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View article: Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation
Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation Open
Over 130 million people in Latin America identify as Afro-descendants, many of whom inhabit lands with potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change. Yet, the role of Afro-descendants is not adequately considered in conservati…
View article: On the effect of draft tube rod protrusion on runner blade stress fatigue of single-regulated axial turbines
On the effect of draft tube rod protrusion on runner blade stress fatigue of single-regulated axial turbines Open
Under off-design and transient operations of hydraulic turbines, these machines are subjected to harmful pressure fluctuations originating from the presence of vortical flow. These oscillations increase stress-induced fatigue damage on the…
View article: Practical and ethical issues in big data and machine learning forecasts of Zambian Community Forestry engagement
Practical and ethical issues in big data and machine learning forecasts of Zambian Community Forestry engagement Open
Approaches integrating geospatial “big data” and machine learning will likely be increasingly used to predict conservation-related human behaviour, such as patterns of local engagement, in complex socio-ecological systems. Yet, there are f…
View article: Is Google liberal on immigration? Attitude bias, politicisation and filter bubbles in search engine result pages
Is Google liberal on immigration? Attitude bias, politicisation and filter bubbles in search engine result pages Open
View article: An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature
An inclusive, empirically grounded inventory facilitates recognition of diverse area-based conservation of nature Open
As the international community strives to conserve 30% of Earth's lands and waters by 2030, the full extent of area-based conservation remains unclear. Official databases do not fully recognize and track the diversity of conservation-relev…
View article: Is Google Liberal on Immigration? Attitude Bias, Politicization and Filter Bubbles in Search Engine Result Pages
Is Google Liberal on Immigration? Attitude Bias, Politicization and Filter Bubbles in Search Engine Result Pages Open
View article: The search query filter bubble: effect of user ideology on political leaning of search results through query selection
The search query filter bubble: effect of user ideology on political leaning of search results through query selection Open
It is commonly assumed that personalization technologies used by Google for the purpose of tailoring search results for individual users create filter bubbles, which reinforce users’ political views. Surprisingly, empirical evidence for a …
View article: Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge: curriculum transformation in South Africa from a UNESCO perspective Open
Decolonisation aims at exposing the ills of colonialism in an attempt to undo their long-standing effects. Important criticism of curriculum decolonisation has focused on potential conflicts with academic freedom. However, this criticism h…
View article: Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Cambodia: Enabling conditions and opportunities for intervention
Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Cambodia: Enabling conditions and opportunities for intervention Open
Protected area (PA) sustainability is challenged worldwide by legal downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD). National and local case studies of ecologically destructive PADDD events provide useful insights that may help respond …
View article: Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Crushing Resistance of Unbound Road Materials
Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Crushing Resistance of Unbound Road Materials Open
View article: Development of a unified design buckling curve for fibre reinforced polymer plates subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform compression
Development of a unified design buckling curve for fibre reinforced polymer plates subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform compression Open
Presented are 24 non-dimensional buckling curves to estimate the strengths of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) square plates having four simply supported edges and subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform in-plane compression. The curves a…
View article: The Cognitive Basis of the Conditional Probability Solution to the Value Problem for Reliabilism
The Cognitive Basis of the Conditional Probability Solution to the Value Problem for Reliabilism Open
The value problem for knowledge is the problem of explaining why knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. The problem arises for reliabilism in particular, i.e., the externalist view that knowledge amounts to reliably acquired tru…
View article: Self-imposed filter bubbles: Selective attention and exposure in online search
Self-imposed filter bubbles: Selective attention and exposure in online search Open
View article: Preface of the Book 'Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom'
Preface of the Book 'Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom' Open
View article: The Dissemination of Scientific Fake News
The Dissemination of Scientific Fake News Open
Fake news can originate from scientific fraud. An article can be retracted upon discovery of fraud. A case study shows, however, that such fake science can be visible in Google even after the article is retracted. Authors hypothesize that …
View article: Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge
Explicationist Epistemology and the Explanatory Role of Knowledge Open
It has been argued that much of contemporary epistemology can be unified under Carnap’s methodology of explication, which originated in the neighboring field of philosophy of science. However, it is unclear to what extent epistemological t…
View article: A Dynamical Perspective on the Generality Problem
A Dynamical Perspective on the Generality Problem Open
The generality problem is commonly considered to be a critical difficulty for reliabilism. In this paper, we present a dynamical perspective on the problem in the spirit of naturalized epistemology. According to this outlook, it is worth i…
View article: An industry experiment of academic performance and drop-out in gamified distance education.
An industry experiment of academic performance and drop-out in gamified distance education. Open
View article: What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish Universities Open
This article is focused on gender mainstreaming at Swedish universities in the period from 2016–2019. Our research questions are: (a) In what form was gender mainstreaming introduced and did the form itself affect scholar’s academic rights…
View article: Why Bayesian Agents Polarize
Why Bayesian Agents Polarize Open
A number of studies have concluded that polarization may be rational in the sense that even ideal Bayesian agents can end up seriously divided on an issue given exactly the same evidence.In this spirit, Pallavicini, Hallsson and Kappel (20…
View article: Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors
Matthew O. Jackson, The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors Open
This is a fascinating, compelling and insightful book by Matthew O. Jackson, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Jackson is ideally placed to write a book on social networks, as much of his own published re…
View article: Shadow Management: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy through Ombudsmen with Case Studies from Swedish Higher Education
Shadow Management: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy through Ombudsmen with Case Studies from Swedish Higher Education Open
We argue that the neoliberal tradition and new public management reforms of the public sector effectively erode the core (liberal) democratic values of the rule of law and transparency. The tension between public law and managerially-influ…
View article: In Search of the Climate Change Filter Bubble : A Content-based Method for Studying Ideological Segregation in Google
In Search of the Climate Change Filter Bubble : A Content-based Method for Studying Ideological Segregation in Google Open
A popular belief is that the process whereby search engines tailor their search results to individual users, so-called personalization, leads to filter bubbles in the sense of ideologically segregated search results that would tend to rein…
View article: Dahlman and Mackor on coherence and probability in legal evidence: a commentary
Dahlman and Mackor on coherence and probability in legal evidence: a commentary Open
In their very rich and stimulating article, Dahlman and Mackor (2019) investigate a number of important aspects of coherence in law, outgoing from Van Koppen’s scenario theory and Amaya’s theory of inference to the most coherence explanati…
View article: Framgång i folkhemmet : Synen på framgång genom tidningen Korrespondens 1923–1963
Framgång i folkhemmet : Synen på framgång genom tidningen Korrespondens 1923–1963 Open
Synen på framgång genom tidningen Korrespondens 1923–1963Korrespondensundervisningen i början av 1900-talet i Sverige är något vi vet förvånansvärt lite om, fastän den var utbredd och påverkade miljontals unga människors liv. Tidigare fors…
View article: PageRank's ability to track webpage quality: reconciling Google's wisdom-of-crowds justification with the scale-free structure of the web
PageRank's ability to track webpage quality: reconciling Google's wisdom-of-crowds justification with the scale-free structure of the web Open
We address the fundamental question why we should use PageRank and similar link-based algorithms in search engines, if at all. In a legendary article from 1998, the Google founders gave an intriguing wisdom-of-crowds justification for Page…
View article: Truth tracking performance of social networks: how connectivity and clustering can make groups less competent
Truth tracking performance of social networks: how connectivity and clustering can make groups less competent Open
View article: A diachronic perspective on peer disagreement in veritistic social epistemology
A diachronic perspective on peer disagreement in veritistic social epistemology Open
The main issue in the epistemology of peer disagreement is whether known disagreement among those who are in symmetrical epistemic positions undermines the rationality of their maintaining their respective views. Douven and Kelp have argue…
View article: New Public Management och hotet mot högskolan
New Public Management och hotet mot högskolan Open
View article: The Bi-directional Relationship between Source Characteristics and Message Content
The Bi-directional Relationship between Source Characteristics and Message Content Open
Much of what we believe we know, we know through the testimony of others (Coady, 1992). While there has been long-standing evidence that people are sensitive to the characteristics of the sources of testimony, for example in the context of…