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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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The three‐step test in international copyright—a global framework for generative AI training

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The training of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models involves the processing of large datasets, which often include copyrighted materials, thereby raising questions of copyright infringement. These questions tend to center on whether such use constitutes fair use or falls under text and data mining (TDM) exceptions.
Nicola Lucchi, Tim W. Dornis, Pascal T. Sierek   +2 more
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Outdated tools, underestimated harm: Modernizing cannabis surveillance in a post‐legalization era

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Canada's 2018 legalization of non‐medical cannabis was positioned as a public health initiative, intended to shift cannabis use from criminalization to regulation. Since then, cannabis access and consumption have grown significantly but the systems used to monitor cannabis‐related harms have not kept pace.
Anees Bahji
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Respectful Debiasing in Democratic Deliberation

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic deliberation about health policy requires, as one of its inputs, ethical judgments from members of the public. These judgments may, however, be biased and unreliable—they may be systematically distorted by framing and emotion effects, by the effects of self‐interest, and by a whole host of other cognitive and affective biases ...
Shang Long Yeo
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Demystifying Burdens of Proof and the Effect of Rebuttable Evidentiary Presumptions in Civil and Criminal Trials

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Evidentiary presumptions in law act as shortcuts to rigorous proof. By means of an evidentiary presumption, a difficult-to-prove critical fact may be established by proving some other more easily provable subsidiary fact from which the critical fact may be presumed. This accounts for the popularity of these presumptions with trial lawyers.
openaire   +2 more sources

Limiting Human Genomic Data Generation and Retention for Environmental Reasons

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The exponential growth of human genomic data presents a largely unexamined environmental challenge. Generating, storing, processing, using and sharing genomic data each contribute to environmental harms through substantial energy demands, resource use, and waste generation.
Wendy Xin, Narcyz Ghinea, Ainsley J. Newson   +2 more
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With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas, Maha El Tantawi, Manami Hoshi‐Harada, Kenji Takeuchi, Ken Osaka, Carol C. Guarnizo‐Herreño, Marco A. Peres   +6 more
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What Endocrinologists Should Know About Iodine: Population Deficiency, Individual Excess and Misinformation in the United Kingdom

Clinical Endocrinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Iodine deficiency, once considered eliminated in the United Kingdom, has re‐emerged, particularly among women of reproductive age, in whom requirements are increased during pregnancy and lactation. The declining consumption of dairy and white fish, the emerging use of unfortified plant‐based milk alternatives, and the absence of a national ...
Peter N. Taylor, Malcolm Prentice, Sarah Bath, Emilie Combet, Nadia Schoenmakers, Vicki E. Smith, Fraser W. Gibb, Nicola Zammitt, Onyebuchi Okosieme, Kristien Boelaert, John Lazarus, Mark Vanderpump   +11 more
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‘Be There, Listen, See What It Is They Need’: Fathers' Roles in Supporting Black Mothers During Pregnancy

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a critical public health crisis regarding the infant mortality rate between black and white mothers in the USA. This issue is more pronounced in North Carolina, where black infants have a much higher infant mortality rate than whites.
Jeffrey Shears, Lorenzo N. Hopper, Bledsoe Sarah, David Miller, J. Dontaé Roberts, Tianca Crocker, Brittany Hodges, Kevin Antwi   +7 more
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Guardrail Selection in Line Charts to Contextualize Persuasive Visualizations

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Charts used for persuasion can easily veer into being outright misleading when, for instance, cherry‐picked data is paired with a deceptive caption, as is commonly encountered on social media. The rise of interactive time‐series data explorers for hotly debated topics makes such framing easy to produce and spread.
K. A. Nadib, M. Kogan, A. Lex, M. Lisnic
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