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View article: P-196 Artificial intelligence for advanced embryo evaluation: from Gardner grading to ploidy prediction
P-196 Artificial intelligence for advanced embryo evaluation: from Gardner grading to ploidy prediction Open
Study question Is an AI model capable of bridging the gap between blastocyst utilization as well as embryo quality as related to the Gardner Score and ploidy? Summary answer The AI algorithm was successful at predicting blastocyst utilizat…
View article: Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy
Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy Open
In this Counterpoint, we argue for the importance of social movements in responding to the climate crisis by challenging the taken‐for‐granted practices and policies of corporate capitalism. These challenges politicize what is seen as ‘com…
View article: Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back?
Climate Action Research: What's Holding Us Back? Open
Climate change is often described as an existential crisis calling for urgent action, yet there appears to have been relatively low levels of engagement on this issue within management scholarship. Contributors to this article, all of whom…
View article: Improving Mass Casualty Incident Preparedness of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows: A Quality Improvement Initiative
Improving Mass Casualty Incident Preparedness of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows: A Quality Improvement Initiative Open
Objective Mass casualty incidents (MCI) overwhelm health care systems; however, MCIs are infrequent and require ongoing preparatory efforts. Although there is dedicated disaster medicine education in emergency medicine, most pediatric emer…
View article: The Correlation Between Static and Dynamic Facial Asymmetry in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate
The Correlation Between Static and Dynamic Facial Asymmetry in Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate Open
Objective Assess the relationship between static and dynamic facial asymmetry in unilateral cleft lip and palate during maximum smile. Design Retrospective cross-sectional study. Setting Multidisciplinary dentofacial planning clinic. Parti…
View article: Corporations and climate change: An overview
Corporations and climate change: An overview Open
Corporations are primary emitters of greenhouse gases yet are also portrayed as key agents in responding to climate change. This overview article explains corporate responses to the climate crisis at three levels of analysis: (i) political…
View article: High Temperature Test Facility At Scale Testing, Validation, and Demonstration
High Temperature Test Facility At Scale Testing, Validation, and Demonstration Open
Theses slides will be used to brief the Tribal DOE and Council Chairman for the project listed below. The High Temperature Test Facility (HTTF) is a demonstration-scale high temperature electrolysis (HTE) system that provides the ability t…
View article: The IEA Wind Task 49 Reference Floating Wind Array Design Basis
The IEA Wind Task 49 Reference Floating Wind Array Design Basis Open
International Energy Agency Wind Technology Collaboration Programme (IEA Wind) Task 49 on Integrated Design of Floating Wind Arrays is an international collaboration aiming to advance the development of large-scale floating wind farms by p…
View article: Evaluating Mixing Height Estimations in the Western United States Using Satellite Observations
Evaluating Mixing Height Estimations in the Western United States Using Satellite Observations Open
Wildfire smoke can be transported far from its origin, adversely impacting human health. The height of the atmospheric mixing layer, the near-surface layer of the troposphere in which turbulent convection leads to vertical mixing, is calle…
View article: Looking Into the Future: The Current and Future State of IR in Canada
Looking Into the Future: The Current and Future State of IR in Canada Open
This review explores the priorities and future opportunities of interventional radiology in Canada.
View article: Maximizing Global Cooling Potential in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Procurements: A Proposal for Tonne-Year Pricing
Maximizing Global Cooling Potential in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Procurements: A Proposal for Tonne-Year Pricing Open
Recently, a consortium of companies including Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey allocated US$925 million for advanced market commitments to kickstart the early-stage Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market. We argue that it is now …
View article: The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef
The Roles of Celebrities in Public Disputes: Climate Change and the Great Barrier Reef Open
Celebrities are increasingly important actors in social disputes, with their high public profiles used to amplify political campaigns and business firms utilising celebrity endorsements to promote their brands and justify their actions. En…
View article: Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization
Divided yet united: Balancing convergence and divergence in environmental movement mobilization Open
Environmental movements play an increasingly pivotal role in societal responses to pressing issues, such as climate change. These movements are often multi-scalar, spanning locations, ideological orientations, organisational types, and tac…
View article: Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority
Turning Back the Rising Sea: Theory performativity in the shift from climate science to popular authority Open
Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need to reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local climate adaptation to sea level rise, we show how climate ch…
View article: Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of Revolution
Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of Revolution Open
In the twenty-first century, it is time that Marxists updated the conception of socialist revolution they have inherited from Marx, Engels, and Lenin. Slogans about the “dictatorship of the proletariat” “smashing the capitalist state” and …
View article: Pro-Market Governance, Migration Status and Worker Vulnerability: The Case of Australian Horticulture
Pro-Market Governance, Migration Status and Worker Vulnerability: The Case of Australian Horticulture Open
The migration status of temporary migrant workers is often presented as a major determinant of labour rights and worker vulnerabilities. Using a sequential mixed method approach this article interrogates this proposition to examine the fac…
View article: The new art of ethnographic filmmaking
The new art of ethnographic filmmaking Open
Chapter for the Routledge Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video.
View article: The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa
The Life and Times of Jimmy Hoffa Open
In light of Martin Scorsese's popular movie "The Irishman," it is a good time to reassess Jimmy Hoffa. He's probably the most famous union leader in American history, but the only thing most people know of him is that he ran the Teamsters …
View article: Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation
Making Climate Change Fit for Capitalism: The Corporate Translation of Climate Adaptation Open
As the impacts of climate change become more evident and extreme weather events threaten communities and ecosystems, so the role of implicated industries and corporations have come under growing critique. In response to calls for dramatic …
View article: Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests
Fracking the Future: The Temporal Portability of Frames in Political Contests Open
Despite scientific consensus on the need to rapidly decarbonize economic systems to limit global warming, the exploitation of fossil fuels continues unabated. This begs the question, why do we continue down this path? We argue that one rea…
View article: Uncertain Realities : Art, Anthropology, and Activism
Uncertain Realities : Art, Anthropology, and Activism Open
Article considering the links between anthropology, art, and activism.
View article: Fracking in the UK: how could a technologically advanced society choose to destroy itself?
Fracking in the UK: how could a technologically advanced society choose to destroy itself? Open
Prime Minister Theresa May recently doubled down on the Conservative Party’s commitment to the development of hydraulic fracturing of shale gas (‘fracking’) in the UK. In the House of Commons, the Prime Minister proposed £1 billion of addi…
View article: The Significance and Shortcomings of Karl Marx
The Significance and Shortcomings of Karl Marx Open
In this essay I explain both why Karl Marx remains an important thinker and why he is in some respects inadequate. I focus on the central issue of 'materialism vs. idealism,' and briefly explore ways in which contemporary intellectuals sti…
View article: Organizing in the Anthropocene
Organizing in the Anthropocene Open
The functioning of the biosphere and the Earth as a whole is being radically disrupted due to human activities, evident in climate change, toxic pollution and mass species extinction. Financialization and exponential growth in production, …