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Mathematics

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BIOSECURITY

An Improved Epidemic Model for Interconnected Networks

Improving decision making

Democratic Reform via Mathematical Analysis

NUCLEAR WAR

Location Modelling for Post-Nuclear Refuge Bunkers

Global Health & Wellbeing

Developing the First Mechanistic Forecast for Future Dengue Prevalence

Computer Science

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Neurodegenerative Disease

Kinematic Integrated Gait Analysis for Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

Climate Change

Modelling to Maximise the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Seagrass

Global Health & Wellbeing

A Novel Self-Supervised Deep-Learning Approach to Efficiently Detect Diseases in Plants

Artificial Intelligence

Understanding In-Context Learning: Unraveling Affine Recurrences in GPT-style Models

Misinformation

An Anti-Misinformation Content Recommendation Algorithm

Bias

Combating Bias in LLMs with Activation Addition

Physics

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Climate ChangE

Greenhouse Effect for Good in Industrial Production

Climate ChangE

Stratospheric Aerosol Removal Technology

Atomically Precise Manufacturing

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Future of Atomically Precise Manufacturing

Space Governance

Proposal to Amend the OST for Autonomous Satellites

Biology

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Biosecurity

Proposal: siRNA Design Workflow

Biosecurity

Accelerating Platform Technology Development for Pandemic Preparedness

Animal Welfare

Mapping Determinants of Zoonotic Spillover

Global Health & Wellbeing

Maternal mortality: where can resources go farthest?

Global Health & Wellbeing

Outline for Establishing and Maintaining Phage Banks to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance in Impoverished Nations

Social Science

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Improving decision making

Developing a Psychological Scale to Measure Scout Mindset

Global Health & Wellbeing

Designing a Clean Cookstove Intervention Template

Improving Decision-making

Economic Discounting Evaluation Model

Animal Welfare

The Impact of Ethical Argument on Moral Attitudes towards Animals

Philosophy

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Artificial Intelligence

Proposals for Quantitative Measures of Consciousness in AI Systems

Space Governance

A Foundation for Ethical Space Expansion

Animal Welfare

The Impact of Ethical Argument on Moral Attitudes

Policy

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Artificial Intelligence

Establishing a Risk-Based Licensing System for Public Release and Export of Frontier AI Models

Global Health & Wellbeing

Revolutionising the Data Landscape for Global Disease Modeling

Climate change

Environmental Impacts of Cultivated and Conventional Seafood

Nuclear war

New Technologies and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence

Biosecurity

A New Model For DNA Synthesis Screening: Policy Proposal