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Social EpistemologyScams of all sorts are responsible for huge financial and psychological harms. Up to now, however, there’s been no philosophical investigation of how they work. I argue that while the success of some scams is easily explained, others are puzzling. Especially in light of the growing evidence that we have well-designed epistemic vigilance systems that ...
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Knowledge of species distributions is essential for informing policies on nature conservation and restoration. However, updating them on a regular basis and doing so in a harmonized manner at the international level is difficult. The European Bird Census Council integrated national monitoring data covering 5 years to update farmland bird ...
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Optimal control and cost-effectiveness analysis of scam rumor propagation over social networks
Results in Control and OptimizationA scam rumor is a false information that is spread in order to deceive individuals and organizations. These rumors frequently use people’s trust and emotions for illegal purposes to gain money or cause harm.
Salaheddine Belhdid +2 more
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past decade, cyber scamming has expanded rapidly across Southeast Asia. These operations cluster in compounds within business parks, casinos, industrial zones and other real estate developments. Although organized crime is often assumed to thrive where states are weak, this article offers a politically grounded explanation for why ...
Neil Loughlin
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A Computing-in-Memory Engine for Searching on Homomorphically Encrypted Data
IEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Devices and Circuits, 2019 The high volumes of data stored in the cloud, coupled with growing concerns about security and privacy, have motivated research on homomorphic encryption (HE), i.e., a technique that enables computation directly on encrypted data, obviating the need for ...
Dayane Reis +2 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultures and governance of security markets in the United Kingdom are often characterised through a paradoxical narrative of simultaneous state retreat and progressive advance. In the face of repeated recent high‐profile security failures, and global changes in material political economy, we argue that UK security governance is adapting to
Ben Collier, Jamie Buchan
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In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Unpacking the effects of scams in marketplace lending: investor confidence and attention
Journal of Applied EconomicsBoth transformational and problematic platforms, corresponding to moderate and severe scam conditions, are considered abnormal in Chinese marketplace lending.
Jianwen Li, Yang Zhou, Jinyan Hu
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Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi +2 more
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