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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 65884: The ability to connect to a Google BigQuery database via proxy has been added to the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Google BigQuery

The ability to connect to a Google BigQuery database via a proxy is available with this hot fix. You can use the newly added option, PROXY=, with the following methods of connection to the Google BigQuery database:



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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 32202: Dual-monitor setup might cause problems in SAS Enterprise Guide

Problems might occur when using SAS Enterprise Guide with dual monitors. For example, it might appear there is a performance problem with the query builder or other task, or it might appear that code or a task is hung, or




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SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 65871: Enabling debugging for SAS Workflow Studio

This SAS Note provides instructions about how to enable SAS Workflow Studio log generation and debugging in order to troubleshoot a problem in SAS Workflow Studio. On the client machine where&




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New Study Measures Impact of U.S. Treasury Supply Versus Fed’s Monetary Policy on Bank Deposit Funding

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 13:00

New Research from Columbia Business School Challenges Conventional Wisdom of Bank Funding




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Balancing Act: Consumers Are Willing to Sacrifice Privacy to See Fewer Digital Ads, According to New Columbia Business School Research

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 12:45

NEW YORK – In the era of online surveillance, consumers continually express concerns about how their digital footprint is being tracked and their privacy compromised.




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Making Academic Research Accessible Can Lead to Significant Policy Change

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 14:45

Research from Chazen Senior Scholar Jonas Hjort shows political leaders value research findings, even willing to pay to learn results of impact evaluations




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New Research Explains Why High-End Consumers Adopt Lowbrow, Low-End Tastes

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 12:00

Columbia Business School research explores why elites and luxury brands mix and match upscale and downscale products.




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Researchers Answer a Diversity Puzzle: Why Chinese Americans but not Indian Americans are Underrepresented in Leadership Positions

Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 11:15

New studies identify the boundary and causes of the “Bamboo Ceiling”




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Same Old Tune: Columbia Business School Research Shows Bias Against Women in the Music Industry

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 16:45

NEW YORK – In 2018, the Grammy Awards faced criticism when male artists swept the most prestigious music awards – prompting Recording Academy president Neil Portnow to say the solution is for women to “step up.” But the truth is women artists have been stepping up for decades, according to research from Columbia Business School’s Professor of Business Michael Mauskapf and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Noah Askin.




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Research from Columbia Business School Suggests Hypersensitivity to Coronavirus News Is Driving Market Reactions – and Vice Versa

Friday, April 10, 2020 - 22:45

NEW YORK – On March 11th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 1,485 points, ending the longest bull-market run in history, and sending the market into nosedive the likes of which has not been witnessed since the Great Recession. While it could take years to fully understand all of the factors that led to this recent crash, a consensus has emerged that fear of an economic downturn brought on by the coronavirus has played a large role.




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New Research Shows Macroeconomic Conditions During Youth Shape Work Preferences for Life

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 12:00

The first-of-its-kind study from Columbia Business School finds that growing up in a recession vs an economic boom leads to differences in work priorities. As world economies grapple with COVID-19 impacts, research provides valuable insight for employers and labor markets




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New Research from Columbia Business School Shows Radical Changes in Household Spending Habits During COVID-19 Epidemic

Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 14:30

Study provides first real-time view into household consumption during outbreak in U.S., showing an initial sharp increase in key categories, followed by a sharp decrease in overall spending

 




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New Research: Crisis of Confidence over COVID-19 Could Delay Economic Recovery for a Decade

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 11:45

Working Paper from Columbia Business School Quantifies Impact of “Belief Scarring” on Economic Recovery, Finds Crisis Could Result in over 180% loss of annual GDP




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Lockdown Losses: Lack of Government Transparency during COVID-19 Pandemic Holds Back Businesses from Taking Risks, Making Financial Decisions

Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 14:15

NEW YORK – Since the coronavirus outbreak began, states across the U.S. have implemented stay-at-home orders, disrupting businesses and causing many to shut down. In addition, almost half of U.S. states from New York to Oregon have extended their lockdown orders beyond the original end date. These extensions of lockdown policy, while clearly beneficial to address public health concerns, can damage the economy beyond their immediate impact on business closures and layoffs.




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New Research: Entrepreneurship, New Business Creation are Critical to COVID-19 Economic Recovery

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 - 09:00

Working Paper from Columbia Business School Emphasizes the Need to Accelerate New Businesses, Not Just Protect Existing Ones, to Restore the U.S. Economy




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Quality Over Quantity: In A Financial Crisis, Innovation Is A Survival of the Fittest

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 11:45

NEW YORK – Innovation is at an all-time high, but the economic damage from the COVID-19 outbreak has the potential to stifle inventions and patents. But new research shows that financial crises are both destructive and creative forces for innovation.




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Germline genomic profiles of children, young adults with solid tumors to inform managementand treatment

(Cleveland Clinic) A new Cleveland Clinic study demonstrates the importance of genetics evaluation and genetic testing for children, adolescents and young adults with solid tumor cancers. The study was published today in Nature Communications.




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Clinical implications of chromatin accessibility in human cancers

(Impact Journals LLC) Volume 11, Issue 18 of @Oncotarget Clinical implications of chromatin accessibility assessed by ATAC-seq profiling in human cancers especially in a large patient cohort is largely unknown.




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Cancer survivors' experiences with financial toxicity

(Wiley) A recent Psycho-Oncology analysis of published studies found that few cancer survivors received financial information support from healthcare facilities during their initial treatment, even though cancer-related financial toxicity has multiple impacts on survivors' health and quality of life.




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Interleukin-12 electroporation may sensitize 'cold' melanomas to immunotherapies

(American Association for Cancer Research) Combining intratumoral electroporation of interleukin-12 (IL-12) DNA (tavokinogene telseplasmid, or TAVO) with the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) led to clinical responses in patients with immunologically quiescent advanced melanoma, according to results from a phase II trial.




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How small chromosomes compete with big ones for a cell's attention

(Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute have solved the puzzle of how small chromosomes ensure that they aren't skipped over during meiosis, the process that makes sperm and egg.




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New rules for the physical basis of cellular organelle composition

(Princeton University, Engineering School) New findings about critical cellular structures have upended common assumptions about their formation and composition and provided new insight how molecular machines are built in living cells.




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Researchers have found accumulation of gene mutations in chronic Graft-versus-host disease

(University of Helsinki) Mutations in white blood cells can contribute to abnormal immune profile after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.




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University of Houston researcher developing device to treat babies with blood disorders

(University of Houston) A University of Houston biomedical researcher is developing a new device to treat babies with blood disorders, because current technology is designed for adults. The ability to perform lifesaving leukapheresis safely and effectively in these most vulnerable pediatric patients will significantly increase their access to highly effective cell-based therapies.




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Cool Met Stuff, composition of air, main gases, climate change, global warming, carbon dioxide concentration, fraction, atmosphere

Do you know which main gases are contained in the composition of air? Under climate change and global warming, carbon dioxide ...




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Cool Met Stuff, rainstorms, Hong Kong, summer, loss of property, casualties, reviews, extreme torrential rain

Every summer, rainstorms occur in Hong Kong occasionally, leading to loss of property or even casualties.




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Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging

(University of Queensland) Logging of native forests increases the risk and severity of fire and likely had a profound effect on the recent, catastrophic Australian bushfires, according to new research.In the wake of the country's worst forest fires in recorded history, University of Queensland researchers have been part of an international collaboration, investigating Australia's historical and contemporary land-use.




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A hydrological model leads to advances in the creation of a world water map

(University of Córdoba) The University of Cordoba participated in the first shaping of a hydrological model on a basin scale as a global model to advance in world hydrological predictions.




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Yellow-legged gull adapts its annual lifecycle to human activities to get food

(University of Barcelona) The yellow-legged gull has a high ability to adapt to human activities and benefit from these as a food resource during all year. This is stated in a scientific article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution whose first author is the researcher Francisco Ramírez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona.




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New book shows how ancient Greek writing helps us understand today's environmental crises

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) University of Illinois classics professor Clara Bosak-Schroeder writes about how the ancient Greeks thought about natural resources and how it is relevant to responding to climate change today.




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NIH clinical trial tests remdesivir plus anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib for COVID-19

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of a treatment regimen of the investigational antiviral remdesivir plus the anti-inflammatory drug baricitinib for COVID-19 has begun. The trial is now enrolling hospitalized adults with COVID-19 in the United States. The trial is expected to open at approximately 100 US and international sites. Investigators currently anticipate enrolling more than 1,000 participants. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is sponsoring the trial.




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How Laws of Motion Is Transforming Clothing Sizes for Women

Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 20:45




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How to Find the Perfect Office, According to a Founder Who's Moved His Startup 5 Times

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 21:15




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The World’s Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship

Monday, October 28, 2019 - 00:45




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The Best MBA Programs for Venture-Backed Startups

Monday, March 30, 2020 - 12:00




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NJIT physics team provides novel swab design, free of charge, to augment COVID-19 testing

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) A team of NJIT physicists has developed a novel test swab that can be 3D printed using inexpensive, widely available materials and speedily assembled in a range of fabrication settings. To augment the nation's testing capabilities, the inventors are making the swab's design publicly available, free of licensing fees, during the COVID-19 emergency.




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COVID-19 baby boom? This new study suggests perhaps not

(Taylor & Francis Group) Over 80% of people surveyed in a study do not plan to conceive during the COVID-19 crisis, perhaps putting to rest suggestions that the lockdown could lead to rise in birth numbers.




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Twitter -- not just pointless babble

(Queensland University of Technology) It started life as the concept drawing for a mobile 'status update' tool only geeks could love. Now we cannot imagine a world without Twitter, its hashtags, and the worldwide movements it has helped create. A new book tracks its journey.




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St. Jude awarded federal grant for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Funding will help expand collaboration across engineering and physical sciences to expand tools for studying pediatric diseases.




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George Mason University researchers and World Bank launch web portal for hospitals

(George Mason University) The team's work supports evidence-based decision making, informed by models, to rethink and facilitate hospital operations during the pandemic.




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Which operations can restart first? New guide could help hospitals decide

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Now, as hospitals across the country start to return to doing non-emergency operations that keep their beds full and their books balanced, they need to think carefully about what resources each of those procedures will need as the pandemic continues. A new guide could help them prioritize and plan. Created by poring over seven years' worth of data from 17 common operations in dozens of hospitals, it's available for free for any hospital to use.




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Computational techniques explore 'the dark side of amyloid aggregation in the brain'

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) As physicians and families know too well, though Alzheimer's disease has been intensely studied for decades, too much is still not known about molecular processes in the brain that cause it. Now researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say new insights from analytic theory and molecular simulation techniques offer a better understanding of amyloid fibril growth and brain pathology.




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A new way to accurately estimate COVID-19 death toll

(Rutgers University) A Rutgers engineer has created a mathematical model that accurately estimates the death toll linked to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and could be used around the world.




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Army project explores ways to encourage protective COVID-19 behaviors

(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) A US Army-funded project is identifying how officials at different levels of government can work together to encourage protective behaviors to prevent the spread of COVID-19.




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Civil engineering Professor Sharon Di wins NSF CAREER Award

(Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science) Sharon Di, assistant professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her work in the nascent field of autonomous vehicles and shared mobility transportation, areas rapidly being transformed by emerging communications and sensing technologies.




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Timing of immune response to COVID-19 may contribute to disease severity

(Keck School of Medicine of USC) A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body's immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. That's because the research shows that an interaction between the body's two main lines of defense may be causing the immune system to go into overdrive in some patients.




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AI tool speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

(Northwestern University) Northwestern University researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. The AI-powered tool makes it possible to prioritize resources for the most promising studies -- and ignore research that is unlikely to yield benefits.




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Software flaws often first reported on social media networks, PNNL researchers find

(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Software vulnerabilities are more likely to be discussed on social media before they're revealed on a government reporting site, a practice that could pose a national security threat, according to computer scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.




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Effects of recommender systems in e-commerce vary by product attributes and review ratings

(Carnegie Mellon University) A new study sought to determine how the impact of recommender systems (also called recommenders) is affected by factors such as product type, attributes, and other sources of information about products on retailers' websites. The study found that recommenders increased the number of consumer views of product pages as well as the number of products consumers consider, but that the increase was moderated by product attributes and review ratings.




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Safely relaxing social distancing comes down to numbers

(Queensland University of Technology) Your house number could be the key to the safe relaxation of COVID-19-related restrictions if governments follow a new exit strategy proposal published today in the British Medical Journal. Co-authored by QUT statistician Professor Adrian Barnett, the paper proposes the use of an 'odds-and-evens' approach to allowing people to head back to work and enjoy other activities after weeks of lockdown.