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Microbiology Research, 2023 Pekar et al. (2022) propose that SARS-CoV-2 was a zoonotic spillover that first infected humans in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China. They propose that there were two separate spillovers of the closely related lineages A and lineage B in a short ...
Steven E. Massey +4 more
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A path forward in the investigation of seabird strandings attributed to light attraction
Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 A variety of anthropogenic threats cause mortality and population declines of procellariiform seabirds. Globally, fledglings of many colonial procellariiforms become stranded in towns and cities during their first flights from the nest, which occur at ...
Taylor Marie Brown +3 more
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Experiential thinking in creationism--a textual analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Creationism is a religiously motivated worldview in denial of biological evolution that has been very resistant to change. We performed a textual analysis by examining creationist and pro-evolutionary texts for aspects of "experiential thinking", a ...
Petteri Nieminen +2 more
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Self-associations influence task-performance through Bayesian inference
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 The way we think about ourselves impacts greatly on our behaviour. This paper describes a behavioural study and a computational model that sheds new light on this important area.
Sara L Bengtsson, William Douglas Penny
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Cogent Psychology, 2019 A large body of research has focused on legal decision-making. However, few studies have tested the impact on evidence processing of the intimate conviction (IC) instruction, a decision rule based on impression formation that is used in mixed courts of ...
Catherine Esnard, Rafaele Dumas
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Caries detection in primary teeth is less challenging than in permanent teeth
Dental Hypotheses, 2013 Introduction: Most studies about caries detection methods have been performed using permanent teeth. Primary teeth, however, present significant differences from permanent teeth; hence findings of these studies with permanent teeth cannot be extrapolated.
Fausto M Mendes, Mariana M Braga
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern
Voices in Bioethics, 2023 Photo by 234988805© Niall Wiggan on Dreamstime INTRODUCTION This short essay explores the plausible wisdom of status quo bias and questions the attempt by Bostrom and Ord to negate its influence. Assuming that the standard role of reason in judgment-
Joel Janhonen
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On the phylogenetic position of Myzostomida: can 77 genes get it wrong?
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 Background Phylogenomic analyses recently became popular to address questions about deep metazoan phylogeny. Ribosomal proteins (RP) dominate many of these analyses or are, in some cases, the only genes included.
Halanych Kenneth M +6 more
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Iterative guided machine learning-assisted systematic literature reviews: a diabetes case study
Systematic Reviews, 2021 Background Systematic Reviews (SR), studies of studies, use a formal process to evaluate the quality of scientific literature and determine ensuing effectiveness from qualifying articles to establish consensus findings around a hypothesis. Their value is
John Zimmerman +7 more
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Evolutionary pathways of the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in the UK.
PLoS ONE, 2011 The emergence of the influenza (H1N1) 2009 virus provided a unique opportunity to study the evolution of a pandemic virus following its introduction into the human population.
Monica Galiano +8 more
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