The security of the internet is seriously threatened by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The purpose of a DDoS assault is to disrupt service and prevent legitimate users from using it by flooding the central server with a large number of messages or requests that will cause it to...

Laboratory testing and medication prescription are two of the most important routines in daily clinical practice. Developing an artificial in- telligence system that can automatically make lab test imputations and medication recommendations can save costs on potentially redundant lab tests and...

Background: Healthcare workers are often overworked, underfunded, and face many challenges. Integration of artificial intelligence into healthcare service provision can tackle these challenges by relieving burdens on healthcare workers. Since healthcare students are our future healthcare...

Metaverse investor and writer Matthew Ball estimates the metaverse could be worth up to $30 trillion in the next decade (Knight, 2021). How “the Metaverse” is built and governed will determine societal outcomes in the near future and for generations to come. The Metaverse describes virtual...

There is a dearth of evidence on the evolution of occupational health in the developing world and on the extent to which it has been influenced by (1) the pattern of structural transformation in these economies and (2) integration with global markets. In this study, I compile a rich database on...

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children's nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking intensity data with four waves of the Haiti Demographic Health Survey, two administered before and two after the earthquake. We find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on...

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on research emerging from the late 2000s onward, with an emphasis on empirical work considering new mechanisms, studying new dimensions of inequality, and developing new...

This paper examines wealth inequality during the COVID crisis. Measuring inequality by comparing growth of billionaires' wealth with that of equity markets, I find that the COVID crisis causes inequality to grow more rapidly by 23.6 ppt and even more in low-income countries where heir...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main...

Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intrapopulation genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...