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Robo-investment aversion.
In five experiments (N = 3,828), we investigate whether people prefer investment decisions to be made by human investment managers rather than by algorithms (“robos”). In all of... -
High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes
AbstractThe goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science... -
How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge...
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education,... -
Cost Analysis of Integrating the PrePex Medical Device into a Voluntary Medic...
Background Fourteen African countries are scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention. Several devices that might offer alternatives to the three... -
Career Coaches as a Source of Vicarious Learning for Racial and Ethnic Minori...
Introduction Many recent mentoring initiatives have sought to help improve the proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities (URMs) in academic positions across... -
Peru and its new challenge in higher education: Towards a research university
The paradigm of research universities linked to the emergence of university rankings has unified and universalized the criteria relating to the quality of higher education. This... -
A Decision Analytic Approach to Exposure-Based Chemical Prioritization
The manufacture of novel synthetic chemicals has increased in volume and variety, but often the environmental and health risks are not fully understood in terms of toxicity and,... -
Performance scores in general practice: a comparison between the clinical ver...
Context From one country to another, the pay-for-performance mechanisms differ on one significant point: the identification of target populations, that is, populations which... -
Strengthening capacity for natural sciences research: A qualitative assessmen...
Background: Strengthening research capacity in low-and-middle-income countries is essential to drive socioeconomic development and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.... -
Would you like to leave Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen? An empirical analysis...
: This study aims to estimate the migration effect of the overall samples and different flowing scales for the floating population from the perspective of personal wages.... -
Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States
Reliable estimates of the impacts and costs of biological invasions are critical to developing credible management, trade and regulatory policies. Worldwide, forests and urban... -
The reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical ...
The aim of this study was to explore the reasons behind medicine shortages from the perspective of pharmaceutical companies and pharmaceutical wholesalers in Finland. The study... -
Economic Impact of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy on Education Supply in High...
BACKGROUND:We set out to estimate, for the three geographical regions with the highest HIV prevalence, (sub-Saharan Africa [SSA], the Caribbean and the Greater Mekong sub-region... -
A Descriptive Analysis of Overviews of Reviews Published between 2000 and 2011
Background Overviews of systematic reviews compile data from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) and are a new method of evidence synthesis. Objectives To describe the... -
Faster Is More Different: Mean-Field Dynamics of Innovation Diffusion
Based on a recent model of paradigm shifts by Bornholdt et al., we studied mean-field opinion dynamics in an infinite population where an infinite number of ideas compete... -
Rising population cost for treating people living with HIV in the UK, 1997-2013.
BACKGROUND\ud \ud The number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is increasing in the UK. This study estimated the annual population cost of providing HIV services in the UK,... -
Heterogeneous groups overcome the diffusion of responsibility problem in soci...
Social norms promote cooperation in everyday life because many people are willing to negatively sanction norm breakers at a cost to themselves. However, a norm violation may... -
Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013):...
This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and... -
Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny:A consultation of UK researc...
Access to reliable and timely information ensures that decision-makers can operate effectively. The motivations and challenges of parliamentarians and policy-makers in accessing... -
Health Insurance Coverage and Impact: A Survey in Three Cities in China
BACKGROUND: China has one of the world's largest health insurance systems, composed of government-run basic health insurance and commercial health insurance. The basic health...
