Die folgende Studie stellt erste Ergebnisse aus einem laufenden Forschungsprojekt zur maschinellen Indexierung von Literaturdaten in Online-Publikumskatalogen (MILOS) dar, das von der Universitätsbibliothek Düsseldorf (UBD) in Verbindung mit der Fachrichtung Informationswissenschaft der Universität des Saarlandes mit Förderung durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft durchgeführt wird. Im Mitt...

I am the founder of a company that makes stroke rehabilitation devices. I recently conducted a direct mail campaign to self-identified stroke survivors, but a few stray letters ended up in the wrong mailboxes. What an insult! For two weeks, I had people writing unpleasant e-mails and calling my office to scream at me because I had (accidentally) called them a stroke survivor. One woman told me ...

It has recently been proposed that gravity-localized compactifications can generate the required gauge hierarchy without the need for hierarchically large extra spacetime dimensions. In this paper, we show that gauge coupling unification arises naturally in such scenarios as a result of the anomaly induced by the rescaling of the wavefunctions of the brane fields. Thus, “anomalyinduced” gauge c...

We conducted an experiment marketing microloans to farmers in the United States during spring 2015, and found that a simple direct mail letter increased borrowing from a government program. The subsequent spring, we built on this finding and enriched the design to test for information spillovers. The second experiment used a different sample frame and slightly different letter, due to operation...