Two paradoxes in women’s wellbeing by Kaiser, C, Muggleton, N, Quispe-Torreblanca, E, De Neve, J-E

“…First, although women today report higher levels of life satisfaction and overall happiness than men, they experience worse outcomes in mental health and negative affect. …”

Immunotherapy-resistant neuropathic pain and fatigue predict quality-of-life in contactin-associated protein-like 2 antibody disease by Ceronie, B, Strippel, C, Uy, C, Paneva, S, Makuch, M, Soleimani, B, Turaga, S, Binks, S, Ramanathan, S, Michael, S, Varley, J, Easton, A, Themistocleous, A, John Dawes, Bennett, DL, Irani, A, Handel, AE, Irani, SR

“…Furthermore, these two factors—but not CASPR2 antibody levels or subclasses—independently predicted worse disability and quality-of-life at 24 months. …”

Poorer representation of minds underpins less accurate mental state inference for out-groups by Payne, B, Bird, G, Catmur, C

“…This shows that poorer mental state inference is not underpinned by a reduced propensity to consider out-group minds, but instead by a worse representation of the minds of out-groups.…”

Why do we care how much oxygen tumors have? by Martin, LAW, Hammond, EM

“…We understand how hypoxia makes cancer worse, but we are still working on ways to get rid of hypoxic cancer cells.…”

A programmable voltage reference for sub-1.2V power supplies by Meng, Yuan

“…In temperature range 0 to 70℃, it has a typical temperature coefficient 0.771ppm/K, and worst corner temperature coefficient 17.483ppm/K. …”
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An assessment of India’s energy landscape: 2008–13 by Deb, K

“…As the global economy spiralled into the worst financial crisis since the great Depression in 2008 (according to Nouriel Roubini, Kenneth Rogoff, and Nariman Behravesh, in a press release reported in Reuters, 27 February 2009), India seemed to be bucking the trend. …”

Unequal health: the scandal of our times by Dorling, D

“…Most people’s health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people live longer. …”

The robust F-statistic as a test for weak instruments by Windmeijer, F

“…For the linear model with a single endogenous variable, (Montiel Olea and Pflueger 2013) proposed the effective F-statistic as a test for weak instruments in terms of the Nagar bias of the two-stage least squares (2SLS) or limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) estimator relative to a benchmark worst-case bias. We show that their methodology for the 2SLS estimator applies to a class of linear generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators with an associated class of generalized effective F-statistics. …”

Climate change VR by Tan, Kenrick Yong Heng

“…The effects of climate change have been witnessed for several decades now and it appears to be getting worse. While this technology is integrated into many sectors, we could use it to educate the youth about climate change. …”
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Scene text recognition by Muhammad Afiq Osman

“…Adadelta in fact performed much worse producing ‘nan’ test and train error on many occasions. …”
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Optimal Engagement-Diversity Tradeoffs in Social Media by Baumann, Fabian, Halpern, Daniel, Procaccia, Ariel D., Rahwan, Iyad, Shapira, Itai, Wüthrich, Manuel

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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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Do we need economic inequality? by Dorling, D

“…At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as insufficient to encourage aspiration, hard work and investment – a refrain sometimes used to advocate ever greater inequality. …”

Optimal pre-analysis plans: statistical decisions subject to implementability by Kasy, M, Spiess, J

“…Applying these results to hypothesis testing, we show that optimal rejection rules pre-register a valid test, and make worst-case assumptions about unreported statistics. …”

Design of time-predictable architecture and DDR memory bank allocation for COTS multi-cores by Vasudevan, Sriram

“…The multi-core processors offer a very high computing performance owing to the increased number of processing cores, but do not guarantee a predictable Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET), which is defined as the maximum time an application can take to execute on a given hardware. …”
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America’s “China-First” grand strategy and the transatlantic bargain: revisiting the security–economics nexus by Desmaele, Linde

“…Accordingly, this article’s driving hypothesis is that the more significance the USA assigns to its European allies in the context of its China agenda, the more it will, for better or worse, seek to maintain (some degree of) European security dependence on the USA. …”
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SOCIAL MASKING: The act of comfortable personalities by Yar, Lionel Jun Cheng

“…In a best-case scenario, social masking enables individuals to function easily within various contexts in our social world. On the contrary in a worst-case scenario, social masking serves as barriers to true acceptance, hospitality, understanding and authentic communication. …”
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Study on the oxidation and corrosion properties of titanium aluminide from a microstructural viewpoint by Chan, Shao Wei

“…It appears that the samples with larger ratio of γ to α2phase tendto fare worse in oxidation and corrosion performance, and these results point towards the need of optimizing the presence of γ/α2to compromise between oxidative and mechanical properties.…”
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Performance study of digital communication systems in TWDP fading by Li, Yuan

“…In the real application, fading sometimes can be worse than the known models, thus one has proposed a general analytical distribution named two-wave with diffuse power (TWDP) to pertinently express the localarea fading traits. …”
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Deep learning for multiple object tracking by Gao, Junjie

“…Our face detection network applies the anchor-free structure on face detector and the performance is just slightly worse than the state-of-the-arts anchor-based face detector. …”
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