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Proxy Crimes

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
“Proxy crimes” is a phrase loosely used to refer to conduct that is punished only as a means to target other harmful conduct. Many criminal law scholars find the criminalization of this type of conduct unjustifiable from a retributivist perspective, while others note that proxy criminalization can contribute to mass incarceration and ...
Bystranowski, Piotr, Mungan, Murat C.
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Proxy selection in transitive proxy voting

Social Choice and Welfare, 2021
Transitive proxy voting (or "liquid democracy") is a novel form of collective decision making, often framed as an attractive hybrid of direct and representative democracy. Although the ideas behind liquid democracy have garnered widespread support, there have been relatively few attempts to model it formally.
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Proxy Wars

, 2018
Proxy wars are a key pattern of political conflict and interstate competition. Rather than resorting to direct conflicts, which are costly and entail a higher level of uncertainty, governments may opt for proxy wars, which may last longer, but are less costly and render them more immune to exogenous shocks.
Konyukhovskiy, Pavel V., Grigoriadis, Theocharis   +1 more
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Trichotillomania by proxy

International Journal of Trichology, 2015
Trichotillomania is a disorder of an impulsive hair pulling that occurs in both adults and children alike. Trichotillomania is seen in children and often has other psychiatric comorbidity. Here, we present an interesting case of a mother who had trichotillomania and recovered with treatment following which she resorted to pulling hair of her child and ...
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Single proxy control

Biometrics
ABSTRACTNegative control variables are sometimes used in nonexperimental studies to detect the presence of confounding by hidden factors. A negative control outcome (NCO) is an outcome that is influenced by unobserved confounders of the exposure effects on the outcome in view, but is not causally impacted by the exposure.
Chan Park, David B Richardson, Eric J Tchetgen Tchetgen   +2 more
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Placebo by proxy

BMJ, 2011
Clinicians’ and family members’ feelings and perceptions about a treatment may influence their judgments about its ...
Grelotti, David J, Kaptchuk, Ted J
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Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy) [PDF]

, 2006
D. Thaler, M. Talwar, C. Patel
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Calibration by Proxy

Analytical Chemistry
Calibration by Proxy (CbPx) is a matrix-matched calibration method that utilizes multiple internal standard species to build a calibration curve. The technique requires only two solutions: solution 1 containing a sample solution and a suite of internal standards at known concentrations, and solution 2 identical to solution 1, plus an aliquot of a ...
Willis B. Jones, Abigail J. Crossman, Bradley T. Jones   +2 more
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Proxy [PDF]

, 2020
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Integration of proxy intermediate omics traits into a nonlinear two-step model for accurate phenotypic prediction. [PDF]

Theor Appl Genet
Yoshioka H, Mary-Huard T, Aubert J, Toda Y, Ohmori Y, Yamasaki Y, Tsujimoto H, Takahashi H, Nakazono M, Takanashi H, Fujiwara T, Tsuda M, Kaga A, Inaba J, Fuji Y, Hirai MY, Nose Y, Kumaishi K, Usui E, Kobori S, Sato T, Narukawa M, Ichihashi Y, Iwata H.   +23 more
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