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Facilitating research-informed educational practice for inclusion. Survey findings from 147 teachers and school leaders in England (2022)
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This paper considers the engagement by teachers and school leaders in England in educational practices that are both ‘research-informed’ and supportive of inclusive education. We do so by seeking to understand the benefits, costs, and signifying fact... Read More about Facilitating research-informed educational practice for inclusion. Survey findings from 147 teachers and school leaders in England.

Research informed educational practice: how to help educators engage with research for the common good (Practica educativa informada por la investigacion: Cómo ayudar a los educadores comprometerse con la investigacion para el bien comun) (2022)
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This paper examines research informed educational practice (RIEP) and how RIEP can become an integral part of how education systems operate. First RIEP is considered within the broader context of ‘research for the common good’. The paper then discuss... Read More about Research informed educational practice: how to help educators engage with research for the common good (Practica educativa informada por la investigacion: Cómo ayudar a los educadores comprometerse con la investigacion para el bien comun).

Alone With Our Thoughts: Investigation of Autonomy Supportive Framing as a Driver of Enjoyment During Quiet Time in Solitude (2022)
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Sitting alone with one’s thoughts could foster a sense of rest and relaxation, yet many find this activity difficult. In two preregistered experiments (Study 1: n = 266, Study 2: n = 369), we focused on autonomy-supportive and controlling framings of... Read More about Alone With Our Thoughts: Investigation of Autonomy Supportive Framing as a Driver of Enjoyment During Quiet Time in Solitude.

Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK (2022)
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Recently, social workers have been identified as a key messenger group for promoting physical activity (PA) to disabled people. Also identified is the need to train social workers in PA promotion. In response, the purpose of this article is to inform... Read More about Designing a programme to train social workers on how to promote physical activity for disabled people: A Delphi study in the UK.

Bayesian Causal Inference: A Unifying Neuroscience Theory (2022)
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Understanding of the brain and the principles governing neural processing requires theories that are parsimonious, can account for a diverse set of phenomena, and can make testable predictions. Here, we review the theory of Bayesian causal inference,... Read More about Bayesian Causal Inference: A Unifying Neuroscience Theory.

Newly learned novel cues to location are combined with familiar cues but not always with each other (2022)
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Mature perceptual systems can learn new arbitrary sensory signals (novel cues) to properties of the environment, but little is known about the extent to which novel cues are integrated into normal perception. In normal perception, multiple uncertain... Read More about Newly learned novel cues to location are combined with familiar cues but not always with each other.

A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans (2022)
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Humans are sexually dimorphic: men and women differ in body build and composition, craniofacial structure, and voice pitch, likely mediated in part by developmental testosterone. Sexual selection hypotheses posit that, ancestrally, more 'masculine' m... Read More about A meta-analysis of the association between male dimorphism and fitness outcomes in humans.

The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC): International consensus statement and user guide (2021)
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Effective physical activity messaging plays an important role in the pathway towards changing physical activity behaviour at a population level. The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC) are outputs from a recent modified... Read More about The Physical Activity Messaging Framework (PAMF) and Checklist (PAMC): International consensus statement and user guide.

Logic Differential Calculus for Reliability Analysis Based on Survival Signature (2022)
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The structure function is an often-used mathematical representation of the investigated system in reliability analysis. It is a binary function that models system state according to states of its components. The size of the structure function depends... Read More about Logic Differential Calculus for Reliability Analysis Based on Survival Signature.

What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood (2021)
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Solitude – the state of being alone and not physically with another – can be rewarding. The present research explored the potential benefits of solitude from a pragmatist approach: a ground-up, top-down perspective that is receptive to new knowledge... Read More about What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood.

Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia (2022)
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The aims of this study were to explore the origins of 19 children buried in two mass graves and the general cemetery at the post-medieval St Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia, using strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86Sr), and to establish loca... Read More about Strontium isotope identification of possible rural immigrants in 17th century mass graves at St. Gertrude Church cemetery in Riga, Latvia.

Health inequality in Britain before 1750 (2021)
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Background This study examines the claim that social inequality in health in European populations was absent prior to 1750. This claim is primarily based on comparisons of life expectancy at birth in England between general and ducal (elite aristocra... Read More about Health inequality in Britain before 1750.

Achieving the ideas informed society: a Structural Equation Model for England (2022)
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Background: Democratic societies thrive when citizens actively and critically engage with new ideas, developments and claims to truth. Not only can such practices result in more effective choice-making, but they can also lead to widespread support fo... Read More about Achieving the ideas informed society: a Structural Equation Model for England.

Examining the relationship between parent/carer's attitudes, beliefs and their child's future participation in physics (2022)
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Despite girls enjoying and being good at physics, the proportion of girls studying physics and going into physics related careers still lags behind that of boys. A large volume of research exists on the factors related to the uptake of girls into phy... Read More about Examining the relationship between parent/carer's attitudes, beliefs and their child's future participation in physics.

Pricing exotic options in the incomplete market: an imprecise probability method (2022)
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This paper considers a novel exotic option pricing method for incomplete markets. Nonparametric Predictive Inference (NPI) is applied to the option pricing procedure based on the binomial tree model allowing the method to evaluate exotic options with... Read More about Pricing exotic options in the incomplete market: an imprecise probability method.

Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review (2021)
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Change agents are individuals who can successfully transform aspects of how organisations operate. In education, teachers as change agents are increasingly seen as vital to the successful operation of schools and self-improving school systems. To dat... Read More about Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review.

Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour: Evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game (2021)
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Human cooperation, occurring without reciprocation and between unrelated individuals in large populations, represents an evolutionary puzzle. One potential explanation is that cooperative behaviour may be transmitted between individuals via social le... Read More about Social learning strategies and cooperative behaviour: Evidence of payoff bias, but not prestige or conformity, in a social dilemma game.

Editorial: Experimental Approaches to Body Image, Representation and Perception (2021)
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Counterfactual explanation of machine learning survival models (2021)
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A method for counterfactual explanation of machine learning survival models is proposed. One of the difficulties of solving the counterfactual explanation problem is that the classes of examples are implicitly defined through outcomes of a machine le... Read More about Counterfactual explanation of machine learning survival models.

Early Life, Life Course and Gender Influences on Levels of C-Reactive Protein among Migrant Bangladeshis in the UK (2021)
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Background and objectives: Humans co-evolved with pathogens, especially helminths, that educate the immune system during development and lower inflammatory responses. Absence of such stimuli in industrialized countries is associated with higher basel... Read More about Early Life, Life Course and Gender Influences on Levels of C-Reactive Protein among Migrant Bangladeshis in the UK.