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Jago AS, Carroll GR. Who Made This? Algorithms and Authorship Credit. Pers Soc Psychol Bull 2024; 50:793-806. [PMID: 36734213 DOI: 10.1177/01461672221149815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Producers and creators often receive assistance with work from other people. Increasingly, algorithms can provide similar assistance. When algorithms assist or augment producers, does this change individuals' willingness to assign credit to those producers? Across four studies spanning several domains (e.g., painting, construction, sports analytics, and entrepreneurship), we find evidence that producers receive more credit for work when they are assisted by algorithms, compared with humans. We also find that individuals assume algorithmic assistance requires more producer oversight than human assistance does, a mechanism that explains these higher attributions of credit (Studies 1-3). The greater credit individuals assign to producers assisted by algorithms (vs. other people) also manifests itself in increased support for those producers' entrepreneurial endeavors (Study 4). As algorithms proliferate, norms of credit and authorship are likely changing, precipitating a variety of economic and social consequences.
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Onyeneke RU, Agyarko FF, Onyeneke CJ, Osuji EE, Ibeneme PA, Esfahani IJ. How Does Climate Change Affect Tomato and Okra Production? Evidence from Nigeria. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:3477. [PMID: 37836217 PMCID: PMC10575383 DOI: 10.3390/plants12193477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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This study examined the impacts of climate change on okra and tomato yields. Fertilizer consumption and credit to the crop sector were considered as covariates in the analysis. Time-series data, spanning a period of 40 years, were obtained from various sources. An autoregressive distributed lag model was applied to analyze short- and long-term impacts of climate change and agricultural inputs on okra and tomato yields. Not all variables were stationary at levels (order zero), but they were all significant at first difference, indicating the presence of cointegration. The Bound's test F-ratio was statistically significant and implied the presence of long- and short-term relationships among the variables studied. The mean temperatures had negative impacts on okra and tomato yields in both the short and long terms. Credit guaranteed to the crop sector had positive short- and long-term impacts on tomato yield; fertilizer consumption had a negative long-term impact on okra yield. Our study concludes that climate change, particularly rising temperature, impacts herbaceous fruit crop production in Nigeria. Therefore, we recommend that breeding and disseminating climate-smart tomato and okra varieties will help fruit crop farmers respond to rising temperatures.
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- Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke
- Department of Agriculture, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo 482131, Nigeria; (R.U.O.); (C.J.O.); (E.E.O.)
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- Institute for Scientific and Technological Information (INSTI), Accra P.O. Box M 32, Ghana;
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- Department of Agriculture, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo 482131, Nigeria; (R.U.O.); (C.J.O.); (E.E.O.)
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- Department of Agriculture, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo 482131, Nigeria; (R.U.O.); (C.J.O.); (E.E.O.)
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- Department of Geography, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo 482131, Nigeria;
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- Glopex Co., Ltd., R & D Center B2065, GeumGang Penterium IX Tower A2801, Dongtancheomdansaneop 1-ro 27, Hwaseong-si 18469, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
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Baum MA, Braun MN, Hart A, Huffer VI, Meßmer JA, Weigl M, Wennerhold L. The first author takes it all? Solutions for crediting authors more visibly, transparently, and free of bias. Br J Soc Psychol 2023; 62:1605-1620. [PMID: 35945695 DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 07/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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With the seventh edition of the publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA style now prescribes bias-free language and encourages accessibility even to non-academic audiences. However, even with the newest guidelines, the way we credit authors in psychology remains anachronistic, intransparent, and prone to conflict. It still relies on a sequence-determines-credit approach in the byline, which concurrently is contradicted by the option to consider the last author as the position of the principal investigator depending on the field or journal. Scholars from various disciplines have argued that relying on such norms introduces a considerable amount of error when stakeholders rely on articles for career-relevant decisions. Given the existing recommendations towards a credit-based system, ignoring those issues will further promote bias that could be avoided with rather minor changes to the way we perceive authorship. In this article, we introduce a set of easy-to-implement changes to the manuscript layout that value contribution rather than position. Aimed at fostering transparency, accountability, and equality between authors, establishing those changes would likely benefit all stakeholders in contemporary psychological science.
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- Myriam A Baum
- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Ashkenazi I, Olsha O. Authorship Disputes in Scholarly Biomedical Publications and Trust in the Research Institution. Rambam Maimonides Med J 2023; 14:RMMJ.10503. [PMID: 37555719 PMCID: PMC10393470 DOI: 10.5041/rmmj.10503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION When authorship disputes arise in academic publishing, research institutions may be asked to investigate the circumstances. We evaluated the association between the prevalence of misattributed authorship and trust in the institution involved. METHODS We measured trust using a newly validated Opinion on the Institution's Research and Publication Values (OIRPV) scale (range 1-4). Mayer and Davies' Organizational Trust for Management Instrument served as control. Association between publication misconduct, gender, institution type, policies, and OIRPV-derived Trust Scores were evaluated. RESULTS A total of 197 responses were analyzed. Increased reporting of authorship misconduct, such as gift authorship, author displacement within the authors' order on the byline, and ghost authorship, were associated with low Trust Scores (P<0.001). Respondents from institutions whose administration had made known (declared or published) their policy on authorship in academic publications awarded the highest Trust Scores (median 3.06, interquartile range 2.25 to 3.56). Only 17.8% favored their administration as the best authority to investigate authorship dispute honestly. Of those who did not list the administration as their preferred option for resolving disputes, 58.6% (95/162) provided a Trust Score <2.5, which conveys mistrust in the institution. CONCLUSIONS Increased reporting of publication misconducts such as gift authorship, author displacement within the order of the authors' byline, and ghost authorship was associated with lower Trust Scores in the research institutions. Institutions that made their policies known were awarded the highest Trust Scores. Our results question whether the research institutions' administrations are the appropriate authority for clarifying author disputes in all cases.
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- Itamar Ashkenazi
- The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- General Surgery Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
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- General Surgery Department [Emeritus], Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
- Hadassah Faculty of Medicine [Emeritus], Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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Jia K, He Y, Mohsin M. Digital financial and banking competition network: Evidence from China. Front Psychol 2023; 13:1104120. [PMID: 36793365 PMCID: PMC9922694 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1104120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The rapid development of digital finance resulted in fierce competition in the banking industry. The study used Bank-corporate credit data to measure interbank competition based on social network model, and we transformed the regional digital finance index into bank-level digital finance index using each bank's registry and license information. Furthermore, we employed QAP (quadratic assignment procedure) to empirically test the effects of digital finance on the competitive structure among banks. Based on which, we verified its heterogeneity and investigated the mechanisms through which the digital finance affected the banking competition structure. The study finds that, digital finance reshapes the banking competition structure, and intensifies the inter-bank involution while increasing the evolution. The large nation-owned banks have been in central position in the banking network system, with stronger competitiveness and higher strength of digital finance development. For large banks, digital financial development has no significant impact on inter-bank co-opetition and is only more significantly correlated with banking weighted competitive networks. For small and medium-sized banks, digital finance has a significant impact on both co-opetition and competitive pressure. Meanwhile, digital finance also led to the increasing homogeneous competition. In addition, compared with large nation-owned banks, the competitiveness of small and medium-sized joint-equity commercial banks and urban commercial banks are more vulnerable to digital finance and resulting in homogenization problems. Mechanism analysis showed that (1) digital finance promotes the overall competitiveness of the banking industry by improving the inclusiveness of financial services, which expands the service scope (scale effect); (2) digital finance promotes the competition by improving the pricing ability, risk identification ability and finally the capital allocation ability of banks (Pricing effect). The above findings provide new ideas for the governance of banking competition and the realization of a new pattern of economic development.
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- Kaiwei Jia
- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, China
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- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Management Sciences, Virtual University, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan,*Correspondence: Mohammad Mohsin, ✉
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Garrison ST, Rampold SD, Vasquez K, Gillen M, Baker LM. Parents' employment, income, and finances before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Consum Aff 2022; 56:276-291. [PMID: 35603323 PMCID: PMC9115126 DOI: 10.1111/joca.12443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/08/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought grave financial concerns for families in the United States as they attempted to navigate the multifaceted impacts of the pandemic. The present descriptive study examined Florida families' employment characteristics, credit card debt, savings characteristics, use of savings based on employment and income variables, and patterns of use of the first 2020 economic impact payment during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responses to an online questionnaire were collected from 526 Florida residents, age 18 or older, who were parents of minor children during the time the study was conducted. Findings are indicative of varying financial impacts on families based on gender, marital status, income level, and employment status related to COVID-19. Implications are presented for employers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and families.
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- Selena T. Garrison
- Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life SciencesUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural ResourcesUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life SciencesUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences, College of Agricultural and Life SciencesUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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- Center for Public Issues Education in Agriculture and Natural ResourcesUniversity of FloridaGainesvilleFloridaUSA
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Shin F, Cohen D, Lawless RM, Preston JL. The Hedonics of Debt. Front Psychol 2020; 11:537606. [PMID: 33281656 PMCID: PMC7705353 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.537606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Psychologists and economists often discuss the “pain” of paying for our purchases. Four experiments examine how people evaluate prospective debt payments, analyzing how different features of a loan (down payment, final payment, duration, monthly payments) affect willingness to accept the loan. Akin to previous findings on physical pain, participants exhibited duration neglect and overweighted final moments. However, participants also focused heavily on the monthly or average payment (unlike in retrospective studies of physical pain where only peak-end moments seem to count). In Experiment 2, participants’ willingness to accept the loan was not significantly diminished by making it more expensive through keeping the same monthly payment but extending the length of the loan by 40% (evincing duration neglect). Further, in Experiments 3 and 4, we show that participants increased their willingness to buy if loans were made longer and more expensive by adding smaller, less “painful” payments to the end.
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- Faith Shin
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- College of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Swanton TB, Gainsbury SM. Debt stress partly explains the relationship between problem gambling and comorbid mental health problems. Soc Sci Med 2020; 265:113476. [PMID: 33143953 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 09/16/2020] [Accepted: 10/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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RATIONALE Easy access to consumer credit products, such as credit cards, overdrafts, and personal loans, may facilitate gambling beyond affordable levels, which can result in debt problems. Debt and mental health problems are both potential motivators and core consequences of problem gambling. Debt stress (i.e., worry regarding ability to repay debts) is one potential psychological mechanism underlying the relationship between debt and mental health problems. Few previous studies have investigated debt stress among gamblers. OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the mediating effect of debt stress between gambling frequency and mental health and wellbeing. METHODS & RESULTS A sample of 309 Australian past-month gamblers (83.8% male; mean age 41.5 years) completed an online survey. There was no evidence for the preregistered association between gambling frequency and debt stress, ruling out a predicted mediating effect for debt stress between gambling frequency and mental health and wellbeing. However, exploratory path analysis showed debt stress has statistically significant mediating effects between problem gambling and psychological distress, depression, wellbeing, and gambling-related family impacts, after controlling for sociodemographic factors and psychiatric history. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS Debt stress is a robust indicator of financial problems and may indicate underlying problem gambling and mental health issues, making debt stress a useful risk indicator. Clinical services should conduct screening for debt stress and address subjective worry about debts as a standard part of treatment plans as this may help to mitigate some of the impact of gambling and/or financial problems on poor mental health. Health practitioners should develop strong referral networks with gambling and financial counselling services. Government investment in making gambling and financial counselling services freely available and easily accessible is recommended to ensure appropriate support is received via effective care pathways.
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- Thomas B Swanton
- The University of Sydney, Faculty of Science, School of Psychology, Brain & Mind Centre, Gambling Treatment & Research Clinic, 94 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia.
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- The University of Sydney, Faculty of Science, School of Psychology, Brain & Mind Centre, Gambling Treatment & Research Clinic, 94 Mallett Street, Camperdown, NSW, 2050, Australia.
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According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), those who make significant intellectual contributions to a research project, and accept indirect responsibility for the entirety of the work should be listed as authors. All other contributors should be merely acknowledged. I argue that the ICMJE policy is unjust by consequentialist, deontological, and common sense standards. Because different sorts of contributions are incommensurable, ranking contributions is usually impossible. In particular, privileging intellectual contributions, and banishing non-intellectual contributions (e.g. funding, administration, routine data collection) to the Acknowledgments section is unfair to non-intellectual contributors. Holding contributors responsible for the errors or misconduct of others is also unjust. Contributors should be blamed (and sometimes punished) for all and only their own errors or misconduct. Their punishment should be proportional to the harm done; their blame to the ease with which their errors and misconduct could have been avoided. The ICMJE policy goes wrong by using the outdated, overly constraining practice of authorship as a vehicle for allocation of credit and responsibility. My alternative policy would replace the author byline and Acknowledgment sections of articles with Contributors pages listing all contributors to the research project, along with descriptions of their contributions.
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Masud AA, Rousham EK, Islam MA, Alam MU, Rahman M, Mamun AA, Sarker S, Asaduzzaman M, Unicomb L. Drivers of Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production in Bangladesh: Dependencies and Dynamics of a Patron-Client Relationship. Front Vet Sci 2020. [PMID: 32185184 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00078/bibtex] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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Background: There is increasing concern around the use of antibiotics in animal food production and the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance within the food chain. In many low and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, the commercial poultry sector comprises small-scale producers who are dependent on credit from poultry dealers to buy day-old chicks and poultry feed. The same dealers also supply and promote antibiotics. The credit system is reliant upon informal relationships among multiple actors as part of social capital. This paper aims to describe dependencies and relationships between different actors within unregulated broiler poultry production systems to understand the social and contextual determinants of antibiotic use in low-resource settings. Methods: We used a cross-sectional qualitative design including in-depth interviews among purposefully selected commercial poultry farmers (n = 10), poultry dealers (n = 5), sales representatives of livestock pharmaceutical companies (n = 3) and the local government livestock officer as a key-informant (n = 1). We describe the food production cycle and practices relating to credit purchases and sales using social capital theory. Findings: Poultry dealers provide credit and information for small-scale poultry farmers to initiate and operate their business. In return for credit, farmers are obliged to buy poultry feed and medicine from their dealer and sell their market-ready poultry to that same dealer. All farms applied multiple antibiotics to poultry throughout the production cycle, including banned antibiotics such as colistin sulfate. The relationship between dealers and poultry farmers is reciprocal but mostly regulated by the dealers. Dealers were the main influencers of decision-making by farmers, particularly around antibiotic use as an integral part of the production cycle risk management. Our findings suggest that strategies to improve antibiotic stewardship and responsible use should exploit the patron-client relationship which provides the social and information network for small-scale farmers. Conclusion: Social capital theory can be applied to the patron-client relationship observed among poultry farmers and dealers in Bangladesh to identify influences on decision making and antibiotic use. Within unregulated food production systems, strategies to promote the prudent use of antibiotics should target commercial feed producers and livestock pharmaceutical manufacturers as a first step in developing a sustainable poultry value chain.
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- Abdullah Al Masud
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Centre for Global Health and Human Development, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Masud AA, Rousham EK, Islam MA, Alam MU, Rahman M, Mamun AA, Sarker S, Asaduzzaman M, Unicomb L. Drivers of Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production in Bangladesh: Dependencies and Dynamics of a Patron-Client Relationship. Front Vet Sci 2020; 7:78. [PMID: 32185184 PMCID: PMC7058630 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Background: There is increasing concern around the use of antibiotics in animal food production and the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance within the food chain. In many low and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, the commercial poultry sector comprises small-scale producers who are dependent on credit from poultry dealers to buy day-old chicks and poultry feed. The same dealers also supply and promote antibiotics. The credit system is reliant upon informal relationships among multiple actors as part of social capital. This paper aims to describe dependencies and relationships between different actors within unregulated broiler poultry production systems to understand the social and contextual determinants of antibiotic use in low-resource settings. Methods: We used a cross-sectional qualitative design including in-depth interviews among purposefully selected commercial poultry farmers (n = 10), poultry dealers (n = 5), sales representatives of livestock pharmaceutical companies (n = 3) and the local government livestock officer as a key-informant (n = 1). We describe the food production cycle and practices relating to credit purchases and sales using social capital theory. Findings: Poultry dealers provide credit and information for small-scale poultry farmers to initiate and operate their business. In return for credit, farmers are obliged to buy poultry feed and medicine from their dealer and sell their market-ready poultry to that same dealer. All farms applied multiple antibiotics to poultry throughout the production cycle, including banned antibiotics such as colistin sulfate. The relationship between dealers and poultry farmers is reciprocal but mostly regulated by the dealers. Dealers were the main influencers of decision-making by farmers, particularly around antibiotic use as an integral part of the production cycle risk management. Our findings suggest that strategies to improve antibiotic stewardship and responsible use should exploit the patron-client relationship which provides the social and information network for small-scale farmers. Conclusion: Social capital theory can be applied to the patron-client relationship observed among poultry farmers and dealers in Bangladesh to identify influences on decision making and antibiotic use. Within unregulated food production systems, strategies to promote the prudent use of antibiotics should target commercial feed producers and livestock pharmaceutical manufacturers as a first step in developing a sustainable poultry value chain.
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- Abdullah Al Masud
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Centre for Global Health and Human Development, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.,Centre for Global Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Katz DS, Allen G, Barba LA, Berg DR, Bik H, Boettiger C, Borgman CL, Brown CT, Buck S, Burd R, de Waard A, Eve MP, Granger BE, Greenberg J, Howe A, Howe B, Khanna M, Killeen TL, Mayernik M, McKiernan E, Mentzel C, Merchant N, Niemeyer KE, Noren L, Nusser SM, Reed DA, Seidel E, Smith M, Spies JR, Turk M, Van Horn JD, Walsh J. The principles of tomorrow's university. F1000Res 2018; 7:1926. [PMID: 30687499 PMCID: PMC6338243 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.17425.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In the 21st Century, research is increasingly data- and computation-driven. Researchers, funders, and the larger community today emphasize the traits of openness and reproducibility. In March 2017, 13 mostly early-career research leaders who are building their careers around these traits came together with ten university leaders (presidents, vice presidents, and vice provosts), representatives from four funding agencies, and eleven organizers and other stakeholders in an NIH- and NSF-funded one-day, invitation-only workshop titled "Imagining Tomorrow's University." Workshop attendees were charged with launching a new dialog around open research - the current status, opportunities for advancement, and challenges that limit sharing. The workshop examined how the internet-enabled research world has changed, and how universities need to change to adapt commensurately, aiming to understand how universities can and should make themselves competitive and attract the best students, staff, and faculty in this new world. During the workshop, the participants re-imagined scholarship, education, and institutions for an open, networked era, to uncover new opportunities for universities to create value and serve society. They expressed the results of these deliberations as a set of 22 principles of tomorrow's university across six areas: credit and attribution, communities, outreach and engagement, education, preservation and reproducibility, and technologies. Activities that follow on from workshop results take one of three forms. First, since the workshop, a number of workshop authors have further developed and published their white papers to make their reflections and recommendations more concrete. These authors are also conducting efforts to implement these ideas, and to make changes in the university system. Second, we plan to organise a follow-up workshop that focuses on how these principles could be implemented. Third, we believe that the outcomes of this workshop support and are connected with recent theoretical work on the position and future of open knowledge institutions.
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- Daniel S. Katz
- Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Engineering and Technology Department, University of Wisconsin, Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA
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- Department of Nematology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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- Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Houston, TX, USA
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- Long Island University, Brookville, NY, USA
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- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
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- University of Washington, Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Center for Innovation in Brain Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- UA Data Science Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
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- School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Ryan-Collins J. Breaking the taboo: a history of monetary financing in Canada, 1930-1975. Br J Sociol 2017; 68:643-669. [PMID: 28783229 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Monetary financing - the funding of state expenditure via the creation of new money rather than through taxation or borrowing - has become a taboo policy instrument in advanced economies. It is generally associated with dangerously high inflation and/or war. Relatedly, a key institutional feature of modern independent central banks is that they are not obligated to support government expenditure via money creation. Since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, however, unorthodox monetary policies, in particular quantitative easing, coupled with stagnant growth and high levels of public and private debt have led to questions over the monetary financing taboo. Debates on the topic have so far been mainly theoretical with little attention to the social and political dynamics of historical instances of monetary financing. This paper analyses one of the most significant twentieth-century cases: Canada from the period after the Great Depression up until the monetarist revolution of the 1970s. The period was a successful one for the Canadian economy, with high growth and employment and manageable inflation. It offers some interesting insights into the relationship between states and central banks and present-day discussions around the governance of money creation.
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The passionate pursuit of authorships is fuelled by the value they represent to scholars and scientists. This article asks how this value differs across scientists and how these different processes of valuation inform authorship articulation, strategies, and publication behavior in general. Drawing from a qualitative analysis of authorship practices among nutrition scientists employed at universities, contract research organizations, and in food industry, I argue that two different modi operandi emerge when it comes to authorship. These different ways of working produce different collaborative approaches, different credit distribution strategies amongst collaborators, and different value placed upon (the pursuit of) authorship. These different valuation processes are neither explicit nor recognizable to those reading (and judging) author lists. As a consequence, in the politics of authorship, the names standing atop a scientific publication in nutrition science represent different types of value to both the individuals and employing organizations.
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- Bart Penders
- a Department of Health, Ethics & Society, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI) , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands
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Honor LB, Haselgrove C, Frazier JA, Kennedy DN. Corrigendum: Data Citation in Neuroimaging: Proposed Best Practices for Data Identification and Attribution. Front Neuroinform 2016; 10:43. [PMID: 27708574 PMCID: PMC5050202 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2016.00043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Leah B Honor
- Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester, MA, USA
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Honor LB, Haselgrove C, Frazier JA, Kennedy DN. Data Citation in Neuroimaging: Proposed Best Practices for Data Identification and Attribution. Front Neuroinform 2016; 10:34. [PMID: 27570508 PMCID: PMC4981598 DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2016.00034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Accepted: 07/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Data sharing and reuse, while widely accepted as good ideas, have been slow to catch on in any concrete and consistent way. One major hurdle within the scientific community has been the lack of widely accepted standards for citing that data, making it difficult to track usage and measure impact. Within the neuroimaging community, there is a need for a way to not only clearly identify and cite datasets, but also to derive new aggregate sets from multiple sources while clearly maintaining lines of attribution. This work presents a functional prototype of a system to integrate Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) and a standardized metadata schema into a XNAT-based repository workflow, allowing for identification of data at both the project and image level. These item and source level identifiers allow any newly defined combination of images, from any number of projects, to be tagged with a new group-level DOI that automatically inherits the individual attributes and provenance information of its constituent parts. This system enables the tracking of data reuse down to the level of individual images. The implementation of this type of data identification system would impact researchers and data creators, data hosting facilities, and data publishers, but the benefit of having widely accepted standards for data identification and attribution would go far toward making data citation practical and advantageous.
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- Leah B Honor
- Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA
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- Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA; Child and Adolescent NeuroDevelopment Initiative, Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolWorcester MA, USA
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The politics of conception in India can be traced back to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby in 1978. This article focuses on an incident where scientists and clinicians were involved in a heated contest over ascription of intellectual credit for the birth of the first test-tube baby in India. It traces the controversy surrounding claims and counter-claims within the medical domain that appear to have emerged as a corollary to the rapid expansion of assisted conception in India. The article emphasizes the fact that this contentious issue played out largely in the media and shows that the generation of scientific credibility and reward is produced and ascribed both inside and outside the scientific domain. In so doing the article offers a glimpse into the unique ability of cultural activity to shape and recast the perception of science and scientific outcomes.
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Americans have been shown to attribute greater intentionality to immoral than to amoral actions in cases of causal deviance, that is, cases where a goal is satisfied in a way that deviates from initially planned means (e.g., a gunman wants to hit a target and his hand slips, but the bullet ricochets off a rock into the target). However, past research has yet to assess whether this asymmetry persists in cases of extreme causal deviance. Here, we manipulated the level of mild to extreme causal deviance of an immoral versus amoral act. The asymmetry in attributions of intentionality was observed at all but the most extreme level of causal deviance, and, as we hypothesized, was mediated by attributions of blame/credit and judgments of action performance. These findings are discussed as they support a multiple-concepts interpretation of the asymmetry, wherein blame renders a naïve concept of intentional action (the outcome matches the intention) more salient than a composite concept (the outcome matches the intention and was brought about by planned means), and in terms of their implications for cross-cultural research on judgments of agency.
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- Paulo Sousa
- Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen's University Belfast , Belfast, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles , Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, School of Anthropology, University of Oxford , Oxford, UK
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Suter M. [Das Wissen der Schulden. Recht, Kulturtechnik und Alltagserfahrung im liberalen Kapitalismus]. Ber Wiss 2014; 37:148-164. [PMID: 32545933 DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201401678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The Knowledge of Debt: Law, Media Technique, and Everyday Experience in Liberal Capitalism. Performing an object such as 'the economy' hinges on practices of formatting knowledge. The article proposes to look at such instituting moments in connection with social conflicts over the legitimate rules of exchange. This is exemplified by way of recounting the story of the codification of Swiss bankruptcy law in 1889. In order to homogenize the legal procedures of debt collection and bankruptcy, two subject categories were instituted: 'merchants' and 'non-merchants'. These different categories were thought to account for the diverging temporalities and spaces of credit exchange in everyday economic life. The introduction of the commercial register, a media-technical apparatus, enabled a formal distinction between 'merchants' and 'non-merchants'. However, this boundary was contested and proved to be porose.
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- Mischa Suter
- Departement Geschichte Universität Basel, Hirschgässlein 21, CH-4051 Basel
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