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The choice argument for proportional representation

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
wiley   +1 more source

HEAL: health-enhanced adaptive LoRaWAN for AI-based real-time soldier monitoring and status prediction. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Alghamdi A, Alotaibi R, Alahmadi H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Church Minute Book, Vol. 4, 1962-1972 (Soldier Bay Baptist Church, Ash, N.C.)

Handwritten minutes, membership rolls, and financial records from the Soldier Bay Baptist Church in Ash, North Carolina, documenting the years 1962 through ...

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The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract In divided societies, can museums contribute to healing and recovery? While efforts to memorialize past violence typically aim to promote tolerance and reconciliation, remembering could exacerbate divisions in recovering societies where the past is deeply contested. We examine a transitional justice museum exhibit in Northern Ireland.
Laia Balcells, Elsa Voytas
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Cryopreservation and other preservation approaches for animal models workshop session I: Invertebrate models in biomedical research. [PDF]

Cryobiology
Fang-Yen C, Gohl DM, Hibshman JD, Paredes E, Rajamohan A, Rougvie AE, Sandlin RD, Teets NM, Tomberlin JK, Whitworth C, Bischof JC, Rinehart J.   +11 more
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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation

Child labour is one of the severe problems faced by developed and developing economies. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into force on 2 September 1990.
Rena, Ravinder
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Is support for authoritarian rule contagious? Evidence from field and survey experiments

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The increasing popularity of strongman rule in democratic societies underscores the need to explore how authoritarian regime preferences might spread socially. We assess the role of social influence on support for leaders with authoritarian inclinations through preregistered field and survey experiments in the Norwegian Armed Forces. The field
Sirianne Dahlum, Torbjørn Hanson, Åshild Johnsen, Andreas Kotsadam, Alexander Wuttke   +4 more
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The effect of two different defatted insect meals in Japanese quail diets on the performance, ileal morphometry, apparent ileal digestibility and blood parameters. [PDF]

Poult Sci
Kudlová L, Novotný J, Čumplík L, Dvořáčková N, Řiháček M, Zálešáková D, Horáková L, Pavlata L, Šťastník O.   +8 more
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Church Minute Book, Vol. 5, 1972-1985 (Soldier Bay Baptist Church, Ash, N.C.)

Handwritten and typed minutes, membership lists, and reports from the Soldier Bay Baptist Church in Ash, North Carolina, covering the years 1972 through ...

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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source