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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular epidemiology of HTLV-1 infection in the caribbean area as compared to West Africa : relationship with the slave trade [PDF]

Retrovirology, 2011
Desrames A, Cassar O, Afonso P, Gout O, Hermine O, Gessain A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Dependence and Alienation: Understanding the Digital Minimalist Behavior of Chinese Millennials—An Analysis Based on SEM and fsQCA

Journal of Adolescence, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Following rapid iterations in media technologies, Chinese millennials (born between 1980 and 1995) find themselves in a paradoxical state where digital saturation exists alongside fatigue, making them central practitioners of digital minimalist behavior.
Chao Zhang, Yinze Hao, Jingwen Li
wiley   +1 more source

Important entomological events in the history of onchocerciasis ('river blindness'). [PDF]

Int Health
Mackenzie CD, Post RJ, Boakye DA.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Against Dualism: Border Regimes, the International Order, and Domestic Social Relations

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this response to Will Kymlicka, I reflect upon whether dualist politics – a separation of the domestic and the international – hinders our understanding of how to create inclusive and solidaristic societies. Using the example of border regimes, I suggest that the structure of the international order, of which such regimes are part ...
Clara Sandelind
wiley   +1 more source

UniGraphPTMs: a contrastive learning-enhanced universal framework for PTM site prediction via GNN and multimodal fusion. [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Lin Y, Wu J, Shen P, Yang S, Wang Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing the Uncharted African Diaspora in Southern Brazil: The Genetic Legacies of Resistance in Two <i>Quilombos</i> from Paraná. [PDF]

Genes (Basel)
Joerin-Luque IA, Baldon Blaczyk I, Ianzen Dos Santos P, Guimarães Alves AC, Sukow NM, Malanczyn de Oliveira AC, Farias de Cristo T, Rodrigues do Amaral Bispo A, Gros AF, Santos Saatkamp ML, Dobis Barros V, Gehlen Tessaro J, da Silveira Costa ME, Leonardo Garcia L, Dall Oglio Bucco I, de Moura Bones DR, Cupertino SE, Boslooper Gonçalves L, Leandro Martins A, da Silva Guizelin G, de Paula AI, Vieira Gusmão Lopes C, Beltrame MH.   +22 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gubernatorial Re‐Election Incentives, Local Investment Bias, and Pension Fund Performance

Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of gubernatorial re‐election incentive and political factors on US public pension funds from 1990 to 2022. Our empirical analysis finds no significant overall relationship between gubernatorial re‐election incentives and local bias in the full sample.
Hongxian Zhang, Liang Guo, Jun (Maggie) Hao, Yu (Steve) Liu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source