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Most of us think potholes are something to avoid.However, some potholes are worth protecting. The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding researchers to study prairie pothole wetlands, which are ecologically and economically…

When Rafael Jaramillo talks about his favorite accomplishments, it quickly becomes clear that he has the right temperament for a researcher — he is energized by a challenge and the prospect of hard work. “I am…

The world of work is changing all the time. Technology is driving innovation and productivity, leading to the creation of new industries and employment opportunities. This means people need new skills to meet the demands of an…

By Jonas Teusch, Economist, and Konstantinos Theodoropoulos, Statistician, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration Lire ce blog en français / en español Taxing energy use for sustainable development Why should…

PORT ST. LUCIE — Zack Short received sad news Sunday morning that his grandmother passed away. Two hours later, the Mets called him into manager Carlos Mendoza’s Clover Park office where he received the best news possible: He made an…

California’s transformative Proposition 1, narrowly passed by voters, aims to radically reduce soaring homelessness by changing the way money is spent on housing and mental health services. But critics argue the…

Tasmania has five electorates that each return seven members using the proportional Hare-Clark system, for a total of 35 seats. A quota is one-eighth of the vote, or 12.5%. In previous elections, the quota was 16.7%, with five…

Enhanced Ukrainian Defense and Offensive Capability: The Biden Administration can broaden Ukraine’s military arsenal to drastically improve its defensive operations and offensive capabilities to reclaim territories. In doing so, the U.S.…

A shortage of cocoa beans has led to a near shutdown of processing plants in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the two countries responsible for 60% of global production. With chocolate makers around the world reliant on west Africa for…

Fast break Why the Buffs lost: N’Faly Dante was why the Buffs lost, but committing 13 turnovers against just three for Oregon loomed large as well. Three stars: 1. Oregon’s N’Faly Dante: The Ducks’ center was unstoppable, finishing…

Pharmaceutical industry payments to doctors are common, often substantial and can affect clinical decision making. Seven years after the industry trade association Medicines New Zealand first mooted a disclosure system,…

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following the explosive success of the hit series "Mr. Williams! Madame Is Dying," which reached $2 million USD in top-up fees within a week and total top-up amount reached $3.5…

The Pioneers will have to wait to audition as Cinderella. The DU men’s basketball team fell to South Dakota State, 76-68, in the Summit League Tournament championship on Tuesday in Sioux Falls, S.D. It put the Pioneers one victory short…

1. IntroductionNontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage (NTICrH) is a major cause of disability and mortality worldwide. NTICrH mainly consists of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).…

by David MacLeod, Erik W. Kolstad, Katerina Michaelides and Michael Singer, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0…

In this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, photo an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans. One the face of it, a short-term outage that made certain social media platforms temporarily…

In this Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019, photo an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans. One the face of it, a short-term outage that made…

1. IntroductionSince the beginning of the millennium, short implants have been used in the restoration of edentulous jaws . However, some studies have suggested that short implants are less successful than standard implants are,…

Cheese is a highly nutritious food produced in hundreds of varieties around the world. It’s all made by fermenting milk but the results range widely in flavour, texture and end uses. The global market value of cheese was about…

A Kenyan vice-chancellor recently went public about the scarcity of university professors. There are fewer than 1,000 professors for the country’s 68 universities and 562,925 students. That is an average of around 563 students per…

In light of the approaching winter months combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in COVID infections. The Conversation Africa spoke to infectious…

1 Introduction Acute mechanical vibration is an effective way of altering afferent feedback, and corticospinal excitability (Lapole et al., 2015b; Li et al., 2019) and offers the potential to ameliorate impaired sensory information…

Share price of GameStop stock over January and February 2021. Credit: Yahoo Finance Three years ago, the stock price of the company GameStop soared over 1,625% in just a week. While it’s been speculated…

Share price of GameStop stock over January and February 2021. Credit: Yahoo Finance Three years ago, the stock price of the company GameStop…

Imagine a novel approach to in-school tutoring that hardly interrupts class instruction at all, because tutoring sessions take at most 10 minutes a day. And imagine that it works.  A study by Stanford researchers finds that “short…

3.1. Design of the PfAgo-MPXV System for the Detection of MPXVMPXV F3L, which was conserved for all MPXV clades and had been used to differentiate MPXV from other orthopox viruses , was selected to design the guide DNAs for the…

3.1. Design of the PfAgo-MPXV System for the Detection of MPXVMPXV F3L, which was conserved for all MPXV clades and had been used to differentiate MPXV from other orthopox viruses , was selected to design the guide DNAs for the…

1. IntroductionBorderline personality disorder (BPD) affects 0.7% to 2.0% of the population , making it the most frequent personality disorder . With a prevalence that may be as high as 20%, it is also the most prevalent personality…

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other readers, to share these mini-reviews…

Marquette women’s lacrosse offense led it to victory over Cincinnati last Sunday, but the same can’t be said about Friday. The Golden Eagles (1-1) couldn’t keep up with Louisville (1-2) in the second half, giving up…

1 IntroductionThe Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM) model proposes that the dark matter of the universe is a spinless particle Φ fulfilling the Klein-Gordon equationwhere □ is the D’Alambertian operator in a curved spacetime, whose source…

Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they think about AI investing in a world where deals were getting bid up feverishly…

Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they think about AI investing in a world where deals were getting bid up feverishly…

1. IntroductionPostoperative arrhythmia (PA) is an underrecognized complication after visceral surgery. Recently, we analyzed the occurrence of PA after surgical procedures involving the esophagus, stomach and pancreas with a…

1. IntroductionDental caries is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide . Approximately half of children worldwide have dental caries in their permanent teeth . In Japan, national school surveillance data from 2021 show that…

A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that…

SMS or Short Message Service (Texting) is a mobile device capability where users are able to send short (generally 160 characters maximum) text messages to another user via the use of the keypad or built-in keyboard. Seventy-three…

Over the last 18 months, the intrepid Mobile Gov team has worked with you to prioritize a set of guidelines and recommendations for good mobile user experience; categories are ranked by priority and tagged by user experience concepts…

While they chew their cud, reindeer brains shift into a state of non-REM sleep. Leo Rescia…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Is the fear of public speaking the same as being chased by a bear? Does raising an eyebrow convey…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In August 2023, the White House announced a plan to bolster cybersecurity in K-12 schools—and with good…

Overexpression of SHR enhance mesophyll cell division, resulting in a substantial reduction in leaf vein density. However, exogenous auxin treatments led to an…

As the fourth day of this year’s UN climate conference got underway, the UN chief stated: “The fossil fuel industry is finally starting to wake up, but the promises made clearly fall short of what is required.”Reacting to the pledge…

An interdisciplinary and international team assembled at CSHL's Banbury Center to address the challenges of short STEM training programs. The meeting was titled…

1. Case PresentationIn October 2019, a 70-year-old male with a medical history of hypertension, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis presented to the emergency department with fever and abdominal pain. The pain was accompanied by a feeling of…

We have a lot to catch up on. It has been a year since my last newsletter. A lot has happened. First, I’d like to welcome the folks who have signed up recently, probably because of my new career direction…