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FEUTURE EU 28 Country Report. Estonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Relations between Estonia and Turkey received renewed impetus after 2004, when Estonia joined the European Union (EU) (while Turkey was in the process of securing the official candidate status) and NATO, of which Turkey has been a member since 1952 ...
Braghiroli, Stefano, Vilson, Maili
core  

Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The literature on women's descriptive representation has looked at the debate on open and closed lists as a choice between electoral systems. This article instead focuses on whether voters or the parties are biased against female candidates.
Biin Helen   +14 more
core   +2 more sources

Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

open access: yesCanadian 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

Pattern of population structuring between Belgian and Estonian bumblebees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Several population genetic studies investigated the extent of gene flow and population connectivity in bumblebees. In general, no restriction in gene flow is considered for mainland populations of common bumblebee species.
Karise, Reet   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Titin Is Present in the Elastic Tethers That Connect Separating Anaphase Chromosomes in Crane‐Fly Spermatocytes

open access: yesCytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Elastic tethers connect telomeres of separating chromosomes in anaphase of animal cells. Immunofluorescence staining of titin in crane‐fly spermatocytes, using 4 different antibodies, shows that the giant elastic protein titin seems to be a component of mitotic tethers: titin “strands” extend between separating chromosomes, connecting their ...
Demetra Economopoulos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From private organizations to democratic infrastructure: Political parties and the state in Estonia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Estonia, one of the first former Soviet republics to regain independence, had to start the processes of party and state development from scratch, beginning with the development of a legal framework for political parties, establishing a regime of public ...
Sikk, A
core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence as a Catalyst for Environmental and Social Sustainability Practices in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Sustainability, Digitalization, and Innovation Barriers

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and both environmental and social sustainability practices in small and medium‐sized enterprises, with a specific focus on the moderating effects of implementation barriers relating to sustainability, digitalization, and innovation.
Gülçinay Mumcu, Steven A. Brieger
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling the Incremental Value of Personality Facets: The Domains‐Incremental Facets‐Acquiescence Bifactor Model

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Personality can be described at different levels of abstraction. Whereas the Big Five domains are the dominant level of analysis, several researchers have called for more fine‐grained approaches, such as facet‐level analysis. Personality facets allow more comprehensive descriptions, more accurate predictions of outcomes, and a better ...
Daniel Danner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping boundaries: Microprosodic and dialectal variability in the perception of Estonian long and overlong quantity

open access: yesEesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat
This paper presents the results of a web-based perception experiment that tested the distinction of long (Q2) and overlong (Q3) quantity degrees in Estonian. Firstly, we observe an effect of segmental quality on the perception of quantity.
Pärtel Lippus   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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