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From Griefing to Stability in Blockchain Mining Economies [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
We study a game-theoretic model of blockchain mining economies and show that griefing, a practice according to which participants harm other participants at some lesser cost to themselves, is a prevalent threat at its Nash equilibria. The proof relies on a generalization of evolutionary stability to non-homogeneous populations via griefing factors ...
arxiv  

Prolonged grief related to COVID-19 deaths: Do we have to fear a steep rise in traumatic and disenfranchised griefs?

open access: yesPsychological Trauma, 2020
The circumstances of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths embed multiple traumatic characteristics, alongside several external factors that can disenfranchise individual grief.
Cyrille Kossigan Kokou-Kpolou   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards faster settlement in HTLC-based Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Hashed Timelock (HTLC)-based atomic swap protocols enable the exchange of coins between two or more parties without relying on a trusted entity. This protocol is like the American call option without premium. It allows the finalization of a deal within a certain period.
arxiv  

Effectiveness and Feasibility of Internet-Based Interventions for Grief After Bereavement: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

open access: yesJMIR Mental Health, 2021
Background Although grief and its symptoms constitute a normal reaction to experiences of loss, some of those affected still report elevated levels of distress after an extended period, often termed complicated grief. Beneficial treatment effects of face-
Andrea E Zuelke   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Consolation as a unique outcome within a pastoral-narrative approach to grief

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
Consolation as a unique outcome within a pastoral-narrative approach to grief The pastoral counselling of those who grieve, poses new challenges to pastoral care. Because of the shift away from a modernist paradigm, the grief process is now seen as an
Alfred R. Brunsdon
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying a combined construct of grief and explosive anger as a response to injustice amongst survivors of mass conflict: A latent class analysis of data from Timor-Leste. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
Previous studies have identified high rates of explosive anger amongst post-conflict populations including Timor-Leste. We sought to test whether explosive anger was integrally associated with symptoms of grief amongst the Timorese, a society that has ...
Susan J Rees   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Healing the Collective Grief: A Story of a Marshallese Pastor from Okinawa

open access: yesReligions, 2022
World War II and the Cold War never ended in the Marshall Islands. A seamless continuum of colonialism, wars and nuclear testing destroyed their ancestral islands, traditions, as well as the physical and spiritual wellbeing of the people; it caused them ...
Ikuko Takagi Matsumoto
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological Sorrow: Types of Grief and Loss in Ecological Grief

open access: yesSustainability
Ecological changes evoke many felt losses and types of grief. These affect sustainability efforts in profound ways. Scholarship on the topic is growing, but the relationship between general grief research and ecological grief has received surprisingly ...
Panu Pihkala
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

open access: yesPLoS Medicine, 2009
Holly Prigerson and colleagues tested the psychometric validity of criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) to enhance the detection and care of bereaved individuals at heightened risk of persistent distress and dysfunction.
H. Prigerson   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities

open access: yesDeath Studies, 2020
The compassionate communities movement challenges the notion that death and dying should be housed within clinical and institutional contexts, and works to normalize conversations about death and dying by promoting death literacy and dialogue in public ...
Lauren J. Breen   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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