Achieving global energy transition goals will require vast quantities of critical raw materials (CRMs) — including copper, lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and rare earth elements — whose production is concentrated in a few countries. China…
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High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges
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Examining public support for Ukraine’s defense against autocratic aggression
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Electrified thermal energy storage | Nature Reviews Clean Technology
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Socioeconomic reforms are needed to address disparities for the aging rural-to-urban migrant workforce in China
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Area based conservation tools have mixed effects across all SDGs but research may overstate effects
Literature search of MPA effects across SDGs
We identified 4867 documented or claimed links between MPAs and SDGs made in the literature, as determined by linking literature claims and results with every SDG targets. These links were recorded from…
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A MultiRater MultiOrgan Abdominal CT Dataset for Calibration Analysis and Uncertainty Modeling in Segmentation
Riera-Marín, M., Kleiß, J.-M., Aubanell, A. & Antolín, A. CURVAS dataset, v3. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11147559 (2024).
Riera-Marín, M. et al. CURVAS Challenge: Calibration and Uncertainty for multiRater Volume Assessment in…
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Human contributions to evapotranspiration mitigate swings in dry-to-wet year transitions
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. California’s Working Landscape https://www.ucop.edu/innovation-transfer-operations/_files/Econ%20Impact%20Rpts/anr-ca-working-landscape-2019.pdf (2019).
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Modernising patient education in vitreoretinal surgery
Poor literacy is a major barrier to effective healthcare communication, with one in six people in the UK affected [1]. In Liverpool, literacy vulnerability is among the highest in the North West of England [2, 3]. At the same time, social media…
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Family background strongly linked to financial misconduct by corporate executives
A large-scale register-based study conducted at the University of Oulu, Finland, shows that the propensity of top corporate executives to engage in financial misconduct is strongly associated with the financial crime history of their parents,…
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