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“1,800 Miles Beneath Africa”: South Atlantic Anomaly Weakens Earth’s Magnetic Shield While Splitting Into Two Dangerous Lobes

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area of scientific fascination and concern. This region, characterized by a weakened magnetic field over South America

Revisiting the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy with Taxonomic Graph Analysis

Describing and understanding personality structure is fundamental to predict and explain human behavior. Recent research calls for large personality item pools to be analyzed from the bottom-up, as item-level analysis may reveal meaningful differences often obscured by aggregation. This study introduces and applies Taxonomic Graph Analysis (TGA), a comprehensive network psychometrics framework aimed at identifying hierarchical structures in personality from the bottom-up, to an open-source 300-item IPIP-NEO dataset (N = 149,337). This framework addresses key methodological challenges that have hindered accurate recovery of hierarchical structures, including local independence violations, wording effects, dimensionality assessment, and structural robustness.

Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store.

The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including. NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA,.NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees.

Redmond will also handle each app’s hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services.

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