Tracking and visualizing states as fossil fuel owners

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Tracking and visualizing states as fossil fuel owners

Nation states still own and control about 60% of global oil and gas production. This makes states as owners important actors for global decarbonization efforts. At the same time, we have...

Interacting factors in school choice – Modelling consequences for school segregation with an agent-based model

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Interacting factors in school choice – Modelling consequences for school segregation with an agent-based model

School segregation, the (uneven) distribution of children with particular characteristics (e.g. ethnicity, income, education) between schools, is a persistent problem in many educational...

The robot or the brain? Building a classifier for visual news frames of Artificial Intelligence

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The robot or the brain? Building a classifier for visual news frames of Artificial Intelligence

In media images, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications such as virtual assistants are often portrayed as brains or human-like robots. News media influence how readers think about these...

Transparency in the Netherlands’ Nonprofit Sector

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Transparency in the Netherlands’ Nonprofit Sector

The contribution of philanthropic activities to positive societal change is unclear because we have little data about philanthropic organizations. This project uses computational social...

Markets for Resilience or “Disaster Capitalism”?

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Markets for Resilience or “Disaster Capitalism”?

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a major donor and norm-setter in global water governance. Its research programme “Studies on Water” has produced...

Reducing Energy Consumption in Radio-astronomical and Ultrasound Imaging Tools (RECRUIT)

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Reducing Energy Consumption in Radio-astronomical and Ultrasound Imaging Tools (RECRUIT)

When it comes to algorithms, technologies and energy constraints, imaging efforts in radio astronomy and medical ultrasound share fundamentally similar challenges, both near the edge and...

High-throughput GPU computing for New Physics searches with electrons in LHCb (GAHTIe)

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High-throughput GPU computing for New Physics searches with electrons in LHCb (GAHTIe)

In recent years, the LHCb experiment has found tantalizing hints of new quantum effects in very rare processes where so-called B-particles decay to muons or electrons. Although combinations...