Scientific Sense ®

Scientific Sense ®


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Prof. James Hughes of the University of Massachusetts on public policy, sociology and ethics
September 29, 2021

EcoSocialism and the Technoprogressive Perspective, The Politics of Moral Enhancement: Tripping our Way to Social Democracy, and A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Hughes is Associate Provos

Prof. Amy Orsborn of the University of Washington on brain-machine interfaces
September 27, 2021

Closed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Shapes Neural Plasticity for Skillful Neuroprosthetic Control, Parsing learning in networks using brain–machine interfaces, and A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-Adaptive Brain-Machine Interface.   Scientific Sense ® by Gil

Prof. Teresa Fort, Associate Professor of Dartmouth College on the decline in US manufacturing
September 25, 2021

New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment, Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States,  Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States, and Heterogeneous Globalization:

Prof. Gabriele Veneziano of Collège de France on the Quantum Universe and String Theory
September 23, 2021

A Quantum Universe Before the Big Bang(s), String Theory and Pre-big bang Cosmology, and High-energy collisions of particles, strings and branes.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano who is a pioneer of String Theory. He has c

Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on Sleep
September 21, 2021

Input Source and Strength Influences Overall Firing Phase of Model Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells During Theta: Relevance to REM Sleep Reactivation and Memory Consolidation, Different Simultaneous Sleep States in the Hippocampus and Neocortex, Unraveling Why

Prof. Maria Roche of Harvard Business School on the impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation
September 19, 2021

The impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation in three different contexts: neighborhoods, co-working spaces, and university laboratories.    Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business at Harva

Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician of Middlesex University on the statistics of COVID in India
September 17, 2021

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician in the School of Science & Technology at Middlesex University, London. He has worked on a variety of problems at the interface between dynamical systems, and combinatorics, with app

Prof. Selva Nadarajah of the University of Illinois, Chicago on Real Options
September 15, 2021

Real Options in Energy: A Guided Analysis of the Operations Literature, Data-Driven Storage Operations: Cross-Commodity Backtest and Structured Policies, Meeting Corporate Renewable Power Targets , and Self-adapting Robustness in Demand Learning.   S

Prof. Katarina Juselius of the University of Copenhagen on Searching for a Theory That Fits the Data
September 13, 2021

Searching for a Theory That Fits the Data: A Personal Research Odyssey. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Katarina Juselius is Professor Emeritus of econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been on empirical

Prof. Maja Matarić of USC on human-robot interaction methods for behavior change.
September 11, 2021

Designing a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Older Adults with Low Vision, Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller, Affect-Aware Deep Belief Network Representations for Multimodal Unsupervised Deception Detection, and Simulation-Based Ana