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Elitism in mathematics and inequality
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The flow of elite mathematicians between countries and lingo-ethnic identity is shown, using network analysis and natural language processing on 240,000 mathematicians and their advisor–advisee relationships and increases in pluralism among major countries, though Arabic, African, and East Asian identities remain under-represented at the elite level.
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The Amnesiac Lookback Option: Selectively Monitored Lookback Options and Cryptocurrencies
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The amnesiac lookback option provides an ideal space for investors to balance their risk, and as a prime candidate to hedge extreme volatility, according to a Hill curve whose parameters are set by interest rate and volatility.
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Digital Civic Participation and Misinformation during the 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election
From fact-checking chatbots to community-maintained misinformation databases, Taiwan has emerged as a critical case-study for citizen participation in politics online. Due to Taiwan’s geopolitical…
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Co-diffusion of social contagions
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A new threshold model for the diffusion of multiple contagions is proposed and it is shown that within a band of synergy, contagions on the lattices undergo bimodal or trimodal branching if they are the slower diffusing contagion, especially those that diffuse on lattices.
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Social Bots and Social Media Manipulation in 2020: The Year in Review
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It is concluded that automation and social media manipulation pose issues to a healthy and democratic discourse, precisely because they distort representation of pluralism within the public sphere.
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A comprehensive Overview of Decision Fusion Technique in Healthcare: A Systematic Scoping Review
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Decision fusion can reduce the cost of care and improve the quality of health care provision, therefore, this article can help care providers understand the benefits of this technique and overcome challenges in adopting decision fusion technology.
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Multi-issue negotiation with deep reinforcement learning
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COVID-19 Infodemiology at Planetary Scale: Charting the Information and Misinformation Landscape to Characterize Misinfodemics Spread on Social Media (Preprint)
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An over a year-long analysis of Twitter discourse on over a billion tweets related to COVID-19 to identify and investigate prevalent misinformation narratives and trends and finds that users who share both questionable and conspiracy-related content are clustered more closely in the network than others, supporting the hypothesis that echo chambers can contribute to the spread of health misinfodemics.
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Charting the Information and Misinformation Landscape to Characterize Misinfodemics on Social Media: COVID-19 Infodemiology Study at a Planetary Scale
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An analysis of Twitter discourse on over 1 billion tweets related to COVID-19 over a year to identify and investigate prevalent misinformation narratives and trends and found that users who shared both questionable and conspiracy-related content were clustered more closely in the network than others, supporting the hypothesis that echo chambers can contribute to the spread of health misinfodemics.
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What are Your Pronouns? Examining Gender Pronoun Usage on Twitter
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The results show that gender pronoun usage is considerable on Twitter, with a rising number of tweets written by users with gender pronouns over time, and the most prevalent gender identity is female, followed by male and non-binary.
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