Quantitative analysis of toxicity risks in the operation of ammonia-fueled tugboats

L Hu, J Niu, W Wu, Z Zhao, M Du, L Chen, Q Zheng… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
As efforts to conserve energy and reduce emissions in the global shipping industry intensify,
people are constantly looking for new types of energy to replace traditional fuels. Ammonia …

No cardiac phase bias for threat-related distance perception under naturalistic conditions in immersive virtual reality

F Klotzsche, P Motyka, A Molak… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous studies have found that threatening stimuli are more readily perceived and more
intensely experienced when presented during cardiac systole compared with diastole. Also …

Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability

M Sequestro, J Serfaty, J Grèzes… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Avoiding threatening individuals is pivotal for adaptation to our social environment. Yet, it
remains unclear whether social threat avoidance is subtended by goal-directed processes …

An intracranial dissection of human escape circuits

H Zhang, J Cheng, K Hu, F Wang, S Qi, Q Liu, Y Yao… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Predators attack at different spatiotemporal scales, spurring prey to elicit escape responses
that range from simple motor reactions and strategic planning that involve more complex …

The syllables of human movement under threat

UDS Hernandez, J Brookes, S Hall, JK Sporrer… - Gait & Posture, 2024 - Elsevier
Methods Participants (n= 27) avoided threats while collecting fruit in VR environments
(5x10m, designed using VRThreat toolkit for Unity [1], similar to [2]), and additionally …