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Examining Voter Turnout: A Look at Participatory Budgeting and Political Participation in Romania

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
The gap between elected authorities and citizens is widening in many democracies due to declining political engagement. This article examines wheth­er participatory budgeting (PB) is linked to voter turnout in Romania.
Alexandru Andrei Ivan, Sorana Alexandra Constantinescu, Gabriel Bădescu   +2 more
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Soft Robotic Excretory Care Simulator for Nursing Education: Functional and Perceptual Biomimetics Approach

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A soft robotic simulator is developed to replicate the digital removal of feces (DRF), a sensitive yet essential nursing procedure. Integrating soft actuators, sensors, and a realistic rectal model, the simulator balances functional fidelity with perceptual realism. Engineering evaluations and nurse feedback confirm its potential to enhance training in
Shoko Miyagawa, Sota Suzuki, Shizuka Watanabe, Zebing Mao, Young Ah Seong, Toshinori Fujie, Tatsuhiro Horii, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Koichi Suzumori, Hiroyuki Nabae, Shingo Maeda   +10 more
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Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings, Levanya Dewanarayana, Iline Shaju, Haider Al‐Wizni, Sampson Marquis, Weicheng Huang, Pooya Sareh   +6 more
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Gender and social conformity: Do men and women respond differently to social pressure to vote?

Social Influence, 2018
In this paper, we re-analyze data from a large-scale field experiment (N = 344,084) on voter turnout in order to determine whether men and women respond differently to social pressure aimed at voter mobilization.
Aaron C. Weinschenk, Costas Panagopoulos, Karly Drabot, Sander van der Linden   +3 more
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PancDS in Real‐World Practice: A Prospective Multicenter Validation of a Clinical Decision‐Support System Bridging Experience Gaps in Pancreatic Lesion Diagnosis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A biomimetic artificial intelligence system, PancDS, has been developed to distinguish pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma from mass‐forming pancreatitis by adaptively integrating clinical data, radiomics, and deep learning features. Validated across multicenter, reader‐study, and prospective settings, PancDS improves diagnostic accuracy, particularly for
Zhibo Wang, Weinuo Qu, Wenwen Cai, Chuhuai Wang, Chenxi Lyu, Qingguo Xie, Qian Chu, Yaqi Shen, Peng Xiao, Feng Li, Qingpeng Zhang, Jiali Li, Jeong Min Lee, Zhen Li   +13 more
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Ranked Choice Voting and Youth Voter Turnout: The Roles of Campaign Civility and Candidate Contact

Politics and Governance, 2021
Ranked choice voting (RCV) has become increasing popular in the United States as more cities and states begin allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
Courtney L. Juelich, Joseph A. Coll
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A Phase‐Resolved Geometric Deep Learning Framework Maps Structural Determinants of Disease‐Associated Protein Aggregation and Guides Suppressor Design

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
SKALE 2.0 maps disease‐associated protein aggregation as a phase‐resolved structural process, linking mutation‐induced geometric perturbations to nucleation, elongation, and suppressor design. Across neurodegenerative proteins, the framework reveals cryptic aggregation vulnerabilities, separates phase‐concordant and phase‐switching mutations, and ...
Jia Shen Sio, Wei Xuan Wilson Loo, Yan Shan Loo, Wen Xin Tan, Hui Xuan Lim, Huitao Liu, Chen Seng Ng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On public opinion polls and voters' turnout [PDF]

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2006
AbstractThis paper studies the effects that the revelation of information on the electorate's preferences has on voters' turnout. The experimental data show that closeness in the division of preferences induces a significant increase in turnout. Moreover, for closely divided electorates (and only for these electorates), the provision of information ...
Esteban F. Klor, Eyal Winter
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ORBIT‐AMD: Ordinal Risk, Bilateral Imaging, and Trajectory Learning for Age‐Related Macular Degeneration in Multi‐Cohorts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Eligibility flow and real‐world AMD burden in the UKB retinal imaging cohort and TMUEH external‐validation cohort. Overview of the ORBIT‐AMD architecture, integrating retinal representation pretraining, bilateral eye‐graph modeling and concept bottleneck learning to support ordered risk, bilateral context, interpretable lesion concepts, longitudinal ...
Xuehao Cui, Dejia Wen, Patrick Yu‐Wai‐Man, Xiaorong Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strict voter identification laws and turnout: Differential effects by election type and adoption timing

Research & Politics
Voter identification (ID) requirements remain a contested policy issue in American elections, with existing research producing mixed findings about their causal effects on voter turnout.
Rivka Lipkovitz
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