Food Prices: A Double-edged Sword by Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis P., Caballero-Anthony, Mely

“…The recent phenomenon of food prices declining over the past five years is like a double-edged sword to food consumers globally.…”
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Soldiers, Militants, and Small Drones by Paulsson, Henrik

“…How will the future look like?…”
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Israel's propaganda war in Gaza : losing the moral high ground by Ong, Wei Chong

“…For all the IDF's technological sophistication, Israel's propaganda war is lumbering along like a clumsy Goliath rather than a fleet-footed David. …”
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East Kalimantan : a new front for regional maritime security? by Sciascia, Alban, Frecon, Eric

“…Like the Riau Archipelago and for the same reasons, East Kalimantan is emerging as a ‘hub’ for illegal maritime activities. …”
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Opening of Arctic sea routes : turning threat into opportunity by Ho, Joshua

“…The opening of Arctic sea routes caused by global warming could present challenges to existing hub ports like Singapore. Traversing the Northern Sea Route would cut transit time and reduce operational costs. …”
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A network aggregation model for amyloid-β dynamics and treatment of Alzheimer’s diseases at the brain scale by Brennan, GS, Goriely, A

“…Here, we use spatially-extended nucleation-aggregation-fragmentation models for the dynamics of prion-like neurodegenerative protein-spreading in the brain to study the effect of different drugs on whole-brain Alzheimer’s disease progression.…”

Using machine learning to discover candidate localised transcripts from microscopy and genome-wide bioinformatics data by Kiourlappou, M

“…I find that the group of predicted genes is highly enriched in terms involving localisation, transport and cell protrusions. …”

Atomic-scale mechanisms of defect- and light-induced oxidation and degradation of InSe by Kistanov, Andrey A., Cai, Yongqing, Zhou, Kun, Dmitriev, Sergey V., Zhang, Yong-Wei

“…Moreover, under ambient conditions, the splitting of O2 enables the formation of substitutional (apical) oxygen atomic species, which further cause the trapping and subsequent rapid splitting of H2O molecules and ultimately the formation of hydroxyl groups. Our findings uncover the causes and underlying mechanisms of InSe surface degradation via defect-photo-promoted oxidations. …”
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Optically reversible electrical soft-breakdown in wide-bandgap oxides — a factorial study by Zhou, Yu, Ang, Diing Shenp, Kalaga, Pranav Sairam

“…The effect is evidenced by a decrease in the breakdown leakage current, termed as a negative photoconductivity response. This finding raises the prospect for optical sensing applications based on these traditionally non-photo-responsive but ubiquitous oxide materials. …”
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China and the “Singapore Model” : perspectives from mid-level cadres and implications for transnational knowledge transfer by Liu, Hong, Wang, Tingyan

“…We found that the most appealing characteristics of the “Singapore model” for these mid-level officials lay in practical governance lessons and their potential transferability rather than in ideologies. This finding challenges conventional wisdom that the most plausible rationale of China’s learning from Singapore is political. …”
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Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19 by Aleta, Alberto, Martín-Corral, David, Pastore y Piontti, Ana, Ajelli, Marco, Litvinova, Maria, Chinazzi, Matteo, Dean, Natalie E., Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Longini Jr, Ira M., Merler, Stefano, Pentland, Alex, Vespignani, Alessandro, Moro, Esteban, Moreno, Yamir

“…We find that a period of strict social distancing followed by a robust level of testing, contact-tracing and household quarantine could keep the disease within the capacity of the healthcare system while enabling the reopening of economic activities. …”
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Caregiving for individuals with neurodevelopmental disability-influence of implicit attitudes and affiliate stigma on expressed emotions by Nee, Michelle Si Hui

“…Among the 21 caregivers in Study 2, 13 caregivers were found to be have discrepancies between quantitative and qualitative measures, which suggest possible intrinsic denial of individual’s NDD condition. The preliminary findings of this study suggest a need for developing a research agenda to better understand the impact of implicit prejudice and affiliate stigma on expressed emotions.…”
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Characterizing the Life Cycle of Online News StoriesUsing Social Media Reactions by Castillo, Carlos, El-Haddad, Mohammed, Pfeffer, Jürgen, Stempeck, Matt

“…We show that we can use this hybrid observation method to characterize distinct classes of articles. We also find that social media reactions can help predict future visitation patterns early and accurately.We validate our methods using qualitative analysis as well as quantitative analysis on data from a large inter-national news network, for a set of articles generating more than 3,000,000 visits and 200,000 social media re-actions. …”
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Representation theoretic interpretation and interpolation properties of inhomogeneous spin q-Whittaker polynomials by Korotkikh, Sergei

“…Moreover, we are able to characterize spin q-Whittaker polynomials in terms of vanishing at certain points, and we find interpolation analogues of q-Whittaker and elementary symmetric polynomials.…”
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Landau-Zener transitions in a superconducting flux qubit by Johansson, J., Amin, M. H. S., Berkley, A. J., Bunyk, P., Choi, V., Harris, R., Johnson, M. W., Lanting, T. M., Lloyd, Seth, Rose, G.

“…The method used isolates a single qubit, tunes its tunneling amplitude Δ into the limit where Δ is much less than both the temperature T and the decoherence-induced energy level broadening, and forces it to undergo a Landau-Zener transition. We find that the behavior of the qubit agrees to a high degree of accuracy with theoretical predictions for Landau-Zener transition probabilities for a double-well quantum system coupled to a nonMarkovian 1 / f…”
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Data artivism and feminicide by Suárez Val, Helena, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Acosta Romero, Jimena, Teng, Melissa Q, Fumega, Silvana

“…Our aim is to inspire the fields of critical data and data visualization studies to engage more deeply with art and find common language with artists, activists and advocacy groups (particularly those in Latin America), who are going beyond conventional visualization to reveal a range of alternative ways to mobilize data.…”
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The impact of human capital and housing supply on urban growth by Büchler, Simon C, Niu, Dongxiao, Thompson, Anne K, Zheng, Siqi

“…To causally estimate this effect, we use a rich urban-level data set, choose our controls using the post-double-selection methodology, and instrument human capital with the per capita number of historical educational institutions. We find that human capital positively impacts urban population, house price and wage growth. …”
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Contractor Learning and Home Energy Efficiency in Heat Pump Installations by Ontiveros, Johnattan H.

“…This work examines the role of learning on the cost and size of heat pump installations throughout the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) rebate program. We find that as contractors gain experience, heating systems are downsized at the cost of less hours of displaced fossil-fuel based heating. …”
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The Effect of Social Information on Reliance and Efficacy in AI-assisted Prediction by Alsobay, Mohammed

“…Through a pre-registered randomized human-subject experiment, I study the effect of two forms of social information-direct conversations and summarized peer decisions----on users' reliance and effectiveness in leveraging algorithmic advice across a series of decision-making tasks, and how t he availability of local model explanations and performance feedback moderates this effect. I find t hat, on average, neither form of social information affects t rust directly, yet they both moderate t he extent to which feedback and model explanations influence trust in the algorithm. …”
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Figuring Figures: An assessment of large language models on different modalities of math word problems by Wang, Yan, Lynch, Jayson, Krueger, Elizabeth

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