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)
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)
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
Evolutionary Biology
Joanna Baker, Andrew Meade, Mark Pagel, Chris Venditti
Summary: The paper argues that Poe et al.'s study has two flaws: an erroneous view of modern phylogenetic comparative methods and a lack of statistical rigor. By using appropriate phylogenetic comparative approaches, it is demonstrated that results remain consistent regardless of the clade definition. Scientists are encouraged to continue using phylogenetic corrections instead of abandoning clades.
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY
(2021)
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
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
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Joel H. Kastner, Emily Wilson
Summary: Research suggests that carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars with detached, expanding circumstellar shells may have experienced helium shell flashes, and their luminosity evolution aligns with model predictions. Detached shell carbon stars can serve as effective tracers of the luminosity evolution of AGB thermal pulses.
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Hui Wang, JueTian Lu, JiaYuan Liang, JunJie Yu, Mi Yan, Chen Wu
Summary: In the design of hierarchical SiO2@MoSe2@FeNi3, the impact of different structures on absorption performance was investigated, with the yolk-shell composite achieving a minimum reflection loss of -45.25 dB at a thickness of 1.4 mm over a wide effective absorption bandwidth.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(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)
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
Virology
Antonio Manna, Davide De Forni, Marco Bartocci, Nicola Pasculli, Barbara Poddesu, Florigio Lista, Riccardo De Santis, Donatella Amatore, Giorgia Grilli, Filippo Molinari, Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli, Franco Lori
Summary: SARS-CoV-2 can be inactivated in aerosol form, which is its primary mode of transmission, through the use of radiated microwaves. The frequencies required for this inactivation have been determined experimentally and align with the mathematical model proposed by Taylor, Margueritat, and Saviot. This alignment strengthens the efficacy of radiated microwave technology in reducing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in its airborne state.
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Romana Gruber, Martina Schiest, Markus Boeckle, Anna Frohnwieser, Rachael Miller, Russell D. Gray, Nicola S. Clayton, Alex H. Taylor
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rachael Miller, Romana Gruber, Anna Frohnwieser, Martina Schiestl, Sarah A. Jelbert, Russell D. Gray, Markus Boeckle, Alex H. Taylor, Nicola S. Clayton
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Gregor S. Reiter, Markus Boeckle, Christian Reiter, Monika H. Seltenhammer
WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rachael Miller, Anna Frohnwieser, Ning Ding, Camille A. Troisi, Martina Schiestl, Romana Gruber, Alex H. Taylor, Sarah A. Jelbert, Markus Boeckle, Nicola S. Clayton
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Biology
Alexandra K. Schnell, Piero Amodio, Markus Boeckle, Nicola S. Clayton
Summary: Cephalopods, such as octopus, cuttlefish, and squid, are considered the most cognitively advanced group of invertebrates, displaying highly developed perception, learning, memory, and behavioral flexibility. Hypotheses for the emergence of complex cognition in cephalopods suggest that predation, foraging, and competitive pressures may have driven cognitive complexity in these animals. However, current research on cephalopod cognition is largely based on anecdotal evidence, and more studies are needed to understand the underlying mechanisms driving their behaviors.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Piero Amodio, Johanni Brea, Benjamin G. Farrar, Ljerka Ostojic, Nicola S. Clayton
Summary: The study explored prospective caching behaviors in corvids and found that neither the Compensatory Caching Hypothesis nor the Future Planning Hypothesis were supported by the experimental results. Instead, the best explanation was a uniform distribution of food caches across different caching locations.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Alexandra K. Schnell, Markus Boeckle, Micaela Rivera, Nicola S. Clayton, Roger T. Hanlon
Summary: Self-control varies among different species, with advanced self-control linked to better performance in cognitive tasks and potentially evolving in response to specific socio-ecological pressures. Cuttlefish, an invertebrate species thought to have evolved under different pressures from previously studied large-brained vertebrates, demonstrated the ability to tolerate delays in obtaining higher quality food and showed improved learning performance as a result.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Piero Amodio, Noam Josef, Nadav Shashar, Graziano Fiorito
Summary: This study reports a defense behavior of the common octopus, which includes postural and locomotory elements of bipedal locomotion. The authors compare this behavior with other similar reports, and provide preliminary considerations regarding bipedal locomotion in the common octopus.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2021)
Editorial Material
Biology
M. Boeckle, M. Schiestl, A. Frohnwieser, R. Gruber, R. Miller, T. Suddendorf, R. D. Gray, A. H. Taylor, N. S. Clayton
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biology
Piero Amodio, Benjamin G. Farrar, Christopher Krupenye, Ljerka Ostojic, Nicola S. Clayton
Summary: The experiments found that Eurasian jays are unable to integrate multiple cues about different mental states and perform an optimal response accordingly, questioning the reliability of previous research findings and highlighting key issues affecting reliability in comparative cognition research.
Review
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Linda Fischer-Grote, Vera Foessing, Martin Aigner, Markus Boeckle, Elisabeth Fehrmann
Summary: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to examine the prevalence rates of psychological distress-level comorbidities in female IC/BPS patients, their impact on QoL, and the correlation between such comorbidities and symptom severity. The results showed that depression and anxiety are more prevalent in IC/BPS patients compared to the general population, and psychological comorbidities were found to be related to symptom severity.
INTERNATIONAL UROGYNECOLOGY JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Physiology
Piero Amodio, Graziano Fiorito
Summary: Mirror self-recognition (MSR) is a potential indicator of self-awareness. In this study, the behavioral responses of common octopuses towards their own reflected images were investigated, and a marking procedure was explored for conducting the Mark test. The results showed that octopuses exhibited stronger exploratory responses towards the mirror compared to a non-reflective panel, but showed agonistic responses only in the presence of the mirror. In addition, mark-directed behaviors were observed even in the absence of the mirror and in sham-marked individuals, suggesting that proprioceptive stimuli drove these responses. Despite the limitations of the marking procedure, the baseline data collected in this pilot study may facilitate further research on MSR in octopuses and other cephalopods.
FRONTIERS IN PHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biology
M. Boeckle, M. Schiestl, A. Frohnwieser, R. Gruber, R. Miller, T. Suddendorf, R. D. Gray, A. H. Taylor, N. S. Clayton
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2020)
Review
Psychology, Experimental
Rachael Miller, Markus Boeckle, Sarah A. Jelbert, Anna Frohnwieser, Claudia A. F. Wascher, Nicola S. Clayton
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COGNITIVE SCIENCE
(2019)
