Diet impacts the brain a lot more than we think.
A new study from UNC School of Medicine researchers, published in Neuron, reveals a unique look at how junk food rewires the brain’s memory hub – leading to risk of cognitive dysfunction. This new…
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Interactive role-play with climate policy simulation can motivate evidence-based climate action
Sample and data collection
We used a pre-/post-survey design and collected survey data from 1246 participants across 33 Climate Action Simulation sessions (Tables SI1 and SI2). Participants included undergraduate and graduate students, as well as…
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The social costs of aviation CO2 and contrail cirrus
The calculations of social costs of contrail cirrus and CO2 are based on combining output from a modified version of DICE28, which we call M-DICE20,31, together with output from the CoCiP model6,29. Below, we explain and motivate how DICE has…
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A harmonized dataset of ground-mounted solar energy in the US with enhanced metadata
Bradbury, K. et al. Distributed solar photovoltaic array location and extent dataset for remote sensing object identification. Sci. Data, https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.106 (2016).
Carr, N. B., Fancher, T., Freeman, A. T. & Manley, H. M. B….
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The impact of home-grown economic reform intervention on crop productivity in Ethiopia
Crop production (CYKGHA1) in countries such as Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and Burundi grew gradually between 1974 and 2023 (Fig. 2). This trend might be explained by a reliance on traditional farming techniques, insufficient use of new…
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Dataset on Brazilian Municipal Health Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brazil was one of the countries most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the world in terms of the number of cases, deaths, and the duration of lockdowns1,2. Between 2020 and 2022, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological…
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Characterizing the Jellinek curve using a discounting model with time deformations
Addictions can be considered forms of impulsive behavior. In effect, the existing literature has shown a clear relationship between varieties of impulsive and addiction-related behaviors, such as drug and alcohol consumption (Jentsch et al.,
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Starry sky appearance of type 1 granular corneal dystrophy
Starry sky appearance of type 1 granular corneal dystrophy
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Green growth and sustainable energy transitions: evaluating the critical role of technology, resource efficiency, and innovation in Europe’s low-carbon future
Acheampong AO, Boateng EB (2019) Modelling carbon emission intensity: application of artificial neural network. J Clean Prod 225:833–856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.03.352
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Simplexifying sustainability | Nature Sustainability
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