Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment by Albini, D, Ransome, E, Dumbrell, AJ, Pawar, S, O’Gorman, EJ, Smith, TP, Bell, T, Jackson, MC, Woodward, G

“…While substantial empirical evidence has accumulated in recent years on such changes, we still lack general insights due to a limited coverage of warming scenarios that span spatial and temporal scales of relevance to natural systems. …”

Perceived climate risk and stock prices: an empirical analysis of pricing effects by Ameur, HB, Dao, D, Ftiti, Z, Louhichi, W

“…The perceived climate risk is measured based on the climate change sentiment of the Twitter dataset with 16 million unique tweets in the years 2010-2019. One of the main advantages of our proxy is that it allows us to capture both physical and transition climate risks. …”

Annual budgets and rolling budgets use in UK and Australian firms by Bhimani, A, Sivabalan, P, Soonawalla, K, Wakefield, J

“…The metareporting and analysis of operational budget trends outside North America have been sparse and academically under-reported in the past 20 years. Innovations such as the rolling budget have challenged and/or supplemented traditional annual budgets, while organisations increasingly demand more flexible budgeting approaches. …”

Hunting and the social lives of Southern Africa’s first farmers by Jones, M, Kapumha, R, Chirikure, S, Marshall, F

“…To address this discrepancy and investigate human–wild animal interactions over the last ~ 2000 years, we examined zooarchaeological data from 54 southern African Iron Age (first and second millennium AD) farming sites. …”

Deep learning for detecting and early predicting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from spirogram time series by Mei, S, Li, X, Zhou, Y, Xu, J, Zhang, Y, Wan, Y, Cao, S, Zhao, Q, Geng, S, Xie, J, Chen, S, Hong, S

“…DeepSpiro consists of four key components: SpiroSmoother for stabilizing the Volume-Flow curve, SpiroEncoder for capturing volume variability-pattern through key patches of varying lengths, SpiroExplainer for integrating heterogeneous data and explaining predictions through volume attention, and SpiroPredictor for predicting the disease risk of undiagnosed high-risk patients based on key patch concavity, with prediction horizons of 1–5 years, or even longer. Evaluated on the UK Biobank dataset, DeepSpiro achieved an AUC of 0.8328 for COPD detection and demonstrated strong predictive performance for future COPD risk (p-value < 0.001). …”

The geopolitical crisis may trigger changes in energy strategies by Weafer, C

“…It is not that the crisis has thrown up any new issues or risks; most of the topics now grabbing energy market headlines have been known or subject to negotiation for years. But the events of the last few months do at least seem to have injected a greater sense of urgency to ‘get on with it’. …”

The devil is in the details: an evaluation of recent feature encoding methods by Chatfield, K, Lempitsky, V, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…A large number of novel encodings for bag of visual words models have been proposed in the past two years to improve on the standard histogram of quantized local features. …”

3D object recognition using invariance by Zisserman, A, Forsyth, D, Mundy, J, Rothwell, C, Liu, J, Pillow, N

“…<p>The systems and concepts described in this paper document the evolution of the geometric invariance approach to object recognition over the last five years. Invariance overcomes one of the fundamental difficulties in recognising objects from images: that the appearance of an object depends on viewpoint. …”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

Stem cell-derived embryo models: moral advance or moral obfuscation? by Gyngell, C, Lynch, F, Sawai, T, Savulescu, J

“…There have been several rapid advances in creating SCEMs in recent years. These advances potentially provide a new avenue to study early human development. …”

Constructing envelopes: how institutional custodians can tame disruptive algorithms by Marti, E, Lawrence, TB, Steele, C

“…We empirically examine custodians’ responses to the high-frequency trading algorithms that disrupted the field of U.S. securities trading, focusing on the years 2009–2016. Our inductive analysis shows that custodians created an envelope with interconnected normative, governance, and practice “layers” that jointly constrained high-frequency trading. …”

Toxicological evaluation of Sargassum polycystum in mice with loperamide-induced constipation by Chittipong Tipbunjong, Tanaporn Hengpratom, Saranya Peerakietkhajorn, Jaruwan Mayakun, Nawiya Huipao, Pissared Khuituan, Piyaporn Surinlert, Chumpol Pholpramool

“…Constipation gradually increases in people after the age of 50 years leading to difficulty in stool passage. Until now, there have been no effective drugs without side effects. …”
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Implementation of metacognitive reading strategies to improve English reading ability: a systematic review by Kan, Tang, Noordin, Nooreen, Ismail, Lilliati

“…Proficiency in English reading is crucial for overall language competency, as learning relies heavily on written materials. In recent years, experts and scholars have started to regard learning and employing metacognitive reading strategies as an important method for improving English reading comprehension. …”
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Understanding the role of tourist-oriented villages in promoting rural tourism in China: integrating rural landscapes and tourist services by Yi, Yayun, Siow, May Ling, Ibrahim, Roziya, Abdul Aziz, Faziawati

“…Rural tourism strategies in underdeveloped countries have gained significant popularity in recent years. However, the repetitive and irrational construction of tourist destinations contributes to the homogeneity of the tourism environment. …”

Preserving Mojiang Hani hand weaving techniques: understanding complexity for culture and sustainable development by Mingquan, Liu, Yahaya, Siti Rohaya, Chunli, Guo, Yan, Huang

“…Mojiang, located in the southern region of Yunnan Province, China, serves as the historical abode of the industrious and intellectually rich Hani community, boasting a heritage spanning thousands of years. The traditional costumes of the Mojiang Hani people stand as integral bearers of their national culture, adorned with intricately handwoven elements. …”
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Efficient approach of high average utility pattern mining with indexed list-based structure in dynamic environments by Kim, Hyeonmo, Kim, Hanju, Cho, Myungha, Vo, Bay, Jerry, Chun-Wei Lin, Fujita, Hamido, Yun, Unil

“…Methods based on this concept have emerged in recent years, including ones that target incremental environments. …”

JavaScript : The Definitive Guide / by Flanagan, David, author 374729, O'Reilly Media (Online service) 655241

“…JavaScript is the programming language of the web and is used by more software developers today than any other programming language. For nearly 25 years this best seller has been the go-to guide for JavaScript programmers. …”
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Love and Other Words / by Lauren, Christina, author 593883, Little, Brown Book Group (Online service) 655987

“…Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.…”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers / by Sapolsky, Robert M., author 656050, Holt (Online service) 655998

“…Sapolsky relates the history of endocrinology, how the field reacted at times of discovery, and how it has changed through the years. While most of the book focuses on the biological machinery of the body, the last chapter of the book focuses on self-help. …”
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A review on synergistic coexisting pollutants for efficient photocatalytic reaction in wastewater remediation by F. F.A., Aziz, Aishah, Abdul Jalil, Nurul Sahida, Hassan, Anees Ameera, Fauzi, M. S., Azami, N. W.C., Jusoh, Rohayu, Jusoh

“…Simultaneous removal of dual pollutants via photocatalytic redox reaction has been tremendously explored in the last five years due to effective decontamination of pollutants compared to a single pollutants system. …”
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