Publications by authors named "K Cliff"

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  • Anodal tDCS of the primary motor cortex (M1) and cathodal tDCS of the primary sensory cortex (S1) were combined in a study to see if they could effectively modulate pain thresholds compared to a sham stimulation.
  • Thirty-nine healthy participants underwent either active or sham tDCS, with assessments of pain thresholds before and after the intervention.
  • The results showed no significant differences in pain thresholds, indicating that the combined tDCS approach did not effectively induce neuromodulation in the participants, suggesting a need for further research on tDCS protocols.
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Background: For children with low self-regulation in the preschool years, the likelihood of poorer intellectual, health, wealth and anti-social outcomes in adulthood is overwhelming. Yet this knowledge has not yielded a framework for understanding self-regulatory change, nor generated particularly successful methods for enacting this change. Reconciling insights from cross-disciplinary theory, research and practice, this study seeks to implement a newly developed program of low-cost and routine practices and activities for supporting early self-regulatory development within preschool contexts and to evaluate its effect on children's self-regulation, executive function and school readiness; and educator perceived knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy related to self-regulation.

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Background: The aim of this study was to assess the beliefs and attitudes of preservice health and physical education (HPE) specialist and nonspecialist schoolteachers toward obese children.

Methods: A total of 177 nonspecialist and 62 HPE specialist trainee teachers completed a series of pen-and-paper validated measures of attitudes and beliefs toward obese children.

Results: Both groups of preservice teachers reported strong implicit and moderate explicit anti-fat bias.

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Objectives: To determine whether clomipramine differs from fluoxetine in reducing feline urine marking; whether reduction of marking continues in cats treated >8 weeks; whether recurrence of marking, after abrupt drug withdrawal, is less in cats treated >8 weeks; and whether cats that are successfully treated but resume marking after drug withdrawal can be successfully treated again with the same drug regimen.

Design: Positive-controlled, double-masked clinical trial.

Animals: 22 neutered cats (2 females, 20 males) > or =1 year old with objectionable urine marking.

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Objective: To obtain information regarding diagnostic and treatment approaches of veterinarians and attitudes and beliefs of clients about a common clinical problem, urine marking in cats.

Design: Cohort study.

Study Population: 70 veterinarians providing care for urine-marking cats and 500 owners of urine-marking cats.

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