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What are patterns, outcomes, and factors emerging from the urban environmental sustainability actions? To what extent do the conditions of action arenas facilitate urban environmental actions?
Ssu-Hsien Chen
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Prolonged exposure to violence in any form takes a toll on children’s health. It may increase the risk of multiple mental disorders appearing in adult life.
Piotr Engelgardt +2 more
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Lived Poverty and the Fate of African Democracies
In comparative politics, economic development is a requisite to democracy (Lipset, 1959). Democracy is deemed to fail in less developed countries as poverty has proven to be detrimental to democratic performance. This study offers a perspective on the
Edson Ntodwa +2 more
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Optimal Opinion Control: The Campaign Problem [PDF]
Opinion dynamics is nowadays a very common field of research. In this article we formulate and then study a novel, namely strategic perspective on such dynamics: There are the usual normal agents that update their opinions, for instance according the ...
Hegselmann, Rainer +4 more
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Publicity of the non-profit sector: federal and regional trends
The article is devoted to the introduction of digital technologies into the practices of non-profit organizations. The authors consider the all-Russian and regional trends of data of the non-profit sector publicity and digital competence.
Elena S. Baeva +2 more
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Attitudes Toward Asylum Policy in a Divided Europe: Diverging Contexts, Diverging Attitudes?
The large inflow of asylum-seekers in recent years has heralded a diversification in adopted asylum policies across European societies. Although a growing body of research has addressed these versatile approaches and their implications for the European ...
Arno Van Hootegem +2 more
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MORE: Merged Opinions Reputation Model [PDF]
Reputation is generally defined as the opinion of a group on an aspect of a thing. This paper presents a reputation model that follows a probabilistic modelling of opinions based on three main concepts: (1) the value of an opinion decays with time, (2 ...
Osman, Nardine +3 more
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Objective Because of limitations to government data on police-related violence, researchers commonly use open-source data as the best approximation for studying the prevalence, causes, and prevention of police killings and other police-related violence ...
Christopher S. Koper +4 more
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The Role of Mass Media in Terrorism and Its Effect on Individuals / Kitle İletişim Araçlarının Terörizmdeki Rolü ve Bireyler Üzerindeki Etkisi [PDF]
Günümüzde terörizm dünyanın en büyük sorunlarından bir tanesidir. Özellikle, 11 Eylül 2001 yılında Amerika’da ikiz kulelere gerçekleştirilen terör saldırısı sonrasında, bu sorun dünyadaki çoğu ülke için çok daha büyük bir sorun haline geldi.
Ahmet Yiğitalp Tulga
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Opinion strength influences the spatial dynamics of opinion formation [PDF]
Opinions are rarely binary; they can be held with different degrees of conviction, and this expanded attitude spectrum can affect the influence one opinion has on others.
Baumgaertner, Bert +2 more
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