Do robots boost productivity? A quantitative meta‐study
ABSTRACT This meta‐study analyzes the productivity effects of industrial robots. More than 1800 estimates from 85 primary studies are collected. The meta‐analytic evidence suggests that robotization has so far provided, at best, a small boost to productivity. There is strong evidence of publication bias in the positive direction.
Florian Schneider
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Influence of joint fissure occurrence on stress distribution of coal wall in large mining height. [PDF]
Guo W, Gao Y, Wang G.
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The Connected Lawyer: The Evolving Operating System of the Networked Professional [PDF]
Brayer, Patrick C.
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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience
Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
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Determination method of rational position for working face entries in coordinated mining of section coal pillars and lower sub-layer. [PDF]
Li X +7 more
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Cancer and Capitalism: Towards a Critical Sociological Agenda
ABSTRACT This article considers the relationship between cancer and capitalism from the perspective of political economy. It argues that this perspective is crucial for producing a critical agenda in the sociological study of cancer, which has otherwise and traditionally neglected the question of capital as social totality.
Faisal Al‐Asaad
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Attitude monitoring method for hydraulic support in fully mechanized working face based on PSO-ELM
In response to the problems of cumulative errors and inaccurate correction results in the attitude calculation method of hydraulic supports based on inertial measurement units, a fully mechanized working face hydraulic support attitude monitoring method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) - extreme learning machine (ELM) is proposed.
LI Lei +7 more
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Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Construction of multiphysics coupling equations and study on flow field migration patterns in shallow buried goaf under air leakage conditions. [PDF]
Pan J, Qiu C, Zhao D, Liu L, Yuan Q.
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Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
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