Engineer John Logie Baird used ventriloquist dummies in early experiments of his invention: the television.Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty
Long before modern technology, the principle of the common good existed. It was not born…
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Inflation, food insecurity, and mental health: Generation Z’s burden in emerging Europe
Abou-Khalil V, Helou S, Khalifé E, Chen MA, Majumdar R, Ogata H (2021) Emergency online learning in low-resource settings: Effective student engagement strategies. Education. Sciences 11:24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40561-023-00240-2
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The Shared Book Reading Corpus: An audiovisual collection of 44 multimodal caregiver-infant interactions
Fausey, C., Jayaraman, S. & Smith, L. From faces to hands: Changing visual input in the first two years. Cognition 152(2), 101–107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.005 (2016).
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CEO facial attractiveness and firms’ environmental innovation: how does looking good lead to doing good?
Agnihotri A, Bhattacharya S (2021) Can CEOs’ facial attractiveness influence philanthropic behavior? Evidence from India. Manag Organ Rev 17(1):112–142
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Trust in the sea-bed mining authority is fragile — here’s how to change that
The sea bed holds vast reserves of cobalt, nickel and other minerals, yet no international rules govern how such extraction might proceed or how its impacts should be contained. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) is mandated to set those…
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Investigating the nonlinear nexus between natural resources, digitization, economic policy uncertainty, and financial structure in Canada
Preliminary statistics
Table 2 outlines the observed outcomes of a statistical overview of the variables.
Table 2 Descriptive Statistics. The computed mean, range, and median values for FinS, EPU, NRs, and TNI are all positive. This demonstrates…
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CPVPD-2024: A Chinese photovoltaic plant dataset derived via a topography-enhanced deep learning framework
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In response to the policy target proposed by China to achieve over 550 GW of PV installed capacity by 2025, this study selects 2024 as the baseline year to capture spatial response characteristics of PV infrastructure…
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India and Pakistan share flood risks and must combine solutions
This summer, monsoon rains have brought catastrophe across the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. Overflowing rivers have submerged thousands of villages, displaced millions of people and claimed hundreds of lives (see go.nature.com/42qa637)….
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Electric Boats: Aquaculture’s Quiet Coastal Shift
This article was originally published by Canary Media.
At a dock along the banks of the Cousins River, Chad Strater loaded up his small aluminum workboat with power tools and a winch. Strater, who owns a marine construction business, was setting…
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