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Emergency Absentee Voting for Hospitalized Patients and Voting During COVID-19: A 50-State Study

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Voters facing illness or disability are disproportionately under-represented in terms of voter turnout. Earlier research has indicated that enfranchisement of these populations may reinforce the implementation of policies improving health ...
Oliver Y. Tang, Kelly E. Wong, Reetam Ganguli, Keyana Zahiri, Nicole M. Burns, Saba Paracha, Giovanni Kozel, Kevin P. Tang, Jeremiah D. Schuur   +8 more
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Macro-Scale Temporal Attenuation for Electoral Forecasting: A Retrospective Study on Recent Elections

Mathematics
Forecasting election outcomes is a complex scientific challenge with notable societal implications. Existing approaches often combine statistical analysis, machine learning, and economic indicators. However, research in network science has emphasized the
Alexandru Topîrceanu
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Issue-handling beats leadership: Issues and Leaders model predicts Clinton will defeat Trump

Research & Politics, 2016
The Issues and Leaders model predicts the national popular two-party vote in US presidential elections from people’s perceptions of the candidates’ issue-handling competence and leadership qualities.
Andreas Graefe
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Surprise, surprise! (again) The 2017 British general election exit poll [PDF]

, 2017
While most pollsters and pundits expected the Conservatives to win an increased majority in Britain's June election, the election day exit poll forecast something different.
Kuha, Jouni, Curtice, John, Jonathan Mellon, John Curtice, Jouni Kuha, Mellon, Jonathan, Stephen Fisher, Fisher, Stephen   +7 more
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Glucagon‐Like Peptide‐1 Receptor Agonists in Multiple Sclerosis: A Topical Narrative Review

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The glucagon‐like peptide‐1 (GLP‐1) receptor agonists (RAs) are a relatively new class of drugs that were initially approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to improve glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and, subsequently, weight reduction in patients with obesity.
Audrey Y. Chang, Farrah J. Mateen
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Axial Function Reflects Global Severity in Inherited Ataxias: The Upright Stability Score in Ambulatory Friedreich vs. Spinocerebellar Ataxia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Inherited ataxias are clinically diverse neurodegenerative diseases, complicating the choice of outcome measures for trials. In spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), regulatory concerns about the Scale for the Assessment and Rating of Ataxia (SARA) caused a shift toward functional SARA (f‐SARA), contributing to pivotal trial failure.
Christian Rummey, S. H. Subramony, David R. Lynch, Louise A. Corben, Martin B. Delatycki, Jörg B. Schulz, Kathrin Reetz, Massimo Pandolfo, Matthis Synofzik, Theresa Zesiewicz, Antoine Duquette, Matthew Burns, Martin Vyhnálek, Lucie Stovickova, Sinead M. Murphy, Petya Bogdanova‐Mihaylova, Mary Kearney, Richard Walsh, Richard H. Roxburgh, Khalaf Bushara, Marie Y. Davis, Enrico S. Bertini, Gessica Vasco, Shweta Sahni, Mohammed Faruq, Achal K. Srivastava, Bart van de Warrenburg, Elisabetta Indelicato, Sylvia Boesch, Andrew Billnitzer, Tetsuo Ashizawa, Anoopum S. Gupta, Grace Yoon, Georgios Koutsis, Chrysoula Koniari, Zofia Fleszar, Christopher M. Gomez, Andrea Martinuzzi, Gabriella Paparella, Ali G. Hamedani, Puneet Opal, Rizwan S. Akhtar, Caterina Mariotti, Henry Paulson, Peter Todd, Sharan R. Srinivasan, George Wilmot, Ludger Schöls, Susan Perlman, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Sheng‐Han Kuo, Liana S. Rosenthal, Vikram G. Shakkottai   +52 more
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A cryptographic-inspired credibility score integrated with deep learning for reliable election poll forecasting

Discover Artificial Intelligence
Election polling has become a critical analytical domain for understanding voter behavior, forecasting electoral outcomes, and guiding strategic political decision-making.
Dipayan Roy, Abhinav Shukla, Ram Krishna Akuli, Parul Dubey   +3 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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Forecasting elections in Europe: Synthetic models

Research & Politics, 2015
Scientific work on national election forecasting has become most developed for the United States case, where three dominant approaches can be identified: Structuralists, Aggregators, and Synthesizers.
Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Ruth Dassonneville   +1 more
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How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin, Wen You, Annie Reid, Kathleen Porter, Brittany Kirkpatrick, Jamie Zoellner   +5 more
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