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December 6, 2021
11/23/2021
Animal Behavior
Fuchs and colleagues show that elephant vocalizations may help individuals recognize one another, and signal excitement.
Image credit: Asian Elephant in Thailand by James B Cutchin, CC BY 4.0
12/01/2021
Artificial Intelligence
Gross and colleagues improve the accuracy of liver segmentation algorithms by using a training set that captures the different Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stages, providing easier generalizations to the later stages.
Image credit: Fig 3 by Gross et al., CC BY 4.0
11/24/2021
Psychology
The content of dreams can include reactions to new, significant, and emotional experiences. Solomonova and colleagues explore this phenomenon in the context of COVID-19 lockdown and report changes in dream content and recall as well as associations with mental health indices.
Image credit: Alarm Clock by congerdesign, Pixabay License
11/24/2021
Cardiovascular science
Onset of treatment for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is extremely time-sensitive, and delays are associated with increased mortality and morbidity rates. Chowdhury and colleagues investigate the factors associated with pre-hospital delays in ascertaining AMI treatment in Bangladesh.
Image credit: Man Heartache by Pexels, CC BY 2.0
11/26/2021
blog article
Since its inception in 2006, PLOS ONE has conceived to “return control over scholarly publishing to the research community”. Here, Editor-in-Chief Emily Chenette discusses the milestones and innovations that PLOS ONE has celebrated over the past 15 years.
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12/01/2021
Everyone blog
When PLOS ONE launched in 2006, few could have predicted where the journal would be fifteen years later. Here, Suzanne Farley, the Editorial Director at PLOS, and Emily Chenette, the Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE, share their perspectives on the future of PLOS and how they would like to see PLOS ONE evolve over the next fifteen years.
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11/29/2021
Everyone blog
In celebrating the 15 years since PLOS ONE published its first articles, we invited authors of some of the first papers to be published, as well as an author of a more recent paper, to share information about their careers, their perspectives on Open Science, and their experiences as PLOS ONE authors.
Image credit: geralt
11/29/2021
Health Screening
Gigantesco and colleagues investigate the use of the PHQ-2 in pregnant and postpartum women, and find it may fail to identify perinatal women at risk of depression.
Image credit: Question Mark by qimono, Pixabay License
11/29/2021
Cancer
Investigating a dimension of psycho-oncology impact of cancer on quality of life, Brederecke found that factors associated with body image differed between genders, and time from cancer diagnosis did not affect over all body image perception.
11/30/2021
Molecular Biology
Goel and colleagues explored the cellular functions of Cpne4 in Retinal Ganlion Cells and identified that Cpne4 over-expression leads to morphological changes in the retina.
11/29/2021
Neural Networks
Li and colleagues use AI and cameras to distinguish different individual cows, without the need for branding or tagging.
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