Participants
A total of 258 individuals (or 129 heterosexual couples) aged 60 years and above were recruited from the greater metropolitan area of Vancouver, Canada for a study on spousal health dynamics in old age (Linked Lives Study, March…
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Understanding the corrosion mechanism of iron artifacts using mössbauer spectroscopy
XRD analysis of the references and corrosion products
The XRD patterns of the reference samples are shown in Fig. S2. Goethite, hematite, and magnetite exhibit perfect crystalline phases, whereas lepidocrocite exhibits a relatively low crystalline…
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Oil price shocks, policy uncertainty, and China’s carbon emissions trading market price
Oil price decomposition techniques
Ready (2018) oil price decomposition technique consists of three variables: an oil producer index, an indicator of oil price change, and an indicator of expected return change.
This study specifies these three…
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Adaptive signal recognition in mines based on deep learning
To evaluate the performance of the proposed mine adaptive signal recognition method based on the GRSA-WaveNet model, simulation experiments were conducted on two datasets: the public RML2016.10a dataset and a self-built simulation dataset.
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Self-utility distance as a computational approach to understanding self-concept clarity
Study 1. Results
First, we tested the relationship between Self-Utility Distance and Self-Concept Clarity. Consistent with our hypothesis, Self-Utility Distance demonstrated a significant negative correlation with Self-Concept Clarity…
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The causal impact of body mass index on metabolic biomarkers and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease risk
This study first explored the influence of BMI, derived from four different sources, on NAFLD using two distinct datasets, with the findings presented in Supplementary Tables 1–2. We found that BMI was positively associated with the risk of…
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Nutrition first | Nature Food
Reduced access to healthy diets, combined with the pervasiveness of ultra-processed foods, pose severe consequences for public health and the environment. Francesco Branca, former director of the World Health Organization’s Department of…
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Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?
von Bertalanffy, L. General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. George Braziller, New York, 1968.
Ross Ashby, W. An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman & Hall, London, 1956.
Heylighen, F. and Joslyn, C. Cybernetics and second…
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Antilisterial activity of tannin rich preparations isolated from raspberry (Rubus Idaeus L.) and strawberry (Fragaria X Ananassa Duch.) fruit
Plant material
Preparations rich in tannins were produced following the method described in a previous publication18. For this study, deep-frozen red raspberry fruits (5 kg) and strawberries (7.5 kg) were utilised, sourced from Cajdex (Łódź,…
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Compensating teachers serving rural schools: evidence from a developing region in southern China
OLS base result: the positive association between school ruralness and teacher earnings
The empirical results are displayed in Table 3. We started with the OLS base result presented in column (1) of Table 3. The coefficient of less desirable…
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