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The purpose of the study was to examine differences in reading performance when an electronic test format with a scrolling text mode on a LCD monitor and a traditional paper test format were used to present reading tests to teenagers who belong to Generation Z. In this study, participants were 108 high school students who each read two different reading passages, one from paper and the other from an LCD monitor. The results show that teenagers' reading performance is affected by a presentation medium. Teenagers scored significantly higher on the paper reading comprehension tests than on the electronic ones, with average scores of 76 and 61 respectively. In addition, teenagers took much longer time to read passages and answer questions on the electronic tests than the paper tests. The paper tests only took teenagers an average of 10 minutes, but the electronic tests took an average of 16 minutes to complete. Several other variables such as gender and presentation medium preference were also tested against the variables of reading performance. These findings have strong implications for educators and educational administrators.

Eskine, Kacinik, and Prinz's (2011) influential experiment demonstrated that gustatory disgust triggers a heightened sense of moral wrongness. We report a large-scale multi-site direct replication of this study conducted by participants in the Collaborative Replications and Education Project. Participants in each sample were randomly assigned to one of three beverage conditions: bitter/disgusting, control, or sweet. Then, participants made a series of judgments indicating the moral wrongness of the behavior depicted in each of six vignettes.In the original study (N = 57), drinking the bitter beverage led to higher ratings of moral wrongness than drinking the control and sweet beverages; a beverage contrast was significant among conservative (N = 19) but not liberal (N = 25) participants. In this report, random effects meta-analyses across all participants (N = 1,137 in k = 11 studies), conservative participants (N = 142, k = 5), and liberal participants (N = 635, k = 9) revealed standardized effect sizes that were smaller than reported in the original study. Some were in the opposite of the predicted direction, all had 95% confidence intervals containing zero, and most were smaller than the effect size the original authors could meaningfully detect. In linear mixed-effects regressions, drinking the bitter beverage led to higher ratings of moral wrongness than drinking the control beverage but not the sweet beverage. Bayes Factor tests reveal greater relative support for the null hypothesis. The overall pattern provides little to no support for the theory that physical disgust via taste perception harshens judgments of moral wrongness.

C. (2021). Accelerated in vivo cardiac diffusion-tensor MRI using residual deep learning-based denoising in participants with obesity. Radiology: cardiothoracic imaging, 3(3), [e200580].

The primary purpose of the study was to examine whether senior citizens' use of online social networks affect their cognitive function. For this study, 213 senior citizens who are at least 60 years of age and do not have pre-diagnosed Alzheimer's disease (AD) were randomly selected from a variety of local communities such as a non-AD-patient-retirement home. To measure the cognitive function levels of the selected senior citizens, the Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE), which is the most widely used standardized cognitive screening test, was administered to each participant. The results of the study show that seniors' use of online social networks positively affected their cognitive function levels. Senior citizens who use online social networks had a significantly higher cognitive function level than those who do not use online social networks. In addition, the results show that there was a significant relationship between the number of months for seniors' use of online social networks and their MMSE scores. Seniors received higher MMSE scores as they use online social networks longer. The results of the study suggest that seniors' participation in online social networking, which can be cognitively stimulating, is associated with maintenance or even improvement of their cognitive functions and seems to protect against age-related decline of cognitive functions.