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The principal components of electoral regimes: separating autocracies from pseudo-democracies. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciA critical issue for society today is the emergence and decline of democracy worldwide. It is unclear, however, how democratic features, such as elections and civil liberties, influence this change. Democracy indices, which are the standard tool to study this question, are based on the a priori assumption that improvement in any individual feature ...
Wiesner K, Bien S, Wilson MC.
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Examination of optical coherence tomography findings in patients with pregabalin use disorder [PDF]
PeerJBackground Pregabalin abuse is a rapidly growing health problem worldwide, and little is known about the effects of prolonged high-dose use in patients with pregabalin use disorder.
Osman Hasan Tahsin Kılıç +6 more
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Medical Faculty Students' Attitudes, Behaviors and Beliefs About Covid-19 Pandemic
Journal of Behçet Uz Children's Hospital, 2021 Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs of medical faculty students about the covid-19 pandemic. Methods: Between 29/03/2020 and 04/13/2020 a total of 1,332 students had been questioned in three Turkish ...
Osman Hasan Tahsin Kılıç +7 more
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Nurses' General Disaster Preparedness Status and Affecting Factors
Forbes Tıp Dergisi, 2023 Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the general disaster preparedness of nurses and to determine the factors affecting the effects. Methods: The descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between May and December 2022.
Özüm ERKİN +4 more
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EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ACCORDING TO VARIOUS VARIABLES
Novìtnâ Osvìta, 2022 The purpose of this research was aimed to determine the digital literacy skills of undergraduate students studying in different departments of the university according to the variables of gender, type of faculty, and daily internet use.
SİBEL YOLERİ, Zeynep Nur Anadolu
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The business of democracy is democracy [PDF]
International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2005 The Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision in 2000 reminded America of the sometimes paradoxical relationship between the democratic process and legal institutions. Judge Posner’s book makes a valuable contribution to an expanded understanding of the tense yet mutually reinforcing interaction of law and democracy.
McCormick, John P., Jacobson, Arthur J.
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Emigration and Democracy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development literature. Using cross-sectional and panel estimation for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as measured by standard democracy indices ...
Hillel Rapoport +5 more
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Immune System: Is a Trusted Friend, is a Collaborative Enemy?
Forbes Tıp Dergisi, 2022 The immune system is the defense system that creates the reactions of living things, which are at the level of development and ability to distinguish foreign substances in their hereditary structure, against these substances.
Gülden DİNİZ +4 more
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Democracy and Globalization [PDF]
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 1991 One of the most conspicuous features of politics at the turn of the millennium is the emergence of issues which transcend national frontiers. Processes of economic internationalization, the problem of the environment and the emergence of regional and global networks of communication are increasingly matters of concern for the international community as
David Held, David Held
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 There is a wide-ranging debate about the merits and demerits of searching for, and sending messages to, extraterrestrial intelligences (SETI and METI). There is however reasonable (but not universal) consensus that replying to a message from an extraterrestrial intelligence should not be done unilaterally, without consultation with wider society and ...
Hatfield, Peter, Trueblood, Leah
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