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Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining #EU

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

#Manchester's filthy air.
A long way to go.
"All in all, the measures will get Greater Manchester’s air to 40.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide in one cubic metre of air.
"The UK legal limit is officially 40, but results under 40.4 are rounded down, making TfGM’s plan compliant.
"But the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit is just 10."
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Clean air zone signs are down, but our pollution 'is like smoking 150 cigarettes a year'. Now what?
The charging clean air zone was cancelled after a spectacular U-turn in 2022 - and led to more arguments and thousands of stickers being slapped on signs. Now there's a new plan, Ethan Davies examines what it involves - and why it's only a start

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,083,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

After IECharge, which has set up fast #EV charging stations at their solar battery locations (with the lowest price in the French market: €0.25/kWh), there's now another French network offering green electricity directly from the source (also very competitive at €0.30/kWh).

Kallista Energy inaugure la première station de recharge raccordée à des éoliennes
Producteur indépendant d’énergies renouvelables, Kallista Energy a diversifié ses activités en 2022 en lançant le réseau de recharge rapide Yaway...

Probit Monotone BART
Jared D. Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00263

Probit Monotone BART
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) of Chipman et al. (2010) has proven to be a powerful tool for nonparametric modeling and prediction. Monotone BART (Chipman et al., 2022) is a recent development that allows BART to be more precise in estimating monotonic functions. We further these developments by proposing probit monotone BART, which allows the monotone BART framework to estimate conditional mean functions when the outcome variable is binary.

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#EndOfSummer

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Bears elevate 2022 Raiders draft pick amid D'Andre Swift's injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-elevate-2022-raiders-draft-pick-amid-dandre-swifts-injury/05a03f6f6…

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
Xia Huang, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00453

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
In this work, we summarize the linearization method to study the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles, and explain that the same approach can be used to handle the stability problem. As examples of application, combining with spherical harmonic decomposition and the Hardy inequalities, we revise two families of inequalities. We give firstly an affirmative answer in dimension four to Cazacu-Flynn-Lam's conjecture [JFA, 2022] for the sharp Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and improve the recent estim…

Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
Maximilian Peter B\"ohme, Willow Martin, Hannah Bellenbaum, Magaret Berrens, Jan Vorberger, Sebastian Schwalbe, Zhandos Moldabekov, Thomas Gawne, Sebastien Hamel, Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Abhiraj Sharma, Frank Graziani, Tilo D\"oppner, Siegfried Glenzer, Tobias Dornheim, David Bishel

Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic for matter under extreme conditions, as it captures the intricate many-body physics of the probed sample. Recent advances, such as the model-free temperature diagnostic of Dornheim et al. [Nat.Commun. 13, 7911 (2022)], have demonstrated how much information can be extracted directly within the imaginary-time formalism. However, since the imaginary-time formalism is a concept often difficult to grasp, we provide here a systemat…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Board Gender Diversity and Carbon Emissions Performance: Insights from Panel Regressions, Machine Learning and Explainable AI
Mohammad Hassan Shakil, Arne Johan Pollestad, Khine Kyaw, Ziaul Haque Munim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00244

Board Gender Diversity and Carbon Emissions Performance: Insights from Panel Regressions, Machine Learning and Explainable AI
With the European Union introducing gender quotas on corporate boards, this study investigates the impact of board gender diversity (BGD) on firms' carbon emission performance (CEP). Using panel regressions and advanced machine learning algorithms on data from European firms between 2016 and 2022, the analyses reveal a significant non-linear relationship. Specifically, CEP improves with BGD up to an optimal level of approximately 35 percent, beyond which further increases in BGD yield no additi…

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

Eigentum unleistbar - Wer eine Wohnung will, zahlt zwölf Jahresgehälter #News #Nachrichten

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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The “sticker range” advertised on the lot for our new 2019 Hyundai Kona EV was 420km.
The battery was replaced under recall at around 40,000km in 2022 a couple months before we went on an epic 12,000km Pacific-Atlantic-Pacifc cross Canada adventure.
Fast forward to today. The car is at 226,000km and I am headed 225km down to Victoria to bring my wife home from the Airport.
Car is ready. 100% charge. 468km on the rangeOmeter. That is city driving so I don’t expect to get that range at highway speeds. I’ll top it up in Sydney before heading home. This was always our main criteria. Can we drive to Victoria comfortably.
Yep. No problem. Even 200,000km later!
Range anxiety is a myth foisted on you by the oil industry. They are gas lighting the world into believing we are the problem, evs are the problem, electric systems are the problem.
They are the problem. Them. Not us. Them. They need to end.
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety

18,500 soldiers convicted in Russia of desertion or unauthorized absence since 2022, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/soldiers-convicted-in-russia-of.html

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series
#Deming

The spectral Tur\'{a}n problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Longfei Fang, Huiqiu Lin, Mingqing Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12070 https://

The spectral Turán problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Let ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)$ denote the families of $n$-vertex $H$-free graphs with the maximum size and the maximum spectral radius, respectively. A graph $H$ is said to be spectral-consistent if ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)\subseteq {\rm EX}(n,H)$ for sufficiently large $n$. A fundamental problem in spectral extremal graph theory is to determine which graphs are spectral-consistent. Cioabă, Desai and Tait [European J. Combin. 99 (2022) 103420] proposed the following conjecture: Let $H$ be…

Pogačar's (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) return to racing at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on Friday was the scene of a rare miss, as the World Champion finished in 29th place – his worst one-day result in three years.
Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) claimed a brilliant solo victory, while Pogačar finished 26 seconds back in the chase group, his lowest placing in a one-day race since 2022.

I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792

Great grey owl flips the script on Quebec City wildlife photographer | CBC News
An amateur photographer got more than she bargained for when the owl she set out to photograph landed on her camera lens.

Can't help but feel that all of the editorials criticising the Online Safety Act might have been better published at any point between March 2022 and September 2023.

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#FashionAccessoryASongOrPoem

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
Sourav Nayak, Dhriti Sundar Patra, Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08871 https:/…

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
The interest of geometers in $f$-structures is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in physics. A weak $f$-structure on a smooth manifold, introduced by V. Rovenski and R. Wolak (2022), generalizes K. Yano's (1961) $f$-structure. This generalization allows us to revisit classical theory and discover new applications related to Killing vector fields, totally geodesic foliations, Ricci-type solitons, and Einstein-type metrics. In this paper, …

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected APCs, publishing patterns, and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars between 2020 and 2023. Data from Scopus covers articles published before (2020-2021) and after (2022-2023) the war's onset. Statistical analysis revealed a small but significant correlation between APC amounts and citation impact, though the effect size was minimal, suggesting higher APCs did not substantially boost citations.…

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Zhangming Yang, Xiaoting Yin, Dahai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09216

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Drawing on the new pattern of 'dual circulation', an evaluation system for the development level of China's higher education has been constructed, utilizing data from Chinese provinces over the period 2020 to 2022. Initially, the evaluation model is established, followed by the screening of initial indicators through correlation analysis. Subsequently, an entropy weight-TOPSIS model are employed for static quantification, and the PVAR model is introduced for the first time to describe the dynam…

Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Sipeng Zeng, Xiaoning Wang, Tianshu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09634 https://arxiv.…

Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for enhancing innovation and productivity, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We investigate why some firms and industries succeed with AI while others do not, focusing on the degree to which an industrial domain is technologically integrated with AI, which we term "domain AI readiness". Using panel data on Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2022, we examine how the interaction between firm-level AI capabilities and domain AI re…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08675 https://

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Precise stellar ages are fundamental to Galactic archaeology. However, obtaining reliable age estimates and uncertainties for field stars has been a long-standing challenge. We test the fidelity of ages from recent catalogs of giants and subgiants using wide binaries, whose components formed at the same time and thus should have consistent inferred ages. We find that subgiant ages based on spectroscopic metallicities from Xiang & Rix (2022) are generally consistent within their reported uncerta…

The Incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier Limits from Boltzmann-Fermi-Dirac Equation for Low Regularity Data
Ning Jiang, Chenchen Wang, Kai Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21030 …

The Incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier Limits from Boltzmann-Fermi-Dirac Equation for Low Regularity Data
We consider the hydrodynamic limits of the quantum Boltzmann equation with Fermi-Dirac statistics for hard sphere and hard potentials in the whole space. By analyzing the spectrum of the linearized collision operator combined with the transport operator and its associated semigroup, the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier limits from the BFD equation is verified rigorously. Compared to the results in [Jiang-Xiong-Zhou,J. Differ. Equ.,2022], this paper works with a lower regularity for the init…

This ends up being a really interesting read about the challenges of a country to fight corruption while it tries to achieve everything it needs to do become part of the EU.
Moldova and Ukraine started the process together 2022. Imagine if they could actually achieve it together in 2028!
#Ukraine #Moldova #Corruption #EU #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/08/29/7219040/

Doubly Discordant SH0ES NGC4258 Cepheid Relations (HVI), and Impactful Extinction Laws
Daniel Majaess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04998 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Doubly Discordant SH0ES NGC4258 Cepheid Relations (HVI), and Impactful Extinction Laws
S$H_0$ES 2016-2022 $HVI$ data for classical Cepheids in the keystone galaxy NGC4258 yield doubly discordant Wesenheit Leavitt functions:~$ΔW_{0,H-VI} = -0.13\pm0^{m}.02$ ($-0^{m}.17$ unweighted) and that is paired with a previously noted $ΔW_{0,I-VI}\simeq-0^{m}.3$, which in concert with complimentary evidence suggest the 2016 S$H_0$ES NGC4258-anchored $H_0 \pm σ_{H_0}$ warrants scrutiny (i.e., $σ_{H_0}/{H_0}\gtrsim 6$\%). Cepheid distance uncertainties are further exacerbated by extinction…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
alt‐J:
🎵 U&ME (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022)
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Multiwavelength continuum, emission line and BAL variability with prominent PV absorption in the X-ray-weakest quasar PG0043 039
Wolfram Kollatschny, Norbert Schartel, Malte A. Probst, Martin W. Ochmann, Lucia Ballo, Maria Santos-Lleo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04733

Multiwavelength continuum, emission line and BAL variability with prominent PV absorption in the X-ray-weakest quasar PG0043+039
PG0043+039 has been identified as an extremely X-ray-weak quasar and as a peculiar broad-absorption-line quasar based on UV HST spectra. We took simultaneous deep X-ray observations of PG0043+039 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, UV spectra with the HST, and optical spectra with the HET telescope in 2022. PG0043+039 was an extreme low-X-ray-luminosity quasar in 2022. This AGN showed an extreme steep alpha_oX value of -2.47. The X-ray luminosity was a factor of 3.4 higher in the meantime in 2013. The …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
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Anna Calvi:
🎵 Ain't No Grave (6 Music Session, 19 May 2022)
#AnnaCalvi
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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Die #Klimakrise trifft #Deutschland:
Die invasive #Tigermücke breitet sich seit 2022 massiv am #Oberrhein

„Nichts zu tun, wäre fatal“: Kommunen wehren sich gegen aggressive Stechmücken-Art
Die Asiatische Tigermücke hat sich am Oberrhein massiv ausgebreitet. Die Bekämpfung soll weitergehen – auch wenn die Hoffnung auf eine Ausrottung des invasiven Insekts mittlerweile zerschlagen hat.