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Abstract A longstanding and significant disparity in representation across gender, economic status, ethnicity, race, and sexual identity exists within STEM doctoral training. Most of the research on the retention and attrition of minoritized PhD STEM students focuses on individual factors, rather than system level issues.
Ida Salusky+4 more
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Does Age Structure Forecast Economic Growth? [PDF]
Increases in the proportion of the working age population can yield a "demographic dividend" that enhances the rate of economic growth. We estimate the parameters of an economic growth model with a cross section of countries over the period 1960 to 1980 ...
David Canning+3 more
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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Structural Improvement in Crane Boom Rest
Crane boom rests are critical components that endure both static and dynamic loads, leading to deformation and a shortened lifespan. This paper addresses these issues by proposing a redesigned model with enhanced stiffness and load-bearing capacity.
CA Thulasi Dharan+4 more
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Abstract This paper explores the idea of a ‘golden age’ in social psychological research. I begin with ‘behavioural social psychology’—research that leverages the behavioural traces that are a product of the digital age. I argue that the ability to analyse digital visual data, natural language data, and smartphone and ambient sensor data, has made ...
Mark Levine
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]
For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John+4 more
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ABSTRACT This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. The EGM has three main objectives: (1) Identify the strength (in terms of evidence quality) and depth (in terms of volume of evidence) of evidence base on the efficacy of situational crime prevention measures in preventing terrorist attacks against soft ...
Zoe Marchment+2 more
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Background With no effective treatments for cognitive decline or dementia, improving the evidence base for modifiable risk factors is a research priority.
D. Lipnicki+64 more
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
Alexander+48 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Objectives Loneliness is common among nursing home residents, and it is also thought to be a problem in assisted living (AL). However, we lack research on loneliness in AL. Our objectives were to assess changes in risk‐adjusted prevalence of loneliness in AL, and facility‐level variations in loneliness before and during the ...
Matthias Hoben+6 more
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