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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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POLITICS: Pretraining with Same-story Article Comparison for Ideology Prediction and Stance Detection [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Ideology is at the core of political science research. Yet, there still does not exist general-purpose tools to characterize and predict ideology across different genres of text. To this end, we study Pretrained Language Models using novel ideology-driven pretraining objectives that rely on the comparison of articles on the same story written by media ...
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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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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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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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WHAT IS THE SCIENCE OF COMMUNICATION? A POSSIBLE DEFINITION
International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation, 2021 The article’s aim is to provide a definition of the science of communication together with the delimitation of the field of research and the identification of a general research method. The starting point is the general phenomenon of communication in the
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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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Review Article: Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education
British Journal of Political Science, 2011 The study of education has long been a neglected subject in political science. Recently, however, scholarly interest in the field has been increasing rapidly.
Marius R. Busemeyer, Christine Trampusch
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study investigates the impact and cost‐competitiveness of rooftop solar power in a highly hydropower‐driven northern energy system toward 2050. The role of rooftop photovoltaics (PV) is assessed under different energy transition pathways and through a sensitivity analysis aiming to disclose important barriers to PV investments in the energy system.
Stine Fleischer Myhre, Eva Rosenberg
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