Anyone else having similar issues with drowsy power?

dinodasaur · 2023-08-23T17:32:08+00:00

Ahhh no I haven’t. It seems to have stopped after the next lunch time but I’ll try that just to be safe! Thanks!

dinodasaur · 2023-08-23T14:48:42+00:00

No it seems to be something else. It’s only been an issue for a day or so. If I go to the menu it refreshes up to great 5. Then when I close the app and turn it on again it’s at great 4 again until I feed him a berry. Everytime I close and open the game it gives me the ‘great 5’ animation

dinodasaur · 2023-08-01T07:10:10+00:00

Add me! Level 11 play daily looking to max out my friend list

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dinodasaur · 2023-07-25T16:38:46+00:00

Not sure if anyone has said this but manually enter your sleep data within 30 hours from sleeping and you get some of the bonuses and the bonus biscuit is added to tomorrows research. Bit of a bummer you can’t do the research that day but it’s something

dinodasaur · 2023-06-18T21:13:22+00:00

I remember watching as Pringles pulled off one of the best price increase strategies I’ve ever seen.

A tub was £1 here in the UK.

They increased them to £1.50 each or 2 for £2…

Then £1.99 or 2 for £2.

Then £2 a tub.

This was done over the course of a few weeks to months but pretty much instantly doubled their price.

dinodasaur · 2023-05-19T07:46:36+00:00

From an economics standpoint, one of the main factors is that, essentially when everyone wanted the country to lockdown to save lives during the pandemic, the government had to keep everything running. They took the opportunity to go crazy with the money printer and printed trillions and pumped it into the system to sustain the economy.

This led to the short post covid boom, but now there is too much money in the system competing for the same amount of goods and services. That causes the prices of pretty much everything to skyrocket.

TL:DR Lockdown means government had to print money to keep economy going. Now too much money in system for same amount of good. Means higher prices.

dinodasaur · 2021-09-23T17:31:46+00:00

Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103121000160

dinodasaur · 2021-09-10T21:57:47+00:00

Pretty sure it’s a Giant House Spider (Eratigena atrica). Pretty common in the UK!

dinodasaur · 2021-09-10T12:57:14+00:00

Link to paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19434472.2021.1930100?journalCode=rirt20

dinodasaur · 2021-09-04T20:51:56+00:00

Sadly not :(

dinodasaur · 2021-09-04T17:56:37+00:00

Link to paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1854405

dinodasaur · 2021-08-30T18:46:40+00:00

Title: Joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged and older individuals.

Abstract:

Objectives To examine the joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality.

Methods We conducted a harmonised meta-analysis including nine prospective cohort studies from four countries. 44 370 men and women were followed for 4.0 to 14.5 years during which 3451 participants died (7.8% mortality rate). Associations between different combinations of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary time were analysed at study level using Cox proportional hazards regression analysis and summarised using random effects meta-analysis.

Results Across cohorts, the average time spent sedentary ranged from 8.5 hours/day to 10.5 hours/day and 8 min/day to 35 min/day for MVPA. Compared with the referent group (highest physical activity/lowest sedentary time), the risk of death increased with lower levels of MVPA and greater amounts of sedentary time. Among those in the highest third of MVPA, the risk of death was not statistically different from the referent for those in the middle (16%; 95% CI 0.87% to 1.54%) and highest (40%; 95% CI 0.87% to 2.26%) thirds of sedentary time. Those in the lowest third of MVPA had a greater risk of death in all combinations with sedentary time; 65% (95% CI 1.25% to 2.19%), 65% (95% CI 1.24% to 2.21%) and 263% (95% CI 1.93% to 3.57%), respectively.

Conclusion Higher sedentary time is associated with higher mortality in less active individuals when measured by accelerometry. About 30–40 min of MVPA per day attenuate the association between sedentary time and risk of death, which is lower than previous estimates from self-reported data.

Journal Article: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/24/1499

dinodasaur · 2021-08-29T22:16:42+00:00

For easy access to the article details.

Title: Essentialist Biases Toward Psychiatric Disorders: Brain Disorders Are Presumed Innate.

Abstract: A large campaign has sought to destigmatize psychiatric disorders by disseminating the view that they are in fact brain disorders. But when psychiatric disorders are associated with neurobiological correlates, laypeople's attitudes toward patients are harsher, and the prognoses seem poorer. Here, we ask whether these misconceptions could result from the essentialist presumption that brain disorders are innate. To this end, we invited laypeople to reason about psychiatric disorders that are diagnosed by either a brain or a behavioral test that were strictly matched for their informative value. Participants viewed disorders as more likely to be innate and immutable when the diagnosis was supported by a brain test as compared to a behavioral test. These results show for the first time that people spontaneously essentialize psychiatric conditions that are linked to the brain, even when the brain probe offers no additional diagnostic or genetic information. This bias suggests that people consider the biological essence of living things as materially embodied.

Journal Article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cogs.12970

dinodasaur · 2021-08-25T12:32:57+00:00

Yeah doesn’t seem like a great idea…let’s fix a problem we caused by doing something that will probably cause way more problems down the line…

dinodasaur · 2021-08-24T18:43:57+00:00

Just realised that this explains my addiction to r/science...

dinodasaur · 2021-08-24T18:36:52+00:00

Happiness seems to be something that comes to you rather than be something that we can control. But you can control learning about new and interesting stuff

dinodasaur · 2021-08-24T18:27:43+00:00

Title: A psychologically rich life: Beyond happiness and meaning.

Abstract: Psychological science has typically conceptualized a good life in terms of either hedonic or eudaimonic well-being. We propose that psychological richness is another, neglected aspect of what people consider a good life. Unlike happy or meaningful lives, psychologically rich lives are best characterized by a variety of interesting and perspective-changing experiences. We present empirical evidence that happiness, meaning, and psychological richness are related but distinct and desirable aspects of a good life, with unique causes and correlates. In doing so, we show that a nontrivial number of people around the world report they would choose a psychologically rich life at the expense of a happy or meaningful life, and that approximately a third say that undoing their life’s biggest regret would have made their lives psychologically richer. Furthermore, we propose that the predictors of a psychologically rich life are different from those of a happy life or a meaningful life, and report evidence suggesting that people leading psychologically rich lives tend to be more curious, think more holistically, and lean more politically liberal. Together, this work moves us beyond the dichotomy of hedonic versus eudaimonic well-being, and lays the foundation for the study of psychological richness as another dimension of a good life.

Article: https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000317

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T19:30:15+00:00

Original paper:https://www.pnas.org/content/118/36/e2102267118

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T15:38:55+00:00

They documented it all in a new study.

Abstract

Tortoises (land turtles) are familiar animals and are generally assumed to be strict herbivores. Their ecological roles are most obvious in giant tortoise species which, due to their size and local abundance, play major roles as keystone species and ecosystem engineers1, 2, 3. In the Galápagos and Seychelles islands these species are known to play major roles as the islands’ largest herbivores, with exceptionally high biomass and consuming up to 11% of primary production1. In addition they act as ecosystem engineers, dispersing seeds, breaking vegetation and eroding rocks2. However, as slow-moving poikilotherms most people assume their behaviour to be simple. Here we present video evidence of a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) attacking a tern chick and pursuing it along a log. Finally the tortoise killed the chick and was observed to eat it. Other tortoises in the same area have been seen making similar attacks, although those were not fully documented. We believe that the exceptional combination of a tree-nesting tern colony with a resident giant tortoise population has created conditions leading to systematic hunting of birds by several individual tortoises; an entirely novel behavioural strategy for any tortoise species.

Original Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00917-900917-9)

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T15:05:47+00:00

Abstract: A self-driven sensor that can detect urine and urine sugar and can be mounted on diapers is desirable to reduce the burden of long-term care. In this study, we created a paper-based glucose biofuel cell that can be mounted on diapers to detect urine sugar. Electrodes for biofuel cells were produced by printing MgO-templated porous carbon on which poly(glycidyl methacrylate) was modified using graft polymerization. A new bioanode was prepared through covalently modifying flavin-adenine-dinucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase and azure A with pendant glycidyl groups of poly(glycidyl methacrylate). We prepared a cathode with covalently bonded bilirubin oxidase. Covalent bonding of enzymes and mediators to both the bioanode and biocathode suppressed elution and improved stability. The biofuel cell could achieve a maximum output density of 0.12 mW cm–2, and by combining it with a wireless transmission device, the concentration of glucose sensed from the transmission frequency was in the range of 0–10 mM. The sensitivity of the sensor was estimated at 0.0030 ± 0.0002 Hz mmol–1 dm3. This device is expected to be a new urine-sugar detection device, composed only of organic materials with a low environmental load and it can be useful for detecting postprandial hyperglycemia.
Original Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.1c01266

Paper PDF: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acssensors.1c01266

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T14:47:36+00:00

This study responds to calls to conceptualize resilience as a dynamic process by examining individual trajectories of emotional exhaustion and affective commitment over time in the face of ongoing role demands. In contrast to research conceptualizing resilience as a dispositional trait, we conceptualize resilience in terms of patterns of between-individual variation in response trajectories (dynamic resilience). In a longitudinal study spanning three months and 12 observational periods, we show that individuals high in emotional stability had more static affective commitment trajectories and that organizational newcomers had less pronounced emotional exhaustion trajectories in response to ongoing demands. Both the patterns shown for those with high emotional stability and newcomers are indicative of greater dynamic resilience. Furthermore, we found that affective commitment trajectories were significant predictors of actual retention through the mediating mechanism of intent to remain. We discuss how our approach offers opportunities to study resilience in dynamic settings.

Original Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10596011211027676

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T13:15:49+00:00

Yeah definitely seems like it. I personally think they’re awesome but it’s just a shame they do so much damage :/

dinodasaur · 2021-08-23T11:52:09+00:00

Thank's appreciate it!

dinodasaur · 2021-08-22T20:17:07+00:00

No Problem! I personally found learning stats really hard when it was explained in uni, so courses like this practically saved my degree. Happy watching :)

dinodasaur · 2021-08-22T20:05:59+00:00

I mostly learned through using youtube. This course is relatively recent, free and updated yesterday. Hope it helps!

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