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Initial Coin Offerings
This paper examines the market for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs are smart contracts based on blockchain technology that are designed for entrepreneurs to raise external... -
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary... -
The Open Source Seed Licence: A novel approach to safeguarding access to plan...
The laws to secure intellectual property rights on plant germplasm have been strongly developed in parallel to the ongoing seed market consolidation. Germplasm as a commons,... -
Governator vs. Hunter and Aggregator: A simulation of party competition with ...
: The policy positions parties choose are central to both attracting voters and forming coalition governments. How then should parties choose positions to best represent voters?... -
The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of stati...
From January 2014, Psychological Science introduced new submission guidelines that encouraged the use of effect sizes, estimation, and meta-analysis (the “new statistics”),... -
The quest for an optimal alpha
Researchers who analyze data within the framework of null hypothesis significance testing must choose a critical "alpha" level, α, to use as a cutoff for deciding whether a... -
Estimation accuracy in the psychological sciences
Sample means comparisons are a fundamental and ubiquitous approach to interpreting experimental psychological data. Yet, we argue that the sample and effect sizes in published... -
Faculty perceptions and knowledge of career development of trainees in biomed...
The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program is an NIH-funded effort testing the impact of career development interventions (e.g. internships, workshops,... -
Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading pape...
Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for all scientists and students on science degree programmes, however little is known about how researchers at... -
Exploring the role of interdisciplinarity in physics: Success, talent and luck
Although interdisciplinarity is often touted as a necessity for modern research, the evidence on the relative impact of sectorial versus to interdisciplinary science is... -
Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and A...
Little is known about the climate of the scientific fieldwork setting as it relates to gendered experiences, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. We conducted an... -
Essential Features of Responsible Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology
Agricultural biotechnology continues to generate considerable controversy. We argue that to address this controversy, serious changes to governance are needed. The new wave of... -
The procurement of innovation by the U.S. government
The U.S. government invests more than $50 billion per year in R&D procurement but we know little about the outcomes of these investments. We have traced all the patents... -
Election forensics: Using machine learning and synthetic data for possible el...
: Assuring election integrity is essential for the legitimacy of elected representative democratic government. Until recently, other than in-person election observation, there... -
White matter hyperintensities and the mediating role of cerebral amyloid angi...
Introduction White matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume on MRI is increased among presymptomatic individuals with autosomal dominant mutations for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One... -
Autism spectrum disorder, politics, and the generosity of insurance mandates ...
The study of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the United States has identified a growing prevalence of the disorder across the country, a high economic burden for necessary... -
Bilingualism and working memory performance: Evidence from a large-scale onli...
The bilingual executive advantage (BEA) hypothesis has attracted considerable research interest, but the findings are inconclusive. We addressed this issue in the domain of... -
Assessment of students’ awareness of the national heritage (Case study: The p...
This study financed by the deanship of scientific research, Hail, University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aims to identify the degree of students’ awareness of the national... -
Prevalence of and reasons for women’s, family members’ and health professiona...
: Mairead Black and Sohinee Bhattacharya discuss research findings on preferences for cesarean delivery in Asian settings and share their Perspective on facilitating... -
Vicious circles of gender bias, lower positions, and lower performance: Gende...
It is often argued that female researchers publish on average less than male researchers do, but male and female authored papers have an equal impact. In this paper we try to...
