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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
wiley   +1 more source

Compulsive Buying in Estonia

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014
AbstractThis research is conducted about compulsive buying in Estonia. Compulsive buying can lead consumers into very bad consequences: rising debts and financial difficulties, bad relations with relatives and even to eating disorders. Current research purpose is to find out how many people are affected by compulsive buying in Estonia and what factors ...
Oliver Parts, Marju Raudsepp
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Women on Corporate Boards and Sustainability Reporting: A Proposed Integrated Framework of Determinants and Impacts

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent research has increasingly focused on the representation of women on boards and their impact on sustainability reporting. Although various factors influencing the relationship between female directors and the quality of sustainability reporting have been explored, no study has integrated a comprehensive framework that addresses the ...
Cristina Boţa‐Avram, Adriana Tiron‐Tudor   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deterrence Dilemma in Latvia and Estonia: Finding the Balance between External Military Solidarity and Territorial Defence

Journal on Baltic Security, 2017
While potential threats from Russia and NATO collective defence commitments are similar for Latvia and Estonia, both countries have adopted different approaches in the balancing exercise between territorial defence and military solidarity ...
Andžāns Māris, Veebel Viljar
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Econophysics studies in Estonia [PDF]

, 2010
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M. Patriarca, E. Heinsalu, R. Kitt, J. Kalda   +3 more
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The Norwegian legacy of resisting formal grading

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Norway has a longstanding tradition of prohibiting formal grading in primary education. This paper traces a century of restrictive grading policies and their associated discourses. Using Bacchi's (2009) What's the Problem Represented to be framework, we present an analysis of the policy documents that have underpinned Norwegian assessment ...
Henning Fjørtoft, Sverre Tveit, Lise Vikan Sandvik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estonia And UNIFIL: The Benefits to a Small State of UN Peacekeeping

Journal on Baltic Security, 2017
This article considers Estonia’s contribution, since May 2015, of an infantry company to the Finnish contingent of the Finnish/Irish battalion of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
Lawrence Tony
doaj   +1 more source

Early Silurian crinoid diversification on Baltica: Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov. [PDF]

Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
This article describes the crinoid Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov. from the early Silurian (Rhuddanian) of northern Estonia. Discovered within the lower Rhuddanian strata in the Reinu quarry, Rapla Parish, this is the second Rhuddanian species of ...
William I. Ausich, Mark A. Wilson, Ursula Toom   +2 more
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Measurement Invariance of Human Values Across Time and Countries—An Analysis Using 11 Rounds of the European Social Survey

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Values have become central to the study of social and psychological processes across cultures and across time. To date, there has been no conclusive analysis of the cross‐cultural and cross‐temporal comparability of values in Europe. We conduct invariance tests of the Portrait Values Questionnaire collected as part of the European Social ...
Ronald Fischer, Johannes A. Karl
wiley   +1 more source

On the Issue of Verification of the Concept of “Path Dependence” for the Former Soviet Union in the Light of Thirty Years of Intuitive Practices

Управленческое консультирование, 2020
Radical reforms cannot be an independent goal of economic development. Since 1990–1991, various management and economic practices have been oriented to various degrees to overcome the “path dependence”.
N. M. Mezhevich
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