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Fusion of Multiscale Convolutional Neural Networks for Building Extraction in Very High-Resolution Images

Remote Sensing, 2019
Extracting buildings from very high resolution (VHR) images has attracted much attention but is still challenging due to their large varieties in appearance and scale.
Genyun Sun, Hui Huang, Aizhu Zhang, Feng Li, Huimin Zhao, Hang Fu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education [PDF]

, 2004
This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping generations and productivity differences inside each cohort.
Poutvaara, Panu
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On the Empirical Relevance of the Transient in Opinion Models [PDF]

, 2010
While the number and variety of models to explain opinion exchange dynamics is huge, attempts to justify the model results using empirical data are relatively rare.
Araújo, Araūjo, Axelrod, Banisch, Bernardes, Castellano, Castellano, Downs, Filho, Fortunato, Galam, Gonzalez, Hotelling, Kimura, Sobkowicz, Sousa, Sousa, Sven Banisch, Sznajd-Weron, Sznajd-Weron, Tanya Araújo, Travieso   +21 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PriRS: an AI-driven framework for privacy and reliability in cyber–physical–social systems data sharing

Frontiers in Physics
Cyber–physical–social systems (CPSS) impose stringent requirements for data sharing security and regulatory compliance. However, existing solutions fail to bridge the gap between rigid smart contracts and flexible social regulations.
Xu Yao, Kun Zhang, Yingwei Liang, Chenghui Liu, Taipeng Zhu, Fangfang Zhou   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Preference Intensities in Repeated Collective Decision-Making [PDF]

, 2013
We study decision rules for committees that repeatedly take a binary decision. Committee members are privately informed about their payoffs and monetary transfers are not feasible.
Drexl, Moritz, Kleiner, Andreas
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Bayesian hierarchical age-period-cohort models with time-structured effects: An application to religious voting in the US, 1972–2008 [PDF]

, 2013
To examine dynamics of political processes using repeated cross-section data, effects of age, cohort, and time period have to be disentangled. I propose a Bayesian dynamic hierarchical model with cohort and period effects modeled as random walk through ...
Albert, Beck, Besag, Besag, Brezger, Brooks, Brooks, Browne, Caren, Cowles, Currie, Daniel Stegmueller, de Boor, De Graaf, Eilers, Eilers, Elff, Elff, Fahrmeir, Geisser, Gelfand, Gelfand, Gelman, Gelman, Gelman, Gill, Greene, Hastie, Hodrick, Jackman, Jackman, Jackman, Jansen, Jaynes, Jaynes, Keele, King, Knorr-Held, Knorr-Held, Manza, Martin, Neundorf, Nielsen, Rasbash, Rozell, Rubin, Rue, Ruppert, Schmid, Smets, Snijders, Spiegelhalter, Steensland, Tanner, Wald, Wald, West, Yang, Yang, Yang   +59 more
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information Aggregation in Standing and Ad Hoc Committees [PDF]

, 2008
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Ali, S. Nageeb, Goeree, Jacob K., Kartik, Navin, Palfrey, Thomas R.   +3 more
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
wiley   +1 more source