Creating new scientific models of plankton is "critical" to understanding the scale of global climate change, a new paper ...

UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop ...

Discovering relatedness outside of a topical issue helps diverse groups to overcome differences and develop action for social ...

A foundational idea in self-determination theory is that we have three basic psychological needs: for autonomy, competence ...

The analytic framework of this article is predicated on social ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner 1979), which provides a way to view the problem of prescription drug misuse contextually and ...

Objectives Social prescribing is a way of linking patients in primary care with sources of support within the community to help improve their health and well-being. Social prescribing programmes are ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

This model establishes that interventions will have greater and better effects when acting on the distal layers. From the socio-ecological model, the various levels of influence are examined to find ...

Figure 2. The foundational context of CVH. As depicted in the social-ecological model in the base of the figure 8, a variety of socioeconomic and structural determinants of health provide the ...

An agent-based model of the ancient Maya social-ecological system. MayaSim is an integrated agent-based, cellular-automaton and network simulation of the Maya civilization on the Yucatan peninsula ...

Book Review Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers By Caroline Fraser Penguin Press: 480 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from ...