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Effects of lunar phases on short-term, explosive physical performance among young trained athletes
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Taylor and Francis Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Beliefs that lunar phases affect human physiology started in ancient times. Research has recently revealed that a physical fitness index increased in sedentary students at the new moon (NM) and full moon (FM) compared to ...
Teaching Bioethics to a Large Number of Biology and Pharma Students: Lessons Learned
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
To be made aware of bioethical issues related to their disciplines, undergraduate students in biology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Basel are required to enroll in the bioethics course called �Introduction ...
Dynamic communications between GABA A switch, local connectivity, and synapses during cortical development: A computational study
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2018 , Article)
Several factors regulate cortical development, such as changes in local connectivity and the influences of dynamical synapses. In this study, we simulated various factors affecting the regulation of neural network activity ...
Is Tourism Marriage of Young Girls in Egypt a Form of Child Sexual Abuse? A Family Exploitation Perspective
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
Tourism marriage in Egypt is considered a part of the child marriage phenomenon, as parents following false interpretations of Islamic teachings offer up their daughters for short-term sexual relationships in return for ...
Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
Episodic future thinking refers to the ability to travel forward in time to pre-experience an event. Although future thinking has been intimately linked with self and identity, to our knowledge, no prior research has ...
Applying big data methods to understanding human behavior and health
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2018 , Article)
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Parcellating cognitive heterogeneity in early psychosis-spectrum illnesses: A cluster analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Cognitive impairment is argued to represent a core feature of psychosis-spectrum illnesses. However, within-diagnosis heterogeneity is common, and risk factors for poor cognition remain to be examined after statistically ...
The Stroop test: A developmental study in a French children sample aged 7 to 12 yearsLe test de Stroop : une étude développementale auprès d’un échantillon d’enfants français âgés de 7 à 12 ans
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Elsevier Masson SAS
, 2018 , Article)
The Stroop test is a commonly used task in psychology to assess executive function and more specifically inhibition. International studies consistently show improved Stroop task performance with age, whereas available ...
The many facets of dopamine: Toward an integrative theory of the role of dopamine in managing the body's energy resources
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2018 , Article Review)
In neuroscience literature, dopamine is often considered as a pleasure chemical of the brain. Dopaminergic neurons respond to rewarding stimuli which include primary rewards like opioids or food, or more abstract forms of ...
Child Poverty and Youth Unemployment in Jordan
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The main purposes of this article were to investigate the extent and depth of child poverty and youth unemployment in Jordan. In addition, it investigates the sociocultural connotation of child poverty and youth unemployment ...