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Racecar drivers found to blink during safest parts of track
Graphical abstract. Credit: iScience (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106803 A trio of physiologists at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, in Japan, has found that Formula 1 racecar drivers unintentionally time their blinking with straighter parts of the track. In their study, reported in iScience, Ryota Nishizono, Naoki Saijo and Makio Kashino fitted sensors to the helmets of three…
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Why boredom at work can be harmful and what employers can do about it
The rise of technology has left many people feeling bored. Credit: Minerva Studio/Shutterstock We all know that high levels of stress in the workplace can lead to burnout. But less attention is given to long periods of intense boredom, sometimes referred to as “rust out” or “bore out.” This typically comes with feelings of weariness,…
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Fewer women receive research grants—but the reasons are more complicated than you’d think
by Isabelle Kingsley, Emma Johnston, Eve Slavich, Lisa A Williams and Lisa Harvey-Smith, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock It likely comes as no surprise that women receive a smaller share of research funding than men. But untangling the underlying reasons is no small feat. A recently published international review spanning 45 years found… Continue Reading News…
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Embracing AI in the world of finance
Comparison of model valuation errors over time. These figures depict medians of absolute valuation errors (med(|ε|)) from the three base machine learning models and those from traditional models across time. Panels A, B, and C compare models targeting m2b, v2a, and v2s, respectively. Panel D compares base machine learning models targeting m2b, v2a and v2s…
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Investors miss out when tax deals are concealed
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Investors could benefit if they had timely information about non-income tax deals, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin that finds companies that get them have higher future stock returns. In 2022, U.S. corporations reaped more than $19 billion in non-income tax megadeals: state and local tax…
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Identifying trends, emerging topics, and key insights
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, and UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, have published a new paper in the Journal of Consumer Psychology that provides a comprehensive review of consumer research journals from both marketing and non-marketing disciplines. By identifying gaps in the literature, the…
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why the IPCC needs its own net-zero target
In April, I flew to Bangkok for the final meeting of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Cycle (AR6). My return flight to Stockholm emitted more carbon than any one person in the lowest-emitting 50% of the global population contributes in an entire year. The latest AR6 synthesis report (see…
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how universities can help to resolve research’s mental-health crisis
Universities should rethink their reluctance to encourage whistle-blowing.Credit: Alamy Researchers working in academia are more likely to experience anxiety and depression than are members of the population at large, as we report in a Feature investigating the mental-health crisis in science. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on researchers, as it has on many…
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Patients should be informed when AI systems are used in clinical trials
Patients should be informed when AI systems are used in clinical trials Continue Reading News Source: www.nature.com
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Divergent effectiveness of irrigation in enhancing food security in droughts under future climates with various emission scenarios
Historical and future evolution of droughts in both space and time Here we used the outputs of four Global Climate Models (GCMs), namely GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2-ES, IPSL-CM5A-LR, and MIROC5, from the ISIMIP program (https://www.isimip.org/)14,15,16 to monitor interannual changes of droughts under historical, RCP2.6, RCP6.0, and RCP8.5 scenarios (Fig. 1 and Supplementary Note 3). The negative values…