Abstract To solidify their power over society, totalitarian regimes will usually eliminate any dissent, any perceived threats early on. These threats include not only political enemies but also educated and independent segments of society, such as professional associations.
Michael Hortsch
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LP-based Covering Games with Low Price of Anarchy
We present a new class of vertex cover and set cover games. The price of anarchy bounds match the best known constant factor approximation guarantees for the centralized optimization problems for linear and also for submodular costs -- in contrast to all
Végh, László A. +2 more
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Forecasting Count Data With Varying Dispersion: A Latent‐Variable Approach
ABSTRACT Count data, such as product sales and disease case counts, are common in business forecasting and many areas of science. Although the Poisson distribution is the best known model for such data, its use is severely limited by its assumption that the dispersion is a fixed function of the mean, which rarely holds in real‐world scenarios.
Easton Huch +3 more
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Microbial community succession and dynamics during the season-long development of apple fruit (<i>Malus</i> × <i>domestica</i>). [PDF]
Kithan-Lundquist R +5 more
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Access to scholarly publications in the global North and the global South-Copyright and the need for a paradigm shift under the right to science. [PDF]
Beiter KD.
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Can Europe Sustain a New Rules‐Based Geopolitical Order?
Abstract The European Union (EU) faces a unique opportunity to lead a new rules‐based international order in an era of American retreat and heightened global uncertainty. Yet its path to leadership is rife with obstacles. In this article, we draw on international relations literatures on international political economy and comparative politics ...
Kathleen R. McNamara, Federico Steinberg
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Cambodia's disconnection from ASEAN: a social disorganization theory's interpretation. [PDF]
Putra BA.
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How policies and actor strategies affect electric vehicle diffusion and wider sustainability transitions. [PDF]
Ryghaug M, Skjølsvold TM.
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The Political Economy of Attention: Media Salience, Voter Cognition, and Electoral Accountability
ABSTRACT We review conceptual and empirical contributions to the political economy of attention, with a focus on how attention allocation shapes political behavior and electoral accountability. The review distinguishes between endogenous (goal‐directed) and exogenous (stimulus‐driven) attention and examines how these concepts are incorporated into ...
Patrick Balles +2 more
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Nonparametric Estimation of the Patient‐Weighted While‐Alive Estimand
ABSTRACT In clinical trials with recurrent events, such as repeated hospitalizations terminating with death, it is important to consider the patient events overall history for a thorough assessment of treatment effects. The occurrence of fewer events due to early deaths can lead to misinterpretation, emphasizing the importance of a while‐alive strategy
Alessandra Ragni +2 more
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