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  • Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries

    Surface urban heat island effects intensify more rapidly in lower income countries

  • Angel, S., Parent, J., Civco, D. L., Blei, A. & Potere, D. The dimensions of global urban expansion: estimates and projections for all countries, 2000-2050. Prog. Plan. 75, 53–107 (2011).

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  • The impacts of expertise, conflict, and scientific literacy on trust and belief in scientific disagreements

    The impacts of expertise, conflict, and scientific literacy on trust and belief in scientific disagreements

    Scientific claims can hold significant implications for public safety and well-being. Approximately 97% of climate scientists agree on human-caused climate change1, and consensus among epidemiologists supported the efficacy of social distancing,…

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  • Cross the borders: the dual cultural devaluation of the Belt and Road co-production films

    Cross the borders: the dual cultural devaluation of the Belt and Road co-production films

    Basic features

    During the first decade of the BRI, China collaborated on 92 cinematic co-productions with countries along the route, generating approximately $830 million in domestic box office revenue and $1.1 billion globally. Figure 1…

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  • The development and evaluation of an automatic clitic generator for Pashto language

    The development and evaluation of an automatic clitic generator for Pashto language

    This section describes clitics and their role from different aspects of linguistics and presents a brief survey of clitics in different languages across the world. The motivation and objectives of this work are also presented.

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    The word…

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  • Developing a standardized framework for evaluating health apps using natural language processing

    Developing a standardized framework for evaluating health apps using natural language processing

    By applying NLP to app evaluation domains to develop standardized terms and definitions, we identified five main overarching clusters (Effectiveness & Development, Technology & Functionality, Validity & Legal, Safety & Privacy, Implementation &…

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  • Associations between happiness with social factors and opioid agonist therapy among people who inject drugs

    Associations between happiness with social factors and opioid agonist therapy among people who inject drugs

  • Veenhoven, R. Metrics of Subjective Well-Being: Limits and Improvements. (Springer International Publishing AG, ed.). (Springer, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61810-4_4

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  • Psychometric validation and item invariance of the French version of the Brief Resilience Scale in a sample of French university students following the first COVID-19 lockdown

    Psychometric validation and item invariance of the French version of the Brief Resilience Scale in a sample of French university students following the first COVID-19 lockdown

    Study design and population

    A cross-sectional observational study, “Feelings and psychological impact of the COVID-19 epidemic among Students in the Grand Est area (PIMS-CoV19)”, was conducted via an online questionnaire at the end of the first…

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  • Virtual reality enhanced mindfulness and yoga intervention for postpartum depression and anxiety in the post COVID era

    Virtual reality enhanced mindfulness and yoga intervention for postpartum depression and anxiety in the post COVID era

    Participants, randomization, and blinding procedures

    A priori power analysis using G*Power 3.1 determined a required total sample size of 81 participants (27 per group) to detect a medium effect size (f = 0.25, α = 0.05, power = 0.80)…

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  • Determinants of green energy investment—financial drivers and equitable transition

    Several transmission channels influence private participation, financial development, economic risk reduction, and income levels, allowing us to understand the impact of green bond issuance on renewable energy investment.

    Firstly, green bonds…

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