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Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Taking as its starting point Ron May's scholarship on Papua New Guinea as a “disorderly democracy,” this article examines how politics is practised in the PNG Parliament. Using a case study of the events of late 2020, when a vote of no confidence against the Marape government was mooted but eventually failed to materialise, it adopts a practice theory ...
Kerryn Baker
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Rumor Spreading and Invasion Percolation
Mathematical Problems of Computer Science, 2019 We study the models of rumor spreading and invasion bond percolation aimed at the revelation of possible connections between them. Rumor spreading model describes the dissemination of a rumor due to the periodical repetition of sequential phone calls, whereas the invasion bond percolation refers to the spread of liquid in the porous environment. During
Suren Poghosyan, Vahagn Poghosyan
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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Rumor, prodigia and ideology in the Flavian period
Studia Historica: Historia Antigua, 2016 In the present paper we will analyze the role of rumor as a way of spreading prodigia during the Flavian period. The prodigia,perfectly ingrained in the system of religious legitimization of the ruler in roman times, are considered a direct expression of
Diego M. ESCÁMEZ DE VERA
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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The stochastic evolution of a rumor spreading model with two distinct spread inhibiting and attitude adjusting mechanisms in a homogeneous social network. [PDF]
Physica A, 2021 Li M, Zhang H, Georgescu P, Li T.
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, 2016 Last semester, Gettysburg College was abuzz with controversy over the ultra-conservative messages that the Young Americans for Freedom organization was spreading around campus.
Lauck, Jeffrey L.
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund +2 more
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Artificial intelligence chatbots mimic human collective behaviour
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have been shown to mimic individual human behaviour in a wide range of psychological and economic tasks. Do groups of AI chatbots also mimic collective behaviour? If so, artificial societies of AI chatbots may aid social scientific research by simulating human collectives.
James K. He +3 more
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AllergoOncology in Review: Harnessing Allergy in the Field of Oncology to Improve Patient Outcomes
Clinical &Experimental Allergy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The AllergoOncology field brings together the study of allergic and cancer immune responses, having evolved from early epidemiological studies that reported inverse associations between allergies, IgE and cancer risk. Insights from studying allergic inflammation are revealing previously unappreciated immune mechanisms that confer protective ...
Jakub Zydron +13 more
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