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Giving by Taking Away: Big Tech, Data Colonialism, and the Reconfiguration of Social Good
International Journal of Communication, 2021 Big Tech companies have recently led and financed projects that claim to use datafication for the “social good.” This article explores what kind of social good it is that this sort of datafication engenders.
João Carlos Magalhães, Nick Couldry
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Digital platforms in the agricultural sector: Dynamics of oligopolistic platformisation
Big Data & SocietyThis paper introduces the concept of ‘oligopolistic platformisation’ to capture the specific dynamics of collaboration and competition between multinational upstream agribusinesses and Big Tech companies in the agricultural (ag) sector.
Monja Sauvagerd +2 more
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Energy Efficiency of Software Transactional Memory in a Heterogeneous Architecture [PDF]
, 2016 Hardware vendors make an important effort creating low-power CPUs that keep battery duration and durability above acceptable levels. In order to achieve this goal and provide good performance-energy for a wide variety of applications, ARM designed the ...
Asenjo-Plaza, Rafael +5 more
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Melanoma expression analysis with Big Data technologies [PDF]
, 2017 Melanoma is a highly immunogenic tumor. Therefore, in recent years physicians have incorporated drugs that alter the immune system into their therapeutic arsenal against this disease, revolutionizing in the treatment of patients in an advanced stage of ...
Aldana-Montes, Jose Francisco +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work presents self‐propelled CRISPR/Cas9‐functionalized Au–MRs for rapid, amplification‐free, “on‐the‐fly” DNA detection. By harnessing motion‐assisted signal recovery, the platform achieved the limit of detection in low fM DNA concentrations, enabling detection across a wide dynamic range within only 5 min, which is significantly faster than any ...
Jyoti +3 more
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Political capitalism in the digital era: reconstructing the capital–state relation
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis article discusses the role of big tech in becoming an engine of capturing public power. We focus on tech capitalist classes and their determination to capture both the economic benefit and the political decision.
Filippa Chatzistavrou
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Цифровая экономика в медицине [PDF]
, 2017 The digital economy in medicine is discussed from the point of view of the concepts of big data and end-to-end business processes. Big data is associated with a library of evidence-based medicine, archives of medical cards and apportioned information ...
Лугачев, М. И. +1 more
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3D Segmentation Method for Natural Environments based on a Geometric-Featured Voxel Map [PDF]
, 2015 This work proposes a new segmentation algorithm for three-dimensional dense point clouds and has been specially designed for natural environments where the ground is unstructured and may include big slopes, non-flat areas and isolated areas.
Ababsa, Fakhr-Eddine +3 more
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Crack‐Growing Interlayer Design for Deep Crack Propagation and Ultrahigh Sensitivity Strain Sensing
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A crack‐growing semi‐cured polyimide interlayer enabling deep cracks for ultrahigh sensitivity in low‐strain regimes is presented. The sensor achieves a gauge factor of 100 000 at 2% strain and detects subtle deformations such as nasal breathing, highlighting potential for minimally obstructive biomedical and micromechanical sensing applications ...
Minho Kim +11 more
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Beyond general self-efficacy beliefs and big-five personality traits in teacher burnout: the role of emotional intelligence [PDF]
, 2015 Introduction: Prior research has underlined the key role that specific personal resources such as generalized self-efficacy and Big-Five traits play in the process of burnout.
Extremera, Natalio +2 more
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