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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

Canadian 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
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Dionysos, Orpheus and Argead Macedonia

Classica Cracoviensia, 2014
Dionysos, Orpheus and Argead Macedonia. Overwiev and Perspectives The cult of Dionysos in ancient Macedonia and its possible relation to the Orphic beliefs is one of the most interesting aspects of the Macedonian culture, one, however, accessible to
Agnieszka Fulińska
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Kinstate intervention in ethnic conflicts : Albania and Turkey compared [PDF]

, 2008
Albania and Turkey did not act in overtly irredentist ways towards their ethnic brethren in neighboring states after the end of communism. Why, nonetheless, did Albania facilitate the increase of ethnic conflict in Kosovo and Macedonia, while Turkey did ...
Ambrosio T., Bianchini S., Biberaj E., Bunce V., Carment D., Chazan N., Corrin C., Dodd C., Fuller G., Ganguli R., Gowan P., Hamzaj B., Hedges C., Heraclides A., Horowitz D. L., Horowitz D. L., Jenne E., Judah T., Koinova M., Kola P., Kramer H., Linz J., Maria Koinova, Nachmani A., Offe K., Olson R., Perry D., Reuter J., Rotberg R., Saideman S., Stoyanov D., Sunar I., Thayer B., Uzgel I., Vickers M., Winrow G., Özcan G.   +36 more
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Forecasting New Employment Using Nonrepresentative Online Job Advertisements With an Application to the Italian and EU Labor Market

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using online job advertisement data improves the timeliness and granularity depth of analysis in the labor market in domains not covered by official data. Specifically, its variation over time may be used as an anticipator of official employment variations.
Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio, Mario Mezzanzanica   +1 more
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Narrative and Notice in Livy's Fourth Decade: The Case of Scipio Africanus [PDF]

, 2014
This paper argues for the importance of Livy's annalistic notices in structuring the author's aims and the reader's reception of the history, as against the standard conception of the notices as archaic memoranda.
Lushkov, A. Haimson
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Engaging the public in plant science: Communication facilitators and barriers of scaling up a citizen science campaign

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Volunteers have been involved in nature observations for decades through citizen science initiatives, providing large data sets as well as problem identification that allow a more complete understanding of many natural phenomena. Although communication is a core component in citizen science, the key factors that determine its effectiveness in ...
Kristiina Gibson, Monika Suškevičs, Baiba Prūse, Marta Barberis, Sara A. O. Cousins, Živa Fišer, Margaux Julien, Marianne Kivastik, Marcin Klisz, Attila Lengyel, Zuzana Münzbergová, Radosław Puchałka, Iris Reinula, Froukje Rienks, Julie Koch Sheard, Viktor Siverin, Bojana Stojanova, Sabrina Träger, Tsipe Aavik   +18 more
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Universities and institutionalization of regional innovation policy in peripheral regions: Insights from the smart specialization in Portugal

Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Regional innovation policies are currently influenced by a series of territorial innovation models, with the regional innovation system (RIS) approach being one of the prominent examples. The rationale of smart specialization strategies (S3s) is deeply influenced by the RIS concept and highlights the importance of entrepreneurial discovery and
Hugo Pinto
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An autonomous network of acoustic detectors to map tiger risk by eavesdropping on prey alarm calls

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Tiger population recovery brings with it increased fatalities from human‐tiger conflict. We describe a network of autonomous intelligent passive acoustic sensors that monitor the forest for deer alarm calls as a proxy for tiger risk and provide a risk map to local communities in real‐time.
Arik Kershenbaum, Andrew Markham, Holly Root‐Gutteridge, Bethany Smith, Casey Anderson, Riley McClaughry, Ramjan Chaudhary, Amogh Vishwakarma, Stephen Cummins, Angela Dassow   +9 more
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A SHORT NOTE FOR THE ULTIMATE EVIDENCE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN MACEDONIAN CONTEXT

EtnoAntropoZum, 2018
Throughout different examples regarding the effects of several practices or techniques for documenting the research problem (field notes and recording) certain positivistic assumptions are being reexamined about what can be referred as evidence in ...
Ana Ashtalkovska Gajtanoska
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On an Aggregation Theory for Indicators Expressing Behaviors of Complex Systems With an Application to Sustainability

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou, Yannis A. Phillis   +1 more
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