13 research outputs found
Policy responses by different agents/stakeholders in a transition: Integrating the Multi-level Perspective and behavioral economics
This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following the Multi-Level Perspective framework to conceptualize sustainability transitions, we classify the various transition policies at niche, regime and landscape levels. Next, we offer a complementary classification of policies based on a distinction between social preferences and bounded rationality. The paper identifies many barriers to making a sustainability transition and how to respond to them. In addition, lessons are drawn from the case of Denmark. The detailed framework and associated literature for the analysis was discussed in Milestone 31 of the WWWforEurope project (Gazheli et al., 2012).Series: WWWforEurop
The effect of cognitive load on faking interrogative suggestibility on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale
In the light of recent studies into the impact of cognitive load on detecting deception, the impact of cognitive load on faking on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS) was investigated. Eighty undergraduate students participated in the study, and were randomly assigned to one of four conditions resulting from a combination of the factors: instruction type (genuine or instructed faking, see Hansen, Smeets, & Jelicic, 2009) and concurrent task (yes or no). Findings show that instructed fakers, not performing a concurrent task, score significantly higher on yield 1 in comparison to genuine interviewees. This is in line with previous studies into faking on the GSS. However, instructed fakers, performing a concurrent task, achieved significantly lower yield 1 scores than instructed fakers not performing a concurrent task. Genuine (non fakers) showed a different response to increased cognitive load during the dual-task paradigm. This study suggests that increasing cognitive load may potentially indicate (and preclude) faking attempts on the yield dimension of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale
Squid Skin Cell-Inspired Refractive Index Mapping of Cells, Vesicles, and Nanostructures
The
fascination with the optical properties of naturally
occurring
systems has been driven in part by nature’s ability to produce
a diverse palette of vibrant colors from a relatively small number
of common structural motifs. Within this context, some cephalopod
species have evolved skin cells called iridophores and leucophores
whose constituent ultrastructures reflect light in different ways
but are composed of the same high refractive index materiala
protein called reflectin. Although such natural optical systems have
attracted much research interest, measuring the refractive indices
of biomaterial-based structures across multiple different environments
and establishing theoretical frameworks for accurately describing
the obtained refractive index values has proven challenging. Herein,
we employ a synergistic combination of experimental and computational
methodologies to systematically map the three-dimensional refractive
index distributions of model self-assembled reflectin-based structures
both in vivo and in vitro. When
considered together, our findings may improve understanding of squid
skin cell functionality, augment existing methods for characterizing
protein-based optical materials, and expand the utility of emerging
holotomographic microscopy techniques
Squid Skin Cell-Inspired Refractive Index Mapping of Cells, Vesicles, and Nanostructures
The
fascination with the optical properties of naturally
occurring
systems has been driven in part by nature’s ability to produce
a diverse palette of vibrant colors from a relatively small number
of common structural motifs. Within this context, some cephalopod
species have evolved skin cells called iridophores and leucophores
whose constituent ultrastructures reflect light in different ways
but are composed of the same high refractive index materiala
protein called reflectin. Although such natural optical systems have
attracted much research interest, measuring the refractive indices
of biomaterial-based structures across multiple different environments
and establishing theoretical frameworks for accurately describing
the obtained refractive index values has proven challenging. Herein,
we employ a synergistic combination of experimental and computational
methodologies to systematically map the three-dimensional refractive
index distributions of model self-assembled reflectin-based structures
both in vivo and in vitro. When
considered together, our findings may improve understanding of squid
skin cell functionality, augment existing methods for characterizing
protein-based optical materials, and expand the utility of emerging
holotomographic microscopy techniques
Amphetamine-induced psychosis - a separate diagnostic entity or primary psychosis triggered in the vulnerable?
Use of amphetamine and methamphetamine is widespread in the general population and common among patients with psychiatric disorders. Amphetamines may induce symptoms of psychosis very similar to those of acute schizophrenia spectrum psychosis. This has been an argument for using amphetamine-induced psychosis as a model for primary psychotic disorders. To distinguish the two types of psychosis on the basis of acute symptoms is difficult. However, acute psychosis induced by amphetamines seems to have a faster recovery and appears to resolve more completely compared to schizophrenic psychosis. The increased vulnerability for acute amphetamine induced psychosis seen among those with schizophrenia, schizotypal personality and, to a certain degree other psychiatric disorders, is also shared by non-psychiatric individuals who previously have experienced amphetamine-induced psychosis. Schizophrenia spectrum disorder and amphetamine-induced psychosis are further linked together by the finding of several susceptibility genes common to both conditions. These genes probably lower the threshold for becoming psychotic and increase the risk for a poorer clinical course of the disease. The complex relationship between amphetamine use and psychosis has received much attention but is still not adequately explored. Our paper reviews the literature in this field and proposes a stress-vulnerability model for understanding the relationship between amphetamine use and psychosis
Abdominal injuries in a major Scandinavian trauma center – performance assessment over an 8 year period
Den samiska handeln och dess roll som social differentieringsfaktor‐lule lappmark 1760–1860
Communication with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Psychiatric Disabilities: A Summary of the Literature
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