People living with HIV are less likely to receive potentially lifesaving cancer treatment if they live in communities with lower income levels and educational attainment, according to a new national study led by researchers from Moffitt Cancer…
Category: Social Sciences
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Artificial oxygen supply in coastal waters: A hope with risks
Could the artificial introduction of oxygen revitalise dying coastal waters? While oxygenation approaches have already been proven successful in lakes, their potential side effects must be carefully analysed before they can be used in the sea….
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Ancient poems document the decline of the Yangtze finless porpoise
The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.
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Rainfall patterns and their association with flood fatalities across diverse Euro-Mediterranean regions over 41 years
Descriptive statistics
After applying the defined rainfall thresholds as described in the Methods section, the dataset for the period 1980–2020 documents a total of 2245 FF resulting from 1157 FE across the examined European and Mediterranean…
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‘Sensemaking’ climate change: navigating policy, polarization and the culture wars
Results include key themes that emerged in the focus group discussions, where real world examples were shared and discussed by presenters and participants. Subsection “Axes of polarization; climate in the ‘culture war’”, includes findings…
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Does a strict COVID-19 lockdown policy change risk attitudes? Evidence from a bordering town, Gengma, in Yunnan Province, China
In the present study, we used choices in lotteries with real monetary rewards to elicit risk attitudes before and after the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in a border city of China.
Changes in aggregated risk attitudes after the lockdown of…
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Investigating the differences in influencing factors on burglaries in migrant communities, local communities, and mixed communities: a case study of ZG City
With rapid urbanization and the growth of urban population in China, major cities face challenges of urban problems. Among them, crimes such as burglaries significantly threaten the well-being and property safety of urban residents. Burglaries…
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Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions
World Health Organization. Mental health of adolescents https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health (2024).
NHS. Mental Health of Children and Young People in England in 2022
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Morphology in children’s books, and what it means for learning
How do we make sense of words when we read? Consider the word mistrustfulness. You may have never encountered it before, yet you understand its meaning without effort. How does this happen? Research shows that we are able to understand complex…
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The effect of pet attachment on social support among young adult cat owners: the chain mediating roles of emotion regulation and empathy
Pet attachment and social support
Bowlby’s attachment theory initially focused on the attachment between humans, Brennan et al. (1998) identified four types of attachment orientations: secure attachment (low avoidance and low anxiety),…
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