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View article: Transforming Language Assessments through AI: Enhancing Accuracy, Efficiency, and Personalization at Abu Dhabi Polytechnic
Transforming Language Assessments through AI: Enhancing Accuracy, Efficiency, and Personalization at Abu Dhabi Polytechnic Open
This research examines the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language assessments in Abu Dhabi Polytechnic (ADPoly). Using a mixed-methods research design that involved 100 students and 3 lecturers, this research …
View article: Influence of Twitter social network graph topologies on traditional and meme stocks during the 2021 GameStop short squeeze
Influence of Twitter social network graph topologies on traditional and meme stocks during the 2021 GameStop short squeeze Open
In early 2021, groups of Reddit and Twitter users collaborated to raise the price of GameStop stock from $20 to $400 in a matter of days. The heavy influence of social media activity on the rise of GameStop prices can be contrasted with th…
View article: The Brussels International Declaration on Lipoprotein(a) Testing and Management
The Brussels International Declaration on Lipoprotein(a) Testing and Management Open
There is striking evidence that a high lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] concentration is a strong, independent, and causal cardiovascular risk factor. However, Lp(a) testing rates are very low (1 %-2 %) despite the fact that 1 in 5 individuals have …
View article: Coevolution of network and attitudes under competing propaganda machines
Coevolution of network and attitudes under competing propaganda machines Open
View article: Provocation: Who benefits from "inclusion" in Generative AI?
Provocation: Who benefits from "inclusion" in Generative AI? Open
The demands for accurate and representative generative AI systems means there is an increased demand on participatory evaluation structures. While these participatory structures are paramount to to ensure non-dominant values, knowledge and…
View article: How U.S. Presidential elections strengthen global hate networks
How U.S. Presidential elections strengthen global hate networks Open
Local or national politics can be a catalyst for potentially dangerous hate speech. But with a third of the world's population eligible to vote in 2024 elections, we need an understanding of how individual-level hate multiplies up to the c…
View article: Non-equilibrium physics of multi-species assembly applied to fibrils inhibition in biomolecular condensates and growth of online distrust
Non-equilibrium physics of multi-species assembly applied to fibrils inhibition in biomolecular condensates and growth of online distrust Open
Self-assembly is a key process in living systems-from the microscopic biological level (e.g. assembly of proteins into fibrils within biomolecular condensates in a human cell) through to the macroscopic societal level (e.g. assembly of hum…
View article: U.S. Election Hardens Hate Universe
U.S. Election Hardens Hate Universe Open
Local or national politics can trigger potentially dangerous hate in someone. But with a third of the world's population eligible to vote in elections in 2024 alone, we lack understanding of how individual-level hate multiplies up to hate …
View article: Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence
Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence Open
Online hate is dynamic, adaptive— and may soon surge with new AI/GPT tools. Establishing how hate operates at scale is key to overcoming it. We provide insights that challenge existing policies. Rather than large social media platforms bei…
View article: Vulnerability of Quantum Information Systems to Collective Manipulation
Vulnerability of Quantum Information Systems to Collective Manipulation Open
The highly specialist terms ‘quantum computing’ and ‘quantum information’, together with the broader term ‘quantum technologies’, now appear regularly in the mainstream media. While this is undoubtedly highly exciting for physicists and in…
View article: Multi-Species Cohesion: Humans, machinery, AI and beyond
Multi-Species Cohesion: Humans, machinery, AI and beyond Open
The global chaos caused by the 19 July 2024 technology meltdown highlights the need for a theory of what large-scale cohesive behaviors -- dangerous or desirable -- could suddenly emerge from future systems of interacting humans, machinery…
View article: Complexity of the online distrust ecosystem and its evolution
Complexity of the online distrust ecosystem and its evolution Open
Introduction: Collective human distrust—and its associated mis/disinformation—is one of the most complex phenomena of our time, given that approximately 70% of the global population is now online. Current examples include distrust of medic…
View article: Softening Online Extremes Using Network Engineering
Softening Online Extremes Using Network Engineering Open
The prevalence of dangerous misinformation and extreme views online has intensified since the onset of Israel-Hamas war on 7 October 2023. Social media platforms have long grappled with the challenge of providing effective mitigation schem…
View article: Controlling bad-actor-artificial intelligence activity at scale across online battlefields
Controlling bad-actor-artificial intelligence activity at scale across online battlefields Open
We consider the looming threat of bad actors using artificial intelligence (AI)/Generative Pretrained Transformer to generate harms across social media globally. Guided by our detailed mapping of the online multiplatform battlefield, we of…
View article: Non-equilibrium physics of multi-species assembly: From inhibition of fibrils in biomolecular condensates to growth of online distrust
Non-equilibrium physics of multi-species assembly: From inhibition of fibrils in biomolecular condensates to growth of online distrust Open
Self-assembly is a key process in living systems - from the microscopic biological level (e.g. assembly of proteins into fibrils within biomolecular condensates in a human cell) through to the macroscopic societal level (e.g. assembly of h…
View article: Energy transfer in N-component nanosystems enhanced by pulse-driven vibronic many-body entanglement
Energy transfer in N-component nanosystems enhanced by pulse-driven vibronic many-body entanglement Open
View article: Unprecedented reach and rich online journeys drive hate and extremism globally
Unprecedented reach and rich online journeys drive hate and extremism globally Open
Hate and extremism cannot be controlled globally without understanding how they operate at scale. Both have escalated dramatically during the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine-Russia wars. Here we show how the online hate-extremism system is now op…
View article: Complexity of the Online Distrust Ecosystem and its Evolution
Complexity of the Online Distrust Ecosystem and its Evolution Open
Collective human distrust (and its associated mis-disinformation) is one of the most complex phenomena of our time. e.g. distrust of medical expertise, or climate change science, or democratic election outcomes, and even distrust of fact-c…
View article: Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem
Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem Open
View article: Cavity-induced switching between Bell-state textures in a quantum dot
Cavity-induced switching between Bell-state textures in a quantum dot Open
Nanoscale quantum dots in microwave cavities can be used as a laboratory for exploring electron-electron interactions and their spin in the presence of quantized light and a magnetic field. We show how a simple theoretical model of this in…
View article: Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields
Controlling bad-actor-AI activity at scale across online battlefields Open
We show how the looming threat of bad actors using AI/GPT to generate harms across social media, can be addressed at scale by exploiting the intrinsic dynamics of the social media multiverse. We combine a uniquely detailed description of t…
View article: Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence
Adaptive link dynamics drive online hate networks and their mainstream influence Open
Online hate is dynamic, adaptive -- and is now surging armed with AI/GPT tools. Its consequences include personal traumas, child sex abuse and violent mass attacks. Overcoming it will require knowing how it operates at scale. Here we prese…
View article: Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem
Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem Open
Why is distrust (e.g. of medical expertise) now flourishing online despite the surge in mitigation schemes being implemented? We analyze the changing discourse in the Facebook ecosystem of approximately 100 million users who pre-pandemic w…
View article: Global-Security-Programme/Explaining-conflict-violence-in-terms-of-conflict-actor-dynamics: Innitial release
Global-Security-Programme/Explaining-conflict-violence-in-terms-of-conflict-actor-dynamics: Innitial release Open
Supplementary material for the article "Explaining conflict violence in terms of conflict actor dynamics" by K. Tkacova, A. Idler, N. Johnson, E. Lopez The release contains: R scripts data figures
View article: Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem
Rise of post-pandemic resilience across the distrust ecosystem Open
Why is distrust (e.g. of medical expertise) now flourishing online despite the surge in mitigation schemes being implemented? We analyze the changing discourse in the Facebook ecosystem of approximately 100 million users who pre-pandemic w…
View article: Table S2 from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations
Table S2 from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations Open
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in Capan1 olaparib resistant cells
View article: Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations
Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations Open
Patients harboring germline breast cancer susceptibility genes 1 and 2 (BRCA1/2) mutations are predisposed to developing breast, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers. BRCA2 plays a critical role in homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair and d…
View article: Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations
Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations Open
Patients harboring germline breast cancer susceptibility genes 1 and 2 (BRCA1/2) mutations are predisposed to developing breast, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers. BRCA2 plays a critical role in homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair and d…
View article: Supplementary Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations
Supplementary Data from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations Open
Supplementary methods and figure legends. Figure S1 shows further characterization of Capan1 olaparib resistant cells and rucaparib resistant Capan1 cells. Figure S2 shows that drug efflux is unchanged in Capan1 olaparib resistant cells an…
View article: Table S1 from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations
Table S1 from Amplification of the Mutation-Carrying BRCA2 Allele Promotes RAD51 Loading and PARP Inhibitor Resistance in the Absence of Reversion Mutations Open
Gene Expression of Capan1 olaparib resistant cells