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Thin‐Film Transistor Based Active Taxel for Multimode Tactile Perception and Fused Processing
Skin serves as the largest‐area organ for human and embodied intelligent robots, providing tactile interaction. An active multimode fused (AMF) artificial skin is developed using standard TFT processes, featuring 2T‐1C taxels with optical and electrostatic capacitive receptors for cross‐modal sensing.
Sihao Wu +13 more
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Purpose–Electronic Voting System (EVS) is a type of voting program that deals primarily with thes election, the casting of votes with embedded security mechanism that detects errors,and the tamper-proof election of results done through the use of an ...
Benedicto B. Balilo Jr. +3 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
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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Practical pollsterless remote electronic voting
This thesis describes the design of a novel class of pollsterless voting schemes. Many cryptographic voting schemes necessitate a pollster because the client side computations are beyond the understanding or ability of the voter.
Timothy W. Storer, Storer, Timothy W.
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Making Voting Easier: Convenience Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election [PDF]
In this study we analyze the choice of voting mode in the 2008 presidential election. We use a large-sample survey with national coverage that allows us to overcome limitations of previous studies.
Levin, Ines +2 more
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Economic Voting in Portuguese Municipal Elections [PDF]
This paper analyses the impact of economic conditions on Portuguese local electoral outcomes. We use two extensive datasets to estimate an economic voting model which accounts for the possibility that different levels of government have different levels ...
Rodrigo Martins, Francisco José Veiga
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Voter's Intention to Use Electronic Voting Systems
Although the need for comprehensive assessment of mobile health (mHealth) systems is critical, most existing research focuses solely on these systems' technical merits. The purpose of this study is to prioritize different aspects and indicators of assessing the quality of mHealth services and compare four popular Iranian mHealth systems using this ...
Anagreh, Laila F., Abu-Shanab, Emad A.
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E-VOTING SYSTEMS: A TOOL FOR E-DEMOCRACY [PDF]
Using electronic voting systems is divisive as some countries used such systems and others did not. Electronic voting (e-voting) is relatively a new concept based on its application that aims at reducing errors and improving the convenience and integrity
Emad ABU-SHANAB +2 more
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The use of Coleman's power indices to inform the choice of voting rule with reference to the IMF governing body and the EU Council of Ministers [PDF]
In his well known 1971 paper the mathematical sociologist James S. Coleman, proposed three measures of voting power: (1) "the power of a collectivity to act", (2) "the power to prevent action" and (3) "the power to initiate action".
Leech, Dennis
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