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ABSTRACT Data bias is a critical challenge in machine learning applications within the financial and insurance sectors, as it can lead to misleading risk assessments and inaccurate predictive models. A prevalent source of bias in real‐world datasets is the imbalanced distribution of classes, which is particularly problematic in fraud detection, credit ...
Alberto Gutierrez‐Gallego +4 more
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The Christ-Logos question in Amelius [PDF]
The main thesis of Christians, according to which Jesus is the divine Logos, the Son of God, is unacceptably illogical for Plotinus closest disciples.
Zamora Calvo, José María
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Can Mimosa pudica Plants Enumerate Light Exposure Events?
Abstract Plants sense and respond to information present in their surrounding environment. Recent work has sought to characterize the limits of these information processing abilities. Here, we present evidence that the movements of Mimosa pudica plants are mediated by the number of illumination events to which they have been exposed.
Peter M. Vishton, Paige J. Bartosh
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Multispecies Solidarity: How People and Cinchona Survived the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Loja, Ecuador
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of Cinchona officinalis entrepreneurship during the COVID‐19 pandemic to explore how dynamics of care and extraction figure within the construct of multispecies solidarity. C. officinalis is an endangered medicinal tree that holds global historical significance as a natural source of quinine.
Katharine McNamara
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Twin fallacies about exchange rate policy: A note [PDF]
Two assertions about exchange rate regimes circulate with some frequency in policy circles. The first, which could be called the hypothesis of the excluded middle, holds that authorities must either choose perfectly floating exchange rates or a hard peg.
Reinhart, Carmen, Reinhart, Vincent
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Join the Circle: Developing a Non‐Western Framework for an Inclusive Circular Economy Discourse
ABSTRACT The Circular Economy (CE) has been identified as a promising tool for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 on responsible production and consumption. Instead of making things, using them, and then throwing them away, CE advocates for efficient use and reuse of materials and resources to reduce waste.
Augustus Kweku Sobeng +2 more
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The Relational Quiddity of Virtual/Digital Reality
ABSTRACT Does the digital/virtual have a reality? For a critical realist, there is no doubt it does, since what can cause something is real. But what kind of reality is it? The article argues that this reality is a relational quidditas. The diffusion of new AI‐based technologies increasingly blends analogue and virtual realities, making it essential to
Pierpaolo Donati
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Plant Cognition—A Methodological Primer: Theories, Methods and Challenges
ABSTRACT Part I: What counts as cognition, and how can it be studied in organisms without nervous systems? The emerging field of plant cognition confronts these questions by integrating philosophy, plant science and comparative psychology. This article provides a methodological primer on the field.
Miguel Segundo‐Ortin +3 more
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Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future
Many discussions of artificial intelligence fail to address deeper questions being raised by advances in developmental biology, neuroscience, bioengineering, and philosophy of mind. Novel beings, including technologically and biologically augmented humans, engineered life forms, hybrots, and others, require tools of the emerging field of diverse ...
Michael Levin
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The Economic Factors Behind Legal Integration: A Jurimetric Analysis of the Latin American Experience [PDF]
This paper shows that the international harmonization of commercial legal rules and commercial legal standards in Latin America have been the result of very specific legal and economic country-specific factors. The paper proposes that international legal
Edgardo Buscaglia
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