Massive DNA study reveals mating customs of mysterious medieval horse riders
In 568 C.E., according to contemporary records, warlike horse riders from the Mongolian steppes called the Avars surged into the grassy plains flanking the Danube River, in roughly the territory of modern Hungary. Together with other groups from Central Asia, they formed a new power center in Europe, forcing the Byzantine Empire to pay tribute. But they left no written history. Now, using DNA from hundreds of burials—including entire Avar cemeteries—researchers have filled in some of the gaps, using kinship data to reconstruct Avar mating patterns, mobility, and even local politics.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 24, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
NIH boosts pay for postdocs and graduate students
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced pay increases today for early-career scientists who are recipients of its Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSAs), after an
NIH advisory group recommended raises in December 2023
. Postdocs will now be paid at least $61,008, an increase of $4500 over their current minimum salary level—though still below the advisory group’s recommendation of $70,000. Graduate students will receive a $1000 raise, bringing their minimum to $28,224. NIH also announced a $500 increase in child care subsidies for early-career researchers who are parents.
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 23, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Temperature influence on the sensitivity of Artemia franciscana to globally used pesticides - Oxyfluorfen and Copper
Chemosphere. 2024 Apr 21:142092. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142092. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTClimate change further the world's human population increase is a mainstream political issue, and it's critical to search for solutions to produce enough food to feed everyone. Pesticides and fertilizers have been used as an easy solution to prevent pests and increase food production. Nevertheless, their overuse has dangerous effects on the ecosystems and communities. Oxyfluorfen (Oxy) and copper (Cu) based formulations are used as pesticides and widely applied on agricultural fields for crop protection. However, they hav...
Source: Chemosphere - April 23, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: A F Mesquita F J M Gon çalves A M M Gon çalves Source Type: research
Temperature influence on the sensitivity of Artemia franciscana to globally used pesticides - Oxyfluorfen and Copper
Chemosphere. 2024 Apr 21:142092. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.142092. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTClimate change further the world's human population increase is a mainstream political issue, and it's critical to search for solutions to produce enough food to feed everyone. Pesticides and fertilizers have been used as an easy solution to prevent pests and increase food production. Nevertheless, their overuse has dangerous effects on the ecosystems and communities. Oxyfluorfen (Oxy) and copper (Cu) based formulations are used as pesticides and widely applied on agricultural fields for crop protection. However, they hav...
Source: Chemosphere - April 23, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: A F Mesquita F J M Gon çalves A M M Gon çalves Source Type: research
The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the district medical officer's role - a qualitative study
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2024 Apr 11;144(5). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0673. Print 2024 Apr 23.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: We wished to examine the role of the district medical officer in five Norwegian municipalities to provide new knowledge of how the experience from the pandemic might have led to changes to the district medical officer's role.MATERIAL AND METHOD: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 persons who had held key positions in local crisis management teams during and after the pandemic. The informants were recruited from five municipalities within the same county, and they all held leadership roles in health...
Source: Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening - April 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Erlend Vik Tonje Hungnes Ola K Mowinckel S ølve Mikal K Nerland Source Type: research
The Conflict of Public Health Law and Civil Liberties Part IV: Anger, Frustration, and the Loss of Trust
Political power and public trust are fragile things. Short of criminal law enforcement, voluntary agreement with any significant restriction of ordinary freedom of speech or behavior depends on convincing large numbers of citizens that temporary suspension of a particular liberty is in their best interest. Threats to health or property are convincing reasons to change behavior, to give someone else control over our daily lives. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - April 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Curtis E. Harris Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
The importance of a healthy lifestyle to prevent mental health problems during crisis situations: evidence from Corona Immunitas Ticino
ConclusionThe findings support previous research that highlights the role of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating and physical activity, in reducing mental health problems during difficult life circumstances exacerbated by crisis situations. Age- and gender-sensitive targeted interventions promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors are thus essential. (Source: Journal of Public Health)
Source: Journal of Public Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Risks of suboptimal and excessive thyroid hormone replacement across ages
ConclusionSuboptimal and excessive LT4 replacement of the preventable non-communicable disease hypothyroidism requires more focus from the healthcare system and from the global political systems to prevent the personally devastating and socioeconomically challenging consequences. (Source: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation)
Source: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation - April 22, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research
A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners: Reducing Polarization Toward LGBTIQ+ Persons
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Apr 22. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02856-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNegative attitudes and stigmatization toward sexual minorities is a cause of minority stress of non-heterosexual persons on an individual level and has a negative impact on democratic coexistence in postmodern, plural society on a societal level. Derived from clinical research, we developed a short metacognitive training (MCT) intended to induce doubt toward inaccurate beliefs about LGBTIQ+ persons. We expected this MCT to reduce homonegativity, threat perceptions of LGBTIQ+ persons, and to foster extended outgroup tolerance compare...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Klaus Michael Reininger Helena Koulen Hannah Marie Biel Timo Hennig Laura Pietras Martin Rochus Kokot Bernd L öwe Peer Briken Steffen Moritz Source Type: research
So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 153(5), May 2024, 1153-1164; doi:10.1037/xge0001572Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the U.S. government to simplify legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective these efforts—collectively referred to as the “plain-language movement”—have been. Here we report the results of a large-scale longitudinal corpus analysis (n ≈ 225 million words), in which we compared every law passed by congress with a comparably sized sample of English texts from four different baseline genres publishe...
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Overdose Crisis in the 2024 Election —Political Fights and Practical Problems
This Viewpoint discusses the 2024 presidential election in the context of the addiction and overdose crisis in the US, which has been a unifying challenge and a source of major ideological division in US politics. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Meeting the challenges of the 21st century: the fundamental importance of trust for transformation
ConclusionTrust is essential if health systems are to meet the challenges of the 21st century but it is too often overlooked or, in some cases, undermined. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Low surgical weight associated with ETV failure in pediatric hydrocephalus patients
In this study, younger patients experienced higher ETV failure rates, but multivariate regression found that weight was a more robust pr edictor of ETV failure than chronologic age or gestational age, with an optimal cutoff of 4.9 kg in our small cohort. Given the limited sample size, further study is needed to elucidate the independent role of weight as a peri-operative variable in determining ETV candidacy in young infants.Previous presentations: Poster Presentation, Congress of Neurological Surgeons. (Source: Neurosurgical Review)
Source: Neurosurgical Review - April 22, 2024 Category: Neurosurgery Source Type: research
Critical Alzheimer's disease legislation advances in Congress
Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Apr;20(4):3141-3142. doi: 10.1002/alz.13831.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38643387 | PMC:PMC11032533 | DOI:10.1002/alz.13831 (Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association)
Source: The Journal of Alzheimers Association - April 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Next Generation Sequencing strategies in venous thromboembolism: in whom and for what purpose ?
J Thromb Haemost. 2024 Apr 17:S1538-7836(24)00218-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jtha.2024.04.004. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis invited review follows the oral presentation "To Sequence or Not to Sequence, That Is Not the Question; But "When, Who, Which and What For?" Is " given during the State Of the Art session Translational Genomics in Thrombosis: From OMICs to Clinics" of the ISTH 2023 congress. Emphasizing the power of next-generation sequencing technologies and the diverse strategies associated with DNA variant analysis, this review highlights the unresolved questions and challenges in their implementation both for the cli...
Source: Thrombosis and Haemostasis - April 19, 2024 Category: Hematology Authors: David-Alexandre Tr égouët Morange Pierre-Emmanuel Source Type: research
