Cultural impacts of the biodiversity crisis and our disconnection from nature

Dramatic declines in global biodiversity -- i.e., the Biodiversity Crisis -- continue to motivate research on the causes and consequences of environmental degradation. High profile papers on declines in insect diversity and abundance, for example,... continue reading

The relationship between aesthetic and space features of day clinics and cancer patients’ well-being

Prof. Yori Gidron, Dr. Fatma Güneri

The diagnosis and treatment of cancer can be very stressful and life threatening for many patients. Ways to ameliorate patients’ well-being when receiving treatment need to be developed. Studies have shown... continue reading

A VISUAL EXPERIMENT ON POLICY DATA DURING COVID-19

A text mining study has been realised on a sample policy « Income support to quarantined workers who cannot work from home » published by OECD on 24 july 2020, in the dataset « Policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis ». Policy texts have been... continue reading

“WORKPLACE” as a subject in British Journals in 2020

The data for this study is limited to British journals and the research focus is on the main points regarding the subject of “workplace” during 2020. This study is based on two main research questions:

  1. Did Covid-19 become a regular topic... continue reading

A collaborative effort to create a user-friendly installer for different mobile operating systems

Various alternative mobile operating systems are available, but installing them on third-party hardware is often too difficult for users unfamiliar with command-line tools [1]. Since most... continue reading

Rising atmospheric CO2 levels and wine quality, and the possibility of artificially-lowered CO2 for viticulture

Elevated CO2 levels increase the growth rate of plants and also modify their morphology. In particular, carbonaceous components of plant matter become more prominent. Studies have shown that elevated CO2 levels result in higher concentrations of... continue reading

Creatine as Long Covid preventative and treatment

Creatine is most commonly used as a sporting supplement to assist with muscle growth and anaerobic endurance, but research has shown other therapeutic benefits likely to have direct and indirect benefits as a treatment for Long Covid and possibly... continue reading

Time exchange for Social Inclusion facilitated by Digitalization Can this Concept be a Reality?

One of the important postulates of Digitalization is to provide government services to the citizens of the world using existing online infrastructure and developing better and enhanced online interfaces and platforms. The Digitalization campaign... continue reading

Loophole capitalism and tax havens: why practice matters more than place

The leakage of the Panama, Paradise and Pandora papers have highlighted the prevalence of tax minimisation by wealthy individuals and corporations. The language used to describe this is rooted in island/maritime terminology: ‘tax havens’,... continue reading

Extending run-length encoding to support arbitrary byte streams with hexadecimal notation

Conventionally, run-length encoding is restricted to a fixed alphabet. Because the encoded form is often transmitted over human-readable media, this alphabet is usually restricted to printed characters. That makes run-length encoding unsuitable... continue reading

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