Buying influence? The international diplomacy behind donor financing of the World Bank’s International Development Association by Xu, J

“…Finally, the research examines whether a hegemon violating the ‘fairness’ principle by shirking obligations but pursuing undue influence will face secondary states willing to take ‘exit/voice’ measures to restore an implicit contribution-to-influence equity line; and whether such countermeasures would be postponed if secondary states are structurally dependent upon the hegemon and/or lack viable outside options. In-depth case studies are used to test these hypotheses. Overall the thesis reveals that the US maintained or cut its burden share as the Soviet threat waxed and waned; and that as the Soviet Union collapsed the US abandoned both its leadership for IDA expansion to counter the Soviet threat and its self-restraint in controlling the World Bank, provoking the fairness concern among secondary states – the most potent factor in explaining IDA burden-sharing dynamics in the post-Cold War era. …”

Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…‘STORY’ started recruitment in October 2019 ahead of the first reported cases of SARS-CoV-2. To achieve a representative sample the participants enrolled had to closely reflect the characteristics of the population of interest, enabling estimates of the proportion of children and adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection-induced antibodies to be extrapolated to the broader population within these age groups. …”

Modelling, exploration and optimization of hardware accelerators for deep learning applications by Dutt, Arko

“…Current applications that require processing of large amounts of data, such as in healthcare, transportation, media, banking, telecom, internet-of-things, and security demand for new computing systems with extreme performance and energy efficiency. …”
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