Publications by authors named "A W Kruijt"
Light Limitation of Poleward Coral Reef Expansion During Past Warm Climates.
Geophys Res Lett
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The distribution of modern shallow-water tropical corals is primarily influenced by temperature, thriving only in waters above 16-18°C year-round.
- Researchers tested whether solar radiation limits the spread of coral reefs toward the poles during warmer climates, using a new model for coral calcification.
- Findings indicate that calcification rates significantly decline past 40° latitude and severely drop after 50° latitude due to less winter daylight, implying that light availability restricts coral reef expansion, not temperature alone, and that fossil coral distribution is not a reliable indicator for water temperatures in these areas.
Objective: To describe for the Dutch population the lifetime risk to be diagnosed with or to die from cancer.
Design: The cancer incidence and death rates of 1990-2019 were analyzed by 5-year periods.
Method: For the calculations cancer incidence rates were used from the Netherlands Cancer Registry.
Background: Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias towards threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and 3-dimensional stimuli with a person-identity-matching (PIM) task to evaluate the effects of a VR-based ABM training on attentional bias and anxiety symptoms.
Methods: One hundred participants with elevated social anxiety were randomised to four training groups.
Background: Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias toward threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and three-dimensional stimuli with a dot-probe task to evaluate the effects of a VR-based ABM training on attentional bias and anxiety symptoms.
Methods: A total of 100 participants were randomized to four training groups.
Considerable effort and funding have been spent on developing Attention Bias Modification (ABM) as a treatment for anxiety disorders, theorized to exert therapeutic effects through reduction of a tendency to orient attention toward threat. However, meta-analytical evidence that clinical anxiety is characterized by threat-related attention bias is thin. The largest meta-analysis to date included dot-probe data for n = 337 clinically anxious individuals.
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