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A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in suffering across 22 countries

Communications Medicine
Background Suffering has been identified as an important public health issue worthy of closer attention. This preregistered study takes an initial step toward developing an epidemiology of suffering by exploring the distribution of suffering in 22 ...
Richard G. Cowden, Zhuo Job Chen, Renae Wilkinson, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, Thomas Breedlove, Craig Gundersen, Koichiro Shiba, R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +9 more
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Virtue and self-interest [PDF]

, 2007
Why be moral? One possible, and compelling answer is that to act morally is in an agent's self-interest. Such an answer can be either elevationist (broadly speaking the Aristotelian/Platonic approach) where self-interest is elevated to coincide with ...
Hardwicke, Tery Vance
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TNAP and PHOSPHO1 Function Synergistically to Afford Critical Control Over the Mineralization of the Postnatal Murine Skeleton

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Biomineralization underpins skeletal development, yet its molecular control remains incompletely understood. Using a novel murine knockout model, this study reveals the essential and complementary roles of PHOSPHO1 and TNAP in postnatal skeletal development.
Lucie E. Bourne, Aikta Sharma, Scott Dillon, Jacob Keen, Soher N. Jayash, Natalie Crump, Lucinda A.E. Evans, Maya Karmali, Worachet Promruk, Claire E. Clarkin, Sonoko Narisawa, Louise Stephen, Brian L. Foster, José Luis Millán, Colin Farquharson, Katherine A. Staines   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sociodemographic variation in dispositional forgivingness: a cross-national analysis with 22 countries

Scientific Reports
We used nationally representative data from the first wave of the Global Flourishing Study (N = 202,898) to (1) explore the distribution of forgivingness in 22 geographically and culturally diverse countries and (2) identify potential differences in ...
Richard G. Cowden, Everett L. Worthington, Caleb A. Chung, Johannes H. De Kock, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, George Yancey, Koichiro Shiba, R. Noah Padgett, Matt Bradshaw, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +10 more
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A Bio‐Inspired Visual Sensor With UV‐to‐NIR Fusion for Enhanced Recognition in Autonomous Driving Systems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by the sophisticated multilayer retinal architecture found in Pacific salmon eyes, a novel van der Waals heterojunction sensor based on NbNiTe5/BP is designed. Upon illumination at distinct wavelengths of 365 and 820 nm, the device exhibits distinctive bipolar photocurrent responses with opposite polarities. This unique optoelectronic behavior
Tianle Zeng, Zishen Zhao, Keqin Tang, Yawen Luo, Junxin Yan, Kun Ye, Jinlu Liu, Zhuo Dong, Zhipeng Yu, Weiming Lv, Ruicheng Li, Yenasheng Li, Lixuan Liu, Tianyu Xue, Chun Zhao, Yan Zhou, Kai Zhang, Zhongming Zeng, Zhongyuan Liu   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Childhood predictors of adults’ belief in god, gods, and spiritual forces across 22 countries

Scientific Reports
Religion is an integral part of everyday life for billions of people, yet little is known about the developmental antecedents of religious belief outside of Western cultures.
Jordan W. Moon, Kathryn A. Johnson, Brendan Case, R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele   +5 more
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A Phenomenological Study Exploring the Experiences of Flourishing Among University Students Transitioning Directly from High School

, 2019
This study explored the experiences of flourishing, among first year university students making the transition directly from high school, to develop a beginning understanding of 1) the factors that promote flourishing amidst this academic and ...
Volstad, Christina
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
wiley   +1 more source

Is happiness different from flourishing? Cross-country evidence from the ESS [PDF]

This paper appeals to novel survey information on over 30 000 individuals in 21 European countries to address an important and controversial question with respect to well-being: Do cognitive, hedonic and eudaimonic measures of well-being reflect very ...
Claudia Senik, Andrew E. Clark
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source