The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on social assistance programs: evidence from housing allowances in England by Elston, T, Bel, G, Wang, H

“…Using coarsened exact matching and stacked difference-in-differences estimators, we find no evidence of short-term savings after cooperation, and only weak indications thereafter. …”

Can solar water kiosks generate sustainable revenue streams for rural water services? by Wagner, J, Merner, S, Innocenti, S, Geling, A, Hope, R

“…Average revenues increase four-fold indicating stronger financial performance with solar kiosks. In contrast, we find no significant increase in the volume of water people use when a handpump is upgraded to a solar kiosk. …”

Unveiling the importance of longer paths in quantum networks by Hu, X, Dong, G, Lambiotte, R, Christensen, K, Fan, J, Tian, Z, Havlin, S, Meng, X

“…Here, we apply statistical physics to identify the origin of this stronger connectivity—known as concurrence percolation. Our finding is demonstrated on hierarchical scale-free networks, the (U,V) flowers, which allow full analytical control over path connectivity by adjusting the two distinct path length scales, U ≤ V. …”

Can large language model agents simulate human trust behaviors? by Xie, C, Chen, C, Jia, F, Ye, Z, Shu, K, Bibi, A, Hu, Z, Torr, P, Ghanem, B, Li, G

“…In this paper, we focus on one of the most critical behaviors in human interactions, trust, and aim to investigate whether or not LLM agents can simulate human trust behaviors. We first find that LLM agents generally exhibit trust behaviors, referred to as agent trust, under the framework of Trust Games, which are widely recognized in behavioral economics. …”

Optimal mobility and communication strategy to maximize the value of information in IoT networks by Wang, Z, Badiu, M-A, Coon, JP

“…We formulate this optimisation problem as a Markov decision process, and propose a reinforcement learning-based algorithm to find the VoIaware mobility and communication strategy efficiently. …”

Problems of the public good in higher education: building the common amid sovereign individualism, capital and the state by Marginson, S

“…Anglophone societies in which the sovereign individual is primary vis and vis social relations, and policy focuses on economic competition and consumption in education, find it hard to grasp non-pecuniary outcomes in higher education. …”

Forecasting green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) landing in Sarawak using grey model by Abang Mohammad Hudzaifah Abang Shakawi, Ani Shabri, Ruhana Hassan

“…The model also suggested that the current conditions will likely increase turtle landings. This approach will find useful applications in evaluating the conservation status of the species.…”
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Mitigation measures for delay in dam’s project - A case study in Pakistan by Sohoo, Shujauddin, Syed Mohamad, Syed Burhanuddin Hilmi, Yunus, Riduan, Ahmed Memon, Mansoor

“…The main purpose of this research is to find out the significant factors which contribute construction delay in dam projects of Pakistan. …”
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Exploring the interaction between learning styles and mathematics anxiety among secondary school students: a correlational study in southern Malaysia by Ahmad Fuad Khoo, Nur Aini Khoo, Jamaluddin, Nurdiana Yasmin, Osman, Sharifah, Achmad Buchori, Achmad Buchori

“…Hence, this study helps the students to embrace and improve their learning styles to minimize the level of anxiety towards mathematics, while the teachers may find it useful in guiding the students to control their mathematics anxiety.…”
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The central element of the synaptonemal complex in mice is organized as a bilayered junction structure by Hernández-Hernández, Abrahan, Masich, Sergej, Fukuda, Tomoyuki, Kouznetsova, Anna, Sandin, Sara, Daneholt, Bertil, Höög, Christer

“…Distribution of immuno-gold particles in a lateral view of the synaptonemal complex, supported by protein interaction data, suggest that the N-terminal region of SYCP1 and SYCE3 form a joint bilayered central structure, and that SYCE1 and SYCE2 localize in between the two layers. We find that disruption of SYCE2 and TEX12 (a fourth central element protein) localization to the central element abolishes central alignment of the N-terminal region of SYCP1. …”
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Materials cartography: A forward-looking perspective on materials representation and devising better maps by Torrisi, Steven B., Bazant, Martin Z., Cohen, Alexander E., Cho, Min Gee, Hummelshøj, Jens S., Hung, Linda, Kamat, Gaurav, Khajeh, Arash, Kolluru, Adeesh, Lei, Xiangyun, Ling, Handong, Montoya, Joseph H., Mueller, Tim, Palizhati, Aini, Paren, Benjamin A., Phan, Brandon, Pietryga, Jacob, Sandraz, Elodie, Schweigert, Daniel, Shao-Horn, Yang, Trewartha, Amalie, Zhu, Ruijie, Zhuang, Debbie, Sun, Shijing

“…Machine learning (ML) is gaining popularity as a tool for materials scientists to accelerate computation, automate data analysis, and predict materials properties. …”
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Excess Mortality and its Determinants During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 21 Countries: An Ecological Study from the C-MOR Project, 2020 and 2021 by Rahmanian Haghighi, Mohammad Reza, Pallari, Chryso T., Achilleos, Souzana, Quattrocchi, Annalisa, Gabel, John, Artemiou, Andreas, Athanasiadou, Maria, Papatheodorou, Stefania, Liu, Tianyu, Cernuda Martínez, José Antonio, Denissov, Gleb, Łyszczarz, Błażej, Huang, Qian, Athanasakis, Kostas, Bennett, Catherine M.

“…Conclusion This study highlighted that clustering countries based on excess mortality can provide insights to gain a broader understanding of countries' responses to the pandemic and their effectiveness.…”
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15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 by Locke, Richard M., 1959-, Loessberg, Shari

“…Enables teams of engineering, science, and management students to work with the top management of international high-tech start-ups and gain hands-on experience in starting and running a new enterprise outside the United States. …”
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Devising materials manufacturing toward lab-to-fab translation of flexible electronics by Luo, Yifei, Wang, Ming, Wan, Changjin, Cai, Pingqiang, Loh, Xian Jun, Chen, Xiaodong

“…Flexible electronics have witnessed exciting progress in academia over the past decade, but most of the research outcomes have yet to be translated into products or gain much market share. For mass production and commercialization, industrial adoption of newly developed functional materials and fabrication techniques is a prerequisite. …”
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Investigations into light-matter interaction in photonic random media for imaging applications by Gayathri Radhakrishnan

“…Photonic random media thus provide platforms for enhanced light-matter interaction, and in the presence of an appropriate gain medium, it is possible to obtain coherence-tunable, quasi-monochromatic lasing emission called random lasing. …”
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Development of immunomodulatory RNA therapeutics for immune disorders by Iyer, Vaishnavi Srinivasan

“…Thus, paper III and paper IV focus on studying TCR specificities to gain a better understanding of the particular T cells that could be the culprits. …”
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Maximising resilience to sea-level rise in urban coastal ecosystems through systematic conservation planning by Nguyen, Nhung T. H., Friess, Daniel A., Todd, Peter A., Mazor, Tessa, Lovelock, Catherine E., Lowe, Ryan, Gilmour, James, Chou, Loke Ming, Bhatia, Natasha, Jaafar, Zeehan, Tun, Karenne, Siti Maryam Yaakub, Huang, Danwei

“…While there is a slight net gain in the extent of mangrove forests and tidal flats by the end of the century due to potential habitat conversion, the existing habitats will experience a loss in coverage. …”
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Space efficient meta-grid lines for mutual coupling reduction in two-port planar monopole and DRA array by Mishra, Mohit, Chaudhuri, Sumantra, Kshetrimayum, Rakhesh Singh, Alphones, Arokiaswami, Esselle, Karu P.

“…The mutual coupling between the antenna elements is seen to be below -16 dB for an inter-element spacing of 4.8 mm, which is 0.090λh. The measured gain of TPDRAA within the bandwidth is from 4.17 dBi to 5.2 dBi. …”
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Virtual prompt pre-training for prototype-based few-shot relation extraction by He, Kai, Huang, Yucheng, Mao, Rui, Gong, Tieliang, Li, Chen, Cambria, Erik

“…The results indicate that our model yields an averaged accuracy gain of 4.21% on two few-shot datasets over strong RE baselines. …”
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In situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy of metal/nitrogen-doped carbons in oxygen electrocatalysis by Wu, Bin, Sun, Tianxiao, You, Ya, Meng, Haibing, Morales, Dulce M., Lounasvuori, Mailis, Askari, Abbas Beheshti, Jiang, Li, Zeng, Feng, Hu, Baoshan, Zhang, Xiangzhi, Tai, Renzhong, Xu, Zhichuan Jason, Petit, Tristan, Mai, Liqiang

“…To improve the electrocatalytic performance of such systems, it is critical to gain a detailed understanding of their structure and properties through advanced characterization. …”
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