A general protocol to probe large vision models for 3D physical understanding by Zhan, G, Zheng, C, Xie, W, Zisserman, A

“…(ii) We apply this protocol to properties covering scene geometry, scene material, support relations, lighting, and view-dependent measures, and large vision models including CLIP, DINOv1, DINOv2, VQGAN, Stable Diffusion. (iii) We find that features from Stable Diffusion and DINOv2 are good for discriminative learning of a number of properties, including scene geometry, support relations, shadows and depth, but less performant for occlusion and material, while outperforming DINOv1, CLIP and VQGAN for all properties. …”

Up to no good? Gender, social impact work, and employee promotions by Bode, C, Rogan, M, Singh, J

“…Using panel data on 1,379 employees of a consulting firm, we find significantly lower promotion rates for male participants relative to female participants, female non-participants, and male non-participants. …”

Rapidly yawing spheroids in viscous shear flow: emergent loss of symmetry by Dalwadi, M

“…We also demonstrate that this effective asymmetry generated by the rapid yawing can cause chaotic behaviour in the emergent dynamics, in stark contrast to the emergent dynamics generated by rapidly rotating spheroids, which are equivalent to those of effective passive spheroids. In general, we find that the shape of the equivalent effective particle under rapid yawing is different to the average shape of the active particle. …”

The role of supply chains for the sustainability transformation of global food systems: a large‐scale, systematic review of food cold chains by Trotter, PA, Becker, T, Renaldi, R, Wang, X, Khosla, R, Walther, G

“…Here, we conduct a large-scale, systematic literature review of 48,014 academic articles to assess the links between the food cold chain literature and sustainable development. We find a multitude of deep links between food cooling and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but also identify underexplored areas of sustainable food cooling research regarding its (1) goals, (2) analytical depth, and (3) context specificity: There is a limited understanding how several relevant synergies between SDGs can be captured, how to best design sustainable food cold chains across multiple value chain stages, and how to scale sustainable cold chains in low-income and lower-middle-income country contexts. …”

Integrative taxonomy clarifies the evolution of a cryptic primate clade by van Elst, T, Sgarlata, GM, Schüßler, D, Tiley, GP, Poelstra, JW, Scheumann, M, Blanco, MB, Aleixo-Pais, IG, Rina Evasoa, M, Ganzhorn, JU, Goodman, SM, Hasiniaina, AF, Hending, D, Hohenlohe, PA, Ibouroi, MT, Iribar, A, Jan, F, Kappeler, PM, Le Pors, B, Manzi, S, Olivieri, G, Rakotonanahary, AN, Rakotondranary, SJ, Rakotondravony, R

“…Following a revised classification, we find that crypsis within the genus is best explained by a model of morphological stasis imposed by stabilizing selection and a neutral process of niche diversification. …”

The role of funding in the ‘performative decarbonisation’ of transport in England by Verlinghieri, E, Haines-Doran, T, Marsden, G, Schwanen, T

“…In the face of an established pattern of austerity and hollowing out of local government we explore how deep transformation is being envisaged. We find a recursive set of issues which derive from a dependence on funding from outwith. …”

Anisotropy of the zigzag order in the Kitaev honeycomb magnet α-RuBr3 by Pearce, JS, Kaib, DAS, Ma, Z, Ni, D, Cava, RJ, Valenti, R, Coldea, R, Coldea, AI

“…Based on angular-dependent torque studies in magnetic fields up to 16 T rotated in the plane normal to the honeycomb layers, we find an easy-plane anisotropy with a temperature dependence of the torque amplitude following closely the behaviour of the powder magnetic susceptibility. …”

Understanding trends in social fluidity in western europe: class structural change and the OED triangle by Goldthorpe, J, Bukodi, E

“…In contrast with earlier research, we treat education in relative terms. We find that the tendency for fluidity to increase within class structures after WW2, rather than being the expression of a ‘worldwide secular trend’, was restricted to a distinctive historical period of rapid economic growth and class structural change. …”

Dark patterns and consumer vulnerability by Zac, A, Huang, Y, von Moltke, A, Decker, C, Ezrachi, A

“…Using a novel empirical design, we find strong evidence that individuals across all groups are susceptible to dark patterns, and only weak evidence that user susceptibility is materially affected by commonly used general proxies for consumer vulnerability (such as income, educational attainment or age). …”

Police institutions and police abuse: evidence from the US by Rad, AN

“…This question is salient given the media attention and the investigations conducted by the US Department of Justice finding problems of accountability and transparency in America’s policing apparatus. …”

Optical sideband spectroscopy of a single ion in a Penning trap by Mavadia, S, Stutter, G, Goodwin, JF, Crick, DR, Thompson, RC, Segal, DM

“…From the equivalent Doppler widths of the sideband spectra corresponding to the three motions we find effective temperatures of 1.1 ± 0.2 mK, 7 ± 3 mK, and 42 ± 8 μK for the axial, modified cyclotron, and magnetron modes, respectively. …”

Strain-tuning of nematicity and superconductivity in single crystals of FeSe by Ghini, M, Bristow, M, Prentice, JCA, Sutherland, S, Sanna, S, Haghighirad, AA, Coldea, AI

“…Here, we investigate the effect of uniaxial strain on the nematic and superconducting phase of single crystal FeSe using magnetotransport measurements. We find that the resistivity response to the strain is strongly temperature dependent and it correlates with the sign change in the Hall coefficient being driven by scattering, coupling with the lattice and multiband phenomena. …”

Control co-design of a large offshore wind farm considering the effect of wind extractability by Pahus, ML, Nishino, T, Kirby, A, Vogel, CR

“…We also introduce a 'gridded' turbine layout optimisation into the CCD, which allows us to quickly find optimal angles of the primary axes of a regular turbine array to maximise the annual energy production (AEP) of a given number of turbines at a given offshore farm site. …”

Driven to self-reliance: technological interdependence and the Chinese innovation ecosystem by Tan, YT, Dallas, M, Newman, A, Farrell, H

“…We then analyze an original corpus of policy documents to examine institutional shifts. We find that US shocks – the Snowden revelations and technology restrictions – produce a shift away from technological interdependence, toward security-focused self-reliance. …”

Underestimating global land greening: future vegetation changes and their impacts on terrestrial water loss by Chai, Y, Miao, C, Slater, L, Ciais, P, Berghuijs, WR, Chen, T, Huntingford, C

“…Our approach reduces uncertainty in global LAI projections by 37.7%–53.1%. We find that this uncertainty is primarily due to incomplete representations of the CO₂ fertilization effect. …”

The do's and don'ts of quantum memory in cryptanalysis by Jaques, S

“…</p> <p>I then analyse circuits to attack elliptic curve cryptography with Shor’s algo- rithm. I find that even expensive QRAM improves these circuits. …”

Relationship of scrotal circumference and testicular volume to age and body weight in the swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) by Bongso, T.A., Hassan, M.D., Nordin, W.

“…Ages and body weight (BW) were recorded for each male at the time of measurement to find out if they correlated with SC and TV. SC and TV increased linearly and correlated significantly with age and BW (SC vs age: r = 0.74, p<0.01; SC vs BW: r = 0.88, p<0.01; TV vs BW: r = 0.82, p<0.01). …”
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Does CEO power affect audit's report lag in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies? the curtailing role of corporate governance by Khan, Faisal, Abdul-Hamid, Mohamad Ali, Saidin, Saidatunur Fauzi

“…Results show that CEO-tenure and duality increase ARL in GCC economies. Additionally, we find that the effect of CEO-tenure on ARL is curtailed when board independence is stronger, whereas the effect of CEO duality is unchanged by board independence. …”

Driven Factors to Sustainable Paddy Farming Production in Malaysia by Zahari, Fadhilah, Othman, Zakirah, Abu, Noor Hidayah, Salleh, Nurul Azita

“…System of Rice Intensification ( ability through improving paddy ecosystem, better sustainable economic due to improving paddy production and sales and social sustainability through local community development through community activity and health. This study aimed to find out whether the innovative practices of SRI affect the rice value chain and to determine the roles, activities of the actors in the value chain as well as challenges that impacted the value chain. …”
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Selection of Decomposition Technology using Fuzzy Multi Criteria Decision Making (S/O 14036) by Omar, Mohd Faizal, Mat Kasim, Maznah

“…This study was conducted to develop decision making tools for determine the best decomposition technology. In order to find the best decomposition technology for food waste management, there are multi-alternative is suggested and the relevant criteria to guide the selection of technology are listed. …”
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