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Effects of Blood Flow Restricted Low-Intensity Concentric or Eccentric Training on Muscle Size and Strength
(PLos One, 2012-12-31)
We investigated the acute and chronic effects of low-intensity concentric or eccentric resistance training with blood flow restriction (BFR) on muscle size and strength. Ten young men performed 30% of concentric one ...
Eyewitness Identification and the Accuracy of the Criminal Justice System
(Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015-10-01)
This article addresses the problem of eyewitness identification errors that can lead to false convictions of the innocent and false acquittals of the guilty. At the heart of our analysis based on signal detection theory ...
Establishing a Causal Relationship Between Intervention to Promote Self-Determination and Enhanced Student Self-Determination
(The Journal of Special Education, 2013-02-01)
Promoting the self-determination of adolescents with disabilities has become best practice in secondary education and transition services, but to date there have been no studies establishing a causal relationship between ...
Ecological opportunity and the adaptive diversification of lineages
(2014-12-17)
The tenet that ecological opportunity drives adaptive diversification has been central to theories of speciation since Darwin, yet no widely accepted definition or mechanistic framework for the concept currently exists. ...
Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters
(Psychological Science, 2012-10-01)
People from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have ...
Decision-making biases and affective states: Their potential impact on best practice innovations
(2010-09-20)
Rogers’s (2003) stages of innovation adoption and diffusion (knowledge of innovation, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation) are used as a framework for understanding the decision-making biases and heuristics ...
Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?
(Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011-01-01)
Huajian Cai is a professor at the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests involve culture and the self.
Conceptually meeting expectations of Generation Y by building personalised-customised hybrid bundles to target action sports consumers
(2014-04-03)
This paper conceptually explores how bundling could lead to greater revenue and brand loyalty in the action sports industry by meeting the expectations of Generation Y. The author defines personalised-customised hybrid ...
Adolescent Male Attitudes About Singing in Choir
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2011-11-01)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence adolescent males to enroll in school choir as an elective class and to assess their attitudes about singing in general, self-concept of their own ...
BAC-pool sequencing and analysis of large segments of A12 and D12 homoeologous chromosomes in upland cotton.
(2013-10-08)
Although new and emerging next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have reduced sequencing costs significantly, much work remains to implement them for de novo sequencing of complex and highly repetitive genomes such ...