Recent studies on common ownership, firm behavior, and market outcomes by Schmalz, MC

“…The literature on competitive effects of common ownership has grown at a fast rate in the past two years. Anticompetitive effects have been confirmed with alternative reduced-form and structural estimation methods, in different industries, geographies, and jurisdictions. …”

What difference does God make to morality? by Swinburne, R

“…I’m not going to discuss whether or not there is a God (that’s something I’m argued for a lot over the years), but simply whether if there is a God, that makes any difference to morality., I shall argue that the existence and actions of God make no difference to the fact that there are moral truths; but that the existence and actions of God make a great difference1 to the content of morality, to the seriousness of morality, and our knowledge of morality. …”

Measuring science: performance metrics and the allocation of talent by Hager, S, Schwarz, C, Waldinger, F

“…For technical reasons, it only covered citations from certain journals and years, creating quasi-random variation: some citations became visible, while others remained invisible. …”

Our Tethered Skates / by Naadhira Zahari, author 655828, Naadhira Zahari, editor 655828

“…Layla has been living in the shadow of her sister who mysteriously disappeared ten years ago. On the anniversary of her sister’s disappearance, she experiences a nasty fall while ice skating and knocks her head on the ice. …”

An Amazon stingless bee foraging activity predicted using recurrent artificial neural networks and attribute selection by Gomes, Pedro A. B., Suhara, Yoshihiko, Nunes-Silva, Patrícia, Costa, Luciano, Arruda, Helder, Venturieri, Giorgio, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera Lucia, Pentland, Alex, de Souza, Paulo, Pessin, Gustavo

“…There have been multiple reports in recent years illustrating bee population declines worldwide. …”
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The museum is the message : representations of national identity in the National Museum of Singapore. by Low, Jiaxin.

“…Materials related to the NMS such as guidebooks and museum publications are examined for data on exhibitions held throughout the years and on the galleries in the NMS. Extended literature review of scholarship on Singapore‘s national identity and historiography will be carried out to explore their relationship with museum representation.…”
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Recent Advances on Functionalized Upconversion Nanoparticles for Detection of Small Molecules and Ions in Biosystems by Gu, Bin, Zhang, Qichun

“…Significant progress on upconversion-nanoparticle (UCNP)-based probes is witnessed in recent years. Compared with traditional fluorescent probes (e.g., organic dyes, metal complexes, or inorganic quantum dots), UCNPs have many advantages such as non-autofluorescence, high chemical stability, large light-penetration depth, long lifetime, and less damage to samples. …”
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Recent advances in pharmaceutical separations with supercritical fluid chromatography using chiral stationary phases by Wang, Ren-Qi, Ong, Teng-Teng, Tang, Weihua, Ng, Siu-Choon

“…Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) has developed rapidly in recent years, particularly in the area of enantioseparations. …”
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Enhancing the Oxford University Research Archive: compliance, consistency, and challenges in supporting researchers by Mitchell, T, Lindgren, T, Partridge, J

“…Over the past four to five years, ORA has undergone significant updates, including the implementation of a new data model, the adoption of enhanced metadata standards, and the integration of automation tools. …”

Sorting capsules in microfluidic devices by Waters, S

“…<p>In recent years, microfluidic systems have underpinned a wealth of biotechnology applications and proposed solutions for complex problems, including the sorting and enrichment of deformable particle suspensions. …”

COVID alert’s privacy promises and surveillance risks by Cofone, IN

“…With a focus on wide-ranging topics such as cybersecurity, racial justice, and worker surveillance, among others, this series offers a roadmap as policymakers confront the privacy and human rights impacts of crises like the novel coronavirus in the years to come.…”

Paternalism, petitions and the politics of church construction in Alsace, c. 1850–1885 by Clement, W

“…The article focuses on a case-study in the Alsatian city of Mulhouse during the nineteenth century. Over a period of 30 years, Catholic parishioners and clergy repeatedly petitioned the town’s Calvinist industrial and municipal elite for a church to be built in the paternalist cités ouvrières housing district, culminating in the eventual construction of the church of Saint-Joseph by 1883. …”

What does America's energy revolution mean for China? by Luft, G

“…Thanks to hydraulic fracturing or fracking, US oil production has grown from 5.1 million barrels a day in 2006 to 8 million in 2013 and US oil imports have dropped to their lowest level in 20 years. According to the International Energy Agency the USA will become the world’s number one oil producing country by 2015. …”

A review: Deep learning for 3D reconstruction of human motion detection by Yang, Junzi, Ismail, Ajune Wanis

“…In this paper, the deep learning algorithms in recent years, mainly used for human motion detection and recognition, are reviewed, and the existing methods are divided into three types: CNN-based, RNN-based and GNN-based. …”
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The association between the housing structure and continued breastfeeding in two Southern African countries by Khanyile, Ntuthuko, McLaren, Shawn, Fairbrother, Una

“…The WHO recommends continued breastfeeding for up to two years as a key strategy against malnutrition, yet only 45% of children are breastfed for two years(2). …”
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Shaving Logs via Large Sieve Inequality: Faster Algorithms for Sparse Convolution and More by Jin, Ce, Xu, Yinzhan

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Study of endothelial cell apoptosis using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) biosensor cell line with hemodynamic microfluidic chip system by Yu, J. Q., Liu, X. F., Chin, Lip Ket, Liu, Ai Qun, Luo, Kathy Qian

“…A 12% apoptotic rate (nearly a 4-fold increase compared to the static condition) was observed when the endothelial cells were exposed to a high glucose concentration of 20 mM under 2 h exhaustive pulsatile shear stress of 30 dyne cm−2 and followed with another 10 h normal pulsatile shear stress of 15 dyne cm−2. …”
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Development a novel paradigm for characterization of emerging contaminants in mixed-use anthropogenic impacted watersheds by Lee, Theodora Hui Yian

“…With more compounds synthesized overtime, it is nearly impossible to monitor all compounds. Thus, the understanding of spatial and temporal variations of contaminant source and sink becomes a priority in contaminant research to aid intervention. …”
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Energy storage system based on PMP21529 buck-boost Bi-directional DC-DC converter by Yan, Shunyao

“…In recent years, with the continuous development of renewable energy and the promotion of distributed power, modern power grids have put forward high stability and high flexibility requirements for power quality. …”
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An evaluation framework for second-life EV/PHEV battery application in power systems by Chai, Songjian, Xu, Ning Zhou, Niu, Ming, Chan, Ka Wing, Chung, Chi Yung, Jiang, Hui, Sun, Yuxin

“…Compared to nominal retirement mode, realistic retirement mode results in extra cost savings due to the reduced first-life service years.…”
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