J Exp Child Psychol
October 2024
The ability to save resources for future use, or saving, begins to emerge around 3 years of age, but children show low rates of saving during the preschool years. Thus, several strategies have been used to improve preschoolers' saving, such as providing a prompt, budgeting, increasing psychological distance, and simulating the future. The current study investigated (a) the development of saving in early childhood, (b) the impact of several saving strategies on children's saving (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNaproxen (NPX) as an emerging anthropogenic contaminant was detected in many water sources, which can pose a serious threat to the environment and human health. Peroxymonosulfate (PMS) decomposed by Cu(I) has been considered an effective activation method to produce reactive species. However, this decontamination process is restricted by the slow transformation of Cu(II)/Cu(I) by PMS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHyper-binding - the erroneous encoding of target and distractor information into associative pairs in memory - has been described as a unique age effect caused by declines in attentional control. Previous work has found that, on average, young adults do not hyper-bind. However, if hyper-binding is caused by reduced attentional control, then young adults with poor attention regulation should also show evidence of hyper-binding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the high heat and chemical stability of aflatoxin B1 (AFB) with significant impacts on humans/animals and thus it needs to develop a practical and efficient approach for its removal. Herein, we fabricated a magnetic Pd-chitosan/glutaraldehyde/rice husk/hercynite (Pd@CRH-x) composite for efficient detoxification of AFB. The Pd@CRH-x was obtained by a simple wet-impregnation procedure of CRH complexes followed by pyrolysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of the study is to examine whether electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was associated with the subsequent risk of being involved in a road traffic accident.
Methods: A cohort of all 375,435 patients older than 18 years with their first psychiatric hospital contact between 2003 and 2017 in the Danish National Patient Registry was followed for road traffic accidents until December 2018. Associations between ECT and road traffic accidents were examined using Cox regression analyses with multiple adjustments and using propensity score matching on sociodemographic and clinical variables.