With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 pr...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized that the associations of empathic prosocial concern and fear of disease with support towards preventive COVID-19 behaviours would be moderated by trust in the government. Results suggest that the association between fear of disease and support for COVID-19 preventive behaviours was strongest when trust in the government was weak (both at individual- and country-level). Conversely, the association with empathic prosocial concern was strongest when trust in the government was high, but this moderation was only found at individual-level scores of governmental trust. We discuss how motivations may be shaped by socio-cultural context, and outline how findings may contribute to a better understanding of collective action during global crises.
Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that results in loss of functions, causes muscle, joint and bone deficits, moreover it increases the muscle tone level. FEScycling is an alternative rehabilitation proce...
Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that results in loss of functions, causes muscle, joint and bone deficits, moreover it increases the muscle tone level. FEScycling is an alternative rehabilitation process to conserve the musculoskeletal system affected by the injury in the functional state. The aim of this study is to get the legs bilaterally synchronized by FES and compare MMG signal responses. The preliminary protocol consists of five consecutive contractions. The first and the last contractions were discarded and the three intermediate contractions were analyzed. A ratio between MMG values of muscle responses during propulsion and return of pedalling phases was calculated for each cycle and each leg. The applied FES profile consisted of pulse and burst on time of 250 us and 5 ms and frequencies of 1000 Hz and 20 Hz, respectively. Results showed that greater MMG RMS values tend to occur during the propulsion phase than in the return phase. MMG Z axis of RLL and MMG X axis of LLL were the axes that presented the greatest ratios. The MMG RMS signal showed that greater values tend to occur during the propulsion phase than in the return phase of the same thigh.
This paper highlights the authors' experiences teaching high school students Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics (STEM) and technology literacy skills. Productive learning is engendered by trust, safety, su...
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A novel power-line interference(PLI) reduction algorithm is proposed as a pre-processing step for electrocardiogram(ECG) signals. A distinct feature of this proposed algorithm is its ability to detect the presence of ...
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A novel power-line interference(PLI) reduction algorithm is proposed as a pre-processing step for electrocardiogram(ECG) signals. A distinct feature of this proposed algorithm is its ability to detect the presence of PLI in the ECG signal before applying the PLI removal algorithm. A constant-false alarm rate(CFAR) PLI detector using a band-pass IIR notch filter is developed for this purpose. Once the presence of PLI is detected, a recursive least-squares(RLS) adaptive IIR filter then will be applied to eliminate the PLI anomaly. On the other hand, if the PLI is not detected, no PLI reduction filtering will be applied. The proposed intelligent algorithm is able to perform PLI reduction operation without human operator supervision. The proposed RLS adaptive notch filtering algorithm also exhibits fast convergence and numerical stability.
The microphone port is proposed for the electrocardiogram(ECG) transmission interface in this *** signal is modulated to assure that the ECG signal can be transmitted through microphone port without low-frequency comp...
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The microphone port is proposed for the electrocardiogram(ECG) transmission interface in this *** signal is modulated to assure that the ECG signal can be transmitted through microphone port without low-frequency component attenuation due to the mismatch of frequency characteristics between ECG signal and microphone *** addition,we want to present whether the obtained ECG is reliable in heart rate variability(HRV) *** Bland and Altman's statistical analysis,high agreement between the conventional and the proposed methods for HRV analysis is derived in this research.
We deal with the automated acquisition of a Spanish medical subword lexicon from an already existing Portuguese seed lexicon. Using two non-parallel monolingual corpora we determined Spanish lexeme candidates from Por...
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