Identification of deposits from modern and ancient large tsunamis by means of environmental DNA by Tetsuya Shinozaki, Akira Iguchi, Miyuki Nishijima, Kazuhisa Goto, Shigehiro Fujino

“…The diverse DNA assemblage in the deposit formed by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami included DNA of marine origin indicating that eDNA has potential as an identifying proxy for tsunami deposits. Subsequently, we examined the applicability of eDNA for recognizing paleo-tsunami events using the deposits formed by the 869 CE Jogan tsunami and a prehistoric event (2400–2900 cal year BP). …”
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Shedding light on development: Leveraging the new nightlights data to measure economic progress. by Prachi Jhamb, Susana Ferreira, Patrick Stephens, Mekala Sundaram, Jonathan Wilson

“…Nightlights (NTL) have been widely used as a proxy for economic activity, despite known limitations in accuracy and comparability, particularly with outdated Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) data. …”
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FINANCIAL INCLUSION, INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY, AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN NIGERIA by Rashidat Sumbola Akande, Hauwah K. K. AbdulKareem, Aminat Olayinka Olohunlana

“…The paper is anchored on the Capability Approach and adopts the Human Development Index (HDI) as a proxy for poverty reduction as it measures basic human capabilities. …”
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Analysis of Climate and Land Use Changes Impacts on Land Degradation in the North China Plain by Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng, Fang Yin, Cuiyuan Yang

“…To comprehensively and quantitatively analyze the land degradation process, this paper employed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a proxy to assess land degradation and further applied the binary panel logit regression model to analyze the impacts of the driving factors on land degradation in the North China Plain. …”
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Marsh Sedimentation Controls Delta Top Morphology, Slope, and Mass Balance by K. M. Sanks, S. M. Zapp, J. R. Silvestre, J. B. Shaw, R. Dutt, K. M. Straub

“…We investigate how non‐riverine, elevation‐controlled deposition typified by marshes impacts sediment partitioning between a delta's topset, coastal zone, and foreset by comparing a delta experiment with proxy marsh accumulation to a control. Marsh accumulation alters fluvial sediment distribution by decreasing the slope in the marsh window by ∼50%, creating a 78% larger marsh zone. …”
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The Impact of Credit Policy Environment on Agricultural Output in Nigeria by Ini-mfon Vincent Patrick, Veronica Sebastin Nkanta, Edet Jouhua Udoh, Sunday Brownson Akpan

“…Hence, with the aim to identify factors that influence the sector, the study specifically establishes the relationship between the agricultural sector growth proxy by the agricultural production index and the credit policy variables in Nigeria. …”
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Trusting AI: does uncertainty visualization affect decision-making? by Jonatan Reyes, Anil Ufuk Batmaz, Marta Kersten-Oertel

“…This study aims to investigate the impact of visualizing uncertainty on decision-making and trust in AI.MethodsWe conducted a user study with 147 participants, utilizing static classic gaming scenarios as a proxy for human-AI collaboration in decision-making. …”
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Performance Analysis of the Indian IT & ITeS Sector: An Application of Additive-DEA and G2SLS by Santanu MUKHERJEE, Taufeeq AJAZ, Triptendu Prakash GHOSH

“…This study uses an integrated balanced scorecard-based Additive-DEA framework to identify proxy variables for the inputs and outputs for a sample of firms in India’s information technology and information technology-enabled services sector to identify and analyse these firms’ inefficiencies. …”
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On the Onset Time of Several SPE/GLE Events: Indications from High-Energy Gamma-Ray and Neutron Measurements by CORONAS-F by Viktoria Kurt, Karel Kudela, Boris Yushkov, Vladimir Galkin

“…We supposed that a time profile of the soft X-ray derivative was a good proxy of time behavior of the flare energy release. …”
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An overview of the opus of architect Đorđe Đorđević (1921-1940) by Gačić-Ivanov Jelena

“…Many of his works were excluded during fragmentary reviews, due to the proxy signing of projects by civil engineers Lazar Kostić and Miloš Antić, in whose technical bureau he worked in the middle of the 1930s. …”
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Medication Timing Errors for Parkinson's Disease: Perspectives Held by Caregivers and People with Parkinson's in New Zealand by Stephen Buetow, Jenny Henshaw, Linda Bryant, Deirdre O'Sullivan

“…This qualitative research purposively sampled individuals with PD, or a proxy of their choice, throughout New Zealand during 2008-2009. …”
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SpongeScapes: Understanding the role of nature-based solutions in improving sponge functioning of landscapes – the case of regenerative agriculture by Sah Neeraj, Blake James, D’Acunha Brenda, Bell Vicky, Evans Jon, Morrison Ross, Dussaillant Alejandro

“…By inferring changes in saturated water content (proxy for porosity), findings from trend analyses on UK case studies provide insights into the potential of RAPs as an NBS for enhancing landscape water resilience through improved soil sponge functioning.…”
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The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 drove broadly increased seroprevalence in a public university setting. by Ching-Wen Hou, Stacy Williams, Guillermo Trivino-Soto, Veronica Boyle, David Rainford, Selina Vicino, Mitch Magee, Yunro Chung, Joshua LaBaer, Vel Murugan

“…The near doubling of anti-NC reactivity, a proxy for history of infection, reflects the contagiousness of the omicron variant, but may also have been influenced by a more relaxed approach to precautions in the spring of 2022. …”
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Astronomical Chronology Framework of the Lingshui Formation (Oligocene) in the Northern South China Sea by Jianhao Liang, Yaning Wang, Shangfeng Zhang, Yubing Liang, Gaoyang Gong, Rui Han

“…Sensitivity analysis of PRA has shown that natural gamma (GR) is the optimal paleoclimatic proxy, laying the foundation for subsequent analyses. …”
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Financial Innovation and Sustainable Development in Selected Countries in West Africa by Folorunsho M. Ajide

“…Data were sourced from World Bank development indicators from years 2000-2013. We used two proxies of competitions, two proxies of financial innovations and regressed them on a growth indicator as well as development indicator with other control variables. …”
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Latitude Quenching Nonlinearity in the Solar Dynamo by Anthony R. Yeates, Luca Bertello, Alexander A. Pevtsov, Alexei A. Pevtsov

“…The resulting data show weak evidence for tilt quenching, but much stronger evidence for latitude quenching. Further, we use proxy observations of the polar field from faculae to construct a best-fit surface flux transport model driven by our database of emerging regions. …”
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Efectos de la política monetaria con metas de inflación en los retornos del mercado bursátil by Antonio Rafael Rodríguez Abraham

“…Siguiendo a Kuttner (2001) se estimó un proxy para el componente inesperado a partir de las tasas de interés interbancarias. …”
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A step towards a sustainable environment in top-10 nuclear energy consumer countries: The role of financial globalization and nuclear energy by Mumtaz Ali, Ahmed Samour, Suhaib Ahmed Soomro, Waqar Khalid, Turgut Tursoy

“…The load capacity factor is used as a novel proxy for ecological sustainability, explaining how human actions affect ecological sustainability and how nature compensates for human-induced damage. …”
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The role of extra-familial factors in adolescence for the association between out-of-home care and adult psychiatric disorders-A birth cohort study. by Lisa Bornscheuer, Evelina Landstedt, Ylva B Almquist

“…Investigating gender differences in vulnerability and resilience processes following out-of-home care (OHC) as proxy for childhood adversity can help map opportunities for the prevention of psychiatric disorders.…”
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Greater than the sum of its parts: optical remote sensing and sediment core data provide a holistic perspective on glacial processes by Henry Jacob Miller Gage, Carolyn Hope Eyles

“…Sediment core records are spatially discrete, providing long-term paleoenvironmental proxy data which require assumptions about environment-sediment linkages. …”
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