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Knowing is half the battle: Examining the association between acknowledgement of victimization and reporting of fraud

Journal of Economic Criminology
Reporting victimization to the police or one’s bank is a crucial step for victims of fraud, but many victims of fraud do not acknowledge their experiences as constituting victimization.
Cooper A. Maher, Timothy A. Engle
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Review of Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, Edited by David M. Sheridan and James A. Inman [PDF]

, 2012
While writing center directors will certainly want to read Multiliteracy Centers: Writing Center Work, New Media, and Multimodal Rhetoric, a new collection edited by David M.
Gabor, Catherine
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Processing (Post)humanism, Mediating Desire: Technology in the Works of Three Border Playwrights [PDF]

, 2015
New electronic technology, such as personal video cameras, videotape players, and the internet, has increasingly sparked interest from Northern Mexican border authors across genres. In Juan Ríos’s Generación Atari, Francisco J.
Fallon, Paul
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Integration of body-mounted ultrasoft organic solar cell on cyborg insects with intact mobility

npj Flexible Electronics, 2022
Cyborg insects have been proposed for applications such as urban search and rescue. Body-mounted energy-harvesting devices are critical for expanding the range of activity and functionality of cyborg insects.
Yujiro Kakei, Shumpei Katayama, Shinyoung Lee, Masahito Takakuwa, Kazuya Furusawa, Shinjiro Umezu, Hirotaka Sato, Kenjiro Fukuda, Takao Someya   +8 more
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Information systems: a cyborg discipline? [PDF]

, 2004
This paper argues for a model of information systems in terms of cyborgs – a boundary-crossing mixture of the technical and the social. The argument for this model is substantiated from the personal experience of the author, presented as examples of ...
Ramage, Magnus
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The Cyborg Astrobiologist: Testing a Novelty-Detection Algorithm on Two Mobile Exploration Systems at Rivas Vaciamadrid in Spain and at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah

, 2009
(ABRIDGED) In previous work, two platforms have been developed for testing computer-vision algorithms for robotic planetary exploration (McGuire et al. 2004b,2005; Bartolo et al. 2007).
A. Bonnici, Aha, Alexander, B.H. Foing, Barnes, Bilbey, C. Gross, Chen, E. Díaz-Martínez, H. Ritter, J. Ontrup, J. Ormö, King, L. Wendt, M. Oesker, McGreevy, P.C. McGuire, R. Bose, R. Haschke, Rae, S. Walter, V. Souza-Egipsy   +21 more
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Tweets as impact indicators: Examining the implications of automated bot accounts on Twitter [PDF]

, 2014
This brief communication presents preliminary findings on automated Twitter accounts distributing links to scientific papers deposited on the preprint repository arXiv.
Bowman, Timothy D., Haustein, Stefanie, Holmberg, Kim, Larivière, Vincent, Sugimoto, Cassidy R., Tsou, Andrew   +5 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Approaching Transhumanism: On How Human Beings Transform in the 21st Century [PDF]

, 2014
The following article is to introduce the reader into a cultural and intellectual movement whose aim is to identify the need for improvement in human life in the sphere of physicality as well as mentality with the aid of modern technologies ...
Wendykowska, Emilia
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Sensory augmentation and the tactile sublime [PDF]

, 2020
This paper responds to recent developments in the field of sensory augmentation by analysing several technological devices that augment the sensory apparatus using the tactile sense.
Berta, Yorick
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