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"This article assesses the validity of many of the assumptions made about work in the on-demand economy and analyses whether proposals advanced for improving workers’ income security are sufficient for remedying current shortcomings.
"Though VC is widely recognized as a highly sensitive and specific test for identifying polyps, one limitation is the reading time, which can take on average 30 minutes per patient.
"The successful recruitment and study of cancer survivors within psycho-oncology research can be challenging, time-consuming, and expensive, particularly for key subgroups such as young adult cancer survivors.
"Defining the algorithms that will help AVs make these moral decisions is a formidable challenge.
"The main difference between these 3 and the dozens of competitors is that these services offer an API.
"A combination of machine-learning and human intervention promises 85 percent cyberattack detection, says an MIT lab.
"The theory published in the book, ‘The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America,’ was recently disproved by Union professor Joshua J. Hart and Christopher F. Chabris of the Union Psychology Department.
"More and more, attempts to explain why people behave the way they do in politics have turned away from the actual substance of issues and toward the traits of individuals themselves.
"[E]liminating the human factor from road transport may also have some really serious and previously unprecedented consequences to public life.
"As you get ready to hit the road this summer, with the kids loaded inside and the bikes strapped to the roof of your car, you may want to stop and consider that the roof rack on your car may be costing you as much as 25 percent more in gas.
"There are six components to an apology – and the more of them you include when you say you’re sorry, the more effective your apology will be, according to new research.
"To capture a greater share of the freelance economy market, Leffler’s company just completed a $9 million Series B funding round, which, according to Leffler, will fuel OneSpace’s growth and go-to-market strategy for a new SaaS product offering, a self-service version of the platform...
"There's a fascinating ongoing discussion about the art project General Intellect on the Aktionsart blog, and it hinges on a term I'm only starting to understand: hypercompliance."
"Cloud-based polling service SurveyMonkey informed employees today that it is letting go of about 100 people in a plan to retool its product aimed at businesses, which is not living up to expectations....
"In 2011, psychological researchers Michael Buhrmester, Tracy Kwang, and APS Fellow Sam Gosling published a paper in Perspectives on Psychological Science titled “Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality, Data?” The paper has been cited more than 2,300 times, according to Google Scholar.
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