Why are there so few women in leadership positions in Polish ballet? What can be done to change this? A researcher from SWPS University analysed this issue and described her conclusions in a paper published in Research in Dance Education.

A new book by Dr. Robert Spengler tackles one of the biggest questions in biology and the social sciences: domestication – what it is, how it occurred, and the role that humans really played in developing the first crops and livestock.

The researcher Joana Acha explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children’s abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different techniques, and the conclusion was that children who are trained with pencil and paper assimilate new letters and words better.

Microglial dysfunction has been implicated in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but limited access to human brain tissue posed challenges in related research. A new study explored how immune cells called monocyte-derived macrophages can serve as models for microglia in ASD. Researchers used these cells to investigate neuroimmune responses, such as synaptic phagocytosis in ASD. These findings could open new avenues for understanding the brain-immune system connection in ASD and identifying potential targets for therapy.

An Osaka Metropolitan University researcher examined the nonlinear multidimensional factors that correlate with population changes according to city size. The results indicate that population changes correlated with welfare expenditures in small and medium-sized cities.