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Neurotic personalities found the pandemic most traumatic, while agreeable and conscientious personalities offered protection from the pandemic's negative impacts.

Plant diseases don't stop at national borders and miles of oceans don't prevent their spread, either. That's why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Business shutdowns reduce COVID-19 deaths, though with rapidly diminishing returns, with study of Italian lockdowns estimating they saved over 9,400 lives in under a month.

For decades scientists have been puzzled by the formation of rare hyper-enriched gold deposits. How do they form so quickly? Studying examples from the Brucejack Mine in British Columbia, McGill Professor Anthony Williams-Jones and PhD student Duncan McLeish have discovered that these gold deposits form much like soured milk.

Researchers at Brigham Young University have built a new analog-to-digital converter (ADC) -- a tiny piece of technology present in almost every electronic piece of equipment that converts analog signals (like a radio wave) to a digital signal -- with record-breaking power efficiency. The ADC consumes only 21 milli-Watts of power at 10GHz for ultra-wideband wireless communications.

Researchers analyzed camera trap data from across the continent to better understand how particular species of mammals respond to different types of human disturbance.

Ionization energy is one of the most important physicochemical parameters. It is defined in terms of the amount of energy required to rip an electron from an atom.

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers identify how the body regulates and prevents constant skin inflammation.

Papers in leading psychology, economic and science journals that fail to replicate and therefore are less likely to be true are often the most cited papers in academic research, according to a new study by the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management.

Free access to essential medicines increases patient adherence to taking medication by 35 per cent and reduces total health spending by an average of over $1,000 per patient per year, according to a two-year study led by Unity Health Toronto researchers that tested the effects of providing patients with free and convenient access to a carefully selected set of medications.

Managers may fail to learn from past experiences if they do not consider a recent disaster as representative of future events. Even when managers learn from experience, they may lack organizational influence and find they are unable to leverage learning to inform decision-making. Managers may also over- or under-estimate disaster risk and, thus, over or under prepare. Willingness to learn from other organizations about how to manage natural disaster risk is also important.

Campylobacter infection, one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the Western world, can also be spread through sexual contact, according to a new research discovery by an OU Hudson College of Public Health faculty member, working in conjunction with colleagues in Denmark.

DALLAS - May 21, 2021 - One member of a large protein family that is known to stop the spread of bacterial infections by prompting infected human cells to self-destruct appears to kill the infectious bacteria instead, a new study led by UT Southwestern scientists shows. However, some bacteria have their own mechanism to thwart this attack, nullifying the deadly protein by tagging it for destruction.

When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool itself, the core overheated, resulting in a severe nuclear meltdown, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered the first fossil evidence of an ancient amphibian, Micropholis stowi, from Antarctica. Micropholis lived in the Early Triassic, shortly after Earth's largest mass extinction. It was previously known only from fossils in South Africa, and its presence in Antarctica has implications for how amphibians adapted to high-latitude regions in this dynamic period of Earth's history.

An unprecedented longitudinal study, published in the American Journal of Sociology, shows that when it comes to arrests it can come down to when someone comes of age rather than where or who they are, a theory the researchers refer to as the "birth lottery of history."

Beijing, 19 May 2021: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 5 Issue 4. This issue brings together important research from leading researchers and includes two important new review papers of major interest to cardiologists.Progress in the Study of the Left Atrial Function Index in Cardiovascular Disease: A Literature Review and Better Than You Think--Appropriate Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators at a Single Academic Center: A Retrospective Review

Depressive disorders are among the most frequent illnesses worldwide. The causes are complex and to date only partially understood. The trace element lithium appears to play a role. Using neutrons of the research neutron source at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a research team has now proved that the distribution of lithium in the brains of depressive people is different from the distribution found in healthy humans.

Follow-up data from the landmark SPRINT study of the effect of high blood pressure on cardiovascular disease have confirmed that aggressive blood pressure management -- lowering systolic blood pressure to less than 120 mm Hg -- dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, stroke, and death from these diseases.

When Charles Darwin published Descent of Man 150 years ago, he launched scientific investigations on human origins and evolution. This week, three leading scientists in different, but related disciplines published "Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin's Descent of Man," in Science, in which they identify three insights from Darwin's opus on human evolution that modern science has reinforced.