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    Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2022
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 119, No. 44 ( 2022-11)
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 119, No. 44 ( 2022-11)
    Abstract: This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis. We coordinated 161 researchers in 73 research teams and observed their research decisions as they used the same data to independently test the same prominent social science hypothesis: that greater immigration reduces support for social policies among the public. In this typical case of social science research, research teams reported both widely diverging numerical findings and substantive conclusions despite identical start conditions. Researchers’ expertise, prior beliefs, and expectations barely predict the wide variation in research outcomes. More than 95% of the total variance in numerical results remains unexplained even after qualitative coding of all identifiable decisions in each team’s workflow. This reveals a universe of uncertainty that remains hidden when considering a single study in isolation. The idiosyncratic nature of how researchers’ results and conclusions varied is a previously underappreciated explanation for why many scientific hypotheses remain contested. These results call for greater epistemic humility and clarity in reporting scientific findings.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203150119
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 2022
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    Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation
    Springer Science and Business Media LLC ; 2018
    In:  Nature Vol. 554, No. 7693 ( 2018-2), p. 519-522
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    In: Nature, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 554, No. 7693 ( 2018-2), p. 519-522
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0028-0836 , 1476-4687
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1038/nature25508
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
    Publication Date: 2018
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    The structure of tropical forests and sphere packings
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2015
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 112, No. 49 ( 2015-12-08), p. 15125-15129
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, No. 49 ( 2015-12-08), p. 15125-15129
    Abstract: The search for simple principles underlying the complex architecture of ecological communities such as forests still challenges ecological theorists. We use tree diameter distributions—fundamental for deriving other forest attributes—to describe the structure of tropical forests. Here we argue that tree diameter distributions of natural tropical forests can be explained by stochastic packing of tree crowns representing a forest crown packing system: a method usually used in physics or chemistry. We demonstrate that tree diameter distributions emerge accurately from a surprisingly simple set of principles that include site-specific tree allometries, random placement of trees, competition for space, and mortality. The simple static model also successfully predicted the canopy structure, revealing that most trees in our two studied forests grow up to 30–50 m in height and that the highest packing density of about 60% is reached between the 25- and 40-m height layer. Our approach is an important step toward identifying a minimal set of processes responsible for generating the spatial structure of tropical forests.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513417112
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 2015
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    Biomasseanbau steuern - Konfliktminderung durch neue Anreize
    W. Kohlhammer GmbH ; 2011
    In:  0028-0615 Vol. 86, No. 3 ( 2011-03-01), p. 112-119
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    In: 0028-0615, W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Vol. 86, No. 3 ( 2011-03-01), p. 112-119
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0028-0615
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.17433/3.2011.50153087.112-119
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    Language: German
    Publisher: W. Kohlhammer GmbH
    Publication Date: 2011
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    Immobility-associated thromboprotection is conserved across mammalian species from bear to human
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) ; 2023
    In:  Science Vol. 380, No. 6641 ( 2023-04-14), p. 178-187
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    In: Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 380, No. 6641 ( 2023-04-14), p. 178-187
    Abstract: Long-term immobility induces an antithrombotic platelet signature, helping to reduce thromboinflammation and thrombosis risk.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0036-8075 , 1095-9203
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5044
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    Language: English
    Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 2023
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    Classifications of Atmospheric Circulation Patterns : Recent Advances and Applications
    Wiley ; 2008
    In:  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1146, No. 1 ( 2008-12), p. 105-152
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    In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Wiley, Vol. 1146, No. 1 ( 2008-12), p. 105-152
    Abstract: We review recent advances in classifications of circulation patterns as a specific research area within synoptic climatology. The review starts with a general description of goals of classification and the historical development in the field. We put circulation classifications into a broader context within climatology and systematize the varied methodologies and approaches. We characterize three basic groups of classifications: subjective (also called manual), mixed (hybrid), and objective (computer‐assisted, automated). The roles of cluster analysis and principal component analysis in the classification process are clarified. Several recent methodological developments in circulation classifications are identified and briefly described: the introduction of nonlinear methods, objectivization of subjective catalogs, efforts to optimize classifications, the need for intercomparisons of classifications, and the progress toward an optimum, if possible unified, classification method. Among the recent tendencies in the applications of circulation classifications, we mention a more extensive use in climate studies, both of past, present, and future climates, innovative applications in the ensemble forecasting, increasing variety of synoptic–climatological investigations, and steps above from the troposphere. After introducing the international activity within the field of circulation classifications, the COST733 Action, we briefly describe outputs of the inventory of classifications in Europe, which was carried out within the Action. Approaches to the evaluation of classifications and their mutual comparisons are also reviewed. A considerable part of the review is devoted to three examples of applications of circulation classifications: in historical climatology, in analyses of recent climate variations, and in analyses of outputs from global climate models.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0077-8923 , 1749-6632
    URL: Issue
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1196/nyas.2008.1146.issue-1
    DOI: 10.1196/annals.1446.019
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Wiley
    Publication Date: 2008
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    How individual species structure diversity in tropical forests
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 2007
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 104, No. 48 ( 2007-11-27), p. 19029-19033
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 104, No. 48 ( 2007-11-27), p. 19029-19033
    Abstract: A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high diversity of tree species in tropical forests. Although the role of species characteristics in maintaining tree diversity in tropical forests has been the subject of theory and debate for decades, spatial patterns in local diversity have not been analyzed from the viewpoint of individual species. To measure scale-dependent local diversity structures around individual species, we propose individual species–area relationships (ISAR), a spatial statistic that marries common species–area relationships with Ripley's K to measure the expected α diversity in circular neighborhoods with variable radius around an arbitrary individual of a target species. We use ISAR to investigate if and at which spatial scales individual species increase in tropical forests' local diversity (accumulators), decrease local diversity (repellers), or behave neutrally. Our analyses of data from Barro Colorado Island (Panama) and Sinharaja (Sri Lanka) reveal that individual species leave identifiable signatures on spatial diversity, but only on small spatial scales. Most species showed neutral behavior outside neighborhoods of 20 m. At short scales ( 〈 20 m), we observed, depending on the forest type, two strongly different roles of species: diversity repellers dominated at Barro Colorado Island and accumulators at Sinharaja. Nevertheless, we find that the two tropical forests lacked any key species structuring species diversity at larger scales, suggesting that “balanced” species–species interactions may be a characteristic of these species-rich forests. We anticipate our analysis method will be a starting point for more powerful investigations of spatial structures in diversity to promote a better understanding of biodiversity in tropical forests.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705621104
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 2007
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    ZK200775: A phosphonate quinoxalinedione AMPA antagonist for neuroprotection in stroke and trauma
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ; 1998
    In:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 95, No. 18 ( 1998-09), p. 10960-10965
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    In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 95, No. 18 ( 1998-09), p. 10960-10965
    Abstract: Stroke and head trauma are worldwide public health problems and leading causes of death and disability in humans, yet, no adequate neuroprotective treatment is available for therapy. Glutamate antagonists are considered major drug candidates for neuroprotection in stroke and trauma. However, N -methyl- d -aspartate antagonists failed clinical trials because of unacceptable side effects and short therapeutic time window. α-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) antagonists derived from the quinoxalinedione scaffold cannot be used in humans because of their insolubility and resulting renal toxicity. Therefore, achieving water solubility of quinoxalinediones without loss of selectivity and potency profiles becomes a major challenge for medicinal chemistry. One of the major tenets in the chemistry of glutamate antagonists is that the incorporation of phosphonate into the glutamate framework results in preferential N -methyl- d -aspartate antagonism. Therefore, synthesis of phosphonate derivatives of quinoxalinediones was not pursued because of a predicted loss of their selectivity toward AMPA. Here, we report that introduction of a methylphosphonate group into the quinoxalinedione skeleton leaves potency as AMPA antagonists and selectivity for the AMPA receptor unchanged and dramatically improves solubility. One such novel phosphonate quinoxalinedione derivative and competitive AMPA antagonist ZK200775 exhibited a surprisingly long therapeutic time window of 〉 4 h after permanent occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in rats and was devoid of renal toxicity. Furthermore, delayed treatment with ZK200775 commencing 2 h after onset of reperfusion in transient middle cerebral artery occlusion resulted in a dramatic reduction of the infarct size. ZK200775 alleviated also both cortical and hippocampal damage induced by head trauma in the rat. These observations suggest that phosphonate quinoxalinedione-based AMPA antagonists may offer new prospects for treatment of stroke and trauma in humans.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 0027-8424 , 1091-6490
    URL: Article
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.18.10960
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    Language: English
    Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Publication Date: 1998
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