Category: Social Sciences

Continue Reading

  • Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes

    Basketball analytics investment is key to NBA wins and other successes

    If you filled out a March Madness bracket this month, you probably faced the same question with each college match-up: What gives one team an edge over another? Is it a team’s record through the regular season? Or the chemistry among its players?…

    Continue Reading

  • Study explores how characteristics of communications networks affect development of shared social identity, group performance

    Study explores how characteristics of communications networks affect development of shared social identity, group performance

    Research has predominantly analyzed the formation of social identity as driven by members belonging to the same categories based on prominent characteristics, such as gender, race, or ethnicity. Less common are studies on recognizing similarity…

    Continue Reading

  • Study documents impacts of large-scale entry of rooftop solar panels on competition

    Study documents impacts of large-scale entry of rooftop solar panels on competition

    Fossil-fuel plants are increasingly being forced to stop and start production in response to changes in output from renewables. In a new study, researchers developed a dynamic competitive benchmark that accounts for start-up costs and other…

    Continue Reading

  • E-scooter crashes mainly caused by reckless driving

    E-scooter crashes mainly caused by reckless driving

    Crashes on electric scooters are mostly due to the behaviour of the riders, with one-handed steering and riding in a group being some of the largest risk factors. The researchers are also concerned about riders who deliberately crash or cause…

    Continue Reading

  • Delaying the net zero transition could impose significant economic costs

    Delaying the net zero transition could impose significant economic costs

    Delayed and disorderly energy transitions will threaten economic and financial stability whilst also increasing the economic risks from climate change, according to a new study from the University of Surrey. Conversely, transitions that are…

    Continue Reading

  • Digital preservation and access strategies for overseas Chinese documents: challenges and solutions

    Digital preservation and access strategies for overseas Chinese documents: challenges and solutions

    The basis of the framework should be a mechanism for interaction between existing sources of data about the life of the Chinese overseas and catalogs of accumulated documents. In this case, no distinction is made between different types and…

    Continue Reading

  • Self-utility distance as a computational approach to understanding self-concept clarity

    Self-utility distance as a computational approach to understanding self-concept clarity

    Study 1. Results

    First, we tested the relationship between Self-Utility Distance and Self-Concept Clarity. Consistent with our hypothesis, Self-Utility Distance demonstrated a significant negative correlation with Self-Concept Clarity…

    Continue Reading

  • Nutrition first | Nature Food

    Nutrition first | Nature Food

    Reduced access to healthy diets, combined with the pervasiveness of ultra-processed foods, pose severe consequences for public health and the environment. Francesco Branca, former director of the World Health Organization’s Department of…

    Continue Reading

  • The influence of internet information exposure on Chinese youth’s intention of online psychological counseling: based on SOR theory and the mindful coping model

    The influence of internet information exposure on Chinese youth’s intention of online psychological counseling: based on SOR theory and the mindful coping model

  • https://www.cnnic.net.cn/n4/2024/0321/c208-10962.html

  • Chen, J. & Zhu, S. Online information searches and help seeking for mental health problems in urban China. Adm. Policy Mental Health Mental Health Serv. Res. 43, 535–545 (2016).

    MATH 

  • Continue Reading