In modern society, insufficient physical activity among university students has become a significant public health concern (Bull et al. 2020). Despite the well-established benefits of physical activity, including enhanced cardiovascular function,…
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Clean energy, dirty secrets: Inside the corruption plaguing california’s solar market
Solar power is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States, propelled by climate mitigation policies and carbon-free energy goals — and California is leading the way as the nation’s top producer of solar electricity. A new study in Energy…
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Extracting toponyms from OpenStreetMap and other gazetteers: comparing representational accuracy in multilingual contexts
We present the results of each study and our study-specific answers to RQ1 and RQ2 in this section. The data for the studies are in the supplementary materials (Supplementary file A, B for the first Study; Supplementary file C for the second…
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade
Wang, M.-T. & Degol, J. L. Gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): current knowledge, implications for practice, policy, and future directions. Educ. Psychol. Rev. 29, 119–140 (2017).
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What makes online political ads unacceptable? Interrogating public attitudes to inform regulatory responses
To address our first research question, we begin by examining respondents’ views on the acceptability of online political ads from the 2019 general election. Assessing ad-level acceptability, we find that the average acceptability score is 4.04…
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White matter disconnection in acquired criminality
Guza M. Bowers’ brain functions scrutinized testimony presented about abnormalities. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Post – Gazette; 2023.
Guza M. Prosecutor pokes holes in defense strategy….
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Naming the enemy: how to fortify society against foreign disinformation while avoiding excessive vigilance to reliable media
Governments and other organizations have launched various countermeasures to address the problem of disinformation disseminated by foreign adversaries. Paradoxically, research has shown that warnings and educational measures intended to fortify…
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Gender disparities in the STEM research enterprise in China
Data source
This study utilizes data on funded projects and their associated research outputs, both retrieved from the NSFC Project Outcome PortalFootnote 2. The portal serves as the official platform where PIs are required to report the progress…
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