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  • Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology

    Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology

  • Lambek, M. The anthropology of religion and the quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Curr. Anthropol. 41, 309–320 (2000).

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  • Kokosalakis, N. Legitimation power and religion in…

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  • Childhood psychological abuse influences adolescent aggression through mentalizing and alexithymia sequential mediation

    Childhood psychological abuse influences adolescent aggression through mentalizing and alexithymia sequential mediation

  • Anderson, C. A. & Bushman, B. J. Human aggression. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 53, 27–51 (2002).

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  • Loth, A. K., Drabick, D. A., Leibenluft, E. & Hulvershorn, L. A. Do…

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  • Unraveling the Nexus: how street network morphology influences crime in Detroit

    Unraveling the Nexus: how street network morphology influences crime in Detroit

    Theoretical background

    Routine activity theory posits that crime is more likely to occur when a suitable target lacking in capable guardianship converges in space and time with a motivated offender (Cohen & Felson, 1979). Therefore, which areas…

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  • Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess quality of life in Australian adults with type 1 diabetes: a pilot psychometric study

    Development and validation of a questionnaire to assess quality of life in Australian adults with type 1 diabetes: a pilot psychometric study

  • DiMeglio, L. A., Evans-Molina, C. & Oram, R. A. Type 1 diabetes. Lancet 391, 2449–2462 (2018).

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  • Variabilities in the stroking parameters during short course 50 m time trials in all four competitive swimming strokes

    Variabilities in the stroking parameters during short course 50 m time trials in all four competitive swimming strokes

    The present study was the first attempt to investigate the inter- and intra-individual variabilities of competitive swimmers in kinematic parameters (SF, SL, and SV) for all four strokes. The main outcomes were that swimmers generally showed a…

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  • Impact mechanism of agricultural industry agglomeration on labour outflow directions in China

    Impact mechanism of agricultural industry agglomeration on labour outflow directions in China

    Since the data used is panel data, and based on the study of the impact of agricultural industry aggregation on local migrant worker outflow. Therefore, we have decided to use a time-individual fixed effects model for empirical regression. Based…

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  • Understanding UK policymakers’ evidence needs through policy questions

    Understanding UK policymakers’ evidence needs through policy questions

    In the present study, we use the UK as a test case to examine approaches to evidence-based policymaking (hereafter EBPM) by focusing on what evidence requests policymakers present to academics. As will be discussed later in more detail, in the UK…

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  • The impact of team quality, match outcomes, and match location on pitch-passing networks

    The impact of team quality, match outcomes, and match location on pitch-passing networks

    We constructed pitch-passing networks of soccer teams10,35 and studied the impact of different situational factors on the passing network structure. In this study, we used three centrality metrics, namely, degree centrality, closeness centrality,…

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  • Applicability of the Chinese weight self-stigma questionnaire and its relationships with depression, physical exercise, and quality of life

    Applicability of the Chinese weight self-stigma questionnaire and its relationships with depression, physical exercise, and quality of life

    Item analysis

    The primary objective of item analysis is to assess the suitability and reliability of individual scale items. This process differs from reliability testing, which evaluates the stability of the entire instrument or its composite…

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