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Racial Disparities in Financial Complaints and the Role of Corporate Social Attitudes
ABSTRACT Using consumer complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a measure for the quality of financial products and services, we present evidence of racial disparities in the service quality received by consumers. Consumers in high‐minority communities file more complaints than those in low‐minority communities, and the racial
RACHEL M. HAYES+3 more
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ABSTRACT The EU Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products (EUDR), which aims to minimize the contribution of the EU to global deforestation, is facing challenges in its implementation. One such challenge lies in applying the required due diligence provisions in producer countries such as Peru, where the impacts of the EUDR may be significant.
Jimena Solar+2 more
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Terrain descriptors for landscape synthesis, analysis and simulation
Abstract Synthetic landscape generation is an active research area within Computer Graphics. Algorithms for terrain synthesis and ecosystem simulations often rely on simple descriptors such as slope, light accessibility, and drainage area. Typically, the results are assessed from a perceptual standpoint, focusing primarily on visual plausibility. Other
O. Argudo+3 more
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ABSTRACT The expansion of offshore wind interests in US waters has raised concern over potential adverse impacts to fisheries activity and productivity. Yet evidence‐based platforms for assessing those impacts are lacking for many recreational fisheries.
Jeff Kneebone+8 more
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Handling Out‐of‐Sample Areas to Estimate the Unemployment Rate at Local Labour Market Areas in Italy
Summary Unemployment rate estimates for small areas are used to efficiently support the distribution of services and the allocation of resources, grants and funding. A Fay–Herriot type model is the most used tool to obtain these estimates. Under this approach out‐of‐sample areas require some synthetic estimates. As the geographical context is extremely
Roberto Benedetti+4 more
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Convexifying Monotone Polygons while Maintaining Internal Visibility [PDF]
Let P be a simple polygon on the plane. Two vertices of P are visible if the open line segment joining them is contained in the interior of P. In this paper we study the following questions posed in [8,9]: (1) Is it true that every non-convex simple polygon has a vertex that can be continuously moved such that during the process no vertex-vertex ...
Gelasio Salazar+5 more
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ABSTRACT The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly, Ceratitis capitata [Wiedemann]) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a significant pest causing sizeable economic burden and fruit damage to crops worldwide, especially in the Mediterranean area. In deciduous orchards, monitoring the population of Mediterranean flies is an intensive and expensive process.
A. J. Hill+12 more
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Centrifugation-Assisted Three-Dimensional Printing of Devices Embedded with Fully Enclosed Microchannels. [PDF]
Chu CH+6 more
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A Latitudinal Gradient of Reference Genomes
ABSTRACT Global inequality rooted in legacies of colonialism and uneven development can lead to systematic biases in scientific knowledge. In ecology and evolutionary biology, findings, funding and research effort are disproportionately concentrated at high latitudes, while biological diversity is concentrated at low latitudes.
Ethan B. Linck, Carlos Daniel Cadena
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A computational method for real‐time roof defect segmentation in robotic inspection
Abstract Roof inspections are crucial but perilous, necessitating safer and more cost‐effective solutions. While robots offer promising solutions to reduce fall risks, robotic vision systems face efficiency limitations due to computational constraints and scarce specialized data.
Xiayu Zhao, Houtan Jebelli
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