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City Journal 

Bolstered by Faith

Religious communities were more likely to weather the pandemic.

Jewellermagazine.com 

Jewellers tee off for a worthy cause

Anticipation is building for the annual New South Wales Jewellers Golf Day, scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 30 July.

Archdaily.com 

Papillon House / Yi Arquitetos

Located in Jardim Botânico, 20 minutes from Brasília, Casa Papillon is a house built in 2019 that has as its protagonist the large four-water roof that guides the entire project. The concept came from the clients' desire: to refer to traditional houses with colonial roofs, but without losing contemporaneity. Using coatings such as brick and wooden boards on the ceiling also materialized this desire. On the other hand, the metallic structure and glass closures bring contemporaneity to the project. Читать дальше...

Adweek.com 

TikTok Unveils New Self-Serve and AI-Powered Ad Automation Tools

TikTok announced new tools for advertisers today at its fourth annual TikTok World event, focusing on artificial-intelligence-powered automation and measurement tools that make it quicker and easier for marketers to create relevant ads on the platform. The first set of tools, TikTok One, is a hub that gives advertisers access to creators, creative tools, agency...

Oilprice.com 

Time Running Out for BHP's Anglo American Bid

The clock is counting down on BHP’s takeover swoop for Anglo American today as the Australian miner is left with just hours to table an improved offer or walk away. BHP has been hiking its bids for Anglo American over the past month after making an initial unsolicited $31bn offer for the firm in April, which was rejected. Last week, the Sydney-listed miner lifted that to £34bn but retained its condition that Anglo American carve off its iron ore and platinum business, in an offer that was roundly... Читать дальше...

Plos.org 

Analysis of logistics capacity, influencing factors and spatial spillover effect in Yangtze River Economic Belt

by Li Fanghu, He Yinnan, Wang Biao

The logistics industry plays a crucial role in facilitating regional economic development. Serving as a vital link connecting producers, consumers, and various components of the supply chain, it has a direct and profound impact on the prosperity and advancement of regional economies. Based on the panel data of 11 provinces in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2016 to 2020, this paper constructs the logistics capability evaluation index system from four aspects... Читать дальше...

Plos.org 

Bumble Bee Watch community science program increases scientific understanding of an important pollinator group across Canada and the USA

by Victoria J. MacPhail, Richard Hatfield, Sheila R. Colla

In a time of increasing threats to bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus), it is important to understand their ecology and distribution. As experts are limited in resources to conduct field surveys, there is potential for community scientists to help. The Bumble Bee Watch (BBW) community science program involves volunteers taking photos of bumble bees in Canada and the USA and submitting them, along with geographic and optional plant information... Читать дальше...

Plos.org 

Associations between co‑exposure to heavy metals and vertebral compression fracture, as well as femoral neck bone mineral density: A cross-sectional study from NHANES data

by Xurong Yang, Li Li, Lixiong Nie

Objective

Accumulating evidence showed that exposure to heavy metals was harmful to human health. Little is known regarding the mixing effects of multiple metal exposures on vertebral compression fracture (VCF) and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD). This study aimed to explore the individual and joint effects of four heavy metals [manganese (Mn), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and mercury (Hg)] on VCF risk and femoral neck BMD.

Methods

This cross-sectional... Читать дальше...

Plos.org 

Reconstruction and normalization of LISA for spatial analysis

by Yanguang Chen

The local indicators of spatial association (LISA) are important measures for spatial autocorrelation analysis. However, there is an inadvertent fault in the mathematical processes of deriving LISA in literature so that the local Moran and Geary indicators do not satisfy the second basic requirement for LISA: the sum of the local indicators is proportional to a global indicator. This paper aims at reconstructing the calculation formulae of the local Moran indexes and Geary... Читать дальше...

Plos.org 

The excessive celebrity worship behavior questionnaire: Chinese scale development and validation

by Yiqing He, Qinxue Liu

Objective

To develop a scale to assess the excessive behavior of superfans in celebrity worship and to test its reliability and validity in China.

Methods

The scale was developed based on the netnography and interviews of celebrity fans and the existing problematic Internet usage scales. Sample 1 (n = 465) was used for exploratory factor analysis, and Sample 2 (n = 804) was used for confirmatory factor analysis, reliability test, criterion validity, and discriminative validity test. Читать дальше...