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raku-fansubs · 7 years ago

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Hi! Thank you for subbing those videos! I'm subscribed to both of your channels on YouTube, and now I follow you here on Tumblr! I was wondering a couple of things... 1. Would you be able to sub any "My Hero Academia" events? I know Yuki Kaji is in the show, but he isn't always at all the events. 2. Which other seiyuu do you like? 3. Is there any way that people like me (who aren't fluent in Japanese) can help? (preferably not money-wise because I'm broke)

Hey there! Thanks for dropping by! Heads up: I can be pretty long-winded when I start talking so don’t worry about reading everything if you can’t be bothered to 😂

1. As far as I’m concerned, there haven’t been any HeroAca events recorded in a DVD, but if you’re referring to the Live Broadcasts (NICO/LINE) and radio episodes, I’ve only listened to the 2 radio episodes (in which Kaji went as guest), plus some random episodes to hear the backstory of those really good episodes in the anime, and also the LINE LIVE broadcast (Todoroki: Origin - Before and After Cast Talk). To be honest, although I would love to sub all of them, unfortunately because I’m still a high school exam student, it can be pretty hard to make the time for it 😓 (I pray every day to become more efficient) But if there’s a specific cut you would like to share I’d be more than happy to work on it!

2. Although this may not sound convincing if you’ve seen my channel‘s bias towards Kaji 😅 but I actually like and respect a lot of seiyuus. I usually get attracted to a seiyuu for either of the three following qualities: voice acting, voice, or personality. In terms of voice acting, it’s simply if their acting had left an impression on me. An example of a seiyuu that I like purely for her acting is Hayami Saori. She’s the second name I search up for after Kaji when choosing seasonal animes to watch. I could go on forever but to sum up why - it’s because I love her screams. Next, when it comes to voice, it’s pretty straightforward, just whoever’s voice sounds pleasant. In this case I’m referring to those whose acting doesn’t necessarily have to be good, but I‘d still love to listen to their voices just for the sound of it. A few who fall under this category are Kamiya Hiroshi, Sawashiro Miyuki and Natsuki Hanae. Don’t get me wrong, I love their acting, but my point is that I would listen to their voices regardlessly. Thirdly, it’s about their personality. Though it’s not my place to say this, there are some seiyuus whose neither voice nor voice acting ever struck me. If there’s any reason why I still appreciate them, it’s because I’ve heard how much effort and thoughts they’ve put into shaping their characters. But surely these people who’ve put in this much effort will be rewarded. An example is… though I don’t want to offend anyone, it’s Suzuki Tatsuhisa. Honestly I didn’t like quite a few of his portrayal, err… one I can recall on the top of my head is Mishima from Daiya no Ace, I won’t go too much into why I didn’t like his voice for Mishima, but I absolutely believe that he was the best fit for roles like Ban (Nanatsu no Taizai) and Hiroomi (Kyoukai no Kanata). Through the things he says in radios and events, you can really see that he watches his characters very closely and pays attention to the smallest things he can do for the best of his characters. I guess my point is that as long as a seiyuu loves and treats their characters well, even if their voice isn’t appealing to a certain viewer, their emotion will definitely be reflected in their portrayal which will naturally be conveyed to the viewers. And… it’s needless to say that there are plenty of seiyuus who have more than one of the three qualities, but basically Kaji is my favourite cause he happens to match what I was looking for in all three aspects. But I’m guessing that the reason why you’re asking this is because you want to know what kind of content I could be subbing? If that‘s the case I sincerely apologise for this long rant 😅 but I like any seiyuu that has some sort of relationship with Kaji. They could fall into any of the above categories, but I usually like to sub Kaji with either senpais who pamper/tease him (Miyano Mamoru/Kamiya Hiroshi/Ono Daisuke/Hayashibara Megumi/ Matsumoto Rica/Sakurai Takahiro/Fukuyama Jun/Suzuki Tatsuhisa), peers that he’s comfortable with (Terashima Takuma/Okamoto Nobuhiko/Maeno Tomoaki/Kimura Ryouhei/Yonaga Tsubasa/Sawashiro Miyuki/Inoue Marina/Takagaki Ayahi/Ono Yuuki/Nazuka Kaori), people he likes (Shimono Hiro/Hosoya Yoshimasa/Suzumura Kenichi/Morikubo Showtaro/Uchiyama Kouki), kouhais that look up to him/kouhais he dotes on (Shimazaki Nobunaga/Yamashita Daiki/Ishikawa Kaito/Kuno Misaki/Ogura Yui/Ishihara Kaori/Hanae Natsuki/Osaka Ryota) and I’m sure I’m still missing out on lots of names, but I also love (or want to see more of) his conversations with some of the people that showed signs of knowing him quite well but can still be pretty vague if they’re close to him (Nishiyama Koutarou/Kakihara Tetsuya/Uchida Maaya/Kayano Ai/Hanazawa Kana/Toyonaga Toshiyuki/Yuuki Aoi/Taketatsu Ayana/Yoshitsugu Matsuoka/Amamiya Sora/Sakura Ayane/Kobayashi Yusuke/Irino Miyu/Hayami Saori/Umehara Yuichiro/Tomatsu Haruka/Koshimizu Ami/Takahashi Rie/Ishikawa Yui). Erm.. the list could go on forever but I’ll stop here 😓

3. It could really be anything! My main reason for translating was just to share the love of seiyuus and to find more fellow overseas seiyuu fans. I don’t translate to take credit of the subbing so to be honest I don’t mind if people repost or reupload my subs so long as it exposes the awareness of seiyuus to a larger community in a positive way :))) I sincerely do believe that seiyuus deserve more recognition for the wonderful voices they bring to us after all. Other than that would be “monetary” but rather than for me, it would be great if we can all support the original event DVD sales (or even their photo books and radio DJCDs)! I just hope that one day they’ll make a contract with an official translating company to release the Eng subs officially. Oh right, we do have a seiyuu fansubbing group where quite a few of us seiyuu fansubbers gather together to plan for our translations. If you’d like to contribute I’m sure the group will be more than happy to welcome you! Check this link out for more details: http://seiyuufansubs.com/join-us/

Hope that answered your questions! P.S. Someone needs to teach me how to summarise (-.-;)…

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tannerahonesti95 · 4 years ago

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Reiki Organizations Awesome Diy Ideas

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btsorpheus · 5 years ago

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(Kate Greenaway (British illustrator, 1846-1901). The Pied Piper of Hamelin, illustrations, pp. 40-41. 1888. Artstor, library.artstor.org/asset/AMCADIG_10310847749.)

II. PIED PIPER

If you were on Twitter in the early months of 2020, it’s almost inevitable that you would have bumped into a user with a superscript “7” attached to the end of their name.

(Screenshots from the following list on a K-pop humor Twitter account on March 9, 2020. Twitter handles have been blurred for the users’ privacy.)

This was originally for BTS fans, collectively known as ARMY, to show their support for the new album, Map of the Soul: 7. It has since become a way for individual ARMYs to quickly display their fan status to other users--as well as demonstrate how overwhelmingly numerous they are.

It’s almost insane how much influence BTS holds over Twitter. Though they have only 24.3 million followers as of March 9, 2020 (compared to Justin Bieber, who has 110.3 million, and Katy Perry, who has 108.4 million), four of their tweets are on Wikipedia’s list of the Top 30 Most Retweeted Tweets.

For another comparison, Barack Obama is on that list four times, as well. Neither Justin Bieber nor Katy Perry have made it as of March 9, 2020.

What have BTS done to have accumulated such a devoted fanbase?

Listening to their song “Pied Piper,” it’s clear that BTS are aware of the power they hold over their fans. Like Orpheus, it’s unclear whether their music is ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Jimin and Jungkook put it best when they sing, “It’s a bit dangerous but I’m so sweet / I’m here to save you, I’m here to ruin you.”

In Ovid's version of the myth, as recounted in the last section, Orpheus’s music both soothes nature and causes it to break into violence. Though he technically uses it for what appears to be a good purpose (i.e. saving his wife), Orpheus is also a transgressor--living beings aren’t meant to enter the Underworld, nor are they meant to bring the dead back to life. By doing so, Orpheus has crossed what should’ve been an uncrossable line.

Furthermore, Virgil’s Georgics uses him as essentially a bad example. At odds with the typical view of Orpheus as a great hero, Orpheus is portrayed as a failure compared to Aristaeus, an agricultural god who follows the gods’ exact instructions and succeeds in his task while Orpheus inevitably loses Eurydice.

It’s interesting that BTS choose to identify with the Pied Piper of Hamelin in their music. The Pied Piper, after all, is the antagonist of his story. According to Robert Browning’s poem, “The Pied Piper,” when the Mayor of Hamelin is unable to pay him for ridding their city of their rat infestation, the Piper kidnaps all of Hamelin’s children and holds them hostage until he gets his reward. This is not typical heroic behavior.

Similarly, BTS paints themselves as tempters. Like how the Pied Piper lured children out of the city, RM is aware of how their music can cause obsession that distracts fans from their day-to-day responsibilities. He raps, “Now stop watching and study for your test / Your parents and boss hate me,” with ‘watching’ referring to the content BTS are constantly churning out (“video clips, pictures, tweets”).

Like Virgil’s Orpheus, BTS disrupt social order with their musical prowess. They don’t even seem to be certain whether they want this or not. Obviously, the more people streaming their music, the more money they make. But some fans take this to another level--trending hashtags and getting views on music videos is what they feel is their job.

(Screenshot taken from the YouTube comments section on BTS’ “ON” music video on March 10, 2020. The spelling of “buzz words” (ex: streaming (“st34m1ng”), YouTube (“y0utube”), deleting (“d373ting”), view (“v13w”)) have been altered so that YouTube’s algorithms don’t mark the comment as spam and delete it. Notably, this comment has approximately 4,800 likes.)

This is when the obsession becomes dangerous. When the experience of listening to music is no longer about enjoying it for what it is, an essential part of why the work exists has been removed. For the music industry, the only reason music is produced is to make money--similarly, using music for profit seems to be the only reason the Pied Piper plays his songs.

The K-pop idol industry tends to fall into this category of mercenary music. A lot of K-pop acts feel “manufactured” as a result of “artists being too managed by the agencies,” as CedarBough Saeji, a visiting Korean studies assistant professor at Indiana University Bloomington, notes in a Wall Street Journal article on BTS’s growing popularity in the United States.

Every aspect of an idol’s personality is tailored to appeal to fans. Doing “aegyo” (Korean for “cuteness”), or a coquettish display of affection, is purely fan service, just like how agencies impose a dating ban on their idols to ensure they can appeal to fans as available sex icons. (When a member of the boy group EXO announced his marriage, his “fans” immediately turned on him, declaring him a traitor and calling for his blood.)

BTS appear to have the authenticity and intimacy that other K-pop groups lack. Because they’re allowed to sing about their genuine feelings--as they do in “Pied Piper,” despite how morally dubious the lyrics are--their fans feel a deeper connection with them. This is likely key to why they have sky-rocketed to worldwide fame while other K-pop groups, who sing almost exclusively about partying, monetary success, and vague ideas of love (typically kept carefully PG-13), have stalled.

Jin’s most recent solo song, “Moon,” is specifically about the parasocial relationship between BTS and ARMY. It almost feels like a love song from him to their fans, with its upbeat, poppy tune and gentle promises (“I will stay by your side / I will become your light”).

But the guiding metaphor through the song is Jin (and by extension, BTS) as the moon and ARMY as the Earth, with Jin orbiting but never reaching them. There’s an essential distance between the group and their fans that can never be breached. No matter how many vlogs and selfies BTS put out, the vast majority of their fans has never actually befriended or even met them. They can’t know who they really are. Even if BTS appear authentic by comparison to other K-pop groups, at the end of the day, they’re still performers.

This doesn’t stop fans from taking BTS’s professed affection at face-value.

(Screenshot taken of a BTS fan’s tweet after RM’s (Kim Namjoon’s) V Live livestream on March 9, 2020. The user’s Twitter name and handle have been blurred for privacy.)

It’s a weird relationship that brings into question exactly what kind of love this is, and maybe even blurs its boundaries. But it becomes clear that their music isn’t the only factor in what draws their fanbase in.

Like Ovid’s Orpheus, BTS have a rhetorical power that functions as transactional. Orpheus’s song to Hades and Persephone to convince them to release Eurydice from the Underworld is a business proposal that clearly states how both parties would benefit in the exchange of Eurydice, describing her as a “loan.” Any element of romance remains absent as Orpheus instead attempts flattery, calling Hades’s kingdom “vast” and noting that he holds “longest dominion over humankind,” referring to a soul’s infinite inhabitation in the Underworld after a temporary mortal life.

Who is the fanbase in the Orphic scenario? If BTS are the serenading Orpheus, then,

The fans must be either Nature, which listens to Orpheus’s song and weeps with him,

Or the rulers of the Underworld, who listen to Orpheus’s song, weep with him, then give him Eurydice as payment.

In the well-oiled K-pop idol industry, where award shows and fan service loom around every corner, support (whether financial or social) is always expected in return for content--a Eurydice for every song.

And at the end of the day, BTS are still an idol group and a commodity. Just because they appear more authentic than other groups doesn’t mean they can give up their whole, genuine selves. As Pitchfork notes in their review of Map of the Soul: 7, though the album follows “philosophical, Jungian blueprints,” it lacks the “kind of candor and complication” that should feature on an “album about the dark side of the psyche and the BTS journey.”

I showed this review to my roommate, a more passionate BTS fan than I am. Though she agreed to an extent, she added that, “If they actually came out and said something like, ‘Our fans are insane,’ they’d lose all of them in an instant.” And with the fans, their income.

Jin’s “Moon” is, itself, an Orphic song. Like Orpheus and Eurydice, the moon and the Earth can never be together. The moon is fated to orbit the Earth forever, looking back longingly as Orpheus does at Eurydice, but never able to reach her.

Maybe “Moon” is a genuine love song. Maybe Jin does feel a loving connection between him and ARMY, and he wanted to share a piece of that.

Or maybe “Moon” is a sweet, safe song in the midst of an album about being swallowed by your stage persona (Suga’s “Interlude : Shadow”) and losing your passion for art (“Black Swan”)--one that lures fans in and will get them emotional, streaming, and, ultimately, generating revenue.

(Screenshot from a Twitter fan account dedicated to encouraging other fans to listen to BTS’s music more often not out of fondness for the songs but to get their numbers higher, taken March 10, 2020.)

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askalibertarianus · 8 years ago

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Your Questions Answered: Why Can't Intervention Fix Capitalism's Flaws?

Jared Miller, May 22, 2017

One of the worst side effects of this conversation is that most often interventionist policies create exactly the conditions which they claim to prevent. One of the other worst is that people begin to assume, at least to some degree, that legal and moral are interchangeable terms. I've been studying on my own for several years now, and so far I haven't seen many examples of capitalism causing more problems than interventionism/crony corporatism. Of course, interventionism and cronyism do often go by more appealing names, but they are still the same thing. There is a trend in recent years to refer to anything “good” a government does as Socialism. But socialism is not simply the act of paying for services with tax money, nor is it bringing about some broad moral reformation through government intervention. It is something much more specific. Socialism is when the government owns all means of production. There are plenty of examples of government activity that are not socialist in nature. Military and rule of law aren't socialist. Taxes for national defense and public safety aren't socialist. Prevention of fraud and exploitation, and even certain kinds of environmental protection, aren’t socialist.

What we really have is not socialism, or even capitalism. What we currently have is crony corporatism; a system whereby businesses are able to lobby government for special treatment. This leads to a lack of competition since it keeps new businesses from entering the market. Competition keeps profit margins thinner, often boosts wages (contrary to popular belief), and diminishes the wealth gap while also increasing income mobility (the ability to increase your income over time). Any policy that prevents or hinders competition damages the lower and middle classes. These policies make the very thing they supposedly claim to be trying to prevent into an absolute certainty. "But depressions!!" Our depression was caused by a glut of cheap credit, which made it a common practice to borrow money in order to invest it. That cheap credit was caused by intervention; specifically the federal reserve manipulating interest rates. After the recession began, the fed also started shrinking the money supply, further exacerbating the already delicate situation. Even if they had done everything right, just the existence of the Fed caused some damaging distortions. Before the fed, large banks would intervene on behalf of the smaller banks in order to limit the effects of financial panics and protect their own bottom line. After the fed, the large banks no longer saw this as their responsibility. As a result, more small banks failed, causing a snowball effect that eventually harmed the large banks too. Similar causes can be found for our more recent recessions as well. The dot com bubble and the housing market bubble were both at the very least amplified to disastrous proportions by bad monetary policy and interventionist legislation. Without them, that particular market may have hit hard times, but they would not have become national, systemic failures.

"But child labor!" Child labor was already by and large a thing of the past when the legislation outlawing it was passed. Don't get me wrong, if regulation actually had the power to end that kind of thing, then that's exactly what it should be doing. But in places where child labor happens, it's because the entire economy is underdeveloped. It's not a choice between work and school, it's a choice between work and prostitution, or worse. Kids don't work because corporations are greedy. Kids work because avoiding homelessness and starvation is more important than education. No law will change that. It just eliminates their only legal means of helping their families survive. And it's the same with the rest of the labor market. But don't take my word for it:

Video: “THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH ABOUT SWEAT SHOPS.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2sW2wt3nLU (Note: this video isn't supposed to give the full argument, it's just an introduction to the topic by someone who has spent most of his career studying this specific subject) “But Monopolies!”

There are very few, if any, examples of big businesses having that kind of power without getting it from the government. The natural business cycle is such that virtually never does a business accumulate monopolistic power without appealing to organized force to eliminate the competition. Instead, legislators are either manipulated or outright bribed into passing legislation that favors one business over another. Often it is with the best of intentions. Even safety and environmental regulations are often pushed by the industries they are being levied against. Usually, there is some moral or humanitarian motive attached to these new restrictions as a means of gaining support, feeding off of the idea of government as a moral force in order to manipulate the masses into voting against themselves in favor of corporate interest. But here's the trick: the big guys usually already follow those guidelines, and the startup business has no hope of implementing that kind of infrastructure before they even start production. The manufacturing world is overrun with precisely this style of protectionism. Incidentally this is also one invisible factor that leads to more production overseas, and less domestically. Of course, not all regulation comes from corporate interest or emotional manipulation, but the result is the same nonetheless. We may argue about what level of market distortion we are comfortable with in order to promote the wellbeing of the worker, but we cannot ignore its existence. That is how monopolies happen, and it's how they stay monopolies.

Video: “IDENTIFYING A MONOPOLY: IT'S MORE THAN JUST MARKET SHARE.”

https://www.policyed.org/intellections/identifying-monopoly-its-more-just-market-share/video (Once again, just a brief introduction to the topic.) When we say markets are self regulating, we don't mean that abuse cannot happen. What we mean is that in a free market those who do abuse people are not protected from the consequences of that abuse. As long as there is a law or regulation, there will be someone with deep pockets and great lawyers looking for ways to exploit it or modify it to their advantage. There will always be a politician to bribe who can find ways to prevent a corporation's competition from ever existing. Without organized force to hide behind, having piles of cash can't make people buy your product, or use your service. It can't prevent someone else from starting their own business to do it better. By putting the economy in the hands of government, we are not preventing people from being exploited. We are ensuring it. That is why communist and socialist countries always develop a wealthy ruling class, and the rest of their citizens suffer. We don't have to debate that fact. It is what has historically happened every single time. The interventionists are half right though... free markets don't make people more moral, and they don't keep rich people from being assholes. But neither does government. It just gives them hired guns (law is force imposed at the point of a gun), and the power and authority to use them. Only with the backing of the law also comes the assumption that their actions are somehow right or just simply because they are executed through the mechanism of the law.

#interventionism #cronyism #crony capitalism #capitalism #libertarian #libertarianism #free_market #askalibertarian

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nkhan208 · 4 years ago

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What Gets Motivated Is a Big Question?

It’s quite obvious that in any industry or in any company there is always a deep relation between an employer and its employee. How motivation plays a very intense role among employee and their work culture is a big question. It has a both positive and negative impact. Some tend to motivate some are self motivated.

This probably happens most often, at first, but when they are on a six-month job, are they still as motivated as they were the week before? Probably not. Neither of us is, but we still have work to do every day, so what is the key to keep us motivated to do what we need to do and to inspire others to do the same

Motivated employees are always loyal and devoted to what they do. One of the research shows that that businesses that have motivated employees have lower turnover and overall higher profits. The more motivated your employees are, the higher your office productivity. Motivating your employees is a successful practice. If you are business or company owner the first thing that will be coming to your mind is do you try to motivate your own employees? Ask yourself some of the following questions.

1. Am I open to sharing information with my employees?

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3. Do I as a people care a lot about my employees and want them to succeed?

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Researchers propose AI for detecting fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns

Crowdfunding has become the de facto way to support peoples’ ventures and philanthropic efforts. But as crowdfunding platforms have risen to prominence, they’ve also attracted malicious actors seeking to take advantage of unsuspecting donors. Last August, a report from the Verge investigated the Dragonfly Futurefön, a decade-long fraud operation that cost victims nearly $6 million and caught the attention of the FBI. Two years ago, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it was looking into a campaign for a Wi-Fi-enabled, battery-powered backpack that disappeared with more than $700,000.

GoFundMe previously said fraudulent campaigns make up less than 0.1% of all those on its platform, but with millions of new projects launching each year, bad actors are bound to avoid detection. To help catch them, researchers at the University College London, Telefonica Research, and the London School of economics devised an AI system that takes into account textual and image-based features to classify fraudulent crowdfunding behavior at the moment of publication. They claim it’s up to 90.14% accurate at distinguishing between fraudulent and legitimate crowdfunding behavior even without any user or donation activity.

While two of the largest crowdfunding platforms on the web — GoFundMe and Kickstarter — employ forms of automation to spot potential fraud, neither claims to take the AI-driven approach advocated by the study coauthors. A spokesperson for GoFundMe told VentureBeat the company relies on the “dedicated experts” in its trust and safety team who use technology “on par with the financial industry” and community reports to spot fraudulent campaigns. To do this, they look at things like:

Whether the campaign abides by the terms of service

Whether it provides enough information for donors

Whether it’s plagiarized

Who started the campaign

Who’s withdrawing funds

Who should be receiving funds

Kickstarter says it doesn’t use AI or machine learning tools to prevent fraud, excepting proprietary automated tools, and that the majority of its investigative work is performed manually by looking at what signals surface and analyzing them to guide any action taken. A spokesperson told VentureBeat that in 2018 Kickstarter’s team suspended 354 projects and 509,487 accounts and banned 5,397 users for violating the company’s rules and guidelines — 8 times as many as it suspended in 2017.

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The researchers would argue those efforts don’t go far enough. “We find that fraud is a small percentage of the crowdfunding ecosystem, but an insidious problem. It corrodes the trust ecosystem on which these platforms operate, endangering the support that thousands of people receive year on year,” they wrote. “[Crowdfunding platforms aren’t properly] incentivized to combat fraud among users and the campaigns they launch: On the one hand, a platform’s revenue is directly proportional to the number of transactions performed (since the platform charges a fixed amount per donation); on the other hand, if a platform is transparent with respect to how much fraud it has, it may discourage potential donors from participating.”

To build a corpus that could be used to “teach” the above-mentioned system to pick out fraudulent campaigns, the researchers sourced entries from GoFraudMe, a resource that aims to catalog fraudulent cases on the platform. They then created two manually annotated data sets focusing on the health domain, where the monetary and emotional stakes tend to be high. One set contained 191 campaigns from GoFundMe’s medical category, while the other contained 350 campaigns from different crowdfunding platforms (Indiegogo, GoFundMe, MightyCause, Fundrazr, and Fundly) directly related to organ transplants.

Human annotators labeled each of the roughly 700 campaigns in the corpora as “fraud” or “not-fraud” according to guidelines that took into consideration factors like evidence of contradictory information, a lack of engagement on the part of donors, and the participation of the creator in other campaigns. Next, the researchers examined different textual and visual cues that might inform the system’s analysis:

Sentiment analysis: The team extracted the sentiments and tones expressed in campaign descriptions using IBM’s Watson natural language processing service. They computed the sentiment as a probability across five emotions (sadness, joy, fear, disgust, and anger) before analyzing confidence scores for seven possible tones (frustration, satisfaction, excitement, politeness, impoliteness, sadness, and sympathy).

Complexity and language choice: Operating on the assumption that fraudsters prefer simpler language and shorter sentences, the researchers checked language complexity and word choice in the campaign descriptions. They looked at both a series of readability scores and language features like function words, personal pronouns, and average syllables per word, as well as the total number of characters.

Form of the text: The coauthors examined the visual structure of campaign text, looking at things like whether the letters were all lower-case or all upper-case and the number of emojis in the text.

Word importance and named-entity recognition: The team computed word importance on the text in the campaign description, revealing similarities (and dissimilarities) among campaigns. They also identified proper nouns, numeric entities, and currencies in the text and assigned them to a finite set of categories.

Emotion representation: The researchers repurposed a pretrained AI model to classify campaign images as evoking one of eight emotions (amusement, anger, awe, contentment, disgust, excitement, fear, and sadness) by fine-tuning it on 23,000 emotion-labeled images from Flickr and Instagram.

Appearance and semantic representation: Using another AI model, the researchers extracted image appearance representations that provided a description of each image, like dominant colors, the textures of the edges of segments, and the presence of certain objects. They also used a face detector algorithm to estimate the number of faces present in each image.

After boiling many thousands of possible features down to 71 textual and 501 visual variables, the researchers used them to train a machine learning model to automatically detect fraudulent campaigns. Arriving at this model — an ensemble model — required building sub-models to classify images and text as fraudulent or not fraudulent and combining the results into a single score for each campaign.

The coauthors claim their approach revealed peculiar trends, like the fact that legitimate campaigns are more likely to have images with at least one face compared with fraudulent campaigns. On the other hand, fraudulent campaigns are generally more desperate in their appeals, in contrast with legitimate campaign’s descriptiveness and openness about circumstances.

“In recent years, crowdfunding has emerged as a means of making personal appeals for financial support to members of the public … The community trusts that the individual who requests support, whatever the task, is doing so without malicious intent,” the researchers wrote. ” However, time and again, fraudulent cases come to light, ranging from fake objectives to embezzlement. Fraudsters often fly under the radar and defraud people of what adds up to tens of millions, under the guise of crowdfunding support, enabled by small individual donations. Detecting and preventing fraud is thus an adversarial problem. Inevitably, perpetrators adapt and attempt to bypass whatever system is deployed to prevent their malicious schemes.”

It’s possible, of course, that the system might be latching onto certain features in making its predictions, exhibiting a sort of bias that’s not obvious at first glance. That’s why the coauthors plan to improve it by taking into account sources of labeling bias and to test its robustness against unlabeled medically related campaigns across crowdfunding platforms.

“This is a significant step in building a system that is preemptive (e.g., a browser plugin) as opposed to reactive,” they wrote. “We believe our method could help build trust in this ecosystem by allowing potential donors to vet campaigns before contributing.”

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Semester Exam

Question - 1

Since financial information is communicated in accounting terms, accounting is said to be:

not worth the cost of the system.

private.

the language of business.

the mission of business.

Question - 2

A partnership is a business owned by:

one person.

two or more persons.

three or more persons.

stockholders.

Question - 3

An increase to which one of the following accounts will decrease owner's equity?

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

Delivery fees revenue

Drawing

Question - 4

An example of an asset account is which one of the following?

Advertising expense

Delivery fees revenue

Supplies

Unearned fees revenue

Question – 5

Which one of the following steps is not part of the journalizing process?

Enter the date

Enter the debit

Enter the credit

Enter the balance

Question - 6

When delivery equipment is purchased on account, the transaction to be recorded by the purchaser includes debiting:

Delivery Equipment and crediting Accounts Payable.

Delivery Equipment and crediting Cash.

Delivery Expense and crediting Accounts Payable.

Delivery Expense and crediting Cash.

Question - 7

The amount of supplies used by the business during an accounting period is a/an __________ to the business.

asset.

expense.

liability.

revenue.

Question - 8

If the book value of an asset is $12,300 and the accumulated depreciation is $2,700, the original cost of the asset was __________.

9600

12300

15000

17700

Question - 9

In completing the work sheet, what is the reason for adding the net income for the year to the balance sheet credit column total?

Cash is not up-to-date

Owner's drawing is not up-to-date

Owner's equity is not up-to-date

Sales is not up-to-date

Question - 10

Owner's equity at the beginning of the accounting period is $38,000. Net income for the period is $40,000. Investments by the owner during the period total $15,000. Withdrawals by the owner during the period total $20,000. The owner's equity at the end of the accounting period is __________.

73000

78000

93000

113000

Question - 11

Which one of the following was NOT an element of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal?

Relief, recovery, and reform

A massive employment program

A balanced budget

Bank deposit insurance

Question - 12

The main reason that the United States' standard of living is so much higher than that of India and China is that the U.S. has more:

land.

labor.

capital.

money.

Question - 13

When the price floor is higher than the equilibrium price, there is:

a surplus.

a shortage.

both a shortage and a surplus.

neither a shortage nor a surplus.

Question - 14

The largest component of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is:

net exports (Xn).

investment (I).

consumption (C).

government purchases (G).

Question - 15

Which one of the following is a transfer payment?

The president's salary

Social Security benefits

School teachers' salaries

Provision of national parks

Question - 16

GDP is $7 trillion. If consumption (C) is $5 trillion, investment (I) is $2 trillion, and government purchases (G) are $1 trillion; then:

exports exceed imports by $1 trillion.

exports exceed imports by $2 trillion.

imports exceed exports by $2 trillion.

imports exceed exports by $1 trillion.

Question - 17

If the nominal interest rate is 8% and prices generally increase 3%, the real rate of interest is __________.

0.03

0.04

0.05

0.06

Question - 18

Fiscal policy deals with each of the following except:

the money supply.

government spending.

taxation.

the federal budget.

Question - 19

If First Interstate Bankcorp has demand deposits of $8 billion, actual reserves of $1.4 billion, and the reserve requirement is 15 percent, the bank's excess reserves are:

$100 million.

$200 million.

$400 million.

$800 million.

Question - 20

The conventional monetary policy to fight inflation would be to:

decrease the rate of monetary growth.

increase the rate of monetary growth and run budget deficits.

run budget deficits.

increase the rate of monetary growth and run budget surpluses

Question - 21

Which of the following is NOT demonstrated by a production possibility curve?

Scarcity

Opportunity cost

Necessity for choice due to scarcity

Price

Question - 22

The market price __________ the equilibrium price.

can be higher than, but never lower than

can be lower than, but never higher than

can be higher than, or lower than

is always equal to

Question - 23

The poverty line is set:

by the U.S. Bureau of the Census (based on family food budgets).

at the same income level right now as it's been since 1982.

so high that over 30% of all Americans are officially poor.

by the United Nations for every country in the world.

Question - 24

If a monopolist has a straight-line demand curve, then its marginal revenue curve will:

be the same as the demand curve.

fall twice as quickly as the demand curve.

lie below the demand curve at all points.

cross the demand curve.

Question - 25

As long as total utility is increasing, we know that marginal utility is:

positive.

decreasing.

increasing.

negative.

Question - 26

A key reason that our gasoline prices elevated rapidly from 2006 to 2008 was:

tight global supplies and high prices.

the war in the Middle East.

greed by oil exporting countries.

inflation.

Question - 27

In order for real wages to grow:

productivity must grow.

productivity must fall.

money wages must grow.

money wages must fall.

Question - 28

The substitution effect and the output effect work in the:

same direction some of the time.

same direction all of the time.

opposite direction some of the time.

opposite direction all of the time.

Question - 29

The law of demand holds for:

individuals, but not for markets.

markets, but not for individuals.

both individuals and for markets.

neither individuals nor for markets

Question - 30

A firm will maximize its profits or minimize its loss at the output where:

the difference between price and marginal cost is at its maximum.

total cost equals total revenue.

marginal cost equals marginal revenue.

total revenue equals variable cost.

Question - 31

Instructions are:

the same as outcomes.

always a list of sequential steps that must be taken in order.

sometimes options that can be applied in any order.

impossible to understand.

Question - 32

Plans:

cause people to become too restrained.

cannot be changed.

can only be achieved in one specific way.

do not ensure accomplishment, but they boost the odds of success.

Question - 33

Many of the memory glitches in everyday life result from failure to concentrate. Which of the following techniques are recommended by the textbook authors for improving attention?

Reducing interferences, thinking out loud, and dealing with distraction

Depending on others, asking questions, and remembering names

Limiting groups, watching for negatives, and writing legibly

Creating a plan, writing freely, and sending an e-mail promptly

Question - 34

Which of the following are examples of mnemonic devices?

Memory traps, remembering names, and using your brain

Creative sentences, the loci system, and the peg system

Reciting, repeating, and writing it down

The scrutinize method, the summarize method, and the restatement method

Question - 35

Muscle Reading is a specific three-phase technique for extracting ideas and information from a textbook; the three phases:

are seeking new experiences, taking care of your health, and engaging fully.

include developing a routine, considering learning styles, and organizing workspace.

occur before you read, while you read, and after you read.

require using mnemonics, reading quickly, and analyzing mistakes.

Question - 36

In preparing successfully before taking an exam, you should:

use a piece of scratch paper, apply your predictions, and remember the obvious.

set the stage, watch for clues, and relate the class to your goals.

listen without judgment, check your work for accuracy, and make choices.

manage review time, create review materials, and plan a test-taking strategy.

Question - 37

In the critical thinking process, what strategies are parts of the process of seeking out different points of view?

Learning more about yourself, asking other people, and appealing to authority

Defining terms, looking for assertions, and practicing tolerance

Basing arguments on emotion, clarifying your values, and being willing to be uncertain

Using graphic symbols, taking notes, and writing a summary

Question - 38

According to the textbook, the four ways to solve problems critically are:

ask questions, get answers, create strategies, and select the best strategy.

state the obvious, listen beyond words, clarify your feelings, and go with what your heart tells you.

define the problem, generate possibilities, create a plan, and perform the plan.

observe the situation, eliminate your feelings, clarify your wants, and state your intentions.

Question - 39

One problem encountered in the communication process is that:

certain things are real because we can see them.

the message sent is not often the message received.

there are no variables in the process.

we need to develop 3X5 cards for all of our communications.

Question - 40

The effective writing process includes the phases of:

getting ready to write, writing a first draft, and revising the draft.

defining the problem, generating possibilities, and performing the plan.

using the first-step technique, creating visualizations, and practicing.

observing, stepping back to get the big picture, and staying alert.

Question - 41

Solve the following equation. Determine whether the equation is an identity, conditional equation, or an inconsistent equation: 7(x - 4) = x + 2

{-7 ,conditional}

{7, Identity}

{5, conditional}

{2, inconsistent equation}

Question - 42

Solve the following equation. Determine whether the equation is an identity, conditional equation, or an inconsistent equation: 7x + 13 = 2(2x - 5) + 3x + 23

Ø; conditional equation

Ø; Inconsistent equation

Ø; identity equation

{-1}; Inconsistent equation

Question - 43

Determine the value of A so that the line whose equation is Ax + y - 2 = 0 is perpendicular to the line containing the points (1, -3) and (-2, 4).

– 3/7

5/9

–2/5

3/8

Question - 44

Find the horizontal asymptote as x --> 8 and then describe what this means in practical terms. F(x) = 150x + 120/0.05x + 1; the number of bass, f(x), after x months in a lake that was stocked with 120 bass.

the number of bass, f(x), after y months in a lake that was stocked with 130 bass

the number of bass, f(x), after x months in a lake that was stocked with 120 bass

the number of bass, f(x), after x months in a lake that was stocked with 140 bass

the number of bass, f(x), after x months in a lake that was stocked with 150 bass

Question - 45

Solve the following logarithmic equation. Be sure to reject any value of x that is not in the domain of the original logarithmic expressions. Give the exact answer. Then, where necessary, use a calculator to obtain a decimal approximation, to two decimal places, for the solution:

{16/2}

{62/3}

{9/3}

{11/5}

Question - 46

Solve the following system:

{(4, -1)}

{(1, -3)}

{(4, -2)}

{(1, -5)}

Question - 47

Solve the following system of equations using matrices:

{(t, t 1, t)}

{(t, t 0, t)}

{(t, t - 2, t)}

{(t, t - 1, t)}

Question – 48

Solve for x only using Cramer's Rule.

x = 7

x = 9

x = 2

x = -3

Question - 49

For the following ellipses determine location of its foci.

foci at (0, 2 + v11), (0, 2 - v11)

foci at (0, 5 + v21), (0, 5 - v21)

foci at (0, 3 + v25), (0, 3 - v25)

foci at (0, 1 + v36), (0, 1 - v36)

Question - 50

You are taking a multiple-choice test that has five questions. Each of the questions has three answer choices, with one correct answer per question. If you select one of these three choices for each question and leave nothing blank, in how many ways can you answer the questions?

198 ways

290 ways

243 ways

364 ways

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