The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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Choosing which models best explain photoperiodic time measurement mechanisms in plants. [PDF]
NPJ Biol Timing SleepImaizumi T.
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The second demographic transition (SDT) theory highlights how nontraditional family behaviors first emerged in Nordic countries and diffused elsewhere. Cross‐national variations in approval of such behaviors across educational groups and changes over time remain underexplored, however.
Katrin Schwanitz +3 more
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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays,
Nathan Favero, Carla Flink, Tingli Qu
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Molecular docking and <i>In-Silico</i> pharmacokinetic analysis of 1,3-benzothiazole-2-amine derivatives as anticonvulsants. [PDF]
J Taibah Univ Med SciRufa'i A +5 more
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Plant Biology, EarlyView.We generated a compound by chemical modification that can efficiently rescue growth without decreasing the immune response of the chs3‐2D autoimmune mutants, thus chemically uncoupling its growth–defence trade‐off. Abstract Plant development in many species including Arabidopsis relies on the accurate balance between growth and defence.
M. Keijzer +5 more
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Pangenomic analyses of rose uncover widespread structure variation and empower genomics-directed breeding. [PDF]
Nat GenetZhang X +18 more
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Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
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Design, synthesis and acaricidal activity of tetrahydrothiophene derivatives against <i>Psoroptes cuniculi</i>. [PDF]
RSC AdvChen D +7 more
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Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Even if member states formally comply with EU law, the ‘ideal type’ of literal compliance, where EU rules are compliantly transposed without customizing their density or restrictiveness, is both rare and improbable. Why do EU member states engage in literal compliance in the ‘least likely’ case of the EU's Fiscal Compact, where customized ...
Tiziano Zgaga, Eva Thomann
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