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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
Neurotree: a collaborative, graphical database of the academic genealogy of n...
Neurotree is an online database that documents the lineage of academic mentorship in neuroscience. Modeled on the tree format typically used to describe biological genealogies,... -
Spread of academic success in a high school social network.
Application of social network analysis to education has revealed how social network positions of K-12 students correlate with their behavior and academic achievements. However,... -
A Global Estimate of the Number of Coral Reef Fishers
Overfishing threatens coral reefs worldwide, yet there is no reliable estimate on the number of reef fishers globally. We address this data gap by quantifying the number of reef... -
Has large-scale named-entity network analysis been resting on a flawed assump...
: The assumption that a name uniquely identifies an entity introduces two types of errors: splitting treats one entity as two or more (because of name variants); lumping treats... -
Improving the Measurement of Maternal Mortality: The Sisterhood Method Revisited
BACKGROUND: Over the past several decades the efforts to improve maternal survival and the consequent demand for accurate estimates of maternal mortality have increased.... -
Variable cultural acquisition costs constrain cumulative cultural evolution.
One of the hallmarks of the human species is our capacity for cumulative culture, in which beneficial knowledge and technology is accumulated over successive generations. Yet... -
Incommensurable Worldviews? Is Public Use of Complementary and Alternative Me...
Proponents of controversial Complementary and Alternative Medicines, such as homeopathy, argue that these treatments can be used with great effect in addition to, and sometimes... -
Determinants of Public Attitudes to Genetically Modified Salmon
The objective of this paper is to assess the attitude of Malaysian stakeholders to genetically modified (GM) salmon and to identify the factors that influence their acceptance... -
Willingness to Participate in HIV Vaccine Trials among Men Who Have Sex with ...
Background Recruitment of low- and middle-income country volunteers from most-at-risk populations in HIV vaccine trials is essential to vaccine development. In India, men who... -
High risk sexual behaviors for HIV among the in-school youth in Swaziland: a ...
Background Global efforts in response to the increased prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are mainly aimed at reducing high risk sexual behaviors among young... -
An Evaluation of the Outcomes of Mutual Health Organizations in Benin
BACKGROUND: Mutual health organizations (MHO) have been seen as a promising alternative to the fee-based funding model but scientific foundations to support their generalization... -
Scientists popularizing science: characteristics and impact of TED talk prese...
The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference and associated website of recorded conference presentations (TED Talks) is a highly successful disseminator of... -
Children Prioritize Virtual Exotic Biodiversity over Local Biodiversity
International audience; Environmental education is essential to stem current dramatic biodiversity loss, and childhood is considered as the key period for developing awareness... -
Trends in ecological research during the last three decades--a systematic rev...
It is thought that the science of ecology has experienced conceptual shifts in recent decades, chiefly from viewing nature as static and balanced to a conception of constantly... -
A Smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment/Intervention "App" for Collectin...
We have designed a flexible ecological momentary assessment/intervention smartphone (EMA/EMI) "app". We examine the utility of this app for collecting real-time data, and... -
Characterizing Interdisciplinarity of Researchers and Research Topics Using W...
Researchers' networks have been subject to active modeling and analysis. Earlier literature mostly focused on citation or co-authorship networks reconstructed from annotated... -
Environmental, Institutional, and Demographic Predictors of Environmental Lit...
Building environmental literacy (EL) in children and adolescents is critical to meeting current and emerging environmental challenges worldwide. Although environmental education... -
Will Adoption of the 2010 WHO ART Guidelines for HIV-Infected TB Patients Inc...
Background: In 2010, WHO expanded previously-recommended indications for anti-retroviral treatment to include all HIV-infected TB patients irrespective of CD4 count. India,... -
Authorship Bias in Violence Risk Assessment? A Systematic Review and Meta-Ana...
Various financial and non-financial conflicts of interests have been shown to influence the reporting of research findings, particularly in clinical medicine. In this study, we...
