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The effect of talking about psychological trauma with a significant other on heart rate reactivity in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder
(Elsevier, 2014-09)
Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) commonly make efforts to avoid trauma-oriented conversations with their significant others, which may interfere with the natural recovery process. Trauma-oriented ...
Non-Consequentialist Utilitarianism
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2014-07)
Ethics 101 students read that utilitarianism is a version of consequentialism. It is not, for the following reason. Utilitarianism says that an act is morally right insofar as it maximizes total utility. Consequentialism ...
Sen and Nussbaum: Agency and Capability- Expansion1
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2014-07)
Capability approach pioneers Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum both recognize empowerment as an important aspect of human development. They seem to disagree, however, about how empowerment should be represented within the ...
Objective neuropsychological deficits in post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury: what remains beyond symptom similarity?
(2014-12)
This exploratory study intends to characterize the neuropsychological profile in
persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)
using objective measures of cognitive performance. ...
Increasing phytoremediation efficiency and reliability using novel omics approaches
(Cell Press, 2014-04-12)
Phytoremediation is a cost-effective green alternative to traditional soil remediation technologies, but has experienced varied success in practice. The recent omics revolution has led to leaps in our understanding of soil ...
Team size matters : collaboration and scientific impact since 1900
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-11-06)
This paper provides the first historical analysis of the relationship between collaboration and
scientific impact, using three indicators of collaboration (number of authors, number of addresses,
and number of countries) ...
The kiss of death? : the effect of being cited in a reviewon subsequent citations
(Association for information science and technology, 2014-01-27)
This article inquires into recent claims that citation in a review article provokes a decline in a paper’s later citation
count, these being instead given to the review. Using the Science Citation Index Expanded, we looked ...
Political Sophistication and Vote Intention Switching
The Timing of Electoral Volatility in the 2009 German Election Campaign
(2014-09-01)
This article investigates the link between political sophistication and electoral volatility. Showing that there is disagreement in the literature on whether switching party preferences is related to low or high levels of ...
Party Members as an Electoral Linking Mechanism
An Election Forecasting Model for Political Parties in Belgium, 1981-2010
(2014)
While party membership figures are clearly in decline in several Western countries, different interpretations have been offered on the likely consequences of this trend. Some authors stress that members have lost most of ...
Variable-pressure luminescence and Raman spectroscopy of molecular transition metal complexes : spectroscopic effects originating from small, reversible structural variations
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014)
The past ten years have seen a significantly increasing number of published crystal structures for molecular transition metal complexes at variable pressure, providing quantitative information on structural variations. ...