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Social capital predicts corruption risk in towns [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019, 2018 Corruption is a social plague: gains accrue to small groups, while its costs are borne by everyone. Significant variation in its level between and within countries suggests a relationship between social structure and the prevalence of corruption, yet, large scale empirical studies thereof have been missing due to lack of data.
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Population Ecology, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 109-124, April 2025.In the process of captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered animal species, it is crucial to minimize familial bias in reproductive success during the reintroduction phase to preserve genetic diversity. In this study, we attempted to identify the familial lineage of individuals of the endangered bagrid fish Tachysurus ichikawai born at the ...
Hinano Mizuno +5 more
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Social Sciences, 2019 Criminologists and social scientists have long sought to explain why crime rates vary across urban landscapes. By dissecting the city into neighbourhood units, consideration has been given to the comparable features of settings under study which may help
Sam J. Cole
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2021 This special issue is composed by six papers whose first versions were presented at the Oñati workshop Social Control, Judicialization of Social Problems and Governance of Security in Comparative Perspectives held at the IISL in July 2019.
Joao Velloso, Vívian Paes
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Social Control and Social Criticism: the nineteenth-century còmhradh [PDF]
, 2000 The paper discusses the emergence of the còmhradh (dialogue)as the preferred prose genre for the discussion of social issues in the course of the century. It focuses on the way in which the còmhradh was used, first by the Rev.
Kidd, S.M.
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Social Bots: Human-Like by Means of Human Control? [PDF]
, 2017 Social bots are currently regarded an influential but also somewhat mysterious factor in public discourse and opinion making. They are considered to be capable of massively distributing propaganda in social and online media and their application is even ...
Adam, Lena +3 more
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Population and species neighbor identity impact trait–trait relationships and plant performance
Population Ecology, EarlyView.We evaluated how populations and species identity influence plant performance and trait outcomes in mixtures, and assessed trait variation among populations of two forb species native to the western United States (Dieteria canescens and Heterotheca villosa) following three interaction treatments (single‐population monoculture, two‐population mixture ...
Alicia J. Foxx +2 more
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Medicalization of Sexuality and Trans Situations: Evolutions and Transformations
Societies, 2022 This article explores the evolution of the definition and the process of medicalization of sexuality during the second half of the 20th century. After a review and discussion of the notion of medicalization, the application of this notion to a few ...
Alain Giami
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The dual nature of TDC – bridging dendritic and T cells in immunity
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.TDC are hematopoietic cells combining dendritic and T cell features. They reach secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) and peripheral organs (liver and lungs) after FLT3‐dependent development in the bone marrow and maturation in the thymus. TDC are activated and enriched in SLOs upon viral infection, suggesting that they might play unique immune roles, since
Maria Nelli, Mirela Kuka
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“In silent bottom...”: crime in Olonets province (19th – early 20th centuries)
Studia Humanitatis, 2019 The study reviews the problems of formation and development of trends in the criminal sphere on the territory of Olonets province between the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is revealed that the situation in the field of crime has undergone significant
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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