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MathematicsThe rapid advancement of internet technology has raised attention to the importance of electronic voting in maintaining democracy and fairness in elections.
Sunil Prajapat +4 more
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Sincere voting, strategic voting : A laboratory experiment using alternative proportional systems
, 2018 Strategic voting is classically defined as voting for one’s second preferred option to prevent one’s least preferred option from winning when one’s first preference has no chance. Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an election is undesirable.
Baujard, Antoinette +4 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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SVM and Ensemble Majority Voting Algorithm on Sentiment Analysis of Using chatGPT in Education
International Journal of Applied Sciences and Smart TechnologiesThe pros and cons of using ChatGPT in education have caused academic debate as it has influenced current educational praxis. Discussions about the possibility of ChatGPT for writing manuscripts or doing assignments are rife on social media, one of which ...
Hildegardis Yayukristi Weko +1 more
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Weakly supervised segment annotation via expectation kernel density estimation
IET Computer Vision, 2019 Since the labelling for the positive images/videos is ambiguous in weakly supervised segment annotation, negative mining‐based methods that only use the intra‐class information emerge. In these methods, negative instances are utilised to penalise unknown
Liantao Wang, Qingwu Li, Jianfeng Lu
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Voters’ Rationality Under Four Electoral Rules: A Simulation Based on the 2010 Colombian Presidential Elections [PDF]
Desarrollo y Sociedad, 2011 In this work we analyze the impact of the voting rule on individual behavior. We use a sample of individuals naturally motivated by real candidates. Then, in our methodology we do not induce preferences.
Julián Parada
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Death Rates and US Presidential Voting [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2020 Deepika, Dilip, Joaquin, Effertz
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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