The rapid pace of change under the current presidential administration has been amping up people’s feelings of uncertainty. That collective unease can take a toll on societal well-being, researchers say.
“Given that…
Category: Social Sciences
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Comprehensive HRMS-screening for persistent, mobile, and toxic compounds in first flush urban stormwater
Lc/Gc-Qtof-Ms Suspect Screening
To address the current lack of information on PMT and vPvM compounds in runoff samples, a comparative HRMS study across different sample types was conducted. First, the two types of target water were compared…
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Politically-targeted intergroup interventions promote social equality and engagement
Study One
Our analysis strategy consisted of two main stages. First, an overall model was conducted to assess the main and interaction effects of time, condition, and ideology. Second, separate analyses were performed within each ideological group…
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IQ and socio-occupational functioning in relation to obsessive-compulsive symptoms severity in a clinical sample of adolescents
Design
The present cross-sectional study was part of a clinical prospective cohort study27 that received approval from the Ethics Committee of Policlinico San Matteo in Pavia, Italy (P-20170028892) and was conducted following the Declaration of…
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Eliciting attachment security with social norm messages is linked to reduced energy consumption in extreme heat in the United Arab Emirates
Ethics approval
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the New York University Abu Dhabi on 9th February 2019 (HRPP-2019-37) with the title “Reducing energy consumption on campus housing.” This study did not employ…
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Haptic size perception is influenced by body and object orientation
Sample size estimation
To calculate the required sample size for this experiment we used G*Power (version 2.1.9.4) and set the statistical test as Repeated Measures within factors ANOVA and the type of analysis as the a priori sample size…
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Early versus late noise differentially enhances or degrades context-dependent choice
Divisive normalization under different noise sources
While it is known that divisive normalization shapes the noise structure of neural response variability42,43,44, how neural noise and normalization work together to affect cognitive processes…
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Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial
The RESiLIENT trial is a master protocol trial involving four 2 × 2 factorial trials. The study was approved by Kyoto University Ethics Committee (C1556) on 3 March 2022. Recruitment of participants took place between 5 September 2022 and 21…
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