Publications by authors named "B Bos"
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- Scientists did a big survey with over 59,000 people from 63 countries to understand how people think about climate change!
- They tested different ways to encourage people to believe in climate change and support actions to help the environment!
- The study includes lots of information and data that can help others learn more about what influences people's actions on climate change around the world!
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- - Prenatal brain development can be negatively impacted by everyday stressors and environmental pollutants, with recent advances in neuroimaging helping researchers understand these effects on brain structure and function.
- - The review highlights that both parental stress and toxicants like lead and air pollution are linked to changes in brain development, but much of the research has focused on single exposures rather than the combined effects of multiple stressors.
- - There's a call for larger cohort studies to evaluate how various concurrent exposures, including socioeconomic factors, affect fetal and neonatal brain development more comprehensively.
Concentrations of particulate matter (PM, PM), ultrafine (UFP), particle number (PNC), black carbon (BC), nitrogen dioxide (NO) and nitrogen oxides (NO) were measured in train carriages on diesel and bi-mode trains on inter-city and long-distance journeys in the United Kingdom (UK) using a high-quality mobile measurement system. Air quality on 15 different routes was measured using highly-time resolved data on a total of 119 journeys during three campaigns in winter 2020 and summer 2021; this included 13 different train classes. Each journey was sampled 4-10 times with approximatively 11,000 min of in-train concentrations in total.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith excellent energy resolution and ultralow-level radiogenic backgrounds, the high-purity germanium detectors in the Majorana Demonstrator enable searches for several classes of exotic dark matter (DM) models. In this work, we report new experimental limits on keV-scale sterile neutrino DM via the transition magnetic moment from conversion to active neutrinos ν_{s}→ν_{a}. We report new limits on fermionic dark matter absorption (χ+A→ν+A) and sub-GeV DM-nucleus 3→2 scattering (χ+χ+A→ϕ+A), and new exclusion limits for bosonic dark matter (axionlike particles and dark photons).
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- Effective global behavior change is crucial for reducing climate change, but it's unclear which strategies motivate people to shift their beliefs and actions.
- A study tested 11 interventions on nearly 60,000 participants across 63 countries, finding small effectiveness primarily among non-skeptics and varied results across different outcomes.
- Key results showed that reducing psychological distance strengthened beliefs, writing a letter to a future generation increased policy support, and inducing negative emotions encouraged information sharing, but no strategy successfully boosted tree-planting efforts.