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Front Psychol
December 2024
Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
In the fast-paced, densely populated information landscape shaped by digitization, distinguishing information from misinformation is critical. Fact-checkers are effective in fighting fake news but face challenges such as cognitive overload and time pressure, which increase susceptibility to cognitive biases. Establishing standards to mitigate these biases can improve the quality of fact-checks, bolster audience trust, and protect against reputation attacks from disinformation actors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ind Ecol
December 2024
Group for Sustainability and Technology ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland.
To fight plastic pollution and reach net-zero ambitions, policy and industry set goals to increase the recycling of plastics and the recycled content in products. While this ideally reduces demand for virgin material, it also increases pressure on recyclers to find suitable endmarkets for the recyclate. This may lead to two effects: a multiplication of recycled content in applications already made of plastic and a substitution of non-plastic materials with cheap, low-quality recyclate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychol Sport Exerc
December 2024
School of Psychology, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 4DR, United Kingdom.
The use of metacognitive process and skills has been the subject of considerable research in the sport performance literature over the past decade. However, there has been little qualitative research on athletes' experiences of using metacognitive processes and skills. A related but different area theoretically and practically, is mentalizing, which refers to the imaginative ability to perceive and interpret the feelings, thoughts, wishes and beliefs that explain human behaviour.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Formos Med Assoc
December 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Yunlin, Taiwan; Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address:
Yunlin County, Taiwan, faces healthcare challenges given its super-aged population, limited medical accessibility, and a rise in chronic wounds. To address these issues, we introduced the "Fight Out to CARE" project, dispatching wound nurses to patients' locations to perform Cleansing, Avoidance, Removal, and Enhancement (CARE) under tele-supervision from a plastic surgeon. The program was conducted weekly in 2018 and twice monthly in 2019 for 53 weeks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJGH Open
December 2024
Institut Africain de santé publique (IASP) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
Aims: Liver steatosis prevalence is growing, linked to the current worldwide epidemics of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. In sub-Saharan Africa, data on apparent healthy workers must still be included. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of hepatic steatosis and its associated factors in the workplace.
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