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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...
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    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...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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....
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    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....
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Factors that predict life sciences student persistence in undergraduate resea...

    Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have the potential to benefit undergraduates and longer UREs have been shown to lead to greater benefits for students. However, no...
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    Privacy Attitudes among Early Adopters of Emerging Health Technologies

    Introduction Advances in health technology such as genome sequencing and wearable sensors now allow for the collection of highly granular personal health data from individuals....
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    Engagement present and future: Graduate student and faculty perceptions of so...

    Interest in public engagement with science activities has grown in recent decades, especially engagement through social media and among graduate students. Research on...
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    Outcome Reporting Bias in Government-Sponsored Policy Evaluations: A Qualitat...

    The reporting of evaluation outcomes can be a point of contention between evaluators and policy-makers when a given reform fails to fulfil its promises. Whereas evaluators are...
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    Conflicts of interest in GM Bt crop efficacy and durability studies

    Public confidence in genetically modified (GM) crop studies is tenuous at best in many countries, including those of the European Union in particular. A lack of information...
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    Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system vs. usual medical treatment for ...

    Objective: To undertake an economic evaluation alongside the largest randomised controlled trial comparing Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device ('LNG-IUS') and usual...
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    "Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...

    Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV...
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    Variability in Costs across Hospital Wards. A Study of Chinese Hospitals

    Introduction Analysts estimating the costs or cost-effectiveness of health interventions requiring hospitalization often cut corners because they lack data and the costs of...