Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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A lightweight convolutional neural network for real-time monitoring of smart mango orchard systems. [PDF]
Sci RepAhad MT +5 more
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A Systems‐Level Approach to Address Risks and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Systems
Systems Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the world, from completely controlling routine or mundane tasks like text and image generation, to powering advanced algorithms that control critical systems. The recent advances in generative AI quickly overwhelmed multiple industries from education to finance as first adopters rushed (and ...
Vincent P. Paglioni, Torrey Mortenson
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The Multiple Platforms Effect (MPE): A quantification of how exposure to similarly biased content on multiple online platforms might impact users. [PDF]
PLoS OneEpstein R +3 more
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A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette +3 more
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Why do we fall in love with idols: a qualitative study on motivational changes in the process of idol worship among Chinese adolescents and young adults. [PDF]
BMC PsycholDong R, Liu H, Zhang D, Zhu Y.
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Strengthening urban deer management with structured decision making
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban deer management (UDM) decision‐makers face social, ecological, regulatory, and economic pressures when creating an agreeable deer management plan for stakeholders. Historically, decision making techniques (e.g. consensus‐based analyses) have not effectively balanced UDM elements leading to short‐lived management progress.
Shane D. Boehne +6 more
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Link Prediction in Heterogeneous Information Networks: Improved Hypergraph Convolution with Adaptive Soft Voting. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Zhang S +6 more
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Review on enhancing clinical decision support system using machine learning
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Clinical decision‐making is a complex patient‐centred process. For an informed clinical decision, the input data is very thorough ranging from detailed family history, environmental history, social history, health‐risk assessments, and prior relevant medical cases.
Anum Masood +4 more
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