People categorize objects more slowly when visual input is highly impoverished instead of optimal. While bottom-up models may explain a decision with optimal input, perceptual hypothesis testing (PHT) theories implicate top-down processes with impoverished input. Brain mechanisms and the time course of PHT are largely unknown. This event-related potential study used a neuroimaging paradigm that...

This paper investigated the gender implications of involuntary resettlement at Karimenu II Dam. The study employed Impoverishment, Risks, and Reconstruction (IRR) model developed in late 1990s by World Bank coined Michael Cernea (2002). It provides a conceptual tool for identifying inherent risks that may cause impoverishment through displacement resettlement. He identified 8 Involuntary Resett...

Abstract The question of forest status in the Middle Volga region under anthropogenic load is considered. Forest stand vulnerability to fires depends on many factors: age, vitality, exogenous environmental factors. renewal communities characterized by a change and impoverishment phytocenoses.

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are becoming a major source of the national disease burden in Myanmar with potentially serious economic implications. METHODS Using data on 5484 households from the World Health Survey (WHS), this study assessed the household-level economic burden of two chronic conditions, angina and asthma, in Myanmar. Propensity score matching (PSM) and coarsened...

The present study aimed to investigate the households' impoverishment due to the healthcare costs in Shiraz in 2012. In this household's survey, 800 households were studied in Shiraz. The study sample was selected using stratified and cluster sampling in the urban and rural areas, respectively. The information was collected using the household section of the World Health Survey questionnaire. I...