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The TouCAN Codebook: Detecting textual misunderstanding in doctor-patient communication with the philosophy of language tools
PLOS One
Effective communication is widely recognized as a cornerstone of successful medical treatment, as extensively documented in prior research. The doctor-patient relationship relies on clear, accurate information exchange to ensure precise diagnoses, t...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Language/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Language/Medicine and health sciences/Clinical medicine/Clinical oncology/Surgical oncology/Medicine and health sciences/Health care/Health care providers/Physicians/Medicine and health sciences/Oncology
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0328072
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What works, for whom, and under what circumstances for recipients of training in opportunistic behaviour change conversations: A mixed methods realist evaluation protocol
PLOS One
Background: Making Every Contact Count’ (MECC) is a person-centred initiative that enables service providers across settings to support behaviour change through conversations about health and wellbeing. MECC has been widely implemented across the UK ...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Learning and memory/Learning/Human learning/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Behavior/Verbal behavior/Verbal communication/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning/Medicine and health sciences/Health care/Health care providers
Very Difficult (17.3)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0346348
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Beyond citation-based metrics: Measuring interdisciplinarity via SBERT semantic embeddings and its heterogeneous effects on citation impact
PLOS One
Background: Interdisciplinary research is a cornerstone of global science policy, yet decades of research have reached conflicting conclusions about its association with citation impact. This inconsistency stems primarily from traditional indicators,...
/Biology and life sciences/Ecology/Ecological metrics/Species diversity/Simpson index/Earth sciences/Geography/Economic geography/Earth sciences/Geography/Historical geography/Ecology and environmental sciences/Ecology/Ecological metrics/Species diversity/Simpson index/Engineering and technology
Very Difficult (20.4)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0354129
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The Need-Efficiency Tradeoff for negative emissions technologies
PLOS Climate
/Earth sciences/Atmospheric science/Climatology/Climate change/Anthropogenic climate change/Earth sciences/Geology/Engineering and technology/Energy and power/Bioenergy/Engineering and technology/Energy and power/Fuels/Fossil fuels/Engineering and technology/Environmental engineering/Carbon sequestration
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000060
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Between the center and periphery: Commodification, formalisation, and infrastructuralisation of grassroots innovation
PLOS ONE
The question of whether China can become a creative nation has been a topic of much debate in academic circles. The Chinese government has expressed its belief that China can develop a unique form of creativity to move the country from the periphery...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Creativity/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Creativity/Computer and information sciences/Network analysis/Earth sciences/Geography/Human geography/Urban geography/Cities/Engineering and technology/Civil engineering/Urban infrastructure
Very Difficult (15.6)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290682
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Participating in a Citizen Science Monitoring Program: Implications for Environmental Education
PLOS ONE
Tourism is of growing economical importance to many nations, in particular for developing countries. Although tourism is an important economic vehicle for the host country, its continued growth has led to on-going concerns about its environmental su...
/Biology and life sciences/Marine biology/Coral reefs/Earth sciences/Marine and aquatic sciences/Aquatic environments/Marine environments/Earth sciences/Marine and aquatic sciences/Marine biology/Coral reefs/Earth sciences/Marine and aquatic sciences/Reefs/Earth sciences/Marine and aquatic sciences/Reefs/Coral reefs
Very Difficult (15.3)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131812
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Competencies for the provision of comprehensive medication management services in an experiential learning project
PLOS ONE
Objective: To understand students’ and tutors’ perceptions of the development of clinical competencies for the delivery of comprehensive medication management services in an experiential learning project linked to a Brazilian school of pharmacy. Meth...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Learning and memory/Learning/Human learning/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Learning/Human learning/Medicine and health sciences/Health care/Health care providers/Physicians/Medicine and health sciences/Pharmaceutics/Drug therapy
Very Difficult (18.3)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185415
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EA<sup>3</sup>: A softmax algorithm for evidence appraisal aggregation
PLOS ONE
Real World Evidence (RWE) and its uses are playing a growing role in medical research and inference. Prominently, the 21st Century Cures Act—approved in 2016 by the US Congress—permits the introduction of RWE for the purpose of risk-benefit assessme...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognition/Decision making/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Decision making/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Cognitive psychology/Decision making/Computer and information sciences/Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Computer and information sciences/Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Machine learning algorithms
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253057
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Market, power, gift, and concession economies: Comparison using four-mode primitive network models
PLOS One
Reducing wealth inequality is a global challenge, and the problems of capitalism stem from the enclosure of the commons and the breakdown of the community. According to previous studies by Polanyi, Karatani, and Graeber, economic modes can be divide...
/Computer and information sciences/Data management/Data visualization/Infographics/Graphs/Random graphs/Computer and information sciences/Information theory/Graph theory/Clustering coefficients/Computer and information sciences/Network analysis/Computer and information sciences/Network analysis/Barabasi Albert model/Computer and information sciences/Network analysis/Centrality
Very Difficult (18.7)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0330174
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What is (synthetic) life? basic concepts of life in synthetic biology
PLOS ONE
One of the central aims of synthetic biology (SB) is to better understand the mechanisms of life by trying to develop and synthesize new forms and perhaps modes of life. While the question of what is life has occupied mankind for centuries, there is...
/Biology and life sciences/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Origin of life/Biology and life sciences/Synthetic biology/Biology and life sciences/Synthetic biology/Synthetic life/Engineering and technology/Synthetic biology
Very Difficult (15.0)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235808
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The moral significance of protecting environmental and cultural objects
PLOS ONE
A powerful avenue through which to promote the preservation of the natural and cultural environment is to afford cultural and environmental objects moral significance. In this research, we examine a range of factors that may give rise to moral conce...
/Biology and life sciences/Organisms/Eukaryota/Animals/Vertebrates/Amniotes/Reptiles/Testudines/Turtles/Biology and life sciences/Psychology/Biology and life sciences/Zoology/Animals/Vertebrates/Amniotes/Reptiles/Testudines/Turtles/Medicine and health sciences/Clinical medicine/Signs and symptoms/Pain/Physical sciences/Mathematics/Statistics/Statistical methods/Regression analysis
Very Difficult (16.1)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280393
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The meaning of caring for patients with cancer among traditional medicine practitioners in Uganda: A grounded theory approach
PLOS Global Public Health
Traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) are a critical part of healthcare systems in many sub-Saharan African countries and play vital roles in caring for patients with cancer. Despite some progress in describing TMPs’ caring experiences in abstra...
/Medicine and health sciences/Complementary and alternative medicine/Herbal medicine/Medicine and health sciences/Complementary and alternative medicine/Traditional medicine/Medicine and health sciences/Diagnostic medicine/Medicine and health sciences/Diagnostic medicine/Cancer detection and diagnosis/Medicine and health sciences/Health care/Health care providers/Physicians
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0001764
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The Minimal Phenomenal Experience questionnaire (MPE-92M): Towards a phenomenological profile of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators
PLOS ONE
Objective: To develop a fine-grained phenomenological analysis of “pure awareness” experiences in meditators. Methods: An online survey in five language versions (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian) collected data from January to March 2020. A...
/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive neuroscience/Consciousness/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive neuroscience/Consciousness/Self-consciousness/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive neuroscience/Consciousness/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive neuroscience/Consciousness/Self-consciousness/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience/Cognitive science/Cognitive psychology/Language
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253694
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Fire in the Quill
PLoS Biology
How has our understanding of the brain evolved? And what can its progress tell us about the way science works? Armin Schneider explores these questions in his review of Charles Gross' new collection of essays on the history of neuroscience in Fire i...
/Biology and life sciences/Anatomy/Brain/Visual cortex/Biology and life sciences/Anatomy/Head/Biology and life sciences/Cell biology/Cellular types/Animal cells/Neurons/Biology and life sciences/Computational biology/Computational neuroscience/Biology and life sciences/Neuroscience
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000323
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How microbes “jeopardize” the modern synthesis
PLOS Genetics
/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Evolutionary processes/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Evolutionary processes/Horizontal gene transfer/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Evolutionary processes/Speciation/Biology and life sciences/Evolutionary biology/Evolutionary theory
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008166
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Correction: Dynamic evolution of policy mix in response to COVID-19: Practice from China
PLOS ONE
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296604
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Correction: The impact of financial development on enterprise green innovation under low carbon pilot city
PLOS ONE
Very Difficult (15.4)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308345
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Twenty Paces from History: An Interview with Soraya de Chadarevian
PLoS Genetics
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020162
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Propensity to trust in Large Language Models
PLOS One
Trust is central to collaborative settings in which large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed. Yet little is known about whether LLMs exhibit a propensity to trust (PTT): a baseline tendency to extend or withhold trust that remains rela...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0347328
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Correction: The impact of digital intelligence technologies on innovation performance: Evidence from specialized, refined, differential and innovative enterprises
PLOS One
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0345648