Letter
Virology
Liyang Zhao, Yusi Li, Wenjuan Yi, Kuo Yan, Chao Yang, Sridhar Radhakrishnan, Rui Li, Ruirong Tan, Gang Fan, Mengyuan Dai, Miao Liu, Ning-Yi Shao
Summary: Although smoking might increase the risk of severe COVID-19, our previous study did not find strong evidence to support this conclusion. We also acknowledged that patients with diabetes or other chronic diseases could have worse outcomes in COVID-19, but this aspect was not investigated in our study as we had published separate research on diabetes. Due to limited sample size and medical records, our study could not encompass multiple factors. Nonetheless, we hope our study serves as a useful and meaningful pilot study for future research.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY
(2023)
Letter
Nutrition & Dietetics
Weili Hu, Pavitra Shankar, Yuanhang Yao, Xinyi Su, Jung Eun Kim
Summary: Pesticides can harm eye health through various exposures. Organic diets have the potential to reduce pesticide exposure, but further studies comparing organic and nonorganic diets are needed to better understand their impact on eye health.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
James Wintrup
Summary: This article responds to the commentary by Ashraf et al., defending the argument that their conducted RCT has caused harm in Zambia. It engages with their central points while also discussing the broader issue of the politics and ethics of conducting RCTs in countries in the Global South and the political vision of economists who see RCTs as a solution to poverty and global health problems.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Economics
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ronald Richman, Marcos Carreira, James Sharpe
Summary: This article responds to Tetlock et al. (2022) by showing that expert judgment is not effective in capturing tail risk and that forecasting tournaments are not compatible with tail-risk assessment methods such as extreme value theory. Additionally, it presents a new finding demonstrating a significant gap between the properties of tail expectation and the corresponding probability.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xin Tian, Ke Xu, Xin Yang, Baocai Yin, Rynson W. H. Lau
Summary: This paper presents the first weakly-supervised approach to the salient instance detection problem, utilizing class and subitizing labels as weak supervision. A novel weakly-supervised network with multiple branches and a progressive training scheme are proposed to achieve salient instance detection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION
(2022)
Editorial Material
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Arjun Datta
Summary: The errors in the surface wave Green's tensor shown by Malkoti et al. have been acknowledged, as pointed out in the comment by Haney and Nakahara. The H/V amplitude ratio calculations were recomputed using expressions for Love and Rayleigh wave Green's tensors valid in the near-field provided by Haney and Nakahara. The differences due to the use of corrected Green's tensors only appear when the receivers are placed close to the edges of the modeling domain.
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Kristina Penezic, Marko Porcic, Petra Kathrin Urban, Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, Sofija Stefanovic
Summary: This work responds to a comment on the accuracy and precision of TCA analysis, the reflection of pregnancies in tooth cementum, and the interpretation of results. It argues for the reliability of TCA analysis, provides evidence for pregnancies leaving traces in tooth cementum, and clarifies that the hypothesis of increased fertility causing physiological stress in the Neolithic period needs further testing.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Phillip L. Ackerman
Summary: This reply focuses on addressing the challenges to the development of assessments of knowledge and skills beyond traditional ability assessments and providing clarification on the differences between the proposed approach to assessing intellect and adaptive intelligence.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2023)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Aidan G. C. Wright, Whitney R. Ringwald, Christopher J. Hopwood, Aaron L. Pincus
Summary: The reply argues against the use of personality trait models as the preferred way to redefine personality disorders. While personality trait models are descriptive tools, they lack the ability to define and explain, making them unable to accurately define and differentiate personality disorders. In contrast, a specific interpersonal model is proposed and adopted in psychiatric classification.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Kari A. Prassack, Josephine DuBois, Martina Laznickova-Galetova, Mietje Germonpre, Peter S. Ungar
Summary: The study suggests that canids from the Upper Paleolithic site of Predmosti represent ecologically distinct populations, potentially including Pleistocene wolves and dogs. The two groups show differences in diet and ecology, consistent with interpretations of dog domestication.
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katherine Griffiths, Neal Michelutti, Marianne S. V. Douglas, John P. Smol
Summary: Gajewski offers criticisms on the study by Griffiths et al. (2017), especially regarding the classification scheme of microclimates used and the value of observational evidence. The study sites were visited multiple times via aerial surveys and ground observations, supporting the microclimate classification scheme. Gajewski's claims on climate, catchment characteristics, and ice melting properties were refuted by veteran Arctic scientists with long-term field experience.
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patrick K. Durkee, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, David M. Buss
Summary: The study suggests that the primary foundation of human status allocation psychology is benefit generation rather than cost infliction. While there are strong correlations among predictors, it does not necessarily indicate severe collinearity. The thorough examination of the study is valuable, but further research is required to understand the impact of VIF threshold on the results.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Johnna Perdrizet, Carlos Felipe S. Santana, Thais Senna, Rodrigo Fernandes Alexandre, Rodrigo Sini de Almeida, Julia Spinardi, Matt Wasserman
Summary: This communication addresses and clarifies the questions and criticisms raised by Gomez and colleagues regarding the assumptions and potential negative impacts of our model on decision-making in Brazil.
HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Ethics
Alex James Miller Tate
Summary: The authors argue that while current ventilator rationing procedures exhibit racial inequity issues, alternative unweighted lottery procedures do not exacerbate prior structural injustices. They suggest that weighted lotteries favoring Black individuals and others experiencing serious health injustice should be preferred, as unweighted lotteries fail to prevent unjust population-level health outcomes.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Ecology
Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Lenore Fahrig, James I. Watling, Justin Nowakowski, Marcelo Tabarelli, Lutz Tischendorf, Felipe P. L. Melo, Braulio A. Santos, Maira Benchimol, Jose Carlos Morante-Filho, J. W. Ferry Slik, Ima C. G. Vieira, Teja Tscharntke
Summary: In conservation planning, it is essential to have more general guidelines like the 40% forest cover criterion rather than region-specific thresholds worldwide. While protecting 40% forest cover globally is urgent and feasible, using specific regional thresholds may lead to problems.
Article
Neurosciences
Antje Nuthmann, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Immo Schuetz
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
Article
Neurosciences
Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Philipp Methfessel, Alexandra Bendixen
Article
Neurosciences
Judith Schomaker, Daniel Walper, Bianca C. Wittmann, Wolfgang Einhaeuser
Article
Ophthalmology
Peter Veto, Immo Schuetz, Wolfgang Einhaeuser
Article
Ophthalmology
Peter Veto, Marvin Uhlig, Nikolaus F. Troje, Wolfgang Einhaeuser
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Peter Veto, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Nikolaus F. Troje
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
Article
Ophthalmology
Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Lucas F. O. da Silva, Alexandra Bendixen
Article
Ophthalmology
Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Charlotte Atzert, Antje Nuthmann
Article
Neurosciences
Leyla Loued-Khenissi, Adrien Pfeuffer, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Kerstin Preuschoff
Article
Ophthalmology
Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Annalena Sandrock, Alexander C. Schuetz
Summary: The study found that in binocular rivalry, perceptually difficult stimuli dominate over easy stimuli, and this difference is influenced by task relevance. In trials with tasks, this dominance difference emerges quickly, peaks before the response, and persists throughout the trial.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jan Grenzebach, Thomas G. G. Wegner, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Alexandra Bendixen
Summary: The study found that in auditory multistability, pupil dilation occurs when participants report perceptual switches, and even more so in response to actual stimulus changes. Random button presses did not sufficiently mimic multistability, but adjusting instructions resulted in a response pattern closer to multistability. This highlights the methodological challenges in interpreting such data and suggests possible approaches to address them.
Review
Neurosciences
Christoph Strauch, Chin -An Wang, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Stefan van der Stigchel, Marnix Naber
Summary: The process of pupillary constriction and dilation can provide an accessible, affordable, and non-invasive measure of brain activity. A new taxonomy is proposed to understand the factors affecting pupil size and their neural underpinnings. Pupil size serves as an integrated measure of different attentional states.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Nicole Wetzel, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Andreas Widmann
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
M. Sarey Khanie, J. Stoll, W. Einhaeuser, J. Wienold, M. Andersen
LIGHTING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Judith Schomaker, Elias M. Rau, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Bianca C. Wittmannl
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2017)
