to testify the contrastive properties of two combinations of emotional intelligence (ei) index including emotional vs. cognitive subscale dyads among some one hundred and twenty university students (52 male & 68 female), this study was carried out to predict their success in their general english (ge) course during one academic semester. datasets were obtained through a self-report bar's o...

the aim of this study was to empirically investigate the effect of death-awareness on state mindfulness and state integrative self-knowledge. for existentialists, confrontation with the fact of one’s personal death and tolerance of its inevitable anxiety is the most fundamental conflict of human beings. if such confrontation occurs, it leads to enhancement of one’s self-awareness. empirical tes...

In this review we discuss how we are aware that actions are self-generated. We review behavioural data that suggest that a prediction of the sensory consequences of movement might be used to label actions and their consequences as self-generated. We also describe recent functional neuroimaging experiments and studies of neurological and psychiatric patients, which suggest that the parietal cort...

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n vertebrate cells, not all potential DNA replication origins fire in each S phase, but it is unclear what parameters control that decision. Mauro Anglana, Michelle Debatisse (Institut Curie, Paris, France), and colleagues find that nucleotide availability can determine which origins are activated. Under normal conditions (when nucleotides were readily available), initiation occurred predominan...