Tough sanctions against companies who take on undocumented migrants do not stop the exploitation of foreign workers, according to new research.
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2016
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Becoming an entrepreneur is a rational decision—and failing doesn't hurt as badly as one might think, according to a new study from the Berkeley-Haas School of Business.
Economics & Business
Jan 28, 2016
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While the notion of "players," "actions," and "payoffs" may seem more suited to Las Vegas gaming tables, game theory as a mathematical tool has steadily grown in cyber defense applications. In ongoing and progressive work ...
Security
Jan 28, 2016
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A recent study on the detailed micro-structure of human hair reveals new details about the structure of a single strand of human hair, including new models of the molecular arrangements in two different regions of a hair. ...
General Physics
Jan 28, 2016
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From the Arab Spring to the successful leadership bid by Jeremy Corbyn or Donald Trump's success in the US Republican campaign: Why are so many surprising things happening in politics? New research by the University of Oxford ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2016
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For pharmaceutical firms, gene-expression profiling has become a valuable tool for drug discovery. This process involves measuring the activity of a cell's genes in response to drugs, to determine the compounds' effectiveness, ...
Biotechnology
Jan 28, 2016
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An effort to clean up local elections in Brazil has yielded new evidence about the prevalence of "voter buying" in one of the world's largest democracies. A study co-authored by an MIT political scientist finds that audits ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2016
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All the tissues in the human body are made from proteins, and for every protein, there's a stretch of DNA in the human genome that "codes" for it, or describes the sequence of amino acids that will produce it.
Biotechnology
Jan 28, 2016
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Today, computer chips are built by stacking layers of different materials and etching patterns into them.
Engineering
Jan 28, 2016
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All over the world, monitoring stations are registering rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. However, in high northern latitudes another trend can also be seen: seasonal variation in carbon dioxide ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2016
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