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Do Youth Employment Programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal, The association between educational attainment and longevity using individual-level data from the 1940 census, The Incentive Effects of Cash Transfers to the Poor, and A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis Prof. Adriana Lleras-Muney is a Professor of Economics at UCLA. Her research examines the relationships between...

Outline of an Account of Experience, Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry, Experience and Its Rational Significance, and Principles and the Generalization Function of Truth Prof. Anil Gupta is Professor of Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also e...

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia, The Long-Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: Nine-Year Evidence from Uganda’s Youth Opportunities Program, and Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance Prof. Chris Blattman is an economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.

Modulation of early sensory processing in human auditory cortex,  Inhibitory Control in Children with ADHD, The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention, Timing and Sequence of Brain Activity in Top-Down Control of Visual-Spatial Attention,  and A key role for stimulus-specific updating of the sensory cortices in the learning of stimulus–reward associations. Prof. Marty Woldorff is...

Networks of military alliances, wars, and international trade, The Friendship Paradox and Systematic Biases in Perceptions and Social Norms,  Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials, and The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets Prof. Matthew Jackson is Professor of Economics at Stanford University...

Pathophysiology and correction of amblyopia, The synaptic substrates of visual recognition memory, and pathophysiology and correction of fragile X syndrome and other causes of autism Prof. Mark Bear is a Professor of Neuroscience in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His laboratory is interested...

Motivation, Perception, and Chance Converge to Make a Binary Decision, Recurrent Circuitry Sustains Drosophila Courtship Drive While Priming Itself for Satiety,, Measures the Passage of Time to Coordinate Behavior and Motivational State, and Sleep Loss Can Cause Death through Accumulation of Reactive Oxygen Species in the Gut Prof. Dragana Rogulja is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical Schoo...

Problem of Polarization, and Semantic Descent: More Trouble for Civility Prof. Robert Talisse is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Graduate Studies at Vanderbilt University. He specializes in contemporary political philosophy, with particular interest in democratic theory and political epistemology. His current research is focused on democracy, polarization, public ignorance, and egalitarian...

In vivo quantification of excitation and kilohertz frequency block of the rat vagus nerve, stimulation of the sensory pudendal nerve increases bladder capacity in the rat, and evoked potentials reveal neural circuits engaged by human deep brain stimulation Prof. Warren Grill is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. His research interests are in neural engineering and neuromodulat...

The evolution, effects and relationships of microbes with other biological systems such as Amoeba, Termites/Pests and humans. Dr. Fredrik  Inglis is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. He studies the evolution of microbial interactions. Dr. Sussane DiSalvo is an assistant professor at the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Her research interests center o...

Welfare across Countries and Time, The misallocation of talent and US economic growth, Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States, and Trading Off Consumption and COVID-19 Deaths. Prof Pete Klenow is professor of Economic Policy, School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is also Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Transient Striatal γ Local Field Potentials Signal Movement Initiation in Rats, Structural and electronic properties of dual plasma codeposited mixed-phase amorphous/nanocrystalline thin films, and Proton radiation-induced enhancement of the dark conductivity in composites. Prof. James Kakalios is Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota. His current research range...

Capital-skill complementarity and inequality, Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation?, New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression, Long-term changes in labor supply and taxes, and Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown Prof. Lee Ohanian is Professor of Economics, and Director of the Macroeconomic Research progr...

THE Declarative/Procedural Model: A Neurobiologically Motivated Theory of First and Second Language, Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems, and the Neurocognition of Developmental Disorders of Language Prof. Michael Ullman is Professor of Neuroscience, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychology and Neurology at Georgetown...

Exploring the dark genome: implications for precision medicine, Virtual and In Vitro Antiviral Screening Revive Therapeutic Drugs for COVID-19, Artificial intelligence, drug repurposing and peer review, mining the human proteome for disease biology, drug discovery and repositioning Prof. Tudor Oprea is Professor of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry and Chemical Biology; and Division...

An Experimental Comparison of Carbon Pricing Under Uncertainty in Electricity Markets, Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market, Wholesale Market Design, and Transmission Planning Prof. Frank Wolak is Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Economics Department, Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and Co-Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford Univers...

Why Libet’s studies don’t pose a threat to free will,  Agency and intervention, Neurotechnologies for Mind Reading, and Neuroethics Prof. Adina Roskies who is Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Cognitive Science Program, and an affiliate of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College. Dr. Roskies’ research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy and n...

Standard model and supersymmetry of particle physics, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and novel uses of machine learning in experimental Physics. Prof. Manfred Paulini is a Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the CMS experiment operating at the Large Hadron Collider (the LHC) at CERN. He is looking for the production of dark matter particle in collision even...

Intrinsic motivation, curiosity, and learning: animals, humans and education systems, neuroscience basis of curiosity and learning, reward uncertainty and information transmission in the brain. Prof. Jacqueline Gottlieb is Professor of Neuroscience and the founder and director of the Research Cluster on Curiosity at Columbia University. Dr. Gottlieb studies the neural mechanisms of attention and t...

Direct Measurement of the Cosmic Acceleration, The Hubble expansion is isotropic in the epoch of dark energy, How to Detect Inclined Water Maser Disks and Measure Black Hole Masses, Extragalactic Proper Motions: Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, and New Limits on Axionic Dark Matter from the Magnetar. Prof. Jeremy Darling is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He s...

Predator community composition is linked to soil carbon retention across a human land use gradient, and Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle Prof. Oswald Schmitz, Professor of Population and Community Ecology in the Yale University School of Environment. His research aims to make sense of nature’s complexity that comes from interdependencies among the variety of carnivore, herbivore...

Artemis - A whole new program to travel to the moon and to establish a habitat there including an observatory, gateway that orbits with self propulsion and designing a launch pad for future exploration of the solar system including Mars. Prof. Jack Burns is a Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also Vice President Emer...

Linking Social and Personal Preferences, and Asset Markets with Asymmetric Reasoning. Prof. William Zame is Professor of Economics and Mathematics at UCLA. His recent research includes work on the impact of culture on economic outcomes in diverse societies, informational asymmetries in macroeconomics, experimental financial markets, and a number of topics in machine learning. He is currently Co-Ed...

The cosmological legacy of Planck, design, data, results and insights, Calibration of ALMA Using Planck Observations, and Can CMB Surveys Help the AGN Community? Prof. Bruce Partridge is an emeritus professor of Astronomy at Haverford college. He has served as Education Officer of the American Astronomical Society; president of Commission on Cosmology, International Astronomical Union; and Preside...

Vitamin A: its many roles—from vision and synaptic plasticity to infant mortality Prof. John Dowling is Research Professor of Neurosciences at Harvard. His interests include the wiring, physiology, pharmacology and genetics of the retina, as well as the effects of vitamin A and photoreceptors on vision.