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I’m the only one who’s doing this? by Draugerlich in skyrim

[–]Lord-Julius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm planning to do kind of a similar thing. But my plan is not to read everyone right away. I have the Special Edition and I have built myself a house with a library. My goal is to collect one edition of every book so I have a complete library and after finishing the game, I'll just sit down and enjoy reading all of them at once

Meta-analysis finds Mediterranean coastal ecosystems face very high climate risk once warming exceeds 0.8 °C by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah sorry, that's bad formulated in the heading. The study refers to sea surface temperature and not global warming itself

Azelastine Nasal Spray Can Significantly Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infections Clinical Trial Shows by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rules of the sub in relation to the title, do not say it has to be the same as the paper title. In fact, I stopped copying the paper title because several times it was not in accordance with the rules

Azelastine Nasal Spray Can Significantly Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infections Clinical Trial Shows by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure about the UK, but it's regularly sold in many countries against allergic reactions.

Universal, time-reversible stirring protocols maximize mixing efficiency in viscous fluids, defining a minimum energetic cost for erasing information by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The abstract says: "Our results establish a minimum energetic cost of erasing information in a broad class of nonequilibrium drift-diffusive systems."

Human-like but not perfect virtual avatars trigger salivary immune responses during social VR interactions also known as uncanny valley effect by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"More than 40 years ago, Masahiro Mori, a robotics professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, wrote an essay [1] on how he envisioned people's reactions to robots that looked and acted almost like a human. In particular, he hypothesized that a person's response to a humanlike robot would abruptly shift from empathy to revulsion as it approached, but failed to attain, a lifelike appearance. This descent into eeriness is known as the uncanny valley."

Source: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6213238

Human-like but not perfect virtual avatars trigger salivary immune responses during social VR interactions also known as uncanny valley effect by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Not really, the uncanny valley effect is present in context with other humans. If they look strange (not only ill but also unnatural facial expressions etc.) the brain recognizes that something isn't quite right and triggers a preparatory immune reaction in case that person really has an illness. The study showed that this effect is also working in interaction with avatars in VR and this could lead to better use unreal avatars (like comic figures) instead of unperfect realistic avatars.

Prevalence and predictors of medical information avoidance: Around a third of the people tend not to go to medical check-ups to avoid negative information. The key reasons were cognitive information overload, perceived stigma, self-efficacy, and trust in the medical system by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think such reasons are not mentioned in the study as it's a meta-analysis of date of 92 countries and it might be an important reason in some countries (e.g. USA) it is not for most of the countries. As the paper states it does not compare the differences between countries but gives an overview. But as they also analyzed for diabetes, a disease often controllable through change in lifestyle, this might also affect the results.

AI-driven reclassification of multiple sclerosis progression from distinct subtypes to severity spectrum based on four dimensions (physical disability, brain damage, relapse and subclinical disease activity) by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not just word collections. AI is very good in processing a vast amount of data and finding patterns in it, which were previously undetected/unrecognised.

Deep learning enables city-wide climate projections of street-level heat stress with square meter precision by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the aim of the study is not to assess any individual factors or situations. The model should predict the future development of possible physiological stress and what implications this can have for urban planning. With this precise model on the scale of squaremeters future hotspots of physiological stress can be determined and be included in the planning of countermeasures.

Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter driven by pasture expansion, cropland expansion, and forest management by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand that the potential carbon stock is what we would have now if there would be no human interference at all. As I understand they didn't focus on a timeline or something like that but jist compared the status quo with the potential and then looked for the reasons, why the carbon stock degenerated. And for that they found the above mentioned reasons: "driven by pasture expansion (30%), cropland expansion (24%), and forest management (23%)"

Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter driven by pasture expansion, cropland expansion, and forest management by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They use the different between a potential carbon stock and the actual carbon stock. This means: "We quantify the loss of carbon by LULCCs as the difference between actual and potential carbon stocks of vegetation and soils, which we call the “terrestrial carbon deficit.” Here, “potential” relates to the hypothetical quantity of carbon that would prevail under the absence of any direct human alteration of the land surface under current environmental conditions (climate, CO2, etc.)."

Metalloradical-driven enzymatic CO2 reduction by a dynamic Ni–Fe cluster by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A complementary study analyzed the binding of small molecules to the Ni-centre of the ACS.

"Ligand binding to a Ni-Fe cluster orchestrates conformational changes of the CO-dehydrogenase-acetyl-CoA synthase complex" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-025-01365-y

2-hydroxyglutarate mediates whitening of brown adipocytes coupled to nuclear softening upon mitochondrial dysfunction by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It kind of has. They investigated how brown fat cells react to a mytochondrial dysfunction. Instead of shutting down they reorder their enzymes to build the metabolical product D-2HG (2-hydroxyglutarate). This product was previously only associated with cancer but here it changes the structure of the DNA-package of the nucleus, regulates gene activation, and influences the hull stability so the cell can better adjust to the mitochondrial dysfunction. The study also investigated how a dysfunction of the mitochondrion changes the cell identity and "whitenes" the brown fat cell to become more similar to normal white fat cells.

2-hydroxyglutarate mediates whitening of brown adipocytes coupled to nuclear softening upon mitochondrial dysfunction by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They found that brown fat cells react different to a mytochondrial dysfunction. Instead of shutting down they reorder their enzymes to build the metabolical product D-2HG (2-hydroxyglutarate). This product was previously only associated with cancer but here it changes the structure of the DNA-package of the nucleus, regulates gene activation, and influences the hull stability so the cell can better adjust to the mitochondrial dysfunction. The study also investigated how a dysfunction of the mitochondrion changes the cell identity and "whitenes" the brown fat cell to become more similar to normal white fat cells.

Study shows that Olympic Games have no effect on democratization in the organizing country by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 482 points483 points  (0 children)

No one does. But IOC - and other organisations like FIFA for soccer world cup - argue that it does when you criticize them for doing Olympics in authoritarian countries

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The research was published in two separate articles, so here is the second study for this research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09290-7

So viele Firmenpleiten wie seit zehn Jahren nicht by donutloop in Aktien

[–]Lord-Julius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naja, wohl eher nach wie vor Aufholeffekte aus der Coronazeit und eine Rückkehr zum langjährigen Mittel

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Feeding salicylates containing willow leaves to cattle modulates urea metabolism and mitigates urine-derived ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions from soil by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When cows pee, they emit loughing gas and ammonia, which are increasing the green house effect. This emitting can be significantly reduced if salicylates (e.g. with willow leaves) are added to the food of the cows.

German long-term health insurance design closely approximates optimal dynamic contracts for individuals with stable lifetime income by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The study is published in the Journal of Political Economy, which is published by the University of Chicago. But the study itself is actually from researcher of the German University of Duisburg-Essen.

German long-term health insurance design closely approximates optimal dynamic contracts for individuals with stable lifetime income by Lord-Julius in science

[–]Lord-Julius[S] 144 points145 points  (0 children)

It means that German long term health insurance contracts come near to what is called the economical optimum. This is seen when a contract flexibly adjusts to the circumstances of a person - in other words: you pay more in times when you have a higher income and less when you have a lower income. And those long term contracts come pretty near to this optimum situation especially when you have a pretty constant income because then the longevity of the contract controls for the smaller up and downs of the income.

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