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Two-exponent Lavalette function. A generalization for the case of adherents to a religious movement [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 89, 062803 (2014), 2014 The Lavalette function is generalized to a 2-exponent function in order to represent data looking like a sigmoid on semi-log plots. A Mandelbrot trick is suggested for further investigations, if more fit parameters are needed. The analyzed data is that of the number of adherents to the main religions in the XXth century.
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Blacks is to Anger as Whites is to Joy? Understanding Latent Affective Bias in Large Pre-trained Neural Language Models [PDF]
, 2023 Groundbreaking inventions and highly significant performance improvements in deep learning based Natural Language Processing are witnessed through the development of transformer based large Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs). The wide availability of unlabeled data within human generated data deluge along with self-supervised learning strategy helps to
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Income and Subjective Well-Being: New Insights from Relatively Healthy American Women, Ages 49-79. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The interests of economists, psychologists, social scientists and others on the relations of income, demographics, religion and subjective well-being, have generated a vast global literature.
Grace Wyshak
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021 History is rife with political actors framing policies to absolve themselves from blame. Such policies seem integral to governance. Studies have shown how the outbreak of diseases triggers policy changes from different governments, especially during the ...
Paulinus O. Agbo +3 more
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Religiosity and Innovation Attitudes: An Instrumental Variables Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Estimating the influence of religion on innovation is challenging because of both complexness and endogeneity. In order to untangle these issues, we use several measures of religiosity, adopt an individual-level approach to innovation and employ the instrumental variables method.
arxiv
Soft Contextualism in the Context of Religious Language [PDF]
, 2011 When trying to do justice to the discourse of a certain religion it is often implicitly assumed that one’s analysis should accord with and respect the opinions held by the people preaching and practicing that religion.
Svensson, Thord
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Unmasking Nigeria’s leadership conundrum: The role of the church
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThe intricacies of Nigeria’s leadership challenges present a formidable obstacle to the nation’s progress. Corruption, political instability, and ethnic and religious tensions form a complex web that impedes development.
Chioma P. Onuorah
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Muslim-Violence Bias Persists in Debiased GPT Models [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Abid et al. (2021) showed a tendency in GPT-3 to generate mostly violent completions when prompted about Muslims, compared with other religions. Two pre-registered replication attempts found few violent completions and only a weak anti-Muslim bias in the more recent InstructGPT, fine-tuned to eliminate biased and toxic outputs.
arxiv
مفهوم مصطلح الدين في الفكر الإسلامي
الآفاق اسلامی و تحقیقی مجلہ, 2023 The research discusses the problematic concept of the concept of religion in Islamic thought. The researcher extrapolates the definitions of religion, presents models for study and analysis, and then devises a comprehensive academic scientific ...
Ali Zalmat
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Religious violence in Nigeria: An obstacle to effective public service delivery
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesIn Nigeria, despite the lofty programmes embarked upon by different administrations to better the lives of Nigerian citizens, the extent to which these services are provided, in most cases, has remained stuck in swampy ground because of the pervasiveness
Christopher N. Ibenwa +2 more
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