Abstract: Participatory budgeting (PB) allows citizens with different backgrounds to participate directly in the decision-making process of budgeting and fund allocation. It can be considered as a ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — As I'm approaching my one-year anniversary here in Montana, I'm quickly learning there's a lot to see, a lot to explore. So we went on a field trip with the Five Valleys Audubon ...

Before late-night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air after he was suspended for what Disney, the owner of ABC, characterized as “ill-timed and thus insensitive” remarks about the killing of Charlie ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Abstract: Technology Assessment (TA) is a term of long standing for a process that examines consequences of the application of a particular technology. The scope and scale of technological impacts ...

Using newly-collected data on the near-population of U.S. STEM PhD graduates since 1950, we examine who funds PhD training, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific ...

Researchers from Peru have developed a self-contained, deployable system that can reportedly quantify energy losses from dust accumulation on PV arrays before their implementation. The proposed ...

ABSTRACT: Fangqi is one of the important chess games in Chinese folk chess culture, which bears the mission of people’s cultural life and communication, and enhances interpersonal interactions.