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The future of scholarly blogs: Scholarly bloggers' perspectives on long‐term preservation

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholarly blogs are an important venue for scholarly communication; however, they are not yet integrated into the preservation workflows of digital research and information infrastructures, which places their long‐term access at risk. By using Star and Ruhleder's (1996) dimensions of information infrastructure as a theoretical framework, in ...
Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel
wiley   +1 more source

Influenţă sau manipulare prin sondaje de opinie?

Sociologie Românească, 2008
This study is focusing on the influence of published polls results on the population's electoral behavior, mainly on the political vote. In order to clarify this issue two approaches are used.
Dorel Abraham, Ionela Şufaru, Septimiu Chelcea   +2 more
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Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect in voting experiments? First results and methodological limits [PDF]

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation between the participants' approval to a proposal to donate money for charity and their expected approval rate for fellow voters.
Egbert, Henrik, Bischoff, Ivo
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Evolution & voting: how nature makes us public spirited [PDF]

, 2001
We reconsider the classic puzzle of why election turnouts are persistently so high when formal analysis strongly suggests that rational agents should not vote.
Wooders, Myrna Holtz, Conley, John P., Toossi, Ali   +2 more
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Unveiling student sentiment dynamics toward AI‐based education through statistical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the multifaceted dynamics of student sentiment towards artificial intelligence (AI)‐based education by integrating sentiment analysis techniques with statistical methods, including Monte Carlo simulations and decision tree modelling, alongside qualitative grounded theory analysis.
Volkan Duran, Ercümend Ersanlı, Hurinur Çelik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Travel Cost on Election Day and Voter-Turnout in Chile: Exploring University Students’ Willingness to Cast a Hypothetical Online Vote

SAGE Open
An i-voting system may promote electoral participation by reducing travel cost and time to polling places, especially among youth who are more accustomed to technological changes.
Andrés A. Acuña-Duarte, César A. Salazar   +1 more
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Power Indices in Large Voting Bodies [PDF]

There is no consensus on the properties of voting power indices when there are a large number of voters in a weighted voting body. On the one hand, in some real-world cases that have been studied the power indices have been found to be nearly ...
Leech, Dennis
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Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting

, 2020
Imagine an American democracy remade by its citizens in the very image of its promise, a society where the election system is designed to allow citizens to perform their most basic civic duty with ease.
Working Group on Universal Voting
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing a hybrid decision-making approach with fuzzy and rough sets on linguistic data for analyzing voting patterns

Vojnotehnički Glasnik
Introduction/purpose: The significance of studying voting behaviour is underscored by its ability to gauge the continuity or divergence of electoral politics from historical trends, elucidating the real impact of the transformative ballot box, and ...
Sandip Majumder, Samarjit Kar
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