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Campos KL, Rolim GG, Silva RS et al. · 2026 · Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata.
The boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boh., presents significant management challenges due to its persistent presence and prolonged cropping season. One hypothesis posits that favorable factors, such as host availability and climatic…
View details →Barresi G, Viana KMP, Hermansen TK et al. · 2025 · Preprint
Peer action coordination in middle childhood is thought to benefit from socio-cognitive abilities such as emotion understanding and inhibitory control, but empirical evidence for their role is limited. This study replicates and extends a…
View details →Czyżowska-Froemling A, Xu H, Harold K et al. · 2026 · Physiological reports
Age-related loss of innervation in skeletal muscle is a key driver of sarcopenia. We investigated the role of calcium-dependent phospholipase A 2 (cPLA 2 ) in denervation-atrophy. cPLA 2 mediates the release of polyunsaturated fatty acid…
View details →Lancup-Gauthier A, Brassard D, Côté M et al. · 2022 · Current developments in nutrition
Objectives While there is evidence that the early lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic may have had small positive impacts on several populations’ dietary habits, the longer term effects remain largely unknown. The aim of this study was to…
View details →Sørensen TT, Rod NH, Nguyen TL et al. · 2023 · European journal of epidemiology
Out-of-home care has been linked to excess mortality across the lifespan. We examined whether this association is modified by the age at first out-of-home care placement and the number of placements. In this population-based cohort study,…
View details →van Timmeren T, Piray P, Goudriaan A et al. · 2022 · Preprint
The development of addictive behaviors has been suggested to be related to a transition from goal-directed to habitual decision making. Stress is a factor known to prompt habitual behavior and to increase the risk for addiction and…
View details →Veregge M, Hirsch CD, Moscou MJ et al. · 2025 · mSystems
Goss's wilt and leaf blight of maize is an economically important disease caused by the Gram-positive bacterium, Clavibacter nebraskensis ( Cn ). Little is known about the ecology and pathogenesis of this bacterium. Here, we used…
View details →Kim MJ, Kim S, Kim J et al. · 2025 · Scientific reports
Unanticipated postural control measures may better identify mechanisms of ankle sprains in real-life situations. The purpose of this study was to identify directional deficits in reactive postural control during unanticipated horizontal…
View details →Karner A, Lor CS, Zhang M et al. · 2026 · PloS one
Spider phobia is one of the most common specific phobias and can be highly detrimental to one's quality of life. To evaluate the efficacy of treatments, reliable pre- and post-treatment assessments are needed. Behavioral avoidance tests…
View details →Williams I, Phillipou A, Storey E et al. · 2025 · Neurology international
Background/objectives As high-acuity vision is limited to a very small visual angle, examination of a scene requires multiple fixations. Simultanagnosia, a disorder wherein elements of a scene can be perceived correctly but cannot be…
View details →Budde H, Mueller-Alcazar A, Ahrens C et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in physiology
Introduction Physical exercise interventions are associated with neuroendocrine activation and transient changes in salivary testosterone (T) concentrations. Until now, most studies have focused on endurance exercise, but not on…
View details →Yakut G, Özden HC, Şener YZ et al. · 2025 · Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry
Objectives The study aims to compare heart rate variability (HRV) in borderline personality disorder (BPD) with healthy individuals and to investigate the relationships between HRV parameters and impulsivity, emotion regulation, and…
View details →Hanselmann M, Merzweiler S, Stark R et al. · 2026 · Obesity surgery
Introduction Postoperative follow-up care after metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is considered essential to achieve optimal outcomes. These follow-up care pathways were partially disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was…
View details →Pinzone AG, Gant RW, Rivera J et al. · 2024 · International journal of exercise science
This investigation evaluated validity and reliability of the HUMAC360 linear position transducer (LPT) compared to the Tendo Sport Weightlifting Analyzer (TENDO) for measuring mean velocity (MV), peak velocity (PV), and displacement (D)…
View details →Karadag B, Sevincok D, Ozbek MM et al. · 2026 · Psychiatry
Objective Although the relationship between childhood maltreatment (CM) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is well known, no studies to date have examined the potential mediating roles of thought-action fusion (TAF) and schizotypal…
View details →Pessina L, Bshary R · 2026 · Preprint
Summary Interactions between cleaner fish Labroides dimidiatus and client fish, from which cleaners remove ectoparasites and mucus, represent a textbook example of mutualism involving sophisticated strategic decision-making. However,…
View details →Chaudhary R, Koh KC, Gao P et al. · 2026 · Nature communications
Camelina sativa, an oilseed crop of the Brassicaceae family, has close relatives that vary in ploidy levels, providing a unique platform for studying plant genome evolution. Here, we report an improved assembly of the widely used C. sativa…
View details →Stefanelli F, Nocentini A, Levantini V et al. · 2026 · Psychological reports
Callous Unemotional (CU) traits, characterized by lack of empathy and shallow and restricted affect, are negatively associated with prosocial behaviour, and increase the risk of antisocial behaviors in youths. Acting pro-socially means…
View details →Zaremba D, Marczak M, Michałowski JM et al. · 2026 · Scientific reports
Climate change is a serious threat to people and ecosystems worldwide, making it increasingly important to understand what drives pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Emotions are recognized as key drivers of PEB, with underlying appraisals…
View details →Khatwani N, Wang L, Klein ST et al. · 2026 · Studies in health technology and informatics
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable method to generate candidate concepts for ontology expansion. However, the outputs depend on LLMs' sampling parameters such as "temperature." A high temperature leads to increased…
View details →Kesik DB, Şahintürk-Şentürk S, Yıldırım E · 2026 · Biological psychology
It is essential to examine brain structures and processes involved in retrieval tasks in semantic and episodic memory, two key components of the declarative (explicit) memory system, particularly in terms of regional activity differences…
View details →Eckert L, Bolnick DI, Peichel CL et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Ecological speciation is now regarded as one of the primary processes by which new species are generated. Adaptive divergence in allopatry begins this process, but it is often unclear when and how mechanisms that promote reproductive…
View details →Qureshi N, Pevnick JM, Torbati SS et al. · 2026 · American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Purpose Obtaining accurate medication histories for older adults in the emergency department (ED) is essential but challenging due to operational barriers and incomplete electronic health records (EHRs). We implemented a…
View details →McLean JC, Gogan T, Sivasubramaniam D · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract This study investigated whether cancel culture is driven by the retributive impulse and the role of echo chambers in online platforms. An anonymous online survey was utilised for this single-factor between-subjects study. Retained…
View details →Oyetunji TP, Chan-Golston AM, Ha S et al. · 2026 · Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
Objective Amid rising cannabis use, declining perceived harm, and policy liberalization over the past 15 years, we examined whether the association between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and past-year suicidal ideation among U.S. adults…
View details →Sleightholm S, O'Neill C · 2026 · Psychological reports
Suicide is a pernicious global issue with many serious impacts. Despite females being more likely to attempt suicide, males are around three times more likely to die from suicide, with one contributor being normative alexithymia, a reduced…
View details →Ross A, Logan CN, Thompson JJ et al. · 2026 · Preprint
ABSTRACT The Mnemonic Similarity Task (MST) is highly sensitive to age-related cognitive decline in humans and has been adapted for rodents using 3D objects, where aged animals show deficits in discriminating similar lures. To improve…
View details →Olatunji I, Liu J, Profit J · 2026 · Pediatric research
Background Structural inequities in neonatal care may influence human milk (HM) feeding outcomes. We examined whether allied health service (AHS) availability differs between safety-net (sn) and non-snNICUs and its association with HM use…
View details →Skoblow HF, Tracy EL, Gilligan M · 2026 · The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Objectives The Model of Dynamic Association Between Relationship Functioning and Sleep positions sleep as a fundamentally dyadic and reciprocal process, underscoring the need to study sleep within its relational context and highlighting…
View details →GÜNEY MC, SARIBOĞA Y, GÜNEY S et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract This study aimed to identify the psychological determinants of the preference for vaginal birth after cesarean versus cesarean after vaginal birth and to develop a prognostic nomogram. This cross-sectional study included 400…
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