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.
Editorial Material
Psychology, Applied
Paul R. R. Sackett, Christopher M. M. Berry, Filip Lievens, Charlene Zhang
Summary: Oh et al. (2023) questioned some choices made in our article (Sackett et al., 2022), and we provide a response here. They misunderstood our article as recommending against correcting for range restriction in concurrent validation studies in general, but we actually endorse correction when the necessary information is available. Our main concern is about correcting for range restriction in meta-analyses, where the information on the applicant pool is often missing. Sackett et al. (2022) highlighted that in most cases, the impact of uncorrected range restriction on validity is small. Oh et al. mentioned situations with substantial range restriction, but we argue that such situations are uncommon and do not make up the majority of studies in meta-analyses.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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
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
Chemistry, Medicinal
Gustavo Cabrera-Barjas, Cristian Gonzalez, Aleksandra Nesic, Kelly P. Marrugo, Oscar Gomez, Cedric Delattre, Oscar Valdes, Heng Yin, Gaston Bravo, Juan Cea
Summary: This study successfully extracted beta-chitin from marine waste and converted it into nanofibers, producing high-brightness films with good mechanical resistance. These films showed medium swelling in different pH environments and are suitable for various industrial applications such as food packaging, agriculture, and wound dressing.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yi Gong, Yaxin Wang, Ling Chen, Yunkai Li, Xinjun Chen, Bilin Liu
Summary: This study reveals the presence of microplastics in the gills, intestine, and stomach of jumbo squid, with sizes ranging from 80.75 to 4632.27 micrometers. The majority of microplastics are fibrous in shape, blue or black-gray in color, and composed of cellophane, possibly driven by the movement pattern and habitat use of the squid.
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
(2021)
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)
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)
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.
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)
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
Chemistry, Physical
Dequan Jiang, Ting Wen, Yanzhen Guo, Jie Liang, Zimin Jiang, Chen Li, Ke Liu, Wenge Yang, Yonggang Wang
Summary: Anomalous compression behaviors like NLC and NAC in MOFs are important under extreme conditions. MIL-53(Al) shows a rare reentrant NLC behavior over a wide pressure range, reaching up to 41.6 GPa. The compression mechanisms were studied using X-ray diffraction analyses, Raman spectra, and DFT calculation, with the unique probe of Cr3+ photoluminescence revealing a hidden phase transition around 22.0 GPa.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2022)
Letter
Environmental Sciences
Davy Vanham, Mesfin M. Mekonnen
Summary: The reliability of the scarcity-weighted water footprint (WSF) and its counterproductivity for achieving SDG target 6.4 is questioned. The analysis shows that unsustainably produced wheat may receive better ranking than sustainably produced wheat based on WSF. The suggestion is to use the water stress indicator instead of WSF in the LCA framework.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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)
