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VIDEO: The human world is, increasingly, an urban one and that means elevators. Two physicists saw this as an opportunity to explore the factors that determine elevator transport capabilities in. view more
Credit: Animation: Michael Garfield/Santa Fe Institute
The human world is, increasingly, an urban one and that means elevators. Hong Kong, the hometown of physicist Zhijie Feng (Boston University), adds new elevators at the rate of roughly 1500 every year.making vertical transport an alluring topic for quantitative research. Just in the main building of my undergraduate university, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Feng reflects, there are 37 elevators, all numbered so we can use them to indicate the location of hundreds of classrooms. There is always a line outside each elevator lobby, and if they are shut down, we have to hike for 30 minutes.
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IMAGE: The shaded areas denote situations in which income-based payments would minimize the cost for direct undergraduate, graduate, and PLUS loans, according to the time until loan forgiveness in an income-based. view more
Credit: Figure courtesy of Paolo Guasoni, Yu-Jui Huang, and Saeed Khalili.
The burden of student loans in the U.S. continues to grow unabatedly, currently accounting for a total of $1.7 trillion in household debt among nearly 45 million borrowers. The introduction of income-based repayment over the past decade has made student loans rather complicated products, Paolo Guasoni of Dublin City University said. As borrowers navigate this complex process, they face long-term consequences; people with student debt are less likely to own homes or become entrepreneurs, and generally postpone their enrollment in graduate or professional studies. Though legislative reform is necessary to combat this problem on a grand scale, individual borrowers can
With threats of water scarcity complicating the need to feed a growing global population, it is more important than ever to get crop irrigation right. Overwatering can deplete local water supplies and lead to polluted runoff, while underwatering can lead to sub-optimal crop performance. Yet few farmers use science-based tools to help them decide when and how much to water their crops.
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NEW YORK, NY (April 26, 2021) -Brain research and advocacy nonprofit Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB) today announced the launch of a National TBI Precision Solutions Research Roadmap, with the advent of the first in a series of publications resulting from its Brain Trauma Blueprint framework program.
The Brain Trauma Blueprint is a framework that enables stakeholder groups across government, academia, foundations, and industry to advance precision diagnostics and treatments for brain trauma through a coordinated effort. The framework comprises a 12-step process to jointly identify unmet patient needs, associated research priorities, landscape state of the science, identify research gaps and barriers, and provide recommendations for progress. The framework also provides a call to action for funders and collaborators across the broader stakeholder community to engage in a transparent & coordinated network.