Direct and indirect deforestation for cocoa in the tropical moist forests of Ghana by Cécile Renier, Thomas Addoah, Valentin Guye, Rachael Garrett, Goedele Van den Broeck, Erasmus K H J Zu Ermgassen, Patrick Meyfroidt

“…In Ghana, the world’s second largest cocoa producer, the role of each of the main economic sectors in driving deforestation remains, however, contested—with cocoa, mining, logging, and plantations each blaming the others. …”
Get full text

Caffeine’s influence on vertical jump height: a real-life collegiate student-athlete approach by Zacharias Papadakis, Vassilios Panoutsakopoulos, Antonella Schwarz, Jose Antonio

“…Background Caffeine’s ergogenic potential in vertical jumping remains contested, particularly at dosages compliant with collegiate athletic regulations. …”
Get full text

Characterization of the family-level Borreliaceae pan-genome and development of an episomal typing protocol by Kalya M. Socarras, Mary C. Marino, Joshua P. Earl, Rachel L. Ehrlich, Nicholas A. Cramer, Joshua C. Mell, Bhaswati Sen, Azad Ahmed, Richard T. Marconi, Garth D. Ehrlich

“…Borreliaceae infections are difficult to detect by both direct and indirect methods, often leading to delayed and missed diagnoses. …”
Get full text

Tailored charge-neutral self-assembled L2Zn2 container for taming oxalate by David Ocklenburg, David Van Craen

“…Herein, we present a charge-neutral zinc(II)-based metallocontainer which was tuned to contest oxalate as most competitive dicarboxylate. …”
Get full text

Marine Trajectory Reconstruction Method Based on Navigation State Recognition and Bi-Directional Kinematic Interpolation by Yifei Liu, Zhangsong Shi, Bing Fu, Huihui Xu, Hao Wu

“…The proposed method is verified and analyzed on the contest dataset of “Intelligent classification and recognition of XX trajectories”. …”
Get full text

The Low-redshift Lyman Continuum Survey. I. New, Diverse Local Lyman Continuum Emitters by Sophia R. Flury, Anne E. Jaskot, Harry C. Ferguson, Gábor Worseck, Kirill Makan, John Chisholm, Alberto Saldana-Lopez, Daniel Schaerer, Stephan McCandliss, Bingjie Wang, N. M. Ford, Timothy Heckman, Zhiyuan Ji, Mauro Giavalisco, Ricardo Amorin, Hakim Atek, Jeremy Blaizot, Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Cody Carr, Marco Castellano, Stefano Cristiani, Stephane De Barros, Mark Dickinson, Steven L. Finkelstein, Brian Fleming, Fabio Fontanot, Thibault Garel, Andrea Grazian, Matthew Hayes, Alaina Henry, Valentin Mauerhofer, Genoveva Micheva, M. S. Oey, Goran Ostlin, Casey Papovich, Laura Pentericci, Swara Ravindranath, Joakim Rosdahl, Michael Rutkowski, Paola Santini, Claudia Scarlata, Harry Teplitz, Trinh Thuan, Maxime Trebitsch, Eros Vanzella, Anne Verhamme, Xinfeng Xu

“…The origins of Lyman continuum (LyC) photons responsible for the reionization of the universe are as of yet unknown and highly contested. Detecting LyC photons from the Epoch of Reionization is not possible due to absorption by the intergalactic medium, which has prompted the development of several indirect diagnostics to infer the rate at which galaxies contribute LyC photons to reionize the universe by studying lower-redshift analogs. …”
Get full text

Steroid hormones and psychological responses to soccer matches: Insights from a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Maamer Slimani, Julien S Baker, Foued Cheour, Lee Taylor, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi

“…., win versus loss), gender, type of contest (i.e., competitive versus non-competitive fixtures) and competitive level (i.e., novice versus high-level). …”
Get full text

House dust mite allergy – Management by P. C. Kathuria, Manisha Rai

“…Accurate diagnosis by skin prick test, specific immunoglobulin E (extract and component-based), or nasal provocation test with standardized HDM extract in contest with clinically relevant exposure to dust mites is fundamental for successful treatment. …”
Get full text

Framing Social Movements on Social Media by Julia Mendelsohn, Maya Vijan, Dallas Card, Ceren Budak

“… Social media enables activists to directly communicate with the public and provides a space for movement leaders, participants, bystanders, and opponents to collectively construct and contest narratives. Focusing on Twitter messages from social movements surrounding three issues in 2018-2019 (guns, immigration, and LGBTQ rights), we create a codebook, annotated dataset, and computational models to detect diagnostic (problem identification and attribution), prognostic (proposed solutions and tactics), and motivational (calls to action) framing strategies. …”
Get full text

Behind the lenses: Biases in the contribution of wildlife photography to biodiversity representation by Héctor Ruiz‐Villar, Ana Morales‐González, Jon Morant

“…We detected a positive change over time in representing historically neglected taxa, such as insects. …”
Get full text

Examination of Doping Usage Opinions of Bodybuilding Athletes in the Context of Sports Ethics by Hakan Salim Çağlayan, Ozer Yıldız, Mehmet Kanlı

“…According to the survey, bodybuilding athletes of Turkey's Youth and Sports Ministry in doping "zero tolerance" policy for their use depending on the doping of athletes of other countries in views on the competitive environment in the contest; Unfair competition, no one who does not use abroad, seeing this branch as a doping sport, getting rid of the backstage, power war of the states, health is more important than success; In their views on the relationship between the diplomatic power of the countries and the use of doping in international competitions, backstage power is important in success, making money negotiations, “Turkish athletes' work is very hard” themes; In his views on the use of doping with the thought that every way should be tried to win at all costs, health is more important than anything, the themes of reaching the desired performance with patience, the truth of this sport, contrary to sports ethics, everything is necessary for victory; knowing that they were not able to detect that they used doping through wipers before an important international competition, felt the necessity to take risks in their country and their own reputation for one-time use of doping; the themes of the athletes they know and observe in their country and other foreign countries using doping, with themes such as a wide variety of health problems and negativity should not be connected to doping in their lives about their physiological and physical changes; It is determined that the athletes they know and observe by using doping bodybuilding in our country and other foreign countries express a wide variety of psychological problems and addiction themes in their opinions about their psychological changes in their lives after the end of the competition life.…”
Get full text

What patients and caregivers want to know when consenting to the use of digital behavioral markers by Anika Sonig, Christine Deeney, Meghan E. Hurley, Eric A. Storch, John Herrington, Gabriel Lázaro-Muñoz, Casey J. Zampella, Birkan Tunc, Julia Parish-Morris, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Kristin Kostick-Quenet

“…Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI)-based computational tools for deriving digital behavioral markers are increasingly able to automatically detect clinically relevant patterns in mood and behavior through algorithmic analysis of continuously and passively collected data. …”
Get full text

Gender Semantics and Historical Feminisms: An Interdisciplinary Approach through Natural Language Processing by Laura Manrique-Gómez, Tony Montes, Rubén Manrique

“…This study uses Machine Learning techniques to analyze historical texts, specifically employing Natural Language Processing to detect semantic shifts, part-of-speech tagging, and named entity recognition to identify key gender vocabulary. …”
Get full text

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF ADDING AL2O3 NANOPARTICLES ON THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF POLYPROPYLENE GLYCOL WITH DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS by Rasha alameri, Ahmed S. Shaker Alakaishi

“…Finally, SEM images showed homogeneity and distribution of the nanofluid at a concentration of 0.4%, and some aggregates were detected at a concentration of 0.6%.…”
Get full text

Sociology and Literature: Notes on an Ambivalent Affinity by Ivana Spasić

“…Lepenies argues that sociology arose in the 19th century in the context of a bitter rivalry with literature, as both contestants sought to become the principal guide in helping humanity find its way in the new, modern society ushered in by political and industrial revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. …”
Get full text

Financial Toxicity and Kidney Disease in Children and Adults: A Scoping Review by Siligato R, Gembillo G, De Giorgi A, Di Maria A, Scichilone LM, Capone M, Vinci FM, Nicoletti S, Bondanelli M, Malaventura C, Storari A, Santoro D, Dionisi S, Fabbian F

“…The methods used for detecting FT differed and were based on consultations, questionnaires, expenditures and database records analysis. …”
Get full text

Regarder au-delà des élections : l’historicité complexe de la participation politique dans la Libye contemporaine by Chiara Loschi, Chiara Pagano

“…However, these perspectives have been rarely applied to the analysis of post-Gaddafi Libya, where the axiomatic acquisition that a positive link exists between elections and democratic transition has obscured the potentialities of engaging into a scholarly debate encompassing all the “politics of becoming” that might be detected by looking even at those mobilisations that escape and often contest the electoral dynamic. …”
Get full text