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   "text": "Because human interactions in business are often too complex to be fully codified objectively, DeFi systems that exclude all non objective information from their analysis do not fully utilize available information, which limits their efficiency and usefulness.",
   "abstract": "However, human interaction in business are often too complex to be fully codified objectively. By excluding all non- objective information from the product analysis, all available information may not be fully utilized which limits efficiency and potential usefulness of DeFi",
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   "text": "Because information at the edge does not travel up a centralized hierarchy, the central authority makes decisions without full information, and a centralized organization is therefore not well designed to respond to any crisis it has not anticipated.",
   "abstract": "The central authority makes decisions without full information, so a central- ized organization is not well designed to respond to any crisis it hasn't anticipated.",
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   "text": "GNN scalability on large real world graphs is a genuine trade off rather than an engineering gap: sampling methods lose influential neighbors while clustering methods lose structural patterns, so each remedy sacrifices part of the signal the model needs.",
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