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  • Assessing urban spatial vitality in post-port areas: a multimodal data analysis of Shanghai, Liverpool, and Marseille

    Assessing urban spatial vitality in post-port areas: a multimodal data analysis of Shanghai, Liverpool, and Marseille

    The redevelopment of historical port areas

    With the development of industrialization and containerization and the increase in total maritime cargo volume, port-city relationships have undergone significant changes. Researchers have increasingly…

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  • Perceived flood risk severity and response efficacy affect migration intentions in flood-prone regions of Klang Valley in Malaysia

    Perceived flood risk severity and response efficacy affect migration intentions in flood-prone regions of Klang Valley in Malaysia

    The literature on flood-induced migration and environmental behavior has grown over the past few years, encompassing an array of psychological, socioeconomic, and environmental determinants. To understand this phenomenon, we conducted a…

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  • Liberals are less willing to buy Teslas than other electric vehicles, moderated by perceptions of Elon Musk

    Liberals are less willing to buy Teslas than other electric vehicles, moderated by perceptions of Elon Musk

    Age, income, and gender are included in all models as controls. See Table 1 below for these effects by study.

    Table 1 Effect of age, gender, and income on intention to purchase EVs by study, in the context of the full model.

    Electric vehicle…

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  • Eye movements provide insight into amnesia

    Our behaviour is continuously influenced by past experiences retained in our memories. These memories incorporate sensory details about our world and guide how we process new sensory input in the future. Because memory pervasively affects our…

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  • Predicting geriatric environmental safety perception assessment using LightGBM and SHAP framework

    Predicting geriatric environmental safety perception assessment using LightGBM and SHAP framework

    Study area overview

    Xiamen, a coastal city in southeast China. The city’s center, Xiamen Island (Fig. 1), is highly urbanized and densely populated, with Siming District as its core and Huli District having expansion potential. The municipal…

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  • Humanising higher education through interdisciplinary student-devised assessments

    To further consider the value of utilising the interdisciplinary teaching and learning space and the SDA programme to embed humanising interventions in HE, we can draw on Todres et al.’s (2009) value framework for humanisation, as well as…

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  • Seeing conspiracy theorists everywhere as a conspiracy paradox

    Seeing conspiracy theorists everywhere as a conspiracy paradox

    Scholarly literature commonly distinguishes between two principal uses of the term conspiracy. The first refers to real (proven) conspiracies, involving covert actions and intentional deception by powerful actors that have been historically or…

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  • Peace in Colombia requires healing the scars of conflict on the mind and brain

    Peace in Colombia requires healing the scars of conflict on the mind and brain

    A.I. is supported by grants from the multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat, supported by Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Aging (R01s AG075775,…

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  • COVID vaccines saved 2. 5M lives globally—a death averted per 5,400 shots

    COVID vaccines saved 2. 5M lives globally—a death averted per 5,400 shots

    Thanks to vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 in the period 2020-2024 2.533 million deaths were prevented at global level, one death was avoided for every 5,400 doses of vaccine administered. The 82% of the lives saved by vaccines involved people…

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