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    Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...

    Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across...
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    Global and Local Concerns: What Attitudes and Beliefs Motivate Farmers to Mit...

    In response to agriculture's vulnerability and contribution to climate change, many governments are developing initiatives that promote the adoption of mitigation and adaptation...
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    Equity in aid allocation and distribution: A qualitative study of key stakeho...

    The Sustainable Development Goals have spurred a growing interest in and focus on equitable development. In theory, donors can play an important role in promoting equity within...
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    Estimation accuracy in the psychological sciences

    Sample means comparisons are a fundamental and ubiquitous approach to interpreting experimental psychological data. Yet, we argue that the sample and effect sizes in published...
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    Election forensics: Using machine learning and synthetic data for possible el...

    : Assuring election integrity is essential for the legitimacy of elected representative democratic government. Until recently, other than in-person election observation, there...
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    Autism spectrum disorder, politics, and the generosity of insurance mandates ...

    The study of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the United States has identified a growing prevalence of the disorder across the country, a high economic burden for necessary...
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    The proximal experience of awe.

    Research on awe has grown exponentially in recent decades; however, few studies have considered whether awe-inspiring experiences also inspire other emotions. In two studies, we...
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    Capturing multi-stage fuzzy uncertainties in hybrid system dynamics and agent...

    Background In practical research, it was found that most people made health-related decisions not based on numerical data but on perceptions. Examples include the perceptions...
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    Acknowledgements are not just thank you notes: A qualitative analysis of ackn...

    Acknowledgements in scientific articles can be described as miscellaneous, their content ranging from pre-formulated financial disclosure statements to personal testimonies of...
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    Base-rate expectations modulate the causal illusion.

    Previous research revealed that people’s judgments of causality between a target cause and an outcome in null contingency settings can be biased by various factors, leading to...
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    Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scie...

    In public disputes, stakeholders sometimes misrepresent statistics or other types of scientific evidence to support their claims. One of the reasons this is problematic is that...
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    How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and scie...

    Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded. Yet, finding statistical instruments...
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    : Data quality control is important for any data collection program, especially in citizen science projects, where it is more likely that errors occur due to the human factor....
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    Assessing the accuracy of predictive models for numerical data: Not r nor r2,...

    : Assessing the accuracy of predictive models is critical because predictive models have been increasingly used across various disciplines and predictive accuracy determines the...
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    AIMS: Social scientists have postulated that the discrepancy between achievements and expectations affects individuals' subjective well-being. Still, little has been done to...
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    There is increased concern about poor scientific practices arising from an excessive focus on P-values. Two particularly worrisome practices are selective reporting of...
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    Poland was one of the first countries of Central and Eastern Europe with stable wolf populations to effectively introduce year-round protection of the species. This paper traces...
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    Soft Regulation with Crowd Recommendation: Coordinating Self-Interested Agent...

    Regulating emerging industries is challenging, even controversial at times. Under-regulation can result in safety threats to plant personnel, surrounding communities, and the...
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    Unilateral versus bilateral pedicle screw fixation in lumbar fusion: A system...

    Objectives To carry out a systematic review on the basis of overlapping meta-analyses that compare unilateral with bilateral pedicle screw fixation (PSF) in lumbar fusion to...
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    Constructing and influencing perceived authenticity in science communication:...

    This study develops a measure of perceived authenticity in science communication and then explores communication strategies to improve the perceived authenticity of a scientific...