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Library & information science

What You Found and What You Missed: Precision and Recall

When a search list looks right at the top, how do you know what was left out? This piece explains precision and recall, the trade-off between them, the F1 score that combines both,

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Tourism studies

A Journey That Peeks Behind the Stage: Staged Authenticity

Staged authenticity is the idea that tourist destinations present a version of local life arranged to look genuine to visitors. This article covers the basic concept, the six stage

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Chemistry

Nanotechnology Innovation: Solutions for Sustainability

Nanotechnology precisely manipulates materials at the molecular or atomic level and is driving innovative changes across a variety of industries. In chemistry in particular, nanote

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Psychology

The Trap of Words That Fit Everyone: The Barnum Effect

The Barnum effect is our tendency to accept vague personality descriptions that fit almost anyone as accurate analyses of ourselves. This piece covers where the name came from, P.

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Robotics

The First Robot Arm to Enter the Factory: Unimate

Unimate, installed at a General Motors plant in New Jersey in 1961, is regarded as the world’s first industrial robot. Learn how it grew from George Devol’s patent, how its hydraul

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Business administration

Watching Changes Things: The Hawthorne Effect

Why does performance often jump right after a new management practice is introduced, only to slip back later? This article explains the Hawthorne effect: its definition and the ori