Facial expressions reveal emotion, and imitation of these expressions gives the imitator and understanding of how others feel. Are there gender differences in imitation of facial expressions? 61 male and female students participated in this study, where facial imitation was measured. The smiling (zygomatic) and frowning (corrugator) muscle was measured with EMG, as the participants viewed happy...

Alcohol consumption is a major public health problem in Europe, resulting in 3.8% of all deaths and 4.6% of years of life lost due to disability [1]. The overall cost of alcoholic disease is more than that of smoking tobacco [1, 2]. Currently in the European Union, only 10% of alcohol dependence (AD) patients are treated. In the United States, this happens in 25% of cases [1]. It is evident tha...

F TWIN, AND adoption studies have convincingly demonstrated that genes play an important role in the development of alcohol dependence, accounting for approximately 50–60% of the population variance (McGue, 1999). Additionally, patterns of alcohol use seem to be under genetic influence. Twin studies have demonstrated that dimensions of alcohol use, such as quantity of alcohol consumed on a typi...

The COVID-19 pandemic offers a lens of intense clarity, highlighting the weaknesses and inhumaneness world in which humans must be actively engaged capitalist market economy to live. Anthropological understandings human histories possibilities challenge contemporary economies suggest renewed social economic for post-COVID landscape. Between December 2019 July 2021, more than 4.3 million people ...

The past 100 years witnessed the formation of a disease concept of alcoholism and a rapid increase in the knowledge of its aetiopathology and treatment options. In the first half of the century, public sanctions aimed at the abolition of alcoholism. In the United States, alcohol prohibition was revoked in the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. In Germany, proposed medical procedures to r...

Free AccessGeneralizability, Replicability, and New Insights Derived From Registered Reports Within Understudied PopulationsIntroduction to the Special IssuePeter A. Edelsbrunner, Kai Ruggeri, Kaja Damnjanović, Samuel Greiff, Jérémy E. Lemoine, Matthias ZieglerPeter EdelsbrunnerPeter ETH Zurich, RZ H16, Claussiusstrasse 59, 8092 [email protected] Department of Human...

•SwarmDeepSurv fuses swarm intelligence with deep survival model•Four cost functions proposed to balance model performance and overfitting risk•Evaluation was carried out on a multicenter set (n = 1,058) of four cancer types•SwarmDeepSurv outperformed current models improved stratification Prognostic are crucial for strategic intervention in patients, by modeling the relationship between certai...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether there is an increased positive effect on children's attitude when they are taught about the environment in an outdoor/hands-on setting versus an indoor traditional classroom setting. The study focused on grade four students in the Clark County School District. Half of the group was comprised of students that were taught about the environment usin...

The obvious importance to human social functioning of prosocial behavior (behavior intended to benefit others) has led to extensive research on the sources of individual differences in prosociality, empathy, helping, cooperation, and altruism. At the species level, this markedly human trait has been explained in genetic terms. At the individual level, however, only about a dozen studies have di...

Some individuals are prone to illness, decline, and premature mortality while others recover quickly, maintain health, and live long lives. Personality, an individual’s biopsychosocial pattern of reactions and behaviors, is related to health across time, but the pathways are complex, with interrelated causal and non-causal links. Causal pathways linking personality and health include: health be...