The International Energy Agency (IEA)1 denotes energy efficiency as the “first fuel” to achieve net zero emissions, and the European Commission has formulated the “energy efficiency first principle”2 as a foundational part in the striving…
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Energy requirements for securing wellbeing in Switzerland and the space for affluence and inequality
Wellbeing and decent living standards
Debates around human wellbeing normally cluster around hedonic and eudemonic conceptions34. Broadly, questions of individual emotion, happiness, pleasure, and comfort are central to the former, while questions…
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How to protect research data
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Amid fears of research data disappearing for political and technical reasons, scientists, librarians and archivists are calling out weaknesses in how the scholarly record is being preserved.
Teams that run data…
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The impact of CEO tenure on employees’ salary: evidence from China
Sample selection and data sources
To avoid the impact of the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and labor market, this paper takes initial samples of Chinese A-share listed firms between 2012 and 2019, and employs the following…
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Promoting transparency in AI for biomedical and behavioral research
Promoting transparency in AI for biomedical and behavioral research
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Rethinking the production and publication of machine-readable expressions of research findings
As its primary goal, the present work proposes an approach that supports the production of machine-readable expressions of research findings in the data analysis phase of the research lifecycle. Additionally, the work presents how these…
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The impact of RCEP on labour markets in non-member economies: evidence from Taiwan, China
The impact of RCEP on Taiwan’s economic growth
Impact of RCEP on GDP
GDP is a key indicator for assessing the impact of RTAs. As shown in the simulation results in Table 3, Taiwan’s GDP is negatively impacted in Scenario 1, declining by 16.15%…
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Trump blew up the global fight against AIDS. Can it recover?
In 2024, the United States helped to provide HIV treatment to more than 20 million people around the world. It tested 84 million people for the virus and provided preventive care for several million more. All of that changed in late January,…
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How we call out the infuriating mistakes we spot in school science textbooks
Science textbooks must strike a balance between scientific detail and pedagogical complexity.Credit: SDI Productions/Getty
As married Earth scientists and parents to three inquisitive children, ten-year-old twin boys and a seven-year-old girl, we…
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The end of AIDS is in sight: don’t abandon PEPFAR now
A US-funded group offering AIDS support in Kampala now faces uncertainty.Credit: Hajarah Nalwadda/Getty
On the first day of his second term, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order to…
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