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    Robo-investment aversion.

    In five experiments (N = 3,828), we investigate whether people prefer investment decisions to be made by human investment managers rather than by algorithms (“robos”). In all of...
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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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    Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university

    The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This...
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    The reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical ...

    The aim of this study was to explore the reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical wholesalers in Finland. The study...
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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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    Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013):...

    This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and...
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    Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny:A consultation of UK researc...

    Access to reliable and timely information ensures that decision-makers can operate effectively. The motivations and challenges of parliamentarians and policy-makers in accessing...
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    Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no...
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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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    Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field, and many computational biology research projects involve distributed teams of scientists. To accomplish their work, these...
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    Ten simple rules for writing a career development award proposal

    Career development awards support intensive training and provide valuable funding for promising postdoctoral and/or junior faculty–level scientists during the transition to...
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    Weekday Affects Attendance Rate for Medical Appointments: Large-Scale Data An...

    The financial cost of missed appointments is so great that even a small percentage reduction in Did Not Attend (DNA) rate could save significant sums of money. Previous studies...
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    The quest for an optimal alpha

    Researchers who analyze data within the framework of null hypothesis significance testing must choose a critical "alpha" level, α, to use as a cutoff for deciding whether a...
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    Interactive youth science workshops benefit student participants and graduate...

    Science communication and outreach are essential for training the next generation of scientists and raising public awareness for science. Providing effective science,...
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    Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading pape...

    Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for all scientists and students on science degree programmes, however little is known about how researchers at...
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    The Effects of Stability and Presentation Order of Rewards on Justice Evaluat...

    Justice research has evolved by elucidating the factors that affect justice evaluations, as well as their consequences. Unfortunately, few researchers have paid attention to the...