Accountability for Past Abuses

Editorial Abuses

Understanding Domain Registration Abuses

The ability to monetize domain names through resale or serving ad content has contributed to the rise of questionable practices in acquiring them, including domain-name speculation, tasting, and front running. In this paper, we perform one of the first comprehensive studies of these domain registration practices. In order to characterize the prevalence of domain-name speculation, we derive rule...

Reining in Online Abuses

593 Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways: recruiting and radicalizing terrorists; exploiting children; buying and selling illegal weapons and underage prostitutes; bullying, stalking, and trolling on social media; distributing revenge porn; stealing personal and financial data; propagating fake and hateful news; and more. Technology companies have been and continue t...

Convergence of sciences for social accountability in education: An experience

The inter-disciplinary approach in education includes the integration of educational capacities and competencies of different disciplines for a specific purpose or creating a new product with appropriate methodological techniques to improve knowledge and acquire competencies. In fact, the starting point of convergence of sciences is turning to an interdisciplinary approach. Convergence of scien...

Nebulisers: uses and abuses.

Jet nebulisers are used to deliver a wide range of drugs as aerosols. The British National Formullarv lists not only six bronchodilator solutions in doses up to 10 mg (available in single dose ampoules, multidose vials, or both), but also one corticosteroid, one prophylactic agent (sodium cromoglycate), and two mucolytics as being suitable for nebulisation.' In addition, nebulisers have been us...