Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…In September, a lay judge panel in Tokyo evaluated the contradictory claims of medical experts and endured two weeks of frenzied media coverage before convicting actor Oshio Manabu and sentencing him to two-and-one-half years in prison for failing to call an ambulance to aid Tanaka Kaori, who died of an overdose of Ecstasy (MDMA) that Oshio had given her when they met to have sex in a Roppongi apartment (prosecutors wanted a six-year sentence). …”
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An evolution model for the mobility of urban societal classes based on complex networks by Yi-Hua Zhou, Liang-Li Yang, Jieqi Lei, Rui-Jie Wu, Yi-Xiu Kong

“…Based on the rational actor assumption and Dunbar’s number, we construct a simple model to explain why urban societal classes spontaneously emerge in the evolution of societal space. …”
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Las brechas digitales en México: un balance pertinente by Mario Alejandro Arellano Morales

“…Los resultados de la investigación permiten dimensionar la magnitud de los desafíos y las oportunidades del futuro proyecto digital que requiere el país para convertirse en un actor importante que impulse el desarrollo y el bienestar de la población en el marco de los objetivos estratégicos propuestos en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2019-2024.…”
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AN APPRAISAL OF NIGERIA’S FOREIGN POLICY THRUST FROM 1960-2023 by SUNNY MENE PIATE, EMMANUEL SUNDAY, BARILEDUM KIA

“…Findings from the study revealed that Nigeria allowed the system goals to take precedence over actor’s goals that would have reverberate in greater economic opportunity and prosperity for the people.  …”
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“Comiéndose” el barrio: gastronomía y cambio urbano en Santa Cruz, Lima by Denise Claux

“…Se basa en la experiencia de Carlos, un joven actor que después de vivir varios años en Londres regresa al Perú para emprender y tomando ventaja de los precios competitivos en Santa Cruz, abre una panadería gourmet en el barrio. …”
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Two-stage deep reinforcement learning method for agile optical satellite scheduling problem by Zheng Liu, Wei Xiong, Zhuoya Jia, Chi Han

“…A neural network is designed as the observation scheduling network to determine observation actions for the sequenced tasks, which is well trained by the soft actor-critic algorithm. Finally, extensive experiments show that the proposed method, along with the designed mechanisms and strategy, is superior to comparison algorithms in terms of solution quality, generalization performance, and computation efficiency.…”
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Design Thinking Approach in Handling Food Waste In PT Atim and Wanti Saiyo Jaya Catering Business by Asep Taryana, Ummi Kalsum, Md Ivan Zachary Yatim, Muhammad Azman

“…Background: Waste and environmental management are important factors to improve the quality of life of the community. As a business actor, especially a business engaged in the F&B sector, innovation in managing waste generated from their business is one of the major challenges to the sustainability of a business. …”
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Juventude rural no Brasil: processos de exclusão e a construção de um ator político by Elisa Guaraná de Castro

“…Este artículo pretende contribuir al debate teórico sobre juventud y "juventud rural", que ha privilegiado paradigmas, tales como juventud como una transición de la infancia a la vida adulta, en detrimento del análisis de la categoría como actor social. O sea, aborda juventud a partir de la diversidad y auto-representación, discursos y prácticas, para tratar procesos de construcción de identidades sociales.…”
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Governance and Poverty Eradication Policy Performance During the NRM Administration in Uganda 1986 – 2020. by Mucunguzi, Abel, Katabaazi, Anny Bwengye

“…This is the identifiable poverty structural complex within which any actor on poverty reduction and eradication has to work. …”
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Governance and poverty eradication policy performance during the NRM1 Administration in Uganda 1986 – 2020 by Mucunguzi, Abel, Bwengye, Katabaazi Anny

“…This is the identifiable poverty structural complex within which any actor on poverty reduction and eradication has to work. …”
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Intertextuality in Selected Narrative Poems of Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí by Arinpe Adejumo, Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…He was a novelist, playwright, poet, scriptwriter and actor when alive. His works include Ọmọ Olókùn Ẹṣin, Thunderbolt, Baṣọrun Gáà, Fẹrẹ bí Ẹkùn, ̀ and Ogún Àwítẹ́lẹ. …”
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Securitization of China in the NATO discourse in the late 2010s— early 2020s: Towards a global collective identity by Yu. Yu. Melnikova

“…Attention to the PRC in the NATO discourse increased significantly in the 2010s, when the alliance set a course towards a radical expansion of its mandate in international relations and self-representation as a global security actor. However, as the author emphasizes, during this period there still have been no attempts to securitize China, and relations between the PRC and NATO were marked by positive dynamics. …”
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Regulating the Urban Commons: A Romanian Case Study of Improving Building Facades by Anamaria Vrabie, Rodica Ianole-Călin

“…We interpret the results of this exploratory case study as a first step towards building a more comprehensive approach to serve as a toolkit in examining the development of innovative local policies in post-communist environments, through a combined research framework including also the significant contribution of behavioural insights, next to the traditional rational actor theories. Naturally, the usual limitations of the method also apply to our study, in the sense of non-generalizable conclusions. …”
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FORMULACIÓN DE UN MODELO CONCEPTUAL PARA LA GESTIÓN DE LA INFORMACIÓN EN LA PRODUCCIÓN DE OVINOS Y CAPRINOS: 1. ANÁLISIS DE LOS SISTEMAS DE GESTIÓN Y DEFINICIÓN DE LAS FRONTERAS DE... by C. A. González, C. Manrique, H. Grajales

“…Seencontró que el productor es el cliente, actor y propietario principal del SGI y que,por lo tanto, el modelamiento conceptual de dicho sistema debe tener en cuenta lascaracterísticas individuales de los productores, tales como su personalidad, experiencia,edad, educación y visión de su negocio, entre otras, las cuales determinan la forma comoéstos manejan la información y toman decisiones. …”
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Estrategia del capital humano, con enfoque prospectivo, de la Empresa Agroindustrial Azucarera ¨5 de septiembre¨ by Madelyn Avilés Cedeño, Miguel Suárez Castellá

“…Para ello se hacen necesaria las herramientas de la prospectiva estratégica, fundamentalmente el método de escenario para el desarrollo de estrategias con el Capital Humano con actor principal en el cumplimiento de las metas productivas en el futuro. …”
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New Architecture of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation in the European Union by D. E. Moiseeva, A. D. Kulinich

“…The adoption of supranational mechanisms for EU FDI screening through Regulation 2019/452 not only highlights the expansion of multi-level governance, as promoted by the European Commission, but also reconfigures the EU's role as a global actor in investment transactions. This shift directly impacts a wide range of stakeholders.The study aims to explore the institutional architecture established by Regulation 2019/452 and address the research question: Why has the EU transitioned from a neoliberal approach favoring free capital movement (negative integration) to a framework emphasizing common European monitoring rules (positive integration)? …”
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A review of participatory modelling techniques for energy transition scenarios by Jair K.E.K. Campfens, Mert Duygan, Claudia R. Binder

“…Drawing on a comprehensive literature review and semi-structured interviews, we extract findings by evaluating participatory modelling techniques against criteria such as normative dimensions, non-linearity, actors and agency, uncertainty and emergence. Findings reveal that techniques like Cross-Impact Balance analysis and Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping excel in incorporating normative aspects and capturing diverse actor perspectives, yet they face challenges in addressing non-linearity and uncertainty. …”
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A non-linear approach to the establishment of local biological control agent  production units: a case study of fall armyworm in Bangladesh by Mariam A. T. J. Kadzamira, Malvika Chaudhary, Frances Williams, Nirmal K. Dutta

“…The interaction between all stakeholders is non-linear with all actors intellectually consulted and engaged, with technical capacity on BCAs available for any actor requiring it. …”
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Rol del docente de inicial en la prevención de la desnutrición infantil by Mariela Libelly Lozada Meza, Lorena Marielisa González Granda, Alexandra Cecilia Astudillo Cobos

“…Se concluye que el docente de inicial es un actor clave en la prevención de la desnutrición infantil, siempre y cuando se desarrollen estrategias integrales y colaborativas que combinen esfuerzos educativos, comunitarios y políticos. …”
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