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Cortical and metabolic brain development during pubertal hormone suppression

Suppression of pubertal hormonal signaling may alter trajectories of cortical development. However, the neurobiological effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa), including triptorelin, which are used in adolescents with gender dysphoria, remain largely unresolve...

Depression, not stroke, is associated with greater expressive suppression while emotion identification is preserved

INTRODUCTION: Stroke is followed both by frequent depression and by reported alterations in emotional processing, yet these are rarely examined jointly, leaving it unclear whether emotional disturbances reflect the lesion or the concurrent depression. We aimed to separate the con...

‘The Left Turns Us Into a Collectivity’. Political Discourses on LGBTIQ+ Rights Among Right-Wing LGB+ Individuals in Spain

Electoral sociology has shown that the LGBTIQ+ constituency differs significantly from the cisheterosexual population, exhibiting greater affinity for liberal values and progressive parties. However, in recent years, a LGB+ minority that aligns with right-wing ideology and partie...

Disclosure policies and the epistemic corruption of biomedical research

Disclosure policies in biomedical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest (COI), typically -but not exclusively- originating in the industry funding they receive for their research. The consensus among philosophers and sociologists studying COI is tha...

‘No war’ inside peace movements: alliance building in Madrid’s pro-Palestine networks

This article examines coalition-building within Madrid’s pro-Palestine movement since October 2023, shifting attention from cross-movement alliances to the endogenous dynamics that shape cooperation among solidarity actors. Drawing on 10 semi-structured interviews with key activi...

“It’s not you, it’s me”: how sensitive an adolescent is to disgust affects their moral judgments

The relationship between disgust sensitivity and negative biases towards creepy faces requires further investigation. Further, little is known about how adolescents use facial appearance to make inferences about the morality of strangers. With this aim, we assess whether disgust...

A Systematic Survey of Smart Contract Fuzzing: Methods, Techniques, and Architectures for Ethereum and Beyond

Blockchain architectures increasingly rely on smart contracts as programmable execution components, yet the security challenges they introduce remain only partially addressed. Fuzz testing has emerged as one of the leading automated techniques for smart contract vulnerability dis...

First occurrence of polymicrobial ulcer in dinosaurs

Abstract Evidence of palaeopathological bone lesions in large-sized ornithopod dinosaurs is nowadays increasing significantly. However, most of these lesions are documented in derived ornithopods such as hadrosaurs, while pathologies associated with other styracosternans are scar...

Classroom Social Climate and Resilience in Secondary Education Students

Classroom social climate has become a factor of increasing interest within the educational field due to its potential influence on students’ well-being and adjustment. The present study focused on analysing the relationship between the different dimensions of classroom social cli...

Analysis of stigma toward mental disorders among professionals, families, and the general population in Spain

Stigma toward individuals with severe mental disorders remains a major barrier to social inclusion and recovery. Although widely studied, fewer investigations have comparatively examined attitudes across key social agents (professionals, family members, and the general population...

Evolution of functional and mental status and quality of life in people aged 75 years and over after the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain: a prospective cohort study

The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant health and psychosocial consequences in the older adults. However, there is little community-based evidence that clearly distinguishes the effect attributable to SARS-CoV-2 infection to be differentiated from the contextual impact of the...

Exploring Nursing Team Perceptions of Sleep in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients: A Mixed-Methods Study

Objective: To explore nursing team perceptions of sleep and sleep-disrupting factors in critically ill pediatric patients. Methodology: Convergent mixed-methods study comprising an exploratory qualitative and descriptive cross-sectional quantitative. For the qualitative component...

Secure base leadership as an organizational resource in the police training of the Carabineros de Chile

Purpose This study examines how secure base leadership (SBL) exercised by instructors in police academies relates to burnout, work engagement, and cadet performance during training. Drawing on the job demands–resources (JD-R) theory, SBL is conceptualized as an organizational res...