It has been argued that blunted cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress reflect a dysregulation of the neural system that supports motivation. We examined the association between forced expiratory volume in 1 s, an effort (hence motivation) dependent measure of lung function measured by spirometry, and cardiovascular and cortisol reactions to a battery of standard ps...

Methionine adenosyltransferase III (MATIII) catalyzes S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) synthesis and, as part of its reaction mechanism, it also hydrolyzes tripolyphosphate. Tripolyphosphatase activity was linear over time and had a slightly sigmoidal behavior with an affinity in the low micromolar range. On the contrary, AdoMet synthetase activity showed a lag phase that was independent of protei...

This study tests the Basic Psychological Needs Theory (within the Self-determination framework), in relation to the prediction of physical activity and well-being among rheumatoid arthritis patients. Motivation regulations for physical activity were also considered in the process model. A total of 207 patients (150 females, mean age = 58 ± 11 years) completed a questionnaire pack and structural...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects an autonomy-supportive classroom climate on intrinsic motivation in mixed-grade classes. A total 398 children (eight twelve years old) a Japanese elementary school participated questionnaire with two measurement occasions. Path analysis revealed that perceived related active participation structure, which, turn, motivation. were mediated by s...

o m t f ( ( M c t t e M 0 w s e t l t n w t s t g u w e s s v f c e v The need to identify patients with important mitral stenosis (whose condition might be improved by closed commissurotomy) and to separate them from those with predominant mitral insufficiency (who could be made worse) was the motivation for the development of ultrasound cardiography by Edler and Hertz in the 1950s and remaine...

The motivation for this adjunct test came from an exploratory s tudy done by Beth Sundheim during MUC-3. This s tudy showed a degradation in correctness of message processing as the information distribution in the message became more complex, that is, as slot fills were drawn from larger portions of the message and required more discourse processing to extract the information and reassemble it ...

This study aimed to explore elite taekwondo competitors’ imagery strategies . The participants were 10 athletes, who worked for S business team. Data collected through open-ended questionnaires and in-depth interviews. data based on Gould et al. (1992)’s proposed qualitative research method. inductive content analysis of the was conducted following type Paivio (1985) Suinn (1996). law case sepa...

& B. Alpern S. Augart S. M. Blackburn M. Butrico A. Cocchi P. Cheng J. Dolby S. Fink D. Grove M. Hind K. S. McKinley M. Mergen J. E. B. Moss T. Ngo V. Sarkar M. Trapp This paper describes the evolution of the Jikese Research Virtual Machine project from an IBM internal research project, called Jalapeño, into an open-source project. After summarizing the original goals of the project, we discuss...