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Politician personality, Machiavellianism, and political skill as predictors of performance ratings in political roles [PDF]

, 2013
This study conceptualizes politicians as political workers. It describes a multimethod study with two aims: (1) to determine whether politicians share a latent mental model of performance in political roles and (2) to test hypothesized relationships ...
Silvester, J., Wyatt, M., Wyatt, Madeleine, Joanne Silvester (6952673), Raymond Randall (1248747), Silvester, Jo, Randall, Ray, Madeleine Wyatt (7199216), Randall, R.   +8 more
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ANXA2+ Small Extracellular Vesicles Drive Chemoresistance in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer by Promoting XRCC5 Lactylation and Enhancing Non‐Homologous End‐Joining Repair

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ANXA2+ sEVs promote cisplatin resistance in ATC by stabilizing the SRC/LDHA interaction, increasing LDHA phosphorylation and activity, and lactate production. Elevated lactate levels promote KAT5‐mediated lactylation of XRCC5 at lysine 265, enhancing its binding to XRCC6.
Shanshan Su, YiShan Xiong, Yuxuan Liang, Xiang Min, Daofeng Dai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disclosure by Politicians [PDF]

We collect data on the rules and practices of financial and conflict disclosure by politicians in 175 countries. Although two thirds of the countries have some disclosure laws, less than a third make disclosures available to the public.
Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Andrei Shleifer, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes   +3 more
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How COVID-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about politicians [PDF]

, 2020
First paragraph: COVID-19 is an unprecedented doom loop between a severe health crisis and grave economic repercussions. Government interventions to handle the outbreak and its aftermath first stopped public life in its tracks and then entirely reshaped ...
Sas, Willem, Daniele, Gianmarco
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Safety of Sodium‐Ion Batteries: Evaluation and Perspective from Component Materials to Cells, Modules, and Packs

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
This review provides a bottom‐up evaluation of sodium‐ion battery safety, linking material degradation mechanisms, cell engineering parameters, and module/pack assembly. It emphasizes that understanding intrinsic material stability and establishing coordinated engineering control across hierarchical levels are vital for preventing degradation coupling ...
Won‐Gwang Lim, Seoa Kim, Erik A. Wu, Darren H. S. Tan, Shawn Peng, Xiaolin Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Vote for Me, I Am Authentic”: Performed Political Authenticity on Social Media

Media and Communication
Authenticity has become a key concept in political communication, particularly during election campaigns, which offer opportunities for politicians to strategically convey an authentic image.
Simon M. Luebke, Ines Engelmann
doaj   +1 more source

Political Communication in Disasters: A Question of Relationships

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2015
Politicians are both a help and hindrance in the provision of information to the public before, during and after disasters. For example, in Australia, the Premier of the State of Queensland, Anna Bligh, was lauded for her leadership and public ...
Hamish McLean, Jacqui Ewart
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Overprotected Politicians [PDF]

This paper argues that politicians are overprotected. The costs of political assassination differ systematically depending on whether a private or a public point of view is taken.
Bruno S. Frey
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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source