NETWORK RIPPLE EFFECTS: HOW TWITTER DEPLATFORMING FLIPPED AUTHORITY STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE OF THE ARIZONA ELECTION REVIEW COMMUNITY

Network Ripple Effects: How Twitter Deplatforming Flipped Authority Structure and Discourse of the Arizona Election Review Community

Content moderation decisions can have variable impacts on the events and discourses they aim to regulate.This study analyzes Twitter data from before and after the removal of key Arizona Election Audit Twitter accounts in March of 2021.After collecting tweets that refer to the election audit in Arizona in this designated timeframe, a before/after c

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Impact of a short version of the CONSORT checklist for peer reviewers to improve the reporting of randomised controlled trials published in biomedical journals: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Introduction Transparent and accurate reporting is essential for readers to adequately interpret the results of a study.Journals can play a vital role in improving the reporting of published randomised controlled trials (RCTs).We describe an RCT to evaluate our hypothesis that asking peer reviewers to check whether the most important and poorly rep

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Trends of drug licensing in China: From bring-in to go-global

Global medicine R&D has shown a stabilized trend after fleeting prosperity Fenders lately.Despite of discouraging whole picture, the role of China in cross-border out-licensing activities of medical therapeutics keeps rising, which started since 2020 and further boosted in 2023.A holistic analysis of drug and technology licensing, involving Chinese

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Selection-Mutation Dynamics of Signaling Games

We study the structure of the rest points of signaling games and their dynamic behavior under selection-mutation dynamics by taking the case of three signals as our canonical example.Many rest points of the replicator dynamics of signaling games are not isolated and, therefore, not robust under perturbations.However, some of them attract open sets

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