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Measuring subnational democracy: toward improved regime typologies and theori...
ABSTRACTSocial scientists have been limited in their work by the paucity of global time series data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars... -
Evaluation of Model Fit in Structural Equation Models with Ordinal Missing Da...
In many applied situations, the questionnaire items in measurement instruments do not approximate continuous, normally distributed variables but instead are ordinal. Properties... -
Allocating outreach resources for disease control in a dynamic population wit...
Infected individuals must be aware of disease symptoms to seek care, so outreach and education programs are critical to disease control. However, public health organizations... -
Learning democracy digitally? The internet and knowledge of democracy in nond...
The study of public opinion in nondemocratic states has found that people often say they support democracy, yet they show little demand for democratization or regime change.... -
A public-private partnership for the express development of antiviral leads: ...
The COVID-19 pandemic raises the question of strategic readiness for emergent pathogens. The current case illustrates that the cost of inaction can be higher in the future. The... -
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Typically, cardiac substructures are neither delineated nor analyzed during radiation treatment planning. Therefore, we developed a novel machine learning model to evaluate the... -
Inter- and intra-city networks: how networks are shaping China’s film industry
While existing studies have mapped out various networks with some visualization techniques, we move one step forward by examining if city/firm performance is dependent not only... -
Scalable module detection for attributed networks with applications to breast...
The objective of network module detection is to identify groups of nodes within a network structure that are tightly connected. Nodes in a network often have attributes (aka... -
Review and perspective of tissue engineering therapy for the treatment of cor...
Tissue engineering therapy for the treatment of corneal endothelial decompensation was proposed in the 1970s. In 2013, a clinical trial of the injection of cultured human... -
Factors affecting the implementation of simulation modelling in healthcare: A...
Simulation modelling is becoming an increasingly popular tool in healthcare management, however published evaluations of simulation modelling are rare. This study therefore... -
Mapping runoff generating areas using AGNPS-VSA model
In humid regions, surface runoff is often generated by saturation-excess runoff mechanisms from relatively small variable source areas (VSAs). However, the majority of the... -
Hydrologic performance assessment of regulated and alternative strategies for...
This study examines the hydrologic performance of conventional and low-impact development (LID) stormwater approaches when implemented as retrofit measures in a highly urbanised... -
Mini-Batch Metropolis–Hastings With Reversible SGLD Proposal
Traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms are computationally intensive and do not scale well to large data. In particular, the Metropolis–Hastings (MH) algorithm... -
Characterizing traveling fans: a workflow for event-oriented travel pattern a...
Characterizing event attendees’ travel patterns is key to understanding the dynamics of social events in cities. However, the scientific investigation of event travel patterns... -
Lapses in Literacy: Cultural Accessibility in Graphic Health Communication
This graphic meditation on issues of cultural relevance and accessibility in comic-based health communication texts presents the web of rhetorical considerations inherent in...
