The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (Pitt-Bradford or UPB) is a state-related college in Bradford, Pennsylvania. It is a baccalaureate degree-granting, regional campus of the University of Pittsburgh.
Images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming more realistic, with AI-generated images of adult faces indistinguishable from human faces. Can the same be said for AI-generated images of young children? We compared 76 participants’ discrimination of 72 images representing three types of stimuli: real photos, randomly selected AI images, and AI images curated with human oversight. Real photos were identified as real more frequently (78.6%) than Curated AI (40.3%) and Random AI (29.1%). However, Curated AI stimuli were judged as real more often than Random AI stimuli. Performance variability between images based on age, gender, and race suggests that AI better portrays children with specific characteristics. Images of toddlers and girls were judged as real more than infants and boys. Additional refinement is needed in training and testing text-to-image algorithms to realistically portray children and promote the ethical use of AI in developmental research.
This article outlines the creation, development, and decline of Pittsburgh's first out LGBTQA+ professional organization from a founding member's point of view. Established at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Thursday Night Live served as a respite from the outbreak but also brought controversial public attention to a segment of the city's queer community that had still been largely in the shadows. This article uses surviving records and materials from a time when printing queer names on public documents was threatening and dangerous, as well as interviews with surviving TNL members.
This article traced the concept of international development to the condescending, Eurocentric mission of civilizing the so-called Third World, including Africa. This perspective served as the template for Western development thinking, which informed Harry Truman's Point Four Program for countering the threats that the poverty of the underdeveloped world posed to their Western, developed counterparts. While sub-Saharan Africa, by default, is synonymous with the century-old colonial definition of underdevelopment, this article contributes to the clarion call to redefining development in Africans' own terms and cultural relevance. The paper argues for a twinlineal, Afrocentric approach to revisiting the colonial grammar of androcentric development. This course must be charted by pragmatic leaders who appreciate the nexus between gender and health as critical pathways to the application of decoloniality as the method toward an agentic, sustainable development thinking in sub-Saharan Africa.
PCBs were found in rivers in southwestern Nigeria, with total ∑PCB concentrations significantly exceeding regulatory limits. Highly chlorinated PCB congeners dominated the profiles, and the overall carcinogenic risk exceeded acceptable levels.
