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Think twice : an intervention strategy to reduce personal clothing consumption
(2025) Joanes, Tina; Geiger, Sonja M.; Gwozdz, Wencke
This study reports the effectiveness of a theory-driven Internet based intervention aiming at reducing participants’ (N = 415) clothing purchases. An information-only intervention and a combination of information, goal setting, goal feedback, commitment, and self-regulatory strategies was applied in four different experimental conditions, including a passive control group. At a 1-month post-test, only participants in the combined intervention groups significantly reduced their clothing purchases compared to the control and information only group, on average by 58.59% for a condition with individual goal setting and by 46.82% for a condition with collective goal setting as compared to a 1-month pre-intervention period. At a 3-month follow up, consumers across all groups reduced their clothing purchases. We explore changes in mechanisms of action and their role for changes in clothing purchases. Specific goal setting, but not a general goal to reduce clothing consumption, and goal conflict were linked to changes in purchase behavior.
Differentiation in cognitive abilities beyond g : the emergence of domain-specific variance in childhood
(2025) Bardach, Lisa; Kalinowski, Robert; Bailey, Drew H.
Understanding how the structure of cognitive abilities changes depending on age and ability (age and ability differentiation) has critical implications for cognitive-ability assessments and cognitive-developmental theories. Most differentiation research has focused on general intelligence; however, we argue that the investments children make in specific domains and school-taught subjects should rather affect their domain-specific ability structures. Leveraging a representative longitudinal sample of 17,979 U.S. children who were assessed in mathematics, reading, science, working memory, and cognitive flexibility, we found that loadings on a general intelligence factor remained similar, whereas most domain-specific factor loadings increased over time. Hence, age and ability differentiation are conceptually distinct, with the former pertaining to specific abilities and the latter to general intelligence. We find some evidence that domain-specific abilities can compensate for lower general intelligence. Overall, our results encourage a nuanced understanding of children’s cognitive development.
Future theft : fossil capitalization, ecological dispossession, and climate reparations
(2025) Folkers, Andreas
This article criticizes the way fossil capitalization dispossesses the future. Turning fossil fuel into capital entails the legal enclosure, calculative cheapening, and material extraction/pollution of the future. Fossil investors’ ‘present values’ hinge on the misery of those dispossessed by climate emergencies. Fossil capitalization is premised on ‘future theft’ understood as a temporally inverted form of ‘original accumulation’. The durability of inequality created by asset wealth is compounded by the durability of carbon waste. Climate economics legitimizes and entrenches this pattern by discounting the future and failing to assign responsibilities for climate costs. Tort litigations allow climate victims to sue fossil fuel companies for compensation. However, they remain limited by the strictures of liberal property law. Climate reparations promise to overcome these limits by reclaiming the stolen future without recourse to previously settled property rights. Still, they cannot escape the vicious tempo-material trajectories engendered by fossil assets and their carbon afterlives.
Diagnostic challenge in veterinary pathology : generalized alopecia in a Holstein dairy cow
(2025) Hildebrand, Mirjam; Schäfer, Laura; Kübler, Isabelle; Henrich, Manfred; Welle, Monika; Linder, Keith E.; Venjakob, Peter L.
Disease outcomes following lateral switch among different CD20-antibodies in active multiple sclerosis
(2025) Axhausen, Franziska; Mrochen, Anne; Winter, Pia; Baumgart, Romy; Mühlenbrock, Pauline; Mück, Anne; Wolff, Stephanie; Meuth, Sven G.; Möllenhoff, Kathrin; Pfeuffer, Steffen
Background: Ocrelizumab (OCR) and ofatumumab (OFA) are approved and their differences in dosing route and interval allow personalized treatment. However, there are no data on whether lateral switches between both substances affect treatment effectiveness or safety. Methods: We screened our local cohort of MS patients, who began OCR since 09/2020 or OFA since 09/2021. Patients with a lateral switch were matched to controls who continuously received initial B-cell depleting therapy (BCT). We compared disease courses including effectiveness outcomes as well as peripheral CD19+ B-cell counts and serum IgG levels. Results: From 09/2020 to 03/2024, 713 patients were subjected to BCT (OCR: 396; OFA: 317 [as in Fig.1]). The matched OCR cohort included 38 switchers and 149 controls. The OFA cohort consisted of 24 switchers and 83 controls. Effectiveness outcomes were comparable among switchers and controls. B cell depletion appeared slightly pronounced following a switch. Serum IgG levels declined faster among switchers compared to controls (OCR: 9.7 vs 9.0 g/L; p = 0.007; manifest hypogammaglobulinemia (HGG) in 13.2% vs 6.0%; OFA: 9.7 vs 8.4 g/L; p = 0.016; manifest HGG in 8.3% vs 2.4%). Conclusions: Lateral switching between BCT does not abate effectiveness in this matched real-world cohort. Our observation of increased loss of IgG warrants further validation, but may indicate niche-specific immunological effects of OFA and OCR.