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Corruption in Slovenia

open access: yesPrizren Social Science Journal, 2018
A lot has been written about corruption, especially regarding the corruption in post-communist countries, and Slovenia is not an exception. The forms of corruption are similar to those in other countries in transition, the reasons for corruption in ...
Stefan Sumah
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The Consequences of Corruption: The Ghanaian Experience

open access: yesPolitical Science Quarterly, 1973
Professor Arnold J. Heidenheimer, in his very useful collection of readings on political corruption, notes the tendency of American scholars to discount the dysfunctional impact of corruption both in the United States and abroad.' Henry Jones Ford, writing in 1904, saw political corruption in the United States as a means of overcoming the rigidities of
openaire   +1 more source

Vertical NAND Flash Memory‐Based Bayesian Neural Networks With Intrinsic Gaussian Weight Sampling

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Commercial vertical NAND flash memory supports Bayesian neural networks by using paired cells to produce bell‐shaped weight distributions. Read voltage controls their spread without additional memory cells or changes to the array structure. Simulations based on device measurements demonstrate improved uncertainty estimation and accuracy gains of up to ...
Sung‐Ho Park   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption and productivity : firm-level evidence from the BEEPS survey [PDF]

open access: yes
Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease the ...
Gorg, Holger   +2 more
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Punishing personal and electoral corruption: Experimental evidence from India

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2016
A growing literature examines the effect of corruption on political behavior. However, little attention has been paid so far to the fact that politicians engage in it for various reasons and with different welfare consequences.
Simon Weschle
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Kinematic‐Aware Diffusion Model Correction for Human Motion Generation via Pose Transfer

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Overall architecture of the proposed video kinematic pose correction pipeline. The framework integrates diffusion‐based video generation, multi‐estimator skeleton extraction, temporal Kalman smoothing, biomechanical constraint enforcement, and pose‐conditioned frame regeneration via Pose‐guided Image Synthesis and Editing. This paper presents Kinematic‐
Alaa Abdullah Albaghdadi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leadership and Corruption in Russia, 2000-2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The paper defines the key features of corruption and perception of corruption in Russia under Putin. It provides a comparison of trends of corruption perception index in the CIS region and CEE countries and focuses on specifics of President Putin’s ...
Ledeneva, A
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A multi‐task deep learning–based approach to identify and assess dry root rot disease in chickpea

open access: yesApplications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Dry root rot (DRR), an emerging global disease exacerbated by drought, affects a wide range of crops. The disease symptoms are manually scored for large‐scale germplasm screening to identify disease‐resistant varieties and test transgenic lines and other varieties.
Piyush Priya   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Complexity of Corruption: Nature and Ethical Suggestions [PDF]

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Corruption is a well-established research topic which increasingly attracts interest, as attested by a growing body of literature. Nevertheless, disagreements persist not only about how to curve it, but even about its definition, causes and consequences.
José Luis Alvarez, Reyes Calderón
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COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN THE ACTIVITIES OF UKRAINE'S LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR PROTECTING THE ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE STATE

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Economic Studies
The subject of the study is the legal basis for combatting corruption within the activities of Ukraine's law enforcement agencies, and how this protects the state's economic interests.
Oleksandr Starenkyi, Oksana Kuzmenko
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