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  • How humans across cultures and historical periods conceptualize relationships

    How humans across cultures and historical periods conceptualize relationships

    Credit: Yin Wang.

    Throughout the course of their lives, humans are known to establish and navigate an intricate web of social relationships, ranging…

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  • Unveiling the challenges: exploring start-up hurdles faced by small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

    Unveiling the challenges: exploring start-up hurdles faced by small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

    In line with global research, such as Farrukh et al. (2019) and Crammond (2020), the findings from the Probit model confirm that educational attainment plays a pivotal role in entrepreneurial success within Sri Lanka’s SME sector. However,…

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  • Individual metacognition in technology-assisted collaborative translation: comparing higher- and lower-achieving teams

    Individual metacognition in technology-assisted collaborative translation: comparing higher- and lower-achieving teams

    This section discusses the informants, course context, the self-directed translation project, and the categorization of project teams into higher- and lower-achieving. We also explain our data collection and analysis methods and emphasize that…

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  • Development of an EOR-produced petroleum wastewater treatment system through integrated polyacrylonitrile membrane and ZrO2/sericin technologies: revelation of interactive mechanism based on synchrotron and XDLVO analyses

    Development of an EOR-produced petroleum wastewater treatment system through integrated polyacrylonitrile membrane and ZrO2/sericin technologies: revelation of interactive mechanism based on synchrotron and XDLVO analyses

    Properties of the ZrSS nanocomposites

    Figure 1a shows the morphology of the synthesized ZrSS NCs, and most of the particles are nearly spherical-shaped, with a size distribution concentrated around 45 nm. The chemical properties of the ZrSS NCs…

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  • Socially equitable climate risk management of urban heat

    Socially equitable climate risk management of urban heat

    This section first presents all relevant data sources that feed into the analytical steps. We have structured the data sources from D1 to D5. The analytical steps from A1 to A5 follow.

    D1: Climate data

    Measurement data of historic climate indices…

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  • Assessing the impact of climate change on entrepreneurship: short-term and long-term effects

    Summary statistics

    In Dataset A of Table 1, we show the summary statistics for the short-term panel. In the full sample, the mean of Firm entry and Firm exits are 1.4148 and 0.2053, and the standard deviations are 0.7045 and 0.3224, respectively….

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  • Understanding fishers’ wellbeing through participatory processes in fisheries management

    Understanding fishers’ wellbeing through participatory processes in fisheries management

    The indicators that formulated the initial structure of the system are listed in Table 1. Similarly to the mapping exercises, participants were given the opportunity to add components to their map. Six new components emerged that are listed in…

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  • Comparing discriminatory behavior against AI and humans

    Comparing discriminatory behavior against AI and humans

    Following previous minimal group paradigm studies, our results provide additional evidence for the differential distribution of resources in minimal settings. Specifically, participants allocated more resources to another agent if the agent’s…

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