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Facets of Crises: How Problem Indicators and Public Perceptions Affect Policy Change
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Crises are widely acknowledged as catalysts for policy change. Yet, our understanding of the policy effects of crises remains limited. Why do only some crises lead to major changes, while significant policy changes also occur during seemingly non‐crisis periods?
Constantin Kaplaner +6 more
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Heterogeneous architecture to process swarm optimization algorithms
TecnoLógicas, 2014 Since few years ago, the parallel processing has been embedded in personal computers by including co-processing units as the graphics processing units resulting in a heterogeneous platform.
Maria A. Dávila-Guzmán +2 more
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Slope Compensation Design for a Peak Current-Mode Controlled Boost-Flyback Converter
Energies, 2018 Peak current-mode control is widely used in power converters and involves the use of an external compensation ramp to suppress undesired behaviors and to enhance the stability range of the Period-1 orbit.
Juan-Guillermo Muñoz +3 more
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Regional News, Regional Bias? Evidence From Media Discourses and Welfare Decisions in Germany
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do media representations of immigrants shape their treatment by street‐level bureaucrats? Despite a uniform federal legal framework, decision‐making varies substantially across local welfare offices. Though prior research links national news reporting and policy implementation, little is known about how regional variation in news reporting
Stefanie Rueß
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Journal of Control Science and Engineering, 2016 High voltage gain power converters are very important in photovoltaic applications mainly due to the low output voltage of photovoltaic arrays. This kind of power converters includes three or more semiconductor devices and four or more energy storage ...
Juan-Guillermo Muñoz +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Folivorous insects cause some of the most ecologically and economically important disturbances in forests worldwide. For this reason, several approaches have been developed to exploit the temporal richness of available satellite time series data to ...
Roberto O. Chávez +4 more
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Regulating Reality: Exploring Synthetic Media Through Multistakeholder AI Governance
Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence's integration into daily life has brought with it a reckoning on the role such technology plays in society and the varied stakeholders who should shape its governance. This is particularly relevant for AI‐generated, or synthetic, media, an emergent visual technology impacting perceptions of media as records of reality ...
Claire R. Leibowicz
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Decreased resilience in power grids under dynamically induced vulnerabilities
New Journal of Physics, 2020 In this paper, a methodology inspired on bond and site percolation methods is applied to the estimation of the resilience against failures in power grids.
C C Galindo-González +2 more
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Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Democratic innovations increasingly take place online, yet little is known about how online citizen participation affects perceived legitimacy compared to in‐person formats. This study presents findings from a preregistered vignette experiment conducted in Spain and Switzerland.
Valeria Vuk
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Equitable access to cochlear implants: a perspective on social justice and international obligations
Frontiers in Public HealthHearing loss is one of the most prevalent sensory conditions worldwide, affecting over 1.5 billion people and is one of the main causes of disability.
Pilar Suazo-Díaz +4 more
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