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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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    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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    Utilization of smoking cessation medication benefits among medicaid fee-for-s...

    Objective To assess state coverage and utilization of Medicaid smoking cessation medication benefits among fee-for-service enrollees who smoked cigarettes. Methods We...
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    Ultra close-range digital photogrammetry in skeletal anthropology: A systemat...

    Background: Ultra close-range digital photogrammetry (UCR-DP) is emerging as a robust technique for 3D model generation and represents a convenient and low-cost solution for...
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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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    Family and the field: Expectations of a field-based research career affect re...

    Field-based data collection provides an extraordinary opportunity for comparative research. However, the demands of pursuing research away from home creates an expectation of...
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    Background  As in many health care systems, some Canadian jurisdictions have begun shifting away from global hospital budgets. Payment for episodes of care has begun to be...
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    The Impact of a Researcher’s Structural Position on Scientific Performance: A...

    This article discusses the nature and structure of scientific collaboration as well as the association between academic collaboration networks and scientific productivity. Based...
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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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    Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research a...

    This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH...
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    Researchers’ participation in and motivations for engaging with research info...

    Researchers’ participation in online RIMSs This article examined how researchers participated in research information management systems (RIMSs), their motivations for...
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    Using citizen science to expand the global map of landslides: Introducing the...

    Robust inventories are vital for improving assessment of and response to deadly and costly landslide hazards. However, collecting landslide events in inventories is difficult at...
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    Identifying animal taxa used to manufacture bone tools during the Middle Ston...

    This paper presents the histological characterisation of a selection of worked bone artefacts from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu cave, South Africa. Histographic rendering...
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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...