By Jennifer Mathers, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
Negotiations for peace in Ukraine are struggling to get off the ground, despite numerous meetings between US and Russian officials.
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By Molly Murray, PhD Candidate, University of the West of Scotland
Around 57 million people worldwide have dementia. While most cases of dementia are diagnosed in older adults, about 7% of cases occur in people under 65. This number may be even higher as young-onset…
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By Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne
Simon Bullock, Research Associate, Shipping and Climate Change, University of Manchester
The UN has agreed to charge ships for the greenhouse gases they emit – but the price is far too low.
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By Johannes Petry, CSGR Research Fellow, University of Warwick
The trade war between China and the US has spiralled into unchartered territory. On April 10, the Trump administration imposed a tariff of 125% on all Chinese imports. China called the actions unfair and responded with similar measures.
Within the broader debate around unravelling economic ties between the US and China, where economic interdependence has increasingly been viewed as a threat to US national security,…
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By Mark Fryers, Lecturer in film and media, The Open University
As television grew rapidly in popularity in the second half of the 20th century, many people assumed it would cause a knock-on crisis for the film industry. After all, it meant that viewers no longer had to leave their sofas to enjoy onscreen entertainment.
But the reality was far more nuanced. The “death of cinema” has been habitually touted ever since the introduction of the TV, but never really came to pass. Instead, cinema found ways to work with new competition through technological innovation, aesthetic invention and engaging with challenging subject matters.
Today,…
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By Mark R. Gleim, Associate Professor of Marketing, Auburn University
Emory Serviss, Senior Lecturer of Marketing, Auburn University
Kelly Manix, Assistant Professor of Management, Middle Tennessee State University
Matt C. Howard, Associate Professor and Interim Chair for the Department of Marketing, Supply Chain Management, and Analytics, University of South Alabama
Matthew Oglesby, Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management, University of North Alabama
Employees are likely to perform better and be committed to the organization when they are supervised by ethical leaders, even when working remotely. Ethical leadership is evident in an organization when employees recognize values such as integrity, fairness and care for others through the actions of a leader.
Coming out of the pandemic, we were interested in the shift to remote work and how it impacts employees when they are not able to observe and interact with managers face-to-face. Given that our research…
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By David E. Tolchinsky, Professor and Dean, The Media School, Indiana University
Not too long ago, therapists created a wall between themselves and their patients. Have we gone too far in the other direction?
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By David J. Vogel, Professor Emeritus of Business Ethics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
About 40% of total US energy consumption is used by household and industrial appliances, such as heating and cooling systems, refrigerators and lighting.
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By Michael Gregory, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Clemson University
At first glance it might seem contradictory that restricting some speech can preserve free speech, but research shows that online content moderation protects the marketplace of ideas.
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By Manas Gaur, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Large language model AIs can ingest long documents and answer questions about them, but a key question is how well they ‘understand’ individual sentences in the documents.
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