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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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    Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science

    Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we...
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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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    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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    Replicating and extending the effects of auditory religious cues on dishonest...

    Although scientists agree that replications are critical to the debate on the validity of religious priming research, religious priming replications are scarce. This paper...
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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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    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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    Effect of tramadol as an adjuvant to local anesthetics for brachial plexus bl...

    Background Tramadol, a 4-phenyl-piperidine analog of codeine, has a unique action in that it has a central opioidergic, noradrenergic, serotonergic analgesic, and peripheral...
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    How Multidisciplinary Are the Multidisciplinary Journals Science and Nature?

    Interest in cross-disciplinary research knowledge interchange runs high. Review processes at funding agencies, such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, consider plans to...
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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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    iPad-Assisted Measurements of Duration Estimation in Psychiatric Patients and...

    Handheld devices with touchscreen controls have become widespread in the general population. In this study, we examined the duration estimates (explicit timing) made by patients...
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    Orienteering Problem with Functional Profits for multi-source dynamic path co...

    Orienteering problem (OP) is a routing problem, where the aim is to generate a path through set of nodes, which would maximize total score and would not exceed the budget. In...
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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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    A retrospective study investigating requests for self-citation during open pe...

    Introduction Peer review is a volunteer process for improving the quality of publications by providing objective feedback to authors, but also presents an opportunity for...
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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...