Abstract Territorial behaviour arises as a strategy of ensuring individuals’ access to variety potentially limiting resources. While aggressiveness is well-studied widespread trait across taxa, the mechanisms that allow for range aggressive phenotypes coexist in wild remains unclear. In this study, we analyse environmental, social and intrinsic variables can modulate expression different strate...

BACKGROUND Many physicians have experienced or will experience patient who acts threateningly towards them at least once in their careers. However, there have been no studies to gauge the incidence rate and severity of patients' and/or patients' families' violence towards pain physicians. OBJECTIVES This nationwide survey was completed to evaluate the incidence of death/bodily harm threats (D...

Purpose: This study sought to determine the effects of, and satisfaction with, intensive computer-assisted treatment for anomia using commercially available software with persons who have chronic aphasia. Method: Six participants with chronic aphasia used eight Parrot Software programs in an intensive 32-hour treatment protocol lasting 4 weeks. The study measured the effect of this treatment on...

This study examines how grassroots leaders define and act on beliefs about and perceptions of power. In this article, we focus on the following research questions: RQ1. How do grassroots leaders understand and socially construct power?; and RQ2. How does their understanding of power impact their approach to grassroots leadership (e.g., strategies and ways they negotiate power)? The study is fra...

What motivates individuals to regulate their emotions? One answer, which has been highlighted in emotion-regulation research, is that individuals are motivated by short-term hedonic goals (e.g., the motivation to feel pleasure). Another answer, however, is that individuals are motivated by instrumental goals (e.g., the motivation to perform certain behaviors). We suggest that both answers have ...

A System Dynamics simulation model of the Lerma-Chapala watershed, in Mexico, was built to develop an improved Surface Water Distribution Agreement among five states of the Mexican Republic and the national water authorities. The model, the main analytical tool in a politically charged and confrontational water resources allocation, has proven to be very useful for conflict resolution because: ...

This paper explores a global public goods approach to the health of migrants. It suggests that this approach establishes that there are a number of health goods which must be provided to migrants not because these are theirs by right (although this may independently be the case), but because these goods are primary goods which fit the threefold criteria of global public goods. There are two key...