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Misinformation proliferation on social media platforms is a pervasive threat to the integrity of online public discourse. Genuine users, susceptible to others' influence, often unknowingly engage with, endorse, and re-share questionable pieces of ...

Urban floods often cause the functional disruption of public transit systems, thereby impeding people's mobility and resulting in adverse socio-economic consequences. Climate change, rapid urbanization, and unplanned disaster management further increase ...

The growth of online Digital/social media has allowed a variety of ideas and opinions to coexist. Social Media has appealed users due to the ease of fast dissemination of information at low cost and easy access. However, due to the growth in affordance ...

Pityriasis lichenoides chronica (PLC) is a rare idiopathic skin disorder that is characterised by scaly, pink papules mainly on the trunks and limbs. The etiology and immunological pathways of the disease are yet unknown. In this study we have attempted ...

Influence arriving via social ties may be relevant for a person to decide to buy a new product, share information, or to adopt a new behaviour. However, quantifying social influence is a difficult task, even in online social systems where the ...

Phishing email attacks have been around for fifteen years but they are still among the top security risks faced by organisations. The most common approach to mitigate these attacks is employees' education and awareness. Employees' awareness on phishing ...

How to quantify influences between users, seeing that social network users influence each other in their temporal behaviors? Previous work has directly defined an independent model parameter to capture the interpersonal influence between each pair of ...

In the study of persuasion, little attention is paid to understanding features that indicate one's level of susceptibility. In this work, we examine features that are indicative of an individual's susceptibility on Reddit's changemyview. Specifically, ...

Personalizing persuasive technologies (PTs) is one of the hallmarks of a successful PT intervention. However, there is a lack of understanding of how Africans and North Americans differ or are similar in the susceptibility to persuasive strategies. To ...

Spear phishing emails are key in many cyber attacks. Successful emails employ psychological weapons of influence and relevant life domains. This paper investigates spear phishing susceptibility as a function of Internet user age (old vs young), weapon ...

Many of today's most widely used computing applications utilize social networking features and allow users to connect, follow each other, share content, and comment on others' posts. However, despite the widespread adoption of these features, there is ...

In social media, the magnitude of information propagation hinges on the virality and susceptibility of users spreading and receiving the information respectively, as well as the virality of information items. These users' and items' behavioral factors ...

Privacy of Internet users is at stake because they expose personal information in posts created in online communities, in search queries, and other activities. An adversary that monitors a community may identify the users with the most sensitive ...

Soft error has become an important reliability issue in advanced technologies. To tolerate soft errors, solutions suggested in previous works incur significant performance and power penalties, especially when a design with fault-tolerant structures is ...

In Achlioptas processes, starting from an empty graph, in each step two potential edges are chosen uniformly at random, and using some rule one of them is selected and added to the evolving graph. AlthouSgh the evolution of such 'local' modifications of ...

A landslide susceptibility evaluation is vital for disaster management and development planning in the Yangtze River Three Gorges Reservoir Area. In this study, with the support of remote sensing and Geographic Information System, 4 factor groups ...

One hundred-sixty four participants from the United States, India and China completed a survey designed to assess past phishing experiences and whether they engaged in certain online safety practices (e.g., reading a privacy policy). The study ...

In this paper, the susceptibility of a current-mode bandgap voltage reference to electromagnetic interference (EMI) superimposed to the power supply is investigated by simulation. Designed for AMS 0.35 CMOS process, the circuit provides a stable voltage ...

Phase variation of potential field data can be used as an interpretation method. This idea appears in edge detection with tilt angle or phase angle. The advantages of this quantity are its independency to body magnetization direction and also its easy ...

We use a social contagion lens to study the dynamic, temporal process of the diffusion of electronic medical records in the population of U.S. hospitals. Social contagion acknowledges the mutual influence among organizations within an institutional ...