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, 2003 BOOMERANG was one of the first experiments to map large areas of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with high signal-to-noise during a long duration balloon (LDB) flight in 1998/99. BOOMERANG uses bolometric detectors measuring frequency bands from 90
IACOANGELI A. +40 more
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Opinion dynamics with confirmation bias. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Confirmation bias is the tendency to acquire or evaluate new information in a way that is consistent with one's preexisting beliefs. It is omnipresent in psychology, economics, and even scientific practices.
Armen E Allahverdyan, Aram Galstyan
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Quantum boomerang effect: Beyond the standard Anderson model [PDF]
Physical Review A, 2021 It was recently shown that wavepackets with skewed momentum distribution exhibit a boomerang-like dynamics in the Anderson model due to Anderson localization: after an initial ballistic motion, they make a U-turn and eventually come back to their starting point.
Tessieri, L. +4 more
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The unintended consequences of purposive social action : an examination of the boomerang effect [PDF]
, 1972 The purpose of this study is to examine that reaction to purposive social action and communication known as the boomerang effect. By boomerang effect I refer to the situation where the effect that occurs is diametrically opposed to the effect intended ...
Goodrich, Colin Gordon
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Robust quantum boomerang effect in non-Hermitian systems
, 2022 Anderson localization is a general phenomenon that applies to a variety of disordered physical systems. Recently, a novel manifestation of Anderson localization for wave packets launched with a finite average velocity was proposed, the Quantum boomerang ...
Lourenço, José A. S. +2 more
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The ‘boomerang effect’ : insights for improved climate action
, 2021 States have been negotiating climate mitigation actions centred around greenhouse gas emissions for several decades. In the wake of the Paris Agreement, a significant body of research has emerged reflecting on the unintended negative consequences of ...
Krampe, Florian, +4 more
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Tropicality and the Choc en Retour of Covid-19 and Climate Change
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2021 This article reads ‘pandemic, plague, pestilence and the tropics’ through Covid-19, climate change and the discourse of tropicality. It asks: What happens, as seems to be the case today, when the temperate/tropical oppositions around which tropicality ...
Daniel Clayton
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Effect of a boomerang-shaped Conchal cartilage graft for Type three Tympanoplasty on Hearing
International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, 2021 Introduction Chronic suppurative otitis media atticoantral disease (CSOM-AAD) is often associated with ossicular erosion resulting in significant hearing loss.
Snigdha Elaprolu +3 more
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Pro‐Organic by Design: Choice Architecture Shaping Online Organic Grocery Purchases
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Consumer uptake of organic food is shaped by both personal values and the way choices are structured in the retail environment. Unlike prior research, we here investigate how elements of supermarket choice architecture influence organic choices.
John Thøgersen +2 more
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The disastrous boomerang effects of “citation mania” [PDF]
Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling, 2017 The recent publication of a commentary article by Dadkhah et al. (J Cell Commun Signal 11:181-185, 2017) which addressed issues raised by the citation of questionable scientific papers in current databases and the recent retraction of manuscripts dealing with the biological properties of the CCN1 protein by Lin et al.
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