Newest Papers

Date: Newest Clear all

Advanced filtersTopic: All

Experimental

Topic

Topics are auto-detected from title, abstract, and metadata and may be imperfect.

Publication Date

Newest Oldest Clear

Average Rating

Highest Lowest

AlphaStar: Mastering the real-time strategy game StarCraft II

Unknown Author

Google DeepMind·2019

Games have been used for decades as an important way to test and evaluate the performance of artificial intelligence systems. As capabilities have increased, the research community has sought games w…

No ratings yet

View paper →

THE PARADOX OF THE PILL: HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS

Andrew Beauchamp, Catherine R. Pakaluk

Economic Inquiry·2019·7 citations

The twentieth century saw dramatic increases in nonmarital births, concentrated heavily among poor and working‐class women. In this paper, we investigate whether the oral contraceptive pill played a causal role in the rise of nonmarital births. Exploiting exogenous variation in laws governing access to the pill, we find that changes in marital access to the pill increased the nonmarital birthrate by between 15% and 18%, accounting for about one‐third of the overall increase in nonmarital births. These effects are concentrated almost entirely among women whose fathers did not graduate high school and among minority women. We also document that the pill increased spacing between first and second births, and lowered the probability that a woman obtained a high‐school diploma, consistent with increases in nonmarital births. We find no evidence that postsecondary education levels were influenced by pill access, and no evidence that nonmarital births move with male employment patterns. Our findings add to a growing literature which documents the power of the pill to shape women's lives in broadly heterogenous ways, with minority and less‐well‐educated women bearing the brunt of the losses, a phenomenon we call the paradox of the pill. (JEL J12, J13, I24)

★ 4.0 (1)

View paper →

Extending the interpersonal metafunction

David Banks

A Systemic Functional Grammar of English·2019

No abstract available

★ 5.0 (1)

View paper →

Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects

Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo, Franziska Grundler, Audrey Bergouignan, Stefan Drinda, Andreas Michalsen

PLOS ONE·2019·199 citations

No abstract available

★ 4.0 (1)

View paper →

Unintended Consequences of EU Democracy Support in the European Neighbourhood

Assem Dandashly, Gergana Noutcheva

The International Spectator·2019·15 citations

The European Union’s (EU) impact on the political governance of the European neighbourhood is varied and sometimes opposite to the declared objectives of its democracy support policies. The democracy promotion literature has to a large extent neglected the unintended consequences of EU democracy support in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa. The EU has left multiple imprints on the political trajectories of the countries in the neighbourhood and yet the dominant explanation, highlighting the EU’s security and economic interests in the two regions,cannot fully account for the unintended consequences of its policies. The literature on the ‘pathologies’ of international organisations offers an explanation, emphasizing the failures of the EU bureaucracy to anticipate, prevent or reverse the undesired effects of its democracy support in the neighbourhood.

No ratings yet

View paper →

PreviousPage 298 of 495Next

Diverging by Gender: Syrian Refugees’ Divisions of Labor and Formation of Human Capital in the United States

Heba Gowayed

Gender & Society·2019·34 citations

In this article, I examine how Syrian refugee men and women shifted their household divisions of labor in their initial years of resettlement in the United States. I combine and extend relational approaches from gender theory and economic sociology to examine how men’s and women’s behaviors shifted, the resources engendered by behavioral shifts, and how they interpreted and compensated for new behaviors and resources. I show that shifts in Syrian household divisions of labor occurred at the intersection of inequalities in social policies, labor markets, and households. As a result of limited social assistance, the refugee families needed to earn an income within months of their arrival. The Syrian men entered the labor market, in keeping with a breadwinning expectation for their labor, but could only access menial jobs that limited their time and opportunity to learn English. Women, meanwhile, did not enter the labor market full-time and could attend English classes. By observing this divergence in men’s and women’s language learning, I theorize human capital as a gendered outcome of household divisions of labor.

★ 5.0 (1)

View paper →

Growth hormone acts along the PPARγ-FSP27 axis to stimulate lipolysis in human adipocytes

Vishva M. Sharma, Esben Thyssen Vestergaard, Niels Jessen, Peter Kolind-Thomsen, Birgitte Nellemann, Thomas S. Nielsen, Mikkel Holm Vendelbo, Niels Møller, Rita Sharma, Kevin Y. Lee, John J. Kopchick, Jens Otto Lunde Jørgensen, Vishwajeet Puri

American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism·2019·49 citations

The lipolytic effects of growth hormone (GH) have been known for half a century and play an important physiological role for substrate metabolism during fasting. In addition, sustained GH-induced lipolysis is causally linked to insulin resistance. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms remain elusive. In the present study, we obtained experimental data in human subjects and used human adipose-derived stromal vascular cells (hADSCs) as a model system to elucidate GH-triggered molecular signaling that stimulates adipose tissue lipolysis and insulin resistance in human adipocytes. We discovered that GH downregulates the expression of fat-specific protein (FSP27), a negative regulator of lipolysis, by impairing the transcriptional ability of the master transcriptional regulator, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) via MEK/ERK activation. Ultimately, GH treatment promotes phosphorylation of PPARγ at Ser273and causes its translocation from nucleus to the cytosol. Surprisingly, FSP27 overexpression inhibited PPARγ Ser273phosphorylation and promoted its nuclear retention. GH antagonist treatment had similar effects. Our study identifies a novel signaling mechanism by which GH transcriptionally induces lipolysis via the MEK/ERK pathway that acts along PPARγ-FSP27 in human adipose tissue.

★ 3.0 (1)

View paper →

Democratizing Knowledge: Using Wikipedia for Inclusive Teaching and Research in Four Undergraduate Classes

Angela Pratesi, Wendy Miller, Elizabeth Sutton

The Radical Teacher·2019

In four undergraduate arts-related courses taught by three faculty, undergraduate students learned how to edit Wikipedia to present authentic research to a public audience. The goal was to increase free and open access to information about women and minoritized individuals in the arts, while simultaneously facilitating the acquisition and practice of student information literacy, research, and writing skills. This article outlines the assignments for each class, summarizes the reflections of students regarding their perception of learning, and discusses the pedagogical strategies and impact of using Wikipedia editing as a research assignment. While each faculty had diverse parameters and outcomes for her respective assignment and course, overall the public nature of writing for Wikipedia and the demonstrated need for presenting the contributions of women art educators, women artists, and Haitian artists created a common motivation for students and faculty to work together as knowledge constructors.

No ratings yet

View paper →

Symbolism and Identity: Musical Scenes in Spanish Paintings at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Ruth Piquer Sanclemente

Music in Art·2019

At the end of the nineteenth century, between the regency of Christine von Habsburg and the first years of the reign of Alfonso XIII, Spain suffered economic, political and social difficulties that provoked a deep intellectual and artistic response. Particularly, painters sought to approach French and European symbolism from various contexts and aesthetics (Orientalism, regionalism, primitivism or aestheticism), basing on a reflection on the problem of Spanish identity at the turn of twentieth century. Thus, topics specifically related to folklore and Spanish traditions were common, among them cultural expressions such as flamenco and cuplé. Nevertheless, representations of singers, dancers, tablaos, cafés or musical parties in gardens and courtyards, mainly enhanced the exotic or Orientalist visions of Spain that European artists had projected. Musical instruments and practices are meaningful in this context, because they portray this aesthetic eclecticism and different values and identities. In this paper, I analyze a representative display of these issues through the works of Spanish symbolist artists. I take into account their literary, intellectual and philosophical environment, as well as their contacts with musical practices. Their paintings, engravings and posters reflect how it was precisely the idea of Spain’s own musical tradition that served painters to follow the European symbolist movements and to suggest the evasion of the social and political situation.

★ 4.0 (1)

View paper →

Current challenges to the concept of sustainability

Markus Vogt, Christoph Weber

Global Sustainability·2019·64 citations

Non-technical summaryIn this paper we discuss current challenges to the sustainability concept. This article focuses on seven dimensions of the concept. These dimensions are crucial for understanding sustainability. Even today, the literature contains basic misunderstandings about these seven dimensions. This article sketches such fallacies in the context of global and planetary sustainability. The sustainability concept has been criticized as a content-empty ‘fuzzy notion’ or non-committal ‘all-purpose glue’. This article thus has a critical intention of reflecting the sustainability concept accurately. The aim is to contribute a better understanding of the concept.

★ 4.0 (1)

View paper →

Newest Papers

AlphaStar: Mastering the real-time strategy game StarCraft II

THE PARADOX OF THE PILL: HETEROGENEOUS EFFECTS OF ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS

Extending the interpersonal metafunction

Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects

Unintended Consequences of EU Democracy Support in the European Neighbourhood

Diverging by Gender: Syrian Refugees’ Divisions of Labor and Formation of Human Capital in the United States

Managing Sudden Loss

Growth hormone acts along the PPARγ-FSP27 axis to stimulate lipolysis in human adipocytes

Democratizing Knowledge: Using Wikipedia for Inclusive Teaching and Research in Four Undergraduate Classes

Symbolism and Identity: Musical Scenes in Spanish Paintings at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Religion: Reconciling a New Relationship with God

Current challenges to the concept of sustainability