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Post-war Civil War Propaganda Techniques and Media Spins in Nigeria and Journalism Practice [PDF]

, 2021
In public relations and political communication, a spin is a form of propaganda achieved through knowingly presenting a biased interpretation of an event or issues. It is also the act of presenting narratives to influence public opinion about events, people or and ideas.
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(Legal Design) Research through Litigation [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This paper proposes the concept of 'research through litigation', where a HCI researcher would bring a claim in the legal system in order to understand judicial attitudes towards technologies. Based on my seven years of experience of bringing legal cases as a computer scientist in Tribunals, I demonstrate the value of this approach by presenting ...
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There is an elephant in the room: Towards a critique on the use of fairness in biometrics [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
In 2019, the UK's Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal dismissed an asylum appeal basing the decision on the output of a biometric system, alongside other discrepancies. The fingerprints of the asylum seeker were found in a biometric database which contradicted the appellant's account.
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The operator approach to entropy games [PDF]

Theor. Comp. Sys., 63(5):1089--1130, July 2019, 2019
Entropy games and matrix multiplication games have been recently introduced by Asarin et al. They model the situation in which one player (Despot) wishes to minimize the growth rate of a matrix product, whereas the other player (Tribune) wishes to maximize it. We develop an operator approach to entropy games.
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Evidence of Fraud in Brazil's Electoral Campaigns Via the Benford's Law [PDF]

, 2017
The principle of democracy is that the people govern through elected representatives. Therefore, a democracy is healthy as long as the elected politicians do represent the people. We have analyzed data from the Brazilian electoral court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral, TSE) concerning money donations for the electoral campaigns and the election results ...
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Keplerian disks and outflows in binary post-AGB stars [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
There is a class of binary post-AGB stars that are surrounded by Keplerian disks and that often present outflows resulting from gas escaping from the disk. We present maps and complex models of 12CO and 13CO J=2-1 emission lines for four objects: AC Herculis, 89 Herculis, IRAS 19125+0343, and R Scuti.
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A pragmatic approach to sovereignty on Mars [PDF]

, 2015
Rising interest in Mars colonization from both private and public sectors necessitates a renewed discussion about sovereignty in space. The non-appropriation principle of the Outer Space Treaty currently prohibits any sovereign claims to celestial bodies, but it remains unclear how this principle should be applied to the peaceful colonization of Mars ...
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Assessing randomness in case assignment: the case study of the Brazilian Supreme Court [PDF]

, 2018
Sortition, i.e., random appointment for public duty, has been employed by societies throughout the years, especially for duties related to the judicial system, as a firewall designated to prevent illegitimate interference between parties in a legal case and agents of the legal system.
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STFU NOOB! Predicting Crowdsourced Decisions on Toxic Behavior in Online Games [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
One problem facing players of competitive games is negative, or toxic, behavior. League of Legends, the largest eSport game, uses a crowdsourcing platform called the Tribunal to judge whether a reported toxic player should be punished or not. The Tribunal is a two stage system requiring reports from those players that directly observe toxic behavior ...
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Entropy Games and Matrix Multiplication Games [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
Two intimately related new classes of games are introduced and studied: entropy games (EGs) and matrix multiplication games (MMGs). An EG is played on a finite arena by two-and-a-half players: Despot, Tribune and the non-deterministic People. Despot wants to make the set of possible People's behaviors as small as possible, while Tribune wants to make ...
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