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VOTEMAT: A Blockchain Based Voting System

open access: yesDüzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi
This study aims to show that a secure, trustable and immutable voting system can be established with Blockchain technology. Decentralized structure of the Blockchain excludes the central authority and provides transparency.
Egemen Birol   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political Participation and Security Risks of Internet Voting in Ukraine under Martial Law

open access: yesМедіафорум: аналітика, прогнози, інформаційний менеджмент
The article examines internet voting as a potential mechanism for ensuring political participation in Ukraine under martial law. The full-scale war has significantly complicated access to traditional electoral procedures for military personnel ...
Ivan Osadtsa
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Westminster: How the Four‐Day Working Week Reached the UK Public Sector

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Kingdom's emergence as a public sector pioneer in the four‐day working week debate presents a striking paradox. A post‐Thatcher liberal market economy hostile to statutory working‐time reform might be expected to resist government‐sponsored working‐time reduction in the public sector.
Joan Sanchis, Raúl de Arriba
wiley   +1 more source

CHOOSING AN OPTIMAL MODEL OF E-VOTING AS AN INNOVATIVE FORM OF ELECTION TECHNOLOGIES, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES OF THE SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Engineering Research, 2016
The article focuses on the technical issues of implementing such innovative forms of electoral technologies, such as electronic voting, in the Syrian Arab Republic.
K A Pupkov, Basel Shahin, S V Korotaeva
doaj  

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

The Case for Utilitarian Voting [PDF]

open access: yes
Utilitarian voting (UV) is defined in this paper as any voting rule that allows the voter to rank all of the alternatives by means of the scores permitted under a given voting scale. Specific UV rules that have been proposed are approval voting, allowing
Hillinger, Claude
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
wiley   +1 more source

Weighted Approval Voting [PDF]

open access: yes
To allow society to treat unequal alternatives distinctly we propose a natural extension of Approval Voting [7] by relaxing the assumption of neutrality.
Massó, Jordi, Vorsatz, Marc
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Innovative Decision Fusion for Accurate Crop/Vegetation Classification with Multiple Classifiers and Multisource Remote Sensing Data

open access: yesRemote Sensing
Obtaining accurate and real-time spatial distribution information regarding crops is critical for enabling effective smart agricultural management. In this study, innovative decision fusion strategies, including Enhanced Overall Accuracy Index (E-OAI ...
Shuang Shuai   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

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