An r-Hiding Revocable Group Signature Scheme: Group Signatures with the Property of Hiding the Number of Revoked Users by Keita Emura, Atsuko Miyaji, Kazumasa Omote

“…Similarly, in revocable group signature schemes, if one knows (or guesses) the number of revoked users (say r), then one may guess the reason behind such circumstances, and it may lead to harmful rumors. However, no previous revocation procedure can achieve hiding r. …”
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Sorcellerie capitaliste et touristes pishtaco : les tensions occultes autour du tourisme d’ayahuasca chez les Shipibo de San Francisco (Amazonie péruvienne) by Doriane Slaghenauffi

“…This has brought about sorcery attacks both on rival shamans and on tourists seeking a shamanic and hallucinogenic experience, some of whom in turn become the target of sorcery rumors. These occult practices and interpretations can be seen, on the one hand, as forms of resilience adopted by Shipibo shamans in order to cope with and benefit from the current context of transition to capitalism, which is increasingly present within the communities, and, on the other hand, as manifestations of frustration and anxiety about the recuperation of local shamanism by global culture, symptomatic of the traditionally ambiguous links between gringos and Native Amazonians.…”
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A Prerecognition Model for Hot Topic Discovery Based on Microblogging Data by Tongyu Zhu, Jianjun Yu

“…The microblogging is prevailing since its easy and anonymous information sharing at Internet, which also brings the issue of dispersing negative topics, or even rumors. Many researchers have focused on how to find and trace emerging topics for analysis. …”
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Reporting What’s Going on at the Neighbors from a Distance: Turkish News Channels’ Breaking News Coverage of the 2018 Missile Strikes against Syria by Ayşen Akkor Gül

“…Deviations from traditional journalism consisted of“reporting rumors,” “citing anonymous sources,” and “making personal references.” …”
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La Révolte de Bû Ziyân en Algérie, 1849 by Julia Clancy-Smith

“…And finally, what does this revolt in a small oasis reveal about collective memory - about the intersections between oral culture/traditions, rumors and written texts concerning the advent of the mahdi ? …”
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Sahara en mouvement by Dominique Casajus

“…Indeed the Sahara-inspired dreams of today’s solar engineers are every bit as wild as the utopias of technicians from the colonial era. Similarly, the rumors fueled by media about AQIM are not very different from those once spread about the Senussi brotherhood. …”
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Taming the Beast: Bullying and Censorship in Interlingual Subtitling by Hussein Abu-Rayyash, Said M. Shiyab

“…Five principal categories of verbal bullying are identified: threats, insults, taunts, rumors, and deflection through humor. Subtitlers mitigate these themes using adaptive strategies such as neutralization, substitution, and stylistic amplification. …”
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Carton Coon’s Riddle: Anthropologist, Archaeologist, or CIA Agent? (Critical Review of Carlton Stevens Coon’s Methodology and Publications in the Iranian Paleolithic Archaeology)... by Hamed Vahdati Nasab

“…On the other hand, his horrifyingly racist publications, rumors about his employment as an intelligence operative by the CIA during the WW II and the Cold War, plus countless unanswered questions concerning the sites he chose to excavate in Iran, all support this hypothesis that Archaeology was not his first priority in Iran.…”
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Pengalaman Suami yang Mengikuti Vasektomi di Kecamatan Cimahi Tengah by Fikri Mourly Wahyudi, R. Siti Jundiah, Novitasari Tsamrotul Fuadah, Inggrid Dirgahayu, Yuyun Sarinengsih

“…The study produced 8 themes: readiness to do vasectomy, pain, anxiety, getting rewards, no physical changes, no changes in sexual intercourse, and rumors, as well as 18 sub-themes. Researchers recommend health education and evaluation of vasectomy acceptors, and further researchers to continue research with other methods so deeper phenomena can be explored. …”
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Legal aspects of responsibility for publishing or re-publishing incorrect information on social media (a study in UAE law) by Ziad AL-Enizi, Ahmad Ghandour

“…Social media sites are known to be rife with misinformation and rumors, however, people who published or helped spread this information were not prosecuted, which may be due to the difficulty of tracking those who published this information or helped spread it technically. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…The variety of circumstances, the setting and staging, the interlocutors , and the complex intersection of time and place, of stories and History, will be examined; in these conversations with Miss Jane many actors participate, from  the interviewer-narrator, to most characters; even the reader becomes involved.Speaking, hearing, listening, keeping silent is an elaborate ritual that performs many functions; besides conveying news or rumors, it imparts information on the times and on the life of a “representative” woman whose existence - spanning a whole century- is both singular and emblematic. …”
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Lost and Found: The Missing Flamboyant Gothic Door from the Château de Varaignes by Martha Easton

“…The townspeople of Varaignes did not know what had become of the door although it was rumored it had been sent to the United States. In 2014, a group of researchers from Varaignes discovered that the door had ended up at Hammond Castle, constructed between 1926 and 1929 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. …”
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Understanding Social Cohesion from the Perspective of the Host Community: Turkey Example by Ilgar Seyidov

“…According to findings, the members of the host community are in favor of developing social contact with refugees; however, misinformation and rumors, language barriers, and a lack of social connection were considered as the main factors affecting the negative attitudes of the host community members towards refugees.…”
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Modeling Spatial Social Complex Networks for Dynamical Processes by Shandeepa Wickramasinghe, Onyekachukwu Onyerikwu, Jie Sun, Daniel ben-Avraham

“…The study of social networks—where people are located, geographically, and how they might be connected to one another—is a current hot topic of interest, because of its immediate relevance to important applications, from devising efficient immunization techniques for the arrest of epidemics to the design of better transportation and city planning paradigms to the understanding of how rumors and opinions spread and take shape over time. …”
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Reread a History: Another Narration from the Biography of Aga Mohammad Khan Qajar A Critique on the Book "Iran's History in the Qajar Period: The Aga Mohammad Khan Era" by Alireza Mollaiy Tavany

“…A person who is not only rumors about his cruelty, especially the blindness of the people of Kerman or the Caucasus, but also the opposite, was the only one among the claimants of power, including Lotfali Khan Zand, who completely thought about Iran and the revival of its historical realm. …”
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Comprehensive influence evaluation algorithm of complex network nodes based on global-local attributes by Weijin JIANG, Ying YANG, Tiantian LUO, Wenying ZHOU, En LI, Xiaowei ZHANG

“…Mining key nodes in the network plays a great role in the evolution of information dissemination, virus marketing, and public opinion control, etc.The identification of key nodes can effectively help to control network attacks, detect financial risks, suppress the spread of viruses diseases and rumors, and prevent terrorist attacks.In order to break through the limitations of existing node influence assessment methods with high algorithmic complexity and low accuracy, as well as one-sided perspective of assessing the intrinsic action mechanism of evaluation metrics, a comprehensive influence (CI) assessment algorithm for identifying critical nodes was proposed, which simultaneously processes the local and global topology of the network to perform node importance.The global attributes in the algorithm consider the information entropy of neighboring nodes and the shortest distance nodes between nodes to represent the local attributes of nodes, and the weight ratio of global and local attributes was adjusted by a parameter.By using the SIR (susceptible infected recovered) model and Kendall correlation coefficient as evaluation criteria, experimental analysis on real-world networks of different scales shows that the proposed method is superior to some well-known heuristic algorithms such as betweenness centrality (BC), closeness centrality (CC), gravity index centrality(GIC), and global structure model (GSM), and has better ranking monotonicity, more stable metric results, more adaptable to network topologies, and is applicable to most of the real networks with different structure of real networks.…”
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Comparative analysis of the socio-psychological adaptation of migrant children and children in the host population by R. V. Osin

“…They are characterized by the use of physical strength, foul language, the spread of gossip, rumors, negativism, irritation, suspicion and insult. …”
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EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN PROMOTING INSECURITY AND PROPAGANDA IN NIGERIA by ABDULWAHAB ABDULKABIR, NURUDEEN SOLA IBRAHIM

“…The study recommends among others that individuals (citizens) should stop spreading, and promoting offensive, abusive, fake news (information), which advances social hatred, and terrorism attack rumors on social media platforms. …”
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Analyzing Antecedent Configurations of Group Emotion Generation in Public Emergencies: A Multi-Factor Coupling Approach by Xiaohan Yan, Yi Liu, Yan Chen, Tiezhong Liu

“…Notably, the government’s response speed is critical for fostering positive emotions, whereas the emergence of rumors significantly contributes to the spread of negative group emotions. …”
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Crisis Spreading Model of the Shareholding Networks of Listed Companies and Their Main Holders and Their Controllability by Yuanyuan Ma, Lingxuan Li

“…Based on the systematic analysis of the epidemic diseases and rumors spreading on the complex networks, the SIR model is introduced to research the crisis spreading in shareholding networks of listed companies and their main holders on the basis of the data about ownership structure in Chinese Stock Markets. …”
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