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Democratisation and Emerging Technologies in Africa: Can AI Deliver Free and Fair Elections? [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The rise of digital technologies presents significant challenges for establishing and maintaining democratic systems. In Africa, democratisation efforts have been hindered by repeated coups against elected governments and contested elections.
Lewis Edwin Chigova, Costa Hofisi
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A New Approach of Phonocardiogram Analysis for Screening Some of Cardio-vascular Diseases Based on Deep Learning [PDF]

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2022
Background: Cardiovascular diseases are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Therefore, early diagnosis of heart disease, evaluation of cardiovascular system using cardiac hearing and Phonocardiogram (PCG) analysis which is a low cost, non ...
Ehsan Mohammadi, Saeed Kermani, Mahdi Nourian-Zavareh, Alale Zare, Hamed Aghapanah-Roudsari, Maryam Samieinasab, Hamid Sanei   +6 more
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“Don’t Let the Illegals Vote!”: The Myths of Illegal Latino Voters and Voter Fraud in Contested Local Immigrant Integration

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
This paper analyzes how the belief and fear by mostly older, white voters, politicians, and poll workers that “illegal” Latino immigrants were seeking to vote in local elections led to stigmatization of and discrimination against some Latino citizen ...
Robert Courtney Smith
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Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making with social implications

Scientific Reports, 2022
Could social context variables prime complex decisions? Could top-down processes impair this priming susceptibility? Complex decisions have been mainly studied from economic and moral perspectives, and Dual Process Theories provide evidence of how these ...
Franco Agustín Bernal, Tomás Alves Salgueiro, Axel Brzostowski, Emilio Recart Zapata, Ayelén Carames, Juan Manuel Pérez, Damián Furman, Martín Graziano, Pablo Nicolás Fernández Larrosa   +8 more
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A dynamic model of democratic elections in multidimensional policy spaces [PDF]

, 2008
We propose a general model of repeated elections. In each period, a challenger is chosen from the electorate to run against an incumbent politician in a majority-rule election, and the winner then selects a policy from a multidimensional policy space ...
Banks, Jeffrey S., Duggan, John
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Fast registration of laser scans with 4-point congruent sets - what works and what doesn't [PDF]

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014
Sampling-based algorithms in the mould of RANSAC have emerged as one of the most successful methods for the fully automated registration of point clouds acquired by terrestrial laser scanning (TLS).
P. W. Theiler, J. D. Wegner, K. Schindler   +2 more
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Development of a Gene-Based Prediction Model for Recurrence of Colorectal Cancer Using an Ensemble Learning Algorithm

Frontiers in Oncology, 2021
It is difficult to determine which patients with stage I and II colorectal cancer are at high risk of recurrence, qualifying them to undergo adjuvant chemotherapy.
Han-Ching Chan, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Eric Y. Chuang, Eric Y. Chuang, Tzu-Pin Lu, Tzu-Pin Lu   +5 more
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Multistage Voting Model with Alternative Elimination

, 2017
The voting process is formalized as a multistage voting model with successive alternative elimination. A finite number of agents vote for one of the alternatives each round subject to their preferences.
Ermakova, Anna, Malafeyev, Oleg A., Rylow, Denis, Shlaev, Dmitry, Zaitseva, Irina   +4 more
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Pemilu Legislatif DKI Jakarta dalam Paparan Media Daring: Analisis Isi Pemberitaan Caleg Dapil I,II,dan III Jakarta pada Pemilu 2019

Jurnal Komunikasi, 2019
After the Reformation era, started in 2014, the system for general elections was changed by open proportional system. The legislative candidates with the most votes will be elected as members of parliament, and for the second time the system was ...
Titin Setiawati
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European guidelines from the EHTG and ESCP for Lynch syndrome: an updated third edition of the Mallorca guidelines based on gene and gender

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
Recommendations for clinical and molecular identification of LS, surgical and endoscopic management of LS‐associated colorectal cancer and preventive measures for cancer were produced. The emphasis was on surgical and gastroenterological aspects of the cancer spectrum.
T. T. Seppälä, A. Latchford, I. Negoi, A. Sampaio Soares, R. Jimenez‐Rodriguez, L. Sánchez‐Guillén, D. G. Evans, N. Ryan, E. J. Crosbie, M. Dominguez‐Valentin, J. Burn, M. Kloor, M. von Knebel Doeberitz, F. J. B. van Duijnhoven, P. Quirke, J. R. Sampson, P. Møller, G. Möslein, on behalf of the European Hereditary Tumour Group (EHTG) and European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)   +18 more
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