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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Knowledge evolution in physics research: An analysis of bibliographic couplin...

    Even as we advance the frontiers of physics knowledge, our understanding of how this knowledge evolves remains at the descriptive levels of Popper and Kuhn. Using the APS...
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    Independent re-analysis of alleged mind-matter interaction in double-slit exp...

    A two year long experimental dataset in which authors of Radin, et al., 2016 claim to find evidence of mind-matter interaction is independently re-analyzed. In this experiment,...
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    Preference evaluation of ground beef by untrained subjects with three levels ...

    After receiving bad publicity in 2012 and being removed from many ground beef products, finely textured beef (referred to as 'pink slime' by some) is making a comeback. Some of...
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    Ten simple rules when considering retirement

    This is an article submitted to the Ten Simple Rules series of professional development articles published by PLOS Computational Biology.
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    Ten simple rules for researchers while in isolation from a pandemic

    The scale and intensity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic is unprecedented in all our lifetimes This is written for all of us involved in scientific...
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    Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the schol...

    While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in...