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Datasets used in the paper "The Face of Deception: The Impact of AI-Generated Photos on Malicious Social Bots"

Datasets used in the paper "The Face of Deception: The Impact of AI-Generated Photos on Malicious Social Bots" We changed the datasets' titles and omitted authors' names for the blind review process. After the review, we will upload it to GitHub in an unanonymised form. Check README.md for details.

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Eusocial evolution without a nest: kin structure of social aphids forming open colonies on bamboo

Living in nests is an almost universal feature of eusocial animals. In some aphids, however, sterile soldier castes have evolved in open colonies without a nest. To clarify the factors promoting the evolution of eusociality in these colonies, we used newly developed microsatellite markers to compare the kin structure of the open colonies of two aphid species on bamboo: the non-eusocial colonies of Astegopteryx bambucifoliae and the eusocial colonies of Pseudoregma alexanderion Dendrocalamus latiflorus. Our samples, from over 1,000 hectares, contained 99 clones of A. bambucifoliae and 19 of P. alexanderi. Clonal mixing occurred in both species: average pairwise relatedness within a colony was 0.54 in A. bambucifoliae and 0.71 in P. alexanderi. Each clone of A. bambucifoliae occurred in a unique location, whereas those of P. alexanderi occurred in multiple locations and more than 90% of individuals came from just four clones. There was significant genetic variation among different colonies in the same clump (stem-cluster) in A. bambucifoliae but not in P. alexanderi, indicating that P. alexanderi colonies in a single clump are genetically homogenized, functioning as a large colony. In P. alexanderi, the proportion of sterile soldiers to normal first-instar nymphs was significantly different across the four clones. Our results indicate that the lack of input of migrants from the primary host and feeding on a large, stable host plant are important ecological factors that might favour the evolution of eusociality, enabling the production of genetically homogenised, large, and long-lived colonies. After eusociality evolves on the secondary host, the optimal strategy of soldier production might vary between different clones.

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data and code for "Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity: The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance "

data and code for the paper titled "Depression and social anxiety in relation to problematic TikTok use severity:  The mediating role of boredom proneness and distress intolerance", to be published on Computers in Human Behavior.

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Data from: Trait-specific indirect effects underlie variation in the response of spiders to cannibalistic social partners

Organisms may respond in different ways to the risk posed by conspecifics, but the cause of such variation remains elusive. Here, we use a half-sib/full-sib design to evaluate the contribution of (indirect) genetic or environmental effects to the behavioral response of the cannibalistic wolf spider Lycosa fasciiventris (Dufour, 1835) towards conspecific cues. Spiders showed variation in relative occupancy time, activity, and velocity on patches with or without conspecific cues, but direct genetic variance was only found for occupancy time. These three traits were correlated and could be lumped in a principal component: spiders spending more time in patches with conspecific cues moved less and at a lower rate in those areas. Genetic and/or environmental components of carapace width and weight loss in the social partner were significantly correlated with the principal component of focal individuals. Individual Variation in these traits may reflect the quality and/or quantity of cues produced by social partners, hence focal individuals were likely behaving along a continuum of strategies in response to the risk posed by social partners. Therefore, environmental and genetic trait variation in the social partners may be key to maintain trait diversity in focal individuals, even in the absence of direct genetic variation.

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Replication package for: DEMAND AND WELFARE ANALYSIS IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

This replication package includes the dataset and stata code needed to produce the empirical results in the paper.

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Using social media and personality traits to assess software developers' emotional polarity

Companion DATA Title:     Using social media and personality traits to assess software developers' emotional polarity Authors:      Leo Moreira Silva     Marília Gurgel Castro     Miriam Bernardino Silva     Milena Santos     Uirá Kulesza     Margarida Lima     Henrique Madeira Journal:         PeerJ Computer Science Github:     <a href="https://github.com/leosilva/peerj_computer_science_2022">https://github.com/leosilva/peerj_computer_science_2022</a> ------------------------------------------------------------ The folders contain: Experiment_Protocol.pdf: document that present the protocol regarding recruitment protocol, data collection of public posts from Twitter, criteria for manual analysis, and the assessment of Big Five factors from participants and psychologists. English version. /analysis     analyzed_tweets_by_psychologists.csv: file containing the manual analysis done by psychologists     analyzed_tweets_by_participants.csv: file containing the manual analysis done by participants     analyzed_tweets_by_psychologists_solved_divergencies.csv: file containing the manual analysis done by psychologists over 51 divergent tweets' classifications /dataset     alldata.json: contains the dataset used in the paper /ethics_committee     committee_response_english_version.pdf: contains the acceptance response of Research Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. English version.     committee_response_original_portuguese_version: contains the acceptance response of Research Ethics and Deontology Committee of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. Portuguese version.     committee_submission_form_english_version.pdf: the project submitted to the committee. English version.     committee_submission_form_original_portuguese_version.pdf: the project submitted to the committee. Portuguese version.     consent_form_english_version.pdf: declaration of free and informed consent fulfilled by participants. English version.     consent_form_original_portuguese_version.pdf: declaration of free and informed consent fulfilled by participants. Portuguese version.     data_protection_declaration_english_version.pdf: personal data and privacy declaration, according to European Union General Data Protection Regulation. English version.     data_protection_declaration_original_portuguese_version.pdf: personal data and privacy declaration, according to European Union General Data Protection Regulation. Portuguese version. /notebooks     General - Charts.ipynb: notebook file containing all charts produced in the study, including those in the paper     Statistics - Lexicons and Ensembles.ipynb: notebook file with the statistics for the five lexicons and ensembles used in the study     Statistics - Linear Regression.ipynb: notebook file with the multiple linear regression results     Statistics - Polynomial Regression.ipynb: notebook file with the polynomial regression results     Statistics - Psychologists versus Participants.ipynb: notebook file with the statistics between the psychologists and participants manual analysis     Statistics - Working x Non-working.ipynb: notebook file containing the statistical analysis for the tweets posted during work period and those posted outside of working period /surveys     Demographic_Survey_english_version.pdf: survey inviting participants to enroll in the study. We collect demographic data and participants' authorization to access their public Tweet posts. English version.     Demographic_Survey_portuguese_version.pdf: survey inviting participants to enroll in the study. We collect demographic data and participants' authorization to access their public Tweet posts. Portuguese version.     Demographic_Survey_answers.xlsx: participants' demographic survey answers     ibf_pt_br.doc: the Portuguese version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI) instrument to infer participants' Big Five polarity traits.     ibf_en.doc: translation in English of the Portuguese version of the Big Five Inventory (BFI) instrument to infer participants' Big Five polarity traits.     ibf_answers.xlsx: participantes' and psychologists' answers for BFI ------------------------------------------------------------ We have removed from dataset any sensible data to protect participants' privacy and anonymity. We have removed from demographic survey answers any sensible data to protect participants' privacy and anonymity.

Social media occurrences of the Banded Demoiselle in Great Britain

Social media offers an alternative, freely available and understudied source of biological information, useful to determine species distributions and with implications for conservation. To investigate the potential utility of this information source, UK observations of the Banded Demoiselle – a charismatic and easily identifiable species of damselfly – were collated from Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter content posted from 2010 onwards. Although this content was not necessarily intended as a biological record, when an identifiable photograph or video is shared along with associated date and location information, this provides all the data required for a species observation. This dataset provides key information on the Banded Demoiselle's UK distribution that can complement traditional sources of biological recording and demonstrates the availability and applicability of social media as a source of ecological data.

Data for: Plastic maternal effects of social density on reproduction and fitness in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa

Environmental parental effects, also known as transgenerational plasticity, are widespread in plants and animals. Less well known is whether those effects contribute to maternal fitness in the same manner in different populations. We carried out a multi-generational laboratory experiment with females drawn from two populations of the Least Killifish, Heterandria formosa, to assess transgenerational plasticity in reproductive traits in response to differences in social density and its effects on maternal fitness. In the first and second generations, increased density decreased reproductive rate and increased offspring size in females from both populations. There were complicated patterns of transgenerational plasticity on maternal fitness that differed between females from different populations. Females from a population with historically low densities whose mothers experienced lower density had higher fitness than females whose mothers experienced higher density, regardless of their own density. The opposite pattern emerged in females from the population with historically high densities: females whose mothers experienced higher density had higher fitness than females whose mothers experienced lower density. This transgenerational plasticity is not anticipatory but might be considered adaptive in both populations if providing those "silver spoons" enhances offspring fitness in all environments.

Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard

Emerging infectious fungal diseases are responsible for the extinction of myriad species across a range of phyla. As recently shown by the COVID-19 pandemic, social transmission can be key to disease spread, and in this context, humans are not alone in trying to be alone. In group-living species, individuals have been shown to use social behaviour to avoid infection; diseased individuals can isolate from the group, or healthy animals can avoid diseased conspecifics. However, to date, little is known about social behaviour as a mechanism to avoid fungal infection. In this study, we investigate the extent to which wild urban eastern water dragons (Intellagama lesueurii), a gregarious reptile, modify their social behaviour as a response to infection with a recently emerged infectious fungal disease, caused by the pathogen Nannizziopsis barbatae. Using individual data from a long-term study population inhabiting Roma Street Parkland in Brisbane's Central Business District (QLD, Australia) and focal sampling, we test whether dragons exhibit self-isolation and social distancing behaviours in the context of dyadic social approach events. Statistical analyses of data collected from 633 observations of 123 unique individuals (78 non-diseased, 45 diseased) during 2020 – 2021 suggested that while the presence of the fungal disease had no effect on individuals' social behaviour, the severity of the fungal disease did significantly affect individuals' social behaviour. Specifically, we found that (i) diseased individuals were no less social than their non-diseased conspecifics, (ii) non-diseased individuals did not avoid or spend less time with diseased conspecifics, and (iii) models considering the severity of skin lesions caused by Nannizziopsis barbatae, instead of their presence or absence, suggested that individuals avoided more severely diseased conspecifics regardless of their own disease status. These findings warrant further investigation, given the evidence that many species have displayed behavioural adaptations to disease, and the increasing risk posed by emerging infectious fungal diseases.

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Consumer perception survey of CSR, Serviceability, perceived quality, social quality, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty in Automobile industiry

We are very pleased to be able to contribute to your research and ensure the transparency of data in our research,too. I sincerely hope that this field will continue to develop in the future.

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DATABASE OF THE SYSTEMATIC MAPPING OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ANS STIGMA IN POPULATION LIVING WITH HIV

DATABASE OF THE SYSTEMATIC MAPPING OF SOCIAL SUPPORT ANS STIGMA IN POPULATION LIVING WITH HIV. IT WAS USED THE PRISMA (2020) METHODOLOGY.

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Phylomitogenomics reveals mito-nuclear concordance in social wasps: the performance of mitochondrial markers and gene order for hymenopteran systematics.

Mitochondrial (mtDNA) genes have served as widely utilized genetic loci for animal phylogenetics and phylogeography studies. However, the phylogenetic performance of many mtDNA genes has not been empirically evaluated across lineages within hymenopteran wasps. To address this question, we assembled and analyzed mitogenomic data from social wasps, representing the four recognized tribes of Polistinae and also all Epiponini genera. Additionally, we evaluated whether mtDNA gene order in Polistinae is congruent with its tribal classification. Using concatenation phylogenetic methods, we show phylogenetic congruence between mitogenomic and nuclear data. Statistically comparing the phylogenetic performance of individual mtDNA genes, we demonstrate that for social wasps the molecular markers COI, 16S, NAD5, and NAD2 perform best, while ATP6, COII, and 12S show the worst results. Finally, we verified that the tRNA cluster close to the noncoding region is a hotspot of rearrangement in Vespidae and can be used as additional information for the systematics of this group. Together, these results indicate that mitogenomes contain robust phylogenetic signal to elucidate the evolutionary history of Vespidae. Moreover, our study identifies the best choice of mitochondrial markers for systematic investigations of social wasps.

Social network and fitness data from age-structured populations of forked fungus beetles

We investigated the relationships between age, social behavior, and fitness at three levels of organization: the individual, the local social environment, and the population. Replicate groups of forked fungus beetles (Bolitotherus cornutus) were engineered to have either young- or old- biased age structures, and both social and reproductive behaviors were recorded.

Chemical fingerprints indicate group membership in a highly social communal breeding bird

Gregarious species must distinguish group members from non-group members. Olfaction is important for group recognition in mammals but rarely studied in birds, despite birds using olfaction in social contexts from species discrimination to kin recognition. Olfactory-based recognition requires that groups have a signature odour, so we tested for preen oil and feather chemical similarity among group-living smooth-billed anis (Crotophaga ani). Physiology affects body chemistry, so we also tested for an effect of egg-laying competition, as a proxy for reproductive status, on female chemical similarity. Finally, the fermentation hypothesis for chemical recognition posits that host-associated microbes drive host odour, so we tested for covariation between ani chemicals and microbiota. Group members were more chemically similar than non-group members, regardless of body region, demonstrating that gregarious bird species can have group chemical signatures. Females in groups with less egg-laying competition had more similar preen oil, but not feather, chemicals, suggesting preen oil conveys information about reproductive status. There was no overall covariation between chemicals and microbes; instead, subsets of microbes could mediate olfactory cues in birds. Preen oil and feather chemicals showed little overlap, suggesting they convey different information. These findings will guide experimental work on olfaction in gregarious birds.

Data from: Social group composition modulates the role of last male sperm precedence in post-copulatory sexual selection

In many species, the order in which males mate with a female explains much of the variation in paternity arising from post-copulatory sexual selection. Research in Drosophila suggests that mating order may account for the majority of the variance in male reproductive success. However, the effects of mating order on paternity bias might not be static but could potentially vary with social or environmental factors. To test this idea, we used an existing dataset, collated from an experiment we previously published (Morimoto et al. 2016), with the addition of unpublished data from the same experiment. These previous experiments manipulated larval density in Drosophila melanogaster which generated variation in male and female body size, assembled groups of individuals of different sizes, and measured the mating success and paternity share of focal males. The data presented here provide information on each focal male's mating order and the frequency in which focal males remated with the same females ('repetitive matings'). We combined this information with our previously reported focal male reproductive success to partition variance in paternity into male mating order and repetitive matings across groups that differed in the body size composition of males and females. We found, as expected, that male mating order explained a considerable portion of the variance in male paternity. However, we also found that the impact of male mating order on male paternity was influenced by the body size composition of groups. Specifically, males that tended to mate last had a greater paternity advantage, and displayed lower variance, in groups containing a heterogenous mixture of male body sizes than in groups with a single male body size. Repetitive mating only had a minor contribution to the variance in male paternity share across all experiments. Overall, our findings contribute to the growing body of research showing that post-copulatory sexual selection is subject to socio-ecological influences.

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Data for: Bullying as an advertisement of social dominance in common waxbills

Bullying consists of preferentially attacking individuals lowest in the dominance hierarchy, and its functions are unclear because the most subordinate individuals do not pose social challenges to the aggressor. Instead, conflict is expected mostly between individuals of similar dominance rank or socially-distant (i.e., weakly associated), among whom dominance relationships may not be well established. A possible function of bullying is that it may be used as a low-risk strategy of showing-off dominance to relevant third parties. To study this hypothesis, we monitored aggressions during feeding, the composition of audiences, dominance hierarchy and social network of common waxbills (Estrilda astrild) in an open-air mesocosm, and tested 1- whether their aggressions show a pattern of bullying, and 2- whether audience effects influence aggressiveness. Waxbills showed bullying, most often attacking the lowest-ranking individuals rather than socially-distant individuals or those of similar dominance rank, and aggressions increased when the audience included socially-distant individuals, indicating a signalling function of bullying. Showing-off dominance in the presence of socially-distant individuals may be a strategy to manage dominance hierarchies, avoiding direct fights with potentially dangerous opponents in the audience. We suggest that bullying is a safe manner of managing dominance hierarchies, by signalling dominance status to potential opponents.

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Dataset on Public Proposals for Infrastructure, Social, and Economic Sectors Based on Participatory Planning

The dataset was collected using data mining techniques. We logged in to e-Musrenbang website as City Admin and retrieved the public proposal data based on sectors, specifically infrastructure, social, and economic. We also selected the proposal budget to be added to the dataset. The dataset was downloaded in Excel with xlsx format.

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Reductions in home-range size and social interactions among dehorned black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis)

<div> Poaching for horns and tusks is driving declines of megaherbivores worldwide, including the critically endangered African black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis). By proactively dehorning entire rhinoceros populations, conservationists aim to deter poaching and prevent species loss. However, such conservation interventions may have hidden and underestimated effects on animals' behavior and ecology. Here, we combine >15 y of black rhino–monitoring data across 10 South African game reserves, comprising >24,000 sightings of 368 individuals, to determine the consequences of dehorning for black rhino space use and social interactions. While preventative dehorning at these reserves coincided with a nationwide decrease in black rhino mortality from poaching and did not infer increased natural mortality, dehorned black rhinos decreased their home range area by, on average, 11.7 km2 (45.5%) and were 37% less likely to engage in social encounters. We conclude that dehorning black rhinos as an antipoaching measure alters their behavioral ecology, although the potential population-level effects of these changes remain to be determined. </div>

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Datos sobre proceso de selección de estudios para revisión sistemática de literatura sobre responsabilidad social en la industria minera

Hoja de cálculo donde se detalla el proceso seguido para la selección de artículos en la Revisión Sistemática de Literatura sobre resonsabilidad social empresarial en la industria minera