In this article we have highlighted a few geometric versions of attractive numerical patterns, which could be used to brighten up the classroom and perhaps arouse students toward further investigation. These examples have been...
The world’s most populous democracy, India, has taken steps to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. However, injustices related to nascent large-scale renewable efforts in India provide early warning that...
This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a...
Operations research practitioners frequently need to enforce logical conditions, such as if-then implications, within a mixed-integer linear program (MILP). Unfortunately, it is not always clear how to represent such conditions...
Binary quadratic and higher-order polynomial programs are widely studied in the optimization literature by both theoreticians and practitioners alike. Despite boasting many diverse applications in a variety of settings, these...
Conventional farming utilizes tools such pesticides, synthetic chemical fertilizers, and herbicides, with the goal of producing large amounts of food on less land and with less labor. While these powerful mechanisms help to...
Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Global Migrations conceptualizes and organizes major themes and dynamics concerning migration across global and local scales through articles by an international array of experts. This...
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume II: Migrations, 1800-Present, presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during a May 2018 speech that Europeans can no longer depend on the United States to protect Europe from conflict. She added that "Europe can no longer entrust its security to the United...
In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today., MacCormick, John. "I Unintentionally Created a Biased AI Algorithm...
Objective: Interdependence with family is considered a core element of collectivistic cultures, and it is routinely endorsed by people of ethnic/racial minority backgrounds in the United States. In contrast, a preference...
The Great Goa Land Grab charts how shifting state governments, politicians, and corporations have acquired large tracts of land in the Indian coastal state of Goa for a wide range of projects, including industrial enclaves,...
Early voting has been pitched as a way to help boost voter turnout in the United States. The evidence pointing to a positive association between the availability of early voting and electoral participation is decidedly mixed,...
This paper proposes that, in many cases, conversational norms permit gaslighting when socially subordinate speakers report systemic injustice. Section 1 introduces gaslighting and the kinds of cases on which I focus—namely,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, congestion is an important component in access to medical care. This study expands congestion-based accessibility research by imposing upper limits on demand levels and introducing minimum...
Several studies have reported adverse consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the utilization of healthcare services across Africa. However, little is known about the channels through which lockdowns impacted healthcare...
This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...
Research suggests a U.S. political ideology gap for taking COVID-19 precautions, but we do not know the role of cognitive risk (assessed here as perceived risk) and affective risk (assessed here as worry) in explaining why...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects operate transparently, providing excellent educational opportunities for computing students to acquire and practice both technical and softer skills that are in high demand....
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...