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Activated: Decentering activism in and with academia [PDF]
Companion Publication of the 2021 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2021 Who is an activist? With the advent of activism-related scholarship in HCI and CSCW, the current challenge involves thinking about what activism is, who an activist is, and the opportunities and limitations of activism. Recently, researchers in academia and industry, such as Timnit Gebru, demonstrate a commitment to stay activated for the structural ...
Minha Lee +4 more
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Activate or Not: Learning Customized Activation [PDF]
2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 We present a simple, effective, and general activation function we term ACON which learns to activate the neurons or not. Interestingly, we find Swish, the recent popular NAS-searched activation, can be interpreted as a smooth approximation to ReLU. Intuitively, in the same way, we approximate the more general Maxout family to our novel ACON family ...
Ningning Ma +3 more
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To Activate or Not to Activate [PDF]
Circulation Research, 2013 In a recent study, Watanabe et al identify a novel enhancer in the fgf10 locus that is necessary and sufficient for expression in anterior second heart field. Their results suggest a competitive mechanism in which Isl1 and Nkx2-5 bind the enhancer to activate or repress this enhancer, respectively.
Cornelis J, Boogerd, Sylvia M, Evans
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Transcriptional activators and activation mechanisms [PDF]
Protein & Cell, 2007 Transcriptional activators are required to turn on the expression of genes in a eukaryotic cell. Activators bound to the enhancer can facilitate either the recruitment of RNA polymerase II to the promoter or its elongation. This article examines a few selected issues in understanding activator functions and activation mechanisms.
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Antiracism Education Activism: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding and Promoting Racial Equity
AERA Open, 2022 Although antiracism activism has contributed to substantive progress under certain circumstances and in certain contexts, little research attempts to theorize how antiracism activism is manifest across contexts. In this article, we explore individual and
Sarah Diem +2 more
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Young Disabled People’s Fluctuating Activism: Challenging the Perfect Standard of Activist
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2022 By combining ideas from social movement theory with disability studies, this article unpacks how young disabled people navigate the cultural ideals of the activist and activism as they narrate their past and present experiences of disability activism ...
Pekka Koskinen
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Forging Fraught Solidarities: Friendship and Feminist Activism in South Asia [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2023 Friendship has been central to the forging of feminist solidarities. Cross-border friendships and feminist activism in South Asia have disrupted narratives of violence and hostility between countries.
Nithila Kanagasabai, Shilpa Phadke
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Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2020 What made you care about human rights and why should others? Through personal story telling, this article explores how social justice activists can use their own journeys and narratives to motivate and inspire others to involve themselves in the fight ...
Ishtar Lakhani
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Active voice, active writing [PDF]
Ubiquity, 2020 Each "Communication Corner" essay is self-contained; however, they build on each other. For best results, before reading this essay and doing the exercise, go to the first essay "How an Ugly Duckling Became a Swan," then read each succeeding essay. Knowing when to write in the active or passive voice can fundamentally improve your work, but ...
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The Side Effect of Political Standing: Corporate Activism and Its Impact on Stock Returns
Politics and Governance, 2023 Taking sides on controversial political issues such as gun control, abortion, immigration, or diversity is increasingly common among large companies.
Teresa Pintado Blanco +3 more
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