ABC Fact Check (2016) Promise Tracker: How does the Coalition’s record stack up as the nation heads to a new election? ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-08/promise-tracker-how-does-the-coalitions-record-stack-up/7379572
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Category: Social Sciences
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Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best
We are writing, as the editors of the World Happiness Report 2025 (ref. 1), in response to VanderWeele and Johnson2, who argue that wellbeing cannot be effectively assessed using a single-outcome measure, and instead propose measuring multiple…
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Can AI help with the hardest thing: pro health behavior change
Medical and societal imperatives exist to modify unhealthy behaviors that contribute to the growing burden of chronic diseases and excess wastage of human lives1. However, the paucity of successful behavioral intervention level-sets plus the…
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Voices of the Victorians analyzed in new research about northern accent development
The Barrow-in-Furness accent is very different from the rest of Lancashire and Cumbria because of an intense mixing and rapid population change in the late 1800s, says new research by Lancaster University, which used the voices of Victorian…
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Middle age is becoming a breaking point in the U.S.
Americans born in the 1960s and early 1970s are reporting higher levels of loneliness and depression than people from earlier generations. They are also showing declines in memory and physical strength. These patterns are unusual when compared…
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