A soccer-based intervention improves incarcerated individuals’ behaviour and public acceptance through group bonding by Newson, M, Peitz, L, Cunliffe, J, Whitehouse, H

“…We analyse effects of participation compared to a control group (study 1, n = 676, n = 1,874 control cases) and longitudinal patterns of social cohesion underlying these effects (study 2, n = 388) in the United Kingdom. We also explore desistance from crime after release (study 3, n = 249) in the United Kingdom and the United States. …”

In Harm's Way? The Effect of Disasters on the Magnitude and Location of Low‐Income Housing Tax Credit Allocations by Brennan, Mark, Mehta, Aditi, Steil, Justin

“…Given that the LIHTC program was not designed with disasters in mind, do the new units ameliorate or exacerbate renters' exposure to disaster risk? …”
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials by Ho, Lisa, Breza, Emily, Banerjee, Abhijit, Chandrasekhar, Arun G., Stanford, Fatima C., Fior, Renato, Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul, Holland, Kelly, Hoppe, Emily, Jean, Louis-Maël, Ogbu-Nwobodo, Lucy, Olken, Benjamin A., Torres, Carlos, Vautrey, Pierre-Luc, Warner, Erica, Duflo, Esther, Alsan, Marcella

“…We can reject very small effects of any intervention on new first doses (0.16 pp, United States; 0.021 pp, France), with similar results for second doses and boosters (United States). …”
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Determinants of interest rate differentials for selected countries by Er, Hong Teck, Yan, Tjan Yeung, Yeoh, Michael Xian Yang

“…Five macroeconomic variables are tested and analyzed for their impact on the real interest rate differentials of Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Singapore relative to the United States. It finds that governments have scope for conducting appropriate macroeconomic policies that affect the real interest rate differentials vis-à-vis the United States.…”
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Assessing the origin of and potential for international spread of Chikungunya virus from the Caribbean by Khan, Kamran, Bogoch, Isaac, Brownstein, John S., Miniota, Jennifer, Nicolucci, Adrian, Hu, Wei, Nsoesie, Elaine O., Cetron, Martin, Creatore, Maria Isabella, German, Matthew, Wilder-Smith, Annelies

“…Cities in the United States with the highest volume of air travelers were New York City, Miami and San Juan (Puerto Rico). …”
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Casino resort industry & corporate governance by Neo, Tingyuan, Tan, Venlecia Ying Hui, Yang, Qihui

“…The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of the casino resorts industry in the United States and Asia Pacific region, and also to study the corporate governance structure in the casino resorts industry in the two regions. …”
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A study of mega mergers of accounting firms. by Chew, Chiu Shan., Low, Kit Ying., Ng, Hui Yong.

“…As most information on mega mergers in the accounting industry are more related to countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is felt that there is a need to determine the applicability of those international reports in Singapore.…”
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15.280 Communication for Managers, Fall 2008 by Hartman, Neal

“…Students may also enroll in 15.277 Special Seminar in Communication: Leadership and Personal Effectiveness Coaching. 15.280 is offered for 6 units and 15.277 provides an additional 3 units for a total of 9 units in Managerial Communication. 15.277 acts as a lab component to 15.280 and provides students additional opportunities to hone their communication skills through a variety of in-class exercises.…”
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Optimal planning and operation of a multi-energy system by Li, Zhengmao

“…They are becoming promising diagrams for future energy systems in which, multiple energies can be simultaneously coordinated by heterogeneous units such as energy storage and distributed generators. …”
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Islam, puritanism, and secular time by Trigg, Christopher

“…Liberal responses to this claim frequently appeal to the United States’ allegedly Puritan past, suggesting that the United States is particularly well placed to deal with both radical Islamism and anti-Islamic prejudice because of the ecumenical pluralism that emerged from the colonial crucible of competing denominations. …”
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Prosody adaptation in text-to-speech synthesis by Poh, Teng Chuan, Foo, Say Wei, Yeo, Huat Chye

“…To make the resulting sentences sound natural, modifications are made to the prosody of the speech units using the Time-Domain-Pitch-Synchronous- Overlap-Add method. …”
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A Homogeneous Transformer Architecture by Gan, Yulu, Poggio, Tomaso

“…Heterogeneous nonlinear circuits such as multi-layer RELU networks are interleaved with layers of soft-max units. We introduce here a homogeneous architecture based on Hyper Radial Basis Function (HyperBF) units. …”
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Unconventional warfare to counter insurgency : U.S. army special forces in contemporary combat by Jouke Christiaan Valk

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Model reduction and stochastic analysis of the histone modification circuit by Bruno, Simone, Williams, Ruth J., Del Vecchio, Domitilla

“…2022 European Control Conference (ECC), London, United Kingdom, 2022…”
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Aspects of encoder implementation in the context of neural networks by Toh, Cheow Wee.

“…There are established results to show that a pattern recognition problem can be handled and trained by a neural network with hidden units. There is also a useful theorem which refers to the type of pattern recognition situations that can be recognised by a perceptron. …”
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Bad Mexican : portrayal of corruption and the drug trade in Man on Fire, Traffic, and La Ley de Herodes. by Goh, Dianne.

“…By victimizing the United States and demonizing Mexico, Hollywood films such as Traffic and Man on Fire create stereotypes of Mexicans based on the drug trade and corruption in Mexico so the United States can define its identity and become Mexico’s saviour. …”
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Using edge detection and polarimetric imaging for vaccine inspection by Sharan, Praveer, Tellbach, Denise, Sarma, Sanjay E.

“…SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2022, Long Beach, California, United States…”
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Alterations in care for children with special healthcare needs during the early COVID-19 pandemic: ethical and policy considerations by Jones, J, Lignou, S, Unguru, Y, Sheehan, M, Dunn, M, Seltzer, RR

“…Healthcare delivery and access, both in the United States and globally, were negatively affected during the entirety of the COVID-19 pandemic. …”

Living Together Across Borders : Communicative Care in Transnational Salvadoran Families / by Arnold, Lynnette, author 656202, Oxford University Press (Online service) 655242

“…Living Together Across Borders: Separated Salvadoran Families and the Power of Everyday Conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices—such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together—that are central to family life across borders. …”
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RoboChain: A Secure Data-Sharing Framework for Human-Robot Interaction by Castelló Ferrer, Eduardo, Rudovic, Ognjen (Oggi), Hardjono, Thomas, Pentland, Alexander (Sandy)

“…To this end, we introduce RoboChain - the first learning framework for secure, decentralized and computationally efficient data and model sharing among multiple robot units installed at multiple sites (e.g., hospitals). …”
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