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The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Depositional processes of varved sediments from proglacial Lago Frías since 1800 CE (North Patagonian Andes, Argentina)

Boreas, EarlyView.
The glacierized Valle Frías in Northern Patagonia is one of the best‐studied valleys in South America and includes varved sediments from Lago Frías. We complement this lacustrine record with a high‐resolution documentation of varve counts and their composition.
Bernd Zolitschka, Philipp Böning, A. Catalina Gebhardt, M. Alicia Irurzun, Wojciech Tylmann, Christoph Vogt, Claudia S. G. Gogorza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

LeafFit: Plant Assets Creation from 3D Gaussian Splatting

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We propose LeafFit, a pipeline that converts 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) of individual plants into editable, instanced mesh assets. While 3DGS faithfully captures complex foliage, its high memory footprint and lack of mesh topology make it incompatible with traditional game production workflows. We address this by leveraging the repetition of
Chang Luo, Nobuyuki Umetani
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Teachers: Nonhuman Pedagogy and the Question of Deceit

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Animals as “teachers” of human children and adults is a recurring theme in children's literature, in anthropological accounts of “feral children,” as well as in contemporary practices of animal‐assisted pedagogy, philosophical research, wildlife documentaries, and popular culture.
Helena Pedersen
wiley   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Functional characterization of 42 CK2α de novo variants associated with Okur‐Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome

The FEBS Journal, EarlyView.
Okur‐Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome (OCNDS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with mutations in the gene coding for Protein kinase CK2α. In this work, 42 variants of CK2α associated with OCNDS were characterized in vitro. This included determination of catalytic activity and CK2α/CK2β‐interaction as well as an assessment of evolutionary ...
Alexander Gast, Christian Werner, Karsten Niefind, Joachim Jose   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local habitat, not landscape diversity, drives richness and reproduction of cavity‐nesting bees and wasps in agricultural landscapes

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Local habitat type and hedgerow cover strongly shape bee and wasp richness, but only weakly their reproductive output, outweighing the landscape diversity effects at the 1‐km2 scale. Forests host more wasp but fewer bee species, whereas orchards support high richness of both; bee reproduction patterns are driven by one dominant species, while wasp ...
Sara Tassoni, Marit Kinga Kasten, Thomas Hiller, Michael Staab, Frank M. Schurr, Ingo Grass   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Learning Model for Predicting Postoperative Pain in Cases of Irreversible Pulpitis

International Endodontic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim Postoperative pain is a frequent clinical concern following endodontic treatment. This study aimed to develop and validate supervised machine learning models to predict the occurrence of postoperative pain in cases of irreversible pulpitis.
Pedro Felipe de Jesus Freitas, Ingrid Luiza Mendonça Cunha, Thalita de Paris Matos, Flares Baratto‐Filho, Bianca Marques de Mattos de Araujo, Manoel Damião Sousa‐Neto, Leandro de Moura Martins, Fernando José Herkrath, Emílio Carlos Sponchiado‐Júnior, Cristiano Miranda de Araujo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How to Demonstrate Trustworthy Use of AI in Public Services: A Case Study

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Government leaders across the globe are grappling with how to harness and integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance public service delivery and efficiency. Yet, a key challenge faced is how to build and maintain the trust of stakeholders. Trust is critical for the acceptance and sustained adoption of AI technologies, as well as to gain
Natalie Smith, Nicole Gillespie, Tapani Rinta‐Kahila, Steven Lockey, Javad Pool, Caitlin Curtis   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the implementation gap in MCABC inventory management: from a taxonomy to practical archetypes

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite increasing demands for resilient and sustainable supply chains, inventory management often relies on outdated single‐criterion analyses. While multi‐criteria ABC (MCABC) analyses provide a theoretically mature assessment of resilience‐sustainability‐benefit trade‐offs in inventory, their adoption remains limited due to fragmented ...
Lukas Grützner, Michael H. Breitner
wiley   +1 more source