first papers

plural noun

: papers declaring intention filed by an applicant for citizenship as the first step in the naturalization process

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Student Performance Anything that limits access to phones is a positive, says Louis-Philippe Beland, an associate professor of economics at Carleton University in Ontario and co-author of one of the first papers on the academic impact of smartphone access. —

Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024 The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis published one of the first papers to test how extending UI benefits to people who quit would impact the American economy. —

Oshan Jarow, Vox, 26 June 2024 While the menstrual cycle has been notoriously understudied, the first papers on PMDD appeared in 1930s. —

Shalene Gupta, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024 Photograph: Getty Images Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020 election were finally published. —

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