The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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Supervised machine learning intrusion detection review and multi-criteria evaluation. [PDF]
Abu-Shareha AA +5 more
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Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: An Experiment on the Brexit‐Vote
ABSTRACT The 2016 EU referendum result was widely perceived as a statement against immigration. This paper investigates whether information about majority voting outcomes influences attitudes towards immigrants. Using a survey experiment conducted in England in 2017–2018, we randomly exposed participants to truthful information indicating that local ...
Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon +1 more
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Homeostatic scaling of dynorphin signaling by a non-canonical opioid receptor. [PDF]
Li X +10 more
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Top Versus Bottom: Experimental Evidence on Priming, Information and Redistribution Preferences
ABSTRACT We study how both who we talk about when we talk about inequality and how we talk about it shape redistributive preferences. In a nationally representative survey experiment in Germany with a 1‐year follow‐up, we exogenously vary the focus of attention (top 10% vs. bottom 10%) and the mode of delivery (subtle priming vs.
Luna Bellani, Nona Bledow
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In vivo base editing of Chd3 rescues behavioural abnormalities in mice. [PDF]
Yang K +32 more
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US Federal Budgets and Federal Employee Job Satisfaction
Abstract Researchers have long studied how organizational budgets relate to performance, but how do employees themselves experience the effects of budgetary decisions? Given widespread attention to political dysfunction in US federal budgeting, conventional wisdom holds that employees are negatively affected by budgetary uncertainty (volatility, delays,
Nathan Favero, Carla Flink, Tingli Qu
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CRISPR screen of human pancreatic cancer xenografts identifies a KLF5 proliferation vulnerability through epigenetic modifiers NCAPD2 and MTHFD1. [PDF]
Maeda M +15 more
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The Effect of the Budget Cycle on Native American Health Outcomes
Abstract Indian Health Service provides healthcare for 2.5 million Alaskan Natives and Native Americans. However, health disparities between Native Americans and other groups have been widening. One important factor for this trend is funding. In this paper, I document the effect of funding constraints on mortality outcomes using fixed effects models. I
Patrick Carlin
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Newcomer and Incumbent Exit After Comobility Hiring Events
ABSTRACT Newcomers comprise substantial portions of modern workforces, yet they represent high exit risks due to their lack of embeddedness in their new firms. Organizations often source new employees via comobility, wherein newcomers join simultaneously from another firm.
Luciana Zheng Manroop +2 more
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