Research design and participants
To provide more accurate analysis results, this study used panel data, which is different from the study by Lei et al. (2024a; 2024b). There are many advantages to using panel data. Firstly, this analysis procedure…
Category: Social Sciences
-
CNReader: a reading practice tool designed for Chinese children with developmental dyslexia
To test the effectiveness and user experience of CNReader, we conducted three studies. Study 1 tested the effectiveness of CNReader’s single-player reading practice mode. Study 2 tested the functionality of CNReader’s AI partner reading mode,…
Continue Reading
-
Political official turnover and environmental governance: who is more influential on local air pollution in China
Data collection
To test our research hypotheses, we construct a panel dataset covering 337 Chinese cities from 2015 to 2017. This includes 4 centrally-administrated municipalities (i.e., Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing) and 333…
Continue Reading
-
A high-resolution compound vulnerability function for European winter storm losses
Vulnerability function specifications
Table 1 presents the beta regression results of the vulnerability function specification with the lowest BIC (highest probability of being the true model), which is called the compound vulnerability function….
Continue Reading
-
Giving every student a chance to excel in life: construction and application of the HOPE model in China’s secondary vocational schools
Participants
After obtaining approval from the Research Ethics Committee of Hangzhou Normal University, the current study reached out to the directors of the local Education Bureau to explain its objectives and methods. With the support of school…
Continue Reading
-
Human voices communicating trustworthy intent: A demographically diverse speech audio dataset
Kreiman, J. & Sidtis, D. Foundations of voice studies: An interdisciplinary approach to voice production and perception, John Wiley & Sons (2011).
Castelfranchi, C., Cesta, A., Conte, R. & Miceli, M. Foundations for interaction: The dependence…
Continue Reading
-
Psychological, economic, and ethical factors in human feedback for a chatbot-based smoking cessation intervention
We conducted an online crowdsourcing study in which participants interacted with the virtual coach Kai in up to five sessions between 1 February and 19 March 2024. The Human Research Ethics Committee of Delft University of Technology granted…
Continue Reading
-
The EU should allow gene editing to make organic farming more sustainable, researchers say
To achieve the European Green Deal’s goal of 25% organic agriculture by 2030, researchers argue that new genomic techniques (NGTs) should be allowed without pre-market authorization in organic as well as conventional food production. NGTs — also…
Continue Reading
-
Social and spatial predictors of collective search behaviors
Boots, B. N. Population density, crowding and human behaviour. Prog. Hum. Geogr. 3, 13–63 (1979).
Google Scholar
Freedman, J. L. Crowding and Behavior (W. H. Freeman,…
Continue Reading