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"China's Charm Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Comprehe" by Pablo Baisotti
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"New Effect Size Rules of Thumb " by Shlomo S. Sawilowsky
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| | Recommendations to expand Cohen's (1988) rules of thumb for interpreting effect sizes are given to include very small, very large, and huge effect sizes. The reasons for the expansion, and implications for designing Monte Carlo studies, are discussed.
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"Strategies for dissenting scientists" by Brian Martin
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| | Those who challenge conventional views or vested interests in science are likely to encounter difficulties. A scientific dissenter should first of all realize that science is a system of power as well as knowledge, in which interest groups play a key role and insiders have an extra advantage. Dissenters are likely to be ignored or dismissed. If they gain some recognition or outside support, they may be attacked. In the face of such obstacles, there are several strategies, including mimicking science, aim...
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"Mutation spectrum of congenital heart disease in a consanguineous Turk" by Weilai Dong, Hande Kaymakcalan et al.
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| | BACKGROUNDS: While many studies agree that consanguinity increases the rate of congenital heart disease (CHD), few genome analyses have been conducted with consanguineous CHD cohorts. METHODS: We recruited 73 CHD probands from consanguineous families in Turkey and used whole-exome sequencing (WES) to identify genetic lesions in these patients. RESULTS: On average, each patient had 6.95 rare damaging homozygous variants, 0.68 of which are loss-of-function (LoF) variants. Seven patients (9.6%) carried damaging homozygous variants in five causal CHD genes. Six of those patients exhibited laterality defects (six HTX and one D-TGA). Three additional patients (4.1%) harbored other types of CHD-associated genomic alterations, which overall explained 13.7% (10/73) o...
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The Essence of Christianity | Antilogicalism
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| Feuerbach's seminal work, The Essence of Christianity, marks a turning point in the critique of religion. In this book, he posits that theology is, at its core, anthropology. Religion, according to Feuerbach, is a projection of human nature and desires onto an imagined divine being. God, he argues, is nothing more than the idealized abstraction...