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WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record compiled from open scholarly databases; the abstract is shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed, otherwise a short excerpt under fair use. Classifications are automated and approximate.

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Pro-inflammatory dietary patterns and their association with cardiovascular disease and pancreatic cancer in a hospital population: a cross-sectional study.

Jin Q, Liu Y, Tong Q et al. · 2025 · Frontiers in nutrition

Objective To examine whether a concise, clinic-feasible Patient Inflammatory Diet Score (PIDS) relates to prevalent pancreatic cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a hospital population, and to explore associations with systemic…

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Learning to draw parametric faces.

Davidenko N, Day J · 2025 · Memory & cognition

Humans' ability to draw faces accurately from memory is extremely rare. One source of difficulty is the drawing process itself, which requires converting a complex, three-dimensional mental representation to a two-dimensional drawing. To…

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No Genetic Causal Relationship Between HIV Infection and Insulin Resistance, Diabetes: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

Liu P, Zeng Q · 2025 · Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare

Background The causal relationship between HIV infection and insulin resistance, as well as diabetes mellitus, remains uncertain. This study explores these associations using genome-wide association study data and Mendelian randomization…

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In the eastern Mediterranean, the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis is absent or extremely rare according to recent surveys.

Anettová L, Šipková A, Cibulka P et al. · 2025 · Parasitology research

This study summarizes the findings of a comprehensive field investigation into the presence of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a zoonotic nematode responsible for meningitis, in selected regions of the eastern Mediterranean. Samples were…

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Musical groove listening does not enhance primary motor cortex activation.

O'Connell SR, Wilson GE, Berkowitz DH et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)

Groove is the pleasurable urge to move to the beat of music, a universally experienced human phenomenon. Because listeners are often inspired to move to music with groove, we asked whether high-groove music would promote greater motor…

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Psychobehavioral profiles of eating risk: schema-emotion regulation patterns differ in central adiposity with genotype (FTO rs9939609) as external validator-a pilot study.

Obara-Gołębiowska M · 2026 · Eating and weight disorders : EWD

Purpose To identify person-centered psychological profiles of eating-related risk based on early maladaptive schemas (EMS), emotion regulation difficulties, and eating behaviors, and to examine their external validation using…

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Effect of a Pragmatic eHealth Behavioral Gestational Weight Gain Intervention on Household Chaos in Pregnant People of Lower Socioeconomic Status: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Kracht CL, Falkenhain K, Flanagan EW et al. · 2026 · JMIR mental health

Background Household chaos is an emerging risk factor for childhood obesity development, especially in families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). It is unclear if changes in household chaos, especially in pregnancy, may mediate the…

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Fragile Mentalizing: Lack of Behavioral and Neural Markers of Social Cognition in an Established Social Perspective Taking Task when Combined with Stress Induction.

Cheema S, Augustin C, Göttlich M et al. · 2024 · eNeuro

The growing field of social neuroscience is reliant on the development of robust, ecologically valid paradigms for simulating social interaction and measuring social cognition in highly controlled laboratory settings. Perspective taking is…

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A Field of Her Own: Property Rights and Women's Agency in Myanmar.

Fertig A, Hartman A, Iyer L et al. · 2026 · The journal of politics

Can financial incentives lead households to register land in women's names, thereby providing them with formal property rights? Can formal property ownership improve women's economic outcomes and change decision-making dynamics within the…

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No Association Between Hypnotizability and Basal Ganglia Morphometry.

Picerni E, Piras F, Laricchiuta D et al. · 2026 · Brain sciences

Background: Hypnotizability is a psychophysiological trait measured by standardized scales whose scores indicate the proneness to modify perception, memory, and behavior according to specific suggestions, and to experience the hypnotic…

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How robust are egocentric and altercentric interference effects in social cognition? a test with explicit and implicit versions of a continuous false belief task.

Haskaraca FN, Proft M, Liszkowski U et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in psychology

It has been long assumed that meta-representational theory of mind (ToM) -our ability to ascribe mental states to ourselves and other people- emerges around age four as indicated in performance on explicit verbal false belief tasks. In…

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Administration of ketogenic intervention as a potential treatment during post-traumatic brain injury recovery: a scoping review.

Quddus DY, Aydin S, Waheed AA et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in nutrition

Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 69 million individuals annually and represents a major global health burden. Ketogenic interventions have emerged as a potential therapy to address deficits following TBI. This scoping review…

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