Public participation is a broad concept with no unified definition. Adler and Goggin (2005) identified four definitions, including community service, collective action, political involvement, and social change. Ashley and Roe portray public…
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Recruiting data-obscured populations: strategic local government referral sampling for qualitative studies
LGRS is a strategic sampling method developed to identify and engage unidentified vulnerable groups by leveraging local government networks. This method leverages the administrative position and extensive reach of local government bodies to…
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Codes of conduct for just coexistence in urban spaces
The gardeners of Brunakärr UAG noticed the increase in rat presence in 2021, when the neighboring bus depot began undergoing construction. The rats were living in the holes in the concrete wall separating the depot from the garden, and the noise…
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Associations between micro- and macro level social network properties and individual productivity in virtual collaboration
Centrality and centralisation
Centrality is often considered an indication of leadership, popularity, and reputation56. Generally, studies imply that central individuals tend to be more productive8,29. Our study provided detail insights to such…
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Advancing the psychology of social class with large-scale replications in four countries
Ethics information
The project was approved by the Research Ethics Board of the University of Lausanne (C_SSP_032020_00004). Participants gave their informed consent at the beginning of the study. Participants recruited by panel providers (US,…
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Interindividual and intraindividual differences in recovery of German junior female ice hockey players during 2020 World Championship Division IA tournament
Fullagar, H. H. et al. Sleep and recovery in team sport: Current sleep-related issues facing professional team-sport athletes. Int. J. Sports Physiol. Perform. 10 (8), 950–957. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2014-0565 (2015).
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Network externalities of the innovation network in China’s five urban agglomerations: based on “buzz-and-pipeline” theory
Matrix processing results
Before testing network externalities, we need to discuss the standardization of the network matrix, that is, to determine whether to reconstruct the relationships of the local area network. The local averaging method…
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Revisiting school days: retrospective experiences of ableism among autistic women and gender dissident individuals with late diagnosis
Theme and subtheme names can be seen in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1 Theme 1. Internalizing the label: from attitudes to practice
This theme reflects how ableist attitudes and practices by both teachers and peers can make participants believe and internalize that…
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Cognitive distortions are associated with increasing political polarization
In the following analyses, we focus on the subset of users for whom we could determine both latent ideology and CDS prevalence in 2016 and 2020 (see “Methods”). This subset includes 53,493 individuals.
CDS prevalence by year
To identify…
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Deadly disguise: How candy-like nicotine pouches caused a 763% spike in child poisonings
A new study reveals that ingestions of nicotine pouches by young children have surged in recent years. Researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the…
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