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  • Geopolitical risks and carbon emissions: the mediating effect of industrial structure upgrading

    Geopolitical risks and carbon emissions: the mediating effect of industrial structure upgrading

    Preliminary test

    Before conducting the benchmark regression, we performed unit root tests and cointegration tests on the variables across different groups to ensure data stationarity and the reliability of the regression results. Unit root tests…

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  • Addressing linguistic diversity in Iranian medical university English for general purposes courses: analyzing the correlation between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests

    Addressing linguistic diversity in Iranian medical university English for general purposes courses: analyzing the correlation between norm-referenced and criterion-referenced tests

    EFL education context of Iran

    In Iran, English language education typically begins at the secondary level (around ages 12–13), as primary education (ages 6–12) focuses on foundational skills in Persian (Farsi), mathematics, and religious…

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  • Does GPT-4 surpass human performance in linguistic pragmatics?

    This section presents the research framework used in this study. The explanation includes the theoretical underpinnings of the concepts involved, an overview of the distinct models employed, and a clarification on how participants were chosen….

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  • Unveiling the spatiotemporal propagation patterns of sentiments regarding the Israeli–Palestinian military conflict

    Unveiling the spatiotemporal propagation patterns of sentiments regarding the Israeli–Palestinian military conflict

    Tweet dataset preparation

    This paper aims to obtain tweets related to the topic of “Israel” and “Palestine” posted by X.com users in 192 countries worldwide (excluding Israel and Palestine) from October 7, 2023, to April 3, 2024, for a…

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  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for antiretroviral therapy adherence and treatment outcomes among people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Cognitive behavioral therapy for antiretroviral therapy adherence and treatment outcomes among people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Neurocomputational mechanisms of personal benefits and justifications in moral decision-making

    Neurocomputational mechanisms of personal benefits and justifications in moral decision-making

    Behavior

    Participants’ task in the perceptual task (Fig. 1) was to report which of the quadrants (left or right) had more dots. Each choice (left or right) was associated with different monetary rewards. Monetary rewards were allocated so as to…

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  • Post-pandemic job market: an analysis of factors influencing university students’ willingness for flexible employment based on SEM-ANN-fsQCA

    Post-pandemic job market: an analysis of factors influencing university students’ willingness for flexible employment based on SEM-ANN-fsQCA

    Common method bias

    Standard method bias refers to the spurious variance arising from the measurement method rather than the measured constructs. This bias can significantly affect the validity of research results, mainly when using self-reported…

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  • From reflexive co-production to diffractive co-becoming: insights from new materialism for sustainability sciences

    From reflexive co-production to diffractive co-becoming: insights from new materialism for sustainability sciences

    The research started like many other case-based studies in sustainability science. I wanted to know what capacities enable the resilience of small-scale dairy farming in the Alpine Region of Austria, where farmers have been relatively successful…

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  • Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes

    Genetics of monozygotic twins reveals the impact of environmental sensitivity on psychiatric and neurodevelopmental phenotypes

    This research complies with all of the ethical regulations related to the secondary analysis of data collected by various cohorts, each of which obtained ethical approval and informed consent.

    Ethical approval

    Danish Twin Registry

    The collection and…

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