Feng Xue

TL;DR: Results confirmed the hypothesis that preexisting individual differences in neural activities can predict the efficiency in learning words in a new language.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the trends in dryland areas, aridity index (AI), precipitation (P), and potential evapotranspiration (PET), and quantified the temporal contributions of P and PET to AI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the variation in tree cover in the Loess Plateau after an ecological restoration effort called the ‘Grain for Green Project’ (GGP), and found that the proportion of tree covered area in the loess plateau changed from 73% to 88%, with the cumulative tree cover fluctuating from approximately 7% to 11%, and the average annual tree cover increased from 10% in 2000 to 12% in 2014.

TL;DR: It was found that during potentially risky sexual choices, previously risky MSM had more right insula activity than previously safe MSM, and real-life sexual risk was related to trait positive and negative urgency.

TL;DR: This work identified neural differences in casual MA users' reward processing and outcome learning systems which may underlie their increased real-world risk-taking.