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Interview #28: Simon A. Morrison Beats on the dancefloor?
No full textDr Morrison was influenced about his writing (specifically Dancefloor-Driven Literature) and wider career for the influential Substack publication.N/
Achieving COVID-19 herd immunity in Bangladesh
Get PDFAchieving herd immunity against COVID-19 through vaccination is a global target, including in lower resource settings. Despite the challenges and limitations, Bangladesh has achieved its target of vaccinating 70% of its population, with good vaccine coverage among refugees, remote population, and women. This can be attributed to the evidence-informed adaptability and collaborative approaches of the program. Yet some challenges remain, including dependence on donors and the need to ramp up vaccination among the underserved communities. This article discusses the factors contributing to the achievements of the COVID-19 vaccination program of Bangladesh and the remaining challenges that should be addressed by the government to ensure the sustainability of the program and inform future vaccination efforts.N/
Validation of the general attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence Scale in the Italian context and the role of trust
Get PDF© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have profoundly impacted various sectors, including healthcare, education, and security, leading to a paradigm shift in the way in which society engages with technology. Considering the increasing integration of AI in these critical areas, it is important to understand people's attitudes towards this technology to understand their acceptance of AI. The present study aimed to validate the General Attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence Scale (GAAIS) in the Italian context. The study examined the psychometric properties of the scale and explored the relationship between interpersonal trust and attitudes towards AI. The GAAIS, previously validated in the UK and Turkey, was translated into Italian. The scale was administered to two independent samples of Italian adults (Study 1, N = 205; Study 2, N = 121). Participants varied in age, gender, and self-reported familiarity with AI, offering a culturally specific perspective on attitudes toward AI in the Italian context. The study also investigated potential factors that may influence AI attitudes, including demographic characteristics, computer usage, and knowledge about AI. The findings supported the hypothesized link between positive attitudes with younger male individuals, higher education levels and greater familiarity with AI. Data also showed that epistemic mistrust –i.e. the lack of confidence in the reliability of a source measured through the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust and Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ), correlated with skepticism, while epistemic trust –i.e. the willingness to accept information from others as reliable– was linked to forgiving attitudes towards AI drawbacks. These findings underscored the pivotal role that interpersonal trust and cultural context play in shaping public attitudes towards AI.his research and its publication are supported by the research line (funds for research and publication D.1 and D.3.1) of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan
Living amongst and with trees: Botanical agency and the archaeology of plant-human relationships
Get PDF© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely passive form of life, seeing them instead as living beings capable of acting upon and with other elements of the world. This paper argues that such a perspective offers significant potential for the archaeological study of human-plant relationships. Using a case-study on the lives of trees and humans at the early Mesolithic settlement at Star Carr (UK) it shows that by viewing plants as active participants in past worlds we can achieve a richer understanding of both non-human and human life, and the complex ways they interacted with each other. It also suggests that by making more of this approach, archaeology can help address our own, contemporary relationship with the botanical world.Unfunde
Promoting the development of China's open economics
No full textThis article is not available on ChesterRepSince China joined the World Trade Organization, China's foreign trade has developed rapidly, driving the rapid growth of the national economy, significantly improving people's income levels, with per capita income exceeding US$10,000, and eliminating absolute poverty. Two main factors have promoted the realization of the above goals. One is reform, the continuous improvement of the socialist market economic system with Chinese characteristics. The second is openness, especially joining the World Trade Organization, which has provided a broad and relatively free international market for the hardworking and courageous Chinese people. The mutual promotion of the two has consolidated the socialist market economic system with Chinese characteristics and strengthened the determination to continuously deepen reform and opening up. In the future, for quite some time, adhering to reform and opening up and improving the level of China's institutional opening up will be the inevitable choice for the sustainable development of China's economy.Unfunde
On the relative strengths of fragments of collection
No full textThis article is not available on ChesterRepLet M be the basic set theory that consists of the axioms of extensionality, emptyset, pair, union, powerset, infinity, transitive containment, Δ0-separation and set foundation. This paper studies the relative strength of set theories obtained by adding fragments of the set-theoretic collection scheme to M. We focus on two common parameterisations of the collection: -collection, which is the usual collection scheme restricted to -formulae, and strong -collection, which is equivalent to -collection plus -separation. The main result of this paper shows that for all ,
1. M + proves that there exists a transitive model of Zermelo Set Theory plus -collection,
2. the theory M + is -conservative over the theory M + strong .
It is also shown that (2) holds for when the Axiom of Choice is included in the base theory. The final section indicates how the proofs of (1) and (2) can be modified to obtain analogues of these results for theories obtained by adding fragments of collection to a base theory (Kripke-Platek Set Theory with Infinity plus V=L) that does not include the powerset axiom.Unfunde
A brief history of dance music
Get PDFArticle featured in The Conversation on a brief history of dance music – from basements to beaches, dancefloors have mirrored social change.N/
From Kenya to Kendal: Colonel Edgar Garston Harrison’s taxidermy collection, Kendal Museum
Get PDFThe collections at Kendal Museum date back to 1796 when the museum was first formed as a private collection. Today the collections are publicly owned by Westmorland and Furness Council, cared for by longstanding curators Carol Davies and Morag Clement, and managed through Kendal College. One of the major donors to, and benefactors of, the museum in the 20th century was a local man called Edgar Garston Harrison (1863-1947), of High Hundhowe, near Staveley. A soldier and big game hunter, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Kings African Rifles, Harrison was active in several military campaigns related to British colonialism in eastern Africa between 1895 and 1905. During this time Harrison acquired a significant number of ‘hunting trophies,' mounted taxidermy animal heads and animal skins of the characteristic fauna of the region. In 1937 Harrison proposed to donate £2,000 towards the building of an extension to the museum’s existing buildings, on condition that this be used to display his collection of hunting trophies and other artefacts to the public, the majority of which were at that time housed in his purpose-built trophy room at High Hundhowe.Unfunde
Book review: Frank Trentmann, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022
No full textBook review of Frank Trentmann, Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022Unfunde
Archaeology as alternative prison education
No full textThis paper presents the educational focused outcomes of a set of workshops entitled 'Introduction to Archaeology’ that were delivered within a prison. The workshops were delivered as part of a project that seeks to explore the pro-social benefits and social capital (i.e. social and structural aspects that support positive identity formation) that could be developed through
engagement with archaeology, specifically for those within the criminal justice system. The workshops offered a bespoke, alternative, educational offering within an adult male prison in Wales. It was designed and delivered by an archaeologist who has an established background in the field, especially in relation to community engagement and education. The social experiences of prison participants were recorded via multi—modal methods and analysed by a criminology researcher. The inter-disciplinary project did not specifically seek to consider how archaeology can offer an innovative, alternative prison education. However, the potential of the inclusive learning that it offered through exploration of artefacts, activity and discussion in small group environments, has been revealed. The paper outlines the potential of such an approach and sets out the benefits within wider literature on prison education, public archaeology and archaeology education.Unfunde
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