The entire editorial board has resigned from Springer Nature's Natural Language Semantics (NLS) to launch a diamond OA journal, Semantics of Natural Languages
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The home climate fixes that can survive the populist backlash ft.trib.al/YmXXDw2 | opinion
„Investitionen in #Klimaschutz und #Anpassung erhöhen die wirtschaftliche Resilienz und reduzieren langfristige Budgetrisiken", zeigt @sigridstagl.bsky.social in einer neuen Studie für @wwf.at.
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This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.
The Open Library of Humanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language …
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
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Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests
Imperial College scientists analysed health records before and after introduction of air pollution reduction zones
Low emission and clean air zones attract controversy whenever they are proposed, but there is growing evidence that they work in improving air quality. The Bradford zone was followed by a reduction of about 25% in GP visits for heart and breathing problems and survey data shows that the central London zone was followed by a reduction in the likelihood of a person taking sick leave.
Now analysis of health records has found emergency admissions to hospital reduced after the introduction of the T-charge and ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) in central London. Continue reading...
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
Analyse zeigt hohe finanzielle Risiken durch Extremwetter, fossile Preisschocks und fehlende Vorsorge – WWF fordert stärkere Berücksichtigung von Klimarisiken im Doppelbudget