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MidsouthMouth.OctaviaKeats

If you are camping to avoid the perceived dangers of shelters, what do you do when government officials send armed people to destroy + discard your last belongings, including ID?

#unhoused #TheDispossessed #Papers #Documents #Identity #USPol #homeless #VanLife #CarCamping
#encampments
#rousting
#Civics #Cities #Urban #nimbyism #catch22

metafilter.com/206946/What-I-L

www.metafilter.comWhat I Learned Reporting in Cities That Take Belongings From Homeless PeopleSome cities take people’s belongings — ignoring their own policies and court orders — and then fail to store them. Our reporting shows there are more effective and compassionate ways to deal The...
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OCTADE
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

@conlang@a.gup.pe @languagelovers@a.gup.pe @linguistics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter@a.gup.pe

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints
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Chuck Darwin

Rarely do private companies find themselves punished for using #shell #companies to move capital and avoid taxes.

The fine accountants at Ernst & Young cooked up a complicated scheme in 2008 for a restructuring of #Koch #Industries via shell entities in Luxembourg,
a notorious tax haven, with the reasonable expectation that the ruse would never be revealed.

But then someone leaked a raft of private documents from #Mossack #Fonseca, a law firm in Panama that specializes in the creation of shell companies.

The info dump became known as the #Panama #Papers, and among its many revelations was Koch Industries’ bid to reinvent parts of the company, on paper,
as tax-avoidant Luxembourg shell companies.

According to the Center for Public Integrity, the essence of the Koch Industries deal was to
“reorder the ownership of many subsidiaries and centralize them under Luxembourg companies that are all served by internal corporate finance companies,
akin to a company’s own bank.”

Maybe that’s where the Koch siblings got the idea to get behind #DonorsTrust
—a sort of house bank for the array of political entities and think tanks they fund.

Of course, as with all of the organizations funded by Koch, they’re not in it alone.

#Betsy and #Dick #DeVos helped fund DonorsTrust, according to Mother Jones.

And then there are the many Koch-network “pass-through” groups, such as "Freedom Partners"
and the "Center to Protect Patient Rights",
which function much the way that shell companies do in the world of private capital:
-- they add layers of obfuscation over the provenance of the dollars flowing from one right-wing organization or institution to the next.

For instance, there’s the #Wellspring #Committee,
a pass-through funded in part via the Koch network, whose director, Ann Corkery, also sat for six years on the board of the #Becket #Fund for #Religious #Liberty,
a pro-bono law firm, according to tax filings.

With its portfolio of so-called religious freedom cases,
the Becket Fund gained notice as the firm representing the principals of the #Hobby #Lobby company in
a 2014 Supreme Court challenge to a mandate in the Affordable Care Act
for employer-based health insurance to cover,
without a co-pay, the costs of prescription #contraception.

One type of private company is the “#closely #held” variety, which may occasionally trade stock publicly, but has only a few shareholders.

The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (number 106 on the 2016 Forbes list of the nation’s top private companies) specifically cited its “closely held” status as a qualification for its exemption from the ACA contraceptive mandate.

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Shane Curcuru

@OpenForumEurope
Timing is everything: new paper on recommendations around sharing data related to research #papers, with some useful taxonomies along with the usual "we should share the data".

But it doesn't really cover enough - doesn't explicitly mention source code! Without the tools to maniupulate that data, you're still not making your research reproduceable.

cambridge.org/core/journals/ne

Cambridge CoreRecommendations for sharing network data and materials | Network Science | Cambridge CoreRecommendations for sharing network data and materials
📑 EvoDevo Papers

Hi! I'm a bot that shares research papers in EvoDevo (or Evolutionary Developmental Biology).

Currently, I index a few journals in the field and post links to articles that were published recently, one per day.

Since my posts are set to “quiet public”, they don't appear on Mastodon's feeds or hashtags searches. So, please, boost the papers you find worth sharing!

Any feedback is welcome. Thanks :)

#Introduction#EvoDevo#Papers
rodlux

The use of Virtual Reality (VR) to assess the impact of geographical environments on walking and cycling: a systematic literature review

Ghanbari, et al.

link.springer.com/article/10.1

SpringerLinkThe use of Virtual Reality (VR) to assess the impact of geographical environments on walking and cycling: a systematic literature review - International Journal of Health GeographicsBackground Geographical environments influence people's active mobility behaviors, contributing to their physical and mental health. The use of Virtual Reality (VR) in experimental research can unveil new insights into the relationship between exposure to geographic environments and active mobility behaviors. This systematic review aims to (1) identify environmental attributes investigated in relation with walking and cycling, using VR, (2) assess their impacts on active mobility behaviors and attitudes, and (3) identify research gaps, strengths and limitations in VR-based experimental research. Methods Articles published between January 2010 and February 2022 within five databases (PubMed, Scopus, EBSCO, IEEE Xplore, and Cochrane Library) were explored using three keywords and their synonyms: Virtual Reality, Active mobility behavior, and Geographical environments. Studies focusing on indoor environments, driving simulation, disease-specific groups, non-relevant disciplines (e.g. military, emergency evacuation), VR methodology/software optimization, and those with static participants' involvement were excluded. The full protocol is available from PROSPERO (ID = CRD42022308366). Results Out of 3255 articles, 18 peer-reviewed papers met the selection criteria, mostly focusing on walking (83%). Most studies used head-mounted displays (94%) and relied on convenience sampling (72% below 100 participants). Both static (33%) and dynamic (45%) environmental attributes have been investigated, with only 22% of them simultaneously in the same virtual environment. Greenness and crowd density were the most frequent attributes, rather consistently associated with emotional states and movement behaviors. Few studies have taken into account participant’s previous VR experience (33%) and cybersickness (39%) while both are likely to affect an individual’s perception and behavior. Conclusions Future research should explore a broader range of environmental attributes, including static and dynamic ones, as well as a more complex integration of these attributes within a single experiment to mimic the effect of realistic environments on people's active mobility behaviors and attitudes. Larger and more diverse population samples are deemed required to improve result generalizability. Despite methodological challenges, VR emerges as a promising tool to disentangle the effect of complex environments on active mobility behaviors.
#walking#cycling#virtualreality
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