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    A citizen science approach: A detailed ecological assessment of subtropical r...

    Subtropical reefs provide an important habitat for flora and fauna, and proper monitoring is required for conservation. Monitoring these exposed and submerged reefs is...
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    Implementation of intermittent theta burst stimulation compared to convention...

    Background Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is an evidence-based treatment for depression that is increasingly implemented in healthcare systems across the...
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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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    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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    A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the effects of yoga on glycemic control, lipid profiles, body composition and blood pressure in people in the...
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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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    The value of squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCa) to determine the lymph no...

    Background The diagnostic power of CT or MRI on the lymph node status was limited. Supplement measurements were needed to assist the diagnosis of lymph node metastasis. The...
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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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    Improving efficiency in neuroimaging research through application of Lean pri...

    Introduction "Lean" is a set of management principles which focus on increasing value and efficiency by reducing or avoiding waste (e.g., overproduction, defects, inventory,...
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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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    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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    A meta-analysis on the role of pleiotrophin (PTN) as a prognostic factor in c...

    Background Some researchers reported that pleiotrophin (PTN) is associated with the development and metastasis of various tumors and it is a poor prognostic factor for the...
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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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    Evidence for scaling up HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for incor...

    Summary points The ever-growing HIV treatment programs in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) present local policy makers with complex decision dilemmas, as international guidelines...
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    Patent pledges, open IP, or patent pools? Developing taxonomies in the thicke...

    Recently, a range of organisations, including car and consumer electronics manufacturers, have applied so-called patent pledges. A patent pledge is a publicly announced...