This paper considers valence-based framing, i.e. a description of equivalent outcomes in either a positive or negative light, in order to reduce transport-related CO emissions. This nudge is easier to implement than more traditional tools, such as taxation, and does not rely on the stringent assumption that individuals are fully rational. The findi...
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The severity of wildfires has remarkably increased over the last years in both hemispheres and there is an emerging realization of their effect on climate and ozone layer. Intense wildfires release tremendous amounts of heat into the atmosphere, which gives rise to extreme thunderstorms termed Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb). These storms, augmented by t...
Let G be a connected graph with maximum degree ∆ ≥ 3 distinct from K∆+1. Generaliz- ing Brooks’ Theorem, Borodin, Kostochka and Toft proved that if p1, . . . , ps are non-negative integers such that p1 +· · ·+ps ≥ ∆−s, then G admits a vertex partition into parts A1, . . . , As such that, for 1 ≤ i ≤ s, G[Ai] is pi-degenerate. Here we show that such...
How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. In this paper, we study the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we leverage the otherwise exogenous timing of survey coll...
Background: Many patients treated for breast cancer (BC) complain about cognitive difficulties affecting their daily lives. Recently, sleep disturbances and circadian rhythm disruptions have been brought to the fore as potential contributors to cognitive difficulties in patients with BC. Yet, studies on these factors as well as their neural correla...
We study whether fiscal policies, especially public debt, can help to curb the macroeconomic and health consequences of epidemics. Our approach is based on three main features: we introduce the dynamics of epidemics in an overlapping generations model to take into account that old people are more vulnerable; people are more easily infected when pol...
As a material artefact, infrastructure also exists by virtue of the interactions of humans, and both human and non-human (technical/infrastructural artefacts) entities. Lying at the intersection between human and non-human entities, infrastructure serves to illustrate how stakeholders understand their environment and try to manage/dominate it. Rive...
In this study, we investigated the rheological behavior of various polyamide powders as a function of temperature, shear rate, and relative humidity. Near the glass transition temperature (Tg), powders exhibited an abrupt increase in static flow threshold, indicating caking due to particle agglomeration. At higher temperatures, a transition from el...
The summertime Asian Monsoon (AM) is the single most important contributor to water vapor in the UTLS and overworld stratosphere. Much of that water comes from sublimating ice, but the life cycle of the condensate lofted by overshooting convection is not well understood. We report here on insights into that life cycle derived from the first in-situ...
