Thursday, December 5, 2019

Rise & fall of the Chinese state: Instead of the standard explanations– economic development and war– , author believes the civil service transformed the Chinese elite from an encompassing interest group to a narrow interest group

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China's State Developement in Comparative Historical Perspective. Y Wang, Nov2019. APSA-CP Newsletter Vol. XXIX, Issue 2, Fall 2019, ht...

Human sensorimotor system rapidly localizes touch on a hand-held tool; somatosensory cortex efficiently extracts touch location from the tool’s vibrations, recruiting & repurposing neural processes that map touch on the body

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Somatosensory Cortex Efficiently Processes Touch Located Beyond the Body. Luke E. Miller et al. Current Biology, December 5 2019. https://do...

Confirming the earliest work, against the most recent one, we find that same-sex couples are more likely to break up than different-sex couples; the gap in stability is larger for couples with children

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Stability Rates of Same-Sex Couples: With and Without Children. Doug Allen & Joseph Price. Marriage & Family Review, Volume 56, 202...

The relatively stable rates of heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality observed across nations for both women and men suggest that non-social factors likely may underlie much variation in human sexual orientation

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Prevalence of Sexual Orientation Across 28 Nations and Its Association with Gender Equality, Economic Development, and Individualism. Qazi R...

New Frontiers in Irritability Research

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New Frontiers in Irritability Research—From Cradle to Grave and Bench to Bedside. Neir Eshel, Ellen Leibenluft. JAMA Psychiatry, December 4...

Benoit Coeure: No euro area country features in the top 10 of the World Bank’s ease of doing business index; many are not even in the top 30.

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The single currency: an unfinished agenda. Speech by Benoît Cœuré, ECB. ECB Representative Office in Brussels,  Dec 3 2019.  https://www.bis...

Cohort study of 13 588 adults without dementia at baseline: The Western dietary pattern may not contribute to cognitive decline in later life

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Association of Dietary Patterns in Midlife and Cognitive Function in Later Life in US Adults Without Dementia. Jennifer L. Dearborn-Tomazos,...

Contrary to expectations, didn't find a significant relation between friending behavior of participants and fictitious Facebook dimensions of gender, profile photos, education status & relationship status

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Would You like to Be My Facebook Friend? Cemil Akkaş, Hülya Bakırtaş. Sexuality & Culture, December 5 2019. https://link.springer.com/ar...

In Brain and Behavior: A multimethod investigation of motor inhibition in professional drummers

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Boom Chack Boom—A multimethod investigation of motor inhibition in professional drummers. Lara Schlaffke  Sarah Friedrich  Martin Tegenthoff...

Declining Sexual Activity and Desire in Women: Findings from Representative German Studies in 2005 & 2016

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Declining Sexual Activity and Desire in Women: Findings from Representative German Surveys 2005 and 2016. Juliane Burghardt et al. Archives ...