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  • Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

    Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

    Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes in Venus’ cloud-top temperature, revealing unseen patterns in the temperature structure of various waves. A team led by…

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  • A midlife MRI that spots rapid aging and signals disease long before symptoms

    A midlife MRI that spots rapid aging and signals disease long before symptoms

    Any high school reunion is a sharp reminder that some people age more gracefully than others. Some enter their older years still physically spry and mentally sharp. Others start feeling frail or forgetful much earlier in life than expected.

    “The…

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  • How female friendships help chimp babies survive

    How female friendships help chimp babies survive

    In chimpanzee communities, strong social ties can be a matter of life and death not just for the adults who form them, but for their kids, too.

    A new federally-funded study of wild eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) from Gombe…

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  • A multivariate time series prediction model based on the KAN network

    A multivariate time series prediction model based on the KAN network

    To validate the effectiveness of the model proposed in this paper in the task of multivariate time series forecasting, extensive experiments are conducted on five publicly available datasets. The performance of this paper’s model in terms of…

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  • Research on the realization path of China multi-agent value co-creation in new energy microgrids-based on fsQCA method

    Research on the realization path of China multi-agent value co-creation in new energy microgrids-based on fsQCA method

    Fuzzy set calibration

    In fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), the term “fuzzy” pertains to the notion of fuzzy sets. Unlike conventional binary sets, fuzzy sets permit partial membership, allowing elements to belong to a set to…

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  • Do digitalization policies promote enterprise innovation? The logic of cost heterogeneity of enterprises

    Do digitalization policies promote enterprise innovation? The logic of cost heterogeneity of enterprises

    Stylized Facts

    From a theoretical perspective, in developing countries such as China, the technical barriers and uncertainty risks inherent in enterprise digital transformation give rise to multiple forms of market failure within the digital…

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  • Analysis of mobile fintech adoption based on perceived value and risk theory: findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA

    Analysis of mobile fintech adoption based on perceived value and risk theory: findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA

    Key findings

    By employing both PLS-SEM and fsQCA, we aim to present how both net and combined effects analysis of ten constructs about values and risks can provide a deeper understanding of mobile fintech adoption. The results analysed through…

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  • Climate adaptation through rice northward expansion aggravated groundwater overexploitation in Northeast China

    Climate adaptation through rice northward expansion aggravated groundwater overexploitation in Northeast China

  • Gu, W. et al. Climate adaptation through crop migration requires a nexus perspective for environmental sustainability in the North China Plain. Nat. Food 5, 569–580 (2024).

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  • Soil conditioning for enhancing plant growth using biochar and hydrochar under microgravity

    Soil conditioning for enhancing plant growth using biochar and hydrochar under microgravity

    Plant morphological properties

    Figure 1 illustrates the increase in leaf area per pot during the plant growth period under different gravity and soil conditions. At the midpoint of the growth period, which was 8 days, the gravity-induced changes…

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