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Integration of fisheries and ecological data to support spatial management: The case of blackspot seabream (Pagellus bogaraveo) in the western Mediterranean Sea

Diego Panzeri, Juan Gil Herrera, Cristina García-Ruíz, Lucia Rueda, Meryem Benziane, Mohammed Idrissi Malouli, Pilar Hernández, Simone Libralato

Fisheries Research·2025

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LGBT AND AFRICAN IDENTITY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Chidimma Nkemdilim Ezeador, George Chizoba Okpara

acjol.org·2024

The researchers aim is not to debunk the notion that there is no trace of homosexuality in pre-colonial Africa. The researchers agreed, but argue that although African culture is no stranger to homosexual behaviors and acts; the recent attitudes towards LGBT in some African countries today, remains unnatural and not part of African identity. LGBT used here describes non-heteroromatic sexualities which involve physical, emotional or sexual intimacy with a member of the same sex. This article explains that colonialism, globalization, culture contact, gender separatism, economic instability and occultism are some factors that engender LGBT in Africa. The researchers also address surrogacy (surrogate parenthood) and the idea of a woman getting married to a fellow woman in some African countries particularly in Nigeria, Igbo land precisely as heterosexual, cultural and generally acceptable. This is because it happens only in a situation when a woman had no son or no child, if unfortunately, the husband died; it is culturally acceptable to get a wife of her choice like in every case of marriage, whom will be impregnated by a man as culture demands. So, refuting the idea of equating the above tradition with Homosexuality and the negative implications of homosexuality in Africa are the problems this article tends to tackle. Employing the method of critical analysis, this article submits that LGBT is alien to being African and should not be allowed to be legalized because it is a western import designed to destroy the African family.

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Pantheon: A representatividade LGBT na plataforma Netflix: um estudo a partir de quatro personagens

Silva, Uli Almeida

pantheon.ufrj.br·2021

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Fearful Temperament and Child Social Anxiety Symptoms: Clarifying the Influence of Maternal Punitive Responses

Erika S. Trent, Andres G. Viana, Elizabeth M. Raines, Haley E. Conroy, Emma C. Woodward, Eric A. Storch, Michael J. Zvolensky

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology·2021·9 citations

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Symmetry in Neural Network Parameter Spaces

Bo Zhao, Robin Walters, Rose Yu

arXiv·2025

Modern deep learning models are highly overparameterized, resulting in large sets of parameter configurations that yield the same outputs. A significant portion of this redundancy is explained by symmetries in the parameter space--transformations that leave the network function unchanged. These symmetries shape the loss landscape and constrain learning dynamics, offering a new lens for understanding optimization, generalization, and model complexity that complements existing theory of deep learning. This survey provides an overview of parameter space symmetry. We summarize existing literature, uncover connections between symmetry and learning theory, and identify gaps and opportunities in this emerging field.

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The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research

Sean J. Westwood

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025·1 citations

The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data collection across the sciences. This work demonstrates that the foundational assumption of survey research—that a coherent response is a human response—is no longer tenable. I designed and tested an autonomous synthetic respondent capable of producing survey data that possesses the coherence and plausibility of human responses. This agent successfully evades a comprehensive suite of data quality checks, including instruction-following tasks, logic puzzles, and “reverse shibboleth” questions designed to detect nonhuman actors, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on 6,000 trials of standard attention checks. The synthetic respondent generates internally consistent responses by maintaining a coherent demographic persona and a memory of its prior answers, producing plausible data on psychometric scales, vignette comprehension tasks, and complex socioeconomic trade-offs. Furthermore, its open-ended text responses are linguistically sophisticated and stylistically calibrated to the level of education of its assigned persona. Critically, the agent can be instructed to maliciously alter polling outcomes, demonstrating an overt vector for information warfare. More subtly, it can also infer a researcher’s latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them. These findings reveal a critical vulnerability in our data infrastructure, rendering most current detection methods obsolete and posing a potential existential threat to unsupervised online research. The scientific community must urgently develop new data validation standards and reconsider its reliance on nonprobability, low-barrier online data collection methods.

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View of Body Horror as Body Shaming: Fatness and Monstrosity in Video Games

Sarah Stang

dl.digra.org

The study of representation in video games has been a crucial area of inquiry, especially as conversations about the cultural ramifications of stereotypical or harmful representations have entered popular discourse. The lack of diverse representations of minorities and marginalizedgroups has been a heated topic of discussion for years and many scholars have noted that developers overwhelmingly privilege white, male, able-bodied, fit/slim, heterosexual subjectivities (Cassell & Jenkins, 1998; Kennedy, 2002; Nakamura, 2002; Leonard, 2003 & 2006; Miller & Summers, 2007; Dunlop, 2007; Jenson & de Castell, 2008; Consalvo et al., 2009; Higgin, 2008; Hayes & Gee, 2010; Dietrich, 2013; Carr, 2014; Gray, 2016). Game scholarship has revealed troubling trends and statistics regarding the lacking, stereotypical, or offensive representation of white women, people of colour, and queerness in video games (Shaw, 2014 & 2016; Goldberg & Larsson, 2015; Malkowski & Russworm, 2017) and the marginalization of these groups within the game industry (Consalvo, 2008; Harvey & Fisher, 2014) and within gamer culture (Consalvo, 2012; Jenson & De Castell, 2013; Shaw, 2011).

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Lifetime and Past-Year Defensive Gun Use

Michael D. Anestis, Kimberly Burke, Sultan Altikriti, Daniel Semenza

JAMA Network Open·2025·4 citations

Key Points Question What are the frequency, distribution, and factors associated with defensive gun use? Findings In this survey study of 3000 adults with firearm access, most (91.7%) reported no lifetime history of defensive gun use, whereas many reported lifetime gun violence exposure. Individuals exposed to gun violence and who carried firearms more frequently and stored firearms loaded and unlocked were more likely to report prior defensive gun use. Meaning These findings suggest that policy conversations that center the defensive gun use misstate the risk profile of firearm access.

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Misogynistic Language on Twitter and Sexual Violence

Rachael Fulper, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Emilio Ferrara, 1 YongYeol Ahn, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

figshare.com·2015

Studies have demonstrated that social media may offer insights into social behaviors. Here we investigate the potential of social media in predicting criminal behavior, in particular rape and sexual abuse. Traditional approaches for studying sexual violence are effective but laborious, although often limited to small sample sizes and coarse temporal resolutions. Additionally, the sensitive nature of sexual violence and stigmas against victims result in serious underreporting ofrapecrimestatistics. Thefactorscontributingtorapearenot fullyagreedupon, but researchshowsthat theacceptanceof,andwillingnessto commit rapearehighlycorrelatedwithsexrolestereotyping,rapemythbeliefs,andmisogyny.Hereweexplorewhethersocial mediacanbeusedasanindicatorofsexualviolenceintheUS,bytrackingmisogynistictweets.Wecomparedthenumberof tweetsandrapecrimestatisticsforeachstate,andfoundasignificantassociation.Ourworkpavesthewaytothedesignofa ‘social sensor’ system to detect rape and other abuse by monitoring social streams.

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Integration of fisheries and ecological data to support spatial management: The case of blackspot seabream (Pagellus bogaraveo) in the western Mediterranean Sea

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