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  • Human well-being responses to species’ traits

    Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019); https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3831673 Horton, R. & Lo, S. Planetary health: a new science for exceptional action. Lancet 386, 1921–1922 (2015). Article  Google Scholar  Díaz, S. et al. Assessing nature’s contributions to people. Science 359, 270–272 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  Lovell, R., Depledge, M. & Maxwell, S. Health…

  • Tackling grand challenges in wind energy through a socio-technical perspective

    Kaldewey, D. The grand challenges discourse: transforming identity work in science and science policy. Minerva 56, 161–182 (2018). Article  Google Scholar  Pfotenhauer, S. M., Juhl, J. & Aarden, E. Challenging the ‘deficit model’ of innovation: framing policy issues under the innovation imperative. Res. Policy 48, 895–904 (2019). Article  Google Scholar  Kuhlmann, S. & Rip, A.…

  • Comparison of automated quantification of amyloid deposition between PMOD and Heuron

    Participants This study included 408 patients (age, 72.0 ± 7.3 years, female/male = 286/122) with 18F-flutemetamol PET and 3D T1-weighted brain MR images (mean time interval between the two imaging sessions, 8.5 ± 7.3 days) available for quantitative amyloid analysis. The imaging data used in this study were provided by the Biobank of Ajou University Hospital, a member of the Korea Biobank Network.…

  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 cohort studies of social isolation, loneliness and mortality

    House, J. S., Landis, K. R. & Umberson, D. Social relationships and health. Science 241, 540–545 (1988). Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Cacioppo, J. T. & Cacioppo, S. Social relationships and health: the toxic effects of perceived social isolation. Soc. Pers. Psychol. Compass 8, 58–72 (2014). Article  Google Scholar  Berkman, L. F. & Syme, S.…

  • Infants’ interoception is associated with eye contact in dyadic social interactions

    The mean value for infants’ PLT toward the cardio-visual synchronous stimuli was 0.455 (SD = 0.061), and that toward the cardio-visual asynchronous stimuli was 0.545 (SD = 0.061) (PLT toward the − 10% (slower) cardio-visual asynchronous stimuli was 0.559 (SD = 0.075), and PLT toward + 10% (faster) cardio-visual asynchronous stimuli was 0.536 (SD = 0.091). The mean value of the mother’s…

  • Arguments for building The Circle and not The Line in Saudi Arabia

    There have been many attempts to define what a city fundamentally is. Cities are complex landscapes for interaction among diverse individuals, ideas and activities that embody the principle that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. What differentiates a city from smaller settlements is not only the size but that such dimensions…

  • Disrupting the epistemic empire is necessary for a decolonial ecology

    Guedes, P. et al. Nat. Ecol. Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02022-y (2023). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  DuBay, S., Palmer, D. H. & Poland, N. Preprint at https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.09.243238 (2020). Rubis, J. Cult. Stud 34, 811–830 (2020). Article  Google Scholar  Chen-Kraus, C. et al. Int. J. Primatol. 42, 980–986 (2021). Article  Google Scholar  Trisos, C. H., Auerbach, J. & Katti,…

  • Assessing the general public’s view of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing and their interpretation of DTC website disclaimer messages

    Rosenberg J. As DTC genetic testing grows among consumers, insurers are beginning to get on board. Am J Manag Care. 2019 April 22, 2019. 23andME. Do You Speak BRCA? 2020. Available from: https://www.23andme.com/brca/. Gollust SE, Hull SC, Wilfond BS. Limitations of direct-to-consumer advertising for clinical genetic testing. Jama. 2002;288:1762–7. Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Koeller DR,…

  • A randomized controlled trial on the digital socio-emotional competence training Zirkus Empathico for preschoolers

    Holodynski, M. & Rüth, J.-E. Emotionale Kompetenz. In Psychologische Förder- und Interventionsprogramme für das Kindes- und Jugendalter (eds Lohaus, A. & Domsch, H.) 2nd edn, 241–257 (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2021). Dziobek, I. et al. Dissociation of cognitive and emotional empathy in adults with Asperger syndrome using the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET). J. Autism Dev. Disord. 38,…

  • Distrust as a form of inequality

    Magee, J. C. & Galinsky, A. D. Social hierarchy: The self reinforcing nature of power and status. Acad. Manag. Ann. 2, 351–398 (2008). Article  Google Scholar  Kraus, M. W., Piff, P. K. & Keltner, D. Social class as culture: The convergence of resources and rank in the social realm. Curr. Dir. Psychol. Sci. 20, 246–250…