Only You, Your Doctor, and Many Others May Know
Alice goes to the hospital in the United States. Her doctor and health insurance company know the details ? and often, so does her state government.
Research
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa
This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate change.
De-Anonymizing South Korean Resident Registration Numbers Shared in Prescription Data
When marketing and data analytic companies purchase medical data, sensitive medical facts about patients can leak if the information includes national identifiers.
Low Quality, Low Returns, Low Adoption: Evidence from the Market for Fertilizer and Hybrid Seed in Uganda
To reduce poverty and food insecurity in Africa requires raising productivity in agriculture. Systematic use of fertilizer and hybrid seed is a pathway to increased productivity, but adoption of these
Dreamscapes of Modernity: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to descri
Automating Open Science for Big Data
The vast majority of social science research uses small (megabyte- or gigabyte-scale) datasets.
Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment: A Small-Scale Experiment to Improve Understanding of the Risks of Solar Geoengineering
Although solar radiation management (SRM) through stratospheric aerosol methods has the potential to mitigate impacts of climate change, our current knowledge of stratospheric processes suggests that
Solar Geoengineering to Limit the Rate of Temperature Change
Solar geoengineering has been suggested as a tool that might reduce damage from anthropogenic climate change.
Field Experiments on Solar Geoengineering: Report of a Workshop Exploring a Representative Research Portfolio
We summarize a portfolio of possible field experiments on solar radiation management (SRM) and related technologies.
Energy Technology Expert Elicitations for Policy: Workshops, Modeling, and Meta-Analysis
Characterizing the future performance of energy technologies can improve the development of energy policies that have net benefits under a broad set of future conditions.
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