Voting - Science topic

It is not always easy to predict the outcome of a surgery. Peculiarly, when talking about the risks associated to a given intervention or the possible complications that it may bring about. Thus, predicting those potential complications that may arise during or after a surgery will help minimize risks and prevent failures to the greatest extent pos...

We develop a perspective of locally embedded welfare state development to explain how relatively weak national political actors can nonetheless shape national policy over time by pursuing local reforms. Empirically, we assess our argument by using municipality-level vote shares, data on non-contributory pension reforms, roll-call votes from parliam...

The identification of soil microorganisms plays a crucial role in agriculture and horticulture, as it enables the monitoring of beneficial species and early detection of pathogens. In this study, we propose a system that utilizes machine vision and machine learning techniques, specifically Convolutional Neural Networks, to automate the identificati...

The 2021 German Federal Election saw an increasing variation in voting behavior between both age groups and geographic groups. This paper brings these developments together and argues that the urban-rural divide is much bigger among younger than among older voters. We combine data from the German Longitudinal Election Study with original survey dat...

Supervised classifiers require a lot of data with accurate labels to learn to recognize chest X-ray images (CXR). However, manually labeling an extensive collection of CXR images is time-consuming and costly. To address this issue, a method for the semi-supervised labelling of extensive collections of CXR images is proposed leveraging unsupervised...

The aim of this study was to design an electronic voting system based upon the electoral process to be adopted in HECOS. In recent years, information technology has greatly affected all aspects of life, and to a large extent, this includes politics. In order to choose people to various positions different methods have been set up, with researchers...

Most of the awards in Uganda be it politically motivated, sports, music or academic have been resolved by a majority vote and those some of them are conducted physically the biggest batch of musical awards have been conducted electronically largely on social media accounts and some on specific websites whose links are provided on different social m...

The 2024 presidential election is just around the corner, and Trump, who has recently gained leading polling support and is himself a political leader with populist traits, represents the current change in the thinking of the American public. The main focus of this paper is on the impact of Trumps mass media propaganda strategy on the vote structur...

Manipulations in classical music competitions are a proven problem that has as yet not been eradicated from the competition practice. Several examples are provided. We aim to compare and analyze different methods of reducing manipulation in classical music competitions, focusing on outlier scores and on outlier jurors. First, we investigate the typ...

Environmental changes are captured as satellite images and stored in datasets for monitoring a particular location. These remote sensing images can be employed in predicting valuable data for both urban planning and in land-use management. Moreover, infrastructure planning, management of natural resources are also assessed using these images. Many...

An interactive presentation of real cases of binocular vision anomalies seen in community optometric practice. The presentation interacts with the audience through multiple voting slides when, using smartphones, the delegates can anonymously vote for various options. The options are real-world clinical decisions about tests, diagnoses, and manageme...

Thermal indices, such as Predicted Mean Vote, Outdoor Standard Effective Temperature, Physiologically Equivalent Temperature, and Universal Thermal Climate Index, are essential for the evaluation of thermal perception, the design of climate sensitive buildings or urban area, and tourism. These thermal indices are built on complicated numeric models...

This research focused on RT.003 RW.003 in Macan Lindungan Bukit area. The RT.003.RW.003 area is included in Bukit Baru Village, Ilir Barat I District, Macan Lindungan Region. Bukit Baru Village has existed since February 22, 1996. Initially, Bukit Baru Village was the result of the expansion of Bukit Lama Village. Bukit Baru sub-district, especiall...

AUTEURS : Lavinia BALAN (membre du bureau) ; Marylène BERTRAND-URBANIAK ; Roberta BONGIOVANNI ; Catherine DEBIEMME-CHOUVY ; Marie-Hélène DELVILLE ; Anne DOLBECQ-BASTIN ; Sylvie FOUCAUD ; Marion GIROD ; Ali ABOU-HASSAN ; Dominique HARAKAT (membre du bureau) ; Christophe INNOCENT (secrétaire scientifique) ; Emmanuel LACOTE ; Eric LEROY ; Philippe LES...

This paper presents a method for unsupervised classification of entities by a group of agents with unknown domains and levels of expertise. In contrast to the existing methods based on majority voting (“wisdom of the crowd”) and their extensions by expectation-maximization procedures, the suggested method first determines the levels of the agents’...

A medical check-up during driving enables the early detection of diseases. Heartbeat irregularities indicate possible cardiovascular diseases, which can be determined with continuous health monitoring. Therefore, we develop a redundant sensor system based on electrocardiography (ECG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors attached to the steering w...

Heart disease is a leading global cause of mortality, demanding early detection for effective and timely medical intervention. In this study, we propose a machine learning-based model for early heart disease prediction. This model is trained on a dataset from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository (UCI) and employs the Extra Trees Classifier for...

6D object pose estimation is an important application of computer vision and a basic module in robotic manipulation, but dealing with occlusion in a cluttered environment, handling symmetries, and textureless surfaces, are real issues. Other issues with such systems are accuracy and efficiency. The recent two-stage methods perform well in terms of...

Background One underexamined factor in the study of lay views of socioeconomic health inequalities is occupation-related health. Examining health by occupational social class has a long history in the UK but has been comparatively overlooked in US public health literatures, where the relationship between health and work has attended more to hazard...

Practiced to differing degrees, adaptive reuse (conversion of an un(der)used building into one thatserves a new purpose) ranges from repurposing materials to transforming entire buildings. Architectsinvolved in such adaptations have to address a building’s essential quality or characteristic features,and may suppress them, acknowledge them, or even...

Introduction Post-stroke dysphagia is common and associated with significant morbidity and mortality, rendering bedside screening of significant clinical importance. Using voice as a biomarker coupled with deep learning has the potential to improve patient access to screening and mitigate the subjectivity associated with detecting voice change, a c...

The relationship between non-financial reporting quality (NFRQ) and various company-level factors has been studied extensively, considering the mandatory requirements applicable under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive 2014/95/EU (NFRD) of the European Union. The purpose of this research is to systematize the results of previous published studie...

Institutionalized supporter participation is a traditional part of German professional football clubs. Due to commercialization, some challenging issues have arisen in recent years regarding supporter participation. To develop new approaches for improving participation, the study uses a social sustainability perspective, illustrating that social su...

With roughly six months to go, the radical right looks set to make significant gains in the 2024 European elections. The biggest share of votes is still likely to go to parties of the centre-right, but many of these have lately veered rightward, too. Meanwhile, the European parliament’s radical left group is failing to make meaningful headway among...

p>Human beings are ambitious and goal-oriented creatures. Many, for example, aim at stable and fulfilling careers, good health, and happy families. Some also pursue broader aims, such as social justice, technological progress, or scientific discovery. But with such ambition comes adversity. When our central aims come under threat, as they inevitabl...

Nowadays, road accidents pose a severe risk in cases of sleep disorders. We proposed a novel hybrid deep-learning model for detecting drowsiness to address this issue. The proposed model combines the strengths of discrete wavelet long short-term memory (DWLSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) models to classify single-channel electroencepha...

The development of e-healthcare systems requires the application of advanced technologies, such as blockchain technology. The main challenge of applying blockchain technology to e-healthcare is to handle the impact of the delay that results from blockchain procedures during the communication and voting phases. The impacts of latency in blockchains...

Shareholder say-on-pay voting allows institutional investors to influence the incentives of managers and, consequently, corporate behaviour. Surprisingly, the preferences of investors on executive compensation have been largely overlooked in the ongoing debates on the role of say-on-pay in corporate governance and the impact of shareholder stewards...

This article presents new empirical evidence about the impact of Jihadist terrorist attacks on far right preferences using the 'unexpected event during survey' research design. This strategy allows us to match individual-level data from the European Social Survey (ESS) to data on Jihadist terrorist attacks to compare respondents' party preferences...

Accurate short-term solar irradiance forecasting is crucial for the efficient operation of solar energy driven photovoltaic (PV) power plants. In this research, we introduce a novel hybrid ensemble forecasting model that amalgamates the strengths of machine learning tree-based models and deep learning neuron-based models. The hybrid ensemble model...

Is populism electorally effective and, if so, why? Scholars agree that populism is a set of people-centric, anti-pluralist, and anti-elitist ideas that can be combined with various ideological positions. It is difficult, yet important, to disentangle populism from its hosting ideology in evaluating populism's effectiveness and its potential conditi...

On January 6th, 2021, a mob of more than 2,000 Trump supporters stormed the Capital—at his urging—in an effort to halt counting of electoral college votes from the 2020 Presidential Election. Vandalism, injury, and loss of life ensued. Although the actions of Trump and the insurrectionists were alarming, the structural factors that gave rise to thi...

The first organized feminist movement in Colombia demanded the right for women to vote in 1954 and, despite its progressist agendas and decades of work, it still tends to be distorted by traditional media representation. With social media, these activists can reach the audience directly, disseminate information, and dispute narratives. Hence, this...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • The Pakatan Harapan-Barisan Nasional (PH-BN) alliance retained Negeri Sembilan in the August state election, losing only five seats in the 36-seat state assembly to Perikatan Nasional (PN). PH-BN performed the best in Negeri Sembilan among the six states which were up for grabs, even better than Penang and Selangor which are lon...

Background: Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) is emerging as a valuable diagnostic, monitoring and predictive tool across a range of disorders. Clinical utility of quantitative information derived from AS-OCT has been suggested for ophthalmic disorders such as glaucoma, corneal disease and uveitis, which taken together comprise...

On June 23 rd 2016 the UK voted to leave the European Union. The period leading up to the referendum was characterized by a significant volume of misinformation and disinformation. Existing literature has established the importance of cognitive ability in processing and discounting (mis/dis) information in decision making. We use a dataset of coupl...

Indonesia as well as Australia have signed and ratified Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This action is regarded as a new chapter for two countries to strengthen their commitment to fulfill political rights for persons with disabilities. Article 29 of the Convention calls on all states to assure that persons with disabilities...

Background The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of radiomics and deep features obtained from multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) for grading prostate cancer. We propose a novel approach called multi-flavored feature extraction or tensor, which combines four mpMRI images using eight different fusion techniques to create...

The book is an adaptation of part of the author's PhD thesis, which won the international prize Prémio FIBE, and was voted one of the three best in Brazil, in the field of Law, in 2023. It deals with the history of the notion of abuse of rights, in its two traditions: the Franco-Belgian (abus de droit) and the German (unzulässige Rechtsausübung). I...

The book is an adaptation of part of the author's PhD thesis, which won the Prémio FIBE, and was voted by Brazilian Ministry of Education one of the three best, in the field of Law, in 2023. It addresses the appropriation of the private law notion of abuse of rights by the theory of fundamental rights. It also presents guidelines for an appropriate...

The present study aims at analyzing the linguistic components in political discourse in general, and political speeches in particular, to reveal the power strategies that are used by political leaders to influence public opinion. It specifically examines the positions of two political parties, namely the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) and t...

This study introduces an intelligent learning model for classification tasks, termed the voting-based Double Pseudo-inverse Extreme Learning Machine (V-DPELM) model. Because the traditional method is affected by the weight of input layer and the bias of hidden layer, the number of hidden layer neurons is too large and the model performance is unsta...

GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) are widely employed in many domains of science and technology. They have produced high-resolution, photo-realistic faces that appear real to the human eye. However, recognizing these images is becoming increasingly difficult. This study introduces a new GAN ensemble model that is intended to improve GAN traini...

ABSTRAK Buku saku adalah suatu buku yang berukuran kecil berisi informasi yang dapat disimpan di saku sehingga dapat memudahkan siswa dalam mempelajari materi dengan keadaan apapun, karena buku saku tersebut dapat dibawa kemana-mana. Penelitian pengembangan bahan ajar buku saku ini dilakukan menggunakan model pengembangan 4-D (Four-D Models). Penel...

In Indonesia, general election is considered as a democracy festive which periodically held once in 5 years. It is a moment once every five years, when all the participants of the election enliven the atmosphere of every city in the seek of every vote and support from the citizens, whose are in the capacity as voters in the upcoming general electio...

AIMS OF THE STUDY: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) indicators are patient-reported outcomes (PROs). PROs are defined as any report of the status of a patient’s health condition or health behaviour that comes directly from the patient, without interpretation of the patient’s response by a clinician or anyone else. Despite Swiss national bodie...

In the ever-connected digital landscape, news dissemination on social media platforms serves as a vital source of information for the public. However, this flow of information is far from unbiased. It is deeply influenced by the political inclinations of the users who share news as well as the inherent biases present in the news outlets themselves....

The continuous monitoring of total suspended solids (TSS) in streams plays an important role in the management of hydrological processes, and TSS is also a decisive parameter in the control of pollution in streams. Determination of TSS involves both a costly and time-consuming process. For this reason, there is a need to determine TSS more quickly,...

Aim To develop a nurse‐led model of analgesia to manage post‐operative pain in the surgical neonate. Design A four‐round e‐Delphi study was conducted from March to December 2022. Methods An e‐Delphi method was used seeking a consensus of 70% or greater. Fifty‐one experts were invited to join the panel. Members consisted of multi‐disciplinary heal...

In the second half of the 19th century, women began to organize worldwide to achieve the goal of gender equality. National women’s movements emerged and were followed somewhat later by the first transnational political mobilization of women on a larger scale. The range of topics that were on the national and international agenda included, alongside...

In democratic politics in the Western world, the process of elections are full with direct interactions with voters. Hence, voters choice affects whether a political party can become the ruling party. Voters prefer to choose parties that are in line with their own interests, and political parties need voters support to win the election. This paper...

Sexual violence on campus is difficult to prove. On the one hand, voting is an effort to obtain justice and the struggle to create a safe space in the campus environment. On the other hand, sexual violence on campus threatens the campus reputation. Clarification of the parties involved has been found interesting. This study seeks to dismantle messa...

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Turhan and Özbey Coefficients update the calculated Predicted Mean Vote to the Actual mean Vote according to the mood state of the people.

We respond to some of the points made by Bennet and Blanck (2022) in this JOURNAL concerning a previous publication of ours elsewhere (2021).-* Added 19 October 2023. As indicated in the Abstract, this is a reply to Bennet and Blanck's reply to a paper of ours. While we published our paper in Philosophia Mathematica, their reply appeared in Theoria...

The opposition plays an important role in monitoring government policies and programs or in fulfilling checks and balances. However, the opposition parties in parliament have always been in the minority along the long road of Indonesian populist democracy. This situation weakens the control function and widens the gap to uphold the will of the peop...

The tremendous strides that have been made in biotechnology and the establishment of public healthcare infrastructures have resulted in a monumental increase in the generation of sensitive and important healthcare data. When intelligent data analysis methods are used, numerous fascinating patterns that may be used for the early and onset identifica...

An online voting system serves several purposes, offering a range of benefits over traditional paper-based voting methods. The system allows voters to cast their ballots from anywhere with an internet connection, eliminating the need for physical travel to polling stations.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the application of the practice of the ECHR in the consideration of election disputes by national courts. It was noted that consideration and resolution of election disputes by the ECHR is a common way for the applicant to protect his electoral rights, but only on the condition that national remedies h...

The scientific article examines some aspects of the people's direct participation in the exercise of state power. Defined, direct democracy, a system of government in which citizens, rather than elected officials, vote directly on major national issues, is supported by about two-thirds of the population worldwide, with little difference in opinion...

Accurate recognition of pest categories is crucial for effective pest control. Due to issues such as the large variation in pest appearance, low data quality, and complex real-world environments, pest recognition poses challenges in practical applications. At present, many models have made great efforts on the real scene dataset IP102, but the high...

Prioritizing dataset dependability, model performance, and interoperability is a compelling demand for improving stroke risk prediction from medical surveys using AI in healthcare. These collective efforts are required to enhance the field of stroke risk assessment and demonstrate the transformational potential of AI in healthcare. This novel study...

Standardisation has important purposes such as cost savings (in manufacturing costs, information costs, transaction costs, shipping costs, distribution costs, switching costs), simplification of work and obtaining aspects of legal certainty. By using standards, manufacturers can focus on the truly innovative aspects of their products. Active partic...

Do well-informed politicians make more effective spending decisions? In experiments with 70% of all elected politicians in Malawi ( $ N=460 $ ), we tested the effects of information on public spending. Specifically, we randomly provided information about school needs, foreign aid, and voting patterns prior to officials making real decisions about t...

Patients with reflux-like symptoms (heartburn and regurgitation) are often not well advised on implementing individualised strategies to help control their symptoms using dietary changes, lifestyle modifications, behavioural changes or fast-acting rescue therapies. One reason for this may be the lack of emphasis in management guidelines owing to ‘l...

Due to the wide variety of network services, many different types of protocols exist, producing various packet features. Some features contain irrelevant and redundant information. The presence of such features increases computational complexity and decreases accuracy. Therefore, this research is designed to reduce the data dimensionality and impro...

This article provides updates to readers based on the newly published Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2022 Edition. These guidelines incorporate the latest evaluation of evidence from studies of diagnostic accuracy. For each clinical question, outcomes for benefits and harms wer...

Less educated people are viewed negatively and their opinions are belittled in our society. Besides, along with other groups, they are underrepresented in the political arena which questions the legitimacy of democratic systems. Despite the existence of education‐based devaluation, research on how people dehumanize individuals and groups with lesse...

Accurate and real-time gesture recognition is required for the autonomous operation of prosthetic hand devices. This study employs a convolutional neural network-enhanced channel attention (CNN-ECA) model to provide a unique approach for surface electromyography (sEMG) gesture recognition. The introduction of the ECA module improves the model’s cap...

The Welsh vote for “leave” in the Brexit referendum surprised some academics and analysts due to its strong preference for Labor and its close financial ties to the EU. It also brought up a debate about apparent differences in Welsh and English attitudes towards race, ethnicity, and migration, with the former often claiming to have a more positive...

The Republic of Turkey was declared on October 29, 1923, marking one of the most important turning points in the history of the Turkish nation. This historical moment was a moment of victory that reflected the will and determination of a nation to gain independence and freedom. However, the brightest star in the birth of the Republic of Turkey was...

A Safety Instrument Function (SIF) averts hazardous incidents that may arise due to diverse anomalies within a system. The SIF prevents potential dangers by comprising three integral components-the Sensing Element, the Logic Solver, and the Final Element. The 2oo3 architecture is the optimal configuration for each SIF component, employing both AND...

Sustainability is essential for any business forever. Meeting competition would be possible only when sustainability is attained. In the 2006-07 even though Madurai Meenakshi Temple gave a tough-competition in the Þ rst voting stage of new seven-wonders of the world, this could not Þ nd a place in the second stage, regardless of the fact that this...

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common mental illness resulting in immune disorders and even thoughts of suicidal behavior. Neuroimaging techniques serve as a quantitative tool for the assessment of MDD diagnosis. In the domain of computer-aided magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis, current research predominantly focuses on isolated local or g...

Concerns about the integrity of Turkey’s elections have increased with the recent transition from a parliamentary democracy to an executive presidency under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Election forensics tools are used to identify statistical traces of certain types of electoral fraud, providing important information about the integrity and validity of d...

In this study, the role of the partner’s self-assessed socio-economic status and political attitudes on populist radical right voting is studied. We made use of a survey among the adult Dutch population (the LISS panel), with information on the self-assessed occupational class, education and political preferences of both partners in cohabiting hete...

Recent approvals of long-acting (LA) antiretroviral treatment (ART) support an innovative alternative to daily oral pills that can improve adherence and treatment outcomes among adolescents and youth (AY) with HIV. We solicited stakeholder feedback on the implementation of LA ART for AY in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) through a consensus...

Background Medical devices are critical to providing high-quality, hospital-based newborn care, yet many of these devices are unavailable in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and are not designed to be suitable for these settings. Target Product Profiles (TPPs) are often utilised at an early stage in the medical device development process to...

Environmental attitudes have the potential to affect environmental behaviors, which in turn can affect action toward current and future global environmental targets. Recent large-scale surveys find that developing countries, which account for most of the growth in greenhouse gas emissions, have high levels of pro-environmental attitudes. Respondent...

L’apprentissage du néerlandais ne parle pas à tous les élèves de la même manière. En Wallonie, beaucoup de jeunes choisissent d’apprendre l’anglais en première langue moderne plutôt que le néerlandais : seul un élève sur trois opte pour le néerlandais. La langue de Vondel est largement dépassée par l’anglais qui attire plus de 60% des élèves en Wal...

This article tempts to verify the intricate dynamics of political alliances between Islamist groups and opposition parties in Indonesian elections, focusing on the 2018 West Java gubernatorial contest. The study employs exit poll data, investigating the relationship between religiosity, politico-religious narratives, and voting behaviour. While the...

Vote of Thanks It is my duty to record my sincere thanks to AKS, team FOR HAVING RECOGNISED MY OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCE AND EXEMPLARY WORK IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION…. https://aksawards.com/ https://youtu.be/MdchfytKvuk?feature=shared https://youtu.be/YcgR8qXHNaQ?feature=shared https://youtu.be/lR80ORIpt1w?feature=shared

The research focuses on evaluating the impact of door and window orientation on thermal comfort during the summer months. Five different room types (Bedroom and living room) in different buildings, each representing a cardinal orientation and varying sizes of door and window openings, were selected for this study. The required time series data (at...

The briefing carries out an analysis of the Czech Republic’s posture within the European Union, paying attention to both discursive and political levels. The research addresses President Petr Pavel’s recent speeches with a focus on his proposal to introduce qualified majority voting in order to strengthen the efficiency and governability of the EU....

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the political developments in India, spanning from ancient times to the present day. The first section of the paper delves into the historical context of alcohol consumption and its profound socio-cultural implications in ancient India. It explores how alcohol was intertwined with the social fabric, v...

Der vorliegende Band ist dem Verhältnis von Informationen, Wahlen und Demokratie gewidmet. Deutschland, aber auch andere Länder in den Blick nehmend, widmen sich die Autor:innen vor allem den Bürger:innen, ihren Einstellungen, Interessen und Wahlentscheidungen. Auch die Rolle von Kontexten wird beleuchtet, insbesondere von Informationskontexten: Wi...

Submission to the the Senedd Reform Bill Committee concerning the closed-list party-list voting system proposed in the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Bill. The Senedd members should be elected by STV-PR.