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

“…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. …”

Dynamic placement in refugee resettlement by Ahani, N, Gölz, P, Procaccia, AD, Teytelboym, A, Trapp, AC

“…Our algorithm achieves over 98% of the hindsight- optimal employment compared to under 90% of current greedy-like approaches. This dramatic improvement persists even when we incorporate a vast array of practical features of the refugee resettlement process including indivisible families, batching, and uncertainty with respect to the number of future arrivals. …”

Unsettling subject English in the 21st century by Elliott, VF, McLean Davies, L

“…We see this as an opening up of a comparative conversation about subject English across the Anglophone world, the different contexts of unsettling, and what that subject might look like if it is to enact the justice imperatives of education in the 21st century. …”

A study on factors affecting receptivity to traditional chinese medicine In Singapore. by Chu, Hui Wen., Liu, Jia., Tan, Pei Ting.

“…In an ageing population like Singapore, the integration of TCM into the mainstream healthcare system may serve as an ideal long-term healthcare solution to combat the threat of geriatrics. …”
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Motive and malice prepensed by Getzler, J

“…‘Start with Buckland,’ David told me. ‘He sometimes writes like the engineer he once was. But it’s really good scholarship.’ …”

Simultaneous controllers for stabilizing the frequency changes in deregulated power system using moth flame optimization by Peddakapu, kurukuri, Mohd Rusllim, Mohamed, Srinivasarao, P., Leung, Puiki

“…Further work to reduce the changes in tie-line has been applied through different FACTS controllers, such as Distributed power flow controller (DPFC), Thyristor-controlled series capacitor (TCSC), Unified power flow controller (UPFC), and Static synchronous series compensator (SSSC); integrated into the AGC system with the co-ordination of Ultra-capacitor (UC). …”
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Machine Learning Prediction of Treatment Response to Inhaled Corticosteroids in Asthma by Ong, Mei-Sing, Sordillo, Joanne E., Dahlin, Amber, McGeachie, Michael, Tantisira, Kelan, Wang, Alberta L., Lasky-Su, Jessica, Brilliant, Murray, Kitchner, Terrie, Roden, Dan M., Weiss, Scott T., Wu, Ann Chen

“…Background: Although inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are the first-line therapy for patients with persistent asthma, many patients continue to have exacerbations. …”
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Unified quantum theory of electrochemical kinetics by coupled ion–electron transfer by Bazant, Martin Z.

“…The latter may help interpret asymmetric line shapes in x-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) for metal surfaces in terms of shake-up relaxation of the ionized atom and its image polaron by ICET. …”
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Assessing Early Stage Design Sketches and Reflections on Prototyping by Das, Madhurima, Yang, Maria C

“…First, it proposes a rubric for assessing the quality of early-stage design sketches including line smoothness, proportion, and understandability. …”
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When is it acceptable to break the rules? Knowledge representation of moral judgements based on empirical data by Awad, Edmond, Levine, Sydney, Loreggia, Andrea, Mattei, Nicholas, Rahwan, Iyad, Rossi, Francesca, Talamadupula, Kartik, Tenenbaum, Joshua, Kleiman-Weiner, Max

“…We then detail the design, implementation, and results of a study of human participants who judge whether it is acceptable to break a well-established rule: <jats:italic>no cutting in line</jats:italic>. We then develop an instance of our model and compare its performance to that of standard machine learning approaches on the task of predicting the behavior of human participants in the study, showing that our preference-based approach more accurately captures the judgments of human decision-makers. …”
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The influence of mode dominance and traveling waves on flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration by Ma, Leixin, Resvanis, Themistocles L., Vandiver, J. Kim

“…The number of dimensions of the flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration is reduced from infinite degrees of freedom to a few dominant proper orthogonal modes in the cross-flow and in-line directions sufficient to characterize the response properly. …”
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Robust Transit Frequency Setting Problem With Demand Uncertainty by Guo, Xiaotong, Mo, Baichuan, Koutsopoulos, Haris N, Wang, Shenhao, Zhao, Jinhua

“…The proposed models are tested with real-world transit lines and data from the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). …”
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Optical Properties of Colloidal II-VI and III-V Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Single Nanocrystal Photon Correlation Spectroscopy by Berkinsky, David

“…In the second chapter, I determine the dominant photoluminescent line shape broadening mechanisms in single InP/ZnSe/ZnS and CdSe/CdS/ZnS NCs using temperature dependent photoluminescent spectroscopic techniques. …”
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Improved lower bounds on book crossing numbers of complete graphs by Salazar, G., Pasechnik, Dmitrii V., De Klerk, Etienne.

“…A book with k pages consists of a straight line (the spine) and k half-planes (the pages), such that the boundary of each page is the spine. …”
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Light scattering as an intrinsic indicator for pancreatic islet cell mass and secretion by Ilegems, E., van Krieken, P. P., Edlund, P. K., Dicker, A., Alanentalo, T., Eriksson, M., Mandic, S., Ahlgren, U., Berggren, Per-Olof Yngve

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Colossal positive magnetoresistance in surface-passivated oxygen-deficient strontium titanite by David, Adrian, Tian, Yufeng, Yang, Ping, Gao, Xingyu, Lin, Weinan, Shah, Amish B., Zuo, Jian-Min, Prellier, Wilfrid, Wu, Tom

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Generalized sub–Schawlow-Townes laser linewidths via material dispersion by Pillay, Jason Cornelius, Natsume, Yuki, Stone, A. Douglas, Chong, Y. D.

“…These results for the quantum-limited linewidth are valid even in the regime of strong line pulling and spatial hole burning, where the linewidth cannot be factorized into independent Petermann and bad-cavity factors.…”
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Distributed local linear parameter estimation using gaussian SPAWN by Leng, Mei, Tay, Wee Peng, Quek, Tony Q. S., Shin, Hyundong

“…We show that gSPAWN converges in mean and has mean-square stability under some technical sufficient conditions, and we describe an application of gSPAWN to a network localization problem in non-line-of-sight environments. Numerical results suggest that gSPAWN converges much faster in general than the diffusion method, and has lower communication costs per sensor, with comparable root-mean-square errors.…”
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A thermal resilient integration of many-core microprocessors and main memory by 2.5D TSI I/Os by Wu, Sih-Sian, Wang, Kanwen, Manoj P. D, Sai, Ho, Tsung-Yi, Yu, Mingbin, Yu, Hao

“…On the other hand, the one by 2.5D transmission-line-interconnected TSI I/Os has shown almost the same energy efficiency and better thermal resilience.…”
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A multi-path compensation method for ranging in wearable ultrasonic sensor networks for human gait analysis by Ashhar, Karalikkadan, Mohammad Omar Khyam, Soh, Cheong Boon

“…The multi-path components closer to the line of sight component cannot be identified during correlation reception which leads to errors in the estimated range and which in turn affects the localization and tracking performance. …”
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