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Did baseball have a Steroid Era?

Aaron Brown · 2024 · Wilmott

A decade ago, statistics from the 1990s and early 2000s appeared to confirm there had been a �Steroid Era� in baseball, but subsequent to that, evidence has mounted significantly in the opposite direction.

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Retiring North: Comparing Retirement Migration Decisions Among Residents who did and Past Visitors who did not Move to a Tourist Destination

Walter F. Kuentzel, Thomas A. Heberlein · 2010 · Tourism in Marine Environments

Research on retirement migration decisions has found uniformly that natural amenities and recreational opportunities are primary decision-making factors among those who move to high-amenity rural-based tourism destinations. Most of the…

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Not How Many, But Which: Parameter Placement in Low-Rank Adaptation

Arijit Sehanobish, Charles Lovering · 2026 · arXiv

We study the \textit{parameter placement problem}: given a fixed budget of $k$ trainable entries within the B matrix of a LoRA adapter (A frozen), does the choice of which $k$ matter? Under supervised fine-tuning, random and informed subsets achieve comparable performance. Under GRPO on base models, random placement fails to improve over the base model, while gradient-informed placement recovers standard LoRA accuracy. This regime dependence traces to gradient structure: SFT gradients are low-rank and directionally stable, so any subset accumulates coherent updates; GRPO gradients are high-ran

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Did Copyright Fail Music Artists?

Rachel Landy · 2025 · SSRN Electronic Journal

Music soundtracks our lives, supports over two million domestic jobs annually, and is being listened to more than ever before. The record industry is thriving, having made over $17 billion in 2024. Yet, many professional artists…

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Did I really agree to that?: making sense of policies you didn’t read with models that actually did

Shikha Soneji, Mitchell Hoesing, Sujay Koujalgi et al. · 2026 · Information Research an international electronic journal

Introduction. While Privacy Policies and Terms of Service (ToS) are intended to inform users; they often overwhelm, mislead, and confuse in practice. This work investigates automated techniques for analyzing such legal documents, with the…

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Abstract 13428: The Long-term Therapy With Low-dose Aspirin Did Not Reduce Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Prevention Setting: 10-year Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Yoshihiko Saito, Sadanori Okada, Hisao Ogawa et al. · 2016 · Circulation

Introduction: It takes long time to conclude efficacy and safety of an intervention on primary prevention of cardiovascular events. Up to date, there is no study to investigate the effect of the low-dose aspirin therapy on primary…

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USE OF MULTILOCAL MARKERS TO CONFIRM THE UNIQUENESS OF LEBEDYN CATTLE

N. В. Mokhnachova, O. M. Zhukorskyі · 2025 · Animal Breeding and Genetics

The aim of this study is to analyze the informativeness of ISSR markers in the study of intrapopulation genetic polymorphism of the Lebedyn local breed cattle population. Materials and methods of research. To confirm the uniqueness and…

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Engaging Education About Risks of Opioid Use With Patients Before Elective Surgery of the Lower Extremity Did Not Reduce Postoperative Opioid Utilization: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Daniel I. Rhon, Tina A. Greenlee, Rachel Mayhew et al. · 2022 · Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Introduction: After elective orthopaedic surgery, many individuals go on to become long-term opioid users. Mitigating this risk has become a priority for surgeons, other members of the medical care team, and healthcare systems. The purpose…

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Evaluating LSP-TEOC.Pro: What we did and what we found out

Joseph Cullen, Gregory Holloway · 2025 · Glottodidactica

This article presents an evaluation of the LSP-TEOC.Pro project. It sets out the evaluation methodology applied, how it was implemented and the key evaluation findings. Given the exploratory nature of the project, the range and complexity…

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Hayaller-hayatlar: Turizm öğrencileri ne umdu ne buldu?

Abdullah Ülkü · 2025 · Business & Management Studies: An International Journal

This study aims to examine the career perceptions and attitudes of tourism students and graduates, identifying the differences between their expectations before graduation and their experiences in the workforce. A quantitative approach was…

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“Scratch a Russian, Find a Turk”

Charles J. Halperin · 2018 · Russian History

In this first-rate monograph, Cornelia Soldat confirms earlier impressionistic assertions that the portrayal of Ivan iv as a tyrant and the Muscovites as barbarians in German-language pamphlets (Flugschriften) written as propaganda during…

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The relative vitamin A value of 9‐cis‐ and 13‐cis‐β‐carotene did not differ in vitamin A‐depleted Mongolian gerbils

Kara Allison Bresnahan, Christopher Davis, Sherry Tanumihardjo · 2011 · The FASEB Journal

The provitamin A biofortification of staple crops is a novel approach to ameliorating vitamin A status in countries where deficiency is prevalent. To assess the vitamin A impact of these crops, the unique bioefficacies of cis‐isomers,…

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