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What Voting Power Cannot Be

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Mitochondrial β‐carbonic anhydrase is a conserved metabolic rheostat for branched‐chain amino acid catabolism and metabolic flexibility

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Carbonic anhydrases (CAs) are ubiquitous metalloenzymes that catalyze the reversible hydration of CO2, enabling fundamental processes in organisms across all domains of life. Among all CAs, the role of mitochondrial βCA remains poorly understood. Here, we identify a mitochondrial βCA, βCA6, as a key regulator of branched‐chain amino acid (BCAA)
Naveen Sharma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The oral microbiota and periodontal health in orthodontic patients

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract The oral microbiota develops within the first 2 years of childhood and becomes distinct from the parents by 4 years‐of‐age. The oral microbiota plays an important role in the overall health/symbiosis of the individual. Deviations from the state of symbiosis leads to dysbiosis and an increased risk of pathogenicity.
Brandon W. Peterson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanistic Information and Causal Continuity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Some biological processes (our examples are DNA expression and a reflex response in the leech) move from step to step in a way that cannot be completely understood solely in terms of causes and correlations.
Bogen, Jim, Machamer, Peter
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Structural lobbying power? An exploration of patterns in preference attainment at varying levels of lobbying activity

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies of lobbying typically look at the extent to which interest groups realize political goals on issues they actively lobby for. Little is known, however, about the extent to which interest groups attain their political goals without making an active lobbying effort.
Marcel Hanegraaff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐State Actor Reactions to the European Green Deal: Implications for Eco‐Social Integration

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the interconnected ecological and social crises, there is growing interest in the integration of climate and social policy, both in academic discourse and in public debate. While the European Union has begun to address both dimensions jointly through the European Green Deal (EGD), it remains institutionally separate at the ...
Julia C. Cremer
wiley   +1 more source

An Autoradiographic Study of Invertebrate Uptake of DDT-CL36 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
Author Institution: The Department of Zoology and Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OhioThis research sought to locate autoradiographically DDT-C136 in tissues of leeches, amphipods, and copepods three months after their marsh habitat was ...
Webster, Edward J.
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Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit‐Fit‐Diversit” framework to show how narratives of merit, fit, and diversity emerge at different evaluation stages of tenure‐track job candidates. The evaluation produces inequality because: merit
Leping Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Modal verbs in South Asian Online Englishes: Exploring the use of must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

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