Are you a cat person or a dog person?
Lea Michelle Baines and Jessica Leigh Oliva from Australia’s James Cook University said they found that people who own dogs tend to be more resilient than those who own cats. are. They also report finding that cat owners tend to be more nervous than dog owners.
“Contrary to our expectations, we found no other personality differences between pet owners…The study results showed that people who choose to keep a dog under difficult circumstances are less likely to keep a dog. This suggests that personality factors may explain why people fare better than their chosen counterparts.”We’re in a time of social isolation, but that may have nothing to do with the animals themselves. ”
Improved satisfaction
Much of science relies on the question, “How can I measure it accurately, accurately, and reliably enough to gain insight into this object (whatever it is)?” This question almost screams out, perhaps in ecstasy, perhaps in agony, perhaps in bewilderment, from a research paper that reader Nicholas Cleris has contributed to his feedback.
“Do sex toys satisfy me? The use of sex toys in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, and the United Kingdom” was published by Gert Martin Hald, Silvia Pavan, and Camilla S. Øverup. Journal of Sex Research.
I spent the night wondering if feedback could measure that kind of satisfaction in anyone other than myself. Will you measure it in such a way that you can be sure the answer is accurate and true?
Apparently unafraid of this problem, Huld, Pavan and Oberp went at it. They did it a thousand times more. That’s more than 10 times more than a thousand times. They asked similar measurements from “11,944 respondents in six European countries.”
We are reluctant to go into detail about how the team obtained and interpreted the 11,944 responses. If you can’t resist the temptation, read the paper. Please let me know if the climactic ending was satisfying.
coffee controversy
Nothing activates your kidneys like coffee. And nothing excites kidney researchers more than the question of kidneys and coffee. kidney international report At times, the reader is bombarded with opinions and facts about this from researchers who seem emotionally charged and uplifted.
A two-part question prompts this behavior. Exactly how and in exactly what amounts does coffee enhance kidney function? A conversation between two groups of US researchers found that ‘Coffee consumption may reduce the risk of acute kidney injury. It began with the publication of a paper titled “There is.” The authors of the paper stated that “higher coffee intake was associated with a lower risk of kidney disease.”
The research team looked at data collected over a three-year period. In the data, 15,792 middle-aged people indicated how many cups of coffee they thought they had consumed in the previous year. So 15,792 people is an educated guess. The study compared Coffee Cup’s estimates to records of so-called “acute kidney injury events” (AKIs) in each person’s later years.
The second group responded by sending out a letter called “The missing link between coffee consumption and AKI-water.” Drinking alcohol, or failing to drink alcohol, can have significant effects on the kidneys, researchers suggest. They also suggest that the first group may not have given it enough consideration.
The first group disagreed and argued that it could be a killer, citing research on coffee and dehydration. The lead author of that British study is Sophie Killer.
Going back and forth will make the discussion messy. More recently, a third group based in China, South Korea, and the Czech Republic has reintroduced the flow of opinion into the traditional centrist turmoil. “In summary, several contradictory effects of caffeine intake on renal function have been reported,” the research team’s report said.
Preventing new coronavirus infection with coffee
Drinking coffee can have almost any desired medical effect on humans to some degree. In some cases, its order may be zero. Sometimes it’s not.
Chen-Shiou Wu and his colleagues at the China Medical University in Taiwan conducted experiments and published a study called “Coffee as a dietary strategy to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
Their first experiment asked whether coffee could prevent the SARS-CoV-2 virus from infecting human fetal kidney cells grown in the lab. Next, they collected blood from 64 coffee drinkers and conducted an experiment. Combining the cell and drinker functions yielded some optimistic proposals.
The research team reports that the ideal timeline for coffee to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection is within six hours. “Overall, drinking one to two cups of coffee (or even decaf) daily can strongly reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection, including wild-type, alpha, delta, and omicron variants. These possibilities “could serve as guidelines for dietary health when living with SARS-CoV-2.”
At best, this may be the effective and simple treatment everyone is looking for. At least coffee is as effective against COVID-19 as it is against most other illnesses.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers. his website is impossible.com
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