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Biomedical

Addressing the Emotional Body in Patients With Chronic Pain

Summary; Importance: Health care aims to reduce symptoms and improve health status, yet continuing dubious treatments can lead to complacency and suboptimal care. Objective: Investigate the potential bias in intuitive reasoning following marginal symptom improvement after dubious treatments. Design and Participants: 1,497 community members across North America 100 healthcare professionals (pha...
Posted 5 months ago

Biomedical

Cancer Risk Among Children Born After Fertility Treatment

Summary of Cancer Risk Study in Children Born After Fertility Treatment

Study Overview

Research Focus: Cancer risk in children conceived through fertility treatments Sample Size: Over 8.5 million children Study Period: 2010-2021, with follow-up to June 2022. Key Findings Overall Cancer R...
Posted 5 months ago

Social Science

Network science for museums

This paper introduces network science to museum studies. The spatial structure of the museum and the exhibit display largely determine what visitors see and in which order, thereby shaping their visit experience. Despite the importance of spatial properties in museum studies, few scientific tools have been developed to analyze and compare the results across museums. This paper introduces the six h...
Posted 5 months ago

Social Science

The political preferences of LLMs

I report here a comprehensive analysis about the political preferences embedded in Large Language Models (LLMs). Namely, I administer 11 political orientation tests, designed to identify the political preferences of the test taker, to 24 state-of-the-art conversational LLMs, both closed and open source. When probed with questions/statements with political connotations, most conversational LLMs ten...
Posted 5 months ago

Social Science

Integrating data within watershed management and public health

Summary

The study, Integrating Data Within Watershed Management and Public Health by Lars K. Hallstrom (2024), explores the critical interplay between water resources, ecosystem health, and public health. It emphasizes the importance of integrating data from diverse sources to address challenges like climate change, water scarcity, and their ef...
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Social Science

Turning global water security research into policy and action

Summary

Evan Thomas's article emphasizes the urgent need to convert water security research into actionable policies. Highlighting the water sector's significant contribution to global emissions and the widespread lack of safe drinking water, Thomas calls for researchers to engage directly with policymakers. By doing so, the gap between resea...
Posted 5 months ago

Biomedical

Remember oligodendrocytes: Uncovering their overlooked role in Alzheimer’s disease

Summary

The article "Remember oligodendrocytes: Uncovering their overlooked role in Alzheimer’s disease" by Lena Spieth and Mikael Simons (2024) explores the significant yet underappreciated role of oligodendrocytes in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Below are key questions addressed in the study: This study highlights a pa...
Posted 5 months ago

Biomedical

Fixing science means an end to gaming the system

Summary:

During the last decade, there has been a substantial acceleration in the open science movement. Most people would probably hope to have seen signs of positive change in that time, yet it seems that the process of improving the practice of science is moving at a glacial pace. Nicholas J. L. Brown's article highlights that, despite the ...
Posted 5 months ago

Physics Maths Engineering

Emergent coordination in temporal partitioning congestion games

In this article we study the social dynamic of temporal partitioning congestion games (TPGs), in which participants must coordinate an optimal time-partitioning for using a limited resource. The challenge in TPGs lies in determining whether users can optimally self-organize their usage patterns. Reaching an optimal solution may be undermined, however, by a collectively destructive meta-reasoning p...
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Humanities and Arts

An intertextual reading of the novel Defend the Name

The general objective of this intertextual analysis’s was to explore Wolde’s novel Defend the Name (1969) with the view to identify and interpret the several thematic and stylistic intertexts that are woven throughout the narrative. Based on available research, there is a scarcity of critical studies that have utilized the theory of intertextuality for the analysis and interpretation of Ethiop...
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