The Commerce Department was expecting to hand out new federal money to high-tech research. Congress sent it to a secretive natsec program instead.
Analyzed from a property rights perspective, the dividends paid by the Federal Home Loan banks to their members are surprisingly stingy, and vary wildly between the different banks.
First Federal Bank of Kansas City finalized a plan to reorganize its corporate structure; Regions Bank in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of 10 to win the "President's 'E' Award for Export Service"; Rhode Island-based Citizens Financial Group named Jim Weiss as Florida market president; and more in this week's banking news roundup.
With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.
Samsung’s new S95D QD-OLED TV takes a big anti-glare swing with (mostly) fantastic results.
In one of the better gaming trends of the last few years, we appear to have entered a golden age for booting the crud out of doors. There’s Deathbulge of course, but also the upcoming Anger Foot, Abiotic Factor, and a load more I’m sure. There was also literally Door Kickers, but that was ages ago. Anyway, the latest game to put a hinge-disrespecting protagonist front and center is also my current obsession: the excellent Post Void/Hotline Miami-type beat, Mullet Mad Jack. It’s a very fast, very... Читать дальше...
We are seeing Joseph Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction at work in higher education. The shake-up will continue.
By Keegan Kelly Published: May 24th, 2024
He sang with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, hung out with Cheech and Chong, survived the ‘70s, and put it all into his new memoir What A Fool Believes.
For the American tennis player, Southern comfort is the goal in both Atlanta and the Southern hemisphere.
Did you ever wonder what your favorite stars did before they were famous?
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My bot will call your bot—and we’ll all be a lot better off.
With approximately 10,000 m² and a triple ceiling height of 15 m, the new headquarters of Nubank was designed in one of the ships of one of the old warehouses of the Votorantim group, in Vila Leopoldina, now retrofitted by the MM18 Architecture office, led by architects Marcos Caldeira and Mila Strauss. The Nubank-Spark project, as it was named, was designed based on the horizontality of the complex and its industrial structure, as well as aiming to reconcile Nubank's commitment to integrating... Читать дальше...
by Qiao Pan, Yujuan Zhang, Tong Liu, Qingyuan Xu, Qi Wu, Jiuqing Xin
Mycoplasmas are minimal but notorious bacteria that infect humans and animals. These genome-reduced organisms have evolved strategies to overcome host apoptotic defense and establish persistent infection. Here, using Mycoplasma bovis as a model, we demonstrate that mycoplasma glycine cleavage system (GCS) H protein (GcvH) targets the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to hijack host apoptosis facilitating bacterial infection. Mechanically... Читать дальше...
by Erkan Tortu, Ibrahim Ouergui, Süleyman Ulupinar, Serhat Özbay, Cebrail Gençoğlu, Luca Paolo Ardigò
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by Zachary A. Pardos, Shreya Bhandari
Authoring of help content within educational technologies is labor intensive, requiring many iterations of content creation, refining, and proofreading. In this paper, we conduct an efficacy evaluation of ChatGPT-generated help using a 3 x 4 study design (N = 274) to compare the learning gains of ChatGPT to human tutor-authored help across four mathematics problem subject areas. Participants are randomly assigned to one of three hint conditions (control... Читать дальше...
by Yang-Yang Zhao, Si-Yuan Sheng
Heterostructure engineering is an effective technology to improve photo-electronic properties of two dimensional layered semiconductors. In this paper, based on first principles method, we studied the structure, stability, energy band, and optical properties of ZnSe/SnSe heterostructure change with film layer. Results show that all heterostructures are the type-II band arrangement, and the interlayer interaction is characterized by van der Waals. The electron... Читать дальше...
by Juraj Bosák, Lenka Mikalová, Matěj Hrala, Petra Pospíšilová, Martin Faldyna, David Šmajs
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by Emine Kaplanoglu, Ian M. Scott, Jessica Vickruck, Cam Donly
Spinosads are insecticides used to control insect pests, especially in organic farming where limited tools for pest management exist. However, resistance has developed to spinosads in economically important pests, including Colorado potato beetle (CPB), Leptinotarsa decemlineata. In this study, we used bioassays to determine spinosad sensitivity of two field populations of CPB, one from an organic farm exposed exclusively to spinosad... Читать дальше...
by Muhammad Ayyaz Sheikh, Maryam Bashir, Mehtab Kiran Sudddle
Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) is gaining popularity as there is a growing demand for a system capable of processing extensive textual content and delivering a concise, yet meaningful, relevant, and useful summary. Manual summarization is both expensive and time-consuming, making it impractical for humans to handle vast amounts of data. Consequently, the need for ATS systems has become evident. These systems encounter challenges... Читать дальше...
by Jordan A. Lewis, Victoria J. Frost, Matthew J. Heard
Erosion poses a significant threat to oceanic beaches worldwide. To combat this threat, management agencies often utilize renourishment, which supplements eroded beaches with offsite sand. This process can alter the physical characteristics of the beach and can influence the presence and abundance of microbial communities. In this study, we examined how an oceanic beach renourishment project may have impacted the presence and abundance of Escherichia coli (E. Читать дальше...
by Joseph Robinson, Jerome Teuliere, Shinja Yoo, Gian Garriga
Asymmetric cell division is an important mechanism that generates cellular diversity during development. Not only do asymmetric cell divisions produce daughter cells of different fates, but many can also produce daughters of different sizes, which we refer to as Daughter Cell Size Asymmetry (DCSA). In Caenorhabditis elegans, apoptotic cells are frequently produced by asymmetric divisions that exhibit DCSA, where the smaller daughter dies. Читать дальше...
by Jialiang Yang, Wen Yin
To explore the relationship between air pollution and total factor productivity and new pathways, This paper examines the impact of air pollution on total factor productivity of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen between 2015 and 2019. It investigates this relationship by considering two pathways: investor sentiment and government attention. The findings indicate that air pollution suppresses total factor productivity of firms. However, air pollution stimulates investor sentiment... Читать дальше...
by Nadia Yanet Cortés-Álvarez, Alfredo Lara-Morales, Elizabeth Bautista-Rodríguez, Leticia Gabriela Marmolejo-Murillo, Alejandra Díaz Jiménez, Lourdes Alejandra Vergara Hernández, Monserrat Fernández Moya, César Rubén Vuelvas-Olmos
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