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Maladaptive emotion regulation traits predict altered corticolimbic recovery from psychosocial stress

Background: Adaptive recovery from stress promotes healthy cognitive affective functioning, whereas maladaptive recovery is linked to poor psychological outcomes. Neural regions, like the anterior cingulate and hippocampus, play critical roles in psychosoc ...

ELSEVIER2021

Risk-based methodology to assess bridge condition based on visual inspection

Eugen Brühwiler, Numa Joy Bertola

The visual inspection of existing infrastructure is a critical step for asset management, as the detection and quantification of damage must be useful to prioritise maintenance. In Switzerland, main inspections are made every five years for all road bridge ...

2021

(Visual) Endophenotypes in schizophrenia research

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

Objective: Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous disease strongly influenced by genetic disposition. However, genetic studies have shown that each single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) contributes very little to the disease. For this reason, endophenotypes, loca ...

2019

Statistical link between external climate forcings and modes of ocean variability

Paolo Perona

In this study we investigate statistical link between external climate forcings and modes of ocean variability on inter-annual (3-year) to centennial (100-year) timescales using de-trended semi-partial-cross-correlation analysis technique. To investigate t ...

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Structural and functional connectivity in the default mode network in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Maude Schneider, Marie Schaer, Maria Carmela Padula

Background: The neural endophenotype associated with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) includes deviant cortical development and alterations in brain connectivity. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) findings also reported disconne ...

BioMed Central2015

Liberalisation, competition and innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of letter volume, public ownership and other con ...

Springer-Verlag2013

Risk and risk prediction error signals in anterior insula

Most accounts of the function of anterior insula in the human brain refer to concepts that are difficult to formalize, such as feelings and awareness. The discovery of signals that reflect risk assessment and risk learning, however, opens the door to forma ...

Springer-Verlag2010

Evidence on the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

2008

A Pessimistic Approach to Trust in Mobile Agent Platforms

Levente Buttyan, Uwe Wilhelm

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2000

Concepts et mécanismes pour la mise en oeuvre d'un environnement d'édition coopérative sur un réseau à grande échelle

The following dissertation addresses one aspect of cooperative editing which has not been well examined until now : the consideration of hardware limitations imposed by a large scale distributed system (namely the Internet). This system model implies heter ...

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