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Disparities in Breast Cancer and African Ancestry, M ammographic screening from age 40 years, Disparities in Breast Cancer Surgery Delay, Prophylactic mastectomy in BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 patients. Dr. Deepa HalaHarvi is a breast cancer surgeon at Ohio Health and a breast cancer survivor. She is also an associate program director for the breast surgery fellowship at Grant Medical center. She has starte...

Investor Response to Extreme Language in Earnings Conference Calls, Business Cycle and Industry Returns, Pension Overhang and Corporate Investment, Impact of E-Commerce on Employees at Brick-and-Mortar Retailers, and Investment Consultants’ Search Behavior Prof. Sudheer Chava is a Professor of Finance at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology and leads the Financial Servic...

The history and status of Human Language Technologies, Automatic Classification of Primary Progressive Aphasia Patients Using Lexical and Acoustic Features, and speech characteristics of young and older healthy adults Prof. Mark Liberman is a Professor of Linguistics and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His many research interests include phonetics, information extraction, la...

The Political Logic of Economic Backwardness in North Korea,  China’s New Role of Assertiveness in the 21st Century International System, and Chinese High-Tech in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics Prof. Francis Schortgen is a Professor of Political Science & International Affairs and Business at the University of Mount Union. Prior to going into academia, he worked in the business consulting...

Non-profit society: Utopia or necessity, Changes in the collective consciousness, Monetary Reform, Money as a medium of exchange, and Strengthening social security Prof. Sašo Tomažič is a professor of Electrical Engineering and the head of the Laboratory of Information Technology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred scientific papers in the...

COVID and long term negative effects on the heart, POTS, Takotsubo Syndrome, Chronic Myocarditis, and other Myocardial injuries, and the need to prevent disease by individual actions to reduce long term disease burden. Prof. Michael Miller is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.  He has authored numerous scientific papers in cardiovascular d...

Are social media and search companies natural monopolies?, Increasing competition on the Internet, Machine bias in the commercialization of decision-making,  Digital deceit, and precision propaganda, and Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design . Dr. Dipayan Ghosh who is co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and facu...

Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Roots of the Great Enrichment: How Attitudes (cultural beliefs) and aptitudes (technical competence) played central roles in the British Industrial Revolution and the origins of modern growth Prof Joel Mokyr is a Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and a Professor of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history...

The Tesserae Project: Large-Scale, Longitudinal, In Situ, Multimodal Sensing of Information Workers, Face-to-Face Proximity Estimation Using Bluetooth On Smartphones, and the Interplay Between Individuals’ Evolving Interaction Patterns and Traits in Dynamic Multiplex Social Networks. Prof. Aaron Striegel is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Stri...

Bridging the Covid-19 recession, Rethinking  monetary and fiscal policy In an era Of low-Interest rates,  Monetary policy effect on refinancing  Prof. Martin Eichenbaum is a professor of economics at Northwestern University and the co-director of the Center for International Economics and Development. His research focuses on macroeconomics, international economics, and monetary theo...

Is Medicaid worth the cost?, Universal health coverage in China, Precision population health management, Urbanicity, and hypertension, Earned Income Tax Credit and health effects, Psychological implications of the pandemic, and Health and economic consequences of emission standards Prof. Peter Muennig is a Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Health Policy and Management. He uses Rando...

The cloud: to come the full circle of computing, DcNet: A Data Center Network Architecture that supports live VM migration, and towards disaggregating the Software-defined networking (SDN) Control Plane. Prof. Douglas Comer is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He was the chair of DARPA's Distributed Systems Architecture Board. Prof. Comer has written a series of best-selling te...

The cost of victory in WWII, The fiction of American Century, Nixon and Brezhnev, Revisiting Roosevelt: How presidential empathy can improve politics, and Why the presidency is too big to succeed, and how it could be fixed. Prof. Jeremi Suri is the Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the university's Department of History and the LBJ Sc...

Legal AI, creative informatics, and the quest for executable justice, A new approach to visualizing legal argumentation, Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production ., T echnology and the future of inheritance law. Prof. Burkhard Schafer is the chair of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. His main field of interest is the interaction between law, science, and c...

Traffic fatality rate: Why US is the worst among developed countries, Zurich: Where people are welcome and cars are not, The broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation, and Burying past planning mistakes in American cities. Prof. Norman Garrick is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Garrick is also a former member of the national board of The Congress...

Impulsive choice-making,  Probability matching decisions, Structural comparisons in consumer choice, Naturalistic and Lab-based decision-making,  and Strategies for Economic Development Outside of Urban Corridors Prof. Art Markman, who is a Professor of Psychology, Human Dimensions of Organizations, and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the IC2 Inst...

A Policy Index to Create a Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Economy, and Buddhist Economics: an enlightened approach to the dismal science Prof. Clair Brown is a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of inequality and sustainability. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science provides an economic framework that integrates...

Towards a Theory of the Aesthetic Properties of Persons, Glamour as an Aesthetic Property of Persons, Objective Beauty, and  Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance 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. Ma...

A blueprint for change in Management Education, Turnover and Retention Research, and Better ways to predict who is going to quit. Prof. Brooks Holtom is a Professor of Management at Georgetown University. His research focuses on how organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital. He received the Human Resource Management Scholarly Achievement Award. He has performed research i...

Crowdsourcing and homeland security, Top-level domain interceptor,  The difficulty of defining metrics and Arrow's theorem, and modeling and battling COVID-19 Prof. George Markowsky is a Professor and former Chair of Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he runs the Cyber Society Lab. He was Chair and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ma...

Whole Community Health, Pilot project by Kenan Charitable Trust in two North Carolina counties - 6 interconnected pillars of opportunity: Economic stability, Education, Healthy food, High-quality healthcare, Social integration, and safe physical environment. Prof.  Jeanne Milliken Bonds is a Professor of the Practice, Impact Investment, and Sustainable Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business Sc...

Design Theory: A foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering, Shared Memory in Design: A Unifying Theme for Research and Practice, Dialogues, Diversity, and Design Prof. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor in the Engineering Research Accelerator and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research in design was inspired by the...

Human and technical cyber risks, Prioritizing strategic risks, Effect-centric approach to risk in nuclear power plants, A systems approach to quantifying and managing risk in critical infrastructure. Dr. Charles Harry who is the director of operations at the Maryland Global Initiative in Cybersecurity (MaGIC), an associate research professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Mar...

The scale of the healthcare problem,  A suggestion for a bipartisan solution, Innovating in Healthcare, and the SEC for the healthcare system Prof. Regina Herzlinger is a professor at Harvard Business School. She is the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on many corporate health care/medical technology boards. Her upcoming book, Innovating...

The Rise and Stall of stakeholder influence: How the digital age limits social control and Designing CSR Initiatives for Greater Social Impact Prof Michael L. Barnett is Professor of Management & Global Business at Rutgers Business School and Academic Director of the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation. Mike currently serves as an International Research Fellow of the Oxford Unive...