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  • Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency

    Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency

    Recent disruptions—such as the COVID-19 pandemic1,2 and the outbreak of the war in Ukraine3,4,5—have underscored the vulnerability of long food supply chains, prompting renewed discussions on self-sufficiency6. In addition, while advocates of…

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  • Drivers and barriers of sustainability-oriented innovations in Brazilian denim treatment facilities: an expert-driven decision support

    Drivers and barriers of sustainability-oriented innovations in Brazilian denim treatment facilities: an expert-driven decision support

    Experts’ viewpoint

    In total, ten responses were obtained from experts. The profile of each expert is summarized in Table 6, where it is possible to see that academic experts (university professors/researchers) possess higher qualifications, and…

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  • Using the Language of elite athletes to predict their personality and on court transgressions

    The prediction of human behavior has long been a central goal in psychology. Early research relied on controlled experiments and self-report measures to identify stable traits and cognitive mechanisms. While these methods offered foundational…

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  • The “LLM World of Words” English free association norms generated by large language models

    The “LLM World of Words” English free association norms generated by large language models

    How is conceptual knowledge organized in the mind? Such a question has long been the focus of linguists and cognitive psychologists who aim to better understand the human language capacity1,2. Recently, this question has become increasingly…

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  • Associations between sleep quality, plasma neurofilament light, and cognition in older adults without dementia

    Associations between sleep quality, plasma neurofilament light, and cognition in older adults without dementia

  • GBD 2015 Neurological Disorders Collaborator Group. Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet Neurol. 2017;16:877–97.

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  • Little evidence for a role of facial mimicry in the transmission of stress from parents to adolescent children

    Little evidence for a role of facial mimicry in the transmission of stress from parents to adolescent children

    Transparency and openness

    Hypotheses and testing procedures of this study were preregistered on 16 May 2022, prior to data collection, and can be accessed at https://osf.io/3gdym. Any deviations from the preregistration are flagged in the Methods….

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  • Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas

    Asians made humanity’s longest prehistoric migration and shaped the genetic landscape in the Americas

    An international genomics study led by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Asian School of the Environment (ASE) has shown…

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  • Human activity reduces plant diversity hundreds of kilometers away

    Human activity reduces plant diversity hundreds of kilometers away

    Natural ecosystems comprise groups of species capable of living in the specific conditions of a biological system. However, if we visit a specific natural area, we will not find all the species capable of living in it. The proportion of species…

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