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Turnout and Invalid Voting in Brazilian Municipal Elections: A Runoff Voting System Tale

open access: yesScottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper assesses the impact of Brazil's hybrid mayoral voting system on voters' choices and examines the shift in blank, null, and turnout between the first and second rounds. Using fixed‐effects and RDD techniques over 5570 municipalities between 2000 and 2020, this study shows that runoff voting generates more abstention and invalid ...
Vítor Castro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Service Accessibility in Prisons Under New Public Management: Incarcerated Women's Perspectives and Responses

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whilst the policy purpose of prisons is containment and rehabilitation, prisons must also provide a range of services to people who are incarcerated. Researchers have examined how service provision is complicated by features of the prison environment directed at safety and security, but less attention has been paid to the impact of ...
Brian Q. Jenkins   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic soil properties for seismic ground response studies in Northeastern India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bhattacharya, Subhamoy   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source

Design, New Materials, and Production Challenges of Bioplastics-Based Food Packaging. [PDF]

open access: yesMaterials (Basel)
Rosenow P   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Designing B1‐Selective Pulses by Frequency Modulating in a Second Rotating Frame

open access: yesMagnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 95, Issue 5, Page 2689-2701, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Purpose To create a frequency‐modulated pulse for slice selection of arbitrary, uniform flip angle even when B0 and B1 are inhomogeneous, without utilizing B0 gradients Theory and Methods An amplitude‐modulated hyperbolic secant pulse (AMHS1) was derived from Hoult's B1‐selective imaging method which utilizes one component, B1y, as a gradient ...
Saurin Kantesaria   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Right‐Wing Populist Turn in the Conservative Party of Canada? Continuities and Ruptures Under the Leadership of Pierre Poilievre (2022–2025)

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Since his election as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2022, Pierre Poilievre has been associated with populism in media and political discourse, with implicit and explicit comparisons to Donald Trump. This article investigates the validity of such assessments by applying “complex” theories of populism, which conceptualize ...
Efe Peker, Emily Laxer, Rémi Vivès
wiley   +1 more source

BACE1 regulates sleep-wake cycle through both enzymatic and non-enzymatic actions. [PDF]

open access: yesEMBO Rep
Heininger H   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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