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  • Quantifying both socioeconomic and climate uncertainty in coupled human–Earth systems analysis

    Quantifying both socioeconomic and climate uncertainty in coupled human–Earth systems analysis

    Uncertainty quantification via Monte Carlo analysis

    Our Monte Carlo-based approach to uncertainty quantification involves developing probability distributions for key input parameters in both the human and Earth system components of the coupled…

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  • Revolutionizing finance with conversational AI: a focus on ChatGPT implementation and challenges

    Revolutionizing finance with conversational AI: a focus on ChatGPT implementation and challenges

    In this section, we explore the applications of ChatGPT across six key areas within the financial services sector: financial customer service, financial planning, risk management, portfolio analysis, insurance services, and fraud prevention (Fig….

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  • Advanced manufacturing technologies, strategic agility, business network and sustained competitive performance: an empirical evidence from an emerging economy

    Advanced manufacturing technologies, strategic agility, business network and sustained competitive performance: an empirical evidence from an emerging economy

    The relevance and foundation of advanced manufacturing technologies, strategic agility, business networks, and sustained competitive advantage can be linked to different theories. However, this research draws from two of the most prominent…

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  • Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all?

    Could libraries band together to ensure open access for all?

    Under a new publishing model, a critical mass of library subscriptions could keep science freely accessible.Credit: Getty

    More than 70 journals are trialling a publishing model called subscribe to open (S2O), in which libraries pay an annual…

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  • Klingon and Other Conlangs are Processed by Same Brain Mechanisms as Natural Languages: Study

    Klingon and Other Conlangs are Processed by Same Brain Mechanisms as Natural Languages: Study

    What constitutes a language has been of interest to diverse disciplines — from philosophy and linguistics to psychology, anthropology, and sociology. An empirical approach is to test whether the system in question recruits the brain system…

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  • How to stop being surprised by extreme weather

    How to stop being surprised by extreme weather

    Helping communities predict extreme weather events that have never been recorded in modern history is the focus of a new study published in Nature Communications.

    A team from the Climate Adaptation Services Foundation, the University of Reading…

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  • A rubber hand alleviates pain

    A rubber hand alleviates pain

    If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help patients who suffer from chronic pain:…

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  • New fossil discovery reveals how volcanic deposits can preserve the microscopic details of animal tissues

    New fossil discovery reveals how volcanic deposits can preserve the microscopic details of animal tissues

    An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers — the first ever record of such a preservation.

    An international team, led by Dr…

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  • Evolutionary modeling reveals that value-oriented knowledge creation behaviors reinvent jobs

    Evolutionary modeling reveals that value-oriented knowledge creation behaviors reinvent jobs

    Main results

    We utilize two primary indicators to unveil patterns in job evolution. The first indicator focuses on the action proportion of the four job evolution mechanisms, calculated as the count of agents engaging in a particular mechanism at…

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