Associative thinking plays a major role in creativity, as it involves the ability to link distant concepts. Yet, neural mechanisms allowing combine associates creative tasks remain poorly understood. We investigated whole-brain functional connectivity patterns related combining remote associations for thinking. Using connectome predictive modeling approach, we examined connecting close and Comb...

Mountain rangelands are critical resources for mobile pastoralists, and they provide benefits to humankind broadly. Yet mountain pastoral social–ecological systems (SESs) face challenges that affect both mountains rangelands. Herders' traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) underpins their adaptive strategies serves as a resource future adaptation. This holistic case study of Ilemchane transhuma...

Cancer registry records of all cases of breast cancer in women resident in NSW diagnosed in the period 1991 to 1998 were linked using probabilistic techniques with records of breast surgery extracted from hospital separations data for 1991 to 1999. The trend in the proportion of women undergoing BCS was examined and logistic regression was used to examine the infl uence of geographical remotene...

The electoral law in France has been adapted to introduce e-voting. This voting method is however restricted to the eleven constituencies of French citizens living abroad in order to cope with the specificities of this electorate, notably its remoteness from polling stations. The legal framework as well as the technical solution was built in order to preserve the general principles applying to ...