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2 months ago | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Maurizio Geri |Ca’ Foscari |Peace Initiatives
Trump is back at the White House, unleashing sweeping executive orders, including a ban on resettling 1,600 Afghan refugees— some of them allies who aided America’s fight against Taliban terror. But the Taliban’s threat is spreading rapidly, and by turning his back on it, Trump is inviting a backlash that could shatter America’s security.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
journals.plos.org | Emanuele Brugnoli |Marco Delmastro |Ca’ Foscari
ConclusionsCommunication plays a pivotal role in the representation of reality and thus in the formation of opinions and the orientation of individual behavior, especially on the web. The internet and social media platforms offer vast opportunities for user interaction but also serve as significant channels for the dissemination of inaccurate or intentionally deceptive information.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
academic.oup.com | Ca’ Foscari
Cities worldwide are on the frontlines in coping with the most pressing welfare needs of our age, such as housing, health care, and education. This dynamism spurs from collaboration among public authorities, civil society organizations, and other nonstate actors (Alcantara & Nelles, 2014; Pierre & Peters, 2020).
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
academic.oup.com | Ca’ Foscari |Beijing Normal
Model purposeIt uses monitored concentration in various environmental media (in soil, dust, water, and a set of predefined food types) to simulate blood lead in children from 6 months through 7 years. It provides a platform for the combination of different environmental models with a human PBPK model to simulate a variety of exposure scenarios.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Maurizio Geri |Ca’ Foscari |Peace Initiatives
As Ursula von der Leyen embarks on her second term as European Commission President, she carries the weight of a continent’s climate ambitions. But her already weakened agenda faces further dilution by the most right-wing, green-averse Commission in history – potentially leaving Europe’s economy out in the cold for decades. Despite a hard push on the Green Deal dominating her first term, von der Leyen’s language has shifted to talk instead of economic boosts and industry support.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Maurizio Geri |Ca’ Foscari |Peace Initiatives
This week, the U.S. signed a defense pact with the Philippines, hailing it as vital to countering China’s creeping dominance in the hotly-disputed South China Sea. China’s militarization of these disputed waters, including its latest radar installation on a contested reef, raises new threats that Washington seeks to confront.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Ca’ Foscari
AbstractIn recent years, the online scam industry has experienced massive growth in East and Southeast Asia. What used to be scattered operations largely located in apartments, villas, and hotel rooms mostly in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines, began to scale up and move into bigger ‘scam compounds’ hosting dozens of different companies. There is now substantial evidence of thousands of people being deceived and trafficked into scam operations located in these facilities.
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May 24, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Ca’ Foscari
In recent years, the focus of bioinformatics research has moved from individual sequences to collections of sequences. Given the fundamental role of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) in string processing, a number of dedicated tools have been developed for computing the BWT of string collections. While the focus has been on improving efficiency, both in space and time, the exact definition of the BWT employed has not been at the center of attention.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
moderndiplomacy.eu | Maurizio Geri |Ca’ Foscari |Peace Initiatives
Georgia, the South Caucasian bridge between European and Asian continents, stands now at a pivotal crossroads, where Putin former Soviet ambitions may find closure, facilitated by the collaborative efforts of the EU and NATO. Georgian government is not exactly clear on the path towards EU membership, even if Georgia got the candidacy last December, thanks mostly to his President.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
scitechdaily.com | Ca’ Foscari
An international research group has identified a novel state of matter, characterized by the presence of a quantum phenomenon known as chiral current. These currents are generated on an atomic scale by a cooperative movement of electrons, unlike conventional magnetic materials whose properties originate from the quantum characteristic of an electron known as spin and their ordering in the crystal.
