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A Reliable Weighting Scheme for the Aggregation of Crowd Intelligence to Detect Fake News

open access: yesInformation, 2020
Social networks play an important role in today’s society and in our relationships with others. They give the Internet user the opportunity to play an active role, e.g., one can relay certain information via a blog, a comment, or even a vote.
Franklin Tchakounté   +3 more
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The image of Emperor Alexander I in the epic novel by L.N. Tolstoy “War and Peace” [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2022
The article analyzes the image of Emperor Alexander I presented by Leo Tolstoy in his epic novel “War and Peace,” and states that the writer did not aim to create the most believable portrait of the sovereign.
Valeria G. Andreeva
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Crowd Management [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Communications Magazine, 2019
The articles in this special section focus on crowd management in areas that are increasingly experiencing growths in populations. In its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, the United Nations projects that 68 percent of the world's population is expected to be living in urban spaces by 2050, compared to the current 54 percent and 30 ...
Hassanein, Hossam   +4 more
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Social and Spatial Representations of the Nerd in Donnie Darko

open access: yesExchanges, 2022
The nerds of 20th and 21st century global pop and visual culture have taken various forms over the decades. In a plethora of media - from video games to comic books to film - individuals associated with this subject position have typically been shown to
Kwasu David Tembo
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A Hybrid Tracking System of Full-Body Motion Inside Crowds

open access: yesSensors, 2021
For our understanding of the dynamics inside crowds, reliable empirical data are needed, which could enable increases in safety and comfort for pedestrians and the design of models reflecting the real dynamics. A well-calibrated camera system can extract
Maik Boltes   +2 more
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An information theory based behavioral model for agent-based crowd simulations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Crowds must be simulated believable in terms of their appearance and behavior to improve a virtual environment’s realism. Due to the complex nature of human behavior, realistic behavior of agents in crowd simulations is still a challenging problem.
Balcısoy, Selim   +2 more
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Object crowding

open access: yesJournal of Vision, 2010
Crowding occurs when stimuli in the peripheral fields become harder to identify when flanked by other items. This phenomenon has been demonstrated extensively with simple patterns (e.g., Gabors and letters). Here, we characterize crowding for everyday objects.
Julian M, Wallace, Bosco S, Tjan
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A Turing test for crowds [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
The accuracy and believability of crowd simulations underpins computational studies of human collective behaviour, with implications for urban design, policing, security and many other areas.
Jamie Webster, Martyn Amos
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What crowds in crowding?

open access: yesJournal of Vision, 2016
Keywords: crowding ; masking ; object recognition ; reading Reference EPFL-ARTICLE-223306doi:10.1167/16.11.25View record in Web of Science Record created on 2016-11-21, modified on 2016-11 ...
Herzog, Michael H   +3 more
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Pluralistic ambiance and urban socialisation

open access: yesAmbiances, 2013
In this article we propose to describe the ambiance in one of the oldest cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of Paris, La Goutte d’Or. We will analyse the currents driving public life, which has clung to this space despite “urban renewal” policies spanning 30 ...
Virginie Milliot
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