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  • Local fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change

    Local fossil fuel ad ban as a catalyst for global change

  • Bouman, T. et al. A Ban on Fossil Advertising: Essential but More Is Needed (Government of the Netherlands, 2023); https://go.nature.com/4aZ7rAO

  • Guterres, A. Secretary-General’s Special Address on Climate Action ‘A Moment of Truth’ (United…

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  • Analysing motivations of Ponzi victims in West Bengal, India

    Analysing motivations of Ponzi victims in West Bengal, India

    As the data suggest, almost all the investors lost the entirety of their deposits, and only one person managed to recover a portion of their investment as they had refused to reinvest due to immediate financial need. Most of the respondents were…

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  • Task-evoked pupil responses during free-viewing of hierarchical figures in relation to autistic traits in adults

    Task-evoked pupil responses during free-viewing of hierarchical figures in relation to autistic traits in adults

    Justification for sample size

    A power analysis based on prior findings33 determined that 26 participants per group (N = 52) are needed to achieve 85% power for detecting medium-to-large effects (d =  − 0.85) with α = 0.05 in…

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  • Multisensory training enhances anticipation skills in badminton novices

    Multisensory training enhances anticipation skills in badminton novices

    Effect of cognitive training on computer anticipation task

    Anticipation accuracy

    A repeated measures ANOVA was conducted with the intervention training group as the between-subject variable, and testing time and information type as within-subject…

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  • Weather emergencies affect older adults’ views on climate and health

    Weather emergencies affect older adults’ views on climate and health

    Nearly 3 out of every 4 older Americans have experienced at least one extreme weather event in the last two years, a new University of Michigan poll finds. And living through such an event appears to make a big difference in how they view the…

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  • How family background can help lead to athletic success

    How family background can help lead to athletic success

    Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities.

    But new research suggests that this belief is largely a myth, and that success in high…

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  • Social status, hukou conversion and upwards class mobility: evidence from Chinese rural‒urban migrants

    Social status, hukou conversion and upwards class mobility: evidence from Chinese rural‒urban migrants

    Why are the SSS and SFES of policy-based migrants still lower? An OB decomposition

    The household annual income and human capital variables explain most of the disparities in individuals’ SSSs and SFESs between policy-based migrants and urban…

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  • Academic diplomacy and policy borrowing: media content analysis of Chinese soft power in Morocco

    Academic diplomacy and policy borrowing: media content analysis of Chinese soft power in Morocco

    The findings showed an increasing interest in the Chinese higher education system and the country’s brand regarding international university ranking, international student mobility, and the power of Chinese language in the workplace. We…

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  • Analysing students’ aspiration factors that impact actual use of mobile learning systems: a two-stage SEM-ANN approach

    Analysing students’ aspiration factors that impact actual use of mobile learning systems: a two-stage SEM-ANN approach

    EXP and PU

    In the UTAUT2 model, perceived expectancy and effort expectancy are employed to explain users’ anticipation of better usability and ease of use, respectively; thus, the EXP factor is defined as students’ anticipation of the mobile…

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