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COVID-19 and Phishing: Effects of Human Emotions, Behavior, and Demographics on the Success of Phishing Attempts During the Pandemic

IEEE Access, 2021
Phishing is an online scam where criminals trick users with various strategies, with the goal of obtaining sensitive information or compromising accounts, systems, and/or other personal or organisational Information Technology resources. Multiple studies
Hossein Abroshan, Jan Devos, Geert Poels, Eric Laermans   +3 more
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Exclusion and Exposure: How Social Inequality and Marginalization Shape Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation in Rural Communities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change affects all individuals, regardless of wealth, social class, or religious background, though its impacts and adaptation strategies vary. While existing literature examines climate change adaptation based on farming categories, geographic regions, and cropping systems, limited research explores how social class shapes adaptation ...
Nasir Abbas Khan, Ataharul Chowdhury, Ashfaq Ahmad Shah   +2 more
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A serious game to improve the verbal resilience against doorstep scams

International Journal of Serious Games, 2020
Doorstep scams, scams in which con artists tell convincing but fraudulent stories in order to enter the house of a victim and/or steal personal belongings or information, have a high impact on victims. These victims are often elderly people.
Laura van der Lubbe, Charlotte Gerritsen, Tibor Bosse   +2 more
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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of Post‐Operative Telehealth for Pediatric Surgical Patients in Malawi—A Mixed Methods Analysis

World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Pediatric operative volumes in Malawi have increased over the past decade due to an increase in the pediatric surgical workforce and improved infrastructure. Despite growth in surgical capacity, limited data exist regarding post‐operative outcomes for common surgical diseases in low‐resource settings. Post‐operative follow‐up via phone call is feasible
Madhushree Zope, Seraiah Mdala, Wiseman Phiri, Bvumi Tembo, Sella Mpata, Betty Yuggu, Bidali Nzira, Amarylis Mapurisa, Casey L. McAtee, Jed G. Nuchtern, Bip Nandi, Lily Gutnik   +11 more
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Conceptualizing and measuring consumers’ negative attitudes towards online shopping

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the advantages of online shopping, increasing evidence indicates the prevalence of negative consumer attitudes towards online shopping (NATOS). Yet existing research exhibits a nearly exclusive focus on measuring positive attitudes, creating limited conceptual breadth. Moreover, despite the existence of conceptually related constructs (
Kaj‐Johanna Stichnoth, Gianfranco Walsh   +1 more
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Scam Feels the Pinch [PDF]

The Journal of General Physiology, 2001
The paper by Movileanu et al. 2001 in this issue of The Journal describes a test of the applicability of the substituted-cysteine-accessibility method (SCAM; Akabas et al. 1992; Akabas et al. 1994) to the problem of locating the narrowest region of a channel lumen. Movileanu et al. 2001 use unusually large sulfhydryl-directed reagents to probe the wide
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy, Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, Pamela Stephens   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Media in the Scam Age

Social Media + Society
This essay examines scams as a central organizing logic of contemporary social media rather than peripheral criminal activity. Drawing on research in cryptocurrency and financial technology alongside childhood experiences in 1990s Miami, the piece argues
Lana Swartz
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