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Quantifying the Supply Response of Private Schools to Public Policies, The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy, Consumer Price Search and Platform Design in Internet Commerce, Competition and Entry in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya, and Human Capital Depreciation. Prof. Michael Dinerstein is Assistant...

Astrocytes and their function in the brain: Gut-licensed IFNγ+ NK (interferon Gamma) cells drive LAMP1+ TRAIL+ anti-inflammatory astrocytes, and MAFG-driven astrocytes promote CNS inflammation Prof. Francisco Quintana, Ph. D. is a Professor of Neurology at the Center for Neurologic Diseases, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of...

Interneurons from Embryonic Development to Cell -Based Therapy, Embryonic Origin of Postnatal Neural Stem Cells, Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults, Maintenance of neural stem cell positional identity by mixed-lineage leukemia, and Clustered gamma-protocadherins regulate cortical interneuron programmed cell death Prof. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla is...

Is Glamour an Aesthetic Property of Persons only?: Can AI recognize glamor or become glamorous? Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personh...

Toward Molecular Genetic Dissection of Neural Circuits For Emotional and Motivational Behaviors, Identification of a brain center whose activity discriminates a choice behavior in zebrafish, Identification of environmental stressors and validation of light preference as a measure of anxiety in larval zebrafish, and Heritable natural variation of an anxiety-like behavior in larval zebrafish Prof. S...

Dirac and Majorana neutrino signatures of primordial black holes, Pre-supernova neutrinos: directional sensitivity and prospects for progenitor identification, and A concordance scenario for the observation of a neutrino from a Tidal Disruption Event. Professor. Cecilia Lunardini is professor of physics at Arizona State University. One of her primary research focus is Neutrinos

A Motivation-Decision Model of Pain: The Role of Opioids, Understanding opioid reward, How expectations influence pain, and the role of placebo effect in clinical trial design for CNS diseases. Prof. Howard Fields is Professor Emeritus, Neurology at UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. He was a founder of the UCSF pain management center and has made major contributions to understanding and trea...

The Real Effects of Financial Markets, Trading frenzies, Feedback Effects, Asymmetric Trading, and the Limits to Arbitrage, Financial Crises: Fundamentals vs. Panic, Investor flows and fragility in corporate bond funds, and Financial Fragility in the COVID-19 Crisis Prof. Itay Goldstein is Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Executi...

The relationship between quarks and hadrons, Heavy-Quark QCD Exotica, and Exotics in the Dynamical Diquark Model Prof. Richard Lebed is Professor of Physics at Arizona State University.  His research involves studying the properties of, and interactions between, particles at the most elementary level.

Black hole variability and the star formation-AGN connection, Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, A Large Population of Luminous Active Galactic Nuclei Lacking X-ray Detections, and Cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes Ryan Hickox is a Professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth College, studying supermassive black holes in galaxies and how they grow over cosmic time. He is currently the Chair of NAS...

Challenges and Advances in Modeling of the Solar Atmosphere, The Coronal Global Evolutionary Model , Active Region Irradiance during Quiescent Periods , and Inferring depth-dependent plasma motions from surface observations using the DeepVel neural network Prof. Maria Kazachenko is an assistant professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Nation...

Tackling the pandemic globally, the challenges for developing countries and risk management for future pandemics Prof Erik Berglöf is professor of economics at the London School of Economics. He is also the Chief Economist of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Beijing-based multilateral development bank established in 2016 with a mission to improve social and economic outcomes in...

Persistent Seizure Control in Epileptic Mice Transplanted With Gamma Aminobutyric Acid Progenitors, Clemizole and modulators of serotonin signalling suppress seizures in Dravet syndrome, Phenotypic analysis of catastrophic childhood epilepsy genes: The Epilepsy Zebrafish Project, and Interneuron origins in the embryonic porcine medial ganglionic eminence Prof. Scott Baraban is Professor & Chai...

Taking Postracialism seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation Prof. Paul Taylor, who is professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt university. Prof. Taylor focuses on the Philosophy of race.

Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies, Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation, Massive Star Formation, The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds, and Inside-out Planet Formation Prof. Jonathan Tan is Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden and at the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia. He coordinates the activities of the Chal...

Compatibilism, incompatibilism and impossibilism views of Free Will and the Philosophy of Time Travel Prof. Kadri Vihvelin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California.  She has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including time travel, counterfactuals, free will, and determinism.

Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket grating spectrometer, Performance Testing of a Large-Format X-ray Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload, and Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Diffraction Efficiency of a Blazed Reflection Grating Fabricated by Thermally Activated Selective Topography Equilibration. Prof. Randall McEntaffer is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Penn...

Millimeter-Wave Polarimeters Using Kinetic Inductance Detectors for TolTEC and Beyond, NASA's near-infrared spectrophotometric all-sky survey, BLAST Mission, and Design of a W-band Superconducting Kinetic Inductance Qubit (Kineticon) Prof. Philip Mauskopf has a joint appointments at Arizona State University in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics. His background...

Imitation of Rigor - Why philosophy needs mathematicians and vice versa. Prof. Mark Wilson is Professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His main research investigates the manner in which physical and mathematical concerns become entangled with issues characteristic of metaphys...

Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds, and Dopamine neurons change their tuning according to courtship context in singing birds Prof. Vikram Gadagkar is Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His research focuses on learning, memory and computation.

Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language Prof. Stephen Finlay is Director of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia, as well as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He works primarily in metaethics, especially on the meaning and use of normative and evaluative language.

The overdamped chiral magnetic wave, Electronic Properties of Dirac and Weyl Semimetals, and Ellipticity of photon emission from strongly magnetized hot QCD plasma Prof. Igor Shovkovy is a professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. His expertise includes theoretical physics, nuclear physics, high-energy physics and condensed matter physics.

Science and Religion : Complementary or Substitutes Prof. Lenn Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He has published over 2 dozen books in Jewish, Islamic and General philosophy, including books on truth and justice, political philosophy, bio-philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

Genetic modifiers ameliorate endocytic and neuromuscular defects in a model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and Single copy/knock-in models of ALS SOD1 in C. elegans suggest loss and gain of function have different contributions to neurodegeneration Prof. Anne C Hart is Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University. Her research focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurological...

Philosophy, Photography, and the (Cosmo)Politics of Life and Death, and Religion, Sexuality, and Post modernity Prof. Ellen Armour is the Chair of Feminist Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School and directs the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests are in feminist theology, theories of sex, race, gender, disability and embodiment, and visual culture as well as...