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Four years on: following the pathway to real world impact of engineering research

Here we present five short case studies in which key authors of papers originally published in Communications Engineering in 2022 describe the impact of their work four years on. These reflections provide a glimpse of what the papers meant for the key researchers involved, their...

Revealed-behaviour models to map agri-environment contract feasibility for Finland’s semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures

Abstract Semi-natural grasslands and wooded pastures are biodiversity-rich, declining habitats whose conservation depends largely on voluntary management by farmers. Their management is supported through agri-environment schemes. Effective scheme design benefits from trans- and i...

Guns and Perceptions of Safety Among US Women

Importance: Prior research found differences in the perceived safety benefits from firearm exposure among diverse gun owners. More women have bought firearms in recent years, resulting in a growing proportion of women who own guns. Objective: To examine differences in perceptions...

Male partners’ roles in women’s contraceptive decision-making in Nigeria: a secondary qualitative data analysis

Male partners can play important roles in contraceptive decisions, especially in patriarchal societies like Nigeria, where restrictive gender norms influence women’s reproductive choices. However, little has been explored about how women navigate male influences and its impact on...

From Self-Interest to System Homeostasis: S1, S2, and "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself" Across Nature, Scripture, and Information Systems

Living systems begin with carriers that must preserve boundaries, obtain resources, respond to disturbance, and maintain the capacity to continue. This working paper names that first-order functional interest S1. Once multiple S1 carriers share an environment, their local interes...

Consciousness Is the New Oil: Parallel Paradise Building, Ecstatic Economics, and the Developmental Theory of Value

IDEAS · The Coming Economy — Luminous Prosperity “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.” — Winston S. Churchill, Harvard University, 6 September 1943 Every civilization runs on a primary resource. Ours ran on the black stuff pulled out of the ground — finite, ext...