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Rurban Communities of Quito: Between the Entrepreneurialism and the Right to the City
Íconos, 2016 Two seemingly contradictory spatial trends are occurring today in the peri-urban areas of Quito, which reshapes the dispute of territorialities: i) an unprecedented expansion of the urban area along the rural boroughs and ii) a growing recognition of ...
Manuel Bayón Jiménez
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The Openness of the Commune’s Financial Administration
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2023 The principle of openness of public administration is one of the basic principles in a democratic state. The openness of public administration is also regarded as its fundamental value.
Paweł Śwital, Piotr Kobylski
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Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej, 2016 It has been 17 years since Beskidy Euroregion was established. This is enough time to make a first assessment concerning the level of development of communes situated in this Euroregion.
Adam ŻABKA, Beata Hoza
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Communication Communities in MOOCs
CoRR, 2014 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together thousands of people from different geographies and demographic backgrounds -- but to date, little is known about how they learn or communicate. We introduce a new content-analysed MOOC dataset and use Bayesian Non-negative Matrix Factorization (BNMF) to extract communities of learners based on the ...
Nabeel Gillani +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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In search of the contemporary shape of self-government
Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 2015 The twenty-fifth anniversary of self-government in Poland is a good occasion to reflect on the road we have travelled so far. While we still remember well the intentions of the creators of the system (members of the First Senate) we can now compare them ...
Jerzy Stępień
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better ...
Daniel Danner +4 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
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The internal crest anatomy of Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The supracranial crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaurids have long been a focus of study due primarily to their extreme morphology. The external anatomy of lambeosaurine crests is understood to be highly variable between species, but variation in their internal anatomy is less well understood.
Thomas W. Dudgeon +2 more
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