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    Separating conditional and unconditional cooperation in a sequential Prisoner...

    Most theories of social exchange distinguish between two different types of cooperation, depending on whether or not cooperation occurs conditional upon the partner’s previous...
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    Spatial and topical imbalances in biodiversity research

    The rapid erosion of biodiversity is among the biggest challenges human society is facing. Concurrently, major efforts are in place to quantify changes in biodiversity, to...
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    The emergent integrated network structure of scientific research

    Scientific research is often thought of as being conducted by individuals and small teams striving for disciplinary advances. Yet as a whole, this endeavor more closely...
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    Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest...

    Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper...
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    Computation of adherence to medication and visualization of medication histor...

    Adherence to medications is an important indicator of the quality of medication management and impacts on health outcomes and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery....
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The prognostic value of prognostic nutritional index in hepatocellular carcin...

    Background and aims The clinical value of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been investigated in previous studies, but the results...
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    A funder-imposed data publication requirement seldom inspired data sharing

    Growth of the open science movement has drawn significant attention to data sharing and availability across the scientific community. In this study, we tested the ability to...
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    A Phylogenetic Re-Analysis of Groupers with Applications for Ciguatera Fish P...

    Background Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is a significant public health problem due to dinoflagellates. It is responsible for one of the highest reported incidence of...
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    Participation shifts explain degree distributions in a human communications n...

    Human interpersonal communications drive political, technological, and economic systems, placing importance on network link prediction as a fundamental problem of the sciences....
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    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...
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    The need for randomization in animal trials: an overview of systematic reviews

    Background and Objectives: Randomization, allocation concealment, and blind outcome assessment have been shown to reduce bias in human studies. Authors from the Collaborative...
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    Building flux capacity: Citizen scientists increase resolution of soil greenh...

    Though citizen science programs have been broadly successful in diverse scientific fields, their adoption has lagged in some disciplines, including soil science and ecosystem...
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    cgmanalysis: An R package for descriptive analysis of continuous glucose moni...

    Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is an essential part of diabetes care. Real-time CGM data are beneficial to patients for daily glucose management, and aggregate summary...
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    Repeatability of flatfish reflex impairment assessments based on video record...

    : Using measures of reflex impairment and injury to quantify an aquatic organism's vitality have gained popularity as survival predictors of discarded non-target fisheries...
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    The Influence of Mark-Recapture Sampling Effort on Estimates of Rock Lobster ...

    Five annual capture-mark-recapture surveys on Jasus edwardsii were used to evaluate the effect of sample size and fishing effort on the precision of estimated survival...
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    Using the CustusX toolkit to create an image guided bronchoscopy application:...

    Purpose The aim of this paper is to show how a specialized planning and guidance application called Fraxinus, can be built on top of the CustusX platform (www.custusx.org),...