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Energetics‐informed behavioral states reveal the drive to kill in African leopards

Ecosphere, 2017
The drive to kill prey is central to understanding the population viability and ecological effects of large carnivores. This drive is modulated by behaviorally determined energetic expenditures, yet current methods of estimating the energetics of ...
Christopher C. Wilmers, Lynne A. Isbell, Justin P. Suraci, Terrie M. Williams   +3 more
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Breastfeeding after Gestational Diabetes: Does Perceived Benefits Mediate the Relationship? [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction. Breastfeeding is recognized as one of the best ways to decrease infant mortality and morbidity. However, women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) may have breastfeeding barriers due to the increased risk of neonatal and pregnancy ...
Masho, Saba W., Perera, Robert A., Wallenborn, Jordyn T.   +2 more
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Indirect effects among biodiversity loss of mutualistic ecosystems

National Science Open, 2022
Drastic reduction in biodiversity has been a severe threat to ecosystems, which is exacerbated when losing few species leads to disastrous and even irreparable consequences.
Wang Guangwei, Liu Xueming, Chen Guanrong, Zhang Hai-Tao   +3 more
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Indirect effects of lightning discharges [PDF]

Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2011
The occurrence of lightning strokes due to indirect effect of lightning discharges, has assumed a lot of importance in the recent times. This is due to the sensitive, vital electronic equipment which are highly vulnerable to such indirect ...
Punekar Gururaj S., Kandasamy Chandrasekaran   +1 more
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Quantum Zeno effect by indirect measurement: The effect of the detector

, 2004
We study the quantum Zeno effect in the case of indirect measurement, where the detector does not interact directly with the unstable system. Expanding on the model of Koshino and Shimizu [Phys. Rev.
L. Khalfin, M. G. Makris, P. Lambropoulos   +2 more
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Impaired emotional awareness is associated with childhood maltreatment exposure and positive symptoms in schizophrenia

Frontiers in Psychiatry
ObjectivesEvidence suggests that emotional awareness—the ability to identify and label emotions—may be impaired in schizophrenia and related to positive symptom severity.
Kendall Beals, Kendall Beals, Lénie J. Torregrossa, Ryan Smith, Richard David Lane, Julia M. Sheffield   +5 more
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Are competition and extrinsic motivation reliable predictors of academic cheating? [PDF]

, 2013
Previous studies suggest that extrinsic motivation and competition are reliable predictors of academic cheating. The aim of the present questionnaire study was to separate the effects of motivation- and competition-related variables on academic cheating ...
Farkas, Dávid, Orosz, Gábor, Roland-Lévy, Christine   +2 more
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Assessing the impacts of industrial digitization on synergistic effects of pollution and carbon reduction

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Synergistic effects of pollution and carbon reduction forms the core of ecological civilization construction in the “14th Five-Year Plan” period.
Liyao Zhang, Yanxia Diao, Yiming Chen, Tao Ma   +3 more
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A cautionary note on the power of the test for the indirect effect in mediation analysis.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
Recent simulation studies have pointed to the higher power of the test for the mediated effect versus the test for the total effect, even in the presence of a direct effect.
Tom eLoeys, Beatrijs eMoerkerke, Stijn eVansteelandt   +2 more
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Correcting the Bias Correction for the Bootstrap Confidence Interval in Mediation Analysis

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The bias-corrected bootstrap confidence interval (BCBCI) was once the method of choice for conducting inference on the indirect effect in mediation analysis due to its high power in small samples, but now it is criticized by methodologists for its ...
Tristan D. Tibbe, Amanda K. Montoya
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