Neighbourhood effects and endogeneity issues [PDF]
A recent body of research suggests that the spatial structure of cities might influence the socioeconomic characteristics and outcomes of their residents.
DUJARDIN, Claire +2 more
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How Does Colonial Origin Matter for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa? [PDF]
This paper investigates some of the existing hypotheses regarding the transmission of different colonial legacies to modern day economic growth. The fact that different colonial strategies were pursued by different colonizers in various territories ...
Julius A. Agbor
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Creating an African American-Sounding TTS: Guidelines, Technical Challenges,and Surprising Evaluations [PDF]
arXivRepresentations of AI agents in user interfaces and robotics are predominantly White, not only in terms of facial and skin features, but also in the synthetic voices they use. In this paper we explore some unexpected challenges in the representation of race we found in the process of developing an U.S. English Text-to-Speech (TTS) system aimed to sound
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Have We Reached AGI? Comparing ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to Human Literacy and Education Benchmarks [PDF]
arXivRecent advancements in AI, particularly in large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, have prompted questions about their proximity to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This study compares LLM performance on educational benchmarks with Americans' average educational attainment and literacy levels, using data from the U.S ...
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Mission: Agnes C. L. Donohugh, early apostle for ethnography
, 2017 In the spring of 1915, the Kennedy School of Missions at Hartford Theological Seminary, the leading graduate school for missionary training in the United States at this time, offered the first graduate-level course on ethnology ever to be taught in ...
Hartley, Benjamin L.
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Faculty concert: John Manning, Nikki Stola, Sibhan Kelleher, and Gabriel Langfur [PDF]
, 1999 This is the concert program of the Faculty Concert of John Manning performance on Friday, February 19, 1999 at 8:00 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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Novelty and Theater, November 17, 2014 [PDF]
, 2014 This is the concert program of the Novelty and Theater performance on Monday, November 17, 2014 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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Feminization thesis: A survey of international historiography and a probing of Belgian grounds [PDF]
, 2008 Buerman, Thomas, VAN OSSELAER, T
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Cross-National and Cross-Ethnic Differences in Political and Leisure Attitudes. A Case of Luxemburg [PDF]
Using a case of Luxembourg a cross-cultural comparative perspective is linked to between as well as within country comparisons by answering a two-folded question. First we analyzed the level of measurement equivalence, i.e.
KANKARASH Milosh, MOORS Guy
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Strategic honey bee hive placement improves honey bee visitation but not pollination in northern highbush blueberry. [PDF]
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