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Building a digital city with several digital twins?

Building a digital city with several digital twins?

Building a digital city with several digital twins? – An exemplary view on water-related questions in urban areas.
Promoting regular exercise to protect brain health

Promoting regular exercise to protect brain health

Regular exercise is a critical step in maintaining healthy physiology and ensuring healthy aging. However, there are many diseases and conditions that make exercise inaccessible or reduce its efficacy. The Wessells lab studies exercise and the pathways it works through to identify key molecules required for a proper exercise response.
The Anti-Market Sentiment: A Critique

The anti-market sentiment: A critique

The anti-market sentiment has a long history and can be traced at least to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.); see ‘an anticommercial theme originating in Aristotle’ (McCloskey 2006, p.2).
Reducing Non-Human Primate Sacrifice

Reducing non-human primate sacrifice for brain research in the virtual era

Non-Human primates (NHPs) continue to be fundamentally necessary to advance our understanding of the human brain, from its molecular and cellular make up all the way to its systems architecture and how all these mesmerizing components give rise to behavior. This necessity is not changing. It is the curiosity and effort of the human brain to understand itself.
Climate Diplomacy and EU Example

Climate Diplomacy and EU Example

Here we explore the importance of climate diplomacy with Richard Beardsworth, Professor and Head of School at the University of Leeds The Climate Paris Agreement at the Conference of the Parties in 2015 (COP21) ratified two principles of climate action on behalf of the parties, the 196 signatory countries (including...
A novel form of subsurface irrigation delivery in vineyard

Direct root-zone: A novel form of subsurface irrigation delivery in vineyards

In this eBook, we hear from Pete W. Jacoby from the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Washington State University, where he explores how direct root-zone subsurface drip irrigation can enhance vineyard resilience to drought.
Deliberative Negotiation

Deliberative negotiation: Unearthing the path toward political collaboration

Here we examine harmonious political collaboration and negotiation, exploring the complexities of political negotiation and unearthing the path to a reinvigorated collective political narrative.
Scientific Truth

Scientific Truth in the Post-Truth Era

“The belief in the value of scientific truth is a product of certain civilizations and not a fact of nature” (Weber, 1922).
North America Analysis October uly 2023

North America Analysis October 2023

We invite you to review North America Analysis’s Autumn edition, which offers valuable insights from a wide range of respected subject matter experts and researchers.

Asia Analysis October 2023

Welcome to Asia Analysis’s Autumn edition, where you’ll find an impressive collection of expertly written and policy-oriented editorials and academic profiles.
Is there an innovation gender gap amongst entrepreneurs?

Is there an innovation gender gap amongst entrepreneurs?

Professors Strohmeyer, Tonoyan, and Jennings examine the innovation gender gap amongst entrepreneurs, citing the importance of a Jack (or Jill)-of-all-trades skillset.
The link between chemicals in our environment and Parkinson's disease

The link between chemicals in our environment and Parkinson’s disease

In 1980, hundreds of individuals reported to emergency clinics in Northern California complaining of tremors, motility problems, and mild cognitive deficits - all classic signs of Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Stress Testing Intellectual Humility in the Real World

Stress testing Intellectual Humility in the real world

Arrogance is all around us: political polarization, exploitive leaders, societal unrest and injustice, escalating conflict, and burnout in the workplace. Yet, in an increasingly polarized world, where arrogance and certainty seem to reign, some leaders are quietly practicing another approach: intellectual humility.
Examining the energy efficiency directive and the district heating sector

Examining the energy efficiency directive and the district heating sector

The EU has recast the energy efficiency directive. As politics plays a crucial role in the development of future district heating markets, stakeholders within the sector should pay notice.
Challenges to care of patients with diabetes in rural, undeserved areas

Challenges to care of patients with diabetes in rural, undeserved areas

Patients with diabetes mellitus in rural communities face major impediments in achieving and maintaining control of glucose levels and preventing complications; patients in these areas endure their healthcare being medically underserved and financially challenged.
The forgotten story of women within the history of psychedelics

The forgotten story of women within the history of psychedelics

Women are integral to the history of psychedelics; however, their contributions have often not figured as prominently in stories of daring experiments or discoveries made by charismatic mind explorers.
Emerging Rainbow Rice

Emerging Rainbow Rice: New paradigm in biofortified foods

Rainbow Rice originated from comprehensive cross-breeding between a rare white-stripe leaf mutant and a dark purple leaf rice for a decorative purpose; however it has become a new model for biofortified foods and agrotourism.
Female entrepreneurs

Female entrepreneurs: Do women run their businesses differently than men?

Dr. Jennifer E. Jennings from the University of Alberta shares findings from several of her research studies examining whether women entrepreneurs organize and manage their business ventures in ways that are distinct from those led by men.
Sustainable Medicines

The journey towards sustainable medicines

Sustainable medicines maximise benefits for people while minimising harms to the environment and costs, find out more in this eBook.
Nucleic acid chemistry and the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA sequences

Nucleic acid chemistry and the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA sequences

Here we explore the massive impact nucleic acid chemistry has had on the manufacture of synthetic DNA and RNA sequences whilst explaining the chemistry behind the chemical synthesis of DNA.

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