Physical samples and their associated data and metadata are primary building blocks across a wide range of scientific research. They represent features of interest or living things1,2, underpin discoveries across disciplines, and are critical to…
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Capital structure and financial distress in China’s real estate sector: a perspective from sales tournament
Sales tournament and debt ratio in real estate developers
Baseline estimates
Hypothesis H1 predicts that sales rankings are positively associated with the debt ratio of property developers in China. To test this prediction, following prior studies…
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Microscopic heist: How lung bacteria forge weapons to steal iron and survive
Bacteria of the genus Pandoraea have not been studied much to date. Their name is reminiscent of Pandora’s box from Greek mythology, which is a symbol of uncontrollable dangers. “We have been working with an antibiotic-resistant bacterium,” says…
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The AI that writes climate-friendly cement recipes in seconds
The cement industry produces around eight percent of global CO2 emissions – more than the entire aviation sector worldwide. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI-based model that helps to accelerate the discovery of…
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Can CFOs’ overseas experience contribute to corporate digital transformation: evidence from China
Descriptive statistics
Table 4 presents the descriptive statistics of the sample variables. Following the logarithmic transformation, the disparity in digital transformation levels among companies has been reduced, resulting in a more concentrated…
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The Open Aurignacian Project: 3D scanning and the digital preservation of the Italian Paleolithic record
Falcucci, A. & Moroni, A. The Open Aurignacian Project. Volume 2: Grotta di Castelcivita in southern Italy (v.1.0.1). Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10631389 (2025).
Falcucci, A. & Moroni, A. The Open Aurignacian Project. Volume 3: Grotta…
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Multifractal relationship between decomposed oil price shocks and trading volume
Abdullahi SA, Kouhy R, Muhammad Z (2014) Trading volume and return relationship in the crude oil futures markets. Stud Econ Financ 31(4):426–438. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-08-2012-0092
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The Juneteenth issue | Nature Astronomy
Against a background of threats to science and personal identity, this month we highlight a score of Black astronomers trying to pursue their ambitions without fear, and Black In Astro, an organization supporting predominantly early-career Black…
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A roadmap for AI in robotics
Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. & Hinton, G. E. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks. Commun. ACM 60, 84–90 (2017).
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Empowering voices and building bridges across the space community with Black In Astro
Empowering voices and building bridges across the space community with Black In Astro
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