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United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women empowerment and economic growth: Empirical evidence from Kuwait (2024)
Journal Article
Al-Mutairi, A., Naser, D., Naser, H., & Naser, K. (2024). United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women empowerment and economic growth: Empirical evidence from Kuwait. Journal of Infrastructure Development, 8(8), Article 5435. https://doi.org/10.24294/jipd.v8i8.5435

This study aims to compare investment in human capital, equality of gender education in Kuwait before and after adopting SDG 4 and SDG 5 in 2015. It also aims to assess the effect of women’s empowerment on economic growth. To achieve this objective,... Read More about United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), women empowerment and economic growth: Empirical evidence from Kuwait.

Anomalies of generalized symmetries from solitonic defects (2024)
Journal Article
Bhardwaj, L., Bullimore, M., Ferrari, A. E. V., & Schäfer-Nameki, S. (2024). Anomalies of generalized symmetries from solitonic defects. SciPost Physics, 16, Article 087. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.16.3.087

We propose the general idea that ’t Hooft anomalies of generalized global symmetries can be understood in terms of the properties of solitonic defects, which generically are nontopological defects. The defining property of such defects is that they a... Read More about Anomalies of generalized symmetries from solitonic defects.

Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of plants consumed by western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Gabon (2024)
Journal Article
Yinda, L. E. D. O., Onanga, R., Obiang, C. S., Begouabe, H., Akomo-Okoue, E. F., Obame-Nkoghe, J., Mitola, R., Ondo, J.-P., Atome, G.-R. N., Engonga, L.-C. O., Ibrahim, Setchell, J. M., & Godreuil, S. (2024). Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of plants consumed by western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Gabon. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0306957. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306957

Zoopharmacognosy is the study of the self-medication behaviors of non-human animals that use plant, animal or soil items as remedies. Recent studies have shown that some of the plants employed by animals may also be used for the same therapeutic purp... Read More about Antibacterial and antioxidant activities of plants consumed by western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Gabon.

Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT (2024)
Journal Article
Borry, M., Forsythe, A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Hübner, A., Ibrahim, A., Quagliariello, A., White, A. E., Kocher, A., Vågene‬, Å. J., Bartholdy, B. P., Spurīte, D., Ponce-Soto, G. Y., Neumann, G., Huang, I.-T., Light, I., Velsko, I. M., Jackson, I., Frangenberg, J., Serrano, J. G., Fumey, J., …Fellows Yates, J. A. (2024). Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT. F1000Research, 12, Article 926. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.134798.2

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Access to sample-level metadata is important when selecting public metagenomic sequencing datasets for reuse in new biological analyses. The Standards, Precautions, and Advances in Ancient Metagenomics community (SPAAM, https://spaam-comm... Read More about Facilitating accessible, rapid, and appropriate processing of ancient metagenomic data with AMDirT.

Fiction Writing as Philosophical Methodology (2024)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2024). Fiction Writing as Philosophical Methodology. Principia, 28(3 - Special Issue: 13th Principia International Symposium), 453-475. https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2024.e98571

In this paper I argue for a novel philosophical methodology, fiction writing. Much has been made, in philosophy, of the relationship between fiction and thought experiments, but this literature focuses predominantly on completed pieces of fiction: Fu... Read More about Fiction Writing as Philosophical Methodology.