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‘Feedbackpacking’
: mapping the journey towards independent L2 student feedback literacy
(Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education) Davies, Joseph Arthur
Navigating the Social Media Landscape
(2024-05-01) Blanding, Erin
How does the TikTok algorithm know what you are thinking before you even search it up? How do influencers rise to popularity? What does it take to capture a digital audience's attention in a saturated online atmosphere? Given the trajectory of artificial intelligence and its proliferation online, will there be any way to distinguish what is “real” and what is “fake”?
Navigating the current social media landscape for creators and brands alike is a constantly evolving game of attempting to work with the algorithm instead of against it. TikTok’s “for you” feed revolutionized social media by prioritizing predictions of what users would want to see, rather than curating content they have already expressed an interest in. This has changed the way many popular social media platforms have organized their content. In combination with recommendations backed by unthinkable amounts of data, users are inundated with a never ending stream of addicting media that can have consequences socially and financially. This thesis delves into the relationship between content, data and data privacy concerns, artificial intelligence, and digital strategy as it relates to both individuals and companies in an ever changing, deeply interconnected digital environment.
Natural history of manta rays in the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia, with an analysis of the demography and spatial ecology of Mobula alfredi (Elasmobranchii: Mobulidae)
(Journal of Ocean Science Foundation, 2020-12-28) Setyawan, Edy; Erdmann, Mark V; Lewis, Sarah; Mambrasar, Ronald; Hasan, Abdi; Templeton, Sabine; Beale, Calvin; Sianipar, Abraham; Shidqi, Rafid; Heusckhel, Hendrik; Ambafen, Orgenes; Muhamad, Izuan; Prasetia, Mohammad Fakhri; Hidayati, Azizah; Hidayat, Ismu; Pada, Defy; Muljadi, Andreas; Pilkington-Vincett, Rebecca; Dharmadi, Dharmadi; Cerutti, Pereyra
The Bird’s Head Seascape (BHS) in West Papua, Indonesia, is widely recognized as the global epicenter of coral reef biodiversity and is protected by an extensive network of 20 marine protected areas (MPAs) totaling over 4.7 million ha. It is home to large populations of both the reef manta ray Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) and the oceanic manta Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792). We document the natural history of manta rays in the BHS and describe the demographics and spatial ecology of Mobula alfredi using underwater and aerial observations, a comprehensive photo-ID database, and passive acoustic telemetry. Manta rays were recorded from 127 sites across the BHS, including 70 aggregation sites (cleaning stations and routine feeding aggregations), with the largest feeding aggregation recorded consisting of 112 M. alfredi in the Dampier Strait in the Raja Ampat archipelago. We recorded 4,052 photographically identified M. alfredi sightings of 1,375 individuals between November 2004 and December 2019, with a biased female-to-male sex ratio of 1.58 to 1.0 and 67.4% exhibiting the chevron color morph vs. 32.6% melanistic. Over 85% of sightings came from the two large MPAs (>330,000 ha) of South East Misool and Dampier Strait. Importantly, 16 photo-IDs of somersault-feeding individuals were obtained using a drone, apparently the first report of UAVs used for manta photo-IDs. We resighted 642 individuals (46.7%) at least once during the period, with the two most-resighted individuals registering 67 and 66 resightings over periods of about 12 years. We observed 217 females pregnant at least once, with one having 4 consecutive pregnancies from 2013–16 (and a total of 5 pregnancies in 7 years) and 15 with at least two consecutive-year pregnancies. Four nursery sites were identified with a consistent presence of numerous young-of-the-year (YoY; i.e. ≤2 m disc width) over 3–14 years of observations: we recorded 65 YoYfrom Raja Ampat. The Raja Ampat population is best described as a metapopulation composed of 4–7 subpopulations inhabiting island groups separated by over-water distances of only 20–40 km, but which nonetheless exhibit limited exchange of individuals. We recorded 309 movement events among 7 hypothesized manta subpopulations in Raja Ampat based on photo-IDs between 2004 and 2019 and passive acoustic telemetry between 2013 and 2019, with the longest movement we recorded 296 km minimum distance through water. Importantly, 115 of the identified manta ray sites (90.5%) are distributed within 13 of the 20 BHS MPAs, and 95.9% of sightings (3,887 of 4,052), 89.5% of individuals (1,231 of 1,375) and all 4 identified nursery areas were from within MPAs in Raja Ampat, indicating the Raja Ampat MPA network, and the broader BHS MPA network within which it is nested, are critical for the conservation of manta rays in West Papua.
Research on interdisciplinary integration and development of natural-social sciences for biodiversity conservation in China
(Shengtai Xuebao, 2024-07-01) Wang, W; Zhai, D; Liu, J
Frontier conservation science research emphasizes to overcome the limitations of a single discipline while to transcend the interdisciplinary cross⁃integration of natural and social sciences. Based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature⁃World Commission on Protected Areas (IUCN⁃WCPA) framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas, this paper systematically reviews the progress of conservation science research in China from three perspectives: formulation, implementation, and evaluation of biodiversity conservation planning. We identified potential fields for interdisciplinary research by comparing the differences in research content, approaches and perspectives between conservation natural science and conservation social science. The findings show that research in conservation natural and social sciences in China is mostly independent of each other and lacks integration and collaboration, and the integrity, systematicity, compatibility, depth and normalization of the few interdisciplinary studies need to be improved. Due to a lack of scientific understanding of the real institution, conservation policy and action recommendations proposed by natural scientists when engaging in social science research tend to be idealistic and may hinder the production of interdisciplinary knowledge in conservation science; due to the limited knowledge of natural science methods and data, policy and action recommendations with subjectivism informed by social scientists are always detached from facts and evidence, which is not conducive to the advancement of conservation science knowledge. This paper attempts to build a framework for interdisciplinary integration of conservation science based on the logic of adaptive management of the protected areas to facilitate the formation of a common discourse on conservation science and achieve the coupled and coordinated development of society and ecology.
Head and neck cancer mortality in the United States: Regional differences in hospice use and place of death
(BJC Reports) White, Melissa C; Canick, Julia E; Omer, Tariq M; Barnes, Justin M; Reed, William T; Rohde, Rebecca L; Abouelella, Dina K; Boakye, Eric Adjei; Ramos, Katherine; Kahmke, Russel R; Osazuwa-Peters, Nosayaba