Publications by authors named "T A McCormack"

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  • People with resistant hypertension (RH) face a greater risk of serious heart-related issues, prompting the British and Irish Hypertension Society to recommend specialist guidance for better blood pressure control.
  • The position statement offers a practical framework for diagnosing and managing adults with RH, while also addressing the current evidence gaps in the field.
  • The overall goal is to enhance the quality and consistency of care for individuals with RH throughout the UK and Ireland.
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  • The study investigates how anticipated regret and anticipated relief affect men's intentions and behaviors related to testicular self-examination (TSE).
  • Researchers found that anticipated counterfactual relief and anticipated regret positively predict TSE intentions, while anticipated temporal relief has a negative effect.
  • The findings suggest that focusing on counterfactual emotions can help improve interventions promoting preventive health behaviors like TSE.
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The history of episodic memory.

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci

November 2024

Over the course of his research, Endel Tulving offered a number of somewhat different characterizations of episodic memory. Do they indicate that he changed his mind over time as to what episodic memory is, or did his core understanding of the nature of episodic memory stay the same? In this article, we offer some support for the latter claim, and in particular for thinking that, throughout his life, Tulving took as a defining feature of episodic memory the distinctive awareness of the self in time it involves. We argue that it is easier to see the continuities rather than the discontinuities in Tulving's writings once their historical context is taken into account, where this involves both the authors who influenced his thinking, as well as the intellectual climate at the different times he was writing.

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Endemic to only three known provinces in South Central Vietnam, Cuora picturata have faced extensive collection pressures for the food, medicinal, and pet trades. Further exacerbating their decline is the lack of protected areas where wild populations exist, with only one known population occurring within a protected area. With threats to wild populations persisting, the development of an assurance colony has been prioritized for C.

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