Around Cornell News directly from Cornell's colleges and centers Projects that address climate resilience, bias in housing markets, and the use of large language models in hiring are among the 35 proposals selected to receive funding from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) Spring 2025 Seed Grant.  In addition, this year CCSS launched the inaugural Grant Preparation Funds in collaboration with Cornell Research & Innovation to offer up to $115,000 to support preparation of major external funding proposals to foundations government grants or industry collaborations.  New opportunities to earn funding through the Grant Preparation Funds and the CCSS Accelerated Research Funds are now open explained “these awards reflect the center’s deep commitment to enhancing research collaborations and facilitating opportunities for Cornell faculty to expand their research and positively impact society.” Inaugural Grant Preparation Funds awardees the Don and Mibs Follett professor of information science at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers “The CCSS Grant Preparation Funds provide a major competitive edge and will help us better prepare for the next stages of our $15 million National Science Foundation Expeditions proposal,” said Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil we have been invited to submit a full proposal The CCSS funds will provide critical support as we develop the full proposal and will also help us prepare as a team for an eventual reverse visit which is the final stage of the selection process.”  CCSS funded 35 faculty research and conference proposals in part or in full across 10 colleges and schools and 23 departments at Cornell CCSS offers up to $12,000 for research projects and up to $5,000 in conference support Explore the full list of conference and research awardees on the CCSS website Apply by June 1 for up to $115K in funding Both opportunities are accepting applications until June 1 CCSS requires all funded projects to make data and replication materials available The CCSS Data Discovery & Replication team offers support to ensure these materials are archived accessible and reusable by the broader research community Megan Pillar is the communications specialist for societal systems in Cornell Research & Innovation Get Cornell news delivered right to your inbox The chairman of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Asheera Center in northern Taif The attacker tried to hit Bin Mizil with his car while he was carrying out his daily duties.Bin Mizil told local press that someone tried to kill him by driving into his official car the man assaulted him by throwing stones at his car breaking its front window “I was subjected to a second assault on Sunday in my private car,” Bin Mizel added This attacker was driving very fast toward the chairman’s car The sword was made from iron and has mostly rusted away but its scabbard is decorated throughout its length with gold-leaf have been found during motorway construction in Romania Workers building a new highway in Romania have unearthed the treasure-laden tomb of a wealthy warrior and his horse. The tomb dates to the fifth century A.D., when the region was controlled by a people known as the Huns The tomb is filled with more than 100 artifacts, including weapons, gold-covered objects and pieces of gold jewelry inlaid with gemstones, Silviu Ene of the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archeology in Bucharest Ene is the lead archaeologist investigating the tomb which was discovered late last year during the construction of a motorway near the town of Mizil in the southeast of Romania about 140 miles (220 kilometers) from the Black Sea Four separate archaeological sites were unearthed during the road construction and the wealthy warrior's tomb — which the researchers described as "princely" — was just a part of the most complex site it was discovered at a site along with 900 other archaeological features — [such as] pits and tombs," he told Live Science in an email.  Related: Where is Attila the Hun's tomb? Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox The Huns were a particular problem for the Byzantine (or Eastern) Roman Empire which until that time had controlled much of the lands west of the Black Sea — a region that now includes Romania.  But the Romans lost the region to the Huns, who went on to invade the Western Roman province of Gaul (modern France and western Germany) and even to attack Rome under their leader Attila the Hun before losing their territory in Europe to a mixed force of Goths and other Germanic former vassals at the Battle of Nedao — a site now in Croatia — in A.D The finds also included several pieces of solid gold jewelery when the region was controlled by the eastern invaders known as the Huns.(Image credit: CNAIR/Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archeology)Princely tombThe latest archaeological finds at the Mizil tomb included an iron sword in a gilded  scabbard bundles of iron arrowheads and decorated braces of bone that were once fitted to a wooden bow with a gold-covered hilt inlaid with gemstones Archaeologists also unearthed the remains of a gilded saddle several decorated "sconces" — fittings to hold candles on a wall — and pieces of gold jewelry parts of a bow and a bundle of iron arrowheads that seem to have been gathered together in a quiver.(Image credit: CNAIR/Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archeology)The complete skeleton of the warrior and the skull and leg bones of his horse were found in the tomb and his face seems to have been covered with a gold mask only a leg and the head of his horse have been unearthed so far —Remains of Roman mercenary and beheaded victim found at ancient site in UK —Tomb of Rome's mythical founder Romulus unearthed —Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there's a chariot inside. The archaeologists told Hungary Posts English that the styles of the newfound objects suggest they are from about the fifth century A.D., when most of Europe north of the Danube River was under the control of the Huns. The excavation of the tomb had to be completed in bad weather and sometimes with flashlights so that the motorway project could go ahead. The archaeological investigation is now about "half finished," Ene said. Over the next few months, the bones and artifacts will be cleaned, investigated and put on public display, while the site of the tomb itself will be built over by the motorway project. Live Science ContributorTom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & Space, and many others. Ancient jawbone dredged off Taiwan seafloor belongs to mysterious Denisovan, study finds Secret 'drug room' full of psychedelic 'snuff tubes' discovered at pre-Inca site in Peru Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child it’s the sickly-sweet ones you have to watch out for That’s the conclusion of a study by a team of linguists and computer scientists who analyzed the conversational patterns of people playing an online strategy game As writer Rachel Ehrenberg explains in Science News interpersonal conflicts like betrayal can be very difficult to study It’s not as if you can bring two people into the lab and draw reasonable conclusions from their behavior while they’re being watched “We all know betrayal exists,” computer scientist Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil told Ehrenberg “But finding relevant data is really hard.” So when Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil heard about the game Diplomacy, a lightbulb went off in his head. In this strategy game, which was invented during the Cold War players compete to gain territories not with weapons or armies The game has maintained a dedicated fanbase for more than half a century with players conducting their negotiations Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil realized that the transcripts of these conversations could be a data goldmine He joined forces with fellow computer scientist (and diehard Diplomacy fan) Jordan Boyd-Graber as well as computational linguist Vlad Niculae and data mining expert Srijan Kumar The researchers compiled 145,000 messages between players and analyzed them in the hopes of finding what they called “linguistic harbingers of betrayal.”  “Sudden changes in the balance of certain conversational attributes—such as positive sentiment or focus on future planning—signal impending betrayal,” they wrote in a report “Immediately after this exchange,” the researchers noted It is important to keep in mind this study is only looking at players in a betrayal-centric game It’s possible that the really super-friendly person in your office is legitimately super-friendly and not out to get you We’ll have to wait on more research to find out for sure Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and his colleagues presented their findings last summer at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics. 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In this strategy game, which was invented during the Cold War Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and his colleagues presented their findings last summer at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics. The acknowledgments section of their report [PDF] was both topical and pointed: “This work is dedicated to all those who betrayed us.” more than 75% of the population lives in areas susceptible to earthquakes with Bucharest being the most earthquake-prone capital in the European Union 13 earthquakes resulted in 2,630 fatalities and affected more than 400,000 people with the country’s 1977 earthquake alone causing damages exceeding $2 billion Should that same earthquake happen today, it is estimated that between 700 and 4,500 lives could be lost depending on the timing and location, while another 250,000 people could become homeless for months or even years. Likely, the numbers would be much higher, as many of the damaged buildings in the 1977 earthquake were never fully repaired. It is not just homes and businesses that are exposed to the risk of collapse or damage in case of a large earthquake Most fire stations in Romania were built 50-100 years ago before modern building or seismic codes existed and most have never received major renovations or retrofitting first responders would be among the first casualties significantly reducing their ability to help others Romania has developed a firefighting and emergency capacity that has been pivotal to managing crises within the country such as during the response to the summer wildfires in Greece or in the aftermath of the February 2023 Türkiye earthquakes the Government of Romania has identified elements of critical emergency infrastructure that are paramount to the disaster response and preparedness system yet are likely to be severely damaged or even destroyed in an earthquake Under the Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in Romania the World Bank is providing financial support to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the amount of 142 million Euro to retrofit or reconstruct 35 fire stations identified as paramount to the country’s disaster response and preparedness system The project is being implemented by the General Inspectorate of Emergency Situations and coordinated by the Department of Emergency Situations the retrofitted fire stations and emergency services centers will not only be safer and more resilient but also energy efficient and universally accessible will feature modern designs and spaces aligned with operational needs thereby reducing these facilities’ carbon footprint dormitory and sanitary facilities for both women and men—a feature only now being incorporated for the first time into fire stations in Romania given that the existing ones were built before women used to participate in emergency and disaster response all members of the community will have safe access to these fire stations while  the utilities  of the retrofitted facilities will make them more  flexible and adaptable to communities’ future needs The 35 fire stations rehabilitated through the Project which serve approximately 25% of Romania’s population will ensure the safety of some 1,000 firefighters and paramedics These facilities will transform Romania into a world leader in terms of near zero-energy and disaster-resistant fire stations Through additional support from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery administered by the World Bank the Government of Romania benefitted from complementary technical assistance in developing and piloting training for first responders to better support people with disabilities in emergency situations Tangible results planned with some already delivered through the partnership between the World Bank and the Department of Emergency Situations and General Inspectorate of Emergency Situations include: This project is part of broader technical and financial support of the World Bank in Romania that aims to improve the country’s resilience, preparedness, and response to disasters. Other World Bank investments are targeted at critical buildings of the Romanian Police and Gendarmerie Facilities through those sets of investments will be energy-efficient and disaster-resilient while creating safe and inclusive spaces for women as well as accessible facilities for persons with disabilities Romania’s progress in recent years in boosting its emergency response is noteworthy and can inspire similar efforts in other countries The World Bank and the Romanian General Inspectorate of Emergency Situations are working to share critical knowledge in hope of inspiring many more decision-makers in and outside of Romania to invest in resilience to shocks and A Regional Knowledge Exchange event is hosted by Romania between September 13-15 convening relevant government representatives in six countries—Armenia,  Croatia and Uzbekistan—to learn from Romania’s experience in investing in resilient and modern emergency response unit buildings How Romanians are turning a hidden legacy of seismic risk into an opportunity for disaster resilience Video: Disaster Risk Management in Romania Accelerating risk reduction through forward-looking investments and policies in Romania Integrating disability inclusion in disaster risk management: the whys and hows Video: How the World Bank is supporting Romania to more sustainable development STAY CURRENT WITH OUR LATEST DATA & INSIGHTS This site uses cookies to optimize functionality and give you the best possible experience. 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To learn more about cookies, click here Metrics details Scriptwriters have internalized the unconscious social habits of everyday conversation Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics 76–87 (Association for Computational Linguistics Download references Reprints and permissions Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.378 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science May 5 (UPI) -- New research suggests Internet trolls are the product of nurture But new research out of Cornell University suggests the wrong combination of emotion and social cues can explain the behavior of an Internet troll "While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and anti-social minority, ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, behave like trolls," Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, an assistant professor of computational social science at Cornell, said in a news release Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and his colleagues used an online social experiment to better understand the conditions that encourage trolling They used a freelance work forum called Amazon Mechanical Turk service to recruit a group of online users to participate in a message board about current events Some were told they performed poorly on the quiz and some participants were also funneled onto a message board featuring negative comments copied from CNN comment threads Participants were more likely to troll when they were put in a negative mood and exposed to the behavior of other trollers When researchers analyzed CNN comment threads they found a string of negative comments increased the likelihood that the next comment would also be negative Their analysis showed trolls are most active late at night and on Mondays and Fridays Some social scientists and online moderators are currently considering strategies for reducing the level of trolling on message boards and online forums Justin Cheng receives funding from Microsoft Research and Stanford University Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil receives funding from a Google Faculty Research Award Jure Leskovec receives funding from the Stanford Data Science Initiative own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment View all partners found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves Such behavior can range from profanity and name-calling to personal attacks A Pew Internet Survey a few years back found that four out of 10 people online have been harassed online, with far more having witnessed such behavior. Trolling has become so rampant that several websites have even resorted to completely removing comments such as sadism and a propensity to seek excessive stimulation But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me? In our research we found that people can be influenced to troll others under the right circumstances in an online community By analyzing 16 million comments made on CNN.com and conducting an online controlled experiment we identified two key factors that can lead ordinary people to troll We recruited 667 participants through an online crowdsourcing platform and asked them to first take a quiz then read an article and engage in discussion but some were given a discussion that had started with comments by trolls trolling was defined using standard community guidelines – for example The quiz given beforehand was also varied to either be easy or difficult Our analysis of comments on CNN.com helped to verify and extend these experimental observations The first factor that seems to influence trolling is a person’s mood. In our experiment, people put into negative moods were much more likely to start trolling. We also discovered that trolling ebbs and flows with the time of day and day of week, in sync with natural human mood patterns we discovered that a negative mood can persist beyond the events that brought about those feelings Suppose that a person participates in a discussion where other people wrote troll comments If that person goes on to participate in an unrelated discussion they are more likely to troll in that discussion too The second factor is the context of a discussion If a discussion begins with a “troll comment,” then it is twice as likely to be trolled by other participants later on compared to a discussion that does not start with a troll comment the more likely that future participants will also troll the discussion these results show how the initial comments in a discussion set a strong we could predict when trolling would occur we were able to forecast whether a person was going to troll about 80 percent of the time mood and discussion context were together a much stronger indicator of trolling than identifying specific individuals as trolls trolling is caused more by the person’s environment than any inherent trait and ordinary people can be influenced to troll such behavior can end up spreading from person to person A single troll comment in a discussion – perhaps written by a person who woke up on the wrong side of the bed – can lead to worse moods among other participants As this negative behavior continues to propagate trolling can end up becoming the norm in communities if left unchecked there are several ways this research can help us create better online spaces for public discussion we can now better predict when trolling is likely to happen This can let us identify potentially contentious discussions ahead of time and preemptively alert moderators who can then intervene in these aggressive situations Machine learning algorithms can also sort through millions of posts much more quickly than any human By training computers to spot trolling behavior we can identify and filter undesirable content with much greater speed there’s lots more work to be done to address trolling Understanding the role of organized trolling can limit some types of undesirable behavior It’s also important to differentiate the impact of a troll comment from the author’s intent: Did the troll mean to hurt others or was he or she just trying to express a different viewpoint This can help separate undesirable individuals from those who just need help communicating their ideas Many “trolls” are just people like ourselves who are having a bad day Understanding that we’re responsible for both the inspiring and depressing conversations we have online is key to having more productive online discussions The builder has 20 months to build the Ploiesti-Mizil lot with a length of 21 kilometers which includes 14 bridges Work begins today in Romania for the construction of the first lot of the A 7 Ploiesti-Buzau motorway with the handover of the site to the Italian-Romanian consortium has 20 months to build the Ploiesti-Mizil lot with a length of 21 kilometers which includes 14 bridges According to reports from the “Economedia” information portal the ceremony for the start of the works takes place today in the presence of the Minister of Transport Sorin Grindeanu (the first presence at the opening of a large construction site) The Ploiesti-Pascani motorway is the most important motorway project in Europe funded under the Romanian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) The Ploiesti (Dumbrava) -Mizil lot is like this the second contract that enters the construction site of the 13 of the entire Ploiesti-Pascani motorway (314 kilometers) the intermediate section Mizil - Pietroasele (28 kilometers) Lot 3 Pietroasele-Buzau (14 kilometers) is undergoing a revaluation of offers following a ruling by the Bucharest Court of Appeal Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker measles was almost wiped out in the United States Measles is caused by Measles morbillivirus, a virus in the paramyxoviridae family. According to the CDC the measles virus settles in the nose and throat mucus of an infected person When a person infected with the virus coughs the virus becomes airborne and can spread to other people "The virus can remain in the air for significant periods of time," Mukundan told Live Science "One can get the measles just by being in a room where a person with measles has been even up to 2 hours after that person has left." the virus is incredibly contagious — 90% of people who are not vaccinated against measles will become infected if they share space with someone who has the virus "Another reason that it is transmitted so effectively is because the hallmark of measles only comes several days after someone is contagious," said Dr a pediatric infectious disease specialist at New York University Langone Health infected individuals can spread the virus for several days before realizing they're ill The contagious period lasts about four days before and four days after the rash appears A person with measles is likely to infect between 5 and 18 unvaccinated people, according to a 2019 review published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases Most cases of measles cause some combination of cough high fever and tiny white to bluish spots in the mouth a professor of infectious diseases at Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine in Miami Almost all cases require treatment by a doctor "This is a disease where complications are common — complications such as ear infection (acute otitis media) encephalitis and even death," Marty told Live Science one to three of every 1,000 infected persons will die from [measles] complications — which is better than in the Third World where as many as two to 15 per 100 infected persons die from measles and its complications." Young children are much more susceptible to the virus Pregnant women and those with a compromised immune system are also at risk of severe complications There is no specific drug for treating measles. Instead, doctors treat the symptoms. "This means we provide/advise hydration, antipyretics (e.g., acetaminophen) for comfort and fever control airway humidification in patients with respiratory tract involvement," Marty said Though not licensed in the United States for the treatment of measles to treat severe pneumonia caused by measles this treatment can prevent measles or make the onset less severe recovering from the measles includes resting at home until the symptoms subside It is important for patients to drink plenty of fluids to replace fluids lost during fevers It may also be helpful to use a humidifier to relieve congestion and to block out bright lights that may bother sensitive eyes the immune system may be significantly weakened for up to 2 years after recovering from the measles people can be more susceptible to secondary viral and bacterial infections which may cause more complications than the original measles infection The best way to prevent measles is by vaccination. The CDC recommends 2 doses of the vaccine; the first for those between 12 and 15 months of age and the second for children between 4 and 6 years of age The vaccine is 97% effective for those who receive both doses and about 93% effective for those receiving one "Vaccines are one of the most effective tools we have to protect public health and prevent deaths around the world," said Dr an infectious disease expert and professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health although there are pockets of people who delay or refuse vaccines The groups of unvaccinated people make it difficult to control the spread of measles start either with a visiting international traveler infected with measles or from an unvaccinated U.S resident returning from an international trip with a measles infection," Mukundan said The infection is then spread to others in the community who are unvaccinated "The antivax movement is a small percentage of the population but they are loud and draw a lot of undue media attention," Lighter said Anti-vaxxers are driven by emotion rather than the science behind the vaccines Modern opposition to vaccines is largely fueled by religious beliefs and the unwarranted concern that vaccines are somehow linked to autism, among other reasons, according to the Measles & Rubella Initiative a collaboration of the world's largest health organizations that aims to eliminate measles and rubella "Protect yourself and your loved ones by making sure that they are up to date on the measles vaccine," Mukundan said Additional reporting by Live Science Contributor Alina Bradford She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of California Davis and a Master's degree in astronomy from James Cook University She also has a certificate in science writing from Stanford University Rachel worked at the Las Cumbres Observatory in California where she specialized in education and outreach supplemented with science research and telescope operations While studying for her undergraduate degree Rachel also taught an introduction to astronomy lab and worked with a research astronomer.  Diagnostic dilemma: A rash 'migrated' across a man's body from his anus 'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers Science news this week: International blackouts and 'T People are often more confident when working in a team than when working alone Andrew Wang ‘19 is uncovering the mechanisms behind this confidence boost by studying social and linguistic expressions of confidence in online teamwork Wang, a triple major in computer science, philosophy and math, is also a Tanner Dean’s Scholar in the College of Arts & Sciences who received a grant this past summer for his research Wang is interested in social and information networks and the fundamentals of social processes He is a member of the Natural Language Processing Group assistant professor of information science The lab is interested in computational models of human language and machine learning “Though much research has centered around the quality of solutions produced by teams we felt that there was much room to explore the social factors mediating teamwork that perhaps influence team solutions in surprising or unjustified ways,” Wang said Having a confident teammate can do more to boost a person’s self-confidence than having a smart and skillful teammate “This finding has implications for designing systems and interfaces that facilitate online teamwork,” he said adding that it could “pave the way for further research into characterizing confidence-building in teams or eventually toward systems that intervene into real-life teams during the collaboration process in order to improve solution outcomes or team members’ experiences.” Wang helped to co-write a paper based on these results which is currently under review by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Wang worked at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) Data Science Lab a research group in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Lausanne Yvette Lisa Ndlovu is a communications assistant for the College of Arts & Sciences Professor Mary Beard posted on Twitter a photograph of herself crying The eminent University of Cambridge classicist was distraught: after making a comment about Haiti She also tweeted: “I speak from the heart (and of cource [sic] I may be wrong) But the crap I get in response just isnt [sic] on; really it isn’t.” Beard received support from several high-profile people – even if not all of them agreed with her initial tweet fellow Cambridge academic Priyamvada Gopal set out her response to Beard’s original tweet in an online article Black and Asian female MPs received on average 35% more abusive tweets than their white female colleagues even when Abbott was excluded from the total • Is social media bad for you? • The reasons you can’t be anonymous anymore • What if the internet stopped for a day? The constant abuse is silencing people, pushing them off online platforms and further reducing the diversity of online voices and opinion. And it shows no sign of abating. A survey last year found that 40% of American adults had experienced online abuse with almost half of them receiving severe forms of harassment Seventy per cent of women described online harassment as a “major problem” The internet offers unparalleled promise of cooperation and communication between all of humanity But instead of embracing a massive extension of our social circles online we seem to be reverting to tribalism and conflict While we generally conduct our real-life interactions with strangers politely and respectfully Is there any way we can relearn the cooperation that enabled us to find common ground and thrive as a species I click and quickly move on to the next question My teammates are far away and unknown to me so I have no idea if we’re all in it together or whether I’m being played for a fool This is a so-called public goods game at Yale University’s Human Cooperation Lab which researchers use as a tool to help understand how and why we cooperate scientists have proposed various theories about why humans cooperate enough to form strong societies The evolutionary roots of our general niceness can be found in the survival advantage humans experience when we cooperate as a group I’m in a team of four people in different locations Each of us is given the same amount of money We are asked to choose how we will contribute to a group pot on the understanding that this pot will be doubled and split equally among us this relies on a certain level of trust that the others in your group will be nice If everybody in the group contributes all of their money all the money gets doubled and redistributed four ways “But if you think about it from the perspective of an individual,” says lab director David Rand it gets doubled to two dollars and then split four ways – which means each person only gets 50 cents back for the dollar they contributed.” even though everyone is better off collectively by contributing to a group project that no one could manage alone (in real life this could be paying towards a hospital building Rand’s team has run this game with thousands of players to decide their contribution within 10 seconds The other half are asked to take their time and carefully consider their decision It turns out that when people go with their gut reaction “There is a lot of evidence that cooperation is a central feature of human evolution,” says Rand “In the small-scale societies that our ancestors were living in all our interactions were with people that you were going to see again and interact with in the immediate future.” That kept in check any temptation to act aggressively or take advantage and free-ride off other people’s contributions So rather than work out every time whether it’s in our long-term interests to be nice it’s more efficient and less effort to have the basic rule: be nice to other people That’s why our unthinking response in the experiment is a generous one But our learned behaviours also can change those in Rand’s experiment who play the quickfire round are generous and receive generous dividends But those who consider their decisions for longer are more selfish reinforcing an idea that it doesn’t pay to rely on the group The people who had got used to cooperating in the first stage gave twice as much money in the second stage as the people who had got used to being selfishIn a further experiment Rand gave money to people who had played one round of the game They were asked how much they wanted to give to an anonymous stranger there was no incentive; they would be acting entirely charitably The people who had got used to cooperating in the first stage gave twice as much money in the second stage as the people who had got used to being selfish “We’re affecting people’s internal lives and behaviour,” Rand says “The way they behave even when no-one’s watching and when there’s no institution in place to punish or reward them.” Rand’s team also has tested how people in different countries play the game to see how the strength of social institutions – such as government, family, education and legal systems – influences behaviour. In Kenya, where public sector corruption is high players initially gave less generously to the stranger than players in the US This suggests that people who can rely on relatively fair social institutions behave in a more public-spirited way than those whose institutions are less reliable after playing just one round of the cooperation-promoting version of the public goods game the Kenyans’ generosity equalled that of their US counterparts And it cut both ways: Americans trained to be selfish gave a lot less So there may be something about online social media culture that can encourage mean behaviour. Unlike hunter-gatherer societies which rely on cooperation to survive and have rules for sharing food relative anonymity and little reputational or punitive risk for bad behaviour Each moral or emotional word in a tweet increases the likelihood of it being retweeted by 20%On the flip side you can choose to broadcast an opinion that benefits your standing with your social group researchers study how social emotions are transformed online – in particular moral outrage Brain-imaging studies show that when people act on their moral outrage (in the offline world confronting someone who allows their dog to foul a playground their brain’s reward centre is activated: they feel good about it This reinforces their behaviour so they are more likely to intervene in a similar way again And while challenging a violator of your community’s social norms has risks – you may get attacked – it also boosts your reputation “Content that triggers outrage and that expresses outrage is much more likely to be shared,” says lab director Molly Crockett What we’ve created online is “an ecosystem that selects for the most outrageous content paired with a platform where it’s easier than ever before to express outrage” there is little or no personal risk in confronting and exposing someone “If you punish somebody for violating a norm that makes you seem more trustworthy to others so you can broadcast your moral character by expressing outrage and punishing social norm violations,” Crockett says “When you go from offline – where you might boost your reputation for whoever happens to be standing around at the moment – to online where you broadcast it to your entire social network then that dramatically amplifies the personal rewards of expressing outrage.” This is compounded by the positive feedback such as ‘likes’ the platforms help people form habits of expressing outrage into a habit “And a habit is something that’s done without regard to its consequences,” Crockett points out “I think that there must be ways to maintain the benefits of the online world,” says Crockett “while thinking more carefully about redesigning these interactions to do away with some of the more costly bits.” The good news is that it may only take a few people to alter the culture of a whole network Nicholas Christakis and his team explore ways to identify these individuals and enlist them in public health programmes that could benefit the community they are using this approach to influence vaccination enrolment and maternal care such people have the potential to turn a bullying culture into a supportive one Corporations already use a crude system of identifying so-called Instagram influencers to advertise their brands But Christakis is looking not just at how popular an individual is everyone is closely connected and you’re likely to know everyone at a party people may be living more close by as a whole but you are less likely to know everyone at a party there How thoroughly interconnected a network is affects how behaviours and information spread around it Christakis has designed software that creates temporary artificial societies online “We drop people in and then we let them interact with each other and see how they play a public goods game to assess how kind they are to other people.” “By engineering their interactions one way I can make them really sweet to each other and they are healthy and happy and they cooperate Or you take the same people and connect them a different way and they’re mean jerks to each other.” he randomly assigned strangers to play the public goods game with each other about two-thirds of people were cooperative “But some of the people they interact with will take advantage of them and because their only option is either to be kind and cooperative or to be a defector they choose to defect because they’re stuck with these people taking advantage of them And by the end of the experiment everyone is a jerk to everyone else.” Christakis turned this around simply by giving each person a little bit of control over who they were connected to after each round They had to decide whether to be kind to their neighbours and whether to stick with them The only thing each one knew was whether another player had cooperated or defected in the round before “What we were able to show is that people cut ties to defectors and form ties to cooperators and the network rewired itself.” In other words a cooperative prosocial structure instead of an uncooperative structure Christakis&rsquo;s team has started adding bots to their temporary societies to help the humans help themselvesIn an attempt to generate more cooperative online communities Christakis’s team has started adding bots to their temporary societies His team is not interested in inventing super-smart AI to replace human cognition but in infiltrating a population of smart humans with ‘dumb-bots’ to help the humans help themselves Christakis found that if the bots played perfectly they unlocked the potential of the group to find a solution the bots helped the network to function more efficiently A version of this model could involve infiltrating the newsfeeds of partisan people with occasional items offering a different perspective helping to shift people out of their social media comfort-bubbles and allow society as a whole to cooperate more Bots may offer a solution to another online problem: much antisocial behaviour online stems from the anonymity of internet interactions One experiment found that the level of racist abuse tweeted at black users could be dramatically slashed by using bot accounts with white profile images to respond to racist tweeters A typical bot response to a racist tweet would be: “Hey man just remember that there are real people who are hurt when you harass them with that kind of language.” Simply cultivating a little empathy in such tweeters reduced their racist tweets almost to zero for weeks afterwards One experiment found that the level of racist abuse tweeted at black users could be dramatically slashed by using bot accountsAnother way of addressing the low reputational cost for bad behaviour online is to engineer a form of social punishment The game company League of Legends introduced a “Tribunal” feature in which negative play is punished by other players The company reported that 280,000 players were “reformed” after such punishment in one year achieving a positive standing in the community Developers could also build in social rewards for good behaviour encouraging more cooperative elements that help build relationships Researchers already are learning how to predict when an exchange is about to turn bad – the moment at which it could benefit from pre-emptive intervention “You might think that there is a minority of sociopaths online who are doing all this harm,” says Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil at Cornell University’s Department of Information Science “What we actually find in our work is that ordinary people Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil has been investigating the comments sections below online articles He identifies two main triggers for trolling: the context of the exchange (how other users are behaving) and your mood you’re much more likely to troll in the same situation,” he says including from people who had trolled others in the past Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil built an algorithm that predicts with 80% accuracy when someone is about to become abusive online introduce a delay in how fast they can post their response If people have to think twice before they write something that improves the context of the exchange for everyone: you’re less likely to witness people misbehaving Most hateful posts were ignored or only shared within a small echo chamber of similar accounts Perhaps we’re already starting to do the work of the bots ourselves It’s worth remembering that we’ve had thousands of years to hone our person-to-person interactions we have all these cues from facial expressions to body language to pitch,” Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil says “Online we discuss things only through text I think we shouldn’t be surprised that we’re having so much difficulty in finding the right way to discuss and cooperate online.” the advice for dealing with online abuse is to stay calm Talk to family or friends about what’s happening and ask them to help you Take screenshots and report online harassment to the social media service where it’s happening If social media as we know it is going to survive the companies running these platforms are going to have to keep steering their algorithms to encourage cooperation and kindness rather than division and abuse we too may well learn to adapt to this new communication environment so that civil and productive interaction remains the norm online as it is offline “I'm optimistic,” Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil says “This is just a different game and we have to evolve.” Join 800,000+ Future fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter If you liked 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Also, the Petroleum-Gas University the only one with this profile in South-Eastern Europe In Prahova there are 24,250 active companies registered with the Trade Register most of them (41.14%) activating in the industrial sector The surface of the county is 4,716 km2 (2% of the country’s surface) which leads to a density of 169 inhabitants/km2 Prahova having 2 cities (Ploiesti and Campina) The oil industry accounts for 22% of the economic activity of the county and 65% of the turnover of the industrial sector The 772 companies in the field have a total turnover of RON 11.9 billion (EUR 2.53 billion) obtained with the 15,000 employees (10% of the employees of companies) According to the President of Prahova Chamber of Commerce and Industry “Prahova ranked among the top three counties at national level in terms of value of the Gross Domestic Product our county is among the top 10 counties of Romania in terms of contribution to national export even if not at the same level as in the past years at a time when the issue of energy security at national European and global level overlaps an economic and financial situation that many characterize as being on the verge of a new crisis” In a ranking of the counties of Romania according to the value of the Gross Domestic Product Prahova is the third county after Constanta and Cluj “Another important challenge is the labour force crisis CCI Prahova has organized in the last two years a number of actions to identify solutions together with all the factors involved or the impacted companies The immediate solution to diminish the effects of this crisis is import of workforce to which many Prahova-based companies have already resorted,” Aurelian Gogulescu explains The main arguments that attract foreign investors in the oil industry in Prahova County are: In Prahova there are 5 industrial parks with public administration: Ploiesti Industrial Park (with 4 locations – Ploiesti Barcanesti Industrial Park (Administrator: Prahova County Council) Prahova Industrial Park (Administrator: Valenii de Munte Local Council) and 5 industrial parks with private administration: Allianso Business Park the exports made by the companies from Prahova County totaled EUR 2.43 billion which represents 3.5% of Romania’s exports (EUR 67.73 billion) accounting for 4.6% of Romania’s import (EUR 82.86 billion) The main partners of Prahova County for the export activity were: Italy (19%) the United Kingdom (6.2%) and the Republic of Moldova (4.7%) The main products and services exported by Prahova-based oil companies were: oil drilling equipment: offshore and onshore; valves Other chemicals and petrochemicals were exported – car LPG meta-bisulphite in the Republic of Moldova Other export benchmarks are: heavy bearings (India engineering services in the oil and gas industry – design technical studies in the field of oil and natural gas All of the above make us believe that the oil industry has a good future in Romania and Prahova will continue to be ‘the Capital of black gold’ .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.comColumbia Pictures / AP PhotoIn this undated film publicity image originally released by Columbia Tri-Star "Jerry Maguire.""Where we're going we don't need roads." "Fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy night." "Show me the money!" "Frankly Have you ever quoted a line from a movie, and wondered why you were able to remember it? A study at Cornell University, titled "You had me at hello," suggests memorable movie quotes can be explained by science -- and possibly help writers come up with the next great catchphrases According to the New Scientist Cornell's Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee taught a computer to correctly identify memorable quotes two out of three times The study used around 2,200 movie quotes from IMDb half of which were flagged by users as memorable and the other half taken from those quotes' same scenes as a control group The computer analyzed the lines for language patterns Six steps for a perfect catchphrase were determined: Use distinctive words; use simple syntax; keep it short; use "generality" so anyone can relate to them; use present tense; and use "front sounds" (labials or front vowels) such as words that start with M "May the force be with you" fulfills all of those basic guidelines Imagine how much less popular the famous "Star Wars" line would be if Obi-Wan Kenobi had said "I hope the force continues to stay with Luke." Cornell's computer was able to predict which quotes were memorable 64 percent of the time -- humans taking the same test were only accurate 78 percent of the time. (Click here to take the test yourself.) a computer can't catch it'," Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil said He plans to present the research at a South Korea conference on computational linguistics in July He admits that his team's algorithm doesn't account for all famous quotes. Some lines, he told The Huffington Post might become popular because of an unusually effective delivery by an actor or its place in a major plot point the editor of the "Yale Book of Quotations," told Huffington Post he hopes Cornell's study on memorable language helps screenwriters come up with better one-liners for future movies there was 'Show me the money' and 'Life is like a box of chocolates,'" Shapiro said very few movie quotations that have made a big impact and that are going to last a long time." » Read Cornell University's "You had me at hello" study (PDF) Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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Case studies of real betrayals can provide insight after-the-fact finding studies that reveal big picture patterns about the lead-up to treachery are scarce “We all know betrayal exists,” says Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil a computer scientist at Cornell University who spends a lot of time thinking about what language reveals about relationships So when Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil heard about a Diplomacy he figured it might serve as a good proxy for real life treachery And he was right: Studying the patterns of communication between the players revealed that betrayal is sometimes foreseeable But like many relationships that collapse in betrayal teasing out what goes wrong and who is at fault isn’t so easy We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday By subscribing, you agree to our Terms & Privacy Policy.  You must be 13 or older to sign up For full digital access, consider a $2.99 per month subscription stabbing an ally in the back is referred to by the shorthand “stabbing.” Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, colleague and fan-of-the-game Jordan Boyd-Graber and colleagues examined 249 games of Diplomacy with a total of 145,000 messages among players When they used a computer program to compare exchanges between players whose relationships ended in betrayal with those whose relationships lasted the computer discerned subtle signals of impending betrayal Germany: Can I suggest you move your armies east and then I will support you Then next year you move [there] and dismantle Turkey Austria’s next move was invading German territory An increase planning-related language by the soon-to-be victim also indicated impending betrayal a signal that emerges a few rounds before the treachery ensues And correspondence of soon-to-be betrayers had an uptick in positive sentiment in the lead-up to their breach a computer program could peg future betrayal 57 percent of the time but it was better than the accuracy of the human players a betrayer conceals the intention to betray; the breach is unexpected (that whole trust thing) he said that more important than the clues themselves is the shift in the balance of behavior in the relationship.  Positive or negative sentiment of one player isn’t what matters it’s the asymmetry of the behavior of the two people in the relationship He likens the linguistic tells to body language: While you wouldn’t use it as a sole basis for decision-making Questions or comments on this article? E-mail us at feedback@sciencenews.org | Reprints FAQ The Yangtze finless porpoise (shown) is critically endangered Ancient Chinese poems can help researchers trace its decline over time Well-executed starting moves in chess can tip a game’s outcome and players often rely on tried-and-true openers Those openers may not work well in Chess960 In cities that have stopped adding fluoride to drinking water The ills of uncertainty are well documented But uncertainty can also help people savor the moment it can literally increase people’s likelihood of stopping to smell the roses loneliness tends to increase from midlife to later life That trend is reversed in the United States Researchers suspect a poor social safety net for caregivers might be partially to blame NIH suspended funding for two clinical trials investigating how to better protect organ transplant recipients from COVID-19 The money is needed to complete the data analyses A new book contends that Silicon Valley’s vision of the future — one in which AI enables humans to surpass biological limitations and build an ever-growing society in space — is implausible and morally fraught Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world around them It is published by the Society for Science a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483) enter your e-mail address for full access to the Science News archives and digital editions You can read this article in 2 minutesPölös Zsófia A section of Romania's A3 motorway between Ploiești and Bucharest will be closed tonight with traffic diverted onto alternative routes The National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration (CNAIR) has announced the closure of a section of the A3 Motorway in Romania between kilometre markers 68+000 and 43+300 The closure affects traffic travelling from Ploiești to Bucharest and will be in effect from 22:00 tonight until 06:00 tomorrow morning The closure is necessary to facilitate the installation of Variable Message Sign (VMS) gantries and additional traffic signage portals These works are part of the ongoing development at the Dumbrava Interchange which connects to the A7 Motorway project (Ploiești – Buzău the same section of the A3 Motorway was closed for traffic travelling in the opposite direction The closure ran from 22:00 on 2 December until 06:00 this morning Pölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Sabina Koll Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 GXO to manage Northern Italy transport operations for PRG retail groupPölös Zsófia Journalist Trans.info | 5.05.2025 Research that was released in December 2015 shows you might be best taking these people’s behavior with a grain of salt at first Social politeness and common courtesies are one thing but if an individual is buttering you up out of nowhere a strategy-oriented game in which players simulate pre-WWI Europe decks of cards or other familiar formalities of gaming the players rely solely on their communication and social manipulation skills as forming alliances diplomatically becomes the true essence of the game. The researchers then attempted to obtain clues of oncoming action based on the dialogues between players structured discourse and overt politeness” In one particularly elucidating conversation Germany and Austria were talking about how to combine forces to eliminate certain threats Austria readily agreed to Germany’s suggestion to move armed forces east throwing their entire conversation out the window and negating trust In conjunction with this report, Science News commented that clearly playing nice and being overly polite is a great war strategy For those who are not in-the-know and generally unsuspecting it becomes effective to put on a bright face for everyone and then strike where you desire when people least expect it As it turns out, even a computer used this information to accurately predict betrayal 57 percent of the time especially considering that the only cues to be used are linguistic in nature As telling and intriguing as this study is there hasn’t been enough reliable data collected to see these concepts work in the real world Being overly polite in a game of Diplomacy might only carry benefit as far as recreational play-oriented boundaries extend. In order to manifest truly viable data to be used in real-life situations closer look at regular humans going about their day The remains of the tomb of a probable Hun warrior have been found The tomb was unearthed during the construction of a motorway in south-east Romania The shrine is quite rich: it includes a gold-plated sword with precious stones a legend developed in Hungary based on medieval chronicles Legend has it that Hungarians (and the Szekler/Székely ethnic group especially) are the descendents of the Huns According to the legend of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (Honfoglalás the Hungarian tribes gradually conquered and settled in the Carpathian Basin there are some theories about a “double conquest” According to the theory of double conquest the ancestors of the Hungarians conquered the Carpathian Basin in two stages while the second phase is the well-known late 9th century entry a people called Huns were living in the Carpathian Basin Three construction workers were digging in a snow-covered field near the town of Mizil in south-eastern Romania, some 220 kilometres from the Black Sea, when they came across something unexpected, Live Science reports as this was the fourth archaeological site to be excavated since construction began Extraordinary discovery in Romania, perhaps found the tomb of Attila “the scourge of God” https://t.co/TFzW8rskCo “The tomb is filled with more than 100 artifacts gold-covered objects and pieces of gold jewelry inlaid with gemstones,” Silviu Ene(opens in new tab) of the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archeology in Bucharest He is the lead archaeologist investigating the tomb Some speculate whether it is possible that Attila’s tomb was found TheNews even made a video of the extraordinary discovery You can see some of the finds in the video below:  the ethnicity of the warrior is not yet known the rich tomb remains suggest that he belonged to the Hun ruling class They controlled much of the territory west of the Black Sea at the time including the region that is now part of Romania The archaeologist also revealed that the tomb preserved the full skeleton of the warrior. His face was covered by a golden mask, the remains of which were also found. But so far only one leg and the head of his horse have been recovered, travelo.hu reports the bones and artefacts will be cleaned and examined Make sure that the Romanians will not figure it out that it was a Dacian All the so-called “Romanian” treasures or hoards were and still are stolen from “CORONA” (Kronstadt”) or BRASOV city of Sigismund of Luxembourg and …and…of “DRACULA” The city mountain is named “Tempa” (from “Templum”) because of the Roman top-chapel which existed until 1600 The Protestants and their Greek-Bulgarian and Turkish allies occupied the city and fired churches BUT: there still exist the city monument the “Cathedral of Sanctissima Maria” (“Black Church”) concluded by king Matthias Corvin and his queen Beatrice of Aragon which is the largest Medieval basilica between Vienna and Istanbul King Sigismund discovered about 1400 here in BRASOV “Attila’s tomb” with fabulous gold treasure of Gothic and Hunnic manufacture (i.e The “Pietroasa treasure” stolen by Russian troops about 1825 from “Steingasse” chapel – strada Pietroasa after 1950 “Spatar Luca Arbore”) The history of this strategic city from the Carpathian Arch which was also the head quarters of the famous “DRACULA” and his Szekler army is huge and cannot be perceived by the “Pravoslavnik Romanian” dilettantes who still dominate this important region thanks to the Soviet occupation and the crypto-Communist extension… and !… and website in this browser for the next time I comment Y"},"category":false,"taxonomy":{"active":false,"name":"category"}},"markup":{"custom_html":true,"wpp-start":"","wpp-end":"<\/ul>","title-start":"","title-end":"<\/h2>","post-html":"{thumb} {title} {stats}<\/span>{excerpt}<\/p><\/li>"},"theme":{"name":""}} You have successfully joined our subscriber list SupportUs Newsletter © 2025 DailyNewsHungary | All rights reserved