Disseminators of disinformation often seek to attract attention or evoke emotions - typically to gain influence or generate revenue - resulting in distinctive rhetorical patterns that can be exploited by machine learning models. In this study, we explore linguistic and rhetorical features as proxies for distinguishing disinformative texts from other health and life-science text genres, applying both large language models and classical machine learning classifiers. Given the limitations of existing datasets, which mainly focus on fact checking misinformation, we introduce Four Shades of Life Sciences (FSoLS): a novel, labeled corpus of 2,603 texts on 14 life-science topics, retrieved from 17 diverse sources and classified into four categories of life science publications. The source code for replicating, and updating the dataset is available on GitHub: https://github.com/EvaSeidlmayer/FourShadesofLifeSciences
As emerging technologies continue to shape society, there is a growing emphasis on the need to engage with design ethics as it unfolds in practice to better capture the complexities of ethical considerations embedded in day-to-day work. Positioned within the broader "turn to practice" in HCI, the review characterizes this body of work in terms of its motivations, conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and contributions across a range of design disciplines and academic databases. The findings reveal a shift away from static and abstract ethical frameworks toward an understanding of ethics as an evolving, situated, and inherent aspect of design activities, one that can be cultivated and fostered collaboratively. This review proposes six future directions for establishing common research priorities and fostering the field's growth. While the review promotes cross-disciplinary dialogue, we argue that HCI research, given its cumulative experience with practice-oriented research, is well-equipped to guide this emerging strand of work on design ethics.
Dr. Jacob Mokutso interviews prof. dr. Julius Gathogo from the Research Institute of Religion and Theology of the University of South Africa (RITR-UNISA) and Kenyatta University and All Nations Christian Church University (ANCCI University).
Christianity, Practical religion. The Christian life
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role that religion and politics play at the intersection with individual and social rights. Religiously informed political actors capitalised on fears and prejudices to further science denialism, normalise nationalist ideologies, and curtail human rights. In the United States of America, Brazil, and South Africa, it took the form of problematic political theologies. In many instances, a state of exception, as understood in the work of Giorgio Agamben, was enacted. Such actions often have biopolitical significance revolving around making political choices informed by religious beliefs that impact on individual bodies and social freedoms. This extends from individual bodies to
societies. This research employs a qualitative literature approach to investigate the intersection of political and theological beliefs during the pandemic. It highlights the impact of populist political theologies on the erosion of democracy and human rights in countries that have highly religious populations. It is argued that these strategies reach beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christianity, Practical religion. The Christian life
Among the proposals for the implementation of the motu proprio Spiritus Domini and Antiquum Ministerium of Pope Francis (2021), opening the instituted ministries also to women and to lay people not on the way to ordination, the Note of the Italian Bishops’ Conference of June 2022, is certainly one of the most relevant with respect to the discernment, formation and conditions of access of candidates. By receiving a sacramental from the bishop in a community liturgy, for a perennial ministry at the service of the Word of God, the care of the body of Christ in the Eucharist and in the sick, as well as for Christian initiation and small base communities, the instituted ministers can contribute to the synodal revitalization of the ecclesial communion. Decreed ad experimentum for three years, the Italian document can inspire other Bishops’ Conferences around the world.
The documentation practice for machine-learned (ML) models often falls short of established practices for traditional software, which impedes model accountability and inadvertently abets inappropriate or misuse of models. Recently, model cards, a proposal for model documentation, have attracted notable attention, but their impact on the actual practice is unclear. In this work, we systematically study the model documentation in the field and investigate how to encourage more responsible and accountable documentation practice. Our analysis of publicly available model cards reveals a substantial gap between the proposal and the practice. We then design a tool named DocML aiming to (1) nudge the data scientists to comply with the model cards proposal during the model development, especially the sections related to ethics, and (2) assess and manage the documentation quality. A lab study reveals the benefit of our tool towards long-term documentation quality and accountability.
This article perceived the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a United Nations agency whose mandate is to safeguard refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. However, in discharging this mandate, the UNHCR involves many stakeholders, including churches. In focusing on the church, this article identified a number of barriers to the UNHCR-church integration in responding to the challenges faced by migrants, particularly refugees. In view of this background, this article aimed to provide a critical assessment of the barriers that prevent the integration of the UNHCR and church responses to migration, and consequently, offer recommendations from an ecclesiological perspective. As a literature-based study, this article reviewed literature on the proposed issue and discovered multiple barriers that hamper the UNHCR-church integration in responding to the challenges faced by migrants with a particular focus on refugees. Such barriers include legal, theological, financial, power inequality and the rotation of the UNHCR members. This article advanced recommendations to address the identified barriers; thus, enhance the UNHCR-church integration in responding to the challenges that refugees and other migrants are confronted with.
Contribution: The contribution of the article lay in identifying and discussing the barriers that hamper the UNHCR-church integration in responding to migration challenges, and making the ecclesiological recommendations that ensued from that discussion.
Practical Theology, Practical religion. The Christian life
The article highlights and analyzes the leading directions of the patriotic life of St. Luka Krymsky (Valentyn Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetsky), outlines the exceptional mission and gifts of an outstanding surgeon, reveals the theoretical and practical significance of the scientific works of a world-famous scientist, the deep spirituality of theological works, substantiates the essence of the multifaceted life of St. Luka as an important basis for the patriotic upbringing of future teachers. The active life sphere of the personality of St. Luka Krymsky is filled with patriotic acts of service, devotion, loyalty, nobility in relation to his Motherland and acts of sensitivity and mercy in relation to others. Among the leading directions of the patriotic life activity of St. Luka Krymsky are professional-research, moral-theological, pastoral-caring. The professional and research direction of the patriotic activity of Saint Luka Krymskyi (Valentyn Feliksovich Voyno-Yasenetskyi) consisted in selfless service to people and the Motherland as a surgeon with wide specialization and a doctor of medicine. He gained a lot of experience as a zemstvo doctor, later the chief doctor and surgeon of many hospitals during the First and Second World War and peacetime. He became a specialist in purulent surgery. Demonstrated high professionalism, successfully conducted complex operations. He saved the lives and health of thousands of wounded and sick people. In his direct professional activity, he mastered not only surgery, but also obstetrics, gynecology, therapy, and pediatrics. The results of the research and the rich surgical experience of the scientist opened new directions in the field of medicine (regional anesthesia) and have not lost their importance even today. He left a rich scientific legacy. Author of 55 scientific works on anatomy, physiology, anesthesiology, purulent medicine, surgery. He made a significant contribution to the fields of ophthalmology, neurosurgery, military field surgery, abdominal surgery, orthopedics, purulent surgery, and anesthesiology. An outstanding scientist with a world name. During his lifetime, he passed on his rich experience to doctors and students. His legacy as a scientist and practitioner is still the subject of research in various fields, including the theory of clinical diagnosis, medical psychology and deontology, bioethics, urology, health care organization, etc. The moral and theological direction of the patriotic activity of St. Lukza of Krymsky consisted in self-education and the education of fellow countrymen as free and perfect individuals. He went down in history not only as a talented doctor and scientist, but also as an outstanding hierarch. He directed his sermons to foster a humane attitude towards others on the basis of Christian morality. Encouraged to master such moral and spiritual virtues as humility, love, mercy, sensitivity, generosity, devotion, loyalty, truthfulness, honesty, eloquence. He prepared for publication two philosophical and theological works: "Spirit, soul and body" and "Science and religion". He revealed and proved the connections between science and religion, the inseparable metaphysical connections between the human body, soul and spirit, the transcendent spiritual abilities of man and his immortality. He defined the heart as an organ of sensation, cognition, thought and perception of spiritual influences. Based on the materials of the saint's teachings, 12 volumes of his sermons were collected. The pastoral and caring direction of the patriotic activity of St. Luka Krymsky consisted in the spiritual and physical care of those around him. During the times of Soviet power and atheistic propaganda, he took care of the spiritual health of society, energetic development of religious activities. He took the rank of priest, later monastic tonsure and the rank of bishop. Managed many dioceses. He looked after the opening and improvement of temples, defended the rights of believers to free religion, took care of the religious education of adults and children. He carried out active preaching and social activities. Engaged in charity. He organized charity dinners, helped the sick, low-income families, widows and orphans. The proposed article is aimed at organizing such an educational process in institutions of higher education, which would be saturated with ideas of patriotism, which spiritualize students and cause them to understand involvement in all aspects of social life and corresponding care for the improvement of the Motherland.
Nature has found one method of organizing living matter, but maybe other options exist -- not yet discovered -- on how to create life. To study the life "as it could be" is the objective of an interdisciplinary field called Artificial Life (commonly abbreviated as ALife). The word "artificial" refers to the fact that humans are involved in the creation process. The artificial life forms might be completely unlike natural forms of life, with different chemical compositions, and even computer programs exhibiting life-like behaviours.
Bu yazı “İslam Düşünce Geleneğinde Tanrı Anlayışları I Eş’arîler” isimli kitabın kritiğini içermektedir. Allah’a inanmak İslam’ın en önemli prensibidir. Ancak kelâm düşüncesinde bu prensibin açıklanması bakımından farklı anlayışlar söz konusu olmuştur. Kitap, Eş’ari kelamındaki Tanrı tasavvurunu ayrıntılı bir şekilde ele almaktadır. Aynı zamanda Eş'ari kelâmında ortaya atılan düşünceleri de kronolojik bir sıralamayla aktarmaktadır.
Perhaps no other school subject provokes such anxieties from teachers as teaching about religion. Understanding the motivations, worldviews, pressures and funds of knowledge of the fantastic professionals who make up the RE teaching world is essential if research-informed resources, pedagogies and interventions are to have a real impact in the lives and learning of students. In an extensive study of teacher agency in the implementation of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Priestley, Biesta, and Robinson (2015) theorise a dynamic ecology of agency which takes account of three sets of factors; iterative – teacher histories, projective – future plans, and practical-evaluative – concerning the present in which agency is enacted. Iterative factors, including life histories and professional histories, form the past from which teachers are always moving onward towards the future. For a discipline such as RE, which has gone through so many changes over the years, there can be few teachers who have an uncritical disposition towards reproducing the kind of RE teaching they received at school themselves, yet these histories have a bearing on the kinds of professionals we strive to become. From these iterative factors, teachers move forwards towards their projective futures, the short-term and long-term goals teachers have for themselves, their students, and for the future of the subject. As Janet Orchard and colleagues, and Emma Salter and colleagues, in this issue illustrate, teachers can become producers not only of pedagogy but of the development of the identity of RE into the future. Between past and future, this model posits a range of ‘practical-evaluative’ concerns which bear upon the present – cultural values, beliefs and discourses, social structures and power relations, and material constraints in the classroom. In this issue of the journal, Ruth Flanagan highlights the impact of some of these cultural values on primary teachers’ disposition towards teaching about religions and worldviews, while Rita Phillips shows the impact personal faith can have in challenging some of the material constraints which are leading to ever-increasing stress and burnout for so many teachers. For Biesta and Tedder (2007), agency is not something which teachers possess, but something which is ‘acted out’ in the present, for which they must strive in the constant co-construction of these three factors. In the case of RE, this becomes a doubly complex matter, since the subject itself involves guiding young people towards a sense of their own ultimate values, drawing these out of the iterative pasts of religious traditions and worldviews. Much has been written about the ‘de-skilling’ of the teacher. For Apple (1993) these are the consequence of a neo-liberal project in education, resulting in an intensification of teacher workload which closes down opportunities to consider the purpose and relevance of study. These are certainly some of the concerns which Rita Phillips raises in her article in relation to teacher stress and resilience. The resources which religions provide, such as a sense of belonging, like-mindedness and vocation may go some way to explaining why RE is often counter-cultural in the neo-liberal school (Conroy, Baumfield, and Lundie 2012), and concepts such as a Christian theology of encounter are drawn upon by some of Janet Orchard’s co-authors in this issue to illustrate the ways that religions’ value resources influence the methodology of our subject area. Similarly, the Islamic concept of ta’lim is drawn upon by religion teachers in the UAE in the article in this issue by Mariam Alhashmi and Jasy Mussa-Inaty, as a motivator towards teacher-driven professional development. Emma Salter and Lyn Tett, in their evaluation of such teacher-led opportunities in England, explore the mutually reinforcing ways that the status of emerging teacher-researchers and the status of RE can positively enrich one another. BRITISH JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 2021, VOL. 43, NO. 3, 251–252 https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2021.1922057
Cibogo Village, Kodya Bandung is located behind the Maranatha Christian University campus. The village has a Islamic boarding school (Pondok Pesantren) Ranca Herang which is currently actively inhabited by students and female students. These students focus on studying religion, at the end of the year they are always ready to go into society and be independent. On that basis, the pesantren submitted a letter to the Fine Arts Study Program with the aim of getting training from lecturers and students, namely skills that can increase community competitiveness. The method of implementing this activity uses mentoring methods and practical methods. This activity is in the form of training in making painted canvas cloth with the laying technique using a lithophone. This solution was given because the large number of requests for canvas from schools in the city of Bandung had not been fulfilled. Apart from providing training, this program also provides insight into the tools and materials for creating fine arts. The results of this training are carried out in stages and the results show that they are able to make canvas cloth practically, it is hoped that those who acquire these skills will later become provisions to earn a living from making canvas paintings so that they can improve their standard of living, over life, during life community life.
and drinking were frowned upon, which was consistent with the ethos of the CIM. These prohibitions, along with baptism, mark the external, visible form of Lisu Christian faith, connecting it with their original conversion experience. Arrington characterizes Lisu Christian practice as a form of Protestantism rooted in both Lisu culture and the CIM. Lisu faith is communal rather than individual in nature, which is evident in their shared practices of prayer, eating, line-dancing, and singing. Arrington contends that (1) Lisu singing of Western hymns is embedded in Lisu culture, (2) individuals may derive various meanings and experiences from a particular hymn, and (3) Christian hymns act as a mediator between practical life and biblical teaching. Unlike in Western societies, Lisu Christians make no distinction between mind and body, between sacred time and secular time; for the Lisu, there is a unity in all aspects of life. In line with CIM’s historical ministry, Lisu Christianity and church are built based on self-support, self-governance, and self-evangelism. Contemporary Lisu churches stand in the middle of their villages, follow missionary Christianity, and often prioritize proselytizing. Also, they serve as a civic and spiritual center. Arrington’s exploration of Lisu Christians’ life stories and the social forces that shaped Lisu Christianity, based on in-depth archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, contributes significantly to our understanding of World Christianity and the anthropology of religion.
This article aims to provide new insights for resolving adolescents' Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, which remains problems in youth ministry. It presents an approach to Christian education to solve Moralistic Therapeutic Deism that is evident among mainline Protestant and Catholic teenagers but is also visible in other religious types of teens and even many non-religious youth in America. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism has become the dominant civil religion in America. It is the actual de facto functional religious faith of the majority of teens, regardless of their official affiliation. The problems with Moralistic Therapeutic Deism are that it tends to seek individual happiness as the highest goal in life, self-love and self-acceptance as the keys to achieving that happiness, and an amorphous faith in a unique God. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is penetrating into youth in our worshipping community, and we must help them awake from the invasion of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism and rethink Christian tradition and practices, which make Christianity distinct from Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. This study has important implications for the theological practical application of youth ministry, which could solve the Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It seeks to provide adolescents, who have bought into Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, anchors for the true Christian faith from a Christian theological perspective. In the course of exploring its deeper meaning, it will first discuss the harm of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism as the first phase to resolving the impacts of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism in the Christian life, especially for today’s teenagers, generally. Drawing on the insights of Christian practice, it will also explore how we could fix Moralistic Therapeutic Deism based on several key theological normative doctrines. Then, it will suggest the solution of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism for the youth group in Grace Church based on understanding its ministry. It is hope that it helps guide what Grace Church needs to do with Moralistic Therapeutic Deism in the present and the future.
By resorting to the spiritual autobiography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an important religious and cultural personality of the 20th century, the author tries to emphasise the aspects of political theology that defined her way of acting and thinking and to show how she understood the relationship between religion and politics. Topics like poverty, love, giving, peace, sacrifice or responsibility are presented as keywords in the understanding of a complex vision with interdisciplinary relevance, while the two levels of poverty, namely the material one, often accompanied by physical pain, maladies and other types of suffering, and the spiritual one, that is not necessarily related to the lack of basic material needs and can be found even in developed countries like the United States of America or Japan, are seen through the lenses of political theology. The author shows that, by finding practical bridges between spirituality and politics and by using as sources of inspiration not only Christian thinkers, but also thinkers from other religions, like Ghandi, the Albanese militant accomplished her vocation and also offered important and perennial principles which can help in the understanding of the contemporary world and in finding solutions to some of its crises. Although her message is a sort of combination between theology and social life, the political accents, sometimes theoretical, at other times practical, are important and can be used today for the development of a sustainable discourse for both the theological and the political sphere. Contribution: The article brings into attention a spiritual autobiography that was not valorised properly by the contemporary research and in the same time offers an inter-disciplinary approach with ecumenical value.
Carl Christian Kjelgaard Mikkelsen, Mirko Myllykoski
In this paper we consider the problem of computing generalized eigenvectors of a matrix pencil in real Schur form. In exact arithmetic, this problem can be solved using substitution. In practice, substitution is vulnerable to floating-point overflow. The robust solvers xTGEVC in LAPACK prevent overflow by dynamically scaling the eigenvectors. These subroutines are sequential scalar codes which compute the eigenvectors one by one. In this paper we discuss how to derive robust blocked algorithms. The new StarNEig library contains a robust task-parallel solver Zazamoukh which runs on top of StarPU. Our numerical experiments show that Zazamoukh achieves a super-linear speedup compared with DTGEVC for sufficiently large matrices.