The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
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Why large language models cannot possess consciousness: an integrated information theory perspective. [PDF]
Shin DA +6 more
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The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson +2 more
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Swimming against the currents: Our experience providing primary healthcare services for the stateless community in Semporna. [PDF]
How MY, Ng SH.
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
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Bio-inspired neural networks with central pattern generators for learning multi-skill locomotion. [PDF]
Yang C +5 more
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What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery
ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
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A New Deep Learning-Based Method for Automated Identification of Thoracic Lymph Node Stations in Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS): A Proof-of-Concept Study. [PDF]
Ervik Ø +7 more
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Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic has severely impacted the external environment of social service non‐profit organizations (NPOs), resulting in diverse management challenges. Our study investigates how social service NPOs in Austria experienced these challenges and how they developed internal coping mechanisms.
Birgit Grüb‐Martin +2 more
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Adapting Health Services in Forced Displacement: Operationalizing Surge Capacity Framework in the EMT Barco San Raffaele, Colombia. [PDF]
Echeverri L +5 more
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