Scientific Sense ®

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

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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 Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts.

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

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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 applications to real-world systems with a network structure, including in biology and chemistry.

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

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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.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Selva Nadarajah who is Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. One of his research interests is decision-making under uncertainty and flexibility.

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

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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 macro models and associated issues.

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

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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 Analysis of COVID-19 Spread Through Classroom Transmission on a University Campus Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maja Matarić is professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Her research is focused on developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for behavior change aimed at health, wellness, rehabilitation, training and education.

Prof. Sabine Kastner of Princeton University on the Ryhtemic Theory of Attention and Gender Bias Sep 09, 2021

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A rhythmic theory of attention, A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker, Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, and Bringing Kids into the Scientific Review Process.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sabine Kastner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The goal of her research program is to better understand how large-scale networks operate during cognition, with particular emphasis on interactions between cortex and thalamus.

Prof. Carol Gould of Florida Atlantic University on the histrionic personality disorder Sep 07, 2021

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Why the histrionic personality disorder should not be in the DSM: A new taxonomic and moral analysis

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book on True Glamour, an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.

Dr. Peter Vereš of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Planetary Defense Sep 05, 2021

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Planetary Defense: Discovery and characterization of Near-Earth objects and possibilities to protect the Earth against the cosmic collisions.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Peter Vereš is a research scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the Minor Planet Center (MPC). MPC is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data of minor planets, calculating their orbits, computing ephemerides, announcing discoveries and publishing the data.

Prof. Daniel Appelbaum of the University of Chicago on Radiomics, Theranostics and AI Sep 03, 2021

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Radiomics in Oncology, Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine and the rise of AI in the field.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel Appelbaum who Professor of Radiology and the Director, of the Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging at the University of Chicago.

Prof. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University on Food Allergies Sep 01, 2021

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FOOD WITHOUT FEAR: Identify, Prevent, and Treat Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ruchi Gupta is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on food allergies