People-Nearby Applications (PNAs) are becoming popular day by day. People try to find new ways for increasing their social circle according to their interests. PNAs provide people with a best way to find new people within one’s physical vicinity by applying activities and interests filters. A large number of people using PNAs complain about privacy issues and fake users. Another big concern of ...

In this issue Health by Numbers explores asthma hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visit rates in relation to Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) goals. Two HP2010 objectives for asthma are specific to hospitalizations and ED visits. Objective 24-2 sets the following targets for asthma hospitalizations by age group: (1) an age-specific rate of 25 per 10,000 children under age 5 years, (2) ...

AI systems are now or will soon be sophisticated enough to make consequential decisions. Although this technology has flourished, we also need public appraisals of AI systems playing these more important roles. This article reports surveys of preferences for and against AI systems making decisions in various domains as well as experiments that intervene on these preferences. We find that these ...

This chapter introduces a novel framework for modeling interacting humans in a multi-stage game. This “iterated semi network-form game” framework has the following desirable characteristics: (1) Bounded rational players, (2) strategic players (i.e., players account for one another’s reward functions when predicting one another’s behavior), and (3) computational tractability even on real-world s...

The evolution of opinions in a population of individuals who constantly interact with a common source of user-generated content (i.e. the internet) and are also subject to propaganda is analyzed using computer simulations. The model is based on the bounded confidence approach. In the absence of propaganda, computer simulations show that the online population as a whole is either fragmented, pol...

Discussed at the 11th International Geneva/Springfield Symposium on Advances in Alzheimer Therapy, the Dubois criteria were praised for their potential usefulness in helping improve the ability of physicians to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease (AD) before the onset of dementia with clinical and laboratory tests. However, since their introduction, the criteria have been restricted to clinical resear...

The Japanese art films of the mid-1960s, also known as the so-called Japanese New Wave, are often praised by film scholars, but its formal elements and common characteristics are not often discussed. Thus, through the use of directors representative of the period, such as Hani Susumu, Matsumoto Toshio, Oshima Nagisa, and Teshigahara Hiroshi, this talk analyzes the features of outstanding exampl...

Current integration discussion about the Turkish population in Germany is influenced by culturalessentialism. The political and social components of integration are by and large being neglected.The incorporation of migrants of Turkish origin into the society is praised as a superior target for theCurrent Discussions in the German Integration Debate Revue européenne des migrations in...

Abstract On the morning of 6 May 2021, military police invaded favela Jacarezinho, one Rio de Janeiro's slums, and killed 28 people during a operation tellingly named Operation Exceptis. Photos dead bodies in alleys denouncements extrajudicial executions individuals who had already surrendered circulated widely on internet. Jacarezinho adds to troubling record killings that includes goes far be...