TO THE EDITOR: The author team of our recently published manuscript (1) on improved single muscle fiber quality in the oldest-old thank Dr. Venturelli and colleagues (5) for their thoughtful appraisal of our work. Furthermore, this group is to be commended for their efforts examining force-generating capacity in the oldest-old, both in vitro and in vivo, as a means of providing additional insig...

Respond on comments on Lieberman's article: Cyclosiloxanes Produce Fatal Liver and Lung Damage in Mice. Environ Health Perspect 107:161-165

The goal of collegial ethics is to actively support our colleagues and to develop the skills needed to do so. While collegial interactions are key for our careers, there is little or no training in this. Many of our actions and reactions with our colleagues are instinctive. Human nature has evolved to be self-protective, but many evolved and automatic responses to others are not always in the b...

We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other’s effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the treatment status of all workers in more than 3,000 workplaces. We first document that employees in work...

BACKGROUND Depression is common in primary care and clinicians are encouraged to screen their patients. Meta-analyses have evaluated the effectiveness of screening, but two author groups consistently reached completely opposite conclusions. METHODS We identified five systematic reviews on depression screening conducted between 2001 and 2009, three by Gilbody and colleagues and two by the Unit...

The Journal of American CultureVolume 45, Issue 4 p. 488-488 ISSUE INFO (CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS)Free Access Info (Call for Book reviews) First published: 03 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13159AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions Use check box below sha...

This article reviews the major contributions of dynamic systems theory in advancing thinking about development, the empirical insights the theory has generated, and the key challenges for the theory on the horizon. The first section discusses the emergence of dynamic systems theory in developmental science, the core concepts of the theory, and the resonance it has with other approaches that ado...

As reflective practice has become an influential factor in teacher professional development, teachers need some techniques to enhance their reflective teaching. In this light, this study was intended to examine: (a) whether self-evaluation techniques could promote English as Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ reflective teaching, (b) whether EFL teachers who used self-evaluation techniques would ...