Handedness, language areas&neuropsychiatric diseases: brain imaging&genetics

The brain signature and genetic basis of handedness are unclear. Wiberg et al. show that left-handers have higher functional connectivity between language netwo | Continue reading


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World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency

Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap | Continue reading


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11,000 sign BioScience Viewpoint that Earth is facing a climate emergency

Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap | Continue reading


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Morphological classification of distant radio galaxies: 3D simulations

ABSTRACT. We explore the observational implications of a large systematic study of high-resolution three-dimensional simulations of radio galaxies driven by su | Continue reading


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Marx’s transformation problem and Pasinetti’s vertically integrated subsystems

Abstract. Pasinetti (1988) constructs a ‘complete generalization of Marx’s “transformation problem”’, in the context of a non-uniform growth model, by proving | Continue reading


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Transcending the brain: is there a cost to hacking the nervous system?

Neurotechnology has the ability to drastically improve patient prognosis as well as providing the possibility of enhancing those who are not in clinical need fo | Continue reading


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AGN jet feedback, lobe energetics and X-rays in a realistic cluster environment

ABSTRACT. Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboured by brightest cluster galaxies is expected to play a fundamental role in regulating cooling i | Continue reading


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Dark and luminous satellites of LMC-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations

ABSTRACT. Within lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM), dwarf galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are expected to host numerous dark matter subhalo | Continue reading


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A virtual molecular tumor board

AbstractObjectives. Scalable informatics solutions that provide molecularly tailored treatment recommendations to clinicians are needed to streamline precision | Continue reading


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Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions in the Anthropocene

Abstract. Drivers of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions are relevant to modern conservation policy in a world of growing human population density, climate | Continue reading


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Inevitable future: space colonization beyond Earth with microbes first

Discourse for scientists and space administrators on how and why to elevate microorganisms as essential components of future colonization strategies of our sola | Continue reading


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M87 black hole mass&spin estimate through position of jet boundary shape break

Abstract. We propose a new method of estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole residing in the centre of an active galaxy. The active galaxy M87 offers | Continue reading


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Effects of 13 commonly consumed drinks on hydration

ABSTRACT. Background: The identification of beverages that promote longer-term fluid retention and maintenance of fluid balance is of real clinical and practic | Continue reading


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Disappearance of Icelandic walruses coincided with Norse settlement

Abstract. There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the impacts of human arrival in new ‘pristine’ environments, including terrestrial habitat alterati | Continue reading


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Jean Calment likely was 122 after all, not a fraud

Abstract. The 122 years and 165 days age claim of Jeanne Calment, the world oldest person who died in 1997, is the most thoroughly validated age claim. Recentl | Continue reading


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Insects as Food and Feed

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Handedness, language areas&neuropsychiatric diseases: brain imaging&genetics

Abstract. Ninety per cent of the human population has been right-handed since the Paleolithic, yet the brain signature and genetic basis of handedness remain p | Continue reading


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Life Is Too Short to RTFM (2014)

Abstract. This paper addresses two common problems that users of various products and interfaces encounter—over-featured interfaces and product documentation. | Continue reading


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Universe machine–correlation of galaxy growth&dark matter halo assembly:z=0−10

ABSTRACT. We present a method to flexibly and self-consistently determine individual galaxies’ star formation rates (SFRs) from their host haloes’ potential we | Continue reading


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Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST

Abstract. We detail a new fast radio burst (FRB) survey with the Molonglo Radio Telescope, in which six FRBs were detected between 2017 June and 2018 December. | Continue reading


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Extreme morning sleep chronotypes are often familial and not exceedingly rare

AbstractStudy Objectives. Report the first prevalence estimates of advanced sleep phase (ASP), familial advanced sleep phase (FASP), and advanced sleep–wake ph | Continue reading


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Expanding giant that swallowed planets for the eruption of V838 Monocerotis

Abstract. In early 2002 V838 Monocerotis had an extraordinary outburst, the nature of which is still unclear. The optical light curve showed at least three pea | Continue reading


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A spectroscopic mechanism for primary olfactory reception – Luca Turin (1996)

Abstract. A novel theory of primary olfactory reception is described. It proposes that olfactory receptors respond not to the shape of the molecules but to the | Continue reading


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Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: Jordan

Abstract. To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence that economic institutions in | Continue reading


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The Impact of Learning Multiple Real-World Skills on Cognitive Abilities

AbstractObjective. The natural learning experience from infancy to emerging adulthood, when considerable cognitive and functional growth is observed, mandates | Continue reading


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Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Antiauthoritarian Movement

Abstract. Social scientists have long viewed the decision to protest as strategic, with an individual's participation a function of their beliefs about others’ | Continue reading


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Staring into the void: Primer for budding microbiologists

ABSTRACT. Metabolites give us a window into the chemistry of microbes and are split into two subclasses: primary and secondary. Primary metabolites are require | Continue reading


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Fanon

Abstract. This essay reconstructs a missing link in Frantz Fanon’s life and death. Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, it present | Continue reading


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Use of naltrexone and different ways of using it in the treatment of alcoholism

Abstract. — Eight double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials in five countries have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of naltrexone as an adjunct in a | Continue reading


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Bardeen–Petterson alignment and magnetic truncation in accretion disc simulation

ABSTRACT. Prevalent around luminous accreting black holes, thin discs are challenging to resolve in numerical simulations. When the disc and black hole angular | Continue reading


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Motion resonance w nearby moons–origin of gaps in ring around exoplanet J1407b

Abstract. With the use of numerical models, we investigate whether Mean Motion Resonances (MMRs) with nearby moons to the J1407b ring system were the cause of | Continue reading


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Choosing white over red meat does not necessarily reduce CVD risk

ABSTRACTBackground. Dietary recommendations to limit red meat are based on observational studies linking intake to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk together w | Continue reading


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Distance of 13 Mpc resolves claimed anomalies of galaxy lacking dark matter

Abstract. The claimed detection of a diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter represents a possible challenge to our understanding of the properties of these galaxie | Continue reading


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Is everything we eat associated with cancer?

ABSTRACT. Background: Nutritional epidemiology is a highly prolific field. Debates on associations of nutrients with disease risk are common in the literature | Continue reading


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Grey Matter Leonardo da Vinci: a genius driven to distraction

Five hundred years have passed since the death of Leonardo da Vinci, and much has been written about him. Leonardo the artist, the scientist, the architect, the | Continue reading


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The 'forbidden' planet has been found in the 'Neptunian Desert'

Abstract. We report the discovery of NGTS-4b, a sub-Neptune-sized planet transiting a 13th magnitude K-dwarf in a 1.34 d orbit. NGTS-4b has a mass M = 20.6 ± 3 | Continue reading


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Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates More Negative 24-Hour Energy Balance

ABSTRACTBackground. At rest, omission of breakfast lowers daily energy intake, but also lowers energy expenditure, attenuating any effect on energy balance. Th | Continue reading


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What is the role of meat in a healthy diet?

Red meat is a nutrient dense food that is an important source of complete protein with all essential amino acids, highly bioavailable iron, zinc, selenium, and | Continue reading


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Inulin type fructan (ITF) rich vegetables have good effect on gut microbiome

ABSTRACTBackground. Inulin-type fructans (ITFs) are a type of fermentable dietary fiber that can confer beneficial health effects through changes in the gut mi | Continue reading


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Endure, Invest, Ignore: How French and American Journalists React to Economic Constraints and Technological Transformations

Abstract. This paper explores journalists’ reactions to economic constraints and technological transformations in two cities: Toulouse, France, and Seattle, Un | Continue reading


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MDRO in Hospitals: What Is on Patient Hands and in Their Rooms?

In a prospective study of 399 hospital patients, we show that multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) on patient hands are common on admission and correlate with | Continue reading


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Preventable Cancer Burden Associated with Poor Diet in the United States

AbstractBackground. Diet is an important risk factor for cancer that is amenable to intervention. Estimating the cancer burden associated with diet informs evi | Continue reading


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Masculinity as Ideology: John F. Kennedy and Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy

John F. Kennedy's career was premised on an “ideology of masculinity”; he used this ideology to justify his claim to presidential power. Employing culturally re | Continue reading


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Paper on SciPipe – a library for writing pipelines of commandline programs in Go

AbstractBackground. The complex nature of biological data has driven the development of specialized software tools. Scientific workflow management systems simp | Continue reading


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Insomnia: Old Emotions Remain Salient – Brain – Oxford Academic

Abstract. Studies suggest that sleep supports persistent changes in the neuronal representation of emotional experiences such that they are remembered better a | Continue reading


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A brief introduction to weakly supervised learning

Abstract. Supervised learning techniques construct predictive models by learning from a large number of training examples, where each training example has a la | Continue reading


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Psychedelics as a Treatment for Disorders of Consciousness

Abstract. Based on its ability to increase brain complexity, a seemingly reliable index of conscious level, we propose testing the capacity of the classic psyc | Continue reading


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Mathematical Fit: A Case Study

Abstract. Mathematicians routinely pass judgements on mathematical proofs. A proof might be elegant, cumbersome, beautiful, or awkward. Perhaps the highest pra | Continue reading


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