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Social Influence on Risk Perception During Adolescence. [PDF]
, 2015 Adolescence is a period of life in which peer relationships become increasingly important. Adolescents have a greater likelihood of taking risks when they are with peers rather than alone.
Blakemore, SJ +3 more
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa +5 more
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Social Influence, 2017 Over the last decade, social media has increasingly been used as a platform for political and moral discourse. We investigate whether conformity, specifically concerning moral attitudes, occurs in these virtual environments apart from face-to-face ...
Meagan Kelly +4 more
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Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production
Nature, 2016 In recent years, several extreme weather disasters have partially or completely damaged regional crop production. While detailed regional accounts of the effects of extreme weather disasters exist, the global scale effects of droughts, floods and extreme
Corey Lesk, P. Rowhani, N. Ramankutty
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Influence tactics and leader effectiveness : how effective, contemporary leaders influence subordinates [PDF]
, 2012 Defining the difference between successful and mediocre leaders is a quest that has attracted many renowned scholars, drawing vast amounts of research effort.
Sampson, Susan Jane
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Holistic Influence Maximization for Targeted Advertisements in Spatial Social Networks [PDF]
, 2018 The problem of influence maximization has recently received significant attention. However, most studies focused on user influence via cyber interactions while ignoring their physical interactions which are important to gauge influence propagation ...
Ajmal Mian +11 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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Social Influence, 2017 To convince people to reduce their energy consumption, two types of persuasive appeals often are used by environmental organizations: Monetary appeals (i.e., ‘conserving energy will save you money’) and environmental appeals (i.e., ‘conserving energy ...
Margot S. Tijs +5 more
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Meta-cognition and resistance to political persuasion: evidence from a three-wave panel study
Social Influence, 2020 We investigate the temporal course of meta-cognition and resistance processes following exposure to counter-attitudinal information in the 2012 Presidential election.
Joseph A. Vitriol +2 more
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The influence of teachers’ expectations [PDF]
, 2010 As teachers and educators understand, just because you want a student to learn something or perform well doesn’t mean that they always will! Often we focus on what the student is doing or not doing correctly – “Why can’t they just…?”. However, if we only
Moyle, Gene Margaret
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