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Studying Politeness across Cultures Using English Twitter and Mandarin Weibo [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Modeling politeness across cultures helps to improve intercultural communication by uncovering what is considered appropriate and polite. We study the linguistic features associated with politeness across US English and Mandarin Chinese. First, we annotate 5,300 Twitter posts from the US and 5,300 Sina Weibo posts from China for politeness scores. Next,
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Millions of Co-purchases and Reviews Reveal the Spread of Polarization and Lifestyle Politics across Online Markets [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Polarization in America has reached a high point as markets are also becoming polarized. Existing research, however, focuses on specific market segments and products and has not evaluated this trend's full breadth. If such fault lines do spread into other segments that are not explicitly political, it would indicate the presence of lifestyle politics --
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The effect of geographical denomination on the uptake of fungus‐resistant grapes
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Grape production for wine making is of great economic and cultural importance in Europe, but is heavily dependent on pesticides. Reducing pesticide use and associated risks is a policy goal in several countries, particularly in Europe. The most effective strategy to substantially reduce pesticide use in grape production is the planting of ...
Lucca Zachmann +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev +3 more
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Probing Pre-Trained Language Models for Cross-Cultural Differences in Values [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Language embeds information about social, cultural, and political values people hold. Prior work has explored social and potentially harmful biases encoded in Pre-Trained Language models (PTLMs). However, there has been no systematic study investigating how values embedded in these models vary across cultures.
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Measuring Cultural Dynamics Through the Eurovision Song Contest [PDF]
Advances in Complex Systems, Vol 16, No 8 (2013) pp 33, 2013 Measuring culture and its dynamics through surveys has important limitations, but the emerging field of computational social science allows us to overcome them by analyzing large-scale datasets. In this article, we study cultural dynamics through the votes in the Eurovision song contest, which are decided by a crowd-based scheme in which viewers vote ...
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study aims to provide actionable recommendations for leveraging digital innovation for the achievement of scalable, equitable, and transparent Net Zero Energy Transition by offering actionable recommendations. As a result of this comprehensive analysis, the review highlights the critical interplay between digital technologies and GF as vital ...
Furkan Ahmad +3 more
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations: A Scientific, Technical, Political, Social, and Cultural Adventure [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 I review the scientific and technical history of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), discuss the impact of the political involvement, and speculate on the nature of a successful detection and its potential social and cultural impact.
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State-Directed Political Protest in US Capital Cities: 1998-2001 [PDF]
, 2002 Using a new dataset, we analyze four years of political protest events in US state capitals, in order to specify the processes and possibilities for collective action at the state level.
Bayliss J. Camp, Matthew Kaliner
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how European food companies can operationally leverage the value created by strategic alliances into commercially viable products. More importantly, it emphasizes that the effects of alliance portfolio diversity (APD) on radical innovation performance can be achieved not only directly, but also via moderating roles, that is,
María Ancín +2 more
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