Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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Do the Poor Benefit from Public Spending? A Look at the Evidence [PDF]
This paper shows that public spending on basic services, to wit, primary and secondary education and basic health care, benefit the poor; while the non-poor are the principal beneficiaries of tertiary and education subsidies and hospital spending.
John Gafar
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Pro Bono Publico? Demand for Military Spending Between the World Wars
Essays in Economic and Business History, 2017 This article analyzes the demand for military spending in the 1920s and 1930s, based on variables arising from the international system and the selected countries.
Jari Eloranta
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Dynamics of Public Spending on Health and Socio-Economic Development in the European Union: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2021 Peña-Sánchez AR +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) remains highly lethal with limited treatment options. This study demonstrates that coixenolide, a bioactive compound from Coix lacryma‐jobi L. and a key component of the clinically approved Kanglaite injection, exhibits enhanced antitumor efficacy in high‐fat diet (HFD)‐induced obese mice bearing PAAD tumors compared to
Kaidi Chen +20 more
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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence [PDF]
In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers.
Rainald Borck +2 more
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Attomolar Detection of HIV‐1 With Label‐Free RCA‐rCRISPR on Smartphone
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A new diagnostic strategy integrating rolling circle amplification (RCA) with a plasmid reporter–based ratiometric CRISPR (rCRISPR) system was developed to detect unfragmented HIV genomes with single‐digit attomolar sensitivity. The method quantifies targets using the plasmid relaxation ratio and employs a smartphone‐based mini‐gel device to enable ...
Noor Mohammad +12 more
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Competition in the allocation of public spending: a new model to analyse the interaction between expenditure categories [PDF]
Starting from the median voter model commonly used in the literature to analyse the determinants of the functional distribution of public spending, we propose a new multiproduct dynamic model that also allows one to classify the nature of the interaction
MIGUEL MÃRQUEZ +3 more
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Phase Diagrams and Piezoelectric Properties of Wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN Heterostructural Alloys
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study demonstrates ferroelectricity and piezoelectric properties improvement of quaternary wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN${\rm Al}_{1-x-y}{\rm Sc}_x{\rm Gd}_y{\rm N}$ films, guided by density functional theory calculations. Wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN${\rm Al}_{1-x-y}{\rm Sc}_x{\rm Gd}_y{\rm N}$ films have a high optical bandgap, enhanced piezoelectric ...
Julia L. Martin +11 more
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The effectiveness and efficiency of public spending [PDF]
This paper shows that the efficiency in public services more generally and in public spending on education and R&D in particular varies significantly between countries.
Fabienne Ilzkovitz +2 more
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