Unavoidable social contagion of false memory from robots to humans.

Many of us interact with voice- or text-based conversational agents daily, but these conversational agents may unintentionally retrieve misinformation from human knowledge databases, confabulate responses on their own, or purposefully spread disinformation for political purposes. Does such misinformation or disinformation become part of our memory to further misguide our decisions? If so, can we prevent humans from suffering such social contagion of false memory? Using a social contagion of memory paradigm, here, we precisely controlled a social robot as an example of these emerging conversational agents. In a series of two experiments (Σ = 120), the social robot occasionally misinformed participants prior to a recognition memory task.

Larval metamorphosis is inhibited by methimazole and propylthiouracil that reveals possible hormonal action in the mussel Mytilus coruscus.

Larval metamorphosis in bivalves is a key event for the larva-to-juvenile transformation. Previously we have identified a thyroid hormone receptor (TR) gene that is crucial for larvae to acquire "competence" for the metamorphic transition in the mussel Mytilus courscus (Mc). The mechanisms of thyroid signaling in bivalves are still largely unknown.

Thyroid hormone receptor: A new player in epinephrine-induced larval metamorphosis of the hard-shelled mussel.

Many marine invertebrate larvae undergo a dramatic morphological and physiological transition from a planktonic larva to a benthic juvenile. The mechanisms of this metamorphosis in bivalves are mainly unknown. The recent identification in bivalves of a thyroid hormone receptor (TR) gene raises the possibility that as occurs in vertebrate metamorphosis, TRs regulate this developmental process.

Health disparities among the western, central and eastern rural regions of China after a decade of health promotion and disease prevention programming.

Health disparities between the western, central and eastern regions of rural China, and the impact of national health improvement policies and programming were assessed. A total of 400 counties were randomly sampled. ANOVA and Logistic regression modeling were employed to estimate differences in health outcomes and determinants.

[Status of household disaster preparedness and affecting factors among the general public of four counties in Shaanxi].

Objective: To investigate the status of household disaster preparedness in 4 counties of Shaanxi province and explore the affecting factors.

Methods: During the period from September to October in 2008, multi-stage sampling was used to select subjects from urban and rural residents in Xincheng district, Hantai district, Fuping county and Xunyang county of Shaanxi province. Questionnaire survey was conducted among 1945 subjects aged 18-88 years to investigate their experience and expectation of disaster events, preparedness knowledge, activities and emergency supplies.

[Status of knowledge and behavior of drug use among residents in 5 provinces in China in 2011].

Objective: To understand the status of knowledge and behavior of drug use among urban and rural residents in 5 provinces in China to suggest priority intervention strategies and measures for drug use health education.

Methods: From March to May of 2011, 6159 urban and rural residents were selected from Beijing, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Shaanxi provinces by the multistage stratified sampling method and were investigated by the questionnaires on drug use knowledge and behavior.

Results: The residents' average awareness rate for 11 pieces of basic drug use information was 48.

[Study on indicator system for evaluating the adult health literacy in China].

Objective: To establish a comprehensive evaluation indicator system for healthy literacy based on national survey data.

Method: A multi-stage stratified sampling method was carried out to select the sample population in six provinces of China, which were adults aged 18 - 69 years old. The national health literacy questionnaire was used to investigate the sample populations.

[Effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha induced insulin resistance on adipose triglyceride lipase in mice].

Objective: To investigate the effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha induced insulin resistance (IR) on glucose and lipid metabolism and adipose triglyceride lipase (ATGL).

Methods: Forty male C57BL/6J mice were randomly divided into 2 equal groups: TNF-alpha group with undergoing intraperitoneal injection of TNF-alpha 6 microg x kg(-1) x d(-1) for 7 days and normal control (NC) group with saline injection. Hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp technique combined with 2-deoxy-[(3)H] glucose as a tracer was used on 20 mice, 10 from each group, to examine the fasting blood glucose (FBG), plasma insulin (INS), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and free fatty acid (FFA).

[Study on health related behaviors and its protective factors of junior middle school students in 4 cities of China].

Objective: To provide accurate data on health related behaviors and protective factors among students in middle schools in China, for developing priorities, programs and policies on health education.

Methods: We used a standard scientific sample selection process developed by American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct the questionnaire survey among middle schools from four cities--Beijing, Hangzhou, Wuhan and Urumchi.

Results: Data were found as: 3.