À la Carte Acceptance: A Critical Examination of Selective Inclusion in Modern DE&I Practices

Recently Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives have gained significant traction in corporate, educational, and social environments. These initiatives aim to foster environments where diverse individuals feel valued, included, and... continue reading

The Parenting Balance Matrix: Mapping Parental Influence on Child Development

The Parenting Balance Matrix is a visual framework designed to illustrate how the combination of two parents' styles influences a child's development. It categorizes parenting approaches along a spectrum, from "Absent" to "Overbearing," for each... continue reading

The need and format for publications is stifling innovation and science adoption

Nowadays two problems affect science.

  • The quantum necessary to publish scientific discovery is large. This not only heavily increases the time needed for publication, but it also impacts the time required to stay up to date with the... continue reading

Capitalist capital allocation as meta-reward function for AI training model

Machine learning protocols utilize rewards function during training as a means of tuning parameters toward obtaining desirable outputs from a model. One challenge for the current AI industry is the difficulty of translating real-world utility into... continue reading

Can the Weddell Sea (Southern Ocean) be a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)?

The source water mass of the Weddell Sea is Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), which is high in CO2. Subsurface CDW is upwelled into the surface layer which tends to cause some CO2 outgassing. CDW is also involved in bottom water formation together... continue reading

The Atlas of Human Range

The Atlas of Human Range (AoHR) is an Atlas of Human Interests evolution. The AoHR, however, maps a vast spectrum of human inner and outer manifestations, spanning temperament, personality, interests,... continue reading

Tracking smartphone screen time during weight-loss trials: an indirect means of exploring semaglutide's efficacy against addiction

Screen time has been identified as not just a strong correlate with addiction, but as a predictor and even as an addiction in and of itself. Semaglutide, better known by the brand name Ozempic, is widely used as an anti-obesity drug and it, along... continue reading

Antidepressants, the gut microbiota, TRPA1 receptors and self-cooling.

Enhanced efflux pump expression and intracellular production of reactive oxygen species in gut bacteria has been
observed following exposure for sixty days to several antidepressants, at clinically relevant concentrations.1. This pattern has been... continue reading

Gender Commonality in the Upregulated Transcriptome of Patients with Ischemic Stroke

The present study systematically searched the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) DataSets for and retrieved the GSE22255 dataset that included transcriptomic data from Ischemic Stroke patients. This was an expression profiling by array using peripheral... continue reading

'Accuracy per FLOP': A Green AI Metric for Fair and Efficient AI Development

Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly through Deep Learning and large-scale datasets, have led to the creation of powerful models like OpenAI's GPT-$n$. These models have significantly enhanced Natural Language... continue reading

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