USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades and, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030.
This paper examines how the problem of Jevons’ Paradox applies to AI, whereby efficiency gains may paradoxically spur increased consumption, and argues that understanding second-order impacts requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining lifecycle assessments with socio-economic analyses.
This position paper presents a four-level framework, grounded in measurement theory from the social sciences, for measuring concepts related to the capabilities, behaviors, and impacts of GenAI systems.
It is shown that the UPF industry is a key driver of the problem, as its leading corporations and co-dependent actors have expanded and restructured food systems almost everywhere, in favour of ultra-processed diets.
Inspired by Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action, the “Habermas Machine” was designed to iteratively generate group statements that were based on the personal opinions and critiques from individual users, with the goal of maximizing group approval ratings.
This work synthesizes China’s current policies toward promoting healthy longevity in the general population, focusing on social health insurance, long-term care insurance, community and home-based care and palliative care, as well as gerontological research, public health prevention, nutritional and medical interventions, while identifying strengths and gaps.
US states that adopted abortion bans had higher than expected infant mortality after the bans took effect, and these increases were larger for deaths with congenital causes and among groups that had higher than average infant mortality rates at baseline.
The authors hypothesize that poor informational privacy and information overload positively correlate with both nepotism and bribery, and posit that bribery can act as a catalyst for nepotism.
It is found that GPT-3 can create highly persuasive text as measured by participants’ agreement with propaganda theses, and it is suggested that propagandists could use AI to create convincing content with limited effort.
The findings highlight that addressing digital exclusion requires more than infrastructure investment; it demands inclusive design, culturally appropriate digital education, and active collaboration among governments, civil society, and private actors.
This paper explores UAV-to-UAV coordination attacks and their associated features, such as dispatch system attacks, Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast attacks, Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)-induced collisions, and TCAS attacks.
Findings underscore the significant stress burden of political violence on nursing students and signal the need for targeted interventions that address both stress levels and the complex bidirectional relationship with resilience, tailored to demographic risk factors.
Reframing surgery as an essential service that saves lives, strengthens health systems, and fosters economic productivity could unlock much needed investment and reinforce entire hospital systems, which are essential to national security and wellbeing.
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