Who Can Win a Single-Elimination Tournament? by Kim, Michael P., Suksompong, Warut, Williams, Virginia Vassilevska

“…A single-elimination (SE) tournament is a popular way to select a winner both in sports competitions and in elections. A natural and well-studied question is the tournament fixing problem (TFP): given the set of all pairwise match outcomes, can a tournament organizer rig an SE tournament by adjusting the initial seeding so that the organizer'fs favorite player wins? …”
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Phylogenetic analysis of congenital rubella virus from Indonesia: a case report by Herini, Elisabeth Siti, Triono, Agung, Iskandar, Kristy, Nuady, Albaaza, Pujiastuti, Lucia Hetty, Marcellus, Marcellus, Nugrahanto, Andika Priamas, Kamal, Musthofa, Gunadi, Gunadi

“…Case presentation: A female neonate was delivered by an elective caesarean delivery with normal birth weight at term from a 24-year-old mother in the rural setting. …”
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Injection of botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX) into trigger zone of trigeminal neuralgia as a means to control pain by Ngeow, Wei Cheong, Nair, R.

“…The patient was pain free with a maintenance dose of 200 mg carbamazepine daily for about 1 year, after which she elected to undergo stereotactic gamma knife radiosurgery when pain recurred at the external nasal region. …”
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The Application of Maqasid-Oriented Approach in Islamic Bioethics: A Case Study on Fatwa Related to Cosmetic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery by Naqib Hamdan M, Mohd Anuar R, Aminudin H, Nur Najwa Hanani AR, Muhammad Faiz MS, Syamsul Azizul Marinsah

“…INTRODUCTION: Cosmetic surgery, which is a type of elective surgery designed to alter the physical features of the human body, is currently in high demand due to a combination of several main factors; namely low self-esteem, the desire to achieve beauty standards set by society, and the ubiquity of mass media and social media influencers. …”
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The impact of geography information system integrated teaching on underachieving students’ intrinsic motivation by Soon Singh Bikar Singh, Balan Rathakrishnan, Zulfikar Rabe, Hanifah Mahat, Sabariah Sharif, Rosy Talin

“…Research shows that the number of Malaysian upper secondary school students electing geography as a study choice and their achievement level in the subject has declined. …”
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Applicability of riverbank filtration system in removing electrical contaminants from Sungai Belat using activated carbon: a laboratory testing by Nurhazirah, Abdul Malik

“…Three parameters which were electical conductivity, total dissolved soliad and hardness show decresing in value meanwhile salinity decreased. …”
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Learning through competition : resilience on the Jersey Shore after Rebuild By Design by Ferrara, Catherine G

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Getting to gender parity in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT by Xu, Kathleen L

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The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran by Fischer, Michael M. J.

“…The (dis)harmonics of the Karbala Paradigm and the Islamic and pre-Islamic reference system of the 1979 revolution have been rescored in the aftermath of the June 2009 elections. Part II draws out the technical infrastructure, both low tech and hi tech, within which social and cultural action happens and civil society is restructured. …”
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The campaign for the tenant right to purchase in Greater Boston by Tisel, David

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Practical methods for generating alternating magnetic fields for biomedical research by Christiansen, Michael Gary, Bono, David C, Perreault, David J., Anikeeva, Polina Olegovna

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Right-wing populism as gendered performance: Janus-faced masculinity in the leadership of Vladimir Putin and Recep T. Erdogan by Eksi, Betul, Wood, Elizabeth A

“…Understanding this gender performance also helps to explain the paradox of “electoral authoritarianism” (Levitsky and Way Journal of Democracy, 13(2), 51–65, 2002; Schedler 2006), demonstrating how performed political masculinity can support and connect the cult of a popularly elected leader with conservative social and political gender norms.…”
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Why East Asians but not South Asians are underrepresented in leadership positions in the United States by Lu, Jackson G., Nisbett, Richard E, Morris, Michael W

“…Across nine studies (n = 11,030) using mixed methods (archival analyses of chief executive officers, field surveys in large US companies, student leader nominations and elections, and experiments), East Asians were less likely than South Asians and whites to attain leadership positions, whereas South Asians were more likely than whites to do so. …”
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A moral document? Expanding conversations about public safety budgets in Minnesota in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Arnosti, Nathan

“…In the months since, local activists and elected officials have advanced ambitious visions for how the city can reimagine its systems of public safety. …”
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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics by Hsiao, Allan

“…After the fall of Suharto, Indonesia held local elections for the first time in decades. I use a dynamic discrete choice framework to study how democratization affected the spatial allocation of public investment in healthcare infrastructure. …”
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Security Research for the Public Good: A Principled Approach by Specter, Michael A.

“…We perform a security analysis of the dominant Internet voting systems used in U.S. federal elections, including those used in the 2020 U.S. presidential race. …”
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Women and post-conflict development : a case study on Liberia by Massaquoi, William N

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Evaluating shortage costs in a dynamic environment by Dhalla, Nadya

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A look to the future : MIT Alumni and their Course 2 and 2-A educational experience by Batra, Neha, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Taiwanese political call-in talk shows : control and "credible participation" hidden behind the spectacle by Chu, Katharine (Katharine L.)

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