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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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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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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    Citizen Science and the Urban Ecology of Birds and Butterflies - A Systematic...

    Citizen science has gained widespread currency as a tool for ecological research over the\ud past decade. However, in the discipline of urban ecology, the existing contributions...
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    Citizen science: An alternative way for water monitoring in Hong Kong

    Nowadays, citizen science has become increasingly popular, especially in Western countries. In Hong Kong, citizen science projects are mostly used for public education, while...
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    Feature engineering with clinical expert knowledge: A case study assessment o...

    Incorporating expert knowledge at the time machine learning models are trained holds promise for producing models that are easier to interpret. The main objectives of this study...
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    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,...
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    Robust cell particle detection to dense regions and subjective training sampl...

    : In recent years, finding the cause of pathogenesis is expected by observing the cell images. In this paper, we propose a cell particle detection method in cell images....
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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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    Tracking Career Outcomes for Postdoctoral Scholars: A Call to Action

    The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study...
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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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    Social scientists' testimony before Congress in the United States between 194...

    Congressional hearings are a venue in which social scientists present their views and analyses before lawmakers in the United States, however quantitative data on their...
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    Underrepresented Minority High School and College Students Report STEM-Pipeli...

    An urgent need exists for graduate and professional schools to establish evidence-based STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) pipeline programs to increase the...
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    Comparative study on the mechanical mechanism of confined concrete supporting...

    : In order to solve the supporting problem in underground engineering with high stress, square steel confined concrete (SQCC) supporting method is adopted to enhance the control...
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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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    Publication Bias in Laboratory Animal Research: A Survey on Magnitude, Driver...

    Context: Publication bias jeopardizes evidence-based medicine, mainly through biased literature syntheses. Publication bias may also affect laboratory animal research, but...