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Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts [PDF]

This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public school choice program launched in 1996. Districts'
Johannes Rincke
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Patterns, Trends, and Issues of Illicit Wildlife Hunting and Trade: Analysis Based on African Environmental Ethics [PDF]

, 2017
The creation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973 has significantly altered the dynamics of trade in fauna and flora.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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Asymptotic Capture-Number and Island-Size Distributions for One-Dimensional Irreversible Submonolayer Growth

, 2003
Using a set of evolution equations [J.G. Amar {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 86}, 3092 (2001)] for the average gap-size between islands, we calculate analytically the asymptotic scaled capture-number distribution (CND) for one-dimensional ...
A.D. Gates, A.D. Gates, A.D. Gates, C. Ratsch, D.D. Vvedensky, D.D. Vvedensky, F.G. Gibou, J. G. Amar, J.A. Blackman, J.A. Venables, J.A. Venables, J.G. Amar, J.G. Amar, J.G. Amar, J.G. Amar, J.G. Amar, J.W. Evans, J.W. Evans, M. N. Popescu, M. von Smoluchowski, M. von Smoluchowski, M.C. Bartelt, M.C. Bartelt, M.C. Bartelt, M.N. Popescu, P.A. Mulheran, P.A. Mulheran, P.A. Mulheran, T.R. Linderoth, Y.W. Mo   +29 more
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ISDS Reform UNCITRAL: Implications For Indonesian Investment Policy

Lampung Journal of International Law
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III (WG III) has been meeting intensively to formulate comprehensive reforms to Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) based on emerging criticisms.
Garuda Wiko, Fatma Muthia Kinanti
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Pulse Shaping Diversity to Enhance Throughput in Ultra-Dense Small Cell Networks

, 2016
Spatial multiplexing (SM) gains in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) cellular networks are limited when used in combination with ultra-dense small cell networks. This limitation is due to large spatial correlation among channel pairs.
Jafari, Amir H., Lopez-Perez, David, Venkateswaran, Vijay, Zhang, Jie   +3 more
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The Internationalization of Tobacco Tactics [PDF]

, 2018
Recently, public health advocates struck a blow against tobacco companies by barring them from bringing challenges under some international trade deals.
Puig, Sergio
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Adding fuel to the flames: how TTIP reinvigorated the politicization of trade [PDF]

, 2016
It is a truism to state that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a politicized issue, yet the explanations that account for this politicization are mostly singular in nature.
Gheyle, Niels
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Regulatory Chill and the Effect of Investor State Dispute Settlements

, 2016
Legal conflicts between multinational firms and host governments are often decided by international arbitration panels - as opposed to courts in the host country - due to provisions in international investment agreements known as Investor State Dispute ...
Janeba, Eckhard
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Searching for Boosted Dark Matter via Dark-Strahlung

, 2019
We propose a new search channel for boosted dark matter (BDM) signals coming from the present universe, which are distinct from simple neutrino signals including those coming from the decay or pair-annihilation of dark matter.
Kim, Doojin, Park, Jong-Chul, Shin, Seodong   +2 more
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An Efficient and Dependable UAV-Assisted Code Dissemination in 5G-Enabled Industrial IoT

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has infiltrated our culture and is gaining traction in a variety of industrial applications. All of this is made possible by the use of 5G-connected massive Intelligent Sensing Devices (ISDs) and software-defined ...
Ravi Sharma, Balazs Villanyi
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