This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make...

This chapter argues that there are a number of different versions of decoupling hypotheses and that rapid swings in their popularity are due largely to herding in popular mental models and shifts in short-run correlations. It is important to not put too much emphasis on such changes of...

Catastrophe insurance is an important element of disaster management. Yet the historic presence of inequalities in insurance, from redlining to pricing disparity, has had a devastating impact on minority communities. While the fairness of insurance ratemaking has been studied in general, we...

As resources dried up and technology developed, human beings began to consider the possibility of asteroid mining. Space resources should be shared by all of the mankind, thus raising concerns about global equity among asteroid mining stakeholders. In the first part we redefine the global equity...

An experimental study has been conducted to investigate the characterisitcs of subsonic steam jet condensation pressure oscillations in the ranges of steam mass flux 50-90 kg/m 2 s, water temperature 20-90 ℃ and vessel pressure 0.1-0.4 MPa. High frequency dynamic pressure and high speed images...

In this work, a novel three-dimensional (3D) composite (GBS) based on melamine foam is fabricated by layer-by-layer self-assembly of positively charged hexagonal boron nitride ( h -BN) and negatively charged graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets. Improved tribological and thermal management performance...