Limits of Nature and Advances of Technology: What Does Biomimetics Have to Offer to Aquatic Robots? by F. E. Fish

“…Similarities between natural and engineered systems are exhibited by convergences, which define environmental factors, which impinge upon design, and direct copying that produces innovation through integration of natural and artificial technologies. …”
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Towards Enhancement of Performance of K-Means Clustering Using Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms by Simon Fong, Suash Deb, Xin-She Yang, Yan Zhuang

“…It is known that these so-called nature-inspired optimization algorithms have their own characteristics as well as pros and cons in different applications. …”
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Development of the Beliefs in Human Nature Uniqueness Scale and Its Associations With Perception of Social Robots by Jean-Christophe Giger, Nuno Piçarra, Grzegorz Pochwatko, Nuno Almeida, Ana Susana Almeida, Neuza Costa

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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…The study reveals a complex web of power relations, economic exploitation, and ecological degradation perpetuating a commodified view of nature, consistent with other political ecological literature in montane environments. …”
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Intracranial otogenic complications in adults: new factors that influenced its onset, frequency and nature by Małgorzata Wierzbicka, Michalina Staśkiewicz, Oskar Rosiak, Katarzyna Karmelita-Katulska, Witold Szyfter, Wojciech Gawęcki

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Tourism commodification and privatization of nature: private protected areas in the Serra de Tramuntana (Mallorca) by Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher, Macià Blázquez Salom

“… The creation of private protected areas (PPA) is commonly considered an instrument of neoliberal conservation, characterized by private management and commodification of nature for (eco)tourism and other market-based instruments (MBIs). …”
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L’écriture de la nature chez Barry Lopez : enjeux et stratégies by Yves-Charles Grandjeat

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Prevalence, Dispersion and Nature of Bioaerosols over a Solid Landfill Site in Central India by Priyanka D. Bhoyar, Pooja Kamdi, Amit Bafana, Panuganti C. S. Devara, Saravanadevi Sivanesan, Amrit Kumar, Kannan Krishnamurthi

“…Proper identification, quantification, impacts and exposure threshold levels are essential to understand the nature and impact of bioaerosols on human health and climate. …”
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THE SOCIAL NATURE OF THE VALUES AND PROBLEMS OF ORGANIZATION AND INTERNALIZATION OF VALUES AND VALUE ORIENTATION IN PERSONALITY STRUCTURE by A. Kravets, A. Utyuganov

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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “freak of nature” he was given as a child. Thereby, he plays a double role: he is both “the grotesque freak” exhibited on the platform / page, and the freakshow talker constructing the freak from his condition. …”
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Architecture, the guardian of nature. The project of the ground within the transformation of urban highways, 1962-2018 by Zeila Tesoriere

“…The most capable heuristic statute of such a new course is the progressive substitution of Environment for Nature among Design drivers. Within this frame, this paper investigates the hybridisation of greenery and the built environment in the contemporary transformation of large urban highways through a diachronic and comparative approach, referencing international research and expanding its main hypothesis. …”
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Exploring the multidimensional nature of the psychopathy construct in social media context: Insights from Instagram by Mojtaba Elhami Athar

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THE ROLE OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CORPORATE POLICY OF THE BUSINESS ENTITY IN THE FIELD OF ECOLOGY OF NATURE by O. Kovalenko

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MLP Enhanced CO2 Emission Prediction Model with LWSSA Nature Inspired Optimization by Agoub Abdulhafith Younes Mussa, Wagdi M. S. Khalifa

“…A permutation feature significance analysis identified global trade, coal energy, export levels, urbanization, and natural resources as the most influential factors in CO₂ emissions, offering valuable insights for targeted interventions. …”
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La directionnalité et la nature non-téléologique de l’évolution linguistique by Brian Lowrey

“…This paper deals with the nature of linguistic change, and, taking examples from the history of English, seeks to show that, contrary to what appears to be a widely held assumption, there is no reason to suppose that because one language undergoes a certain type of change, a similar change will necessarily take place in other, related languages. …”
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From fairy rings to fairy chemicals: The story from nature phenomenon to commercial application by Shaolong Liu, Chanjuan Ye, Jie Guo, Da‐gang Chen, Juan Liu, Xin‐qiao Zhou, Bin Jia, Yixiong Zheng, Jing Wu, Hirokazu Kawagishi, Ke Chen, Chuan‐guang Liu

“…Abstract Fairy rings are naturally occurring phenomena that are circular or curved clusters of mushrooms that appear in meadows, forests, and other places. …”
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Making innovative landscapes. Balmori Associates redefining the human-nature relationship for the cities of the future by Javier González-Campaña, Noemie Lafaurie-Debany, Marta Rabazo Martin

“…Diana Balmori’s work is a rare compendium of interventions grounded in scientific research and capable of silently but steadily influencing our current vision of Landscape Architecture, laying solid foundations for a more liveable, sustainable, equitable and accessible urban space and for the creation of ‘operational’ landscapes that help define a new relationship between the 21st-century city and nature.   Article info Received: 02/05/2023; Revised: 05/05/2023; Accepted: 05/06/2023 …”
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A framework to assess socioeconomic and spatialized nature-related risks: An application to South Africa by Paul Hadji-Lazaro, Julien Calas, Antoine Godin, Andrew Skowno, Pamela Sekese

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From Teleology to Backward Causation: How Do They Contribute to Our Understanding of the Nature of Concepts? by Marcin Poręba

“…Using this approach, the author argues for the following disjunction: When trying to account for teleology and purposive action, we must either deeply reconsider the traditional, local view of concepts, or we must take backward causation seriously. It is of the nature of disjunction that both alternatives may eventually turn out to be true.…”
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Discussing Nature, Ideology, Technology, Spirituality, Literature and Language at the Start of the 21st Century by Lu Jinjin

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