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Measuring behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination in health workers in Eastern and Southern Africa

BMC Proceedings, 2023
Background In 2021, twenty out of twenty-one countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region introduced COVID-19 vaccines. With variable willingness to uptake vaccines across countries, the aim of the present study was to better understand ...
Helena Ballester Bon, Symen A. Brouwers, Jenna Mote, Sofia de Almeida, Laurie Markle, Silvia Sommariva, Natalie Fol   +6 more
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DNMT1 mutant ants develop normally but have disrupted oogenesis

Nature Communications, 2023
Although DNA methylation is an important gene regulatory mechanism in mammals, its function in arthropods remains poorly understood. Studies in eusocial insects have argued for its role in caste development by regulating gene expression and splicing ...
Iryna Ivasyk, Leonora Olivos-Cisneros, Stephany Valdés-Rodríguez, Marie Droual, Hosung Jang, Robert J. Schmitz, Daniel J. C. Kronauer   +6 more
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Distinct roles of amylin and oxytocin signaling in intrafamilial social behaviors at the medial preoptic area of common marmosets

Communications Biology, 2023
Calcitonin receptor (Calcr) and its brain ligand amylin in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) are found to be critically involved in infant care and social contact behaviors in mice.
Takuma Kurachi, Kazutaka Shinozuka, Chihiro Yoshihara, Saori Yano-Nashimoto, Ayako Y. Murayama, Junichi Hata, Yawara Haga, Hideyuki Okano, Kumi O. Kuroda   +8 more
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Social Distancing From Foreign Individuals as a Disease-Avoidance Mechanism: Testing the Assumptions of the Behavioral Immune System Theory During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social Psychological Bulletin, 2021
Topics of prejudice, discrimination, and negative attitudes toward outgroups have attracted much attention of social scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic, as the preference for social distancing can originate from the perception of threat.
Aleksandra Szymkow, Natalia Frankowska, Katarzyna Gałasińska   +2 more
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Understanding the Emotional Impact and Coping Strategies of Professionals Working with Domestic Violence Victims

Social Sciences, 2023
Domestic violence (DV) remains a significant public health concern and a violation of human rights. The complex challenges faced by professionals who directly engage DV victims, combined with their consistent exposure to distressing narratives, have the ...
Elisabete Ferreira, Ana Sofia Figueiredo, Anita Santos   +2 more
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To Enhance, or not to Enhance: The Situational Context Shapes Women's Intentions on Amount and Diligence of Makeup Application

Evolutionary Psychology, 2023
Makeup is a tool that women use to shape their image and gain benefits in both inter- and intrasexual selection. As makeup enables the hiding or enhancing of facial features, it allows women to strategically shape impressions in a given context.
Malgorzata Biesiadecka, Aleksandra Szymkow, Wieslaw Baryla   +2 more
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Remote and on-site work stress severity during the COVID-19 pandemic: comparison and selected conditions

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2022
Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore whether remote and on-site work stress during the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced with different severity. The second goal was to investigate stress conditions at both working modes.
Agata Chudzicka-Czupała, Marta Żywiołek-Szeja, Mateusz Paliga, Damian Grabowski, Noemi Krauze   +4 more
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anTraX, a software package for high-throughput video tracking of color-tagged insects

eLife, 2020
Recent years have seen a surge in methods to track and analyze animal behavior. Nevertheless, tracking individuals in closely interacting, group-living organisms remains a challenge.
Asaf Gal, Jonathan Saragosti, Daniel JC Kronauer   +2 more
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Clonal raider ant brain transcriptomics identifies candidate molecular mechanisms for reproductive division of labor

BMC Biology, 2018
Background Division of labor between reproductive queens and workers that perform brood care is a hallmark of insect societies. However, studies of the molecular basis of this fundamental dichotomy are limited by the fact that the caste of an individual ...
Romain Libbrecht, Peter R. Oxley, Daniel J. C. Kronauer   +2 more
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A calcitonin receptor-expressing subregion of the medial preoptic area is involved in alloparental tolerance in common marmosets

Communications Biology, 2022
Like humans, marmoset caregivers exhibit individual parenting styles. Among these, infant tolerance is in part regulated by a subregion of the medial preoptic area enriched with calcitonin receptor-expressing neurons.
Kazutaka Shinozuka, Saori Yano-Nashimoto, Chihiro Yoshihara, Kenichi Tokita, Takuma Kurachi, Ryosuke Matsui, Dai Watanabe, Ken-ichi Inoue, Masahiko Takada, Keiko Moriya-Ito, Hironobu Tokuno, Michael Numan, Atsuko Saito, Kumi O. Kuroda   +13 more
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