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Rumor Identification and Verification for Text in Social Media Content
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P Suthanthira Devi and S Karthika
The Computer Journal, Volume 65, Issue 2, February 2022, Pages 436–455, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxab118
Published: 03 September 2021
... the country post text messages related to the damage, resources and aids. However, it also spreads misinformation or rumors faster and broader than the traditional medium like newspapers and TV. Rumor is defined as ‘An item of circulating information whose veracity status is yet to be verified at the time...
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Evaluating the Quality of Ecoinformatics Data Derived From Commercial Agriculture: A Repeatability Analysis of Pest Density Estimates
Jay A Rosenheim
Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 114, Issue 4, August 2021, Pages 1842–1846, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab127
Published: 28 June 2021
... for evaluating data quality are important for building confidence in the growing applications of ecoinformatics methods. data quality data veracity repeatability analysis observer effect Lygus hesperus Analysis of large, observational data sets gathered in commercial agricultural production, termed...
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Base Rates, Deception Detection, and Deception Theory: A Reply to Burgoon (2015)
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Hee Sun Park and Timothy R. Levine
Human Communication Research, Volume 41, Issue 3, 1 July 2015, Pages 350–366, https://doi.org/10.1111/hcre.12066
Published: 01 July 2015
... to accuracy in deception detection. Key points of disagreement include (a) the degree to which message recipients are sensitive to sender veracity and (b) the extent to which interactivity moderates the veracity and base-rate effects specified by PLM. According to PLM, people are truth-biased, truth-bias...
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The Truth, The Half-Truth, and Nothing Like the Truth: Reconceptualizing False Allegations of Rape
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Candida L. Saunders
The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 52, Issue 6, November 2012, Pages 1152–1171, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azs036
Published: 30 July 2012
... allegation? false allegations, rape, prevalence, no-criming, witness veracity, credibility The prevalence of false allegations of rape is a contested and controversial issue. On the one hand, mainstream socio-legal rape research and commentary claims that false allegations of rape are rare, or at least...
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Bioethics in Thailand: The Struggle for Buddhist Solutions
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Pinit Ratanakul
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 3, August 1988, Pages 301–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/13.3.301
Published: 01 August 1988
... is now being taught to Thai medical
students emphasizing moral insights and principles found within Thai culture.
These are to a large extent Buddhist themes. Veracity is always a duty for
people in general and medical personnel in particular. Falsehoods and decep-
tion cannot be morally justified...
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Retrospective Life Span Analysis: a Method for Studying Extreme Old Age
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Eena Marie Job
Journal of Gerontology, Volume 38, Issue 3, May 1983, Pages 369–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronj/38.3.369
Published: 01 May 1983
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respondents and their interviewers are discussed. It is recommended that further research regarding this
rapidly increasing segment of modern populations should take place along similar lines.
Key Words: Life history, Interviews, Factual veracity, Psychological verisimilitude
LD age...
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Veracity in the Doctor–Patient Relationship
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Dagmar Wujastyk
Published: 02 August 2012
... paternalism moral principles Beauchamp and Childress on nonmaleficence defined Principles of Biomedical Ethics Beauchamp and Childress respect for autonomy defined veracity in doctor patient relationship honesty Suśruta anṛta dishonesty Carakasaṃhitā chadman and upadhā deception deception chadman...
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Bastard Testimony: Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina
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Leigh Gilmore
Published: 15 July 2023
... that Bastard straddles revolves around the notion of realness and the evidentiary and narrative limits that stake out the border around the query of what happened. Moreover, veracity remains an issue regardless of the narrative in autobiography or trauma studies due to its inescapable element...
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Published: 01 April 2017
...This chapter, which covers the principle of veracity (truth telling), addresses the topic of honesty as an element of the general moral concept of respect for persons. The tension between honest disclosure as a moral principle and the potential for lying to produce benefits is explored. In doing so...
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Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (3 edn)
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Robert M. Veatch and others
Published online: 01 May 2017
Published in print: 01 April 2017
... should turn to find the source of ethical judgments. Part II presents cases organized around the major principles of ethics: beneficence and nonmaleficence, justice and the allocation of resources, autonomy, veracity (dealing honestly with patients), fidelity (including confidentiality), and avoidance...
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When Was the Tale of Troy Conceived?
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Joachim Latacz and others
Published: 28 October 2004
... to it is crucial for the question of historicity, which we ultimately wish to address. Crucial, since the veracity of a story which relates to particular events, whether or not it has a historical core, is bound to decrease as the time lapse increases between its appearance and its underlying events. That applies...
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The Idea of the Good and the Transformation of Agency
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Maria Antonaccio
Published: 29 June 2000
... chapter shows how Murdoch’s theory of the good attempts to answer these questions. subjectivism veracity cognition modern ethical This content is only available as a PDF. ...
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A Convert’s Tale
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Yair Mintzker
Published: 30 May 2017
...This chapter explores the life of Christoph David Bernard, a university lecturer with a problematic past who met Oppenheimer on the eve of the execution and composed what is surely the most dramatic account of Oppenheimer in his last days. The question of its factual veracity aside, Bernard's story...
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Wolff, the Pursuit of Perfection, and What We Owe to Each Other: The Case of Veracity and Lying
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Stefano Bacin
Published: 21 March 2024
... veracity and lying and shows how it follows that general strategy. Combining its two aspects, Wolff examines specific moral issues by adopting a non-welfarist notion of benefit and harm as the standard that can give guidance about practical cases. morality perfectionism Wolff ethics of Wolff moral...
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On the Idea of God: Incomprehensibility or Incompatibilities?
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Jean-marie Beyssade
Published: 20 May 1993
...The totality of Cartesian science is based on metaphysics, and two fundamental principles intersect within this metaphysics or first philosophy: one is called the cogito (I think, therefore I am; and I am a thinking substance); the other is called the divine veracity (God exists; and he cannot...
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Advances in Lie Detection: Limitations and Potential for Investigating Allegations of Abuse
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Galit Nahari
Published: 06 October 2016
...This chapter presents the challenges of, and advances made in, assessing the veracity of accounts in the forensic context. Initially, the difficulties in discriminating truths from lies, without tools, are discussed. Subsequently, primary examples of lie detection methods are reviewed...
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Audience Expectations, Invective, and Proof
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Christopher Craig
Published: 29 July 2004
... . Cicero's assertion of veracity, in the midst of a torrent of invective asserting that Clodius was murderous, rapacious, sacrilegious, unsparing of his own family, guilty of incest with his sister, hateful to the gods, and a clear and present danger to the continued survival of the Roman state, nicely...
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Published: 01 November 2016
... pits the ideal veracity of the author against the potential voracity of the malcontent in ways which attempt to orient the offstage audience’s interpretation. Jonson’s authorial desire to manage interpretation is a significant element of his metadramatic practice, which relates to his personal...
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Should Memoirists Aim to Tell the Truth?
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Helena de Bres
Published: 10 September 2021
... truth”, treating readers decently, and creating a work of literary art—and their bearing on these questions. The chapter argues that commitment to veracity on the page can be expected to promote each of these goals, though not without qualification. The chapter begins by defining nonfictional...
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Published: 01 April 2017
...In general, a pharmacist who is in an ongoing relationship with a patient has a duty to disclose information. This duty can be attributed to the principle of veracity (truthfulness, honesty, correctness, and accuracy), but it can also be associated with the principle of fidelity, where special...
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