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- AI is screening résumés, prompting some managers to hire fewer entry-level workers and leading others to expect beginners to tackle more advanced work, Northeastern University's AI & Society Survey found. The report is the latest in a series that opened with an analysis of how people across the political spectrum view AI training.
- W.E.B. Du Bois' standing as a distinguished social scientist, with a distinguished body of work, has been subjected to the same marginalizing forces he examined in his pioneering scholarship on race, culture and Black social thought.
- Consumers often protect their sentimentally valuable possessions by storing them away, which precludes them from being used. Across five studies, research from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and the University of Oregon shows that usage of sentimentally valuable objects increases their sentimental value.
- Diabetes and weight-loss medications may have economic effects beyond health care spending, according to new research from NYU Abu Dhabi. Using population-wide data from Denmark, the study found that diabetes treatment caused an increased likelihood of employment, while weight-management treatment caused longer working hours among people already employed. The findings also point to implications for income tax revenue and public health care spending.
- The demand for donkey hides has grown exponentially over the past 15 years, driven mainly by demand from China. Lauren Johnston is a specialist on China trade with Africa. She has spent several years looking into the donkey trade, and has just published a book, "China, Africa and the Market for Donkeys." She answers questions about what she found.
- In recent years, the principle behind the humble ice cream truck has been getting a high-tech makeover. Retailers are reinventing mobile stores—both people-piloted and self-driving—often selling perishable items such as baked goods or fresh meals. BPM Analytics projects sales from retail on wheels will grow to $30 billion worldwide by 2030.
- How do some people experience work as meaningful? Organizational researcher Rachel Waldo at Lund University argues that one important answer has been largely overlooked: the brand itself.
- About 757,000 Australian children younger than 15 lived in poverty in 2022–23—more than all the people living in the cities of Geelong, Newcastle and Wollongong combined.
- Starting a business might do more than change your career. Turns out, it could change how long you live.
- For many customers, choosing an electric vehicle (EV) is an environmentally conscious choice. But sustainability doesn't end at the showroom. It also extends to the choices people make while owning and operating their vehicles. For an EV, this can mean making informed choices about energy-efficient driving, environmentally responsible repairs and battery support.
- Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate realistic panoramic images for virtual tourism. The work has potential applications in cultural heritage preservation and destination marketing, the team suggests. Details are reported in the International Journal of Information Quality.
- Replacing commonly used diversity, equity and inclusion-related terminology such as "belonging" with carefully matched alternative language may improve Republicans' favorability toward diversity training, according to new research from the ILR School.
- Offer your employees money to quit and the ones who say no will work harder as a result. Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and McMaster University set out to test whether pay-to-quit programs work as intended. Their results confirmed they do and revealed a benefit that nobody anticipated.
- Companies are increasingly expected to explain the climate risks and how they are responding. CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is a nonprofit that collects and scores corporate environmental disclosures, including emissions data, climate risks and governance practices. How has CDP's average score changed year by year, and does that trend capture the progress of companies that have disclosed consistently for many years?
- Before a stick of deodorant reaches a consumer's bathroom counter, it moves through a complex supply chain. Raw materials and packaging components are sourced, assembled into a finished product and shipped through warehouses and distribution centers before finally reaching a store shelf.
- If you spend time watching online videos, you might feel like covering your ears. For some influencers, dropping f-bombs and other swear words is part of their brand, and their followers embrace it.
- A University of Alicante (UA) study of 325 fiction series released in Spain between 2020 and 2024 has concluded that video-on-demand (VOD) platforms have not replaced traditional television. Instead, the two distribution models are developing new ways of collaborating and sharing content.
- Researchers have developed a tourist recommendation system combining three algorithms to help travelers find destinations suited to their preferences, budgets and travel routes. Details appear in the International Journal of Work Innovation and address a limitation of digital platforms that often prioritize popularity over practical considerations.
- A harmonic increment provides a new way to improve smooth approximations of the minimum function. In a recent paper, published in the Journal of Inequalities and Applications, Prof. Thomas A. Weber shows how a harmonic-increment transformation brings any smooth estimate that lies strictly below the minimum closer to it, while keeping the improved estimate below the minimum, so it remains a conservative estimate of a worst realization, or weakest link.
- With family budgets stretched ever tighter, swimming lessons can be one of the first expenses to be cut back—but with research showing swimming helps children not just physically but developmentally, researchers are calling for greater government support.
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