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giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1ml4dv wrote
Reply to comment by thirdculture_hog in Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders by giuliomagnifico
BMI doesn’t consider the fat/lean mass but only the height and weight. Generally speaking can be inaccurate but for 8 years children is absolutely acceptable.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1mjmf0 wrote
Reply to comment by SoupahCereal in Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders by giuliomagnifico
Because on 8 years children and with 41,000 data from parents and children, you have to set a reference and the BMI in this case, can be considered acceptable.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1mimn4 wrote
Reply to Childhood body mass index is unlikely to have a big impact on children's mood or behavioural disorders by giuliomagnifico
> The results suggest that some previous studies, which have shown a strong link between childhood obesity and mental health, may not have fully accounted for family genetics and environmental factors
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1ilpb5 wrote
Reply to comment by awesomeuno2 in Study in mice demonstrates that remote fear memories formed in the distant past are permanently stored in connections between memory neurons in the prefrontal cortex, and thanks to this findings, researchers were able to prevented the mice recalling remote but not recent fear memory by giuliomagnifico
That -maybe in a future- we will be able to “deactivate” some unwanted memories.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1hq8am wrote
Reply to Study in mice demonstrates that remote fear memories formed in the distant past are permanently stored in connections between memory neurons in the prefrontal cortex, and thanks to this findings, researchers were able to prevented the mice recalling remote but not recent fear memory by giuliomagnifico
Very interesting findings for the people who are living with PTSD, paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01223-1
Edit, sorry for the error in the title, I noticed only now: * researchers were able to prevent …
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1d7p5l wrote
Reply to Researchers found that rising inequality in wealthy democracies leads to stricter immigration policies in lower-income countries, whereas the opposite occurs in higher-income countries. by giuliomagnifico
Weird findings
> The gap dividing capital’s share of value added from labor’s share is inequality, Shin explains. And when that gap widens—when capital’s share far outweighs labor’s, for instance—inequality can be said to be rising.
>After analyzing data on 24 democratic countries from 1947 to 2006, Shin and Peters found that rising inequality is linked with both stricter and more lenient immigration policies.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j19seb9 wrote
Reply to Changes in Earth’s orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change by giuliomagnifico
Guys we are fucked :)
> “The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is the closest thing we have in the geologic record to anything like what we’re experiencing now and may experience in the future with climate change,”
> The findings also indicated the onset of the PETM lasted about 6,000 years. Previous estimates have ranged from several years to tens of thousands of years. The timing is important to understand the rate at which carbon was released into the atmosphere, the scientists said
> “We are now emitting carbon at a rate that’s five to 10 times higher than our estimates of emissions during this geological event that left an indelible imprint on the planet 56 million years ago.”
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j0u5z20 wrote
Reply to Savannah-living chimpanzees suggest human bipedalism evolved in the trees by giuliomagnifico
Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add9752
> This study was the first to explore if a savannah-mosaic habitat would account for increased time spent on the ground by our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. The team investigated the behaviour of wild chimpanzees living in the savannah-mosaic habitat in the Issa Valley of western Tanzania, a habitat very similar to the habitats of early hominins.
>It was expected that the Issa chimpanzees would spend more time on the ground and walk upright on two feet more in open savannah vegetation where they cannot easily travel via the tree canopy, like they can in the forests. Moreover, when compared to their forest-dwelling cousins in other parts of Africa, it was expected that the Issa chimpanzees would be more terrestrial overall.
>Instead, compared to chimpanzees living in forest sites, Issa chimpanzees did not spend more time on the ground. The Issa chimpanzees spent just as much time, if not more, in the trees as the forest-dwelling chimpanzees. Moreover, when they used bipedalism, it was almost always in the trees, rather than on the ground, as predicted.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j0kxktz wrote
Reply to Even a single bout of exercise can produce anti-cancer proteins called myokines, which can significantly suppress tumour growth by giuliomagnifico
Not an analyze on a very big number of patients (nine):
> Nine patients with late-stage prostate cancer performed 34 minutes of high intensity exercise on a stationary cycle, with blood serum collected immediately before and after, and then again 30 minutes post-workout.
>The team found the serum obtained immediately after this “dose” of exercise contained elevated levels of anti-cancer myokines resulting in suppressed growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro by around 17 per cent.
>Serum myokine levels and cancer suppression returned to baseline after 30 minutes
giuliomagnifico OP t1_izwz0kw wrote
Reply to comment by RufusCranium in Researchers developed a way to monitor blood pressure (with 90% accuracy), using artificial intelligence and a camera, by filming a person from a short distance for 10 seconds and extracting cardiac signals from two regions in the forehead by giuliomagnifico
The paper said they used a Nikon D5300, an entry level DSLR camera.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_izwxr8q wrote
giuliomagnifico t1_iy44mzw wrote
Reply to Your iPhone has a secret log of where you’ve been – how to delete it in seconds by _googlefanatic_
This is not secret, it asks you when you configure it. Anyway better to disable it also for battery (few 1/2% more)
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ixvh9c1 wrote
Reply to Researchers say e-cigarettes and similar devices are associated with a higher risk for dental cavities by giuliomagnifico
>Data from 13,216 patients were included in the data set initially; 13,080 responded “no” when asked whether they used e-cigarettes or vapes (99.3%), and 136 responded “yes” (0.69%). There was a statistically significant difference (P < .001) in caries risk levels between the e-cigarette or vape group and the control group; 14.5%, 25.9%, and 59.6% of the control group were in the low, moderate, and high caries risk categories, respectively, and 6.6%, 14.3%, and 79.1% of the e-cigarette or vape group were in the low, moderate, and high caries risk categories, respectively
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ixr6mv2 wrote
Reply to comment by blimpyway in Nighttime artificial outdoor lighting was associated with impaired glucose control and 28% higher increased diabetes risk, a cross-sectional study on ~100k people in China showed by giuliomagnifico
Yes, this study doesn’t say that the light is the cause but that “where there’s is more artificial light there’s more diabetes”, not that the light is the cause of the diabetes. There could be lots of connected causes as you said.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ixmt48e wrote
Reply to Watching just 17 minutes of YouTubers talking about their struggles with mental health drives down prejudice: perceptions of disorders declined with prejudice towards mental health falling by 8% and intergroup anxiety levels plummeting by 11% by giuliomagnifico
Not a big improvement but better than nothing, in addition
> A follow-up survey one week later suggested lower prejudice levels were maintained and around 10% of participants had taken actions that further support mental health initiatives, such as fundraising.
Paper here: Parasocial relationships on YouTube reduce prejudice towards mental health issues
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ixj6oz8 wrote
Reply to comment by Cleistheknees in Researchers have found that lab mice are more likely to survive a flu infection if they are fed grain-based foods rather than processed food: after being infected with influenza, all of those fed the highly processed diet died, all the other have recovered by giuliomagnifico
Oh, thanks I didn’t know. And why they have reported they used those “extinct” mice?
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ivctn7r wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico
This is not a Facebook issue (at least this time), is the police who writes on Facebook that is acting wrong.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_iuqywmy wrote
Reply to comment by dr_xenon in 30 minutes of car preheating in sub-zero conditions produces as much particulate emissions as driving 97km in a gasoline car, or 20km in a diesel car “These findings do not suggest to stop preheating cars; instead, we could reduce the emissions by using similar methods that are in place for engine” by giuliomagnifico
> subzero in Celsius
Of course!
giuliomagnifico OP t1_iundp19 wrote
Reply to comment by communitytcm in An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half of their brain correctly recognized differences between pairs of words or faces more than 80% of the time by giuliomagnifico
> OP: commas are important
I copied-pasted the PR.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_ium2l69 wrote
Reply to comment by AllanfromWales1 in An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half of their brain correctly recognized differences between pairs of words or faces more than 80% of the time by giuliomagnifico
Yes unfortunately for them, but at least they are helping the science.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_iucvin2 wrote
Reply to comment by skyfishgoo in Increasing the spacing of solar panels between rows improves PV system efficiency and economics by allowing airflow to cool down the modules, this could improve a project’s LCOE by as much as 2.15% by giuliomagnifico
Chupacabras are evil, goat are funny, jus a bit stinky
giuliomagnifico OP t1_iu9tc1f wrote
Reply to Another primate (out of 12 species) observed to nose-picking, booger-eating for the first time: the finger of the aye-aye can reach through its nose to the back of its throat, with the animals seen licking off the gathered mucus, this could play an important role in the immune syste by giuliomagnifico
giuliomagnifico OP t1_iu98fq1 wrote
Reply to comment by Robert2737 in Increasing the spacing of solar panels between rows improves PV system efficiency and economics by allowing airflow to cool down the modules, this could improve a project’s LCOE by as much as 2.15% by giuliomagnifico
I don’t think but a good way to use the space near the solar panels is to use the land as grazing space for goats/cows/sheep/etc… because it’s cold during the summer (not direct sunlight) and the condensation creates water droplets that slip to the ground and help the grass!
I read it on another study: https://extension.umn.edu/news/solar-panels-shade-grazing-pasture
giuliomagnifico OP t1_itumv38 wrote
Reply to comment by AllanfromWales1 in People tend to have more memories associated with older songs and movie clips than newer ones, and they tend to be happier memories as well. People also tend to appreciate content that triggers a memory more by giuliomagnifico
Could be!
> As expected by the researchers, study one results showed older music produced more memory recall and the songs were more appreciated. Additionally, the memories associated with older music were also older, more positive and had more downward temporal comparisons — meaning participants felt that while the memories were positive, they also believed their lives were better now than at the time of the memory. Whether a memory was specific or more social did not vary widely, but several variables such as memory recall, memory immersion and positive effect were predictors of appreciation. That suggests people appreciate any type of entertainment that activates a memory, the researchers wrote.
giuliomagnifico OP t1_j1u8ggi wrote
Reply to Nerve block (an injection around a major sensory nerve for the shoulder) is an effective treatment for painful shoulder condition by giuliomagnifico
> From a total of 54 patients, 27 received a steroid injection into the shoulder joint, along with physiotherapy and the suprascapular nerve block at the 3-monthly intervals, while the other 27 patients received the steroid injection and physiotherapy with a placebo injection.
>“We found those who received the nerve block reduced the duration of their symptoms by an average of 6 months, while also reporting lower pain and disability scores and improved range of movement, compared to the placebo group,” says Professor Shanahan.
>“For patients in the placebo group, the average time for their symptoms to resolve was over 11 months, while for those who received the nerve block this was practically halved, down to around 5 and half months.”