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No full textArtificial Intelligence in Scientific Writing: Balancing Innovation and Efficiency with Integrity: Perspectives and Position Statements of Global Andrology Forum Expert Group.
No full text1. Artificial intelligence: new frontier : Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new frontier that is being increasingly integrated into almost every facet of today’s human life. Over the past decade, the applications of AI technologies have grown tremendously and rapidly in scientific research and publications. AI has become a transformative tool helping scientists to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, create hypotheses, design experiments, generate text with sophisticated editing and paraphrasing, collect and interpret large datasets, and gain insights that might not be realized using traditional research methods. Further, some AI tools are instrumental in generating codes for statistical analysis. [...
A Computational Forensic Linguistic Analysis of Narrative and Dialogic of Police Interview Transcripts
No full textForensic transcriptions, namely the process of converting spoken language into a written form for use in legal contexts (Lindsay and O’Connell, 1994), constitute a vital source of linguistic evidence in legal proceedings, playing a key role in the interpretation and evaluation of spoken testimony. The linguistic features embedded in these texts directly influence how utterances are understood and assessed in courtroom settings, with significant implications for evidentiary reliability (Eerland and van Charldorp, 2022). A detailed understanding of the linguistic features that characterize these forensic texts is therefore essential. Prior research by Venturi (2012) analysed Italian legal texts, identifying syntactic complexity and lexical density differences amongst various subgenres. Similarly, Dell’Orletta et al. (2013) and Montemagni (2013) focused on linguistic profiling to capture genre-specific characteristics across bureaucratic, literary, journalistic, educational and scientific texts. However, little attention has heretofore been given to the computational analysis of linguistic features in forensic transcriptions of police interviews. This study addresses this gap by conducting a computational and statistical analysis of two structurally distinct transcription types, namely narrative monologues and dialogic question-answer (Q-A) interviews, drawn from the Commissione Parlamentare Antimafia archives. These texts are also compared with a reference corpus composed of five distinct genre-based sub-corpora: parliamentary discourse, literary fiction, newspaper articles, legal texts, and oral discourse from semi-structured interviews. We applied automatic multi-level linguistic annotation to extract 143 lexical, morpho- syntactic, and syntactic features. Systematic comparisons between our two main genres and the five reference genres were carried out using either parametric or non-parametric statistical testing, supplemented by effect size analysis. A Random Forest classifier, trained via 10-fold stratified cross-validation, was used to assess the discriminative power of linguistic features across transcription types, and feature importance scores were leveraged to identify the most salient linguistic indicators, ensuring model robustness and interpretability in a forensic linguistic context. Model performance was measured using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 scores to ensure reliable classification and generalizability. Our findings show that both transcription types share various stylistic features typical of oral and narrative discourses, such as long sentences, frequent subordination and many verbal heads per sentence. However, further analysis reveals substantial divergences. Narrative monologues exhibit frequent first-person singular verbs, consistent past-tense usage, dense syntactic embedding and a strong preference for canonical subject-verb order, indicating a form of structured, narrativized discourse closer to written legal-lay genres. In contrast, Q-A interviews exhibit features of spontaneous interaction, such as frequent pronouns, object fronting, syntactic dispersion, and longer distances between verbal elements and modifiers. They also contain more modal verbs and first-person plural forms, reflecting a cooperative and dialogic interaction style. 29 From a forensic perspective, the findings have direct implications for transcription practices and evidentiary evaluation. The high syntactic complexity and structural variability of Q-A formats may compromise transcription clarity and increase the risk of interpretative bias or misrepresentation in judicial contexts (Filipović, 2022). By contrast, narrative monologues, while linguistically dense, exhibit greater discursive cohesion and facilitate a clearer understanding of the overall story. However, they obscure the interactive dynamics inherent in the original police interviews, contributing to the perception of an autonomous and decontextualized discourse (Byrman and Byrman, 2018). These distinctions highlight the need for tailored transcription protocols and underscore the benefits of interdisciplinary approaches combining computational linguistics and forensic linguistics to better account for the variability of oral and legal discourse in judicial settings, ultimately aiming to support both investigation and trial processes
The dynamics of participatory governance in war zones : insights from Colombia’s PDET participatory process
No full textParticipatory governance and rebel governance constitute two independent strands within the literature on political studies; however, the functioning of participatory processes in war-affected areas remains an understudied issue. This thesis conceptually, theoretically, and empirically analyses the outstanding case of the PDET participatory process (Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial) within the context of the Colombian civil war. In this regard, it examines how participatory governance functions in municipalities affected by the war and provides insights into the local policy outputs stemming from this process. Participatory processes are expected to positively contribute to the prevention of violent conflicts while fostering reconciliation and development. Nonetheless, in war zones, these processes and their public policy outcomes must navigate contexts where multiple rebel groups exert extensive territorial and social control, establishing distinct social orders and, consequently, challenging prevailing assumptions about the functioning of local democratic institutions.La gouvernance participative et la gouvernance rebelle constituent deux courants indépendants dans la littérature en en science politique ; néanmoins, le fonctionnement des processus participatifs dans les zones affectées par la guerre a été peu étudié jusqu’à présent. Cette thèse analyse conceptuellement, théoriquement et empiriquement le cas du processus participatif PDET (Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial) dans le contexte de la guerre civile colombienne. À cet égard, elle examine la configuration de la gouvernance participative dans les municipalités affectés par le guerre et apporte des réponses quant aux résultats des politiques publiques locales issues de ce processus. De manière générale, il est attendu que les processus participatifs contribuent positivement à la prévention des conflits violents et favorisent la réconciliation ainsi que le développement. Toutefois, en zones de guerre, ces processus participatifs et les politiques publiques qui en découlent doivent s’adapter à des contextes où plusieurs groupes rebelles exercent un contrôle territorial et social étendu, générant ainsi des ordres sociaux distincts et, par conséquent, remettant en question les postulats relatifs au fonctionnement habituel des institutions démocratiques locales.(POLS - Sciences politiques et sociales) -- UCL, 202
SoK: A Methodology to Achieve Provable Side-Channel Security in Real-World Implementations
No full textRadical right populists at our table: Unpolitics in the Council of the EU and the case of gender+ equality
No full textIn the last fifteen years, the European Union (EU) has witnessed an exponential increase in opposition and attacks against gender equality and LGBTIQ rights by radical rights populist parties, not only at the national level but also at the supranational level. From a rather consensual policy domain, where conflict mainly focused on the financial consequences of regulation, gender+ equality issues have become increasingly politicised at the EU level, including conflict on the very definition nature and objectives of these policies. The strategies of radical right populists in opposing gender+ equality are well documented in the European Parliament but less so in the Council of the EU. In this context, and in line with the conference call, our aim with this paper is to explore the following questions related to the consequences of the presence of radical right populists government in the Council of the EU in the field of gender+ equality: - Has the presence of radical right populist governments resulted in the politicisation of gender+ equality issues within the Council? - If yes, what were the opposing strategies developed by these actors and how has this politicisation affected EU governance in the Council ? - How has the European Commission responded to these opposing strategies when designing legislation and public policies and elaborating negotiation strategies to defend them within the Council? To investigate these questions, we will focus on the 2010-2024 period, to compare the impact of a variety of radical right populist governments in the Council on the one side and different European Commission’s mandates on the other side. Our analysis will be based on three different types of data: minutes of Council meetings, news reports from the news agency Agence Europe (Europe Daily Bulletin) and interviews with members of the Council and the Commission. Triangulation will allow us to investigate the potential politicisation of gender+ equality and actors’ strategies in both institutions
Exegetisch commentaar bij de lezingen van de 1ste zondag van de Advent (Jes. 2,1-5; Ps. 122; Rom. 13,11-14; Mat. 24,37-44 – A-jaar)
No full textCommentaire exégétique sur Isa. 2,1-5; Ps. 122; Rom. 13,11-14; Mat. 24,37-4
