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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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Cogent Social SciencesThis study examined how engagement in internet fraud by undergraduate students impact their academic activities. Specifically, we examined the factors that drive the engagement of undergraduate students in internet fraud, how engagement in internet fraud
Paul Ikenna Ukam +4 more
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Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, and Science Identity Framed by Religious and Political Perspectives in the United States? [PDF]
, 2018 Science trust and views of science differ by political and religious orientations. In this study we examine whether political and religious perspectives are also associated with biological science knowledge, science interest, and general science identity.
Jochman, Joseph C +3 more
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The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes [PDF]
, 2020 Political science; EU; China; Africa; Rwanda; Ethiopia; Angola; Survival strategy; Governance; Reform; Economic dependence; Paul Kagame; 2005 Ethiopian general election; African oil revenues; Authoritarian regimes; Party ...
Hackenesch, Christine
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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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Generating Politically-Relevant Event Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Automatically generated political event data is an important part of the social science data ecosystem. The approaches for generating this data, though, have remained largely the same for two decades. During this time, the field of computational linguistics has progressed tremendously.
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Unraveling the Central State, But How? Types of Multi-Level Governance. IHS Political Science Series: 2003, No. 87 [PDF]
, 2003 The reallocation of authority upwards, downwards, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science.
Hooghe, Liesbet, Marks, Gary
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper aims to describe the evolution of firm and industry strategies and to analyze detailed transaction data on the structure of the international grain trading industry. Specifically, data are developed from vessel nominations, and these were used to derive measures of concentration and determine how these change across selected ...
William W. Wilson +2 more
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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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Action research in political sciences [PDF]
Megatrend Revija, 2016 Action research is a specific type of scientific research which, in addition to having all the general features of scientific research, also has its own unique characteristics that distinguish it from other types of research.
Lazović-Jović Emina
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