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The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter Family comets

, 2008
The short period Jupiter family comets (JFCs) are thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt; specifically, a dynamical subclass of the Kuiper Belt known as the `scattered disk' is argued to be the dominant source of JFCs.
Giorgini J. D., Kathryn Volk, Renu Malhotra, Sekanina Z., Tancredi G.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Making the objectively best choice for side-stream resources—Verification of a debiasing method based on cognitive maps and attribute substitution

Frontiers in Food Science and Technology, 2023
Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools are essentially methods to enable a decision maker to achieve a more objective approach to a given decision scenario using quantitative methods.
Søren Espersen Schrøder, David San Martin, Giuseppe Foti, Monica Gutierrez, Bruno Iñarra Chastagnol, J. Rasmus Nielsen, Erling Larsen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of "Bias" in NLP

, 2020
We survey 146 papers analyzing "bias" in NLP systems, finding that their motivations are often vague, inconsistent, and lacking in normative reasoning, despite the fact that analyzing "bias" is an inherently normative process.
Barocas, Solon, Blodgett, Su Lin, Daumé III, Hal, Wallach, Hanna   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen, Guy Low, David Wuepper, Tobias Dalhaus, Hugo Storm, Dagim Belay, Stefan Hirsch   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient Geometric Probabilities of Multi-Transiting Exoplanetary Systems from CORBITS [PDF]

, 2016
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has successfully discovered thousands of exoplanet candidates using the transit method, including hundreds of stars with multiple transiting planets.
Brakensiek, Joshua, Ragozzine, Darin
core   +3 more sources

Reporting Control Deficiencies in Repeat Internal Audit Engagements*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 7-20, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines the reporting of control deficiencies in repeat internal audit engagements. Experienced internal auditors were presented with a hypothetical case in which they were asked about the likelihood of reporting an internal control deficiency discovered last year but which was, “through an oversight,” not reported to company ...
Michael Favere‐Marchesi
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Current Issues in Governance, Economics and Finance: Toward Ecosystems

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
Fadi Alkaraan, Khaled Hussainey
wiley   +1 more source

The gateway (mis)belief model: How misinformation impacts perceptions of scientific consensus and attitudes towards climate change

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity, necessitating immediate action to combat its consequences. Although there is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that climate change is human‐caused, misinformation doubting its causes continues to circulate widely.
Hannah Timna Logemann, Jacob B. Rode, Rakoen Maertens, Sander van der Linden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time Evolution of Galaxy Formation and Bias in Cosmological Simulations

, 1999
The clustering of galaxies relative to the mass distribution declines with time because: first, nonlinear peaks become less rare events; second, the densest regions stop forming new galaxies because gas there becomes too hot to cool and collapse; third ...
Couch W. J., Doroshkevich A. G., Gnedin N. Y., Hermit S., Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Kauffmann G., Kauffmann G., Madau P., Max Tegmark, Michael A. Strauss, Michael Blanton, Mo H. J., Renyue Cen, Scalo J. M.   +13 more
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A Lack of Resolved Near-Infrared Polarization Across the Face of M51 [PDF]

, 2012
The galaxy M51 was observed using the Mimir instrument on the Perkins telescope to constrain the resolved H-band (1.6 $\mu$m) polarization across the galaxy.
Clemens, Dan P., Pavel, Michael D.
core   +2 more sources