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Unlocking AI Literacy:The SMaILE-App Gaming Experience
Get PDFAI's promise to become embedded in every aspect of modern life is quickly becoming a reality. However, a significant gap emerges in educational resources tailored for adolescents. This void often cultivates misconceptions about AI's capabilities and potential risks. To close this gap, we present SMaILE-App, a novel educational cross-platform app designed to foster AI literacy among individuals aged 10 to 18. While inclusive, the app design is purposely biased towards rectifying the gender gap in STEM. Applying a constructionist educational framework, SMaILE-App promotes learning AI fundamentals through interactive gameplay, merging entertainment with personalized knowledge acquisition. SMaILE-App comprises a suite of \emph{minigames} in an engaging narrative, each focusing on a different AI concept, as well as interactive creational and instructive modules. SMaILE-App rests on two key ideas: AI is not a singular, all-encompassing term but a spectrum of methodologies, each with its nuances, and AI is not without its limitations
Will voters polarize over pandemic restrictions? Theory and evidence from COVID-19
Get PDFIn a pandemic, voters will polarize over the choice of restrictions their society needs to impose. This is because in the eyes of voters, optimal restrictions vary with individual and aggregate productivity, vaccination status, and government fiscal transfer capacity. Specifically, less productive voters and those with a limited vaccination status prefer milder restrictions. In addition, voters in countries with superior vaccination programs prefer harsher restrictions, but the effect is weaker when their government has stronger fiscal transfer capacity. These propositions have been tested using the largest global dataset of pandemic restrictions and vaccination rates and are broadly confirmed. Consequently, the paper explains both cross-country variations in restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic and their development as vaccination programs gained traction. It also offers policy insights into the level of restrictions for future pandemics that different voters will deem tolerable
Towards a future-oriented accountability:Accounting for the future through Earth Observation data
Get PDFPurpose – This paper follows the call for more future-oriented practices within organisations, particularly in relation to how they respond to growing concerns about Earth’s sustainability and life on the Planet. This study aims to explore how the data produced by major scientific projects in the Space sector can support future- oriented accountability practices by enabling both a projection and an imagination of a more or less distant future, thereby feeding into accountability practices.Design/methodology/approach – We rely upon a multiple interpretative case study analysis and interview- based data from three main organisations in the Earth observation (EO) value chain: an International Space Company, a Research Centre of Energy Transition and a European Private Equity Firm.Findings – We find that future-oriented accountability practices can be fed by a creative assemblage of scientific data provided by Space sector’s programmes with different sources of knowledge and information. These data are embedded into a broader accountability system, connecting different actors through a “value chain”: from the data providers, gathering data from Space, to the primary users, working on data modelling and analysis, to the end users, such as local authorities, public and private organisations. The predictive data and expertise exchanged throughout the value chain feed into future-oriented accountability efforts across different time-space contexts, as a projected and imagined, more or less distant, future informs the actions and accounts in the present. Originality/value – This research extends the literature on the time dimension of accountability. We show how a creative assemblage of scientific data with different sources of knowledge and information –such as those provided by Space sector’s programmes and EO data – enable organisations to both project the present into (a more or less distant) future and imagine this future differently while taking responsibility, and accounting for, what could be done and desired in response to it. We also contribute to the limited literature on accountability in the Space sector by examining the intricate accountability dynamics underpinning the relationships among the different actors in the EO data value chain.<br/
Genetic and phenotypic diversification in a widespread fish, the Sailfin molly (<i>Poecilia latipinna</i>)
Get PDFWakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies:Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia
Get PDFCommercial processing of Oriental lilies affects bud opening and metabolic dynamics
Get PDFLilies are a high value cut flower typically producing 4–5 flowers per stem, but the opening of young buds of Oriental hybrid lilies is often affected in cut flowers. Commercial treatment includes harvesting of the stem when the oldest bud is closed and at turning colour, approximately 2 ds before it would open on the plant. Stems are then rehydrated, stored chilled for up to 72 h and transported dry. To understand the effect of commercial treatment on the nutrient status metabolomes were compared throughout bud opening from different positions on the stem. At each developmental stage the metabolomic profile was affected by bud position and commercial treatment. Starch accumulated as long as buds remain closed; upon bud opening starch content declined. Reciprocally, sugar levels rose during flower opening and were affected by edge/ midrib location and commercial treatment. Glucose, fructose and sucrose levels remained higher in opened flowers still on the plant. AMY2 (amylase) transcript levels rose as did those of two sugar transporters (MST6 and SWEET7). Commercial processing therefore impacts on the metabolome and the ability to accumulate sugars in the opening flower bud. Commercial treatment delayed bud opening and the effect was dependent on the position of the bud on the stem. However, it had little impact on the rate of cell expansion during flower opening. Cell expansion in the different areas of the adaxial epidermis was unaffected by the commercial treatment. Furthermore, edge and adaxial tepal cells expanded faster during opening. Expression of cell expansion related genes (EXPA1 and LoPIP1) fell as flowers opened. This differential cell expansion in the tepal sectors could underpin the transition of a convex to a concave tepal shape during opening. In conclusion, commercial processing mainly affects the early stages of bud opening. Sugar and metabolite accumulation is compromised by commercial treatment, but this did not affect the capacity for cell expansion in the tepal. Furthermore, our data indicate that differential cell expansion in the different sectors of the tepals is important in lily flower opening, and that this is associated with starch breakdown and sugar accumulation
The experience of living with vitiligo in Nigeria:A participatory Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Get PDFVitiligo is a visible depigmenting skin condition, particularly noticeable on Black skin. There is widespreadmisunderstanding of the condition. Using a participatory form of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis(IPA), we conducted eight semi-structured interviews with Nigerians living with vitiligo. Participantsdescribed their initial attempts to understand the condition, which typically drew on both traditional illnessbeliefs, religious influences, and the biomedical disease model. All participants reported experiencing markedstigmatization and discrimination. Participants experienced distress associated with thoughts about the personalmeaning of the disease including its impact on their appearance and from concerns about anticipatedand direct discrimination. Despite the wide-ranging impact, the participants’ narratives also contained referencesto the development of strategies that maintained wellbeing. This study provides valuable insights intothe role of faith and traditional beliefs in both the experience and management of vitiligo in Nigeria. Theseinsights can be used to develop individual and community interventions
A T-PROPER KARHUNEN-LOÈVE EXPANSION AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE PROBLEM OF SIMULATION
Get PDFThe paper addresses the Karhunen-Loeve series representation in the tessarine domain. Based on augmented statistics, a tessarine widely linear Karhunen-Loeve expansion is defined. Then, the impact of T-properness on this representationis analyzed, leading to a T-proper Karhunen-Loeve expansion that means a dimensionality reduction. Furthermore, this series representation serves as a versatile simulation tool, valid for both stationary and non-stationary, Gaussian and non-Gaussian random signals. Finally, the applicability of the simulation technique proposed is examined numerically
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