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   Bennett, J; Marchetti, C; Bailey, M; Blackwell, G; Rivero, I (May 2025, Open Science Framework)

   With four components – distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational – organizational fairness provides a framework for examining institutional processes, including those that relate to pay. 

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2. Accountability and effort among street-level bureaucrats: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment

   https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2021.1951408  

   Zarychta, Alan; Grillos, Tara; Andersson, Krister P. (August 2021, International Public Management Journal)

   Governance reforms like decentralization and performance-based management aim to improve public services by increasing accountability among street-level bureaucrats: bureaucrats may be held to account by communities, supervisors, intermediary organizations, or all of these. To assess the relationship between accountability and bureaucratic effort, we utilize data from a lab-in-the-field behavioral experiment conducted with Honduran health workers across decentralized and centrally administered municipalities. We presented health workers with an incentivized effort task that included instructions that were neutral, had a bottom-up political accountability prompt, or a top-down bureaucratic accountability prompt. Our results show that administrative context moderates the accountability-to-effort relationship. With neutral instructions, civil servants in decentralized systems exert greater quality effort than their counterparts under centralized administration. Importantly, both accountability prompts increase quality effort in centrally administered settings to levels comparable with those in decentralized settings. These findings support multiple accountability as a potentially important mechanism linking decentralization reform to improved service delivery. 

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3. “I’m not this Person”: Racism, content moderators, and protecting and denying voice online

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   Jereza, Rae (September 2022, New Media & Society)

   Much scholarship across the humanities and social sciences seek to shed light on the intersection of far-right politics and social media platforms. Yet, scholars tend to focus on racist actors and the ideological underpinnings of platform policies while the contingencies that shape the experiences of content reviewers who make decisions about racist content remain underexamined. This article fills this gap by exploring such contingencies from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Drawing on Facebook moderators’ stories, I illustrate the factors adjacent to, and beyond, ideology that animate the adjudication of racist hate speech. 

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4. Progress and challenges in the synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals ferroic materials and heterostructures

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   Wang, Jia; Kang, Junzhe; Chyczewski, Stasiu; Lin, Ye; Lee, Hanwool; Zhu, Wenjuan; Hong, Xia (November 2024, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics)

   Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric and magnetic van der Waals materials are emerging platforms for the discovery of novel cooperative quantum phenomena and development of energy-efficient logic and memory applications as well as neuromorphic and topological computing. This review presents a comprehensive survey of the rapidly growing 2D ferroic family from the synthesis perspective, including brief introductions to the top-down and bottom-up approaches for fabricating 2D ferroic flakes, thin films, and heterostructures as well as the important characterization techniques for assessing the sample properties. We also discuss the key challenges and future directions in the field, including scalable growth, property control, sample stability, and integration with other functional materials. 

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5. Application and patterning of atomic and small-molecule resists for area-selective deposition on silicon

   Raffaelle, Patrick R (September 2024, University of Rochester)

   The fabrication of 2D devices with micro/nano-scale features often rely on assembly from a top-down perspective, where the design emphasis is on the removal of material to generate surface features. Common “top-down” approaches to fabrication often include “pattern and subtract” techniques which require energy-intensive processing and result in a high volume of material waste of substances such as photoresists, etchant, and developers. In addition to high energy and material dissipation, traditional “top-down” approaches have also struggled to adapt to the continuous downsizing of critical dimensions of 3D device components. Thus, instead of generating devices from a “top-down” perspective, there has been a push over the last two decades to instead leverage the intrinsic differences in chemical behavior between surface species, such that feature deposition selectively begins at the surface and grows vertically in an additive fashion via reaction from the “bottom-up”. Here, I will evaluate the ability of different small molecule and atomic layers to enable selective deposition on a silicon substrate. Specifically, I will be investigating a carbenylated organic molecule, a perfluorinated amine, and atomic halogen species on their ability to inhibit deposition atomic layer deposition (ALD) of a metal oxide. When paired with a hydrolyzed surface (which promotes metal oxide growth), these inhibiting species may be used to form complementary resist systems which can enable area-selective ALD (AS-ALD) on a surface. Another primary consideration in “bottom-up” approaches to feature fabrication is the ability to pattern these small molecule and atomic surface layers such that they form a template for selective growth. To this end, I will explore using ultrafast laser patterning and contact transfer printing to selectively deposit or alter these surface layers to generate complementary surface domains that can serve as a foundation for a AS-ALD platform. 

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