Using longitudinal data on more than 370 000 older Japanese adults, we found that living in constituencies represented by pro-tobacco legislators was associated with higher smoking prevalence. The ...

In the study Making It Look Green: Big Data Analytics, External Pressure, and Corporate Greenwashing, published in the journal Sustainability, researchers find that firms with stronger big data ...

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...

Background/aims Posterior capsule opacification (PCO) is the most frequent long-term complication after cataract surgery, caused by proliferation of residual lens epithelial cells (LECs). Metformin, a ...

The findings carry particular weight in Sub-Saharan Africa, where financial inclusion levels have historically been low and ...

The current AI regression testing systems consider the new code changes, past failures, and dependency indicators to decide which test cases are the most important to a particular release. Areas with ...

Objective Findings of previous studies on associations between dairy consumption and metabolic health status were inconsistent. This study aimed to assess the link between consumption of dairy foods ...

Background Patients with heart failure (HF) frequently suffer from undetected declines in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), which significantly increases their risk of poor outcomes. However, current ...

Learn how the framing effect influences decision-making in investments, and discover strategies to identify and mitigate its ...

Discover the importance of homoskedasticity in regression models, where error variance is constant, and explore examples that illustrate this key concept.

Outperformance was primarily driven by strong stock selection in the information technology, financials and industrials ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...