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Indebted Demand

Atif Mian discusses the theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates.

Spatially-Resolved Spectroscopic Properties of Galaxies

Sebastian F. Sanchez discusses the spatially-resolved spectroscopic properties of low-redshift star-forming galaxies

Cold War Science and the Making of Planetary Consciousness

Ben Goossen discusses the first global history of the International Geophysical Year

Anthony Leggett on the theory of superfluid He-3

Nobel Laureate Anthony J. Leggett discusses the theory of superfluid Helium-3

The Coming of Age of Sociogenomics

Melinda Mills discusses genome-wide association studies and the emergence of polygenic scores.

Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets

Grit

Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but grit.

Let’s talk about the weather: the impact of climate change on central banks

Alison Wolf on Vocational Education

Alison Wolf considers how vocational education for 14- to 19-year-olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes, providing practical recommendations to help inform future policy direction, taking into account current financial constraints. Alison Wolf is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, Kings College London and also she sits as a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords

Paul Ginsparg, arXiv founder, on peer review

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National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program

Wastewater analysis is widely applied internationally as a tool to measure and interpret drug use within national populations. Cobus Gerber discusses trends in drug consumption across Australia and can identify new sources of threat.

Synthetic-Bioinformatic Natural Product Antibiotics with Diverse Modes of Action

John Chu (朱忠瀚) discusses his work using a synthetic-bioinformatic natural product (syn-BNP) approach, which relies on bioinformatic algorithms followed by chemical synthesis to predict and then produce small molecules inspired by biosynthetic gene clusters.

Linear Regression to Minimize the Total Error of the Numerical Differentiation

It is well known that numerical derivative contains two types of errors. Jengnan Tzeng discusses a new method that estimates truncation error and rounding error at the same time for a given step size.

A network-biology perspective of microRNA function and dysfunction in cancer

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) participate in most aspects of cellular differentiation and homeostasis. Cameron Bracken discusses their role in many pathologies, including cancer.

Effects of nutrient concentration and magnetic field exposure on yeast colony growth

Yeasts exist in communities that expand over space and time to form complex structures and patterns. Daniel Charlebois discusses a lattice-based framework to perform spatial-temporal Monte Carlo simulations of budding yeast colonies exposed to different nutrient and magnetic field conditions.

A roadmap for collection, handling and storage of blood extracellular vesicles

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are intrinsic components of body fluids. Aled Clayton discusses the urgent need to improve standardization and reproducibility of EV research

Emergence and control of complex behaviors in driven systems of interacting qubits with dissipation

Progress in the creation of large-scale, artificial quantum coherent structures demands the investigation of their nonequilibrium dynamics when strong interactions, even between remote parts, are non-perturbative. Alexander Balanov discusses how the dynamics of a driven system of several quantum elements changes with increasing number of elements.

Mind the gap: Signal movement through plasmodesmata is critical for the manifestation of SAR

Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a plant defense response in which an initial localized infection affords enhanced pathogen resistance to distant, uninfected leaves. Robin Cameron discusses if cell-to-cell movement through plasmodesmata is required for long-distance movement of DIR1 during SAR.

Multiplicative orders of Gauss periods and the arithmetic of real quadratic fields

Florian Breuer discusses divisibility conditions on the multiplicative orders of elements of the form ζ + ζ − 1 in a finite field.

Microswimmer Propulsion by Two Steadily Rotating Helical Flagella

Many theoretical studies of bacterial locomotion adopt a simple model for the organism consisting of a spheroidal cell body and a single corkscrew-shaped flagellum that rotates to propel the body forward. Henry Shum extended the model by considering two flagella attached to the cell body and rotating about their respective axes.

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Inefficient Mapping: A Protocol for Attuning to Phenomena

Linda Knight discusses a new, experimental cartographic practice and non-representational methodological protocol that attunes to the subaltern genealogies of sites and places.

Enterprising Women and War Profiteers

Kit Candlin discusses free women of colour, who were able to navigate the revolutionary turmoil in the Caribbean, self-fashion their own lives and profit from division and conflict.

Was Federation motivated by federalism?

Greg Melleuish discusses the development of Australian federalism over time, and how the Australian colonies came to develop their own distinctive versions of responsible government.

The Scientific Manager and the FBI

Diana Kelly discusses Walter Polakov; his life, scientific management and his association with the FBI.

From Kiev Across All Russia

Heather Coleman discusses the 1888 commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’ in Kiev.

The politics of suffering: from the survivor-witness to humanitarian witnessing

Carolyn Dean discusses the proliferation of the language of trauma and suffering in the late twentieth century, illustrating the benefit of taking a long historical view.

Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America

Darren Dochuk discusses the relationship between religious faith and oil together at the center of America’s rise to global power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies

William Cormack discusses the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802

Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment

Noah Shusterman explains what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state.

The Making of a Racist

Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.

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The effect of a fiscal squeeze on tax enforcement: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Shawn Xiaoguang Chen investigates the impact of the abolition of the agricultural taxes in 2005 across China on county governments’ incentives for tax enforcement.

Racial Inequality in Unemployment Insurance Receipt and Take-Up

Bryan Stuart discusses differences in receipt and take-up of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits among white and Black individuals.

Delinquency of household credit in the U.S.: Does consumer sentiment play a role?

Mokhtarul Wadud discusses the impact of consumer sentiments on loan delinquency rates.

Gender equality mainstreaming and the Australian academy

Emilee Gilbert discusses the dominant masculine ideology and value system by sharing our lived experience of gender (in)equality in the academy.

The changing role of the FIRB and the politics of foreign investment in Australia

David Hundt discusses the tensions between the liberal goal of maximising capital inflows and the statist one of ensuring that those inflows are in ‘the national interest’

Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan

Michael Callen discusses a program in Pakistan that equips government health inspectors with a smartphone app which channels data on rural clinics to senior policy makers.

Taming Chinese power: decoding the dynamics of Australian foreign policies

Baogang He suggests the concept of taming offers significant intellectual advantages in its reconsideration of Australia’s China policy and has called for Australian scholars and policymakers, to critically rethink Australia’s taming practices and policies.

The exceptionalism of risk: Trump’s Wall and travel ban

Risk has recently become a core aspect of the study and practice of security. William Clapton discusses the division between risk as the normal and securitisation as the exceptional, suggesting this is not as clear as has been suggested in either theory or practice.

Rooftop Solar and a Downward-Sloping Supply of Electricity

Andrea La Nauze suggests the supply of electricity by solar households can be downward sloping and that production subsidies may decrease the supply of electricity by solar homes.

Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market

Stefania Albanesi discusses the impact of the pandemic by occupation, gender and family status.

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Sentencing Climate Change Activists in Australia

Jennifer McKay discusses environmental activism in Australia with reference to climate change activism in Australia.

Supporting preschool age children’s wellbeing through home-based literacy development in three Fijian communities

Elspeth McInnes discusses outcomes for three-to-five-year-old children, their families and communities arising from 3-year Australian-funded research into ways to develop sustainable local capacity in communities in Fiji without access to childhood services to foster their preschool children’s literacy development in home languages and English.