The Effect of Election Cycles on the size of Government in Plitically Developed and Politically Developing Selected Countries [PDF]
This study, inspired by Peacock and Wiseman’s theory, attributes government size to political factors. The current study aims to analyze the effect of election cycles (election year, government ideology, Coalition and minority government) on government ...
Abolfazl Shahabadi +2 more
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Evaluation of deepfake detection using YOLO with local binary pattern histogram [PDF]
Recently, deepfake technology has become a popularly used technique for swapping faces in images or videos that create forged data to mislead society. Detecting the originality of the video is a critical process due to the negative pattern of the image ...
Štěpán Hubálovský +3 more
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Effect of health outcome on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: a system generalized method of moment approach [PDF]
Purpose – Some progress have been made over time in improving health conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There are, however, contradicting reports on the relationship between health outcomes and economic growth in the region.
Sakiru Oladele Akinbode +3 more
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The impact of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies preferential credit on household welfare in Vietnam: a panel data analysis [PDF]
Purpose – The study examines the impact of the preferential credit provided by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies on poverty reduction in Ninh Binh province, Vietnam. It also identifies and ranks the barriers of accessing the credit. Design/methodology/
An Duong, Ernoiz Antriyandarti
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Survey the Impact of Political, Economic and Personal Freedoms on Human Development Index (A Cross-Country Approach) [PDF]
In this study, using economic freedom indices including: rule of law, limited government, regulatory efficiency and market freedom, political freedom, including: civil liberties, political rights and freedom of the press, variables of quality of ...
SeyedAmin Mansouri, SeyedMorteza Afghah
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Genome-wide association meta-analysis of circulating odd-numbered chain saturated fatty acids: Results from the CHARGE Consortium. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Odd-numbered chain saturated fatty acids (OCSFA) have been associated with potential health benefits. Although some OCSFA (e.g., C15:0 and C17:0) are found in meats and dairy products, sources and metabolism of C19:0 and C23:0 are relatively ...
Marcia C de Oliveira Otto +25 more
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How to Design a Bank Levy: The Effect of a Levy Scheme on Bank Performance and its Activities
One of the regulatory responses to the 2008 financial crisis was to internalize the costs related to banks’ distress by introducing bank levies. More than 23 European banking sectors have been confronted with the new levy regime imposing the additional ...
Hryckiewicz Aneta, Puławska Karolina
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Research background: Posner’s technology gap theories and Vernon’s product life cycle assume that differences in innovation and technology levels are the cause of foreign trade. These theories are subject to empirical verification.
Salamaga Marcin
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Global Warming and Atmospheric Carbon: Is Carbon Sequestration a Myth or Reality?
Biotic and abiotic carbon sequestration currently seems to be the only viable tools at the disposal of mankind for mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and thus a remedy for tackling global warming challenges.
Ogwu Stephen Obinozie +5 more
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Bootstrap methods for inference in the Parks model
This paper shows how to bootstrap hypothesis tests in the context of the Parks’s (1967) Feasible Generalized Least Squares estimator. It then demonstrates that the bootstrap outperforms FGLS(Parks)’s top competitor.
Moundigbaye Mantobaye +3 more
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