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Calculating the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth infection through poo...
Prevalence is a common epidemiological measure for assessing soil-transmitted helminth burden and forms the basis for much public-health decision-making. Standard diagnostic... -
Self-supervised sparse coding scheme for image classification based on low ra...
: Recently, sparse representation, which relies on the underlying assumption that samples can be sparsely represented by their labeled neighbors, has been applied with great... -
The elusive power of the individual victim: Failure to find a difference in t...
Previous research has offered conflicting findings regarding the influence of help appeals that feature an individual victim compared to a group of victims. Studies examining... -
The Influence of Peer Reviewer Expertise on the Evaluation of Research Fundin...
Although the scientific peer review process is crucial to distributing research investments, little has been reported about the decision-making processes used by reviewers. One... -
The development of diagnostic reasoning about uncertain events between ages 4-7.
The present investigation examines the development of children's diagnostic reasoning abilities when such inferences involve belief revision about uncertain potential causes.... -
A rough set-based measurement model study on high-speed railway safety operation
: Aiming to solve the safety problems of high-speed railway operation and management, one new method is urgently needed to construct on the basis of the rough set theory and the... -
Carbon emission reduction and profit distribution mechanism of construction s...
: Fairness concern behavior is extremely common in social life, and many scholars are beginning to pay attention to this behavior. In this study, we investigate a two-echelon... -
The effect of metacognitive training on confidence and strategic reminder set...
Individuals often choose between remembering information using their own memory ability versus using external resources to reduce cognitive demand (i.e. ‘cognitive offloading’).... -
Citizen Social Lab: A digital platform for human behaviour experimentation wi...
Cooperation is one of the behavioral traits that define human beings, however we are still trying to understand why humans cooperate. Behavioral experiments have been largely... -
The National Longitudinal Study of Young Life Scientists: Career differentiat...
Young biomedical PhD scientists are needed in a wide variety of careers. Many recent efforts have been focused on revising training approaches to help them choose and prepare... -
Attending to design when developing complex health interventions: A qualitati...
Background\ud \ud Guidance and frameworks exist to assist those developing health interventions but may offer limited discussion of ‘design’, the part of development concerned... -
The significant effects of cerebral microbleeds on cognitive dysfunction: An ...
OBJECTIVE: Accumulated data suggests that cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) play an important role in the decline of cognitive function, but the results remain inconsistent. In the... -
Obstacles and opportunities for monitoring ethnicity-based inequalities in ma...
BACKGROUND: Monitoring and reducing inequalities in health care has become more relevant since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs bring an... -
ResearchMaps.org for integrating and planning research.
To plan experiments, a biologist needs to evaluate a growing set of empirical findings and hypothetical assertions from diverse fields that use increasingly complex techniques.... -
How much is too much? The effects of information quantity on crowdfunding per...
: We explore the effects of the quantity of information on the tendency to contribute to crowdfunding campaigns. Using the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, we analyze the... -
Crowdsourcing for cognitive science--the utility of smartphones.
By 2015, there will be an estimated two billion smartphone users worldwide. This technology presents exciting opportunities for cognitive science as a medium for rapid,... -
A novel strategy for interpreting the T-SPOT.TB test results read by an ELISP...
Background The T-SPOT.TB can be read by an ELISPOT plate imager as an alternative to a labor-intensive and time-consuming manual reading, but its accuracy has not been... -
Interdisciplinarity research based on NSFC-sponsored projects: A case study o...
: We investigate the interdisciplinarity of mathematics based on an analysis of projects sponsored by the NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China). The motivation of... -
Modeling of linear programming and extended TOPSIS in decision making problem...
: Picture fuzzy sets (PFSs) are comparatively a new extension of fuzzy sets which describe the human opinions that has more answers like acceptance, rejection, neutral and... -
"Before" and "after": Investigating the relationship between temporal connect...
: Sentence-initial temporal clauses headed by before, as in "Before the scientist submitted the paper, the journal changed its policy", have been shown to elicit sustained...
