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Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...
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Dynamical Systems of Continuous Spectra

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Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

Perhaps such a transition will be increasingly adaptive. Faced with growing ecological and social crises, the current ...
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Membrane properties of living mammalian cells as studied by enzymatic hydrolysis of fluorogenic esters.

Following the 9/11 attacks, there were large increases in Islamist terrorism driven especially by al-Qaeda, ISIS, and their affiliates. More recently, we have seen an upsurge in right-wing political ...
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OPTIMALITY CRITERIA IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN

OPTIMALITY CRITERIA IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN*Note: The article usage is presented with a three- to four-day delay and will update daily once available. Due to ths delay, usage data will not appear ...
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Correction for Soni et al., BIK polymorphism and proteasome regulation unveil host risk factor for severe influenza

The authors note that Fig. 4 appeared incorrectly, with the color coding of the axis labels reversed. To maintain consistency with the graph’s data points, the labels for “siCtr” have been recolored ...
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Correction for An et al., Impact of women’s political empowerment through gender quotas on improved drinking water access in Africa

The authors note that the affiliation for Professor Bin Chen should instead appear as: 1) Future Urbanity & Sustainable Environment (FUSE) Lab, Division of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of ...
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Cognitive dissonance in large language models is neither cognitive nor dissonant

Lehr et al. (1) (LSHVB) claim that ChatGPT-4o exhibits an analog to “humanlike cognitive selfhood” in a classical cognitive dissonance paradigm (p. 1). We argue that the observed effects require ...