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  • Now is the time to recognize and respond to addiction to ultra-processed foods

    Competing interests

    A.J.M. has served as a food policy consultant for nonprofit public-health organizations and government agencies. A.N.G. has served as a consultant for nonprofit public-health…

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  • Understanding the emergence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescence from a brain and behavioral developmental perspective

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [online]. [cited 3 Mar 2025]. Available: wisqars.cdc.gov.

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  • Factors influencing customers’ switching intentions to new energy vehicles based on the push-pull mooring model using SEM-ANN approach in Shanxi, China

    Factors influencing customers’ switching intentions to new energy vehicles based on the push-pull mooring model using SEM-ANN approach in Shanxi, China

  • Zhang, W., Wang, S., Wan, L., Zhang, Z. & Zhao, D. Information perspective for Understanding consumers’ perceptions of electric vehicles and adoption intentions. Transp. Res. Part. D: Transp. Environ. 102, 103157 (2022).

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  • Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience

    Field experimentation enhances translation for behavioral neuroscience

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  • Application of the ant colony optimization algorithm for the construction of a short version of the German alcohol decisional balance scale

    Application of the ant colony optimization algorithm for the construction of a short version of the German alcohol decisional balance scale

    Sample

    For this paper, three subsamples from studies conducted by the research network EARLy INTerventions in health risk behaviors (EARLINT) were merged. We included participants with at-risk alcohol use who completed the Alcohol Decisional…

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  • The effect of post-military reform on vicarious traumatization and work stress in firefighters: the mediating role of work alienation

    The effect of post-military reform on vicarious traumatization and work stress in firefighters: the mediating role of work alienation

    Working from the frameworks of COR theory, this study used questionnaires to collect data and built a mediation model to explore the relationships among firefighters’ vicarious traumatization, work alienation, and work stress. Our main findings…

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  • Determinants of early smartphone ownership: a research gap in the study of problematic smartphone use in children and adolescents

    Determinants of early smartphone ownership: a research gap in the study of problematic smartphone use in children and adolescents

    Database and other methods searches

    The database search yielded a total of 1577 publications from Web of Science and Scopus. After removing 529 publications that were entirely unrelated to the research objectives, 1048 studies remained for…

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  • Development of a self-report scale to assess relaxation effects of flavors and fragrances

    Development of a self-report scale to assess relaxation effects of flavors and fragrances

    This study aimed to develop a psychological scale to measure the relaxation effects of flavors and fragrances. To this end, we determined its structure and tested its reliability and validity. In Study 1, EFA was conducted to determine the…

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  • EFL teachers’ agency in Chinese universities against the backdrop of “Curriculum Ideology and Politics”—an ecological perspective

    Spatial dimension

    Exosystem

    The exosystem encompasses external factors such as domestic and international politics, economy, culture, and history. While these factors cannot directly act on EFL teachers’ agency, they will indirectly influence or…

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