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Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2017 How do International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy reforms-so-called 'conditionalities'-affect government health expenditures? We collected archival documents on IMF programmes from 1995 to 2014 to identify the pathways and impact of conditionality on ...
Thomas Stubbs +4 more
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Speak Foreign Languages with Your Own Voice: Cross-Lingual Neural Codec Language Modeling [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 We propose a cross-lingual neural codec language model, VALL-E X, for cross-lingual speech synthesis. Specifically, we extend VALL-E and train a multi-lingual conditional codec language model to predict the acoustic token sequences of the target language
Zi-Hua Zhang +12 more
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CRoSS: Diffusion Model Makes Controllable, Robust and Secure Image Steganography [PDF]
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023 Current image steganography techniques are mainly focused on cover-based methods, which commonly have the risk of leaking secret images and poor robustness against degraded container images.
Jiwen Yu +3 more
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Constituting the Social Basis of the EU: Reflections from the European Margins
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2016 The article addresses significant aspects of the constitution of the European Union’s social basis from the broader perspective of a European space under construction.
Tatjana Sekulic
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XSkill: Cross Embodiment Skill Discovery [PDF]
Conference on Robot Learning, 2023 Human demonstration videos are a widely available data source for robot learning and an intuitive user interface for expressing desired behavior.
Mengda Xu +4 more
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Optimization of soft X-ray tomography on the COMPASS tokamak
Nukleonika, 2016 The COMPASS tokamak is equipped with the soft X-ray (SXR) diagnostic system based on silicon photodiode arrays shielded by a thin beryllium foil. The diagnostic is composed of two pinhole cameras having 35 channels each and one vertical pinhole camera ...
Imríšek Martin +6 more
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CORRUPTION AS A NEGATIVE SOCIAL PHENOMENON HINDERING THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2018 The purpose of this article is to analyse the current state of fighting corruption as one of the negative phenomena that hinder the economic development of the state, parasitizing the whole body of Ukrainian society.
Zhanna Semchuk +2 more
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The Impact of Democracy and Press Freedom on Corruption: Conditionality Matters
Social Science Research Network, 2013 This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption.
Christine Kalenborn, Christian Lessmann
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2022 The book reviewed is a proof of the complexities of the actual political context. The result of its cross-sectoral analyses are in line with the Eastern European rhetoric, lacking a democratic system. The book swirls through its five chapters around most
Diana Cristina COSMA
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Lancet psychiatry, 2023 Background: Information on frequency and timing of mental disorder onsets across the lifespan is of fundamental importance for public health planning. Broad-based cross-national estimates of this sort from coordinated general population surveys were last
John J. McGrath +35 more
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