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  • Safe spaces for feminist activists online: Chinese networked feminists’ self-censorship strategies in response to online misogyny and government censorship

    In May 2021, a significant number of feminist groups on Douban, which functioned as safe spaces like those described by Rosemary Clark-Parsons (2018) on Facebook—invite-only, closed communities with strict membership controls—were deleted…

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  • An innovative modelling technique for bimodal soil water characteristic curve under wetting process

    An innovative modelling technique for bimodal soil water characteristic curve under wetting process

  • Zhan, L., Chen, P. & Ng, C. W. W. Effect of Suction change on water content and total volume of an expansive clay. J. Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A. 8, 699–706. https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.2007.A0699 (2007).

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  • Diverse evolutionary pathways of spheroidal asteroids driven by rotation rate

    Diverse evolutionary pathways of spheroidal asteroids driven by rotation rate

    Automatic rock identification

    Mapping of rock particles on asteroids can be extremely challenging for several reasons. To achieve meaningful statistical analysis, thousands of particles must be correctly identified. More importantly, each particle…

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  • Comparison of the proteomic landscape in experimental ischemia reperfusion with versus without ischemic preconditioning

    Comparison of the proteomic landscape in experimental ischemia reperfusion with versus without ischemic preconditioning

    Distinct early proteomic response to IPC vs. NIPC in left ventricular tissue

    A volcano plot was used to display the expression difference between IPC and NIPC at the early (T1) time point based on the log2-fold change against the p-value (Fig. 

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  • Author Correction: Assessing demographic vulnerability and weather impacts on utility disconnections in California

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  • Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries

    Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries

  • Angel, S., Parent, J., Civco, D. L., Blei, A. & Potere, D. The dimensions of global urban expansion: estimates and projections for all countries, 2000-2050. Prog. Plan. 75, 53–107 (2011).

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  • The broadcasting trap: TikTok and the “democratization” of digital content production

    The broadcasting trap: TikTok and the “democratization” of digital content production

    Popularity and participation

    The tendency to post videos and comments is an initial proxy for understanding how much the TikTok environment may or may not incentivize users to create content. In Fig. 1, the left panel shows the normalized…

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  • ‘I’m Passive yet devoted’: reconstructing fan identity and hierarchy in the transcultural landscape

    ‘I’m Passive yet devoted’: reconstructing fan identity and hierarchy in the transcultural landscape

    A pyramid fandom hierarchy underpinned by gender

    I notice the gender imbalance in the interviews and argue that BBC’s Sherlock cultivated new types of fans and fan hierarchy in China with updated characteristics whilst gender plays a key role in…

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  • A hybrid evolution strategies algorithm for non-permutation flow shop scheduling problems

    A hybrid evolution strategies algorithm for non-permutation flow shop scheduling problems

    NEH Heuristic

    In FSSP for the minimization of makespan, the NEH heuristic10 is regarded as the best constructive heuristic of all times. Ruiz and Maroto52 compared various heuristics available for PFSSP and has shown that the NEH heuristic…

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