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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among women worldwide. So why don’t more women participate in trials? Lijing Yan, an expert in non-communicable diseases, and global health master’s student Xurui Jin, explore the key factors behind the under-representation of women in cardiovascular trials in Circulation, an American Health Association journal.

In response to an article on technologies controlled via brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), Ege Duman, undergraduate Class of 22, and Daniel Lim, co-director of the Planetary Ethics and Artificial Intelligence Lab, share philosophical and scientific reasons against a qualitative distinction between conventional action and BCI-mediated action that results in a distinction in moral responsibility. Their paper was published in the American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience.

Writing in the Journal of Cultural Economy about residential property presales at the urban fringe of Nanjing, China, cultural anthropologist Menqi Wang argues for an analytical focus on urgency as a temporal quality that creates the local housing market and facilitates urban accumulation. She examines how urgency, grounded in a linear imagination of urban development, motivates home presales for developers, estate agents and homebuyers.

In a paper published by IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, electrical and computer engineering professor Xin Li and colleagues propose a correlated Bayesian inference (CBI) method to estimate the system-level failure rates for large-scale circuit systems over multiple process corners. Numerical experiments show that compared with the state-of-the-art algorithm, the method can achieve around 10 times runtime reduction without surrendering accuracy.