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Correction: Irisin directly stimulates osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption in vitro and in vivo
Main text Estell EG, Le PT, Vegting Y, Kim H, Wrann C, Bouxsein ML, Nagano K, Baron R, Spiegelman BM, Rosen CJ. 2020. Irisin directly stimulates osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption in vitro and in vivo. eLife 9:e58172. doi: 10.7554/eLife.58172. Published 11 August 2020 Statement on Impact to Conclusions and Reproducibility. The following outlines and corrects a specific error found in one supplemental image, and addresses additional methodological questions from the scientific community.
Associations of pet ownership and pet attachment with a metabolite-based psychosocial distress score and circulating metabolomic profiles
The authors have declared no competing interest. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
PostgreSQL 19 interactive tour
You can finally find out who killed your backend. When a session is terminated by pg_terminate_backend() or an external SIGTERM, the server log now adds DETAIL: Signal sent by PID 142, UID 999. It’s an errdetail_log(), so it goes to the log rather than the client, and it needs SA_SIGINFO (Linux, FreeBSD, most modern Unixes). A follow-up reworked signal handling to pass a pg_signal_info struct into every handler, instead of stashing the sender in globals.
Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb
Updated Mon, September 7, 2026 at 8:24 AM UTC The tranquil mood is deceptive … Okurimono.Photograph: PR IMAGE No words are spoken during the first five minutes of Laurence Lévesque’s documentary. In a rustic house on the island city of Nagasaki, a Japanese woman in her 60s, Noriko, draws back the curtains to let in the glow of dawn. The tranquil mood, however, is deceptive. Once her childhood home, the place holds a lifetime of secrets, which Norkia only discovers after her parents’ death.
Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb
Okurimono review – a heartbreaking dispatch from survivors of the Nagasaki bomb Mon, 7 September 2026 at 8:23 am UTC Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tranquil mood is deceptive … Okurimono. Photograph: PR IMAGE No words are spoken during the first five minutes of Laurence Lévesque's documentary. In a rustic house on the island city of Nagasaki, a Japanese woman in her 60s, Noriko, draws back the curtains to let in the glow of dawn.
Unidentified Murder review – playful sendup of alien abduction and true crime influencers in Hong Kong
Modestly scaled and intricately structured, Kwok Ka-Hei and Jack Lee Chun-Kit’s comedy is a capriciously playful send-up of true crime aficionados and wannabe influencers, done with affection rather than malice. It revolves around a (fictional) 25-year-old case that captivates the whole of Hong Kong. Back when they were seven, childhood friends Mark (Ling Man-lung) and Kit (Ronald Lam Tsz-kit) claimed to have witnessed the abduction by aliens of their classmate Ho in the woods of Tung Tau Hill.
How Go’s Built-in Map Works with Swiss Tables
Go @ VictoriaMetrics Open Source Tech Share: We have already written about Go maps and their old runtime implementation in Go Maps Explained: How Key-Value Pairs Are Actually Stored. Go 1.24 replaced that implementation with a design based on Swiss Tables, so it is time for an update. You do not need to go back and read the old article. We will review how maps behave and the concepts needed here before moving into the new runtime internals.
The Black Garden review – haunting study of growing up in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh
After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a decades-long territorial dispute exploded in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, as its largely Armenian population fought against countless military campaigns from the Azerbaijani army. Shot over the course of three eventful years, which culminated in the surrender of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government in 2023, Alexis Pazoumian’s haunting documentary harnesses the collective turmoil that dominated generations of Armenians.
Crisis, credit risk, and productivity: lessons from the Vietnamese banking sector during COVID-19
?Mathematical formulae have been encoded as MathML and are displayed in this HTML version using MathJax in order to improve their display. Uncheck the box to turn MathJax off. This feature requires Javascript. Click on a formula to zoom. ABSTRACT This study investigates how an unprecedented systemic shock, the COVID-19 pandemic, reshaped bank productivity and intermediation efficiency in Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing emerging economies.
Marching in the Dark review – rural Indian widows show stunning resilience as they battle poverty and taboos
Updated Mon, August 24, 2026 at 10:02 AM UTC Invisible suffering … Marching in the Dark.Photograph: SNG Film (Studio Nieuwe Gronden) Out in rural India, a crisis casts a dark cloud over the seemingly tranquil vistas of wheat fields and soy farms. Over the past 20 years, more than 400,000 farmers have killed themselves, beset by mounting debts and low market prices for crops.
Disciples review – fresh-faced boys are sucked into a nightmare of extremism in India
The effect of political and religious indoctrination on young minds resembles a slow-release poison. Unfolding in observational vignettes, Pankaj Johar and Sunaina Kapoor's thought-provoking documentary centres on Vidya Mutth, a prestigious Hindu school in the holy city of Varanasi, India, where sectarian beliefs are drilled into its students, all in the name of cultural preservation.
If you have read the source code of the sync package, you may have noticed that several structs contain an unusual field of type noCopy, such as sync.Mutex, sync.Once, and sync.Map: go typeMutexstruct{_noCopy...}typeOncestruct{_noCopy...}typeMapstruct{_noCopy...} noCopy is a special marker for types that must not be copied after their first use.
This Is Ballroom review – pulsating documentary tells story of Brazilian ballroom
Originating among the Black, Latin and trans communities in 1960s New York, queer ballroom culture has not only entered the mainstream but also travelled well outside the United States. In recent years, a movement has flourished in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro and its outskirts, an evolution intimately captured in Juru and Vitã’s documentary debut.
American witchhunt: how the McCarthy blacklist annihilated the Hollywood left
In September 2025, Disney and ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel and his late-night talkshow would be taken off the air indefinitely , after a conservative backlash against the host's comments about the murder of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk. President Donald Trump personally championed the decision, calling it “great news for America” . He further called for other programmes critical of his administration to be removed.
Memory review – a cinematic exorcism through a child’s eye view of terror in the Chechen wars
Updated Mon, 3 August 2026 at 8:12 am UTC Harmful influences … a scene from Memory.Photograph: Publicity image Born in Feodosia, a Ukrainian city on the Crimean coast, Vladlena Sandu moved to her mother’s home town of Grozny in Chechnya when she was only six. Blue skies and cerulean waters dominated her childhood, but as the Chechen–Russian conflicts erupted into full-blown wars during the 1990s, she experienced terror, bloodshed, and death.
Atlas of Disappearance review – forensic quest for thousands of forgotten victims of the Spanish civil war
Updated Mon, 3 August 2026 at 6:02 am UTC Limbo … researchers at work in Atlas of Disappearance.Photograph: True Story Perched on the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range overlooking Madrid is the Valle de los Caídos, a colossal memorial site constructed under the Franco regime. Supposedly a symbol of atonement and reconciliation, it has been criticised as an emblem of fascist glorification; it was where Franco was buried until his exhumation in 2019.
Go 1.27 interactive tour
Book a Demo Go Share: Go 1.27 is coming soon, so it’s a good time to get a head start on what’s new. The official release notes are pretty dry, so here’s a hands-on version with runnable examples showing what changed and how the new behavior works. A quick credit first: the interactive Go tours were started by Anton Zhiyanov, who wrote one for every release from Go 1.22 through Go 1.26. He’s decided to stop, so we’re picking up where he left off.
Valentina and the MUOSters review – US military surveillance in Sicily triggers family discord on the ground
The title of Francesca Scalisi’s documentary evokes a 1950s sci-fi yarn, even if the film’s visuals are rooted in the drama of the everyday. The acronym MUOS stands for Mobile User Objective System, an advanced satellite communications system used by the US military to direct drones, missiles and other kinds of attacks from a distance.
Computer Science > Computation and Language
Common chunking strategies in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems often create redundant chunks. These redundant chunks make the vector database bigger and slow down retrieval. A common fix is cosine-similarity thresholding. This method reduces each chunk to a single vector, then compares vectors using a similarity score.
Out of Sight review – mountain idyll on the Swiss border is a gilded cage for distressed asylum seekers
Located on the Swiss-Austrian border, the Bürglkopf mountain is a picture-perfect Alpine landscape, with its verdant fields and scenic trails. The tranquil idyll is a popular holiday spot, with thousands of tourists each year. Some visitors, however, are less welcome than others. Nestled among the lush forest on the mountaintop is a so-called deportation camp, where asylum seekers are held for months, even years.
Bad Reputation review – powerful look at sex workers’ fight for dignity on the Uruguayan streets
A sex worker and activist living in Uruguay, Karina Núñez is a force of nature. The charismatic subject of Marta García and Sol Infante’s galvanising documentary, she is introduced by way of a somewhat provocative image: a closeup of her chest, tucked behind a lacy brassiere. The shot, however, is far from objectifying: Núñez is fully in control, and her breasts are simply a tool of her trade.
A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean where the sun always shines. Through static shots resembling picture postcards, Mette Carla Albrechtsen’s pastel-hued documentary captures the leisure activities on offer: cerulean rooftop pools, pristine sandy beaches and raves that stretch into dawn.
How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
If you run VictoriaLogs, your day-to-day comes down to three things: sending logs, querying them, and setting retention so the disk does not fill up. Everything else happens quietly on disk.
The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
Mon, 22 June 2026 at 6:00 am UTC 'His body etched with physical toil' …. The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine. Photograph: True Story Out on the remote archipelago of Tierra del Fuego in Chile, Toto Gesell holds on to a profession that hails from bygone times: gold prospecting. Every day, come rain or shine, he puts on his rubber boots and heads to a local creek, where he searches for specks of gold the old-fashioned way: with a pan, a shovel and a homemade sluice.
Nightwatchers review – desperate struggle of migrant crisis under surface of picture-postcard ski resort
With its rustic wooden chalets and spectacular alpine peaks, the French ski town of Montgenèvre has long been a popular holiday destination. Looking past these postcard-perfect vistas, Juliette de Marcillac's absorbing documentary paints a very different picture, focusing instead on a humanitarian crisis that festers beneath the snow-white image of an idyllic locale.
Enhance Green Space Accessibility To Improve Quality Of Life In Hanoi's Inner City
Home > Libraries > LIBRARIESPUBLISHING > LIBPUB_SERIALS > CIB-CONFERENCES > Vol. 2 (2026) urban green space, geographic information system (GIS), accessibility, urban planning, Historical inner-city area of Hanoi Le, Phuong M.T. and Nguyen, Huong T.D. (2026) "Enhance Green Space Accessibility To Improve Quality Of Life In Hanoi's Inner City," CIB Conferences: Vol. 2 Article 46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/3067-4883.2204 DOWNLOADS COinS
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs
The western Syrian city of Homs is only a husk of its former self. Previously a major industrial centre, the region became a key battleground between 2011 and 2014, for Bashar al-Assad’s army and rebel forces. Amid the immense bloodshed, hundreds of thousands of civilians were either displaced or trapped inside their own homes.
My Memory Is Full of Ghosts review – deeply moving visual hymn for the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs
Stillness … My Memory Is Full of Ghosts. Photograph: PR The western Syrian city of Homs is only a husk of its former self. Previously a major industrial centre, the region became a key battleground between 2011 and 2014, for Bashar al-Assad’s army and rebel forces. Amid the immense bloodshed, hundreds of thousands of civilians were either displaced or trapped inside their own homes.
The Guest review – the risks of protecting refugees in the Poland-Belarus danger zone
Political war games … The Guest. Photograph: True Story It all begins with a knock. In a small Polish town on the border with Belarus, Maciek and his family have taken in 27-year-old Alhyder, a Syrian refugee seeking shelter from the freezing weather and police patrols. Since 2021, the area has become increasingly militarised after Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, in a purely political move, offered up the Belarussian border as a new migration route into the EU.
No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands
Beguiling human dynamics in a cold climate … No Winter Holidays. Photograph: True Story In the valley of Dhorpatan in western Nepal, winter arrives with unforgiving intensity. Clouds of freezing mist gradually descend, making the rocky terrain look starkly barren, a lonesome void amid vertiginous mountain ranges. At this time of the year, most of the inhabitants migrate south to warmer regions – except for two.
We’re Nothing at All review – bus explosion sets off Hong Kong drama of grief, prejudice and queer identity
Visually fascinating … Ansonbean (left) and Anson Kong in We're Nothing at All. Photograph: Publicity image Prolific Hong Kong film-maker Herman Yau is back with an ambitious, sprawling drama that is, at best, an awkward composite of his past works. We’re Nothing at All kicks off with a moment of rupture: on a seemingly ordinary Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, a double-decker bus suddenly bursts into flames.
Inside USCIS: EB-5 Fireside Chat with Recently Departed IPO Executive Leadership
Join us for a rare and candid EB-5 discussion featuring Ricky Murray, who recently departed USCIS but previously served in executive leadership roles at the Immigrant Investor Program Office (IPO), where he last served as the number two-ranking official overseeing internal operations within the program. We'll also be providing a roundtable discussion with leading perspectives from the law firm of KLDP LLP and the broker dealer of New World Ventures US.
Tycoon review – impressive debut shows dystopian future-LA in the grip of a food-distributing megacorp
Dynamically rendered … Tycoon Photograph: Publicity image Brimming with indelible images, Charlotte Zhang’s brilliant debut locates the roots of a dystopian future in the here and now. Set around the 2028 Summer Olympics, the film imagines a Los Angeles gripped by paranoia and conspiracies; and a livestock disease has led to a ban on all meat production, leaving the main source of protein distribution – powdered insects – in the control of a megacorporation called Ootheca Inc.
A Few Feet Away review – Buenos Aires slacker tries to balance app life and real sex in vivid hookup drama
Closer encounters … Max Suen in A Few Feet Away Photograph: Publicity image In the age of online hookups, signals of attraction – once felt in a significant look or a brush of the hand – are now transmitted by way of screens. Laying bare the gamification of dating, Tadeo Pestaña Caro’s probing debut follows 20-year-old slacker Santiago (Max Suen), lost in a cycle of thwarted desire in Buenos Aires.
Relentless Memory review – a vital oral history of the plight of the Mapuche people
Mon, May 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM UTC An urgent warning to future generations … Relentless Memory. Photograph: True Story (Photograph: True Story) Between 1862 and 1885, the Mapuche Indigenous people rose up to defend their homeland against invading outsiders. For these acts of bravery, they were deported, tortured and massacred at the hands of the Chilean and Argentinian military.
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
Harrowing … My Father's Diaries. Photograph: True Story For years, film-maker Ado Hasanović has wanted to ask his father, Bekir, about his harrowing experiences during the Bosnian war but their conversations usually ended with curt, abrupt answers that obscured rather than illuminated the past. Bekir might be uncommunicative, but his collection of self-taped films and diary entries recorded during the height of the conflict tells a different story.
Queer as Punk review – joyous portrait of Malaysian LGBTQ+ rebels making noise
Defiant … Shh…Diam! lead singer Faris in Queer as Punk. Photograph: Publicity image For queer Malaysian punk band Shh … Diam!, every live gig is a small miracle. Their name translates as “Shut up!”, a powerful and defiant cry in a country rife with homophobia. Favouring distorted riffs, heavy drums and swaggering lyrics, the band’s powerful sound seeks to drown out the noise of prejudice and discrimination.
Queer as Punk review – joyous portrait of Malaysian LGBTQ+ rebels making noise
For queer Malaysian punk band Shh … Diam!, every live gig is a small miracle. Their name translates as “Shut up!”, a powerful and defiant cry in a country rife with homophobia. Favouring distorted riffs, heavy drums and swaggering lyrics, the band’s powerful sound seeks to drown out the noise of prejudice and discrimination. Their courage, as well as their simple joie de vivre, thrum through Yihwen Chen’s documentary portrait.
My Father’s Diaries review – haunting home-video excavates trauma of Srebrenica massacre
For years, film-maker Ado Hasanović has wanted to ask his father, Bekir, about his harrowing experiences during the Bosnian war but their conversations usually ended with curt, abrupt answers that obscured rather than illuminated the past. Bekir might be uncommunicative, but his collection of self-taped films and diary entries recorded during the height of the conflict tells a different story.
Breakwater review – troubled souls cross class and age barriers in nicely judged debut feature
Bound by trauma … Daniel McNamee, left, and Shaun Paul McGrath in Breakwater. Photograph: Breakwater Pictures This evocative debut feature from Max Morgan is a film of many contrasts. One is the May-December attraction between Otto (Daniel McNamee), a theology student and aspiring violinist, and John (Shaun Paul McGrath), a middle-aged fisher with a shadowy past. The worlds that they inhabit seem poles apart.
The Eukrainian review – heroic portrait of the diplomat trying to haul Ukraine into Europe
Committed … Olha Stefanishyna in The Eukrainian. Photograph: © Viktor Nordenskiöld/FreetownFilms After the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian deputy minister Olha Stefanishyna embarked on the herculean challenge of steering her country’s pathway into the European Union. Shot over the course of two years, Viktor Nordenskiöld’s documentary portrait closely chronicles her race against time, as the war escalates.
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder review – excavating the memories of civil war in Mozambique
Cloaked in darkness … The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder. Photograph: True Story Lasting from 1977 to 1992, the Mozambique civil war left deep scars on the psyche of the whole nation.
The Trial review – searing record of Argentina’s courtroom reckoning with its brutal ‘dirty war’
Focus on survivors … The Trial. Photograph: True Story From 1974 to 1983, the Argentine military junta waged a “dirty war” against its own citizens under the pretext of national security. Tens of thousands of people from all social strata were marked down as subversives, and “disappeared” – murdered at the hands of the state.
Departures review – airport meet triggers love lost and found in a haze of hookups and hangovers
Old wounds … David Tag in Departures. Photograph: Peccadillo Pictures Do you believe in life after love? So goes Cher’s dance anthem, and it’s the eternal quandary also probed by Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan’s funny yet touching drama. As well as writing and co-directing, Eyre-Morgan stars as Benji, a thirtysomething lonely heart yearning for genuine connection, only to be let down by a string of bad boyfriends.
Chagrin Valley review – the ins and outs of care home life inside an uncanny artificial paradise
Chagrin Valley Photograph: PR IMAGE In the main hall of the Lantern, a retirement home in Ohio’s Chagrin valley, the ceiling consists of glass panels painted to resemble blue skies. The chirping of birds wafts through the corridors, styled after the front porches of typical mid-century houses, except these are all indoors. Like the lighted roof, the sounds of nature are entirely artificial.
Intact mTOR signaling in gastric X/A-like cells is required for bone homeostasis
Abstract Introduction: Beyond its primary digestive functions, the stomach serves as an endocrine organ, secreting peptides that regulate appetite and energy balance. Among its enteroendocrine populations, X/A-like cells play a pivotal role in controlling food intake, glucose homeostasis, and lipid deposition. The secretion of X/A-like cell-derived hormones, including ghrelin and nesfatin-1, is regulated by the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway.
House of Gloss review – tender portrait of a young trans couple finding refuge in new kind of family
Joyful … Opal (left) and Lana in House of Gloss. Photograph: PR IMAGE In the small flat shared by Opal and Lana, a young queer couple living in Dundee, love is everywhere. Countless photos of them on fun outings line the walls, interspersed with colourful sketches by Lana, a talented graffiti artist. Scattered around Opal’s makeup table are beautiful wigs, with which she transforms into a glamorous drag persona at night. As trans femme, they face immense discrimination from the outside world.
Q review – freedom, lies and transgressions in emotional fallout from a secretive Muslim women’s movement
Solidarity or submission? … Q Photograph: PR IMAGE Opening the Pandora’s box of her family secrets, Jude Chehab makes a complex and moving documentary debut that unfolds both as an investigation and as a kind of intergenerational therapy. For decades, her mother, Hiba, was devoted to al-Qubaysiat, a highly secretive female Muslim order that operates in Lebanon and Syria. Chehab’s grandmother Doria had also been a follower, and the film-maker herself was initiated into the group as a young girl.
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