Nearly 69% of respondents say they agree or strongly agree that prostitution is a form of violence against women—a figure that rises to 75.1% among women—according to the analysis carried out by Marina Martínez García and Irene Epifanio López, lecturers in the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, of data from the Survey on the Social Perception of Prostitution. The survey was conducted by the Government Delegation against Gender-based Violence of the Ministry of Equality in collaboration with the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS).

The two Castelló-based researchers, specialists in statistics with a gender perspective, submitted a proposal that was selected by the Government Delegation—responsible for designing the questionnaire and the survey questions—and were tasked with analysing the data obtained in the survey and producing a report with the conclusions. The researchers followed an open-science approach in their analysis, and all the code (in R) is available to reproduce the results.

Demon Slayer, a well-known anime depicting a bamboo muzzle worn by a character, has been investigated from various perspectives. However, its scientific perspective particularly the depiction of bamboo muzzle remains unexplored. To fill this gap, a new study compared the lengths of bamboo segments shown in anime illustrations with measurements from real plants and mathematical models. The findings reveal major differences in the structure of anime bamboo and actual bamboo, enhancing public understanding about bamboo.