According to the National Institute for Research Advancement, a Japanese think tank, think tanks are " one of the main policy actors in democratic societies ..., assuring a pluralistic, open and accountable process of policy analysis, research, decision-making and evaluation ".

According to American sources, there has been an extreme reluctance among Vietnamese historians to discuss the decision-making process that led to the General Offensive General Uprising, even decades after the event.

According to Boyd, decision-making occurs in a recurring cycle of observe-orient-decide-act.

According to Tracy, research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show, and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process.

According to Roas Tsagarousianou, e-democracy has three sub-fields: " information provision, deliberation, and participation in decision-making.

According to Đilas she had no influence on Tito's decision-making and mostly occupied her time with housekeeping and taking care of her husband: " With Jovanka around, order and consciousness started reigning supreme, but Tito would still often be extremely gruff, rude and cynical towards her, even in front of others ".

According to a press release, " the University ’ s appeal will be based on the arbitrariness of the NCAA ’ s decision-making process and the inconsistent results and messages that have come from the process.

According to economic theory, human decision-making is devoid of emotions and involves logical reasoning based on cost-benefit calculations.

According to the SMH, there should be a connection between abnormalities in expressing emotions and experiencing feelings, and severe impairments in decision-making.

According to her biographer Johanna Brand, by the spring of 1975, Aquash was " recognized and respected as an organizer in her own right and was taking an increasing role in the decision-making of AIM policies and programs.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

According to observations in several regions, all male and female killer whale pod members participate in the care of the young.

According to the Ministry of Economy, the state regulates the prices of goods and services provided by monopolies and the prices of electric or thermal energy, land, medical services, and services offered by local tax regions.

According to Abulgazi, Shem's original land was Iran while Japheth's was the country called " Kuttup Shamach ," said to be the name of the regions between the Caspian Sea and India.

According to Massimo Pallottino, a scholar of Sardinian prehistory and an Etruscologist, the architecture produced by the Nuragic civilization was the most advanced of any civilization in the western Mediterranean during this epoch, including those in the regions of Magna Graecia.

According to Lewis ( 1918 ), the " principle of these diagrams is that classes set ( mathematics ) | set s be represented by regions in such relation to one another that all the possible logical relations of these classes can be indicated in the same diagram.

According to a report in 2008, 215 out of 300 students who scored the top 10 in the 30 tested provinces and regions chose Tsinghua and 21 out of the 30 top scorers in each province and region chose the university.

According to the administrative reform of Poland in 1999, Słupsk Voivodeship was dissolved and divided between two larger regions: Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

According to Lise Waxer: " African salsa points not so much to a return of salsa to African soil ( Steward 1999: 157 ) but to a complex process of cultural appropriation between two regions of the so-called Third World.

According to the field notes of Thomas White, who surveyed the Hamilton County regions in 1825, the Jennings area was rich in fertile soil, but was sparsely populated.

According to Eliade, traditional societies place their known world at the Center because ( from their perspective ) their known world is the realm that obeys a recognizable order, and it therefore must be the realm in which the Sacred manifests itself ; the regions beyond the known world, which seem strange and foreign, must lie far from the Center, outside the order established by the Sacred.

According to an amendment passed in December 2004, governors and presidents of Russia's constituent regions, who were previously elected by popular vote, are now proposed by the President of Russia for the approval of the local parliament Local parliaments theoretically have the authority to reject the candidate, but if this occurs three times, the parliament may be dissolved by the President and new parliamentary elections held.

According to legend, Termina was split into five areas by four magical giants that live in four regions of the land.

According to military historian Michael Antonucci, every five years the Turkish administrators would scour their regions for the strongest sons of the sultan's Christian subjects.

According to politics of country settlement a number of planned cities were created in peripheral regions.

According to UNESCO, the upper regions of the Salween in China, where it runs parallel to the Mekong and Yangtze rivers, " may be the most biologically diverse temperate ecosystem in the world ".

According to Regino of Prüm, each part of the realm elected a " kinglet " from its own " bowels "— the bowels being the regions inside the realm.

According to neuroimaging data, PET studies on recall and recognition have consistently found increases in regional cerebral blood flow ( RCBF ) in the following six brain regions: ( 1 ) the prefrontal cortex, particularly on the right hemisphere ; ( 2 ) the hippocampal and parahippocampal regions of the medial temporal lobe ; ( 3 ) the anterior cingulate cortex ; ( 4 ) the posterior midline area that includes posterior cingulate, retrosplenial ( see retrosplenial region ), precuneus, and cuneus regions ; ( 5 ) the inferior parietal cortex, especially on the right hemisphere ; and ( 6 ) the cerebellum, particularly on the left. Hippocampus highlighted in red

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According to McCallum, " It's my unproven gut feeling that that brain tumor was said to curtail talks about the tour and play the sympathy card.

According to this research, genetic markers commonly found in modern humans worldwide suggest that today many people carry a gene that evolved as protection against the brain diseases that can be spread by consuming human brain tissue.

According to several linguists, neurocognitive research has confirmed many standards of language learning, such as: " learning engages the entire person ( cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains ), the human brain seeks patterns in its searching for meaning, emotions affect all aspects of learning, retention and recall, past experience always affects new learning, the brain's working memory has a limited capacity, lecture usually results in the lowest degree of retention, rehearsal is essential for retention, practice does not make perfect, and each brain is unique " ( Sousa, 2006, p. 274 ).

According to Herodotus, the first step of mummification was to " take a crooked piece of iron, and with it draw out the brain through the nostrils, thus getting rid of a portion, while the skull is cleared of the rest by rinsing with drugs.

According to this hypothesis, a stimulus activates a spatial pattern of activity across neurons in a brain region.

According to the type physicalist, to be in a certain type of mental state is just to be in a certain type of physical brain state.

According to psychologist Ian Deary, Gould's claim that there is no relation between brain size and IQ is outdated.

According to the CDC, 32 .% of traumatic brain injuries ( another, more specific, term for head injuries ) are caused by falls, 10 % by assaults, 16. 5 % by being struck or against something, 17 .% by motor vehicle accidents, 21 % by other / unknown ways.

According to the authors, " This study answers positively the question of whether repeated administration of ECS seizures can cause brain lesions.

According to Gonen, the direct influence of thyroid hormones on brain functions stems from the wide distribution of T3 receptors throughout the brain.

According to the Babylonian Talmud ( Gittin 56b ), an insect flew into Titus's nose and picked at his brain for seven years.

According to this paradigm, the primary force driving an addicts predicament is what Trimpey calls the " addictive voice ", which can physiologically be understood as being related to the parts of the human brain that control our core survival functions such as hunger, sex, and bowel control.

According to the British writer on grammar, Lynne Truss, many non-writers avoid the colon and semicolon for various reasons: " They are old-fashioned ", " They are middle-class ", " They are optional ", " They are mysteriously connected to pausing ", " They are dangerously addictive ( vide Virginia Woolf )", and " The difference between them is too negligible to be grasped by the brain of man ".

According to the memory-prediction model for intelligence, if the stored representations resolve the arriving patterns, this constitutes " understanding ," and brain activity shifts from evaluation to triggering motor responses.

According to Father Duffy: “ A bullet had pierced his brain.

According to a 2006 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ), some babies who die of SIDS have abnormalities in the brain stem ( medulla oblongata ) of underdeveloped serotonin receptors ( which help control functions like breathing, blood pressure and arousal ) and abnormalities in serotonin signaling.

According to the National Institutes of Health, this finding was the strongest evidence at that time that structural differences in a specific part of the brain may contribute to the risk of SIDS.

According to Joseph Jordania, the initial function of ritualistic behaviors in human evolutionary prehistory was to achieve the altered state of consciousness in hominid brain, in order to transform individual hominids into a group of dedicated individuals with a single collective identity.

According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, doing jigsaw puzzles is one of many activities that can help keep the brain active and may contribute to reducing the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

According to the health management system theory proposed by Nicholas Humphrey, the brain has been selected to ensure that evolved responses are deployed only when the cost benefit is biologically advantageous.