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Minorities and Storable Votes [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions.
Alessandra Casella   +2 more
core   +6 more sources

Assessing local people's perceptions of ecosystem services to support land management plans in arid desert regions, northwest China

open access: yesHeliyon
Deserts play a significant role in terrestrial ecosystems, but their importance is often underestimated in research due to the undervaluation of ecosystem services (ES), particularly the absence of environmental stakeholder perspectives.
Qi Tan, Siru A, Wenying Lang
doaj   +1 more source

Was There a ‘Gypsy Problem’ in Socialist Romania? From Suppressing ‘Nationalism’ to Recognition of a National Minority

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2018
After the fall of the socialist bloc some authors celebrated the advent of Romani nationalism, emphasising its Eastern European roots and its potential force to foster emancipation among an ethnic minority oppressed for so long.
Fosztó László
doaj   +1 more source

Toeplitz Minors

open access: yesJournal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 2002
Let \(T_{n-1} (f)\) denote the \(n\times n\) Toeplitz matrix generated by the Fourier coefficients of the function \(f\) on the unit circle \(\mathbf{T}\) and let \(D_{n-1} (f)=\det T_{n-1} (f)\). The well known strong Szegö limit theorem asserts that if \(\sigma (t)=\exp \left(\sum_{n=-\infty}^\infty c_nt^n\right)\) then \(D_{n-1}(\sigma)\sim \exp ...
Bump, Daniel, Diaconis, Persi
openaire   +1 more source

The Importance of Ethnicity: Developing a Measure of Minority Ethnic Value and Value-Expressive Behavior Among Chinese Ethnic Minorities

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In this study we developed the Chinese Minority Ethnic Value Questionnaire (CMEVQ) and the Chinese Minority Ethnic Value-Expressive Behavior Questionnaire (CMEVEBQ) to assess the importance of ethnicity from the standpoint of diverse ethnic values and ...
Yanli Yang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Romani Minorities and Uneven Citizenship Access in the Post-Yugoslav Space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper discusses the position of Romani minorities in the light of the state dissolution and further citizenship regime transformations after the disintegration of the former Socialist Yugoslavia.
Sardelic, Julija
core   +1 more source

Rapid Response to Trametinib Combined With Chemotherapy for Infant BRAF‐Fused Chiasmatic Glioma

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Infants, less than 1 year, with chiasmatic gliomas (ICG) present a major therapeutic challenge due to large tumor size, decreased vision, rapid progression, and poor response to vincristine/carboplatin chemotherapy. The majority have a BRAF fusion, which may respond to downstream MEK inhibitors but response time is slow. There are no safety or
Helen Toledano   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Prophet’s Day in China: A Study of the Inculturation of Islam in China, Based on Fieldwork in Xi’an, Najiaying, and Hezhou

open access: yesReligions
Islam is widely spread throughout every corner of China, with the Hui people, the largest Muslim ethnic group in China, numbering over 10 million people, serving as its main carrier.
Chuanbin Zhou, Ping Shang, Wenkui Ma
doaj   +1 more source

Using Baidu Index to Understand the Public Concern of Children's Mental Health in Mainland China in the Context of COVID-19 Epidemic

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2022
This study aims to understand the temporal and spatial characteristics of public concern for "children's mental health" in China in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic.
Qinyi Tan, Fang He, Luyan Teng
doaj   +1 more source

Exit, Voice, and Disloyalty [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This Lecture begins with a puzzle about Albert Hirschman’s famous work Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Why do we make much of exit and voice but utterly neglect loyalty? It’s a question that goes well beyond Hirschman’s book.
Gerken, Heather K.
core   +2 more sources

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