Societies around the world face planetary-scale risks, such as climate change, and are in need of contextualized science education in finding solutions to complex problems. Making scientific content accessible across diverse social and cultural groups necessitates a learning structure that is capable of cultivating accessible and inclusive learning. Our research sought to address such education…
The depletion of birds and mammals by invasive snakes is known to trigger top-down trophic cascades in recipient ecosystems. However, the indirect effects of island reptile depletion by invasive snakes remain largely unexplored, despite reptiles being an integral component of island food webs and serving as important prey for snakes. We assessed the impacts of the invasive species Lampropeltis …
Now more than ever, the world needs citizens comfortable with interdisciplinary problem- solving in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to address global environmental and health challenges, including extreme weather, habitat destruction, and air pollution, among others. However, many countries report an insufficient number of individuals with experience in STEM problem sol…
Scientific creativity is a critical component of science education, promoting innovative thinking and the ability to address complex, real-world challenges. Despite its importance, quantitative syntheses specifically examining the effects of scientific problem-solving approaches on fostering scientific creativity are scarce. This meta-analysis addresses this gap by evaluating the impact of inqu…
Investigating the influencing factors of groundwater drought offers critical insights for the sustainable management of groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs). The Upper Zambezi Catchment hosts a large-scale alluvial aquifer system, which is vulnerable to the effects of climate change to sustain GDEs. The study aims to: (a) characterize the spatial-temporal distribution of groundwater drought …
Dispersal limitations vary among species within the same region. For some species, geographic distance is the primary constraint, while for others, environmental factors such as climate and vegetation patterns play a larger role. These landscape-driven effects are shaped by species-specific ecological traits. Despite being conceptually intuitive, landscape genetics hypotheses—such as Isolatio…
Background The classic growth rate hypothesis (GRH) suggests a direct relationship between rapid growth rates, higher phosphorus (P) concentrations, and lower nitrogen (N):P ratios. However, the applicability of GRH in forest ecosystems in the context of forest succession remains uncertain. Methods This study investigated nutrient acquisition (via soil uptake and nutrient resorption), leaf…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown excellent performance as a powerful tool on link prediction task. Recent studies have shown that link prediction based on GNNs is vulnerable to backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attack methods on link prediction task require modification of the link state, which results in poor stealthiness of the backdoor. To address this issue, a clean-label …
Repairing software defects is crucial to improving the security and robustness of software. Traditional methods repair software defects by using the “stop-repair-restart” approach. Unfortunately, in some scenarios, such as cloud environments, restarting critical software is expensive. Dynamic methods enable the defect repair while the software is running, which can avoid software restart. H…
Highlighting or marking potentially relevant information in colors while reading (Dunlosky et al., 2013) is among students’ most common studying strategies (ChanLin, 2013; Miyatsu et al., 2018). Many studies have examined the conditions affecting highlighting’s contribution to reading performance (see Ponce et al., 2022, for a recent meta-analysis). However, no studies have tackled cross-cu…