Negative emotions, projection bias, and the vote choice in South Korea by Kiyoung Chang, Jeeyoung Park

“…While it is well established that competence shocks, such as corruption scandals, influence voters’ affective attachment to political elites and their perceived capacity to address social issues, this study explores how such shocks may also lead voters to perceive some candidates as more ideologically extreme. This phenomenon, known as the contrast effect, occurs when voters interpret signals of low competence as indicators of greater ideological distance from their preferred positions. …”
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Machine learning suggests climate and seasonal definitions should change under global warming by Milton Speer, Lance Leslie

“… Extreme and unseasonal temperature and precipitation events have increased worldwide. …”
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FOSTERING AGROPRENEURSHIP PRACTICE IN NIGERIA: A LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE by Olamitunji DAKARE

“…The review is in line with the need to create sustainable development through agropreneurship initiatives: in an economy presently facing a high rate of unemployment, extreme poverty, poor earnings from foreign exchange, and insufficiency of food items, this article argues for the need to adopt an overarching agriculture value chain to ensure a rapid industrial and economic development across Nigeria. …”

Conservation refugees and environmental dispossession in 21st century critical Geography by Scott William Hoefle

“… This study explores the relevance of the concepts of conservation refugees and environmental dispossession for steering a middle course between unjust bio-centric conservation and anti-environmentalism of extreme right “populism”. Historical geographers have recently taken up these concepts from contemporary Environmental History, and when with allied to the concepts of environmental ethics from Radical Ecology and Environmental Studies and nature enclosures from Political Ecology, a novel critique is produced of the role of full conservation units in debates surrounding global climate change. …”
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GLOBALIZATION, COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE SITUATION IN AFRICA by ZEKERI MOMOH, JEREMIAH AKAHA GBENDA

“…The study also argues that many African countries' economies are currently experiencing extreme pressure, which has overstretched their economy. …”
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Dual feature-based and example-based explanation methods by Andrei Konstantinov, Boris Kozlov, Stanislav Kirpichenko, Lev Utkin, Vladimir Muliukha

“…The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of instances in the form of convex combinations of extreme points of a produced polytope. Instead of perturbing new instances in the Euclidean feature space, vectors of convex combination coefficients are uniformly generated from the unit simplex, and they form a new dual dataset. …”
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An Overview of Application of Machine Learning Models in Urban Flood Simulation and Forecasting by CHEN Zeming, FANG Xuhong, LI Jiaye, WANG Mengyao, CHEN Aifang, YIN Ling

“…In recent years, the frequent occurrence of extreme rainstorms has been prone to causing urban flood disasters, directly affecting people's lives and property safety. …”
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The Implications of Non-Domestication of Kampala Convention to the Protection of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria by Tasiu Magaji

“…However, the convention has not been domesticated into Nigerian law, leaving IDPs particularly vulnerable to extreme challenges such as forced displacement, loss of shelter and assets and discrimination. …”
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Machine learning-based analyzing earthquake-induced slope displacement. by Jiyu Wang, Niaz Muhammad Shahani, Xigui Zheng, Jiang Hongwei, Xin Wei

“…This study evaluates the capabilities of various machine learning models, including artificial neural network (ANN), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) in analyzing earthquake-induced slope displacement. …”
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Heat Stroke in the Era of Global Warming: A Call for Urgent Action by Ayesha Khan, Manahil Mubeen

“…HS is a medical condition that is gaining increased prevalence throughout the world due to a steady rise in temperature, and massive mortalities have been recorded among vulnerable populations. In 2024, extreme heat waves led to increased cases of HS and related fatalities globally, particularly in Karachi, Pakistan. …”
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Coastal Groundcherry, Physalis angustifolia by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…This plant is found throughout coastal counties on the west coast of Florida—except for the Big Bend region and the extreme southeasternmost counties—and more broadly west to Louisiana. …”
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Nurses’ and nurse leaders’ perspectives on a health-promoting work environment: a meta-ethnographic study by Diako Morvati, Rita Solbakken, Jonas Vaag, Yvonne Hilli

“…Findings Line of argument synthesis led to the development of an overarching tree metaphor: “cultivating a flourishing environmental tree rooted in values, held stable by leadership, and nurtured by safe working conditions.” …”
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Magnolia x soulangiana 'Cupcake' 'Cupcake' Saucer Magnolia by Edward Gilman

“…The document also covers the tree’s planting requirements, hardiness zones, and potential uses in landscaping. …”
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Exploring Career Barriers Faced by Female Doctors Due to Gender Bias: A Qualitative Analysis by Anam Zahra, Tayyaba Azhar, Hajra Talat

“…Inductive thematic analysis of the transcripts identified patterns and themes within the data. Results: The analysis resulted in three overarching themes and eleven subthemes. …”
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THE ORGANS OF THE REFORMED DIOCESE FROM ERDŐVIDÉK - EXAMINATION PAPER ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE ORGANS - PART I - by István Zoltán KISGYÖRGY

“… When choosing the theme of my research, I was guided by the desire to get to know and investigate the organ, as a musical instrument, and by the affection and love for my homeland. …”
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To Push or To Clip: That is the Question by Stephen H. Futch, James H. Graham, Larry W. Duncan

“…Duncan, reviews and evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of two methods of removing diseased or unproductive trees -- pushing the tree down and removing the entire tree and root systems, or clipping the tree off above the soil line. …”
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Ince-Gaussian laser beams as superposition of Hermite-Gaussian or Laguerre-Gaussian beams by E.G. Abramochkin, V.V. Kotlyar, A.A. Kovalev

“…Simultaneously expressing the IG modes both via the LG and HG modes allows easily obtaining the IG modes in the extreme cases when the ellipticity parameter is zero or infinite. …”
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Comparison and Correction of Runoff Simulation Based on XGBoost and SWAT by LIANG Lisha, JIANG Xiaolei, HU Leyi, SHEN Jing, ZHANG Liping, FU Xiaolei

“…Runoff simulation has always been a research hotspot in hydrological science, which has important guiding significance for water resources research. Based on the extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm and soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model, a runoff simulation model was constructed by using the observed hydrological data of Waizhou hydrological station in Ganjiang River Basin, and the simulation effects of the two models were compared. …”
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CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL DISTRUST AND AFRO-PESSIMISM IN NIGERIA POLITICS; THE FOURTH REPUBLIC IN FOCUS by Lambe Emmanuel Oyewole

“…Poor governance and "bad" politics in African countries as the personalized nature of rule, the failure of the state to advance and protect human rights, the tendency of individuals to withdraw from politics, and the extreme centralization of power in the hands of few people are the basis of the crisis of politics. …”
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