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The importance of being heterozygote: effects of RHD-genotype-sex interaction on the physical and mental health of a non-clinical population

Scientific Reports, 2021
Human populations, especially European, are polymorphic in the RHD gene. A significant fraction of their members carry no copy of the coding section of RHD gene, which results in their Rh-negative blood type.
Jaroslav Flegr, Lenka Příplatová, Jana Hlaváčová, Blanka Šebánková, Emanuel Žďárský, Šárka Kaňková   +5 more
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Congruence in European and Asian perception of Vietnamese facial attractiveness, averageness, symmetry and sexual dimorphism

Scientific Reports, 2023
Attractiveness is a proposed universal cue to overall biological quality. Nonetheless, local raters and raters of the same ethnicity may be more accurate in assessing the cues for attractiveness than distant and unfamiliar raters.
Ondřej Pavlovič, Vojtěch Fiala, Karel Kleisner   +2 more
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Environmental convergence in facial preferences: a cross-group comparison of Asian Vietnamese, Czech Vietnamese, and Czechs

Scientific Reports, 2021
It has been demonstrated that sociocultural environment has a significant impact on human behavior. This contribution focuses on differences in the perception of attractiveness of European (Czech) faces as rated by Czechs of European origin, Vietnamese ...
Ondřej Pavlovič, Vojtěch Fiala, Karel Kleisner   +2 more
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El enfoque franciscano y la ciencia. De la Escolástica Tardía a la vía moderna

Franciscanum, 2020
Late Scholasticism marks a milestone in the history of philosophical thought. In this period, a profound process of transformation took place in the way of observing nature through a meticulous data collection, experiments and subsequent ...
Elizabeth Segura Novoa, Giovanni Patriarca   +1 more
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Africans and Europeans differ in their facial perception of dominance and sex-typicality: a multidimensional Bayesian approach

Scientific Reports, 2022
Biosocial impact of facial dominance and sex-typicality is well-evidenced in various human groups. It remains unclear, though, whether perceived sex-typicality and dominance can be consistently predicted from sexually dimorphic facial features across ...
Vojtěch Fiala, Petr Tureček, Robert Mbe Akoko, Šimon Pokorný, Karel Kleisner   +4 more
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The Philosophy of Chemistry and its Evolution over Time [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
By some standards, chemistry is one of the largest scientific fields in the world, a science that is concerned with the "direct influence of molecules on human life" and thus raises ethical, political, philosophical and epistemological questions. In this
Hamideh Haghighat
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Acceptability of mandatory vaccination: a survey experiment on the effects of thresholds and justifications

Political Research Exchange, 2023
Mandatory vaccination mightseem like a straightforward solution for reaching a sufficient vaccine coverage during a pandemic. However, the effectiveness of mandatory vaccination is undermined if the public does not perceive such a compulsory policy as ...
Juha Ylisalo, Katariina Kulha, Mikko Leino, Rasmus Sirén, Lauri Rapeli, Maija Setälä   +5 more
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A Study on Demonstration of the Nature of Science in Science Textbooks: History and Philosophy of Science Perspectives

Jurnal Pendidikan IPA Indonesia, 2020
Many scholars in the teaching of science put forth that the perennial target of science education is to teach the nature of science (NOS), and science textbooks play a crucial role in the teaching of the nature of science (NOS).
Z. Ayık, B. Coştu
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Faster life history strategy manifests itself by lower age at menarche, higher sexual desire, and earlier reproduction in people with worse health

Scientific Reports, 2021
Factors which indicate lower life expectancy also induce switching to a faster life strategy, that is, a higher investment in current reproduction at the expense of future reproduction and body maintenance.
Kateřina Sýkorová, Jaroslav Flegr
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Review of de PAZ, M., VALOR, J. A. (eds.) Ciencia y método en los siglos XIX y XX. Madrid: Plaza y Valdez, 421, 2023. [PDF]

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We review the book Ciencia y método en los siglos XIX y XX, edited by Juan Antonio Valor and María de Paz, published by Plaza y Valdez in 2023. This ambitious work bridges the disciplines of history, philosophy, and science to provide a richly detailed ...
TAMIRES DAL MAGRO, LUZ CASTELO
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