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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the World Bank's corporate goals of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity call for specific attention to the poor and vulnerable.
Craig Kullman   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Positive Emotional Language in the Final Words Spoken Directly Before Execution

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
How do individuals emotionally cope with the imminent real-world salience of mortality? DeWall and Baumeister as well as Kashdan and colleagues previously provided support that an increased use of positive emotion words serves as a way to protect and ...
Sarah eHirschmüller, Boris eEgloff
doaj   +1 more source

Turning to God in the Face of Ostracism: Effects of Social Exclusion on Religiousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The present research proposes that individuals who are socially excluded can turn to religion to cope with the experience. Empirical studies conducted to test this hypothesis consistently found that socially excluded persons reported (a) significantly ...
Allport, G.W.   +18 more
core   +1 more source

Terror threat perception and its consequences in contemporary Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The terrorist attacks of 9/11, and subsequent terrorist acts around the world, have alerted social psychologists to the need to examine the antecedents and consequences of terrorist threat perception. In these two studies we examined the predictive power
Gaines, SO, Goodwin, R, Wilson, M
core   +1 more source

Reminders of Mortality: Investigating the Effects of Different Mortality Saliences on Somatosensory Neural Activity

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
The Terror Management Theory (TMT) offered a great deal of generative hypotheses that have been tested in a plethora of studies. However, there is a still substantive lack of clarity about the interpretation of TMT-driven effects and their underlying neurological mechanisms.
Istvan Laszlo Gyimes, Elia Valentini
openaire   +4 more sources

Engineered extracellular vesicles enriched with the miR‐214/199a cluster enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy in ovarian cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Loss of the miR‐214/199a cluster is associated with recurrence in ovarian cancer. Engineered small extracellular vesicles (m214‐sEVs) elevate miR‐214‐3p/miR‐199a‐5p in tumor cells, suppress β‐catenin, TLR4, and YKT6 signaling, reprogram tumor‐derived sEV cargo, reduce chemoresistance and migration, and enhance carboplatin efficacy and survival in ...
Weida Wang   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing Scepticism Toward Potential Liars: Effects of Existential Threat on Veracity Judgments and the Moderating Role of Honesty Norm Activation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
With the present research, we investigated effects of existential threat on veracity judgments. According to several meta-analyses, people judge potentially deceptive messages of other people as true rather than as false (so-called truth bias).
Simon eSchindler, Marc-André eReinhard
doaj   +1 more source

Dying to Eat: Terror Management and Attitudes Toward Eating Plants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Terror management theory posits that the drive for self-preservation and the knowledge of our inevitable death create anxiety in people, which they manage in a variety of ways, including favoring those who are like them and distancing themselves from ...
Lewis, Erika J
core   +1 more source

Pet Loss and Representations of Death, Attachment, Depression, and Euthanasia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
T Studies that have examined pet loss hypothesize that attachment, representations of death, and the belief in an afterlife for animals may influence owners\u2019 bereavement and depressive outcomes.
De Cataldo, Loriana   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Deep Learning–Assisted Differentiation of Four Peripheral Neuropathies Using Corneal Confocal Microscopy

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Peripheral neuropathies contribute to patient disability but may be diagnosed late or missed altogether due to late referral, limitation of current diagnostic methods and lack of specialized testing facilities. To address this clinical gap, we developed NeuropathAI, an interpretable deep learning–based multiclass classification ...
Chaima Ben Rabah   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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