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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Editorial: Genomic insights into sheep and goat breeding efficiency. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci
Hao F, Peng M, Xu Z, Zhang X, Wang J, Ding R.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Unscrambling the history of African indicine cattle genomes. [PDF]

iScience
Bitew MK, Woldekiros HS, Persichilli C, Di Civita M, Ben Jemaa S, Mastrangelo S, Mwacharo JM, Hanotte O, Pilla F, Senczuk G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Geographical distribution of hometowns of female dental graduates from Toyo girls dental college in Japan in 1932. [PDF]

J Dent Sci
Cheng FC, Wang LH, Liu SY, Chiang CP.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Irony of Liberation in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest vividly portrays the tragic consequences of repressive psychiatric authority. The film was—and remains—one of the most memorable and well‐known products of anti‐psychiatry sentiment. Opponents of American psychiatry from the time period of Cuckoo's Nest objected to what they saw as social control ...
Laura Hirshbein
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Overcoming Whiteness? Romanian Humanitarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s. [PDF]

J Contemp Hist
Iacob BC.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley   +1 more source

Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. [PDF]

Sci Data
Bennett JS, Mutch E, Tollefson A, Chalstrey E, Benam M, Cioni E, Reddish J, Zsambok J, Levine J, Cook CJ, Francois P, Hoyer D, Turchin P.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Marriage of Love? Cross‐Fertilisation Between Illiberalism and Euroscepticism

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article contributes to the conceptual mapping of the interaction between Euroscepticism and illiberalism, suggesting that there is a mutual reinforcement process between them. The overlaps cover the following areas: the critique of supranationalism, the resulting defence of national sovereignty, the defence of the (national) majority ...
Vít Hloušek, Vratislav Havlík
wiley   +1 more source