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Why has Europe become the concentration area of multi-party states: A novel explanatory model of multifactorial mechanism

Heliyon
The existence of a multi-party system is one of the most important criterion for assessing the degree of democratization of a state. In contemporary democratic republics, the multi-party system has become a formalistic representation. However, in Europe,
Caikun Cheng, Caisheng Cheng, Haoshen Che   +2 more
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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa [PDF]

Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems ...
Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau
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Disentangling Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty in Physics‐Informed Neural Networks: Application to Insulation Material Degradation Prognostics

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Physics‐Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) provide a framework for integrating physical laws with data. However, their application to Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) remains constrained by the limited uncertainty quantification (UQ) capabilities.
Ibai Ramirez, Jokin Alcibar, Joel Pino, Mikel Sanz, Jose I. Aizpurua   +4 more
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Party system, its peculiarities and development of political practices in Nigeria

, 2016
Akanbi Olaiya Taiwo
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A STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE ANALYSIS OF CONTRACT GRAZING FEEDER CATTLE [PDF]

Contract grazing feeder cattle is an arrangement where cattle owned by one party graze forage produced on land owned by another party. The forage producer is paid a fixed price per pound gained.
Hewitt, Timothy D., Johnson, Frank, Spreen, Thomas H.   +2 more
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Design‐for‐Benchmarking in Soft Robotics: Navigating Component‐System Dichotomy

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Soft robotics faces a profound evaluation challenge: the Component‐System Dichotomy, where isolated component tests fail to predict integrated performance. This article presents a systematic survey of critical reporting gaps across actuation, sensing, and control.
Matteo Lo Preti, Muhammad Sunny Nazeer, Josh Pinskier, David Howard, Cecilia Laschi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Opportunities and Limits of Regional Policy-Making - some Critical Remarks on the Belgian Case [PDF]

In our paper, we deal with the dynamic and consequences of the federal structure and the dual party system for the policy capacities of Flanders, one of the three regions in the Belgian federal state.
Carl Devos, Sofie Staelraeve, Tine Boucké, Tom Verstraete, Wouter Blomme   +4 more
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VALIANT: A Vision‐Authenticity Language Framework Through Integrated Experts and Aligned Numerical‐Textual Descriptors for Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Visual features, numerical descriptors, and controlled textual attributes extracted from smartphone images of Chenpi are integrated by VALIANT, a tailored multimodal framework for simultaneous storage‐age classification and authenticity verification. The workflow distinguishes genuine products from suspicious standard operating procedure mimics while ...
Simon C. K. Chan, Bingxin Huang, Hannah H. Kim, Wentao Yu, Yinqian Luo, Terence T. W. Wong   +5 more
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023

Nordic Journal of Educational History
This article investigates how the two-party system is analysed in text and diagrams in US government textbooks. The diagrams are analysed with the help of theories from the cognitive sciences.
Janne Holmén
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Regional Grants as Pork Barrel Politics [PDF]

We investigate the political and economic factors influencing the allocation of regional development grants for a panel of Canadian electoral districts in the 1988-2001 period.
Kevin Milligan, Michael Smart
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