The key role of sufficiency for low demand-based carbon neutrality and energy security across Europe.

A detailed assessment of a low energy demand, 1.5 C compatible pathway is provided for Europe from a bottom-up, country scale modelling perspective. The level of detail enables a clear representation of the potential of sufficiency measures.

Tautology explains evolution without variation and selection. A Comment on: 'An evolutionary process without variation and selection' (2021), by Gabora .

Gabora and Steel (Gabora L, Steel M. 2021 An evolutionary process without variation and selection. 18, 20210334.

Sequential model for predicting patient adherence in subcutaneous immunotherapy for allergic rhinitis.

Objective: Subcutaneous Immunotherapy (SCIT) is the long-lasting causal treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR). How to enhance the adherence of patients to maximize the benefit of allergen immunotherapy (AIT) plays a crucial role in the management of AIT. This study aims to leverage novel machine learning models to precisely predict the risk of non-adherence of AR patients and related local symptom scores in 3 years SCIT.

Quality of Life in Hungarian Parents of Autistic Individuals.

Purpose: Parents of autistic individuals have been known to have a lower overall quality of life (QQL) than those of typically developing children. We present the first Hungarian large-sample study whose objective was to explore the differences in QOL between parents of autistic individuals (AS) and those of neurotypical (NT) persons.

Methods: Based on the ABCX model we developed a questionnaire comprising standardized scales to characterize the life of parents involved.

CineScale2: a dataset of cinematic camera features in movies.

The position and orientation of the camera in relation to the subject(s) in a movie scene, namely and , are essential features in the film-making process due to their influence on the viewer's perception of the scene. We provide a database containing camera feature annotations on camera angle and camera level, for about 25,000 image frames. Frames are sampled from a wide range of movies, freely available images, and shots from cinematographic websites, and are annotated on the following five categories - Overhead, High, Neutral, Low, and Dutch - for what concerns camera angle, and on six different classes of camera level: Aerial, Eye, Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Ground level.

Do budget constraints limit access to health care? Evidence from PCI treatments in Hungary.

Under Hungary's single payer health care system, hospitals face an annual budget cap on most of their diagnoses-related group based reimbursements. In July 2012, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) treatments of acute myocardial infarction were exempted from that hospital level budget cap. We use countrywide individual-level patient data from 2009 to 2015 to map the effect of such a quasi-experimental change in monetary incentives on health provider decisions and health outcomes.

Quality of life in parents of autistic children: A transcultural perspective.

Introduction: The concepts of health, illness, and disability as well as the perceptions of autism and quality of life (QoL) vary greatly across cultures and across time. This study sought to explore the interplay of culture on QoL and impact on parents caring for autistic children.

Methods: We used a transcultural dataset from seven countries (Australia, Hungary, Malaysia, Romania, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom) with participating parents/carers reporting on the Quality of Life in Autism (QoLA) questionnaire.

Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs.

Background: Signal reliability poses a central problem for explaining the evolution of communication. According to Zahavi's Handicap Principle, signals are honest only if they are costly at the evolutionary equilibrium; otherwise, deception becomes common and communication breaks down. Theoretical signalling games have proved to be useful for understanding the logic of signalling interactions.

Speech processing performance of Hungarian-speaking twins and singletons.

Studying speech processing in twins versus their singleton peers provides opportunities to study both genetic and environmental effects on how children acquire these aspects of their speech and - by extension - their phonological systems. Our study focused on speech processing in typically developing Hungarian-speaking twins and their singleton peers between 5 and 9 years of age. Participants included 384 monolingual Hungarian-speaking children (192 twins, and 192 singletons).

Identifying CO Seeps in a Long-Dormant Volcanic Area Using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle-Based Infrared Thermometry: A Qualitative Study.

Ciomadul is a long-dormant volcanic area in the Eastern Carpathians of Romania. The study site, the Stinky Cave, and the surrounding areas are well-known for CO and HS seeps. The gases from these seeps come with high flux and are of magmatic origin, associated with the volcanic activity of Ciomadul.

CineScale: A dataset of cinematic shot scale in movies.

We provide a database containing shot scale annotations (i.e., the apparent distance of the camera from the subject of a filmed scene) for more than 792,000 image frames.

Surgery formulae for the Seiberg-Witten invariant of plumbed 3-manifolds.

Assume that is a rational homology sphere plumbed 3-manifold associated with a connected negative definite graph . We consider the combinatorial multivariable Poincaré series associated with and its counting functions, which encode rich topological information. Using the 'periodic constant' of the series (with reduced variables associated with an arbitrary subset of the set of vertices) we prove surgery formulae for the normalized Seiberg-Witten invariants: the periodic constant associated with appears as the difference of the Seiberg-Witten invariants of and for any .

Atmospheric fronts as minor cardiovascular risk factors, a new approach to preventive cardiology.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death globally and represent 31% of all global deaths. The aim of our study was to determine the influence of front effects on acute cardiovascular diseases (ACVDs).

Methods: We obtained all ACVD admissions in a Central-European region, Hungary, Budapest.

Adsorption of Methylamine on Amorphous Ice under Interstellar Conditions. A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation Study.

The adsorption of methylamine at the surface of amorphous ice is studied at various temperatures, ranging from 20 to 200 K, by grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations under conditions that are characteristic to the interstellar medium (ISM). The results are also compared with those obtained earlier on crystalline ( I) ice. We found that methylamine has a strong ability of being adsorbed on amorphous ice, involving also multilayer adsorption.

Intersectional Discrimination of Romani Women Forcibly Sterilized in the Former Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic.

This paper reviews domestic and international activism seeking justice for Romani and other women harmed by coercive, forced, and involuntary sterilization in the former Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic. Framed by Michel Foucault's theory of biopower, it summarizes the history of these abuses and describes human rights campaigns involving domestic and international litigation, advocacy, and grassroots activism, as well as the responses of the Czech governments. The paper describes how legal and policy work during the past decade has led to recognition of coercive, forced, and involuntary sterilization as a present-day human rights issue worldwide, to the adoption of new guidelines on female sterilization, and to a joint statement on the issue by seven UN agencies.

Neurocognitive functions of pediatric kidney transplant recipients.

Background: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) in children is associated with impaired neurocognitive function and development. However, data on factors associated with neurocognitive dysfunctions in children with kidney transplants are limited.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis comparing cognitive functions (using the Woodcock-Johnson International Edition, WJIE) in 35 kidney transplant and 35 healthy control children.

Phylogenetic overview of the genus Genea (Pezizales, Ascomycota) with an emphasis on European taxa.

We constructed a comprehensive phylogeny of the genus Genea, with new molecular data from samples collected in several countries in temperate and Mediterranean Europe, as well as North America. Type specimens and authentic material of most species were examined to support identifications. The molecular identity of the most common species in Genea was compared with nuc rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS), D1-D2 domains of 28S nuc rDNA (28S rDNA) and translation elongation factor 1-α ene (TEF1) profiles of 10 recently proposed taxa, G.

Applicability of standard eye-tracking technique in people with intellectual disability: methodological conclusions from a series of studies.

Although considerable amount of evidence suggest that info-communication technologies have important potential to promote higher level of adaptive functioning and more efficient learning in people with intellectual disability (ID), very little is known about how people with ID scan visually the visual user interfaces of digital tools. Eye-tracking technique is widely used to study visual scanning processes and is used more and more extensively in assistive and educational technologies, too. Therefore, it is important to explore and understand the limitations and potentials of applying eye-tracking technique in people with ID.

Evidence-based development and evaluation of mobile cognitive support apps for people on the autism spectrum: methodological conclusions from two R+D projects.

A growing body of evidence confirms that mobile digital devices have key potentials as assistive/educational tools for people with autism spectrum disorders. The aim of this paper is to outline key aspects of development and evaluation methodologies that build on, and provide systematic evidence on effects of using such apps. We rely on the results of two R+D projects, both using quantitative and qualitative methods to support development and to evaluate developed apps (n=54 and n=22).

Evidence-based development and first usability testing of a social serious game based multi-modal system for early screening for atypical socio-cognitive development.

At current, screening for, and diagnosis of, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are based on purely behavioral data; established screening tools rely on human observation and ratings of relevant behaviors. The research and development project in the focus of this paper is aimed at designing, creating and evaluating a social serious game based multi-modal, interactive software system for screening for high functioning cases of ASD at kindergarten age. The aims of this paper are (1) to summarize the evidence-based design process and (2) to present results from the first usability test of the system.

The relationship between challenging behaviours, mood and interest/pleasure in adults with severe and profound intellectual disabilities.

Background: We investigated whether current mood and interest/pleasure ratings in adults with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities were predictive of challenging behaviour [self-injurious behaviour (SIB), aggressive/destructive behaviour and stereotypic behaviour] and vice versa.

Method: In this combined cross-sectional and longitudinal study, staff members of a Hungarian residential facility completed translated versions of the Behaviour Problems Inventory-Short Form (BPI-S), the Challenging Behaviour Interview (CBI) and the Mood, Interest and Pleasure Questionnaire-Short Form (MIPQ-S) for 50 participants at two time points, approximately 4 to 5 months apart.

Results: Bivariate correlations from data concurrently assessed at Time-1 showed significant linear relationships between the SIB (both frequency and severity scores) and Interest/Pleasure sub-scales, and the Aggressive/Destructive Behaviour (severity scores) and the MIPQ-S Mood sub-scales (unadjusted for multiple correlations).