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Advice to Christian geography professors
Michael Hulme
Apr 07, 2021
One should always be careful about giving advice: whether, when, how and what. This is especially the case if the advice is unsolicited. “Now, let me give you some advice”, is generally an unpropitious opening to a conversation....
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Climates Multiple
Mike Hulme
Jan 18, 2021
Today, Friday 1 January 2021, a new World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) climatological standard normal came into effect. The ‘present-day’ climate will now formally be represented by the meteorological statistics of the...
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“Gaps” in Climate Change Knowledge
M Hulme
Oct 03, 2018
There are many different ways of thinking about gaps in knowledge. Engraved on the copper face of the Lenox Globe circa 1500, one of the oldest known terrestrial globes, are the evocative words: “Here be dragons.”1 This was used...
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'Gaps in Knowledge'
M Hulme
Feb 26, 2019
There are many different ways of thinking about gaps in knowledge. Engraved on the copper face of the Lenox Globe c.1500, one of the oldest known terrestrial globes, are the evocative words: ‘‘here be dragons’’ . This was used...
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Reflections on the afterlives of a PhD thesis
M Hulme
Feb 08, 2022
Most readers of this essay will likely have written a PhD thesis, will be in the throes of writing one or perhaps be aspiring to write one. There is a huge literature on the practice and experience of PhD research: on designing...
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Cracking of human teeth
Teeth are the hardest part of the human body. Cracking of human teeth under compression progresses by avalanches emitting acoustic noise. Acoustic emission (AE) spectroscopy reveals that tooth avalanches are statistically fully...
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Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis
Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition. What is the nature of the crisis? How it is defined (and by whom)? And...
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Has microfinance lost its moral compass?

This paper argues that microfinance in south Asia, like mainstream finance in North America and Europe, "has lost its moral compass". Microfinance institutions have increasingly focused on financial performance and have...

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Modelling and the Nation
M Mahony, M Hulme
Oct 30, 2017
How climate models came to gain and exercise epistemic authority has been a key concern of recent climate change historiography. Using newly released archival materials and recently conducted interviews with key actors, we...
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Has microfinance lost its moral compass?

This paper argues that microfinance in south Asia, like mainstream finance in North America and Europe, "has lost its moral compass". Microfinance institutions have increasingly focused on financial performance and have...

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Thermally Stable Nanocrystalline Steel
Two novel nanocrystalline steels were designed to withstand elevated temperatures without catastrophic microstructural changes. In the most successful alloy, a large quantity of nickel was added to stabilize austenite and allow...
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Multifluorescence High-Resolution Episcopic Microscopy for 3D Imaging of Adult Murine Organs
3D microscopy of large biological samples (>0.5 cm3) is transforming biological research. Many existing techniques require trade‐offs between image resolution, sample size, and method complexity. A simple robust instrument with...
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Speechreading in hearing children can be improved by training.
Visual information conveyed by a speaking face aids speech perception. In addition, children's ability to comprehend visual-only speech (speechreading ability) is related to phonological awareness and reading skills in both deaf...
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A Quasi-Newton Matrix Factorization-Based Model for Recommendation
Solving large-scale non-convex optimization problems is the fundamental challenge in the development of matrix factorization (MF)-based recommender systems. Unfortunately, employing conventional first-order optimization...

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