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Showing 1 to 20 of 256 for “"fake"”.
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Fake Thesis
<p>This is a fake thesis for testing purposes.</p>
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Fake Phong shading
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Venäjän ulkoministeriön fake news -retoriikka
Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan Venäjän ulkoministeriön retoriikkaa. Tutkimuskohteena on Venäjän ulkoministeriön verkkosivu, jolla ministeriö esittää vastineita kansainvälisestä mediasta valikoimiinsa valeuutisiksi kategorisoimiinsa uutisiin. Tutkielmassa tarkastellaan, millaisiin uutisiin ministeriö …
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Virtual Bodies: Probing Fake Flesh
<p>This thesis explores the fluid and often elusive concept of the body as mediated through technology and art, questioning the boundaries between the physical and virtual. By investigating the interactions of cultural ideals, technological mediation, and material experimentation, the research …
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Fake Feature and Valuation From Context
… and in calculating identity for ellipsis (‘Fake Features’). I present new data about gender and number mismatch in ellipsis which proves difficult to model on existing approaches to fake features (e.g. Sauerland 2013; Sudo & Spathas 2020). The heart of the proposal is a derivational theory …
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ALGORITHMIC SOLUTIONS TO COMBAT ONLINE FAKE NEWS
… moment on the Web has fostered the rise of ``fake news.'' Because of its detrimental effect on democracy, global economies, and public health, effectively combating online fake news has become an essential and urgent task.<p>This dissertation starts with making typological, theoretical, and …
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Machine learning for detection of fake news
… to an increase in the popularity and spread of fake news. As demonstrated by the widespread effects of the large onset of fake news, humans are inconsistent if not outright poor detectors of fake news. With this, efforts have been made to automate the process of fake news detection. The most …
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An advanced ensemble approach for detecting fake news
Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirement for the Masters in Information and Communications Technology degree, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2021.
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Fake Realities: Assassination and Race in Popular Culture
<p>Since the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks the United States had been involved in conflicts across the globe. These conflict have given rise to the use of target killing, commonly known as assassination as a way to eliminate enemies of the United States. A majority of those killed are of …
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An unsupervised approach to COVID-19 fake tweet detection
… platforms is accurate. The dissemination of fake news, intentional or unintentional, can lead to panic among readers and further exacerbate the effects of the pandemic. Objectives: This research project aims to explore the potential of unsupervised machine learning algorithms in …
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AI-Driven Fake News Detection: Trends, Techniques, and Experimental Analysis
The rapid spread of fake news poses a significant challenge to information accuracy. This thesis highlights fake news definitions and characteristics, introducing a taxonomy that categorizes AI-driven detection methods into model-centric and process-centric approaches. We evaluate various …
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A Collection of Short Stories： Too Real To Be Fake
… <p><strong>Too real to be fake</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>How could we be all in to like someone and don’t give out the power to hurt ourselves?</p>
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Numerical Tests of Two Conjectures in Fake Real Quadratic Orders
A fake real quadratic order is defined based on an imaginary quadratic field and a prime p but behaves similarly to real quadratic orders. Two conjectures regarding fake real quadratic orders are discussed in the thesis. The first one is the Cohen-Lenstra heuristic. Our computation showed that for …
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Probes of tocopherol biochemistry: fluorophores, imaging agents, and fake antioxidants
The body has many defence systems against reactive radical species, but none are as crucial in the protection of lipid membranes as vitamin E. As a result of a selection process mediated by the α-tocopherol transfer protein (α-TTP), α-tocopherol is the only form of vitamin E retained in the body. …
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Combating fake news with adversarial domain adaptation and neural models
… era where it is easier than ever to disseminate "fake news" and other dubious claims, automatic fact checking becomes an essential tool to help people discern fact from fiction. In this thesis, we focus on two main tasks: fact checking which involves classifying an input claim with respect to its …
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A Person-Centered Approach to Understanding Women's Decision to Fake Orgasm
Studies suggest that nearly two-thirds of women fake or have faked orgasm, yet few researchers have explicitly examined this phenomenon. Previous studies have identified some group differences between women who fake orgasm and those who do not on dimensions of sexual experience, emotion regulation, …
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The Impact of Positive/Negative Fake News on Country Brand Equity
… with truth motivates research on the effects of fake news on country brand equity, given the distant and intangible nature of this construct. This study integrates valenced framing theory with construal-level theory to investigate how fake news frames influence perceptions of credibility, …
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