Social Media Is a Threat for Democracy! A Political Perspective for Analysing and Diminishing Harm
Abstract Social media platforms, once hailed as potential champions of dialogue, have evolved into commodified spaces in which their business models incentivize hate speech, misinformation, polarization, and the political fragmentation of society, benefiting corporate and political elites while eroding democracy.
Itziar Castelló +3 more
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Adjoint-based PDE-constrained optimization of viscoelastic floating membrane for maximum wave power absorption. [PDF]
El Sayed K +3 more
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ABSTRACT Objective Aversive (“dark”) personality traits are traditionally studied as predictors of harmful or manipulative behavior, yet their underlying cognitive‐affective structures remain underexplored. This research investigates whether the Dark Core of personality (D)—the common aversive essence of all dark traits—is associated with primal world ...
Robin Schrödter, Benjamin E. Hilbig
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Ecological review of Afrotropical <i>Ixodes</i> (<i>Afrixodes</i>) ticks: Distribution and host diversity, with a focus on micromammals. [PDF]
Lorang C, Augot D.
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ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to examine the association between trait anger and hostile attribution bias (HAB) through a systematic review and meta‐analysis, to assess whether this relationship varies as a function of momentary emotional states, and to identify other potential moderators. Method Iterative searches were conducted over 7 months in
Christopher Fenerdjian, Jean Gagnon
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Parabolic-elliptic and indirect-direct simplifications in chemotaxis systems driven by indirect signalling. [PDF]
Bui LTT, Huynh TKL, Tang BQ, Tran BN.
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Welfare implications of fair and accountable insurance pricing
Abstract This paper introduces an empirical framework to evaluate the welfare implications of fair and accountable insurance pricing by modeling the complete pricing process, including demand and price optimization. Moving beyond traditional cost modeling, we analyze both discrimination‐related fairness criteria and broader regulatory constraints, such
Fei Huang, Hajime Shimao
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Thermally Stable HfO<sub>2</sub>-Based Ferroelectric Transistors for CMOS-Compatible Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Integrated Circuits. [PDF]
Tikhonenko FV +4 more
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Influence of contact map topology on RNA structure prediction. [PDF]
Faber C, Upadhyay U, Taubert O, Schug A.
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High-concurrency tri-mode memristor-based ordinary differential equation solver. [PDF]
Yu L +12 more
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