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Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of lower-body strength and power on lunge velocity in elite fencers: a comparative weapon analysis. [PDF]

PeerJ
Chen G, Gu Z, Sun H, Qi Y, Qin X, Dai J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

Status of Human-Made Radioactive Materials in a Biophysical Constrained World. [PDF]

ACS Omega
Böse F, Frieß F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Professionalising the Cybersystemic Practitioner: Five Decades of STiP Education at the Open University (1971–2025)

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
wiley   +1 more source

Legacy and impact of the 1925 Geneva Protocol: one hundred years of treaties and debates on chemical and biological weapons. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Grunden WE, Tuovinen OH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing in Systems Practice Education: Designing an MSc Programme

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes an advance in systems education supporting the teaching and learning of embodied systems thinking practice through an innovative master's‐level programme developed by the authors as part of the Birmingham Leadership Institute academic team at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Rachel Lilley, Juanita Bernal‐Alvarado
wiley   +1 more source

Synthetic nucleic acids in a post-agent biosecurity Era. [PDF]

Front Bioeng Biotechnol
Hofman-Bang J, Nielsen KF, Juhl S, Martel CJ.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
wiley   +1 more source

Short and long-term health consequences of the 2013 Sarin attack in Ghouta, Syria: a retrospective descriptive study of civilian survivors. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alhaffar MBA, Zarzar L, Eriksson A, Namour S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source