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    Election forensics: Using machine learning and synthetic data for possible el...

    : Assuring election integrity is essential for the legitimacy of elected representative democratic government. Until recently, other than in-person election observation, there...
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    Metacognition for spelling in higher etudents with dyslexia: is there evidenc...

    We examined whether academic and professional bachelor students with dyslexia are able to compensate for their spelling deficits with metacognitive experience. Previous research...
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    Pharmacy students' anxiety towards research during their undergraduate degree...

    Objective To measure pharmacy students' anxiety towards research and how academic support, academic effort, attitude and self-efficacy influence their research anxiety....
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    "Cancer – Educate to Prevent" – High-School Teachers, the New Promoters of Ca...

    Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and thus represents a priority for national public health programs. Prevention has been assumed as the best strategy to...
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    Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scie...

    In public disputes, stakeholders sometimes misrepresent statistics or other types of scientific evidence to support their claims. One of the reasons this is problematic is that...
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    Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Newest Vital Sign: a ...

    Health literacy (HL) refers to the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services, and is thus needed to make appropriate health decisions. The...
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    Assessing the impact of introductory programming workshops on the computation...

    AbstractIntroductionAs biomedical research becomes more data-intensive, computational reproducibility is a growing area of importance. Unfortunately, many biomedical researchers...
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    Challenges and Opportunities: What Can We Learn from Patients Living with Chr...

    The field of health literacy continues to evolve and concern public health researchers and yet remains a largely overlooked concept elsewhere in the healthcare system. We...
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    To Crowdfund Research, Scientists Must Build an Audience for Their Work.

    As rates of traditional sources of scientific funding decline, scientists have become increasingly interested in crowdfunding as a means of bringing in new money for research....
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    The impact of the introduction of bilingual learning on sixth grade education...

    Bilingualism was implemented in the Community of Madrid (Spain) more than ten years ago, through the incorporation of the English language in the teaching methods of certain...
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    Formation of homophily in academic performance: Students change their friends...

    Homophily, the tendency of individuals to associate with others who share similar traits, has been identified as a major driving force in the formation and evolution of social...
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    Meta-research: Why research on research matters

    Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress,...