Connecting Local Economic Decline to the Politics of Geographic Discontent: The Missing Link of Perceptions by Green, J, Jennings, W, McKay, L, Stoker, G

“…Using original survey questions in the British Election Study, we theorise five models to explain who is likely to perceive local economic decline, and why. …”

Unlocking the mysteries behind baby viral videos. by Chung, You Lun., Tan, Peck Lim., Sia, Shang Ying.

“…Contrary to our initial findings, funny baby videos are actually more likely to be shared as opposed to purely adorable ones. …”
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Who inadvertently shares deepfakes? Analyzing the role of political interest, cognitive ability, and social network size by Saifuddin Ahmed

“…Those with lower cognitive ability are also more likely to share deepfakes inadvertently. The moderation findings suggest that the relationship between political interest and deepfakes sharing is significantly moderated by network size. …”
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Simulation expectation by Thomas, T

“…I present a new argument that we are much more likely to be living in a computer simulation than in the ground-level of reality. …”

When money can’t buy political love: lab experiments on vote buying in Ghana and Uganda by Burbidge, D, Cheeseman, N, Panin, A

“…Respondents who have had positive experiences of elections were more likely to reward nonbribing candidates These findings suggest that the lab-in-the-field results are best explained by democratic values among some respondents. …”

E-commerce regulation and trader compliance: a comparative and empirical inquiry by Pflücke, F

“…The ambition of the thesis is to define and measure the levels of compliance and to test four hypotheses: (H1) traders do not comply in full with their legal obligations; (H2) large traders are more likely to be compliant compared to SMEs; (H3) traders that are older are more likely to be compliant compared to companies that were incorporated more recently; (H4) traders that base their terms and conditions on pre-drafted standard contract terms are more likely to be in compliance with the selected legal obligations. …”

Clinical metagenomics: ethical issues by Johnson, T, Jamrozik, E, Ramachandran, P, Johnson, S

“…In this paper, we present three use cases that draw on existing reports: one involving a patient in intensive care with encephalitis of unknown aetiology, another case with likely infection with drugresistant K. pneumoniae and an incidental finding of unknown relevance, and a final case situated in an unexplained outbreak of acute hepatitis in children, with severe outcomes due to co-infection. …”

Indo-European youth priesthoods and the Männerbund theory: a study of the Vedic Vrātyas and their ancient Indo-European analogues by Elby, T

“…It also discusses the possibility of a parallel tradition of sacred numerology relating to the number 432,000, but finds this likely to be a coincidental product of the mathematical constraints present. …”

A temporal study of the effects of online opinions : information sources matter by Huang, Jianxiong, Boh, Wai Fong, Goh, Kim Huat

“…Our research demonstrates that online opinions are not always persuasive and useful, and our findings provide insights into when consumers are likely to pay attention to which types of online opinions.…”
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Spatial structure of workplace and communication between colleagues: A study of E-mail exchange and spatial relatedness on the MIT campus by Sevtsuk, Andres, Chancey, Bahij, Basu, Rounaq, Mazzarello, Martina

“…Building on prior studies of both physical and electronic communication networks, we present the results of a study conducted on the MIT campus using an anonymized dataset of e-mail communication to examine how spatial relatedness between faculty, staff, and researchers’ office locations impact E-mail communication between them. Our findings suggest that (a) people whose offices are closer to each other by walking are more likely to exchange E-mails, (b) on the campus as a whole, people who are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on the way to or from work are more likely to exchange E-mails, and (c) people who share access to similar eating venues around their offices are more likely to exchange E-mails. …”
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Blocking of counter-partisan accounts drives political assortment on Twitter by Martel, Cameron, Mosleh, Mohsen, Yang, Qi, Zaman, Tauhid, Rand, David G

“…In addition to preferentially following-back copartisans, we found that users were 12 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts compared to copartisan accounts in the first experiment, and 4 times more likely to block counter-partisan accounts relative to a neutral account or a copartisan account in the second experiment. …”
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Support for resettling refugees : the role of fixed versus growth mind-sets by Madan, Shilpa, Basu, Shankha, Rattan, Aneeta, Savani, Krishna

“…U.S. and UK citizens who believed that the kind of person someone is can be changed were more likely to support resettling refugees in their country (Studies 1 and 2). …”
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Religious restrictions, country wealth, and religious violence : a global analysis by Tan, Malcolm Si-An

“…Utilising cross-national time-series analysis of data from 175 countries spanning 1991 – 2018, this study finds that countries which spend a larger share of their wealth to impose restrictions on minority, majority, or all religions are more likely to experience higher levels of religious hostilities and violence. …”
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Racial discrimination against prospective tenants : evidence from the room rental market in Singapore by Chew, Ilynn Mei Xian, Goh, Pei Ying, Ng, Wan Zhyi

“…Adapting Becker’s taste-based model to the rental market, we examine discrimination for room availability and rent. Our findings show that landlords have significant discrimination against minority races: On average, the Malay and Indian profiles are half as likely to receive positive responses for room availability than the Chinese profile. …”
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Twitter vs Facebook : analysis of Australian open tennis fan page by Ferozd Raisyad Razhif Roshein

“…Six main themes were identified namely: Match, Athletes, Livestream/Talkshow, Promotion, Fans interaction and Casual/memes. Findings indicate that Twitter AO fan page is more active in terms of frequency of posts. …”
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Causal Machine Learning to Discover Biochemical Determinants of Physical Fitness by Nawaz, Hesham

“…Identifying the key pathways relevant to cardiorespiratory fitness is of great importance for both predicting exercise responsiveness and potentially finding which interventions are likely to affect it. …”
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Precursors and correlates of transient and persistent longitudinal profiles of psychotic experiences from late childhood through early adulthood by Rammos, A, Sullivan, SA, Kounali, D, Jones, HJ, Hammerton, G, Hines, LA, Lewis, G, Jones, PB, Cannon, M, Thompson, A, Wolke, D, Heron, J, Zammit, S

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Conclusions:</strong> These findings indicate that the same risk factors are associated with incidence as with persistence of psychotic experiences. …”

Understanding campus mobility by Toh, Christopher Gerard Wei Hong

“…This project also finds that it is possible to build on the current pre-processing steps by conducting user-device profiling, mapping activities to locations, and point-of-interest location analysis. …”
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Photonic Integrated Devices Manufacturing Workforce Preparation Assessment Report: Middle Skilled Technicians by Aiken, Juliet, Moore, Elizabeth, Fedewa, Autumn, Jordan, Taylor, Field, Frank, Unger, Elizabeth, Argarwal, Anuradha, Kirchain, Randolph

“…This report first shares what photonic integrated devices are and summarizes our findings relevant to the market for this emerging technology. …”
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Hot and round: How temperature and shape impact the multisensory appreciation of cornmeal by Juravle, G, Duca, R, Feghiuș, C, Spence, C

“…Rounded shapes are significantly more liked and are typically also evaluated as warmer and sweeter than angular shapes/foods. …”