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An mHealth intervention using a smartphone app to increase walking behavior in young adults: a pilot study.
(JMIR Publications, 2016-09-22)Physical inactivity is a growing concern for society and is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other chronic diseases. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the Accupedo-Pro Pedometer mobile ... -
mHealth Research Group NUI Galway: Using mobile technologies for effective health behaviour change
(European Health Psychology Society, 2015) -
A mixed methods study exploring the factors and behaviours that impact on glycaemic control following a structured education programme: the Irish DAFNE Study
(SAGE Publications, 2014-09-08)Aim: To explain the factors affecting glycemic control (measured by HbA1c) following theDose Adjustment for Normal Eating (DAFNE) program. Background: DAFNE is a structurededucation program designed to assist persons with ... -
Mobile health technology interventions for suicide prevention: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
(JMIR Publications, 2018-01-26)Background: Previous research has reported that two of the major barriers to help-seeking for individuals at risk of suicide are stigma and geographical isolation. Mobile technology offers a potential means of delivering ... -
Modeling as part of perception: a hypothesis on the function of neural oscillations
(Pabst Science Publishers, 2001)We argue that the effectiveness of synchronization of oscillatory neural activities coding simple features, as it relates to perceptual organization, may originate in the temporal characteristics of resonance that develops ... -
Modest systems psychology: A neutral complement of positive psychological thinking.
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)The positive psychology movement has recently reconfigured the thinking of psychologists by bringing to the forefront of enquiry a scientific focus on positive emotions, character strengths, and human virtue, the ultimate ... -
A moment to reflect upon perceptual synchrony
(MIT Press, 2006-10)How does neuronal activity bring about the interpretation of visual space in terms of objects or complex perceptual events? If they group, simple visual features can bring about the integration of spikes from neurons ... -
Mutual entailment of temporal relations in younger and older adults: reversing order judgments
(Springer Verlag, 2016-05-12)For temporal relations, mutually entailed relations are different to those directly trained; we learn that A occurred before B and derive that B occurred after A. Deriving such relations results in lower accuracy and ... -
A new measure of multimorbid illness and treatment representations: the example of diabetes and depression
(Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-03-15)Background: Depression is two to three times more common in people with diabetes than in the general population. Although multimorbid diabetes and depression is associated with poor health outcome, existing research has ... -
New measures of functional (but not perceptual) continuity in visual grouping
(International Society for Psychophysics, 2004)The benzodiazepine, Lorazepam enhances the efficiency of inhibitory GABA-A synapses in the cortex, which stabilize postsynaptic, excitatory activity by synchronizing their own discharges at around 40 Hz. Lorazepam treatment ... -
On spirituality and education: keynote paper.
(2009)It is a mistake to ignore the scientific study of spirituality. Research examining the structure and function of concepts such as 'spirit' and 'spirituality' is likely to reveal new insights into the relationship between ... -
Oscillatory priming and form complexity
(Psychonomic Society, 2007-02)Detection of a target grouping is expedited when the target display is preceded by presentation of an oscillating premask that includes priming elements presented intraphasically and below detection threshold at the display ... -
Overcoming barriers to well-being in Ireland.
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Participants’ experiences of a sexual counseling intervention during cardiac rehabilitation: A nested qualitative study within the CHARMS pilot randomized controlled trial
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-09-01)BACKGROUND: International guidelines recommend sexual assessment and counseling be offered to all patients with cardiovascular disease during cardiac rehabilitation. However, sexual problems are infrequently addressed. ... -
Patients' views and experiences of technology based self-management tools for the treatment of hypertension in the community: A qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2015)Abstract Background: Patients with hypertension in the community frequently fail to meet treatment goals. The optimal way to organize and deliver care to hypertensive patients has not been clearly identified. The powerful ... -
The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s
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Populations and problems evaluated with functional assessment
(Springer, 2021-03-27)Functional assessment is a technique consisting of a set of procedures that define the relationship between events in the environment and specific target behaviors. The purpose of functional assessment is to identify ... -
Prefrontal cortex and the generation of oscillatory visual persistence
(Cambridge University Press, 2003-12-01)In this commentary, the formation of "pre-iconic" visual-prime persistence is described in the context of prime-specific, independent-component activation at prefrontal and posterior EEG-recording sites. Although this ... -
Prefrontal cortex and the generation of oscillatory visual persistence
(Cambridge University Press, 2003)In this commentary, the formation of ¿pre-iconic¿ visual-prime persistence is described in the context of prime-specific, independent-component activation at prefrontal and posterior EEG-recording sites. Although this ...