Climatological Seasonal Cycle of River Discharge into the Oceans: Contributions from Major Rivers and Implications for Ocean Modeling by Moncef Boukthir, Jihene Abdennadher

“…Monthly discharges were compiled for 145 major rivers and tributaries, with a focus on improving the accuracy and spatial coverage of global freshwater flux estimates. Compared to previous datasets, this updated compilation includes a broader set of rivers, explicitly integrates tributary inflows, and quantifies both the absolute and relative seasonal amplitudes of discharge variability. …”
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Disentangling signal and noise in neural responses through generative modeling. by Kendrick Kay, Jacob S Prince, Thomas Gebhart, Greta Tuckute, Jingyang Zhou, Thomas Naselaris, Heiko H Schütt

“…We validate GSN using ground-truth simulations and show that it compares favorably with related methods. We also demonstrate the application of GSN to empirical fMRI data to illustrate a simple consequence of GSN: by disentangling signal and noise components in neural responses, GSN denoises principal components analysis and improves estimates of dimensionality. …”
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Brazil’s Generous Diplomacy: Friendly Dragon or Paper Tiger? by Robert Muggah, Eduarda Passarelli Hamann

“…But while Brazil’s trade activities have received attention, there has been comparatively less focus on the country’s aid policy and practice.Moreover, there is surprisingly little discussion of how the country’s foreign policy pillars – trade and aid – are explicitly linked. …”
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Enterprise modelling for decision-making in the software ecosystem by Anshul Rani, Deepti Mishra, Aida Omerovic

“…Thus, this research supports software enterprises to understand their business processes related explicitly to outsourcing and benefits company personnel involved in decision-making. …”
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A catalogue and redescription of type specimens of fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae) deposited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden by Wan F. A. Jusoh, Lesley Ballantyne

“…Type specimens of flashing fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae, Luciolinae) in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (RMNH) collection were documented. Specimens explicitly marked or indicated as types belonging to the lucioline fireflies were investigated with each specimen and its accompanying labels photographed, and its morphological characters analysed and compared with the original species description. …”
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Managing Tensions in Academic Writing for Foundation Learners by Sue Crossan, Susie Jacka

“…This paper outlines literature relating to writing in higher education and compares the results of two cohorts, one receiving instruction from a ‘study skills/ academic socialisation’ perspective and another receiving instruction from an ‘academic literacies’ perspective that explicitly acknowledges the tensions students must learn to manage in academic writing. …”
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Sequential testing of complementary hypotheses about population density by Diego F. Rincon, Izzy McCabe, David W. Crowder

“…We overcame this limitation by using Bayes' theorem to sequentially update the posterior probability of a tested hypothesis against its complementary as data is collected. The new test can explicitly consider simple or composite hypotheses about static or dynamic population densities and process either purely sequential (one‐at‐a‐time) or group sequential data to produce a trajectory of posterior probabilities related to the tested hypothesis. …”
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Developing artificial intelligence tools for institutional review board pre-review: A pilot study on ChatGPT's accuracy and reproducibility. by Yasuko Fukataki, Wakako Hayashi, Naoki Nishimoto, Yoichi M Ito

“…The goal was to determine whether these models could accurately and consistently extract ethically relevant information, including the research objectives and background, research design, and participant-related risks and benefits. First, we compared the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-4o using custom agents developed via OpenAI's Custom GPT functionality (hereafter "GPTs"). …”
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Toward a marginal Arctic sea ice cover: changes to freezing, melting and dynamics by R. C. Frew, A. W. Bateson, D. L. Feltham, D. Schröder, D. Schröder

“…Using numerical simulations, we explicitly compare, for the first time, individual processes of ice volume gain and loss in the ice pack (SIC <span class="inline-formula">&gt;</span> 80 %) to those in the MIZ to establish and contrast their relative importance and examine how these processes change as the summer MIZ fraction increases over time. …”
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Comparisons of Faulting-Based Pavement Performance Prediction Models by Weina Wang, Yu Qin, Xiaofei Li, Di Wang, Huiqiang Chen

“…MC model seems a good tool for pavement performance prediction when the data is limited, but it is based on visual inspections and not explicitly related to quantitative physical parameters. …”
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Linear approaches to intramolecular Förster resonance energy transfer probe measurements for quantitative modeling. by Marc R Birtwistle, Alexander von Kriegsheim, Katarzyna Kida, Juliane P Schwarz, Kurt I Anderson, Walter Kolch

“…Therefore in most cases FRET measurements should only be compared either to explicitly modeled probes or to concentrations of products of the biochemical activity, but not to activities themselves. …”
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Covering the news to develop students’ understanding of political responsibility in social studies classrooms? by Roger Olsson, Martin Jakobsson

“…One concerns teachers’ readiness to perceive the political implications of news events related to political responsibility. Research limitations/implications: Although the robustness of the results increases when compared to previous research, it cannot be generalised. …”
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HOW GENDER IS NAMED IN UNISEX PERFUMES: A SOCIO-ONOMASTIC APPROACH by Sonia Kurniawati, Wiwik Retno Handayani

“…Although no specific words explicitly indicated a unisex representation or any association, some findings disclosed that terms traditionally linked to either masculinity or femininity were not always intended exclusively for that particular gender. …”
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The integration of health equity into policy to reduce disparities: Lessons from California during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Ada T Kwan, Jason Vargo, Caroline Kurtz, Mayuri Panditrao, Christopher M Hoover, Tomás M León, David Rocha, William Wheeler, Seema Jain, Erica S Pan, Priya B Shete

“…How departments of public health can explicitly address these disparities and their underlying determinants remains less understood. …”
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Improving the robustness of retail workforce management with a labor flexibility strategy and consideration of demand uncertainty by Andrés Felipe Porto, Amaia Lusa, Sebastián A. Herazo, César Augusto Henao

“…Furthermore, the workforce configuration—comprising staff size and training structure— resulting from the stochastic model is compared with that obtained using a deterministic framework. …”
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Screen on = development off? A systematic scoping review and a developmental psychology perspective on the effects of screen time on early childhood development by Fabio Sticca, Fabio Sticca, Valérie Brauchli, Patricia Lannen

“…More studies with designs that can examine the causal effect of screen time on child development and that explicitly address the role of child, content, and context variables are needed.…”
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Hamiltonian Approach to QCD in Coulomb Gauge: A Survey of Recent Results by H. Reinhardt, G. Burgio, D. Campagnari, E. Ebadati, J. Heffner, M. Quandt, P. Vastag, H. Vogt

“…Furthermore this approach is compared to recent lattice data, which were obtained by an alternative gauge-fixing method and which show an improved agreement with the continuum results. …”
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A causal intercomparison framework unravels precipitation drivers in Global Storm-Resolving Models by Lucile Ricard, Tom Beucler, Claudia Christine Stephan, Athanasios Nenes

“…The control of mean $${CRH}$$ CRH on precipitation is notably amplified by considering explicitly the intermediate role of the convective area. …”
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Cohort fertility of immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union by Gustavo Shifris, Barbara S. Okun

“…Our findings highlight the importance of explicitly considering heterogeneity among immigrant and native-born groups. …”
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Evaluating mental health apps under uncertainty: a decision-support framework integrating linguistic distributions, disappointment theory, and double normalization-based multi-aggr... by Adjei Peter Darko, Baojing Zhang, Kobina Agbodah, Collins Opoku Antwi, Kwame Omono Asamoah, Ke Ren, Jun Ren

“…Additionally, many mHealth studies employ multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) models that rely on a single normalization technique, which can introduce scale-related bias. To address these gaps, this study proposes a behavioral MAGDM framework, LDA–DT–DNMA, that integrates three key components: linguistic distribution assessment term sets (LDATS) to explicitly capture uncertainty and disagreement in decision-makers’ linguistic evaluations, disappointment theory (DT) to model emotional reactions such as disappointment and elation, and the double normalization-based multi-aggregation (DNMA) method to accommodate diverse evaluation attributes through dual normalization and multiple aggregation strategies. …”
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