Category: Social Sciences
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Social relationships and mortality | Nature Human Behaviour
Are social isolation and loneliness associated with an increased risk of mortality? Wang et al. show that both social isolation and loneliness are associated with an increased risk of all-cause and cancer mortality in the general population by a systematic review and meta-analysis of 90 prospective cohort studies. In this issue of Nature Human Behaviour,…
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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…
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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.…
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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.…
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White communities prefer to risk repeat flooding rather than move to safer but more diverse neighborhoods
Distribution of owner–occupant FEMA HMGP participants, 1990–2017. Credit: Environmental Research Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acd654 Even after suffering flood damage, homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to accept higher risk of disaster repeating itself than relocate to areas with more racial diversity and less flood risk, according to new research from Rice University. … Continue Reading…
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Interplay between uncertainty intolerance, emotion regulation, cognitive flexibility, and psychopathology during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-wave study
Santomauro, D. F. et al. Global prevalence and burden of depressive and anxiety disorders in 204 countries and territories in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet 398, 1700–1712 (2021). Article Google Scholar Kwong, A. S. F. et al. Mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in two longitudinal UK population cohorts. Br. J.…
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Systematic meta-analysis of research on AI tools to deal with misinformation on social media during natural and anthropogenic hazards and disasters
Data for analysis We extracted our corpus of abstracts from Web of Science and Scopus, two platforms that provide access to abstract, reference, and citation data from academic journals. The abstracts were all studies published up until 1 July 2022. We extracted the corpus of studies on the basis of the following key terms related…
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AI could replace humans in social science research — ScienceDaily
In an article published yesterday in the journal Science, leading researchers from the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania look at how AI (large language models or LLMs in particular) could change the nature of their work. “What we wanted to explore in this article is how social…
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‘Multiplicity of impact’ from natural disasters affects Black people most
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The many personal, physical and social impacts of natural disasters disproportionately affect Black people, and such events can have political consequences for local governments regardless of constituents’ political ideology, according to new research from Rice University. Alex Priest, a doctoral student at Rice University, and James Elliott, a professor of sociology,…
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Abortion prison sentence shows the law is focused on fetuses—why that’s dangerous for women
Credit: Emituu/Shutterstock The imprisonment of a woman in the UK for taking abortion pills at 32-34 weeks of pregnancy has shocked many. Most people are still unaware that abortion at any stage of pregnancy is illegal in England and Wales, unless authorized by two doctors. Any woman who obtains abortion medication from sources other than…