Microtask platforms allow researchers to engage participants quickly and inexpensively. Workers on such platforms probably perform many tasks in succession, so we investigate interactions between earlier tasks and later ones, which we call inter-task effects. Existing research investigates many task design factors, such as framing, on the quality of responses, but to our knowledge, does not add...

Background Publication bias is a form of scientific misconduct. It threatens the validity of research results and the credibility of science. Although several tests on publication bias exist, no in-depth evaluations are available that examine which test performs best for different research settings. Methods Four tests on publication bias, Egger's test (FAT), p-uniform, the test of excess sign...

Traditionally, register files have been the primary agent for inter-operation communication in load/store architectures. As processors start issuing multiple instructions per cycle, a centralized register file can easily become a bottleneck. This paper analyzes the register file traffic in a load/store architecture with a view to motivate the development of alternate inter-operation communicati...

The five accreting, millisecond X-ray pulsars in ultracompact binaries that were recently discovered with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer provide excellent candidates for constraining the deviations from general relativity described by the Brans-Dicke parameter ωBD. I calculate the expected rate of change of the orbital periods of these binaries and discuss the prospects of constraining ωBD to ...

The production of scientific knowledge is susceptible to bias at every stage of the process, from what questions are asked by the investigator, to which method is chosen to gather data, to which analyses are conducted (e.g., “P-hacking,” wherein the method of statistical analysis and the degrees of freedom are manipulated until they yield statistically significant results) (1). Even after compl...

The production of scientific knowledge is susceptible to bias at every stage of the process, from what questions are asked by the investigator, to which method is chosen to gather data, to which analyses are conducted (e.g., “P-hacking,” wherein the method of statistical analysis and the degrees of freedom are manipulated until they yield statistically significant results) (1). Even after compl...

The L A T E X 2ε source file of this paper was produced by converting a ChiWriter 3.16 source file into ChiWriter 4.0 file and then converting the latter file into a L A T E X 2.09 source file, which was manually edited for correcting numerous errors and for improving the appearance of the text. As a result of this procedure, some errors in the text may exist.