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Gladiator II’s Fred Hechinger Enters His Imperial Phase

GQ.com 

You might remember him from The White Lotus; this season, he’s popping up everywhere from ancient Rome to the Sony Spiderverse. As GQ.com’s Gladiator Week rolls on, Hechinger talks to GQ about getting notes from Sir Ridley and taking inspiration from a monkey scene partner.

Avowed's rickety combat feels like the undoing of its lush fungal world

Rock Paper Shotgun 

I have significant reservations about Avowed, Obsidian's first-person Pillars Of Eternity spin-off RPG, but those reservations are significantly offset by the fact that I can be an undersea mushroom woman called Mystic Meg. In Avowed, you are the god-touched envoy of a distant emperor, sent to an island realm known as the Living Lands to investigate a mysterious blight. "God-touched", in this case, means "fungal and a bit mermaidy". It means that you can make rainbow toadstools sprout from your eyesocket in the character creator. Читать дальше...

Billboard Headquarters/ Branco del Río, Arquitectos

Archdaily.com 

As the client, a billboard company, took over an old metal workshop for its new headquarters, all the workflow and organisation had to be adapted. This project followed that process, and evolved with it. A ‘work in progress’ that comprised two phases, simultaneously and alternately developed: the revamp of the existing industrial warehouse and the construction of a new office space in a narrow vacant plot.

Analyzing the effect of sleep duration, chronotype, and social jet lag on anxiety disorders and health-related quality of life: A cross-sectional study

Plos.org 

by Sung Min Jung, Mee-Ri Lee

Background

Anxiety disorders significantly impair the quality of life (QOL). Studies on the effect of sleep duration, chronotype, and social jet lag on anxiety disorders are limited. This study aimed to elucidate the contributions of sleep duration, chronotype, and social jet lag to the prevalence and severity of anxiety disorders in Koreans.

Methods

This study used data of 9,874 Korean adults from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2021–2022. Читать дальше...

Trophic transfer and bioaccumulation of nanoplastics in Coryphaena hippurus (mahi-mahi) and effect of depuration

Plos.org 

by Preyojon Dey, Terence M. Bradley, Alicia Boymelgreen

Ocean plastic pollution is a global concern, exacerbated by the distinctive physiochemical characteristics of nanoplastics (NPs), making it crucial to study the impacts on marine animals, particularly fish, given their ecological and economic importance. Both trophic transfer and waterborne exposure are potential modes of NP entry into seafood for human consumption Although the majority of studies have focused on in-vitro impacts of NP exposure in fish... Читать дальше...

Benefits of managerial overconfidence for corporate digital transformation: Evidence from China

Plos.org 

by Yi Jin, Chuxin Chen, Bo Liu

This article studies how managerial overconfidence shapes a firm’s digital transformation and unpacks the pathway and the boundary condition. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms between 2011 and 2022, we find that managerial overconfidence exhibits a positive relationship with corporate digital transformation and the relationship is mediated by R&D investment. In addition, we demonstrate that compared to state-owned companies, R&D investment has a... Читать дальше...

Does foreign direct investment affect environmental degradation: Evidence from largest carbon intense countries

Plos.org 

by Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna, Selin Atis

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and environmental degradation are some of the most controversial debates, especially in the context of global warming and climate change. This study aims to shed light on the impact of FDI on environmental degradation in the countries with the highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, taking into account 513 country-years between the years 1996 and 2022. CO2 and the ecological footprint were used as indicators of environmental degradation. Читать дальше...