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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee, Thomas E. Gorochowski, Sabine Hauert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The psychosocial toll of Dublin III on asylum seekers in the Netherlands

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Dublin III Regulation determines which EU Member State is responsible for examining asylum claims, but its implementation carries significant consequences for those subjected to it. This study examines how Dublin III, as implemented in the Netherlands, affects asylum seekers' psychosocial wellbeing using Silove′s Adaptation and Development
Imen El Amouri
wiley   +1 more source

Monetary and real consequences of military expenditures in Iraq [PDF]

Public and Municipal Finance
Type of the article: Research Article AbstractThe purpose of this study is to analyze the effects generated by military spending in Iraq during the pre- and post-ISIS periods, covering the years from 2004 to 2024.
Safaa Ali Hussein, Ahmed Abdulzahra Hamdan   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Immigration detention centers as torturing environments: Ethical reckonings, radical refusals, and implications for a psychology of resistance

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines psychologists' ethical dilemmas in immigration detention centers. Using critical psychology, border, and detention scholarship, it highlights psychologists' historical complicity in state violence, from the U.S. Enhanced Interrogation Program to current border regimes.
Francesca Esposito, Federica de Cordova, Julia Manek, Sara Buckingham, Camilla Ponti, Francesco Tommasi, Bradley Olson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

European NATO Fiscal Space before the Russo-Ukrainian war

Ekonomický Časopis
The threat of war limits the fiscal space via direct fiscal items and indirect macroeconomic flows. The Russo-Ukrainian war has edged the fiscal challenge of the growing need for military spending in different regions of Eu-rope. This study examines the
Gábor Kutasi, Ádám Marton, Grzegorz Waszkiewicz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Treadmill of Destruction in Comparative Perspective: A Panel Study of Military Spending and Carbon Emissions, 1960-2014

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2017
This article analyzes a unique panel data set to assess the effect of militarism on per capita carbon dioxide emissions.   We extend previous research examining the effects of military expenditures on carbon emissions by including in our analyses over 30
John Hamilton Bradford, Alexander M. Stoner   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The determinants of military expenditures [PDF]

, 2008
The increase in the military expenditure of the United States was committed since 2000, after several years of reduction. As well as the tax cuts, the military expenditure contributes largely to the current rise of the American public deficit. Considerable appropriations were granted to armament industries, such as for example the launching of the ...
Fontanel, Jacques, Samson, Ivan
openaire   +3 more sources

It's a Match, Isn't It? Developing a Checklist on Matching Secondary Data at the Example of Job Control

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Few datasets simultaneously capture occupational exposures and health outcomes in a general working population. To understand associations between occupational exposures and health, researchers often combine existing datasets. As occupation codes are available in many datasets, combining these datasets seems a straight‐forward option. However,
Franziska J. Kößler, Candice Y. Johnson, Amel Omari, Kaori Fujishiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A self‐retaining mouth prop for intraoral access during periodontal surgery in rat models: A technical note

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
A mouth prop designed to mimic the oral cavity of rats was made that provided stable, self‐retaining retraction, thereby facilitating oral surgery on rodents. Compared to conventional methods, it decreased surgical time, operator fatigue, and slippage. Its use led to higher efficiency and fewer complications and it was cost effective to produce.
Saravanan Sampoornam Pape Reddy, Delfin Lovelina Francis, Vivek Kumar Thakur, Balaji Manohar, Shaili Pradhan, Shesh Rai   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dark Heritage Prospection ‐ Mapping the Treblinka II Extermination Camp Using a Magnetometer Survey and Integrated Archival Sources

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The history of Nazi German extermination camps has, until recently, relied primarily on eyewitness testimony. Very few official documents detailing the facilities survived the war due to the special operation ‘Sonderaktion 1005’, dedicated to hiding their existence and extent.
Sebastian Różycki, Michał Pisz, Paweł Bylina, James Walker, Lucy Benoit   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source