportunità di frequentare un Corso di Ingegneria Naturalistica, offerta agli studnti dell'Università di Palermo, è stata determinata del programma Messaggeri della conoscenza promosso dal MIUR del 2012. Il Dipartimento di Architettura, intestatrio del progetto ID 181: Igegneria naturalistica per la progettazione paesaggistica in aree urbane degradate caratterizzate da clima Mediterraneo, attraversso il Laboratorio di Arte dei Giardini e Architettura del Paesaggio del prof. Giuseppe Guerrera, ha svolto le funzioni di coordinamento e promozione del Corso offrendolo agli studenti di Architettura, Ingegneria-Architettura, Igegneria Ambientale, Scienze Agrarie e Forestali. L'obiettivo dell'in…
Alterazioni delle caratteristiche fisico-chimiche e meccaniche dei paletti di castagno in ambiente mediterraneo
2014
Coupling of Action-Perception Brain Networks during Musical Pulse Processing: Evidence from Region-of-Interest-Based Independent Component Analysis
2017
Our sense of rhythm relies on orchestrated activity of several cerebral and cerebellar structures. Although functional connectivity studies have advanced our understanding of rhythm perception, this phenomenon has not been sufficiently studied as a function of musical training and beyond the General Linear Model (GLM) approach. Here, we studied pulse clarity processing during naturalistic music listening using a data-driven approach (independent component analysis; ICA). Participants’ (18 musicians and 18 controls) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) responses were acquired while listening to music. A targeted region of interest (ROI) related to pulse clarity processing was defined…
I am right here with you - Constructing presence in distributed teams
2013
Based on a naturalistic research approach and observational data from real-life distributed teamwork, this paper illustrates how members of virtual teams in today's knowledge-intensive work places can construct and negotiate (social) presence together. Instead of seeing presence as an individual's interpretation and linking it with perceptual illusion of non-mediation or the assumed traits of chosen communication media, this paper sees presence as being socially constructed in interaction. The paper offers critique towards existing models of computer-mediated presence and offers new directions for research.