A return on investment analysis for the 2017 increase in alcohol excise taxation in Lithuania. [PDF]
Rehm J +9 more
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley +1 more source
Clinical Characteristics of Over-The-Counter Drug Misusers in Psychiatric Practice in Japan: Comparison Between Codeine Misusers and Dextromethorphan Misusers. [PDF]
Tanibuchi Y +4 more
europepmc +1 more source
Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Minimizing unnecessary tax audits using multi-objective hyperparameter tuning of XGBoost with focal loss. [PDF]
Malashin IP +5 more
europepmc +1 more source
The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley +1 more source
Marijuana policy and tribal communities in the United States. [PDF]
Pedersen DE.
europepmc +1 more source
The effect of real‐news party cues
Abstract News media routinely offer cues about the stances of party elites, but to what extent do these cues shape the policy opinions of the public? While numerous experiments find that partisans adopt the stances of their leaders, these findings may not generalize easily to the context of real news, which often contains richer policy information and ...
Rasmus Skytte
wiley +1 more source
Vegetation cover fraction and the residential distribution of child-rearing households in urban Tokyo and Osaka: An ecological cross-sectional analysis. [PDF]
Otani M, Matsushita D.
europepmc +1 more source
Animal Abusers Beware: Registry Laws in the Works to Curb Your Abuse [PDF]
Campbell, Danielle K.
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