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Mashup Score: 2Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees - 10 hour(s) ago
Tool use is considered a driving force behind the evolution of brain expansion and prolonged juvenile dependency in the hominin lineage. A study of stick tool use in wild chimpanzees reveals a prolonged time for cognitive assimilation, suggesting selection pressure that favors retention of learning capacities into adulthood.
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Thuy Doan and co-workers explore the impact of mass azithromycin distribution on the antibiotic resistance in the gut of Nigerien pre-school children.
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Binh Nguyen and colleagues, use longitudinally collected data and target trial emulation methods to explore the impact of mid-life physical activity on the health outcomes of Australian women later in life.
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Binh Nguyen and team, use longitudinally collected data and target trial emulation methods to explore the impact of mid-life physical activity on the health outcomes of Australian women later in life. @DrMelodyDing @pjclare @GregoreMielke @ProfWendyBrown https://t.co/pae5f7yEM3 https://t.co/mQmVlOL5yR
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Anthony Civitarese and colleagues observed an increase in mitochondrial DNA in muscle and a decrease in whole body oxygen consumption in healthy adults who underwent caloric restriction.
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Mashup Score: 12
Binh Nguyen and colleagues, use longitudinally collected data and target trial emulation methods to explore the impact of mid-life physical activity on the health outcomes of Australian women later in life.
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Binh Nguyen and team, use longitudinally collected data and target trial emulation methods to explore the impact of mid-life physical activity on the health outcomes of Australian women later in life. @DrMelodyDing @pjclare @GregoreMielke @ProfWendyBrown https://t.co/pae5f7yEM3 https://t.co/mQmVlOL5yR
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Mashup Score: 3Winners and losers: Emotional shifts across elections are conveyed by a politician’s smile - 8 day(s) ago
The human smile can convey both rewarding and affiliative social intent and thus has significant utility in politics, where the ability to bond with and reassure voters is vital to electoral success. We examine experimental evidence from the 2019 UK general election to investigate the influence of a politician’s reward or affiliative smile on voter emotions. It was hypothesised that the winner’s affiliative smile would engender positive affect across all partisan groups compared to the winner’s reward smile display. Participants from a nationally representative sample were shown campaign footage containing both types of smiles from the leaders of the main competing political parties both before and after the election. Increases in happiness and affinity were revealed across all partisan groups when shown footage of the eventual winner’s affiliative smile; at the same time, supporters of losing parties indicated a decrease in negative affect. Affinity has been shown to increase civic en
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Mashup Score: 6How social evaluations shape trust in 45 types of scientists - 12 day(s) ago
Science can offer solutions to a wide range of societal problems. Key to capitalizing on such solutions is the public’s trust and willingness to grant influence to scientists in shaping policy. However, previous research on determinants of trust is limited and does not factor in the diversity of scientific occupations. The present study (N = 2,780; U.S. participants) investigated how four well-established dimensions of social evaluations (competence, assertiveness, morality, warmth) shape trust in 45 types of scientists (from agronomists to zoologists). Trust in most scientists was relatively high but varied considerably across occupations. Perceptions of morality and competence emerged as the most important antecedents of trust, in turn predicting the willingness to grant scientists influence in managing societal problems. Importantly, the contribution of morality (but not competence) varied across occupations: Morality was most strongly associated with trust in scientists who work on
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Mashup Score: 327Neuronal cell cycle reentry events in the aging brain are more prevalent in neurodegeneration and lead to cellular senescence - 15 day(s) ago
Recent evidence suggests that cell cycle genes become re-activated in some post-mitotic neurons in the aged brain. In this study, the authors develop a bioinformatic approach to robustly characterize the prevalence, nature, and fate of these cell cycle re-entry neurons, within the healthy aging and diseased human brain.
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Most brain cells have lost their ability to divide. But the ones that can divide (get into cell cycle) — are more frequent in people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's—quickly become senescent and die, and may contribute to neurodegeneration https://t.co/IWwOEbpdP3 @PLOSBiology https://t.co/JPCNiy4t3F
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Mashup Score: 19Navigating time equity: Balancing urgency and inclusivity in pandemic treaty negotiations - 15 day(s) ago
Citation: Sekalala S, Lake S, Hodges S, Perera Y (2024) Navigating time equity: Balancing urgency and inclusivity in pandemic treaty negotiations. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(4): e0003118. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003118 Editors: Madhukar Pai (McGill University, CANADA), Catherine Kyobutungi (APHRC, KENYA), and Julia Robinson (PLOS: Public Library of Science, UNITED STATES) Copyright: © 2024 Sekalala et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
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Citation: Naidu T (2024) Epistemic disobedience–Undoing coloniality in global health research. PLOS Glob Public Health 4(4): e0003033. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003033 Editor: Seye Abimbola, University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA Copyright: © 2024 Thirusha Naidu. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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“Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees” by Mathieu Malherbe et al. PLOS Biology https://t.co/1WVuWs0qzm 3/3