LICENCE TO KILL? INVESTIGATING THE MORAL LICENSING EFFECT OF MEAT REDUCING PETITIONS ON PERSONAL MEAT AVOIDANCE PLEDGES

Licence to Kill? Investigating the Moral Licensing Effect of Meat Reducing Petitions on Personal Meat Avoidance Pledges

This paper investigated the possibility of moral licensing in the context of meat reduction.Specifically, we investigated the impact of petition-signing on personal commitment to meat reduction.In two studies, participants were assigned to a treatment condition, in which they had the opportunity to sign a petition to restrict meat in public sector

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Mitochondrial oxidative function in NAFLD: Friend or foe?

Background: Mitochondrial oxidative function plays a key role in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and insulin resistance (IR).Recent studies reported that fatty liver might not be a result of decreased mitochondrial fat oxidation caused by mitochondrial damage.Rather, NAFLD and IR induce an elevation in mitochondrial fun

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Pubertal timing and functional neurodevelopmental alterations independently mediate the effect of family conflict on adolescent psychopathology

This study tested the hypothesis that early life adversity (ELA) heightens psychopathology risk by concurrently altering pubertal and neurodevelopmental timing, scrunchies and associated gene transcription signatures.Analyses focused on threat- (family conflict/neighbourhood crime) and deprivation-related ELAs (parental inattentiveness/unmet materi

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Effect of Antibiotic Therapy on the Outcome of Frozen-thawed Embryo Retransfer Following Failed First Implantation in Women with Chronic Endometritis

Background Chronic endometritis (CE) refers to chronic inflammatory condition of the endometrium.Recent studies have found that CE is closely associated with infertility, recurrent miscarriage, and recurrent implantation failure.However, there are no Holy Basil (Tulsi) studies on CE prevalence in patients with first implantation failure and the out

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Offspring production of ovarian organoids derived from spermatogonial stem cells by defined factors with chromatin reorganization

Introduction: Fate determination of germline stem cells remains poorly understood at the chromatin structure level.Objectives: Our research hopes to develop successful offspring production of ovarian organoids derived from spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) by defined factors.Methods: The offspring production from oocytes transdifferentiated from mou

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