This study examined the knowledge and attitudes of health professionals regarding patients’ confidentiality, wishes, consent and other legal aspects of healthcare in the UAE. Most respondents had sound knowledge and positive attitudes…
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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
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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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Two-year-olds’ visual exploration of response options during memory decisions predicts metamemory monitoring one year later
This study, and Leckey et al.20, were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of California, Davis, and informed consent was obtained from all parents. This study was pre-registered and can be found on Open Science Framework…
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Developing a quantitative analytical framework for carbon neutrality in tourism-dependent regions
Ahmad M, Zhu X, Wu Y (2022b) The criticality of international tourism and technological innovation for carbon neutrality across regional development levels. Technol Forecast Soc Change 182:121848
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Computational basis of hierarchical and counterfactual information processing
We preregistered our hypotheses and analyses for our human psychophysical experiments in the Open Science Framework19. All experiments were approved by the Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects at the Massachusetts Institute of…
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Disaster risk reduction policies and perceived community resilience in rural ethnic minority communities in China
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The neural and psychophysiological effects of cannabidiol in youth with alcohol use disorder: A randomized controlled clinical trial
Swendsen J, Burstein M, Case B, Conway KP, Dierker L, He J, et al. Use and abuse of alcohol and illicit drugs in US adolescents: Results of the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012;69:390–8.
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Cultural barriers to interdisciplinary research collaboration: evidence from Australia
Operationalizing the concept of interdisciplinarity for empirical research is a challenging task (Newman 2024b). A widely-cited report by the US National Academies defines interdisciplinarity as “research by teams or individuals that integrates…
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Guided visual search is associated with target boosting and distractor suppression in early visual cortex
Awh, E., Belopolsky, A. V. & Theeuwes, J. Top-down versus bottom-up attentional control: a failed theoretical dichotomy. Trends Cogn. Sci. 16, 437–443 (2012).
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