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Robo-investment aversion.
In five experiments (N = 3,828), we investigate whether people prefer investment decisions to be made by human investment managers rather than by algorithms (“robos”). In all of... -
High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes
AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science... -
How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,... -
Association of the ACTN3 R577X (rs1815739) polymorphism with elite power spor...
Objective The special status accorded to elite athletes stems from their uncommon genetic potential to excel in world-class power sports (PS). Genetic polymorphisms have been... -
Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we... -
Strengthening capacity for natural sciences research: A qualitative assessmen...
Background: Strengthening research capacity in low-and-middle-income countries is essential to drive socioeconomic development and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.... -
Implementing novel, flexible, and powerful survey designs in R Shiny.
Survey research is ubiquitous in the social sciences as a cost-effective and time-efficient means of collecting data. However, the available software for implementing and... -
Linguistic Traces of a Scientific Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel
When scientists report false data, does their writing style reflect their deception? In this study, we investigated the linguistic patterns of fraudulent (N = 24; 170,008... -
Going smoke-free: University staff and students’ qualitative views about smok...
Background Despite many Australian universities introducing smoke-free policies on campus, there is little information about staff and students understanding of smoking on... -
Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the C...
The open access availability of publications by Catalonia's CERCA research centres was analysed to determine the extent to which authors use open access journals, repositories,... -
What are fair study benefits in international health research? Consulting com...
Background Planning study benefits and payments for participants in international health research in low- income settings can be a difficult and controversial process, with... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013):...
This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and... -
Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny:A consultation of UK researc...
Access to reliable and timely information ensures that decision-makers can operate effectively. The motivations and challenges of parliamentarians and policy-makers in accessing... -
Effect of tramadol as an adjuvant to local anesthetics for brachial plexus bl...
Background Tramadol, a 4-phenyl-piperidine analog of codeine, has a unique action in that it has a central opioidergic, noradrenergic, serotonergic analgesic, and peripheral... -
Good and Bad Research Collaborations: Researchers' Views on Science and Ethic...
There has been a dramatic rise in the scale and scope of collaborative global health research. A number of structural and scientific factors explain this growth and there has... -
Cigarette smoking as a risk factor for diabetic nephropathy: A systematic rev...
BACKGROUND: Observational studies suggested that tobacco smoking was associated with diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the results were conflicting and inconsistent. In the... -
Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no... -
Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies
Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals.... -
Orienteering Problem with Functional Profits for multi-source dynamic path co...
Orienteering problem (OP) is a routing problem, where the aim is to generate a path through set of nodes, which would maximize total score and would not exceed the budget. In...
