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Democracy Versus Democracy: The Populist Challenge to Liberal Democracy

open access: yesLSE Public Policy Review, 2020
The current populist challenges in western liberal democracies should not be seen as evidence of their decline, but as a constituent part. The history of democracy shows us that such challenges enable democracy’s growth and evolution. As these modern conflicts and crises see populists seek to capitalise on the discontent of the people, it is evident ...
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Scalar democracy [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Review D, 2019
We conjecture that there exists a scalar bound state for every pair of fundamental fermions at a UV (`composite') scale, $ \gg v_{\text{weak}}$. This implies a large number of universally coupled, sub-critical Higgs doublets. All but the Standard Model Higgs are `dormant,' with large positive squared masses and each receives a small vacuum expectation
Hill, Christopher T.   +3 more
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Democracy and credit [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Financial Economics, 2020
Abstract Does democratization reduce the cost of credit? Using global syndicated loan data from 1984 to 2014, we find that democratization has a sizable negative effect on loan spreads: a 1-point increase in the zero-to-ten Polity IV index of democracy shaves at least 19 basis points off spreads, but likely more.
Iftekhar Hasan   +6 more
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Democracy

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter deals with democracy and Rousseau's participative polity. The demands of positive freedom are also those of the political body, constituted of citizens, to organize itself. The chapter explores this ever-important notion. No freedom can be complete without a fully democratized state — and this includes the subjection of the economy to ...
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Are Government Appeals on Physical Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic Effective? An Analysis from Law and Public Policy

open access: yesJournal of Law and Legal Reform, 2020
This research aims to analyze attitudes, subjective norms and government appeals towards physical distance intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia.
Busrol Chabibi, Irfan Jamallullail
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Three Dimensional Bioprinting for Wound Healing: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
The vulnerability of skin wounds has made efficient wound dressing a challenging issue for decades, seeking to mimic the natural microenvironment of cells to facilitate cell binding, augmentation, and metamorphosis. Many three-dimensional (3D) bioprinted
Egemen Umur   +6 more
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Democracy and Football* [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, 2016
ObjectivesThis article relies on data from two samples of 47 and 49 European countries from 1950 through 2011 and 1,980 and 1,960 football domestic leagues, respectively, to explore to what extent political regimes affect the competitive balance in domestic football (soccer) leagues.MethodsWe run OLS cross‐sectional regressions comparing democracies ...
Ignacio Lago   +2 more
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Online hate network spreads malicious COVID-19 content outside the control of individual social media platforms

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
We show that malicious COVID-19 content, including racism, disinformation, and misinformation, exploits the multiverse of online hate to spread quickly beyond the control of any individual social media platform.
N. Velásquez   +8 more
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Examination of optical coherence tomography findings in patients with pregabalin use disorder [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Background 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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Suicide Risk Burnout and Risky Alcohol Use Among Physicians

open access: yesForbes Tıp Dergisi, 2023
Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between risky alcohol use, burnout, and suicide in physicians. Methods: An online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey®) including the Sociodemographic Data Form, Maslach Burnout Inventory ...
Osman hasantahsin kılıç   +11 more
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