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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Information Manipulation"”.
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Essays on the Political Economy of Media and Information Manipulation
… future. This dissertation focuses on media and information manipulation to understand how unconstrained leaders use media to sustain popular support and how they leverage such uncertainties for their benefit. I first analyze how governments in mixed regimes manipulate the informational …
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Coordinating Compromise: Information Manipulation and Bicameral Bargaining in the European Union
… seek to forge bicameral bargains in a complex information environment. This study examines how European politicians construct such compromises and explores how political elites coordinate around particular proposals when crafting policy. It highlights the ways in which European lawmakers manage …
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Analyzing the Usability of Natural Language Processing for Detecting Disinformation Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
The purposeful manipulation of information for political gain by powerful state actors is a threat to security and democracy that is challenging to address without infringing upon freedom of expression. By qualitatively analyzing the evolution of Russian media manipulation in the early 21st …
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Social inductive biases for reinforcement learning
… societies? How do we minimize the impact of information manipulation campaigns, and fight back? How do we build machine learning algorithms that are more sample efficient when learning from each other's sparse data, and under time constraints? At the root of these questions is a simple one: …
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Cryogenic surface electrode ion traps with integrated superconducting microwave resonators for polar molecular ion spectroscopy
… structure also makes them suitable for quantum information manipulation or for tests of fundamental laws of nature. These experiments require precise control over the molecular internal degrees of freedom. There are few present proposals for trapping and cooling molecules. One proposal is based …
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Male-Female Workplace Friendships: Third Party Coworkers' Perceptions of and Behavior toward Organizational Peers in Cross-Sex Workplace Friendships
… and trust) of and behavior (obstructionism, information manipulation, and aggression) toward cross-sex workplace friendship partners. The first study is formative research employing a questionnaire with open-ended items to survey working adults who have personally observed cross-sex workplace …
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Ester-Based Synthetic Information Oligomers
… because of the ability to store and transfer information through duplex formation using Watson-Crick base pairing. Biochemists have prepared modified DNA analogues, in which the phosphate diester units used for synthesis, the bases used for recognition, and the sugar backbones have all been …
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Essays in Information Economics
… thesis consists of three essays in the field of information economics. The first essay studies manipulation of information by partisan media. The recent increase in partisan media has generated interest in what drives media outlets to become more partisan. I develop a model to study the role of …