Roadmap on photonic, electronic and atomic collision physics: I. Light–matter interaction
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Implausible projections overestimate near-term Bitcoin CO2 emissions
The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital In China
The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during 2005 to 2011, this paper investigates the impacts of ...
R&D AND IMPLEMENTATION OUTCOMES FROM THE U.S.-INDIA BILATERAL CENTER FOR BUILDING ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRA...
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This paper explores the role of international partnerships to facilitate low-energy building design, construction, and operations. We present the strategic approach, joint research and development outcomes, and implementation activities of a unique U.S.-India program on buildings energy efficiency, the Center for Building Energy Research and Develo...
Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments
We approach attrition in field experiments with baseline outcome data as an identifi-cation problem in a panel model. A systematic review of the literature indicates that there is no consensus on how to test for attrition bias. We establish identifying as-sumptions for treatment effects for both the respondent subpopulation and the study population. W...
Meningitis
History: 2-month premature infant presented with rhythmic jerking of all 4 extremities at age two weeks. He had been born by Caesarian section at age 30 weeks, due to fetal bradycardia and underlying subchorionic hemorrhage. His hospital course was complicated by Group B Streptococcus pneumonia, for which he received 10 days of ampicillin and genta...
Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentives. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in response to individual-level variation in incentives is limited. We link administrative socioeconomic microdata with the universe of arrests in Medellín over a decade. We exploit exogenous variation in formal-sector employment aroun...
Using Survey Questions to Measure Preferences: Lessons from an Experimental Validation in Kenya
Can a short survey instrument reliably measure a range of fundamental economic preferences across diverse settings? We focus on survey questions that systematically predict behavior in incentivized experimental tasks among German university students (Becker et al. 2016) and were implemented among representative samples across the globe (Falk et al....
Analysis of Reactor Experiments for Neutrino Oscillations
The Design of Random Surfaces with Specified Scattering Properties: Surfaces that Suppress Leakage
We present a method for generating a one-dimensional random metal surface of finite length L that suppresses leakage, i.e. the roughness-induced conversion of a surface plasmon polariton propagating on it into volume electromagnetic waves in the vacuum above the surface. Perturbative and numerical simulation calculations carried out for surfaces ge...
