Neuroimaging reveals how ideology affects race perception
How might people's political ideology affect their perception of race?
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Mar 4, 2021
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Breaking down the barriers of human-computer communication
Many of us regularly ask our smartphones for directions or to play music without giving much thought to the technology that makes it all possible – we just want a quick, accurate response to our voice commands.
Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2018
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Legendary brands: Why are consumers still fascinated by the Titanic?
Brands do not necessarily need to present a clear, well-defined image in order to appeal to consumers, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Consider the case of the Titanic.
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2013
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Wide field-of-view metasurface-enhanced scanning lidar may hold promise for autonomous vehicle technology
Pulsed laser scanning lidar is a core technology for autonomous driving and robotic mobility. Herein, a directional light pulse is backscattered by a reflective object and the elapsed time between emission and detection of ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 20, 2023
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Ambiguous words probably make communicating easier
It's a good thing some words have many meanings—ambiguous words actually make communication easier and may be an inevitable consequence of a language's evolution, according to a new SFI working paper by External Professor ...
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2014
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Online misunderstandings arise from an excess of clarity
An increasing proportion of our everyday conversations take place in online environments, but these conversations do not always end well when they involve controversial topics. It is often thought that this is because people ...
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2022
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A novel sparse synthetic aperture radar unambiguous imaging method based on mixed-norm optimization
Compared with traditional matched filtering (MF) based methods, sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging could obtain high-quality images of sparse surveillance regions from down-sampled echo data. However, sparse SAR ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 27, 2023
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Food vs. fuel: Is there surplus land for bioenergy?
An interdisciplinary team of 11 scientists from seven European countries and the USA have discussed the concept to utilize so called surplus land for the production of feedstock for bioenergy. They identified environmental, ...
Environment
Oct 18, 2012
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IQ boost for web intelligence
Views and opinions can now be filtered out of very large volumes of online text with greater accuracy than ever before. Thanks to an automatic method developed at MODUL University Vienna, ambiguous terms in online content ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 8, 2013
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A question of accountability: What happens when employees are left in the dark?
All employees are accountable for something, but very few fully understand exactly what they are accountable for, according to a new study conducted by Wayne Hochwarter, the Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration ...
Economics & Business
Feb 21, 2013
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