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09/12/2018
Animal Welfare
Teng and colleagues present the WALY animal welfare metric, and demonstrate that it summarises welfare compromise as perceived by humans and total impact of diseases in individual animals
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08/30/2018
Health Systems RESEARCH
A systematic review of emergency department crowding by Morley and colleagues finds mismatch between causes and solutions.
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08/28/2018
Mental health and psychiatry
In a cluster randomized trial, Lovell and colleagues find that shared decision-making does not increase patient perceptions of autonomy support.
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08/30/2018
seismology
Analyzing eight recent earthquakes in Guadalajara, the authors conclude that the seismic activity was caused by reactivation of pre-existing local faults.
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09/07/2018
Channel
The Open Source Toolkit features articles and online projects describing hardware and software that can be used in a research and/or science education setting across different fields, from basic to applied research. The Channel editors aim to showcase how open source tools can lead to innovation, democratisation and increased reproducibility.
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09/10/2018
COLLECTION
Women remain underrepresented at higher academic ranks and in the peer-review process and exhibit higher rates of attrition from STEM degrees and careers. The articles in this collection consider factors associated with the inclusion and success of women in STEM fields and propose ways to reduce the gender gap.
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09/07/2018
EveryONE
In this EveryONE blog we discuss a recent study by Larisa DeSantis which involved students from her course on Paleoecological Methods. The study looks at tooth wear across two species of kangaroo and one species of koala.
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09/12/2018
Gene ExpressiOn
Chowdhury and colleagues investigate gene regulation and the role of Trim9 in the developing mouse retina.
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08/28/2018
Water and Sanitation
Women are key to clean water access in poor peri-urban settlements in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, as reported by Angoua and colleagues.
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08/29/2018
Computational Social Sciences
Morgan and colleagues develop a census construction method based on web crawling to assemble a robust and complete census of an academic field.
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08/28/2018
Public economics
Fochmann and colleagues explore individuals’ behavior when deciding whether to burden future generations with public debt.
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Stable carbon isotope analysis of fatty acide residues from ancient Mediterranean pottery suggests cheese production as early as 7,200 years ago.
McIntosh and colleagues find from the 2013 census that Australian fur seal pups are declining.
Murillo-Barroso and colleagues investigate the distribution and circulation of amber throughout the prehistoric Iberian peninsular.
Mattern and co-workers used satellite trackers to investigate the routes taken by New Zealand's only crested penguin.
Bertin and colleagues investigate visual communication in blue-and-yellow macaws.
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