The Superstar Inventors and Entrepreneurs: How Were They Educated?

Workers Laid-off During the Last Three Recessions: Who Were They, and How Did They Fare?

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Freely relaxing polymers remember how they were straightened.

The relaxation of initially straight semiflexible polymers has been discussed mainly with respect to the longest relaxation time. The biologically relevant nonequilibrium dynamics on shorter times is comparatively poorly understood, partly because "initially straight" can be realized in manifold ways. Combining Brownian dynamics simulations and systematic theory, we demonstrate how different ex...

How To Kill Inventors: Testing The Massacrator

Inventor disambiguation is an increasingly important issue for users of patent data. We propose and test a number of refinements to the Massacrator algorithm, originally proposed by Lissoni et al. (2006) and now applied to APE-INV, a free access database funded by the European Science Foundation. Following Raffo and Lhuillery (2009) we describe disambiguation as a 3-step process: cleaning&parsi...

IBM Branch Offices: What They Were, How They Worked, 1920s-1980s

The Power of Fiction: How Literature Educated and Reformed American Society

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...