Category: Social Sciences

  • Evans AC. Brain Development Cooperative Group. The NIH MRI study of normal brain development. Neuroimage. 2006;30:184–202.

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  • Associations between structural stigma and earlier pubertal timing persist for 1 year among Black girls and Latinx youth

    Associations between structural stigma and earlier pubertal timing persist for 1 year among Black girls and Latinx youth

  • Dorn, L. D., Hostinar, C. E., Susman, E. J. & Pervanidou, P. Conceptualizing puberty as a window of opportunity for impacting health and well-being across the life span. J. Res. Adolesc. 29(1), 155–176. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12431…

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  • Coastal squeeze is bad for biodiversity, and for us, experts say

    Coastal squeeze is bad for biodiversity, and for us, experts say

    Worldwide, coastal areas are squeezed between a rising sea level on one end and human structures on the other. The distance between a sandy coastline and the first human structures averages less than 400 meters around the world. And the narrower…

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  • Household action can play major role in climate change fight

    Household action can play major role in climate change fight

    Encouraging people in North America and Sub-Saharan Africa to adopt a low-carbon lifestyle could help to cut global household emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide by up to two-fifths, a new study reveals.

    Researchers have identified 21…

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  • Agrivoltaics enjoys comparatively high acceptance

    Agrivoltaics enjoys comparatively high acceptance

    Photovoltaic systems are increasingly being installed not only on roofs but also on open land. This does not always meet with citizens’ approval. What is known as agrivoltaics (Agri-PV), however, is viewed more favorably, as researchers at the…

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  • Thousands of animal species threatened by climate change

    Thousands of animal species threatened by climate change

    A novel analysis suggests more than 3,500 animal species are threatened by climate change and also sheds light on huge gaps in fully understanding the risk to the animal kingdom.

    The study was published today in BioScience.

    “We’re at the start of…

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  • Investment risk for energy infrastructure construction is highest for nuclear power plants, lowest for solar

    Investment risk for energy infrastructure construction is highest for nuclear power plants, lowest for solar

    Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. Yet every single one of these projects runs the risk of higher-than-expected…

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  • Beyond the scenic view: a multimodal discourse analysis of sustainable tourism imaginaries on TikTok in Anhui, China

    Beyond the scenic view: a multimodal discourse analysis of sustainable tourism imaginaries on TikTok in Anhui, China

    Overall distribution of Anhui’s tourism imaginaries

    Through an analysis of 203 short videos, six tourism imaginaries of Anhui were summarized. These imaginaries were categorized based on their unique attributes, and their prevalence was…

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  • Rethinking literary creativity in the digital age: a comparative study of human versus AI playwriting

    Rethinking literary creativity in the digital age: a comparative study of human versus AI playwriting

    This section introduces the two plays that represent the samples of the contrastive analysis. Then, both are brought to scrutiny in two-dimensional analysis, literary analysis, and computational analysis. The latter depends on NLP tools to…

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  • Temporal and spatial equilibrium of flow on networks

    Temporal and spatial equilibrium of flow on networks

    Denote the period \(\left[0,{T}_{0}\right]\) as the departure period. Vehicles always depart origins during departure period. Denote the period \(\left[0,T\right]\) as assignment period. The assignment period ends when the last vehicle on the…

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