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Social forces, not macroeconomics, shaped small-business adaptation in the pandemic: peer influence and local exposure to closures drove expectations and stifled innovation, disproportionately undermining family- and purpose-driven entrepreneurs and causing a net contraction in emerging entrepreneurship.
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Peer Influence and Individual Motivations in Global Small Business Adaptation · Viviana Fernandez · Mar 08, 2026
AI in medicine falls into three interaction levels—assisted, augmented and automated—each producing distinct effects on work, productivity and management. Rather than simply displacing clinicians, the dominant trajectory is toward Human+ professionals who supervise, exercise higher-order judgment and manage exceptions.
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Toward human+ medical professionals: navigating AI integration in healthcare to enhance human expertise · Claudia Perillo, Domenica Lavorato, Manuel Villasalero · Mar 08, 2026
YouTube creators have built a GenAI playbook—advertising, productized prompts, affiliate links and revenue-sharing dominate—but the ecosystem is riddled with unverifiable earnings claims, content misappropriation and synthetic engagement that could distort platform markets and creator livelihoods.
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Monetizing Generative AI: YouTubers' Collective Knowledge on Earning from Generative AI Content · Shuo Niu, Yao Lyu, He Zhang, Na Li, Bumjin Kim, Jie Cai · Mar 07, 2026
Integrated BERT–GPT marketing stacks—grounded with retrieval and optimised by reinforcement learning—deliver materially higher click-through, engagement and conversion rates than template-driven automation; however, the gains rely on large interaction datasets and raise significant privacy, bias and market-power risks that demand technical safeguards and regulatory oversight.
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Personalized Content Selection in Marketing Using BERT and GPT-Based AI Models · Kasi Viswanath kommana · Mar 07, 2026
An audit-ready curriculum framework can tighten the link between training and AI job requirements — improving employability and easing hiring frictions — but implementation is costly and must be continuously updated to avoid obsolescence and vendor lock-in.
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Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and management .volume 9 · tshingombe tshitadi, tshingombe tshitadi · Mar 07, 2026
A new k-level quantal-response model unifies cognitive-hierarchy and quantal-response approaches and, with a hybrid genetic-algorithm-plus-SQP estimator, substantially outperforms standard behavioral models in simulated fit and prediction while producing stable estimates even in small-sample, high-parameter settings.
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k-QREM: Integrating Hierarchical Structures to Optimize Bounded Rationality Modeling · Qianbo Lai, Jifa Wang, Xin Chen, Meng Qiu · Mar 07, 2026
A dynamic, data-driven equivalency system—backed by a centralized MIS, probabilistic validation models and dual technical/system audits—can translate DRC technical credentials into South Africa’s NQF and cut ‘brain waste’; success hinges on reliable digital infrastructure, transparent algorithms and regional regulatory alignment.
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Establishes a technical and academic bridge between the educational systems of the democratic republic of the Congo (DRC) and the South African qualifications authority (SAQA). It focuses on the harmonization of skills through a robust management information system (MIS) and rigorous research methodology. volume 2 · tshingombe tshitadi, tshingombe tshitadi · Mar 07, 2026
Digital financial technologies and AI‑driven advice are widening access to investing for women and can improve diversification and long‑term outcomes; however, persistent digital literacy gaps, selection effects, and potential algorithmic bias mean gains are uneven and not yet proven over the long run.
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Women's Investment Behaviour and Technology: Exploring the Impact of Digital Tools on Financial Decision-Making · Pratichi Dash · Mar 07, 2026
Embedding AI into ERP systems improves real‑time planning and operational control across multiple functions, but technology alone delivers limited returns; durable gains require concurrent investments in data governance, process standardization and people‑side change.
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Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: A Structured Review of Decision Support Capabilities, Constraints, and Governance · Abdullah Önden · Mar 07, 2026
AI is reshaping economic governance from rigid rules to adaptive systems that augment human foresight; realizing this promise requires new institutional capacities, transparent AI tools, and policy choices that prioritize inclusion and accountability.
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Governing The Future · Fadi Farra · Mar 07, 2026
Smart power reframes influence: states and non‑state actors now marry coercion and attraction into a legitimacy‑based strategic model, using diplomacy, development and digital technologies — especially AI — to shape global economic and political orders. This shifts economic levers (trade, investment, standards, industrial policy) and raises coordination, market-structure and distributional risks for global AI ecosystems.
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Smart Power and the Transformation of Contemporary International Relations: Connecting Coercion and Persuasion in Global Politics · Johnson Kayode Ayeni, Agaba Halidu · Mar 07, 2026
Federated advertising architectures can preserve much of targeted personalization while cutting centralized data custody risks, but doing so requires cryptographic aggregation, calibrated differential privacy, algorithmic fixes for non‑IID and delayed feedback, and explicit cross‑party governance; without these measures, performance, fairness and security trade‑offs remain substantial.
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Privacy-Aware AI Advertising Systems: A Federated Learning Framework for Cross-Platform Personalization · Ethan Caldwell, Sofia Bennett · Mar 07, 2026
Treating privacy as a commodity produces distinctive harms that prices can’t fix: markets for personal data enable exploitation, erode autonomy and concentrate platform power, so policymakers should restrict or redesign data markets rather than simply 'fill' a missing market.
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Data and privacy: Putting markets in (their) place · Reetika Khera · Mar 07, 2026
A traceable, compliance-ready curriculum framework promises better alignment between qualifications and labor-market needs and richer datasets for measurement and AI tooling; its benefits, however, come with high upfront costs, continuous audit burdens, and risks of concentrating advantages among well-resourced providers.
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Curriculum engineering: organisation, orientation, and management volume 8 · tshingombe tshitadi, tshingombe tshitadi · Mar 07, 2026
Fragmented vocational certification and administrative backlogs in South Africa are obstructing artisans’ career progression to engineering roles; migrating records to cloud repositories and adding automated compliance checks could restore credential continuity and unlock data for AI-driven matching and upskilling—but rural infrastructure gaps and governance risks could limit benefits.
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<i>Electrotechnical education, institutional compliance, and engineering career progression in Southern Africa</i> · tshingombe tshitadi, tshingombe tshitadi · Mar 07, 2026
THETA uses LoRA-tuned hybrid embeddings and a structured human-in-the-loop agent workflow to extract more coherent, domain-aware topics from massive social-text corpora than conventional topic models, enabling scalable, auditable narrative and policy analysis for economists and regulators.
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THETA: A Textual Hybrid Embedding-based Topic Analysis Framework and AI Scientist Agent for Scalable Computational Social Science · Zhenke Duan, Xin Li · Mar 06, 2026
Introducing AI into design workflows is not just a productivity upgrade but a reconfiguration of responsibility and power: UX designers weigh efficiency against skill, autonomy and trust, and outcomes hinge on team norms and organizational governance. Adoption therefore redistributes who benefits and who bears accountability, with implications for incentives, human capital and firm policy.
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The Values of Value in AI Adoption: Rethinking Efficiency in UX Designers' Workplaces · Inha Cha, Catherine Wieczorek, Richmond Y. Wong · Mar 06, 2026
A lightweight 'FutureBoosting' pipeline that uses a frozen time‑series foundation model to generate forecasted features and feeds them into an interpretable regressor cuts electricity price forecasting MAE by more than 30% across multiple markets. The approach is plug‑and‑play, computationally modest, and retains model interpretability, making it attractive for market participants seeking better bids and risk management.
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Regression Models Meet Foundation Models: A Hybrid-AI Approach to Practical Electricity Price Forecasting · Yunzhong Qiu, Binzhu Li, Hao Wei, Shenglin Weng, Chen Wang, Zhongyi Pei, Mingshe... · Mar 06, 2026
Task-level approaches reveal that low-skilled tasks face the largest displacement risk while high-skilled work is more likely to be augmented, but much of the literature rests on static, pre-2020 mappings and limited causal evidence that rapid LLM advances have already outpaced.
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Recent Methodologies on AI and Labour - a Desk Review · Elena Papagiannaki, Joana Geisler · Mar 06, 2026
AI tools speed routine coding and prototyping at Netlight but create errors, context gaps and integration costs that increase the value of human supervision and orchestration. Firms that build effective orchestration and tooling layers — and hire for system-design and coordination skills — are likely to capture disproportionate productivity gains.
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Rethinking How IT Professionals Build IT Products with Artificial Intelligence · Florian J. Meier, Florian Gatzlaff, Sven Laumer · Mar 06, 2026
Data‑driven HRM strengthens workforce resilience and operational performance by improving talent matching, forecasting turnover, and enabling real‑time monitoring; however, privacy, algorithmic bias and capability gaps limit adoption and leave causal long‑term impacts on employment and wages unresolved.
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Data-Driven Strategies in Human Resource Management: The Role of Information Science in Workforce Resilience – A Systematic Review · Stephen Taduvana, Thubelihle Moyo, Rhinos Kombedzai · Mar 06, 2026
Children bear outsized risks from antimicrobial resistance, climate change and emerging zoonoses because immaturity, behaviour and ecosystem dependence concentrate exposure; yet One Health surveillance and policy remain fragmented and adult‑centric. Building integrated, child‑labelled datasets and equity‑aware AI/economic models—with targeted governance reforms—will improve forecasting and resource allocation, particularly in low‑ and middle‑income countries.
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Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on children, climate change, and infectious threats · Marco Masetti, Francesca Lato, Martina Menoni, Susanna Esposito · Mar 06, 2026
China pursues centralized, state‑led data governance to mobilize large, sovereign data projects; the United States relies on decentralized, rights‑based institutions emphasizing transparency and accountability. Rather than strict opposites, openness and security are treated as layered, adaptable governance processes with distinct implications for data access, innovation and competition.
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Balancing openness and security in scientific data governance: Institutional logics in China and the United States · Ling Chen, Lianjian Deng · Mar 06, 2026
Cities more exposed to AI cut energy intensity: a one-standard-deviation rise in AI exposure increases regional total factor energy efficiency by roughly 3.2%, driven by shifts toward 'green' jobs and skills and amplified where environmental rules and digital networks are strong.
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Artificial intelligence, greening of occupational structure and total factor energy efficiency · Tianren Li, Yao Hu, Jiachao Peng, Fushun Zhang · Mar 06, 2026
AI has transformed ad personalization from a prediction problem into platform infrastructure: who controls data, identity, and governance—not just model accuracy—now determines rents, welfare impacts and market structure. Durable, welfare-aligned personalization will require interpretable models, privacy-by-design, causal impact measurement and new audit/regulatory regimes.
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Artificial Intelligence for Personalized Digital Advertising: Methods and Applications · Ethan J. Mercer, Daniel R. Holloway · Mar 06, 2026