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Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Latin America

open access: yesEuropean Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2019
Tax systems in Latin America are characterized by low collection, a higher incidence of regressive taxes and mechanisms, little redistribution, and poor compliance. Policymakers and international organizations have proposed reforms across the region with
Jorge Atria   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Divine kingship and Afro-Byzantine political theology through syncretism: Intersections of faith, power, and art in Nubia and Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
This article examines how Byzantine political theology was transmitted and transformed within African Christian kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia particularly through religious art.
Professor Raita Steyn
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Cohesion Questionnaire for Youth: The Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The purpose of the current study was to initiate the development of a psychometrically sound measure of cohesion for youth sport groups. A series of projects were undertaken in a four-phase research program.
Albert V. Carron   +4 more
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Effect of cohesion on shear banding in quasi-static granular material [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
It is widely recognized in particle technology that adhesive powders show a wide range of different bulk behavior due to the peculiarity of the particle interaction. We use Discrete Element simulations to investigate the effect of contact cohesion on the
Luding, Stefan   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

COHESIVE Information System (CIS) (COHESIVE)

open access: yes, 2019
Project JIP2 COHESIVE COHESIVE: One Health Structure In Europe Deliverable D-4.1.1 Workpackage 4 D 4.1.1 Implemented ...
Di Pasquale, Adriano   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Perceptions of inequality and meritocracy: their interplay in shaping preferences for market justice in Chile (2016–2023)

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
IntroductionSeveral countries have experienced a shift toward the privatization and commodification of public goods, welfare policies, and social services.
Juan Carlos Castillo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Economic foundations of conflicts and solidarity within the traditional rural community of Slovenia

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2021
The following article focuses on the economic conflicts in the local rural communities in Slovenia until World War II and analyses the example of the privatisation of a public good, the relations between labour and capital, and economic solidarity in ...
Žarko Lazarević
doaj   +1 more source

Axiomatic Cohesion

open access: yesTheory and Applications of Categories, 2007
Summary: The nature of the spatial background for classical analysis and for modern theories of continuum physics requires more than the partial invariants of locales and cohomology rings for its description. As Maxwell emphasized, this description has various levels of precision depending on the needs of investigation.
openaire   +2 more sources

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

PAPEA: A modular pipeline for the automation of protest event analysis

open access: yesPolitical Science Research and Methods
Protest event analysis (PEA) is the core method to understand spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of protest. We show how Large Language Models (LLM) can be used to automate the classification of protest events and of political event data more broadly
Sebastian Haunss   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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