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AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin, Wen You, Annie Reid, Kathleen Porter, Brittany Kirkpatrick, Jamie Zoellner   +5 more
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A decade in the lives of online fan communities [PDF]

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The effect of online fan community attributes on the loyalty and cooperation of fan community members: The moderating role of connect hours

Computers in Human Behavior, 2017
Abstract Global fans spontaneously look up their favorite celebrity-related news coverage via the online community and/or by subscribing to fan pages on social media. Unlike social media, which is an open space for everyone including fans and anti-fans, the online fan community is a closed space only for avid fans who are willing to pay an annual ...
Minseong Kim, Hyung-Min Kim
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Aca-fans and fan communities: An operative framework

Journal of Consumer Culture, 2016
Fan communities represent a major interest for researchers of consumer culture. However, their study has confronted scholars with a fundamental problem: how can one reconcile critical distance with being sufficiently integrated within a given fan community to gather reliable information?
Cécile Cristofari, Matthieu J. Guitton
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Sport Fans and Their Behavior in Fan Communities

2015
Understanding why sport fans socially interact with other fans, participate in team-related discussions, recruit new members, and retain other fans in sport fan communities is a key issue in sport marketing. This conceptual paper suggests that three antecedents (brand equity, consumers’ perceptions of team sponsored fan appreciation events, and ...
Masayuki Yoshida, Brian Gordon, Jeffrey D. James, Bob Heere   +3 more
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Segmenting Fan Communities

2018
Extending decades of marketing and psychological research, industry and academic circles attempt to label brand community behaviours, borrowing analogies from subcultures such as religion (evangelists), slang (mavens, haters), technology and science fiction (fanboys), and other sciences (alpha, opinion leaders). Although sometimes used as generic terms,
Nathalie Collins, Jamie Murphy
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Cultural Studies, 2012
This article examines the rise of the Girls' Love (GL) fan fiction community in contemporary China. More specifically, we focus on the ‘Pink Super Girl Bar’, an online fan fiction community devoted to the pairing of the contestants of the 2006 season of Super Girl, an entertainment program featured on Hunan Satellite TV that enjoys great popularity in ...
Yang, Ling, Bao, Hongwei
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Computer Game Fan Communities, Community Management, and Structures of Membership

Games and Culture, 2017
Community management is an important but relatively understudied facet of computer game development. This article begins filling this gap by examining how community managers in the computer game industry manage communities of players through the establishment of structures of membership: positions and practices designed to encourage membership ...
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