Imagine starting your life over with a fresh - slimmer you. Individuals with poor diets and other relevant risks went through Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery to achieve just that! Roux-en-Y gastric surgery disrupted the digestive tract and with less food intake, slimdown a model. It is generally useful but some big players chose to take a risk and added an ext...
Recently, scientists have raised concerns about using spirituality measures that are mixed with mental and social health indicators. Many researchers might not know about this issue, even though these scales are commonly used in health studies. Previously, experts warned about choosing the right religious and spiritual (R/S) measures to avoid getting the same results...
Web surveys are super convenient, but they're also a magnet for cheaters. People fill them out with fake answers, which messes up the results and makes the data useless for scientists and researchers. The problem is, not everyone talks about how to spot and remove these dishonest responses. Think of it like baking a cake. If one ingredient is wrong, the whole cake i...
Scientists often rely on peer reviews to check their work. But does it matter if they know who wrote the paper? Some think yes, others no. Let's dive in! Imagine two types of peer reviews: single blind, where only the reviewer is hidden, and double blind, where neither knows who's who. A special study, called difference-in-difference, was done to see how these diffe...
Over the past seven decades, the Chinese Journal of Stomatology has published around eighty articles focusing on the history of Chinese dental medicine. These articles can be divided into three main phases, reflecting shifts in both quantity and themes. Initially, the articles centered on dental history before 1912. However, as time progressed, the focus shifted to c...
Have you ever thought about teaching a robot to be polite? It's not as easy as it sounds, especially without specific examples to guide them. That's what a team of researchers set out to do. They developed three innovative models to create chatbots that can be either polite or impolite. One model, called Fusion, merges the chatbot's core with a separate polite langua...