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An estimated 386 million of the world’s working-age people are living with a disability. This means that many are expected to travel to offices occasionally or even every day. These statistics illustrate a critical point for…

As the Moon casts its shadow across the Earth during the upcoming solar eclipse, cameras of all kinds will turn skyward. While professional photographers with specialized equipment will aim to capture the perfect shot, others will…

Long the world’s undisputed cocoa powerhouses, accounting for more than 60 percent of global supply, Ghana and its West African neighbour Ivory Coast are both facing catastrophic harvests this season. Expectations of shortages of cocoa…

After leaving Odesa largely untouched by the barrages of drones and missiles it has launched against Ukraine this winter, Russia has struck the port city during March as never before in this war. On March 2, a Russian drone demolished a…

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 The newest…

3.3. Measures and Procedure The independent variables of the questionnaire consisted of two parts: basic demographic information and individual cultural orientation score, and the dependent variable was users’ preferences for the 18…

Brain Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 306: Evaluation of the Relation between Ictal EEG Features and XAI Explanations Brain Sciences doi: 10.3390/brainsci14040306 Authors: Sergio E. Sánchez-Hernández Sulema Torres-Ramos Israel…

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With Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Platform, field service teams can better prepare before an onsite visit, execute efficiently on the day of service, and continue to engage with customers following service to build relationships,…

A drawing by artist Keiko Nakajima, the mother-in-law of Yuko Nakajima, depicts Yuko and her husband holding "Piyo-chan." Twenty-nine years ago, Yuko…

Autonomous operation brings tremendous convenience to mining and transportation, automobile driving, factory production, and agriculture , and positioning algorithms are the foundation of and key to achieving autonomous operation.…

This week’s televised debate among Slovakia’s nine presidential candidates often sounded as though it was taking place in Moscow. “As president, I want to extricate Slovakia from the dungeon of nations that is the European Union,”…

Russian forces’ creeping momentum has continued for a fifth week after the fall of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine as the Russian command moved reservists from other parts of the front to press its advantage. The villages of Tonenke and…

Featuring guest co-author Brennan Scanlon The year was 1957.  Imagine for a moment a humble family living in the Midwestern United States: a husband, wife, and four kids under the age of twelve. Struggling to make ends meet, the…

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Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam – The white-walled room in a house on the outskirts of Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s coffee capital, is quiet. The only thing breaking the silence is the occasional beep of an electronic scale, or the sound of coffee…

“It is difficult to imagine that this used to be a warzone,” 23-year-old *Shao Hongtian told Al Jazeera as he wandered along a beach near the city of Xiamen on China’s southeast coast. Halting by the water’s edge where gentle waves…

On Friday, Russians will head to the polls to cast their ballots in a presidential election that has an all but certain outcome. Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is widely predicted to win a fifth term. Assuming he serves the full six…

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Erin Dundas, physical science technician in Yellowstone National Park.…

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In November 2020 while the COVID-19 pandemic was strangling creative endeavours across the planet, veteran Nigerian filmmaker Steve Gukas announced a new venture. Called First Features, it launched a search for 12 disciples, or…

Remote Sensing, Vol. 16, Pages 965: A Lightning Classification Method Based on Convolutional Encoding Features Remote Sensing doi: 10.3390/rs16060965 Authors: Shunxing Zhu Yang Zhang Yanfeng Fan Xiubin Sun Dong Zheng Yijun…

The intersection of political commentary and hip-hop music is a tradition dating back decades, kicking off with 1982’s “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The genre’s heyday spanned the 1990s in an era when album…

As millions of people took to the streets to denounce Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians, demanding justice and peace, support for Israel emerged from a surprising quarter: Iranian…

Mumbai, India – A grimacing police official, staring into the camera, declares her intent to publicly shoot dead “leftists” while attacking “left-liberal, pseudo-intellectuals” as well as students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a…

Before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to mount a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Andrey Muravyev, better known as the artist DazBastaDraw, mainly drew sketches and comics for himself as a hobby…

1. IntroductionAs the world’s largest carbon emitter, China faces a huge challenge in reducing its carbon footprint, especially in the construction sector, which accounts for 46.7% of the country’s total energy consumption and shows a…

Hebron, occupied West Bank – Ishaq Qafisheh steers his wheelchair around the Ibrahimi Mosque, resting his trusty crutch on his shoulder as he rolls along. That crutch has been a lifelong companion since he was struck with polio as a…

Vidovo simplifies influencer search and automates outreach messages to streamline collaboration. CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, March 7, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Vidovo, a dynamic, end-to-end platform that takes all the hassle out of…

Viana do Castelo, Portugal – It’s been nearly three months since Portugal’s hard-right party, Chega, held its annual congress in the northern city of Viana do Castelo. But its electoral propaganda remains fixed to almost every lamp-post…

West Jerusalem – “I don’t believe in this war and I don’t believe that the goals of this war can be achieved,” said 39-year-old Avital Suisa. “This war is pointless.” That blunt position is not typical for Israelis, but neither is Suisa.…

Brain Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 251: Using Electroencephalogram-Extracted Nonlinear Complexity and Wavelet-Extracted Power Rhythm Features during the Performance of Demanding Cognitive Tasks (Aristotle’s Syllogisms) in Optimally…

Harare, Zimbabwe – Sikandar Raza, Zimbabwe’s Pakistan-born cricketer, has been on a fairytale run since 2022. The 37-year-old has been nominated twice in succession for the ICC Twenty20 International Player of the Year award in addition…

Aida, Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Among the children playing on the street in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is 10-year-old Ahmad Damaseh who dreams of becoming a doctor when he grows up. He belongs to…

Islamabad, Pakistan – From the outside, one might assume that the former premises of Marghazar Zoo are now deserted. A dilapidated ticket office and overgrown foliage suggest an absence of visitors. But listen closely, and you might hear…

TIGRE, ARGENTINA (JTA) — For the first time in nearly six decades, a Jewish soccer club is competing in an national soccer tournament in Argentina. The club, Náutico Hacoaj used its victory in the first round of…

Nairobi, Kenya – In November 2023 when the Grammy Awards announced five inaugural nominees for the Best African Music Performance category, only South Africa and Nigeria were represented. The news sparked a debate about the continuing…

In January, a Chinese ultranationalist vlogger – video blogger – came across red circular stickers on the glass doors of a shopping mall in Nanjing featuring the words: “Happy 2024.” The vlogger claimed that what appeared to be innocent…

Personalized PCA, a statistical tool capable of distinguishing shared and unique features, can help disentangle complex data from multiple sources, such as smartwatch…

Bengaluru, India — After years of working at a salon in Bengaluru, Shakeela Banu made a major life change in 2018 and joined Urban Company (UC), an app-based home services platform that has more than 52,000 workers across Indian cities,…

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is more than the basemap you see on osm.org or in other geospatial services. The database behind the map is full of crowdsourced spatial data with systemized tagging that translates into attributes in GIS systems. For…

Google announced a new set of features for phones, cars, and wearables today at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. These features include using Gemini to craft messages, AI-generated captions for…

1. IntroductionIdiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a spectrum of systemic autoimmune disorders. Subtypes of IIMs include dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), anti-synthetase syndrome (AS), inclusion body myositis,…

Necocli, Colombia – Shortly after 8am, about a dozen Chinese migrants rush out the doors of Mansion del Darien, a rundown hotel a few blocks from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and pile into three tuk-tuks waiting on the street. “We’re full…

Damascus Gate, occupied East Jerusalem – Samer and Omar* woke up early on Friday morning, hoping to make it to noon prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in the Old City of Jerusalem. Located just 15 minutes away from their homes in the…

Figure 1. (A) The mouse corneal topographies of two genders and three different genotypes are shown by representative photographs. Scale bars represent 200 μm. (B) Quantification of corneal surface topography shows significantly…

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #76thAnnualMeeting--SwRI’s advisory trustees, board of directors and guests gathered in San Antonio for the 76th Annual Meeting and view six technical presentations.

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Image Credit: PBS North Carolina This week, PBS SciNC aired a segment on urban heat in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle, featuring commentary from DDL director Angel Hsu and findings from DDL’s participation in the Urban…

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Yellow and green feathers radiating from his headdress, Davi Kopenawa strode onto the parade route with a mission in mind. All around him, the city of Rio de Janeiro was pulsing with music and merry-making: It…