Information and bargaining through agents: experimental evidence from Mexico’s labor courts by Sadka, J, Seira, E, Woodruff, CM

“…The experiment generates the first experimental evidence in live court cases that reducing information asymmetries results in a decrease in delay, an outcome predicted by many theories of bargaining. We also find that the information treatment is effective only when the plaintiff is present to receive it directly, suggesting agency issues between plaintiffs and their private lawyers. …”

Working for two bosses: Student interns as constrained labour in China by Smith, C, Chan, J

“…We argue that student workers need to be seen as a distinct category of constrained labour; part of a growing insecure workforce in China. We find that students enrolled in vocational schools are moved into internships, without their consent, to suit the needs of employers. …”

A novel surrogate polytope method for day-ahead virtual power plant scheduling with joint probabilistic constraints by Zhou, Y, Essayeh, C, Morstyn, T

“…A surrogate polytope is first used to find the inner approximation of the VPP power, implicitly including the low-level DER power, DER constraints, and network constraints. …”

The Pascal Visual Object Classes (VOC) challenge by Everingham, M, Van Gool, L, Williams, C, Winn, J, Zisserman, A

“…We review the state-of-the-art in evaluated methods for both classification and detection, analyse whether the methods are statistically different, what they are learning from the images (e.g. the object or its context), and what the methods find easy or confuse. The paper concludes with lessons learnt in the three year history of the challenge, and proposes directions for future improvement and extension. …”

Modelling the evolution of an ice sheet’s weathering crust by Woods, T, Hewitt, IJ

“…To understand this behaviour, we seek time-dependent solutions to a continuum, thermodynamic model for the porosity, temperature and thickness of the weathering crust, and the internal and surface melt rates. We find solutions using a numerical enthalpy method, presented in this study. …”

Dynamic consumer search by Parakhonyak, A, Rhodes, A

“…We consider a model in which consumers wish to buy a product repeatedly over time, but need to engage in costly search to learn prices and find a product that matches them well. The optimal search rule has two reservation values, one for newly-searched products, and another for products that were searched in the past. …”

How in-person conversations shape political polarization: quasi-experimental evidence from a nationwide initiative by Fang, X, Heuser, S, Stötzer, LS

“…We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of in-person conversations on individual-level polarization outcomes, studying a large-scale intervention in Germany that matched pairs of strangers for private face-to-face meetings to discuss divisive political issues. We find asymmetric effects: conversations with like-minded individuals caused political views to become more extreme (ideological polarization); by contrast, conversations with contrary-minded individuals did not lead to a convergence of political views, but significantly reduced negative beliefs and attitudes toward ideological out-group members (affective polarization), while also improving perceived social cohesion more generally. …”

Public responses to foreign protectionism: evidence from the US-China trade war by Steinberg, DA, Tan, Y

“…We replicate this finding in parallel experiments on technology cooperation, and provide further external validation with a survey experiment in Argentina. …”

Supersymmetric Yang-Mills, spherical branes, and precision holography by Bobev, N, Bomans, P, Gautason, FF, Minahan, JA, Nedelin, A

“…The same calculation can also be performed in supergravity using the recently found spherical brane solutions. We find excellent agreement between the two sets of results. …”

A spatial panel wage curve for Spain by Ramos, R, Nicodemo, C, Sanromá, E

“…Opposite to previous studies, we find that the wage equation is highly autoregressive and that regional spillovers are relevant to explain the relationship between unemployment and wages in the Spanish provinces. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.…”

Job search channels, neighborhood effects, and wages inequality in developing countries: the Colombian case by Nicodemo, C, Adolfo Garcia, G

“…This paper analyzes the relationship between social networks and the probability of finding a job. We explore geographic closeness as the social interaction to explain the job search function. …”

Do wars abroad affect attitudes at home? by Klymak, M, Vlandas, T

“…Our findings highlight the impact of foreign conflicts on a wide range of attitudes in countries that are externally threatened, but neither directly involved militarily, nor necessarily very close to the conflict. …”

Songket Tenun: Reka Bentuk dan Motif (S/O 14816) by Ismail, Adzrool Idzwan, Zainal Abidin, Ahmad Hisham, Abu Bakar, Juliana Aida, Zaibon, Syamsul Bahrin, Alwi, Asmidah

“…This study is using a qualitative method made through interviews to find out directly and indirectly related to the general views of the community from various walks of life about the situation or acceptance of traditional Kedah clothes in the current situation. …”
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How to Hold a Grudge : From Resentment to Contentment- the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life / by Hannah, Sophie, 1971- author 649175

“…Blending the practical with the philosophical, How to Hold a Grudge examines the origins of grudges and shows readers how to harness their power to transform sources of resentment into wellsprings of affirming, long-lasting contentment. With this brilliant and hilarious guide, you will be able to grudge your way to your happiest, most optimistic, and most forgiving self."…”

Jannah : Home at Last / by Suleiman, Omar, author 656097, Kube Publishing Limited (Online Service) 656100

“…Build your eternal home, decorate your eternal home. Long for your eternal home...…”
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Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside by Deringer, William

“…Historians of finance and accounting have long recognized these paper tools as predecessors of essential modern techniques like “discounted cash flow.” …”
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Accelerating amorphous polymer electrolyte screening by learning to reduce errors in molecular dynamics simulated properties by Xie, Tian, France-Lanord, Arthur, Wang, Yanming, Lopez, Jeffrey, Stolberg, Michael A., Hill, Megan, Leverick, Graham Michael, Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael, Johnson, Jeremiah A., Shao-Horn, Yang, Grossman, Jeffrey C.

“…Large scale screening of polymer electrolytes is hindered by the significant cost of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in amorphous systems: the amorphous structure of polymers requires multiple, repeated sampling to reduce noise and the slow relaxation requires long simulation time for convergence. Here, we accelerate the screening with a multi-task graph neural network that learns from a large amount of noisy, unconverged, short MD data and a small number of converged, long MD data. …”
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All-fiber short-wavelength tunable mode-locked fiber laser using normal dispersion thulium-doped fiber by Chen, Shaoxiang, Chen, Yuhao, Liu, Kun, Sidharthan, Raghuraman, Li, Huizi, Chang, Chen Jian, Wang, Qi Jie, Tang, Dingyuan, Yoo, Seongwoo

“…An in-house W-type normal dispersion Tm-doped fiber (NDTDF) exhibits a bending-induced distributed short-pass filtering effect that efficiently suppresses the otherwise dominant long wavelength emission. By changing the bending diameter of the fiber, we demonstrated a tunable mode-locked Tm-doped fiber laser with a very wide tunable range of 152 nm spanning from 1740 nm to 1892 nm. …”
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Language-guided visual retrieval by He, Su

“…To organize the discrete features, we propose a network called Hybrid Graph Network to capture both the spatial and locally temporal relationships between objects in the frames and also apply semantically matching between objects and words. To model the long-span relationships between activities in the two modalities, we implement a temporal encoder based on the attentive model. …”
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Flexible and resource-efficient multi-robot collaborative visual-inertial-range localization by Nguyen, Thien Hoang, Nguyen, Thien-Minh, Xie, Lihua

“…We propose a two-stage approach: 1) with a long sliding window, the relative transformation is refined based on range and odometry data, 2) onboard visual-inertial-range data are tightly fused in a short-term sliding window to provide more accurate local and global estimates. …”
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