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Increasing sedentary time, minimum dietary energy requirements, and food security assessment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We compute corrections for sedentary behavior in physical activity levels (PALs) and incorporate them along with corrections for over estimation of basal metabolic rates (BMRs) into threshold caloric intakes, known as minimum dietary energy requirements (MDERs).
Jacob Michels +2 more
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Investigation of the effective factors on women's political participation in Sanandaj [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2016 Political participation is taken into account as one of the main development indicators. If we consider political development as equivalent to “extension of participation and competition of social groups in their political lives”, then undoubtedly ...
Voria Sheikh Zakariaee +3 more
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Personal Narratives Empower Politically Disinclined Individuals to Engage in Political Discussions [PDF]
Engaging in political discussions is crucial in democratic societies, yet many individuals remain politically disinclined due to various factors such as perceived knowledge gaps, conflict avoidance, or a sense of disconnection from the political system.
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Examining Political Rhetoric with Epistemic Stance Detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Participants in political discourse employ rhetorical strategies -- such as hedging, attributions, or denials -- to display varying degrees of belief commitments to claims proposed by themselves or others. Traditionally, political scientists have studied these epistemic phenomena through labor-intensive manual content analysis.
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract We present an adjusted bid price mechanism that incorporates economic multiplier effects in public food procurement decision making. Under Input–Output model assumptions, the algorithm estimates enhanced tax revenues to state governments through multiplier effects associated with in‐state supplier purchasing.
Todd M. Schmit, Xiaoyan Liu
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Geography and Political Participation
, 2022 Abstract Abstract: This chapter examines the various ways in which the concerns of academic geography help illuminate understandings of political participation. Features of the physical environment, from weather conditions to the distance potential participants may have to travel to take part in political action, have some effect on ...
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev +3 more
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Frontiers in CommunicationPromoting the construction of Internet democratic politics in China requires an understanding of how multimodal connectedness can enhance citizens’ political participation.
Mengyu Li, Xiaobing Li
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A Survey on Computational Politics [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Computational Politics is the study of computational methods to analyze and moderate users' behaviors related to political activities such as election campaign persuasion, political affiliation, and opinion mining. With the rapid development and ease of access to the Internet, Information Communication Technologies (ICT) have given rise to massive ...
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Art, Participation and Politics [PDF]
Critique d’art, 2017 The possible equation between participatory art and emancipatory politics truly emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Several recent publications on the historical roots of participatory art formulate this issue in one way or another.
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